Winnie M Li
@winniemli
Author, activist, educator. Novels: WHAT WE LEFT UNSAID (2025) | COMPLICIT (2022) | DARK CHAPTER (2017) | Teach @unibirmingham | PhD @MediaLSE | @clearlinesuk
3 years ago, I went on a road trip down Route 66 with my partner & toddler, to research for my 3rd novel. It's finally coming out next summer -- this is a big creative step away from my previous 2 bks. You can read more about WHAT WE LEFT UNSAID here 👇 simonandschuster.com/books/What-We-…

Flat 401 is currently 99p - normally it's £5.49 - on Kindle, for a limited time only! amzn.eu/d/0bfpTbm
This may be my favourite photo I’ve ever taken! 😮 swanage old pier in Uk Dorset taken at Sunrise 🌅 I really hope you like it. Let me know ❤️
Just a nice gateway in an English countryside village #countryliving #countryhumans

no laptop, no typewriter, just a quill pen & paper to compose her masterpieces: Jane Austen writing desk, Morgan Library & Museum.
Less than 2 weeks til the UK edition is out! Here’s what an early @NetGalley reader had to say about my next book… ❤️❤️❤️ #booktwt #booklover

Loved speaking at this very special #crimewriting weekend 2 years ago. Totally worth going to if you love your #crimefiction 👇👇👇
Tickets are on sale for our 2025 Crime Fiction Weekend with Guest of Honour @valmcdermid & a host of spectacular speakers, in Oxford and online. Tickets: st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-cr… @Anna_Mazz @stuartneville @ambroseparry @stu_turton @Catrionaward @louisewelsh00 @RuthWareWriter
For a whole year I shared a riverbank with a male mute swan Everyday on my walk we conversed without a word being said Every day I hoped he found the partner he craved This year he brought his new family to see me
"Our society views women’s time as infinite like sand whereas we guard men’s time as if it’s finite like diamonds. Nowhere is this more obvious than the workplace.” -Eve Rodsky qz.com/women-workplac…
If you’re in the Frome area 2 weeks from now, you’re most welcome to my launch party for WHAT WE LEFT UNSAID at with the fantastic @LibbyPageWrites @HuntingRavenBks - FREE & open to all to attend. Hope to see you there!

Some gates deserve to take centre stage! This morning was so quiet, so still, the lane deserted. All of nature seemed to be holding its breath, just waiting for the sun to rise and flicker its way through the trees, to sweep away the mist with light in a matter of seconds.…
Here’s what Sunday Times bestselling author @LibbyPageWrites says about my new book. We’ll be in conversation at my launch event in Frome on Aug 7th with @HuntingRavenBks - come join us! 7pm at The Archangel Pub. @orionbooks #BookTwitter

Sell one million copies ✔️
Would you rather sell one million copies of your book or have it get made into a movie?
Don’t write for fame or money. Write because you agreed to a deadline, forgot the deadline, and just remembered the deadline
Dropped off my 5yo for the last time today at his school - I will miss this view on my way home from the school run ❤️ Next stop: Birmingham ➡️ #countrylife #countryliving

The Law Commission’s recommendations reflect what survivors have asked for all along: proper legal advice, stronger protections, and an end to trials shaped by rape myths. lawgazette.co.uk/news/law-commi…
This is also helpful to know... (as someone who is now an Assistant Prof at a Russell Group uni 😆) #academicjobs #AcademicTwitter
On average, women at Russell Group unis take 15 yrs longer than men to become profs. The reasons are complex & systemic. A large part is women’s rel inability to move & a pay structure with only 3 promotion moments per career despite there being many points on the grade scale.
The new edition of my debut novel DARK CHAPTER is out in the world now, 7 years after its original publication. A lot has changed since then, but there’s the same good reasons to read it 💪 #MeToo #amwriting #believesurvivors

Study of 6,600 episodes of kids’ TV over 60 years finds boys portrayed as ‘doers’ and girls as passive. And male characters still dominate dialogue, 50% more than female characters. @kimelsesser forbes.com/sites/kimelses…
I’m pleased to announce that St Andrews have fiiinnnallly made me a Professor. 23 years at St As. 30 yrs teaching UGs. 4 books & over 40 academic articles 100k+ words of journalism, radio etc It’s a relief. But it takes *too long*, esp for women. Let’s change that together.