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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Channing Tatum is reading The Flames, so you should too 🔥

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

8 years

Mark Edmonds left the Sunday Times Magazine today after 35 years in journalism. I'll remember him fondly

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Joy! Blue skies. Sunshine! And the beaming face of a published author… #TheFlames is out today 🔥🔥🔥

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

4 years

I'm not sure this will ever sink in... 🔥🔥🔥

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

4 years

. @Words_by_Sophie 's debut, The Flames, to @DoubledayUK in a "major" six-figure pre-empt! Based on the four "muses" who inspired artist Egon Schiele, it's described as "dramatic, scandalous, and gripping, this is a novel to savour". See more here:

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Seeing your debut novel hit the shelves for the first time, what a feeling 🤩 #TheFlames ⁦ @Foyles ⁩

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

1 year

Yay! It's paperback publication day for The Flames Being a debut author is a weird and wonderful experience. You write alone, without any knowledge that anyone will ever read your words. But I'm so happy that this book has connected with readers. Thank you for all the support🔥

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

No one warns you, as a debut, that you’re going to run out of vases!

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

4 years

“I don’t normally like Sundays - I find they are a dress rehearsal for death. A very depressing way to spend one-seventh of your life...” This postcard just fell out of my charity shop book purchase... sent by Sebastian Horsley 🎩

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

5 months

Introducing the new curator of Folkestone Book Festival ✨✨✨ @CreativeFstone 15-24 November 2024

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Surreal moment for a debut author…

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

New profile photo. Thanks mum for the confidence boost 😆

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

As a debut, I'm now firmly in "wildest dreams" territory "As a feminist reworking of Schiele’s story that also redresses historical injustice, this novel is a glorious success" Book of the day in @GuardianBooks 🔥🔥🔥

The Flames by Sophie Haydock review – vivid portraits of Egon Schiele’s muses

Four women close to the Austrian painter are illuminated in this impressive debut, set against the tumult of Secession Vienna and its pandemic

www.theguardian.com

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

7 years

At home with Antonio Carluccio in March. He spoke with such passion and fed me some odd things from his fridge. A very big heart

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

9 months

The BBC National Short Story Award is open for 2024! Deadline Monday 18 March (9am) Prize of £15,000 for the winner More info👇

BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award - 2024 BBC Short Story Awards open

2024 BBC Short Story Awards open

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

7 years

Just heard an unverified report that Antonio Carluccio has died. He is a legend and my foraging / wild fungi hero 🍄

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

And here it is! The design for The Flames paperback, so exquisitely crafted by @adavisdesign_91 . It will be published by @doubledaybooks on 27 April. Available to pre-order now. I'm one very happy debut author 🔥 @KirstyDunseath @mushenska @MushensEnt @TransworldBooks

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

I had the most incredible book launch last night! I am still reeling from the wonderfulness of everyone who came to celebrate The Flames, in such a special venue @Hatchards Thank you to my dream team @mushenska @KirstyDunseath @tabithapelly and all at @MushensEnt @DoubledayUK 🔥

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

8 months

I’m a “first reader” in writing prizes, putting stories through for a judge, and I can honestly say some of my favourite stories ever have been ones that didn’t make a longlist. I worry the writer will think their work isn’t good enough. Please keep writing and entering!

Nick Black

@fuzzynick

8 months

Didn't make the long list, or even the even-longer 'we also liked...' list, of a writing competition today but I still love my story, tenderly and strongly. Will find a soft-feathered nest for you yet, sweet stuff. #amwriting #shortstories

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

6 years

I'm so delighted that @ImpressPrize have chosen my novel The Flames to be published next year. I'm thrilled to be telling the story of the four women who were integral to the life and work of the artist Egon Schiele - Edith Harms, Wally Neuzil, Gertrude Schiele and Adele Harms

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

The four muses to the artist Egon Schiele are seen, sometimes very explicitly, but not heard Who were they? Their complicated lives are explored in my debut novel, The Flames, which is available to pre-order now (out 17 March) #TheFlames #LetThemSpeak

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

Can’t stop thinking about Hilary Mantel and all the characters that died with her. The ones she brought to life and the ones she still had to write…

