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.

Just trying to make sense

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) 👇

If anyone is interested in some of the books that helped inform GREYHOUND, here is a short list. As summer comes to an end, there is still time for one more road trip, even if it's a literary one... fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/08/joan...

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

Dream dream dream @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social @jasonarthur.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!

Spent Sunday afternoon in the company of the final issue of Lunate, which features my own contribution 'Alice Truly - A Life In Fiction.' It's been a joy and a privilege to be part of it all. Thanks to Claire, Han & Gary. Vol. 6 and more available at lunate.co.uk/shop

My story ‘Taints’ published last year in @bansheepress.bsky.social is now available to read online. bansheepress.org/read/taints-...

This is going to be quite the event!

If you have an unpublished novel in a computer file somewhere, this one's for you.

it's been forever since my book came out (nearly a year?!). if anyone wants to buy a story collection that i think is apt in these weird, hard times, here it is!

Totally delighted to be shortlisted for this - and to also win the @saloneurope.bsky.social prize - I cannot wait to take part in the salon next year in Madrid 😍 you can pre order the book and order the anthology of all the brilliant stories now 👇👇

'Winter Sutra', one of two poems by John Burnside in our August / September 2025 issue. @jonathancape.bsky.social Order a copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

Outlandish in the Observer today

My novel is comped to Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Donna Tartt in this ⭐ STARRED REVIEW ⭐ at Library Journal!!! 🤩

'Traversing urban metropolises and desert vistas, GREYHOUND is an erudite study of how living among others became a dying art.' Ellen Peirson-Hagger reviews GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock for @theobserveruk.bsky.social: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

“I want to tell you a few stories: stories from an old town far up north, far up east, a town by the sea.” @deepbaltic.bsky.social published excerpts from my translation of “Death in Reval” (Der Tod von Reval, 1939) by Baltic German Werner Bergengruen (1892-1964). deepbaltic.com/2025/08/05/d...

My story ‘From the Mountains’ in @winterpapers.bsky.social archive. winterpapers.com/selected-wor...

Spent Sunday afternoon in the company of the final issue of Lunate, which features my own contribution 'Alice Truly - A Life In Fiction.' It's been a joy and a privilege to be part of it all. Thanks to Claire, Han & Gary. Vol. 6 and more available at lunate.co.uk/shop

A good, transparent piece on author advances. Nice to see @akblakemore.bsky.social here inews.co.uk/culture/book...

“What has happened in the past is still playing out now.” New online — Tolka editor Catherine Hearn spoke to Liadan Ní Chuinn about their debut short story collection Every One Still Here, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

I have a new story out on Nightjar press called Flight Paths. Get one here for only £3.00. I suggest buying mine along with Joe Stretch ‘s as they were both commissioned for Stockport Stories, and complement each other like an earthy wine with a ripe brie. nightjarpress.weebly.com?fbclid=IwQ0x...

We’re delighted to announce that we’re now open to Inklings pitch submissions until the 31st August! Visit our website for further information - we’re really looking forward to reading your submissions! saraband.net/2025/07/11/i... #Booksky #Writers @404ink.bsky.social 📚💙

'We Live Here Now' is a 'pick of the summer crop' according to @bigissue.com Many thanks! www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

Preorder offer here for my book and many other bangers

Everybody read FAIR please, thank you. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Ahead of a new story of mine on BBC radio four, you can listen (should you wish) to a couple of other pieces of mine. Together they'll make a loose folk horrorish trilogy. here's The Death of Wildflowers:

Little Borgesian tribute

Always hard reading a book by a mate but needn’t have worried here. @stuhennigan.bsky.social’s KESHED is a brilliant and brutal beast of a book which unflinchingly explores themes of class, masculinity, addiction, depression and parenthood. Not an easy read but pretty much an essential one.

New episode! Listen to amazing Heuijung Hur speak about her short story collection Failed Summer Vacation published in English by @scratchbooks.bsky.social! www.spreaker.com/episode/fail...

You can find out more about the GAZAGAZAGAZA exhibition, and the submission guidelines, here: www.artistssupportingpalestine.org/gazagazagaza All proceeds go to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social

Many have asked “what would it be like if Pale Fire were speculative fiction about cultural genocide and the band Kleenex?” And I’m here to tell you: it absolutely fucking rips

just a happy wee writer at her first book launch📘

We will be launching To Avenge a Dead Glacier, the incredible debut collection from Shane Tivenan tomorrow at the Athlone Bookshop! 🧊 The one and only Lisa McInerney will be our guest speaker so don't miss it and come celebrate with us from 7PM 🥳 Proudly supported by The Arts Council 📚

Wrote about writing about literary translation in this opinion/review for ArtReview

⭐Partner Journal Shoutout⭐ @gorsejournal.bsky.social is a stunning, original Dublin-based journal featuring essay, fiction, poetry & interviews. gorse has published 2019 & 2022 shortlisters Joshua Riedel & Jona Xhepa @quetzalfiach.bsky.social 2025 Prize info at desperateliterature.com/prize

I'll be in Dublin on May 17th reading at the launch of the summer issue of @stingingfly.bsky.social as part of @ilfdublin.bsky.social. ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

'Haunting and beautifully constructed.' – Daisy Johnson Happy publication day to Eva Wyles, whose brilliant debut short fiction collection, Deliverywoman, is out now! www.influxpress.com/deliverywoman

Everyone is raving about Hellions: Stories by @juliaelliott.bsky.social !🐊🌺✨ Read more: bit.ly/4cLOYrl

i have a new story at @nplusonemag.com. it’s called “patrick’s journey: the play” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Goblinhood’s had a reprint! 1500 gone, 1500 more going out into the world. Thanks to @roughtradebooks.bsky.social and everyone who’s supported the book so far. Here’s my worn out and altered copy. roughtradebooks.com/products/gob...

Delighted to have my short fiction, Losing Face, published by @vikshirley.bsky.social & @joshuarothes.bsky.social @sublunary.bsky.social Firmament online: sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/los...

When you pre-order books it supports both publisher and author and you get a nice surprise when it arrives and you forgot you'd bought it

Pleased to be on the shortlist for this year's Dinesh Allirajah Prize...

Engines Beneath Us, my upside-down folk-horror-ish novella, resurfaces courtesy of @influxpress.bsky.social, with an absolutely stunning cover by Luke Bird. Read the book my mum described as "quite miserable"!

Our next Weird Fiction Reading Group pick is Calls May Be Recorded For Training and Monitoring Purposes by Katharina Volckmer! Pick up a copy in store for 10% off, and join us on Thursday 1st May!