Spent the last week in the suburbs with @grindrod.bsky.social and this excellent history of LGBTQ+ lives beyond the cities

We're on tour! Starting next month our editor and writers are bringing folkloric events to Durham, Newcastle, and Leeds. Find out more and book tickets: carnyxpress.co.uk/2026/03/29/o...

I’m almost too modest to repost this.

Listen up. I know it's been a while, but A Personal Anthology will anthologise tomorrow, like on a normal Friday. Tomorrow's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is Kimmo Rosenthal. Hitting inboxes 2pm. Sign up here to get it: apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

"If everyone used Standard English, we’d all still be Henry James doing clause after clause after clause of grammatically perfect but fucking tedious prose ..." @stuhennigan.bsky.social talks to @susannacrossman.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/04/14/t...

We are getting there but a fair to go still. Help us get to 50% before we enter the final two weeks! We need a space like this in Newcastle! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

The 2026 Barbellion Prize submissions window opened at midday yesterday and since then nearly 700 followers have signed up for the new Instagram account: www.instagram.com/barbellionpr... There's a new website also: barbellionprize.org Get involved! Spread the word!

This week I’m in Nottingham, Sheffield and Manchester, doing talks and generally being suburban www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events

First sighting of @benpester.bsky.social 's new short story collection Sail Away Land - and isn't it fabulous I want to jump right into that blue blue

Here it is, My First Fiction Publication. Big 🩷 to the Auflauf gang. You should subscribe!

Me?!?! In @electricliterature.com?!?! Doing my @deadparentswhatnow.com thing?!?! 💀💗💀💗 electricliterature.com/7-books-that...

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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

Support indie bookshops !!!

My Personal Anthology of short stories is now on the website, along with lots of other great Personal Anthologies 👇

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

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

My short story ‘The Unspoken’ online @grantamag.bsky.social granta.com/the-unspoken/

PRE-ORDER SALE! To celebrate the launch of SAINTS this Thursday 23rd October, get 25% off your pre-ordered copy! Just type Saints2310 at the checkout on or before 23rd October... www.scratch-books.co.uk/product-page...

Glasgow loves please join me & @benpester.bsky.social at Mount Florida Books on the 6th of November to talk about the marvel that is The Expansion Project. Everyone* is saying it’s going to be the real fireworks night *No one is saying that. But it will be good mountfloridabooks.com/products/the...

The London-based imprint of artist Richard Porter, Pilot Press is a publishing project started in 2017 to share the work of queer writers and help retrieve a philosophy lost to AIDS and capitalism. You can find their books (inc. 'Practicing Dying' by Charlotte Northall) at #smallpublishersfair25

Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social ( @influxpress.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2025/10/16/d...

We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense: www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

In 1965, Ethel Mannin traveled across the US, mostly by bus. A woman of fierce mind, in An American Journey she reveals much about flaws in the American dream we still see. I'm delighted to say that Boiler House Press will be reissuing this in 2026 with an introduction by @joannapocock.bsky.social.

A pleasure to have placed third in this year's Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. Anthology available in-store and at bricklanebookshop.org/product/brick-lane-bookshop-new-short-stories-2025

Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.

A shortlist to get excited about - isn't that what we want from a prize? Huge congratulations @benpester.bsky.social @cdrose.bsky.social Sarah Hall Colwill Brown (who's had a very good week!) Yrsa Daley-Ward & Charlie Porter www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

My spine is tingling as a short from my @boilerhouse.bsky.social collection is in Ghost Box IV: a deluxe coffin of spooky/horror stories from Canadian publishers of gorgeous box sets Hingston & Olsen w/ texts selected by excellent human @pattonoswalt.bsky.social 🙏 Out today, print run very limited!

reminder: if you like cursed images, trash essays, Wiki aesthetic categories, shrimp Jesus & AI slop, book your ticket for the launch of Amateurs! How We Made Internet Culture and Why it Matters ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with @nrolah.bsky.social, tues sept 23rd!

I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here: jencalleja.com/writing/

I’ve been touring this book since February and every time I’ve signed a copy for someone, I’ve asked them to sign my copy in return. Come to my last event of the year at @chorltonbookfest.bsky.social next Tuesday and be one of the last people to sign it.

I have a new Radio 4 short story about an exorcism in a Nursing Home airing this month and I’ve just listened to the recording of Seamus O’Hara reading it and it’s only brilliant. Can’t wait for you all to hear it.

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My story ‘Small Bad Things’ which came third in @themothmagazine.bsky.social short story prize is published in @irishtimes.com today 🎉 There is a small paywall - (£1 for first month) 👇

Still a week left if you want to support this vital Bristol indie 👇 Donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--... @bookhaus.bsky.social

What is it that most says 'Autumn's on its way' to you? A chill in the air? Birds gathering on telephone wires to fly south? School uniforms in shop window displays? Or me putting a call out for contributors to A Personal Anthology when it returns in September? Love short stories? Prove it!