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

For the first time, I'm able to say my debut will be published NEXT WEEK! Very exciting 🔥 Thanks to an incredible team who have made it happen @mushenska @KirstyDunseath @tabithapelly @HanaSparkes @Lielco @BeciKelly @DoubledayUK @TransworldBooks @ArtTransworld @MushensEnt

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

The Flames, in all its neon glory! 🔥

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Still adjusting to being ‘a published author’, but seeing The Flames on the shelves of @WaterstonesPicc definitely helps it sink in 🔥😍🔥😍🔥

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

I CANNOT believe I'm saying this, but I'm on the cover of @bigissuenorth . Dream come true! It's where my journalism career began when @kevingopal commissioned a feature on brewing my own beer, about 15 years ago! Truly full circle But it was such an emotional feature to write 😭

Big Issue North

@bigissuenorth

3 years

In this week's #BigIssueNorth : @Words_by_Sophie on #EgonSchiele and debut novel #TheFlames , @FatWhiteFamily 's Lias Saoudi, postpartum psychosis, @DrHilaryJones ' letter to his younger self, and much more! Available from your local vendor or online:

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Behold! The very beautiful finished book. It's real 😭

Kirsty Dunseath

@KirstyDunseath

3 years

Twitter asks me what is happening - GORGEOUS finished copies of #TheFlames by @Words_by_Sophie , that’s what! My photos do not do this book justice. A brilliant debut, set in Vienna in early 1900s, music, art, scandal… love it. Out 17 March.

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

4 months

Last night, in Milan, The Flames won the Eduardo Kihlgren prize for debut novel! Huge thanks to Loredana Serratore who translated it to Italian, and the team at @salanieditore for their passion for 'Le Fiamme'. And the judges!🔥

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

I had the insane pleasure recently of being invited to someone’s house, where they have a collection of fifteen original Egon Schiele artworks, casually hanging on the wall in the living room. It was breathtaking!

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

Happy to see The Flames included on such an exciting list from @WomensPrize . Plus, it includes a first glimpse of the beautiful new design for cover of the paperback, which will be published in April 🔥 @DoubledayUK @TransworldBooks @MushensEnt

Recommendations Archives - Women's Prize

womensprize.com

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

6 years

I won! 💃😬

Impress Prize

@ImpressPrize

6 years

We are pleased to announce that the 2018 Impress Prize for New Writers Winner is... The Flames by @SophieHaydock ! #Imprize #manuscriptprize #writingprize #ImpressPrize2018 #debut #congratulations

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

So excited to receive a proof of Joan, brand new historical fiction about Joan of Arc, by Katherine J Chen. It will be out in July. Thank you ⁦ @oliviajbarber ⁩ ⁦ @HodderBooks ⁩ ✨✨✨

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

As a debut, I am stunned that The Flames is on this list. Alongside so many writers I wildly admire. Hannah Kent! Elizabeth Lowry! Lucy Caldwell! Kate Atkinson! Huge thanks to @timesculture and @Tonisenior @DoubledayUK @MushensEnt

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Just received THE most thoughtful publication day present from ⁦ @mushenska ⁩ and the team at @MushensEnt 🔥 A framed poster from the Radical Nude exhibition at ⁦ @TheCourtauld ⁩ where the idea for The Flames was born 😭😭😭

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

1 year

Short story writers! Please do enter @ALCS_UK Tom-Gallon Trust Award before 31st October. Stories up to 5,000 words. I've been a judge for the past three years, and it's a privilege to read so many wonderful stories. Winner gets £2,000 @Soc_of_Authors

ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award - The Society of Authors

For a short story of up to 5,000 words

societyofauthors.org

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

5 years

A huge thanks to @SabahAhmedi , one of Britain’s youngest imams, for inviting me and other journalists to break fast with him at London’s biggest mosque this week. A beautifully enlightening experience...

Abbie Llewelyn

@Abbie_Llewelyn

5 years

Thank you to my friend @SabahAhmedi and the London #Ahmadiyya community for having me over for #iftar at the Baitul Futuh Mosque. What a beautiful place and what beautiful people ❤️

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

10 months

Tomorrow, at 15:45, my short story Mudlarks will be available to hear on BBC Radio 4. Set on the river Thames, Mudlarks is about what it's possible to find, and what we may lose, which is ultimately beyond our control...

