I’ve had so many requests we had to bring them back! The jumper is available to pre-order here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...

Please stop and breathe for a second. Everything is overwhelming and you may think, "but how can I help?". You start with this, one link, six families & a camp. Tangible help. Whatever you do, it helps. If you can´t donate, please share, repost. Thank you

Lit tease! 🫣

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Blummin' 'eck! I'm nominated for Best Microfiction! 😲

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Any shares of this much appreciated! When my ex-publishers collapsed, taking over £20,000 of my earnings with them into the void, all my books suffered but none more than 1983. This is me trying to repair that. It’s about: Childhood Education Aliens Alpacas The East Midlands The old future we lost

Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum. It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…

"Because it’s still about survival: unceased fire, thousands of people in tents facing winter, blockade on medical supplies, very little aid. Help six families. 26/1000" You can help. Less sweets on Halloween, more donations❤️

I must create a new regime Or live by another man's (R. Totale / MES(?)) #FallFriday

The more people on Substack know this, the better.

Zack Polanski wants to renationalise Water, have a wealth tax and fully fund our NHS Nigel Farage wants to deport innocent people, whip up racism and transfer more wealth to the super rich. Yet Centrists are trying to make us think they are the same.

One for 🇬🇧 to have look at...

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Already voted. As Otto says, the NT makes it easy to identify and avoid the opaquely funded wreckers. Foreign right wing money keeps trying to subvert our institutions.

Step down Setting down, just setting down See their butt all over the street #FallFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOYN...

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I spoke at the March for Gaza in Eastbourne earlier this weekend: Shame on the US and this Labour Government. They could've called for peace and stopped arming this genocide at any time. Reparations now. 🇵🇸 @pscupdates.bsky.social

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Brexit means Brexit

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This #BannedBooksWeek, PEN America is joining forces with more than 30 groups Standing Together for the Freedom to Read. Together, we call for the end to the authoritarian tactic of banning books. Learn more—and take the pledge to stand together against book bans at: act.pen.org/a/standing-t...

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Another astonishing sign of incredible incompetence from the UK Conservatives. They can’t even get right the name of the country they want to represent. (Image via LBC political editor Natasha Clark)

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

Everyone buy this incredible anthology now - you won't regret it! 👹🖋️💀✋

Day 2 and the energy at @greenparty.org.uk conference is amazing! Join today - and we could even overtake the Lib Dems in membership by the end tomorrow. Let's do this!!!! 🚀 Join.greenparty.org.uk

#FallFriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UmO...

Be Part of Britain's Weekend of HOPE 💛 hopenothate.org.uk/weekend-of-h...

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Oh yes, and this is out in paperback now too - talk about London buses! (And forbidden love and severed limbs in Wars of the Three Kingdoms-era England...) mybook.to/SilentScream...

If anyone knows folk who went to school with Nigel Farage I’d love to speak to them for an article and I’d protect their anonymity if they wished. Do help pass this on please in the hope it reaches the right people. Thank you

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.