Rob Walton
@robwaltonwriter
www.robwaltonwriter.co.uk “playful, zingy and warm”. Carnegie Prize nominee.Whitley Bay via Scunny.All sorts of writing for all sorts of ages. @robwaltonwriter on other places.
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Lots of (deserved 😉) treats. #parkrun #whitleybay
Apparently August 18th is always National Bad Poetry Day, which is music and words to my ears. And eyes. And the other senses. #narionalbadpoetryday #poetry
Always good to take flight with captain Jonathan Humble and the rest of the Dirigible Balloon crew. This one of mine and loads more free poems at dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Flight-...
Home from a week of hard graft - with bonus family and friends socialising - to this treat from the fantastic @bardymum.bsky.social and @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social illustrated by Nia Haviliard WITH BONUS PENCIL! Can’t wait to dive in.
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Lovely mix of poetry, fiction, children’s fiction and non-fiction - all to take my mind off Fraser‘s extreme photo-bombing. ;-) #parkrun #whitleybay @parkrunandphotos.bsky.social
Post-Rising Sun parkrun. Crazy busy because Whitley, Blyth and town were all cancelled. Tad warm, so the woods were the best place to be. #parkrun
Delighted to get my contributor’s copy of Mudlarking, this year’s National Flash Fiction Day anthology. The lovely book, excellently edited by Karen Jones and Sharon Telfer, includes my Meet Me Halfway. @natflashfictionday.bsky.social @sharontelfer.bsky.social @karjon.bsky.social
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Some sort of normal service is resumed after parkruns in Krakow, Berlin and Stuttgart since my last home effort. Setting the finish up in the drizzle was fun and sociable, as volunteering always is. #whitleybay #parkrun
Good to be back on board the Scaryness Express with a couple of historical horrors. Slightly scary poems for bairns and that. Lots of lovely poems from poetry friends on there. The rest of my two and all the others at scaryness.com/historical-h...
Interrail Trip Day -1 (I go tomorrow). Ideal opportunity to read all the back issues of NME I’ve been saving from 1979, 1980 and 1981. It looks as though this means there’ll be no space for any clothes in my rucksack, but sod it. Adrian Thrills writing about Haircut 100 is more important. #NME
Lovely Bank Holiday treat from the pens and imaginations of @reenamakwana.bsky.social and @margauxvlln.bsky.social . Final image is one of Reena’s fantastic illustrations from our @theemmapress.bsky.social book. Great to see more of her food-themed work.
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Relaxing with bath and books. Refuelling with coffee and daughter’s rhubarb, orange and ginger cake. #hardlife #parkrun #whitleybay
Over the next three days Brian Moses’s blog will feature “People Who Help Us” poems for younger children. My not altogether obvious one is in the first batch with some lovely poetry friends. brian-moses.blogspot.com?m=1
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. A cold one. A windy one. A grey and lovely one. #parkrun #whitleybay
@candlestickpress.bsky.social publish beautiful things. Here is another, and they even let a poem of mine appear in its pages. Order from their website.
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun bathtime reading. Grey and damp at the coast before, during and after. Dreich is the word, as Frankie Valli nearly sang. #parkrun #WhitleyBay
Great to arrive home to this treat from @rhiannonoliver.bsky.social @chrisriddell.bsky.social and @fireflypress.bsky.social . Perfect weekend reading!
Delighted to get post from Australia. A poem in Orbit, illustrated by Ross Morgan. A double-page spread - maybe I should start writing more longer poems! #kidlit #poetryforchildren
Post-Windy Nook parkrun. Bit hilly for me. Whitley Bay cancelled for the Easter fair. I screamed because I wanted to go faster, but it didn’t work. #parkrun #windynook
Delighted to be back on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social , the home for stories of exactly 75 words. www.paragraphplanet.com #flashfiction #microfiction
Very chuffed to have been chosen as a winner for this @poetrysociety.org.uk members’ competition. Very chuffed to have made Clare Pollard snort-laugh. Whole thing and other winners and some Poetry News that isn’t about me me me at poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-bo...
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Cold and windy, but job done, and lots of good reading in store. #whitleybay #parkrun @parkrunuk.bsky.social
Not necessarily what I expect to hear on Gardeners’ World. #bbc #gardenersworld
Post-Whitley Bay parkrun parkwalker duties. New role for me. Walking, smiling and chatting in the sunshine. Yuk. #WhitleyBay #parkrun
Beautiful sunny morning in #WhitleyBay for parkrun pacer duties, then back for obligatory bath time books. #parkrun 29:55 for 30 mins pacing:acceptable.
Delighted to be back on a Dirigible Balloon flight. Lots of good stuff on there, and all for free. Thanks to editor Jonathan Humble.https://dirigibleballoon.org
Thanks to Valerie and the team at New Flash Fiction Review for choosing my tiny story for the latest issue. The whole thing and my dulcet tones reading it at newflashfiction.com/rock-paper-s... #flashfiction