Johanna Thomas-Corr

A pleasure to chair this wonderful prize again. We'll be announcing our shortlist on Sunday 16th February.

So exactly how effectively has govt, water industry and regulators been in dealing with pollution, sewage dumping and the despicable state of our rivers and beaches in the last 12 months? "Serious pollution incidents up 60% in 2024 from previous year." It's over. Enough of the…

Great to be back in Syria after 9 years and feel it free of Assad. But spent last few days in south/Sweida hearing horrific stories of massacres raising many questions about ability of the Al Sharaa administration to control a divided society thetimes.com/article/eb6784…

📣 The 2025 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award is now open for submissions! Deadline: Monday 8th September. Follow the link for more information on how to enter: societyofauthors.org/prizes/other-p…

The Israeli government continues to deny there is starvation at their hand in Gaza. This is nonsense. The evidence is there for all to see.

“I'm only asking for a piece of bread... that's all," a 17-year-old boy at al-Shifa hospital tells the BBC, as food security body the IPC warns more than 1.5 million Gazans are at risk of severe malnutrition/ starvation. Nearly 500,000 are considered to be facing “catastrophe.”

I wrote about how we’re living through the era of the zombie reboot, which includes Irvine Welsh’s new Trainspotting sequel, Men in Love. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Water companies have ‘cheated us out of £84 billion’ – Feargal Sharkey channel4.com/news/water-com…

Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump. on.wsj.com/3TL8s7C

Deeply proud to work for Emma Tucker and to be part of a great newspaper that doesn’t get scared off by these kinds of threats.

With 1,100 tonnes of US food rations nearing expiry after Trump's aid freeze, it took a warning of "wasted tax dollars" for a top US official to eventually agree to a deal for the supplies to be used. @JonathanLanday, @jessdonati and I report for @Reuters reuters.com/world/us/us-ai…

I had a splendid time talking to Ferdy Mount about liars and men who cry. My Sunday Times Culture interview in this weekend’s paper and online now. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

By a long chalk, this is best thing have read on Salt Road fiasco. As @JohannaTC says, no one in the all too cosy publishing ecosystem comes out of this well. thetimes.com/article/850a9a…

A great piece this by @JohannaTC on the dodgy walkers thetimes.com/article/850a9a…

This is very good from @JohannaTC on the issues raised for the publishing industry – writers, editors, agents, and all – by the Salt Path fiasco. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Excellent piece by @JohannaTC in today's Times on how the current culture and working practices in UK publishing allowed The Salt Path fiasco to happen. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Morning. Day 6 of SaltPathgate (props to the Observer) and into this “shit show” I wade. In my Times piece today, I try to unpick some of the issues in the publishing industry that might have led to the biggest literary scandal in years. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Part of a really insightful piece from ⁦@JohannaTC⁩ about The Salt Path fiasco and the problem with the publishing industry. But the lack of judgement is as apparent in fiction as it is in memoirs

This book is transformative. And this book will help you to rest your brain and to live a better life. And this book is BOOK OF THE WEEK in @thetimes this week with thanks to @JohannaTC #TheBrainAtRest by Joseph Jebelli from @TorvaBooks 📖

I love the Women’s Prize, I’ll always love the Women’s Prize, but I think the judges made the wrong call with the fiction prize this year. They should have chosen Miranda July’s All Fours. When was the last time a novel sparked this level of conversation? thetimes.com/comment/column…

I wrote this in 2015. I think it applies to what's going on now, doesn't it? Michael Rosen: When they do war, they forget how to count michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/when-t…