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shelley hastings @peckhamshell

Writer | Producer | Arts & Dementia @resonatearts | Winner: Seán Ó Faoláin Prize & Aurora Prize | Finalist Mcr Fiction Prize | 👉shelleyhastings.bsky.social

Joined May 2009
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My story ‘Small Bad Things’ which came third in @themothmagazine short story prize published in Irish times today 😎
Irish Times Culture@IrishTimesCultr
29 Aug 2025
Small Bad Things by Shelley Hastings irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesCultr
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Desperate Literature@DesperateLit
12 Aug 2025
We are exceptionally proud of this year's writers and we hope you'll enjoy their work. Eleven Stories 2025 is available for pre-order (and you can get the pdf today!): desperateliterature.com/prod…
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Desperate Literature@DesperateLit
12 Aug 2025
THE 2025 SHORTLIST: "Generous, soulful distillations. A tasting flight of prosaic kerosene. Each story ignited a flare in a forsaken corner of my mind. I can’t wait to experience more from these voices." —Henry Hoke, judge Get the pdf and pre-order the book on our website!
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We are nearly there! Every donation doubled for next three days ❤️👇👇👇
Resonate Arts@ResonateArts
23 Jun 2025
🎶 Double the impact, double the joy! Donations made before 12pm on 30 June will be matched — helping us hit our £5,000 goal to support Singing with Friends, our dementia-friendly choir. Your kindness brings connection, creativity & community. 👉 Donate: donate.biggive.org/campaign/…
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Bristol Short Story Prize@BristolPrize
25 Jun 2025
It wasn’t part of the plan. In fact, you didn’t even think it was possible… not at your age. But it happened and now an impossible decision sits before you. 📚 Catch @DebAshWat's affecting story in our 2025 anthology & meet all our shortlisted writers: bit.ly/4dZRhIB
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Resonate Arts@ResonateArts
23 Jun 2025
🎶 Double the impact, double the joy! Donations made before 12pm on 30 June will be matched — helping us hit our £5,000 goal to support Singing with Friends, our dementia-friendly choir. Your kindness brings connection, creativity & community. 👉 Donate: donate.biggive.org/campaign/…

Resonate Arts: Singing with Friends choir – Big Give

Resonate Arts pioneers creative experiences for people living with dementia in Westminster & Kensington & Chelsea boroughs. We deliver creative and inspiring arts sessions, one-to-one support, and...

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I love running these groups - great to write about it for the Journal of Dementia Care 😍 now available to read online 👇
Resonate Arts@ResonateArts
6 Mar 2025
📣Our very own Shelley has written an article about the work we do in our Creative Spaces for the Journal of Dementia Care's special Arts Edition! Read it here: resonatearts.org/uploads/1/0…
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𖧧@mothintoflames
25 Jan 2025
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went to the last day of the Raymond Briggs exhibition at ditchling museum yesterday. All the drawings and sketches and layers of care taken. All the grief and love. The masterpiece of When the Wind Blows. Heart cracked open at the short video of him at home on his crumpled sofa.
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Yes please
Seán Hayes@seanghayes
28 Nov 2024
Very excited to announce today PATHEMATA: OR, THE STORY OF MY MOUTH – a stunning new original work by Maggie Nelson, a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss – which we are proud to publish on Fern Press in May 2025! 🔵🟠 thebookseller.com/rights/fer…
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Thank you @JDementiaCare - inspiring & thought provoking couple of days at the dementia congress so many excellent chats and presentations - & beautiful to see @ResonateArts groups front page of the journal. 😍 #UKDC2024
Front page of the journal of dementia care - a collage of pictures of people smiling, dancing, making art together.

ALT Front page of the journal of dementia care - a collage of pictures of people smiling, dancing, making art together.

Dementia Community@JDementiaCare
27 Nov 2024
It’s a wrap! Thank you to our sponsors, partners, speakers and delegates for making the 18th UK Dementia Congress such a success. Do keep an eye on our website to keep up-to-date with our work: journalofdementiacare.co.uk #UKDC2024 #ukdc #dementiacongress #dementia
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DebraWaters@DebAshWat
8 Nov 2024
Delighted to be one of three winners of the #LetterReview Prize for Short Fiction 2024. Congrats to the other winners and shortlisters :-) letterreview.com/the-letter-…

The Letter Review Prize Winners March – April 2024 - The Letter Review

We are enormously excited to announce the winners of The Letter Review Prize (March - April 2024) in the categories of Short Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Unpublished Books. Once again, we were...

