Fuck me, I've only been and gone and been nominated for a Best Microfictions award! You can read the nominated piece in here, along with a binload of other fantastic flash (and longer): mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

We are growing because we are unapologetic about demanding real change: taxing the super-rich, funding our NHS, and tackling the climate crisis head-on." And this week we are holding our biggest and boldest conference ever." www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...

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We're so excited to share our first print anthology, available to purchase for only £9/ $11.50 🦝 Please consider grabbing a copy - we're raising money for @WildlifeTrusts and have 27 truly exceptional short fictions for you to enjoy on actual paper 💜 mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

It's out! Not only does this amazing anthology contain incredible writing, every copy purchased also raises money for UK wildlife. So get yours now! (Go on, you know you want to - NOW!!!!!!!!) mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

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Entirely mutual! 💞

I haven't been around here much since I was warned by @moderation.bsky.app that my account was "violating (Bluesky's) violent and threatening speech guidelines" because I asked the CEO of Bluesky if she would give the same importance to the murder of Palestinian kids as to the murdered podcast guy.

My English Civil War/forbidden love/severed limbs story is out in the wild, in this stunning anothology from the excellent Ghost Willow Press (e-book for now, paperback from 1 October): mybook.to/SilentScream...

Keir Starmer's instinct is to wave aside political storms as if he is too grown-up for them, as if his critics are merely children who should calm down (see: his statement that "Black Lives Matter is a moment, not a movement": www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...). Then as now, that instinct will harm him.

Re-enchantment is resistance.

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RT's appreciated for this one, pre-orders are super-important for small presses cos they help gauge print runs and they're really helpful for getting us noticed by the big high street chains too 🙏👌

Coming up this week! TONIGHT! Comedy as Resistance with @judepickledplum.bsky.social Thu 11: Prophetic Writing: Near Future Speculative Fiction as Resistance with @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Fri 12: Inspiring new writing with European art and culture with Beth Daily from @europeana.bsky.social

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🎉 Lots of people have said they joined the party following this interview! 💚 So in case you missed it: here's how we're going to lower people's bills, protect our NHS and fight off the far right. youtu.be/1KsgxOrgbOA?...

Solidarity with striking NHS workers obviously, but also, HEY! That’s @uclarchaeology.bsky.social in the video

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Everyone stop what you're doing and BUY THIS, it's amazing! (When it comes out at the end of the month.) 😍

We pushed and we pushed and we have delivered a pair of delightful flashy collections 🦝🦝 Thirteen flash from all new Trash Family: trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto... Twelve flash from repeat bin offenders: trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto... A bumper read of amazing prompted stories - ENJOY!

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40 interviews! 😳 Election result 11am, 40+ interviews (all over MSM who seldom see past the cloak of invisibility they fling over the Greens) Finally a storming performance on Newsnight, closing with this section, which is *utter loveliness*. Who’s chopping onions? #BackZack #GoGreen #hope

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Refreshing

Thank you to everyone who took on the Prompted Stories challenge and subbed their flash. The bin is now closed and we will get straight to reading your treasured words 🦝 Check our pinned post for upcoming sub calls

Any shares of this for algorithmical purposes much-appreciated. I'd love to get these books out of my spare room & into the world before my new novel comes out. I'll sign them all & I really am happy to let people choose what they pay. (Postage to UK is £4.)

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Please sign if you agree. 38d.gs/ohvm

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Pledged £25.00 to the Gaza Giving circle just now. My donation was matched by a generous donor. Please, please, please, donate what you can and share this if you can´t. Despair is a luxury. #WeKeepTelling chuffed.org/project/hope...

www.tickettailor.com/events/sdhep... Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14 th August, 7 pm BST #Poetry #Community #Palestine

Oslo train station! #fallfriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=_god...

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Timely AF.

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This weekend the fash turned up in Aberdeen to harass a bunch of new Scots. They said they would be back next week. We said not in our city.

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Hot diggety dog crash them bin-lids daddy-o! I'm in amzing company as an official denizen of the Trash Cat Lit bin! Check out this fantastic upcoming publication, and above all BUY IT when it comes out for stories that will make your heart pound and your head spin!

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Ah, so the day has arrived when we need to bring this chestnut over from ye olde Twitter archives. PLEASE shop small/local/direct whenever you can!!!

We will be hosting two Palestinian-themed events in August: 11 Aug - We Are Not Numbers: the Voices of Gaza’s Youth. Ahmed Alnaouq with poets from Drunk Muse Press & Scottish PEN. 14 Aug - Screening of ‘Al-Damun: The War of Memory' by Dareen Tatour. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/scottish-p...

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