My ride or die wrote this story about a slightly mad lad going on an unorthodox quest for basketball glory and redemption in Argentina. It's in @irishexaminer.bsky.social which is pretty rad. You'll laugh, you'll cry, it'll change your life. Proud of the one and only 🖤 @gary-grace.bsky.social

If you like acid, and you like tennis, and you like me...order this gnarly anthology of debauchery published by @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social

I'm being very social media minimal at the moment (last 6 months of PhD etc) but here is a podcast I did with The Library of Lazy Thinking, released this week! I spoke to Glenn Fisher about one of my all-time top faves 'The Doll's Alphabet' by Camilla Grudova. open.spotify.com/episode/1WNG...

YES!!!! 🎇🎇🎇

I had a very nice time last week in Dublin @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social ! Big thanks to everyone who came to listen to me bang on about dead birds and the short story from, and big big thanks to Declan and all at HF (and Tom, despite the fact that he never tags me in anything!)

Me and Tom from @scratchbooks.bsky.social and @declanmeade.bsky.social will be talking in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social in Dublin in 24 hours. Thank you to whomever put my mad book in the middle of the display 😚. Come see us here from 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd)

Herewith declaring a 2025 thread of short story collections that I have read and liked or loved. (I read novels too, I do, but short fiction is my soulmate....) Recommend these to all the readers in your life who claim not to like short fiction. 😚

A eulogy to my deceased Twitter Bot! Thanks to @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social for giving it a home!

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Looking forward to talking to Claire next week.

Scratch Books take over @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social on 22nd January! Join the brilliant @ccrrll.bsky.social and the immense Declan Meade of @stingingfly.bsky.social in conversation! Tickets free!

Please join us 🙏 Claire in conversation with Declan Meade. @ccrrll.bsky.social @scratchbooks.bsky.social

💥 d u b l i n 💥 Looking forward to being in conversation with Declan Meade of @stingingfly.bsky.social in a couple of weeks! Come join us @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social on Wednesday 22nd from 6pm...

If you fancy dusting off that draft this January and need a little support, I have spaces for editorial and mentoring in the early part of this year! My rates are based on £200 per day, but I can tailor bespoke packages for projects of any scale. Drop me a line on cccrrllwriter[at]gmail[dot]com

Art should be funded like science. To properly fund art, you fund failure. Funding failure will give you occasional excellence. Creating any art with the aim of it being popular enough to make money, will give you consistent mediocrity. Arists need funding to play and fail because that's the process

If you’re near Dublin come along to this brilliant event at @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social on 22nd January!

you are being suffocated Joe Wenderoth, ‘Early Capitalism’

If anyone is in any doubt about joining the academy, this is one of the key perks and makes everything else worthwhile.

"We made it, baby!" Christmas has come early. Feeling euphoria having signed on to be represented by Steve Evans at Eve White Literary Agency. On the mobile view, Claire is right above me. Beach Goth Dark Angel that I could not have gotten my manuscript in the shape it's in.

Hello! I've made a very limited number of vouchers for editorial and mentoring available just in time for the festive period. If you're looking for something that won't contribute to landfill for the writer in your life, please hit me up! Full details on my website ccrrll.co.uk/vouchers

🌲May: @ccrrll.bsky.social and THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER @scratchbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip…

🌲May: @ccrrll.bsky.social and THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER @dauntbookspub.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Christmas shopping? Get 20% off Scratch Books this week at our online shop. Including these two beauties - the best short story collections in 2024! scratch-books.co.uk/shop

Hello! I've made a very limited number of vouchers for editorial and mentoring available just in time for the festive period. If you're looking for something that won't contribute to landfill for the writer in your life, please hit me up! Full details on my website ccrrll.co.uk/vouchers

The trifecta

I'm horribly biased, for reasons that will become clear when you read the piece, but this does actually go very hard. Eternally proud of this lad. 🚌🚬🌊

CCGG Books of 2024. Last dance for the wonderful @lunatejournal.bsky.social Featuring @sineadgleeson.bsky.social @conorniland.bsky.social @nellstevens.bsky.social and more. www.lunate.co.uk/home/boty-20...

It's the final @lunatejournal.bsky.social Books of The Year feature! Me and @gary-grace.bsky.social have an unhinged joint entry, where we talk about our 2024 faves, including Ferdia Lennon, Naomi Wood, @sineadgleeson.bsky.social, @giantratsumatra.bsky.social, @scratchbooks.bsky.social, and more!

don't order books (or anything) from Amazon today! Instead, order from a small press, Bookshop, a local bookstore, or request a book from your local library. Yes, Amazon is "easy," but it's continuing to kill local businesses and concentrate wealth.

Morn

Next four I’ve enjoyed recently… Turducken by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social The Wooden Hill by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social One Person Away From You by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social Terminal by Ricky Monaghan Brown

Ok, so not going to stick to just five. Got eight. First four are… Hollows by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Child Craft by @amygcb.bsky.social Attention Seekers by Emma Brankin The Unreliable Nature Writer (obvs) by @ccrrll.bsky.social

Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska Stevens Variations by Juliet Jacques Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera (trans. Lisa Dillman) Get 'em Young, Treat 'em Tough, Tell 'em Nothing by Robin Maclean Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti Three published by And Other Stories oddly enough

Last five short story collections PLUS a bonus anthology.... ■ Reason to Live by Amy Hempel ■ Folk by Zoe Gilbert ■ Belly Up by Rita Bullwinkel ■ This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things by Naomi Wood ■Open Up by Thomas Morris (still reading, hence bookmark) ◇ DUETS from Scratch Books!

Has anyone started a last five short story collections one of these yet...? *flexes fingers....*

Last five novels: Everything for Everyone by @genderhorizon.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo Outline by Rachel Cusk

Thesis chapter...

This is such good timing for my AI startup that writes 8,000 extremely mean-spirited reviews a year

Apparently there are just two tickets left to this! See you tomorrow night in Bristol, if you're coming... www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

My most favourite lad has been given a scholarship to go and write in this in this insanely beautiful place, and I am extremely proud of him and not even slightly jealous....

Riot of sky

Today's soft bodies

Happy publication to all our wonderful contributors! Best British Short Stories 2024 is available now! 🥳🎉🥂 Buy now: www.saltpublishing.com/products/bes...

Jersey, past and current.

Amy is a unique and precious gem. Everything about her writing is delightful in the extreme. This is no different...

It’s never too late – I was 44 when my debut poetry collection was published – I’d been writing poems forever. I’ve published 8, 9th on the way. And my debut novel, linked with my poems. Earth is rejuvenated by spring, creativity keeps you young. Don’t give up, just keep renewing yourself & your art

Hello! I'm CC. I write about nature, technology, desire, watery humanities, climate dread, sexy robots, and other things. My book 'The Unreliable Nature Writer' came out with @scratchbooks.bsky.social this summer. Below are links to some of the pieces within...

1) Surrealist modes of writing ecological short fiction ! 2) The function of the psychedelic in eco-theory !