Literary twitterati

Our weekly round-up of recent literary happenings on Twitter

Finding it hard to keep up with the literary action on Twitter? Let us bring it to you. Missed Belinda McKeon's advice for Beyonce? Didn't hear that John Boyne is starting a new children's novel? Able to help Dublin Writer's Festival find a caravan? Follow it all here every Friday and with Sarah Gilmartin @PandaPolitics

— Belinda McKeon (@belindamckeon) <a href="https://twitter.com/belindamckeon/statuses/443800944783147008">March 12, 2014</a>

Don't miss the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TwitterFiction&amp;src=hash">#TwitterFiction</a> festival, going on now: <a href="http://t.co/wzlZV8MnUi">http://t.co/wzlZV8MnUi</a>

Photograph: Thinkstock
Photograph: Thinkstock

The only way I've been able to deal with finishing the new Richard Flanagan is by starting the new Tim Winton.

"I do not feel very confident that I can make anything satisfactory of Middlemarch." George Eliot Sept 11, 1869 1/2

We're looking for a caravan for one of our events in May... Any tips? <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dwf&amp;src=hash">#dwf</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23caravansearch&amp;src=hash">#caravansearch</a>

I'm going to start writing a new children's novel today. That'll keep me busy and out of trouble for the rest of 2014.

We're bringing writers to Washington for Paddy's Day with <a href="https://twitter.com/Solasnuacht">@Solasnuacht</a>! In book form anyway... <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23whatsthestory&amp;src=hash">#whatsthestory</a> <a href="http://t.co/ZufycwZxMM">http://t.co/ZufycwZxMM</a>

Big congratulations to Audrey Magee and Eimear McBride, longlisted for Baileys Women's prize for fiction: <a href="http://t.co/8Ku3Y0ohpw">http://t.co/8Ku3Y0ohpw</a>

On World Book Day I'm reading The Farm by Tom Rob Smith. Shaping up to be a masterclass of unreliable narration. No idea who to trust...