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Mudlarks

By Sophie Haydock. A junior doctor takes up mudlarking on London's River Thames.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

I’m on my way to ⁦ @hayfestival ⁩ to talk about illuminating the past and my debut novel The Flames (about the muses of Egon Schiele). Here I am the very first time I went, back in 2009, having no idea I’d be on the stage in the future… 🔮🔮🔮

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

Peter is a family friend and the most lovely man. He is so engaged and doesn’t let anything stop him…

Goodable

@Goodable

2 years

Peter Davies is a 100-year old who volunteers his time to teach elementary schoolchildren to read. The UK government recently gave him an award. This was his reaction. Maybe give yourself a minute...

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Unboxing new proofs! Magical. And it's quite moving to see my dedication in print for the first time...🔥

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

Wow. The Flames is on this dazzling debuts longlist alongside so many books I adore (including ones by @LizziePook and @rosieandrews22 ). Thank you to the brilliant @HistoriaHWA and all the judges👑👑👑 #HWACrowns22

Historia – the HWA

@HistoriaHWA

2 years

The Flames: Sophie Haydock A thought-provoking, fascinating and illuminating take on the bohemian milieu of turn of 20th-century Vienna's incandescent life, shown through the lives of artist Egon Schiele's four muses. Intoxicating and evocative #HWACrowns22

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

7 years

Spotted while running in Hackney. Great project recognising unsung women in sports 🏃🏽‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️🏌🏻‍♀️🏄🏼‍♀️ @blueplaquerebel #recogniseher

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

Putting the Hay(dock) in @hayfestival

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

6 years

It was a real eye-opener to interview @SkeelAlex about his experience of being abused by his girlfriend. Last year, she became the first woman ever to be sent to prison for coercive and controlling behaviour. This is his (very distressing) story: @bbcthree

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

One of the best things about having a book in the world is all the photo messages you receive of your debut with an array of friends, pets and children 🔥🔥🔥 Keep ’em coming… 😆

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

On our way to the stage! From paint to page, discussing art in fiction at @cheltfestivals . With @KirstyDunseath @chloelashby and @KatyHessel 🥳🥳🥳

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

Excited to see The Flames published in Poland today - with the new title Four Muses. Translated by Izabela Matuszewska. It's so incredible to think of my words being transformed into a new story this way...

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Proof swapping with the iconic @NikkiOMay at the @DoubledayUK showcase right now #Wahala #TheFlames 🔥🔥 @TransworldBooks

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Oh wow! The brand new navy and gold proofs of The Flames have landed - they look incredible. Thank you to all the magnificently kind authors who have provided blurbs so far - I appreciate them so much. And to all the reviewers who are reading and leaving thoughtful reviews 🔥🔥🔥

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

5 years

A dream come true! Gertrude, Vally, Adele and Edith couldn’t have a better champion to get their side of the story heard and out into the world... thank you! 💫

Juliet Mushens

@mushenska

5 years

Very excited to be working with @Words_by_Sophie on her novel THE FLAMES which tells the story of the women who inspired expressionist painter Egon Schiele in early 20th century Austria. It’s a complex story of art, love and desire - and the real women behind the paintings.

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

4 years

Are you working on a novel? The deadline for this year's Impress Prize is 31 August. Do enter if you can - it costs £25 and I'm willing to pay for up to four writers to submit, who might not be able to do so otherwise. Check out the T&Cs and DM me if interested✍️

Impress Prize

@ImpressPrize

4 years

Looking back at another previous winner of the Impress Prize! @Words_by_Sophie won in 2018 with The Flames, scheduled to be published in 2022 following a six-figure deal with Doubleday🎉 Want to enter? Click here for more info: #authors #amwriting

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

Where art imitates life: ⁦ @chloelashby ⁩ at the Lucian Freud exhibition at ⁦ @NationalGallery ⁩, confronting her doppelgänger, down to matching jumper 💙

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

6 years

The opening chapters of a novel I'm working on have been shortlisted for @ImpressPrize and @PENfroBookFest this week. I'm now basking in a welcome (but fleeting?) break from crippling self doubt and imposter syndrome... yay!

