A lot of the discourse that people who say they've "always wanted to write and AI makes it possible for them to" comes framed by an inaccurate desire: it's not that they wanted to *write*, they wanted something to sell. Coin was the only goal. We are not the same.

Congratulations to @citylit.bsky.social writing tutor @timothyfox.bsky.social, whose story "We Were Never Afraid of the Spider" is one of the winner's of @foofarawpress.bsky.social's best Flash Fiction of 2025! Study creative writing with Timothy: www.citylit.ac.uk/searchcourse...

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

What a joy for my cruel little story to be recognized by @foofarawpress.bsky.social as best Flash Fiction of 2025. 'We Were Never Afraid of the Spider' won last year's @molotovlitzine.bsky.social Flash Monster contest and just keeps creeping around!

Just me then. Okay.

Does (do?) everyone sneeze three times or is it just me?

Got word from @thebraag.bsky.social that my chapbook of Southern Gothic poetry and weird flash fiction is going into a second printing!!! Thanks to @kymdeyn.bsky.social for all their support and to all who have bought a copy!!! thebraag.co/product/ever...

What a joy for my cruel little story to be recognized by @foofarawpress.bsky.social as best Flash Fiction of 2025. 'We Were Never Afraid of the Spider' won last year's @molotovlitzine.bsky.social Flash Monster contest and just keeps creeping around!

damn right!

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the single most sanity-warping print error ever committed to print. The gnawing, eldritch, Lovecraftian horror of this Peterborough Standard society page from April 18, 1980. Theremony at tremony at the liremony indeed.

Got word from @thebraag.bsky.social that my chapbook of Southern Gothic poetry and weird flash fiction is going into a second printing!!! Thanks to @kymdeyn.bsky.social for all their support and to all who have bought a copy!!! thebraag.co/product/ever...

Havent posted about the newsletter here bc I havent posted much of anything anywhere lately but heres the March 2026 "Oops! All Doctors" edition with @timothyfox.bsky.social , Hugh Beim-Steinberg, Camilla Grudova, Sherwood Anderson and the band Humble Pie: buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

My @ergot.bsky.social published story ‘The Forest of Almost Death’ recommended in Short Story Rex! 🌳💀

LONDON POETRY PEOPLE. Um. do you, maybe want to come to my book launch? www.outsavvy.com/event/34936/...

My @ergot.bsky.social published story ‘The Forest of Almost Death’ recommended in Short Story Rex! 🌳💀

Very excited to be leading an all-day poetry workshop at @soanemuseum.bsky.social for @citylit.bsky.social on May 14. I promise it’ll be weird and curious and surprising.

It took a bit of time, but I’ve managed to collect all five out-of-print Year’s Best Weird Fiction from @undertow.bsky.social

In 1849 Herman Melville left England from here with a copy of Frankenstein in his pocket; the result was a queer book about a monster of his own making

@thomasha.bsky.social destroying us all with truth bombs. Grateful.

William Fettes Douglas was fascinated by alchemy & mysticism. Here, a magician is trying to raise the spirit of a dead man. The stone walls, with their strange carvings, are slightly disconcerting, & the moonlight lights up the room with a surreal intensity www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

Very excited to be leading an all-day poetry workshop at @soanemuseum.bsky.social for @citylit.bsky.social on May 14. I promise it’ll be weird and curious and surprising.

Maybe the most bizarre rejection email I've ever received.

You can get a copy for a complete stranger, too, if you want to do that. We’ll pick a name out of the phone book if you want and send it to them. (We’d do that, wouldn’t we, @kymdeyn.bsky.social?)

It’s World Poetry Day. And my little book of haunted, gothic, sad, spooky, depressing, very weird and numinous poetry is just over a year old. Get yourself a copy! thebraag.co/product/ever...

EGG-WAKEN YOUR EASTER. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!?!

Not even 7am and I’m thinking about @andrewblair.co.uk’s upcoming grimoire.

They’ll have to call it something else, this will just cause needless confusion www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...

I keep forgetting I’m allowed to have ice cream for breakfast.

You know the economy is bad when scammers are trying to get emerging writers and authors. Baby, you got off at the wrong exit.

Love is in the air at Edinburgh zoo. Pebbling marks the start of the breeding season for Gentoo penguins. Kids at Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to choose from and present to their mates.

Wishing a very warm welcome to our new @citylit.bsky.social tutor, @timothyfox.bsky.social! Study with Timothy on these short courses: Creative writing: getting started - 21 Feb www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/crea... Micropoetry: small poems, big ideas - 31 Jul www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/micr...

certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun

Article doesn’t mention this but this is the first time the blood moon will be actual blood. Pretty cool.

Be careful.

Kawanabe Kyōsai, Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai, 1871-78

Dracula Frankenstein’s Monster Wolfman Creature from the Black Lagoon

among my favorite French Revolution details: the King's cousin, the Duke of Orleans, was so shook by the events of the revolution that he not only voted to execute his cousin but legally changed his name to Equality Phil.

While sudden cliff falls at Birling Gap (near my home town of Eastbourne) are no joke, I really love how much it looks like we’ve roused a grumpy, sleepy sea-wizard.

Didn’t even realize it was Friday the 13th. What a waste of a day.

Got some literary spam from Steve Buscemi

I’m overjoyed to have a story published by ergot. I’ve admired the work they’ve championed for a few years now. It’s a privilege to be one of the cool kids.

If you've been thinking about grabbing any books from us, now would be a brilliant time! Our sale ends tomorrow, Feb 10th. 🖤 thebraag.co 🖤

How to be a Writer. 1. Stare out of window at rain. 2. Experience a certain lassitude. 3. Contemplate the infinite. 4. Tea.

Always a good thing listening to RLP read out loud mind melting literature.

ICYMI

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

"He’s so small. I pick him up and put him back to bed. ‘I’ve been dead a long time,’ he says. ‘Really?’ I ask. ‘Why yes,’ he says. ‘And what are you doing here? You haven’t been born yet.’" Today on ergot.: 'The Forest of Almost Death' by @timothyfox.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Timo...

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams