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Me?!?! In @electricliterature.com?!?! Doing my @deadparentswhatnow.com thing?!?! 💀💗💀💗
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Forgive me banging on about this story again - but should you wish to download it, today's the last day (from link below, or Spotify, Apple, etc) - then it's only available on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
I have a new story on BBC Radio 4 - Friday 23 Jan - and then on catchup
Elevator pitch - a comedy about love, entropy and a ceremonial badger
I’d love for you to give it a listen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
If all you want for Christmas is new short stories from @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social Mark Haddon and (ahem) me
Then check out The Essay on Radio 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week
Three stories of winter journeys inspired by Schubert's Winterreisen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Turns out a combination of not using That Other Site and the economic landscape at the moment in general does, in fact, makes fulfilling the whole "starving artist" stereotype a whole lot more achievable 😅
...available from renardpress.com/books/the-curae-2, with proceeds going to Carers UK and Carers’ Trust
Paperback edition of The Curae, an anthology of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, by writers who are carers
First page of a story called 'Much Loved Pet, Late Of This World, Returns In Hologrammic Form' by JL Bogenschneider
Received my contributor copies of The Curae II, collecting the shortlisted and prize-winning entries for this year’s Curae Prize, for writers who are also carers.
Many thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social for establishing the prize and @renardpress.com for publishing the anthology...
End-of-year bump for my story 'My Secession', originally included in the February print edition of The London Magazine:
thelondonmagazine.org/article/fiction-my-secession-by-jl-bogenschneider
Announcing The Scratch Winter Sale!
For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off.
For all the readers and writers in your life!
www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop
Thought I might post some short stories for advent - but I may be overestimating my industry & your interest
Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce...
(Not an excerpt despite what the link says)
A new Joy Williams story up at Lit Hub - lithub.com/the-fellow from her collection The Pelican Child - out now in US and early December in UK
Support indie bookshops !!!
My Personal Anthology of short stories is now on the website, along with lots of other great Personal Anthologies 👇
And - on this day when probably no one but BBC Radio is broadcasting new literary fiction - here's some new Joe Dunthorne 👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I wrote about London, psychogeography and Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia for @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social October / November issue.
Read the first few pages below and then buy a copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Thanks @jamiepcameron.bsky.social for the great editorial work
This is tomorrow, I know it is staying in, eating soup, watching telly weather but do please come along, we promise to do our utmost to delight you & tickets are free, although you can also order a book with one included
Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes
A rather pathetic plea that I don't get paid to make these (No TV company has taken up any of these pitches) so every penny counts in helping me make more silly stuff through these terrible cozzie lives ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
It's Wednesday afternoon, and so nearly the weekend... and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is June Caldwell, @junec.bsky.social, author of the collection Room Little Darker.
Hitting inboxes Friday. Sign up below!
The Letters Page is back!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
I’ll be on Front Row on Radio 4 this evening talking about all things uncanny and unsettling in literature. Tune in after 7 or catch up later on BBC sounds.
Had a truly life affirming, cathartic & beautiful time talking to John for this, one that made it clear he’d handle the experiences of all who spoke to him with empathy, wit & profound care.
It is a really special book by an extraordinary writer & human so preorder the net curtains out of it, please
My huge face in the New Statesman today
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
@grantabooks.bsky.social @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
Lovely comments today from the very generous @polyscribe70.bsky.social - my book came out during lockdown when all the bookshops were closed - I can't tell you how nice it is to see readers picking it up now
Issue Seven of The Pig's Back is now available for pre-order. Featuring new writing from Sophie Corser, Wendy Erskine, Rosa Mäkelä, Dara McWade, Laura Morris, Nicole Morris and Odrán Waldron.
🎺Issue 10 Cover Reveal🎺
Our beautiful Issue 10 Cover Art is 'Inappropriate' by photographer Debbie Castro.
Cover design by Sarah McCoy.
The issue features Wendy Erskine, Jon Fosse, Kim Keum Hee, and many others, and can be pre-ordered here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...
Submissions are open for our next issue on the theme of 'Palimpsest'. Find details of what we are looking for and how to submit on our website
www.elsewhere-journal.com/submissions
