ICYMI: my interview with Richard Lea of @fictionable.bsky.social. There’s a mention of my next book with @blackheraldpress.bsky.social and discussion of my previous two with @cbeditions.bsky.social. 👇🪁

Many thanks to Richard Lea @fictionable.bsky.social for this enjoyable conversation!

I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill. #art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI

the great hello, goodbye #4

A round of applause for @jgoldsmith.bsky.social following tonight's relaunch of The Barbellion Prize, which he founded. You can donate to this unique and essential literary award here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you! (You may wish to note the above)

the great hello, goodbye #3

the great hello, goodbye #2

Um, er, well here’s my first published story. 😅

November 1st: Mr S and I got married 17 years ago, together for 25. Here’s one of his many stories that makes me laugh. And here he is on the back of a book I wrote about him. Какая муза. www.cbeditions.com/clark.html

guess which one I made

the great hello, goodbye

Every morning, news reaches us from around the globe. And yet we lack remarkable stories. Why is this the case? It is because no incidents reach us any longer not already permeated with explanations. —— Walter Benjamin, The Art of Storytelling (ICYMI)

📸Photographs are like writing - they’re all about editing and what you choose to leave out! Bonus content with @joannapocock.bsky.social is now out - we’re talking more about objects of influence and GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Come and listen👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Here's #Autumn2025 with box fresh #ShortStories from Helon Habila, Ephameron, @cclarklewes.bsky.social Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall and Kasimma – plus Chadwick Allen on the classics of #Indigenous #literature Catch them at fictionable.world #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #translation #blog

Here's Autumn's harvest of amazing #ShortStories with Helon Habila, Ephameron, @cclarklewes.bsky.social Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall and Kasimma. Catch them all at fictionable.world #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #translation #blog

My seasonal ‘desk’ 👇

last light

Next Saturday (1st November) online at 7pm: the re-launch of The Barbellion Prize barbellionprize.org. Hosted by prize founder @jgoldsmith.bsky.social with some very special guests. The submission window for the 2026 prize will open on the night. All welcome!

the big yes

the well-named one

don’t tell anybody

those hills, 24th October, 9.09am

nouveaux textes à lire dans la version numérique de la revue Black Herald // new texts have been published in the digital version of the Black Herald magazine www.blackheraldpress.com/theblackherald

ground-level hello

3 weeks ago I swam. How the year does its thing.

Out today - this beautiful, thoughtful journey into the effects of guilt and trauma on the human psyche, set in post WW2 Switzerland. Haunting prose by Antônio Xerxenesky, in a superb translation by Daniel Hahn. Available now direct from us: charcopress.com/bookstore/an...

Mr S just back from Georgia. Here’s one from Sovetica.

fantastic review 👇

It’s been out of print for over a year but we are so pleased to bring a new lease of life to WE STILL HAVE THE TELEPHONE on the occasion of the focus on Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts' art press Coracle at this year's edition of the Small Publishers’ Fair. www.lesfugitives.com/the-quick-br...

all the greys

For Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day First and only poem published in Poetry Review (many moons ago). The last four words were used as the epigraph to the issue.

Very excited to be talking to artist, New York Review of Books Art editor and award-winning writer, Leanne Shapton, for Fane Productions about her classic work, Swimming Studies, published by the inimitable @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for the UK. Book for FREE here: www.fane.co.uk/leanne-shapton

SNOW LIT REV 15-16 is out. Wonderful double issue. Anthony Barnett’s Dew Point given free with orders of the new issue. Poetry, prose, essays, drawings, paintings, music. abar.net/snow.pdf

sweet treats

last rose

yesterday‘s last light

She’s up.

On this celebratory day I’d like to let you know that I have some copies of my first collection SAYING YES IN RUSSIAN and can post you one in the UK for £10 p&p included. I won’t sign it unless you ask so as to avoid this happening: follow link. I forgive you W. www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Sear...

If you break open the dry stems of certain plants / you will find a snoozing grub. from All Particles and Waves By David Spittle from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social

‘There is no charge for entering, but by entering publishers of the shortlisted titles agree to contribute £3,000 each towards the marketing of the prize and 15 extra copies of the book. The publisher of the winning book agree to contribute an additional £5,000 towards marketing.’

Yes I did.

rose ‘n hip

last light over the roofs

David Rose short story alert 👇

nothing nicer…

those hills, 19th September 6.40pm