Peggy Hughes

@hughespeg.bsky.social

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Chief Executive at @writerscentre.bsky.social. Feat. books, whimsy, radio, outdoors, running, walking, looking. NIrish via Scotland in Norwich

Path in grass
Peach clouds above sea
Little blue and white milk jug sitting on a table
Yellow & orange houses
Sea sky clouds
Sun in Catton Park
Self among ferns
Red poppies at Waterloo Park
Vanessa Bell in our podcast studio yesterday following a conversation about her book (the black & white one she’s holding), Monuments
Myself & Val McDermid in St Peter Mancroft church
Navy jumper with anchors on it; small brown jug bearing words ‘1/2 cup’
‘Cream & Dairy’ ghostwriting on Smithfield
The Lost Folk, a book by Lally MacBeth sitting on a table beside our lilacs
A Shetland wool jumper
Cathedral from the hill
The famous Wisteria at the church on Upper St Giles
Seaweed on the line
It’s me with the Forth Bridge out the window
House on Elm Hill
Peg board with prices
Holloway
Gorse
Two tartan Thermos flasks
NCW What’s on! Patrick Grant is on the cover
How to End a Story: the collected diaries of Helen Garner, a yellow and orange book
Muppet show
Blossom in Catton Park
Purple tile with graphic image of a pile of books and the following text: leisure & culture Dundee (logo) DUNDEE BOOK FESTIVAL 12-14 June 2025 Marryat Hall | Steps Theatre | Mills Observatory FEATURING Val McDermid, Ambrose Parry, Witches of Scotland, Fun Lovin' Crime Writers, Kate Muir, John MacKay, Charlie Connelly and more. A Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation No. SC042421
Wendy Cope book in front of tulips on a stage
Ipswich in the sun! Town square, town hall
Wendy Cope’s Collected Poems sitting on a little stool
Self, Jan Carson, Hilary Copeland)
Lyric Theatre sign
Glenarm Post Office
Diana Evans & Stephanie Y. Tam in conversation tonight at Dragon Hall!
Every One Still Here, a book with a yellow cover by Liadan Ní Chuinn
Gap in trees by Felbrigg
Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife by Francesca Wade
Self, grey hairs
Crocus!
UEA’s ziggurats reflected in UEA broad on a clear blue day
Tile reads: Dear March - Come in - (1320) Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886 Dear March - Come in - How glad I am - I hoped for you before - Put down your Hat - You must have walked - How out of Breath you are - Dear March, how are you, and the Rest - Did you leave Nature well - Oh March, Come right upstairs with me - I have so much to tell -
From left to right: Hannah (Nottingham), Anna (Exeter), self (Norwich) & Ivan (Manchester) outside Five Leaves bookshop
Bookshelves and a ladder, Bromley House Library reading room
A poem on a yellow/ pink hoarding. Text reads: Listen your footsteps huddled voices tram glides crossing beeps skateboard lands This is the Broad Marsh tune. the metronome choir, chorus a high-note melody piano keys cymbal crash - Bridie Squires
Two vases of pink flowers and an NCW mug on a white table
Self & Timothy
Currents: a piece of art in Aberdeen Art Gallery by Annie Cattrell, composed of loads of little cuts into paper
Rowie by Martin Parr
Our NCW What’s On for March - May! Patrick Grant is on the cover
Self & Paddington Bear
My coat, my hand, my tartan scarf and on the coat lapel a green pin badge with a Richard Scarry rabbit in a carrot car and the words ‘grow where you’re planted’
Cathedral from Britannia Road
Dragon Hall, a medieval trading hall, with the Place of Sanctuary logo in white in the bottom right hand corner
Old paths looking towards Sheringham from Beeston Bump on a bright day
Cover of this year’s StAnza International Poetry Festival programme featuring many colourful small beach found items and this text: Scotland's International Poetry Festival 14-16 March - the programme is out, and tickets are on sale from Wednesday January 22nd. Explore all events via the Box Office Download the 2025 StAnza programme
Luna! (A small black and brown King Charles spaniel looking through a window)
QR code scanning in Dragon Hall