Recently sent an editor prose, chopped up and churned through InDesign, but written as prose. Self evidently prose. "I don't like the poems." And there we have it.

The 2026 Clarissa Dalloway Prize for Short Prose is now open! Guest Judged by Lucy Ives and sponsored by Chill Subs! Up to 5k words, fiction or CNF, $10 entry and $850 in prizes. All entires receive our next issue + a free month CS membership! lespritliteraryreview.org/2026-clariss...

Insta feed's full of Tarkovky interviews. Say what you will re. his work but he's a dreadful interviewee; that sort of affected Catholic faux-mysticism, talking in broad strokes, aching for his immortality. Would be all over podcasts today

Linden Archives books and prints from www.pariahpress.com/books

Tripped Norman Ohler Atlantic, 2025 Follow-up to Blitzed. Makes the various connections between the Nazis & CIA extremely well, but regurgitates tired old tropes about 'unsuccessful' mind control programmes. Most of the files he/we need are under lock & key. Decent though. #CurrentlyReading

Competent... culturally

Ah, the everything methodology cop-out

I see A-Level style 'urban decay' photography is making a strong comeback. Diabolical times

All of our poetry titles can be found at the National Poetry Library, London #poetry #verse #booksky

Appalling to find another international publishing house we'd respected let standards plummet by publishing a moribund, bourgeois Mancunian author. Twice now, in a matter of weeks. Editorial standards? Perhaps they're fulfilling an Arts Council quota or the like

All of our poetry titles can be found at the National Poetry Library, London #poetry #verse #booksky

Everything 'community hub'

Arrivals! @smalltowninertia.bsky.social Beautiful new editions. #booksky #photobooks

Get yourselves down East Bristol Books. Doing things right. Good to have a gander @stuhennigan.bsky.social 'Keshed' while I was there. #booksky #literature #books

We've got 3 ms we're keen on editing & publishing, but still lack a dedicated sales/repping team. Stasis & search will go on until we find one. Our initial 3 titles were well received with national & international press & praise from contemporaries. Reflected with utter disinterest from our reps

Source is looking for New Work. No fee to submit. As part of our research for future issues, Source will be organising Zoom meetings with photographers to look at new photographic work. Open to photographers from or based in Ireland or the UK. Details at source.ie DL 27 February 2026.

One for the lolz for any publishers from without the 'big five'. The least flexible and responsive industry imaginable.

Let's all do tertiary-sourced artists books / glorified nostalgic flick books... and whatever happens, do not mention the original artists. 2026, thems the rules

#BusRead When in Rome, Rodney

Quite

"It's fucked."

Are we all looking forward to Joyce Carol Oates' memoirs/journals or what?

Decent (as in functioning) alternatives to Google Search please? Not Bing. Not Yandex. Not DDG. Not Ecosia.

We see the Wuthering Heights (book) backlash is afoot. Whoppers

A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature — Margaret Drabble Thames & Hudson, 1979 £2 from a Falmouth chazzer. Love the Drabble. Erudite. #CurrentlyReading #Booksky

They really will let anyone into the RCA these days won't they?

Equidistant between Literary Writers & Editors and Queer Taylor Swift fans. Which is as it should be

Always good to see the books at the #ICA Bookshop in #London. Currently stocking LINDEN ARCHIVES and GOD'S FOX II. shop.ica.art/products/god... #Booksky #Photobooks @stuartlindenrhodes.bsky.social

'We don't deal with agents'. Is one for the lolz

Liverpool 1994 Garlands ©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com #photography #queerhistory #gayart #gaybook Photographs may not be used without prior consent. @pariahpress.bsky.social @gaysof.bsky.social @liverpoolecho.co.uk @liverpoolmuseums.bsky.social

Everyone's Lit. Insta: 'Here's links to my books' Final link: Palestine Remembered

Knut Hamsun/Goebbels comes to mind with the news of Trump being gifted the Nobel by Machado.

Ah, #EGGSLUT are launching with 'Manc Poetry' style ads. F*ck right off and take your battery/intensively farmed Nathan Barley eggs with ya. Obviously haven't seen... youtu.be/kA0gmw1uz6Y?...

Flann O'Briens, and not the usuals, 50p each. Falmouth chazzers from heaven. #booksky

Extremely disappointing for a bookshop we've always bigged up, to avoid paying an invoice for months. Especially as the proprietor's just had two weeks in the Caribbean and splashed it all over Insta

Birmingham 1992 at RIM ©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com #photography #queerart #queerhistory #gayart #gaybook Photographs may not be used without prior consent. @pariahpress.bsky.social @gaysof.bsky.social @streetphotography.bsky.social

The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism is looking for the best new voices in cultural criticism. Entries close on 28 February 2026, so get scribbling! First prize is £3000 and publication in @theobserveruk.bsky.social Find out how to enter: www.anthonyburgess.org/observeranth...

Sad to see NYRB quality control has gone out of the window

Moving to Falmouth on Saturday (though back to Mcr frequently). Absolute sense of relief to be out of an artistically bereft, chippy, tacky, cokey & polluted city. Gatekept by monks on bad drugs. There are still some good-uns attempting to operate but economically & spiritually the city's wretched

The Truimph of Love — Geoffrey Hill Poetry Books Society, 2007 A powerful accretion of imagery, of linkages and lineages. All burning angels and self molestation. Heady. #booksky #currentlyreading

Distributor showing huge confidence in Anthony Burgess & us by ordering a further 20, yes 20, whole copies of Obscenity & the Arts for their warehouse. Despite sales ticking over since publication. Almost needless to say, these will be the last copies to be repped & distributed in the current deal

#RobertBurns, JD Salinger & the symbolism of Catcher & the Rye... www.scribd.com/document/725... #BurnsNight #Booksky

Stuart @stuartlindenrhodes.bsky.social is back at The Whitworth in Manchester (UK) after the triumph of his 'Linden Archives' northern launch in 2024.... Through the Queer Lens Thurs 26th Feb 6pm Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/through-th... #LGBTQ+ #Photography #ArtistTalk #Manchester

God's Fox II Charles Gordon Montgomery — words by Austin Collings Trade Orders: Antenne Books antennebooks.com/products/god... #MarkESmith #Nico #Prestwich #MentalHealth #1980s

Stuart @stuartlindenrhodes.bsky.social is back at The Whitworth in Manchester (UK) after the triumph of his 'Linden Archives' northern launch in 2024.... Through the Queer Lens Thurs 26th Feb 6pm Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/through-th... #LGBTQ+ #Photography #ArtistTalk #Manchester

God's Fox II Charles Gordon Montgomery — words by Austin Collings Trade Orders: Antenne Books antennebooks.com/products/god... #MarkESmith #Nico #Prestwich #MentalHealth #1980s

1. Gaddis' The Recognitions 2. Burgess's Earthly Powers 3. Keefe's Empire of Pain

If you're Manchester (UK) way, Olivia Rowland's SLAVERING #BookArt PhD show is up at Grosvenor Gallery at Manchester School of Art 'til Friday. She was the winner of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Award in 2025. Contact the School of Art to view on Thurs or Fri. Recommended. #booksky