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Saw the preview of this last night and LOVED it - personal, political, joyful - on until the 16th November. #rhythmnation 👇👇👇
Paula Varjack@paulavarjack
22 Oct 2024
The NINE SIXTEENTHS trailer has arrived 👀 Coming to @ThePleasance this November! Inspired by Janet Jackson, Created by me✨ With an incredible cast @EndyMckay, @emergentp, Julianne Doko & @livia_k_alour On Sale Now! 🎟️bit.ly/4dDaXjL🎟️
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susannacrossman@crossmansusanna
24 Oct 2024
Friends, readers, writers 31/10 6.30pm Join me at excellent @OwlBookshop in London. 🎉 I’ll be talking about growing up in a 70s/80s commune, institutions, home, the story of silent witnesses & my memoir ‘Home Is Where Is Where We Start’ @FigTreePenguin dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/books/…
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Crofton Park Station #lewisham #mushrooms
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Wendy Erskine
@WednesdayErskin
5 Oct 2024
Congratulations to everyone shortlisted, particularly (my pal) @larapawson for SPENT LIGHT. I was lucky enough to get to include an excerpt from it in ‘well I just kind of like it.’ SPENT LIGHT is a fantastic book. @CBeditions @PaperVisualArt
The Goldsmiths Prize@GoldsmithsPrize
3 Oct 2024
We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2024 shortlist! Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉👏🎉 Full details 👉 gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
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DebraWaters@DebAshWat
4 Oct 2024
Made the @Oxfordflash shortlist. Feels bloody great. Congrats to the other shortlisters
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YES! Spent Light! I loved this book. Congratulations @larapawson 🥳
The Goldsmiths Prize@GoldsmithsPrize
2 Oct 2024
We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2024 shortlist! Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉🥳🎉
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Resonate Arts@ResonateArts
27 Sep 2024
📣We won an award at the National Dementia Care Awards for our Creative Befriender programme!! And we were finalists in the Inclusive Care in our Diverse Society Category! A huge shout out to all our incredible volunteer befrienders, the work you do is very special!
Four people are seated at a dinner table, smiling and holding a colourful, semi circle award, The award is made from yellow and orange stained glass and is set into a wooden base. In the background are some large portrait paintings.

ALT Four people are seated at a dinner table, smiling and holding a colourful, semi circle award, The award is made from yellow and orange stained glass and is set into a wooden base. In the background are some large portrait paintings.

Two people stand holding a colourful award in from of an orange and yellow banner that reads 'Dementia Community'.

ALT Two people stand holding a colourful award in from of an orange and yellow banner that reads 'Dementia Community'.

A close up photo of a colourful, semi circle award. The award is made from yellow and orange stained glass and is set into a wooden base. In the background are people sat at dinner tables in a large hall.

ALT A close up photo of a colourful, semi circle award. The award is made from yellow and orange stained glass and is set into a wooden base. In the background are people sat at dinner tables in a large hall.

A slide reads 'Outstanding Approach to Supporting People Living with Dementia using Creativity and the Arts, the winners are Runwood Homes and the Creative Befrienders of Resonate Arts (jointly supported by Pluto Play Productions and Dementia Pathfinders)'

ALT A slide reads 'Outstanding Approach to Supporting People Living with Dementia using Creativity and the Arts, the winners are Runwood Homes and the Creative Befrienders of Resonate Arts (jointly supported by Pluto Play Productions and Dementia Pathfinders)'

Dementia Community@JDementiaCare
26 Sep 2024
Congratulations to the winner of the Outstanding Approach to Supporting People Living with Dementia Using Creativity and the Arts @Runwood_Homes and Creative Befrienders of @ResonateArts Supported by @PlutoPlaysUK @DPCIC #NationalDementiaCareAwards
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