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

9 months

Short story writers, I'm very excited to be judging the Bath Short Story Award this year - so please enter your best work! Deadline: 15th April

BathShortStoryAward

@BathStoryAward

9 months

A Happy New Year to you all! We hope entering 2024 BSSA will be on your ‘NY’s Writing Resolutions’ list. 1st prize £1200 from total £1700 prize pot. Judge @SophieHaydock Local prize from @mrbsemporium Closes 15/4/24 Entry details

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

First sighting of The Flames 🔥

Nina Pottell

@Matineegirl

3 years

After! My rucksack home will be rather full later #bookpost

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Engulfed by Flames at the PRH office today... 🔥

Kirsty Dunseath

@KirstyDunseath

3 years

Great to have the wonderful @Words_by_Sophie in the office today, meeting our reps and signing some postcards for mailing with the gorgeous proofs of #TheFlames .

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

My train arrived at St Pancras and I walked past the ⁦ @Hatchards ⁩ bookshop, only to see The Flames in the window 🤯🤯🤯 So pleased to be alongside these beauties by writers including ⁦ @SStokesChapman ⁩ ⁦ @PNovelistGale ⁦ @PhilbyWrites ⁩ ⁦ @natashasolomons ⁩

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

London art lovers! There is a rare and wonderful new exhibition — The Unflinching Eye of Egon Schiele: Works of a Private Collector — which is now open at @bonhams1793 (New Bond Street) until 16th November

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

1 year

A week ago @NaomiWoodBooks won the BBC National Short Story Award for her story, Comorbidities, about parents to young children who decide to make a home movie when they have a rare evening alone together... I interviewed her for @WordFactoryUK 👇

Interview with Naomi Wood: winner, BBC National Short Story Award 2023 - Word Factory

thewordfactory.tv

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

1 year

One week until this gorgeous paperback is published, and The Flames goes on tour. Some great events coming up, where I'll be talking about sex, scandal, betrayal, heartbreak and the artworld of early 20th century Vienna. Hope to see you there! #debutauthor

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

1 year

Thanks so much to ⁦ @WaterstonesTraf ⁩ and ⁦ @spookypurcell ⁩ for an incredible paperback launch for The Flames. Laura��s questions were brilliant and thought provoking and it was great to talk about Egon Schiele’s muses to a new audience. It was such a fun night! 🔥🔥🔥

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

Naked ambition: incredible to see such a wonderful feature on The Flames out in the new issue of @Tatlermagazine 🔥

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@SophieHaydock

1 year

The Flames will be out in paperback next week! I'll be celebrating it being published on 27th April

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

All my wonderful dry January resolutions went OUT THE WINDOW at lunch today. Thanks @NikkiOMay and @LizziePook it was definitely worth it 🥂

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

I now live in Folkestone. It’s very pretty 🌊

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

Yay! The Flames is included on this @Foyles list of debut authors to read in 2022 (alongside @NikkiOMay @SStokesChapman @rosieandrews22 and more) So many amazing debuts coming out this year 🔥🔥🔥

Foyles Bookshop

@Foyles

3 years

Introducing the new authors of 2022! We've put together a selection of dazzling debuts that might just change all your reading plans:

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

6 years

When I sent my novel to @ImpressPrize last year, I never dreamed for a second that I'd win. It's definitely worth entering - you never know what might happen! ✍️✍️✍️

Impress Prize

@ImpressPrize

6 years

@SophieHaydock winner of 2018 #Imprize will be published this year! Our 2019 Impress Prize for New Writers will open on the 1st of April, who will be this year’s winner.. #writingprize #manuscriptprize #debutauthor #ImpressPrize

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@SophieHaydock

1 year

The French artist Francoise Gilot died yesterday, aged 101 I adored her book, The Woman Who Says No, about her turbulent decade-long relationship with Picasso. She was the only woman ever to leave him, going on to establish a life on her own terms, following her passion for art

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

Two authors who’ve written novels about Egon Schiele in one room! Thank you so much ⁦⁦ @lewis_crofts ⁩ (author of The Pornographer of Vienna) for coming to the launch of The Flames, it was an absolute pleasure to meet you, and I feel we could talk for hours! 🔥🧡🔥

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@SophieHaydock

2 years

Hilary Mantel's death is such a devastating loss to the world. She was so generous and took time to encourage writers at any stage of their careers (I interviewed her in 2014, and she'd reply to requests always so warmly). I can't bear to think of the books we won't get to read

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@SophieHaydock

2 years

The Flames ebook is available for £1.99 on Amazon this August, as part of their Kindle Monthly deals, so snap up a bargain if you like novels that touch on art, scandal, nudity, feminism, all set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

4 years

This is a drawing of Edith Harms, dying. She is 25 years old and six months pregnant with their first child. The drawing was made by her husband, Egon Schiele, precisely 102 years ago today, for she died on the 28th October, 1918, of the Spanish influenza

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@SophieHaydock

2 years

Dream proof post, 73 Dove Street by @JulieOwenMoylan , debut extraordinaire, who has impressively whipped out book two in record time. I can’t wait to read this (officially published 20 July) - it looks just up my street 🕊

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

1 year

I became fascinated by Adele Harms. She died penniless and alone in Vienna, aged seventy-eight. I wondered how she must have felt looking back half a century, remembering the beautiful woman she’d once been, wondering if she’d squandered her chances. I adored her for her failures

Women's Prize

@WomensPrize

1 year

Tackling well-known historical figures is a challenging undertaking, but one @SophieHaydock has achieved with aplomb in her debut novel #TheFlames . We asked Sophie some questions about her research and the muses that inspired her:

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

I spoke to Red Széll for @RNIBRadio 'Books of Your Life' and was asked to describe Egon Schiele's artworks for people who hadn't seen them before, and never would. It reminded me how much intensity can be found in this vibrant artwork The Artist's Wife (Edith Schiele), from 1915

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

So generous, thank you for these wonderful words Kiran Millwood Hargrave @Kiran_MH #TheFlames

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

2 years

Free London event! On Monday night at @bonhams1793 auction house on Bond Street, I’ll be talking about my novel, The Flames - a reimagining of the lives of the women who were the main muses to artist Egon Schiele in Vienna a hundred years ago All welcome!

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

6 years

A joyous trio of excellent authors: Catherine Menon, Eley Williams and Alison Lock. If you missed our @WordFactoryUK evening, you’ll never know why @GiantRatSumatra thinks an unfinished short story is like a flea-ridden cat...

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

The gold foil looks positively molten in this photo, thanks so much @MushensEnt 🔥🔥🔥

Mushens Entertainment

@MushensEnt

3 years

An absolutely stunning #bookpost delivery today! How gorgeous are these copies of #TheFlames by @Words_by_Sophie ? 😍🔥

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@SophieHaydock

2 years

The Flames (Four Muses) will be published in Czech on Friday by @Grada_cz 🔥🔥🔥

Metafora

@KnihyMetafora

2 years

A v pátek se můžete těšit ještě na jednu knihu – opravdovou lahůdku pro příznivce beletrizovaných životopisů. 📚 Čtyři múzy @SophieHaydock přinášejí dosud neznámý příběh žen, jež propadly uhrančivému kouzlu malíře Egona Schieleho a staly se neoddělitelnou částí jeho umění. 🖼️

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3 years

Very excited to have written the cover feature for next week's @bigissuenorth . It's very personal, about inspiration, potential and loss. Out on Monday!

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@SophieHaydock

7 years

Short story club: this month, we're reading a Jackie Kay story and discussing it on Sept 9. Email sophie @thewordfactory .tv for a copy

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

Three weeks to publication and how nice it was to notice The Flames jump into a Bestseller slot on Amazon last night - thanks to the discussion of artists and 'muses' on @BBCFreeThinking 🙌

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

The Flames made it on to @BBCFreeThinking last week and you can still listen to the conversation about artists’ muses and fame here: 🔥🔥🔥

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@SophieHaydock

2 years

Such a beautiful surprise to receive! Thank you @mushenska and @MushensEnt . So thoughtful! 🌸🌸🌸

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@SophieHaydock

4 years

A live tour of Margaret Atwood's writing space, including feathers she has collected to turn into pens, a geranium brought indoors for the winter, a wall of poetry books (and her own novels), and her computer, where the hard work happens. Thank you @Soc_of_Authors @MargaretAtwood

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@SophieHaydock

2 years

The Flames is published today in the USA!! Thank you @ABRAMSbooks , @NY_Protagonista and the Flames team, Andrew Gibeley and Christian Westermann 🔥🔥🔥

ABRAMS Books

@ABRAMSbooks

2 years

Set in the extravagant, Bohemian art world of early 20th century Vienna, @SophieHaydock ’s THE FLAMES is the electrifying untold story of the four women who posed for and inspired the groundbreaking erotic art of controversial painter Egon Schiele. Out now!

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@SophieHaydock

1 year

Not an April Fool’s 🔥

Doubleday Books

@DoubledayUK

1 year

For the month of April, @SophieHaydock 's stunning debut novel, The Flames, is only 99p on Kindle! Set in Vienna in the early 20th century, this is about four remarkable women whose lives become entangled with a controversial artist... Buy it here: #KMD

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@SophieHaydock

6 years

Courtney Zoffness wins the Sunday Times EFG short story award for Peanuts Aren’t Nuts, a brilliant story that can be read in full here: Here she is last night, right after the announcement, with Kazuo Ishiguro (forgive the blurry pic)

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@SophieHaydock

5 years

And I'd like to offer to pay the £25 @ImpressPrize entry fee for one writer who might struggle to enter otherwise. It can be really discouraging as a writer to be priced out of competitions. Message me a short line about you and your work and I can sort it out before the deadline

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@SophieHaydock

2 years

Happy book launch to @clotimms for her beautiful debut The Seawomen 🧜‍♀️

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

Four weeks until publication! The Flames can be ordered now from all great bookshops and will arrive to your door on 17th March 🔥

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@SophieHaydock

10 months

I'll very happily be judging the Bath Short Story Award this year! Looking forward to reading the entries. Join us on Thursday for the launch of the 2023 anthology @BathStoryAward #shortstories

BathShortStoryAward

@BathStoryAward

10 months

Excited to launch our 2023 BSSA anthology at a Zoom event on Thurs, Dec 14 at 7.30 with many of our authors reading. At the same time we’ll launch our 2024 award bd our judge @SophieHaydock will say a few words. Please reply or DM if you’d like to join us & we’ll send the link.

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@SophieHaydock

6 years

Stairs are still my enemy and the arm chafe is only just subsiding, but running all 26.2 miles of the @berlinmarathon on Sunday was fully worth the pain (plus, I didn't lose any toenails, woo). I was lucky to get a charity place and raise money for the brilliant @epilepsyaction

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@SophieHaydock

2 years

@emmagannon It shows such a lack of imagination. Like, without a baby, what will you possibly do with all that time… 🤷‍♀️

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@SophieHaydock

1 year

It was such a pleasure to do my first author event as a Folkestone resident - at the wonderful Folkestone Bookshop, alongside the equally magical Zoe Gilbert @mindandlanguage who I've had the good fortune of knowing for a long time now and whose book Mischief Acts is brilliant✨

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@SophieHaydock

2 years

What right do we have as writers to take historical figures from the past and turn them into fiction? This will be a HOT discussion, covering DH Lawrence and Egon Schiele and their scandals, touching on Marilyn Monroe in Blonde and events in The Crown. Join us on Thursday!👇

The Word Factory

@WordFactoryUK

2 years

We kicked off our festival with a stonking weekend. Now we move to Thursday evening 17th at @Hatchards with the superb @SophieHaydock and Alison McLeod. A few tickets left here!

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

"We do know that whatever was happening that day in 1904, Gertrude went on to pose for her brother without her clothes. The evidence is stark, witnessed in Schiele’s raw and powerful artworks" My feature for @Telegraph #TheFlames

The secrets of Schiele's muses: did the artist sleep with his sister?

The Austrian artist was unusually close with his sister – and his intense relationships with women shaped his brief, tragic life

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

"One for those who adore historical fiction that has the power to transport you to a bygone era and see the world through the eyes of women from the past" Thanks to @alicecsnape for including The Flames in @Cosmopolitan 's best books of 2022

The new book releases you need in your life

If your new year's resolution is to read more, you're in luck, it's a seriously good year for new books

www.cosmopolitan.com

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Sophie Haydock

@SophieHaydock

3 years

Imagine my excitement! 🌊🌊🌊

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@SophieHaydock

3 years

Who would I have become if I’d not gone that day or failed to be curious about the haunting gazes looking back at me from Egon Schiele’s powerful artworks? Thank you @mushenska @MushensEnt ✨

Mushens Entertainment

@MushensEnt

3 years

Thank you to the wonderful @Words_by_Sophie for talking to us about her debut novel #TheFlames and all things Egon Schiele 🎨

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