We're very proud to announce the winner of this year's prize: Edith Hall's compelling & insightful 'Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me' (Yale UP). A brilliant, moving book for experts & general readers alike - congratulations @edithmayhall.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social!

Fascinating discussion from Katherine Clements and fellow @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social author Neil McRobert in Todmorden last night. Worth the long spooky walk to get to Fielden Hall.

🧵 A remarkable discovery by Portico Library volunteer Rebecca Lamb has revealed that Charles Dickens signed the Library’s Strangers’ Book in May 1844 — confirming that one of the world’s most celebrated novelists once stepped inside Manchester’s oldest subscription library...

A happy C.D. Rose, shortly after winning our 2025 Prize last night @foylesforbooks.bsky.social. Trophy designed and made by Cherrie Tong; pic @davidcollard.bsky.social

@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social

I've added details about the online reading on 29th November launching my Broken Sleep book ELLE to my post about the book and buying the book: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...

Horror Studies 16.2 is out now! Including ‘Shadow agents: Ecohorror and ambient dread in Vampyr (1932)’ by Benjamin Bigelow. #horrorstudies Popular Culture Association Access the issue via Discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/host/16/2

A great shortlist @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social. Some names very familiar @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Every one a winner but good luck @cdrose.bsky.social

Every Sunday I’ll be contributing a paperback column to the Observer’s New Review. Kicking things off is Driver by Mattia Filice (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), who’s poured his experience of 2 decades working on the French rail network into an extraordinary verse novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer. If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat. Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Final reminder to get your entries in! Competition closes on Friday 😊

Correct link: www.youtube.com/@bbcarchive

I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.

I've just updated the apersonalanthology.com website with Becky Tipper’s selection of a dozen favourite short stories. Check them out here, along with over 3,400 other personal short story recommendations!

‘Taints’, a short story @bansheepress.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/taints-...

A wonderful article from Julian Barnes, and a reminder that writers are not alway likeable or virtuous, and that publishers are not all bad.

There's still time to sign up for today's Personal Anthology, in which Tim MacGabhann picks and introduces a dozen favourite stories. Some doozies in there, some surprises and old favourites and even a sneak preview! Hitting inboxes at 2pm, sign up and share! apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

New Episode! William Saroyan was an Armenian-American writer and a true short story genius. In this episode, I get to chat about his life and works with Scott Setrakian, President of the William Saroyan Foundation. Listen here: www.spreaker.com/episode/will...

Oh the lost trails, the might have beens, the faded typescripts, literally in the bottom drawer, the necessity of boredom....

Great news! @lucycaldwell.bsky.social has been shortlisted twice for @edgehillprize.bsky.social. That's how good she is.

First talk about my new novel coming up at the Elizabeth Gaskell House - all welcome! elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/ruth-...

Angela Keaton, always inventive and mischievous.

Tomorrow online @commapress.bsky.social

It's been tough going for small publishers for a while, but they continue to publish a lot of the most exciting new work, and are the main supporters of the short story as a form. Support indie publishing when you can! www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Happy Festival day🎉 We kick it off with a very strong first day. Get your last minute tickets at manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/whats-on%F0%...

This coming Sunday, three historic performances of the late, great Tony Harrison's masterpiece "v." in the Leeds graveyard where it's set. I'm speaking before the final reading. Please come. slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi... @lrb.co.uk @richardburgon.bsky.social

This would be a wonderful role for the lucky person. It’s a great degree with lovely colleagues and wonderful students and you won’t regret applying. bathspa.pinpointhq.com/postings/fe9...

Here's an official thing! Official is good.

Congratulations to them all but especially @cdrose.bsky.social

Yes, we kept on going! Many thanks to @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social and to @cdrose.bsky.social @saraheschofield.bsky.social @robertsheppard.bsky.social and all the other writers that sprung to mind as I was nattering away.

We are recruiting new associate tutors to join our AT bank - tight turnaround though of 10 October. All info here - eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

I'll be there!

Thanks to @bookishleels.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social for the image I mention in Part 1.

Well done all and especially Ed Hogan @ensfr.bsky.social

A great pleasure talking to @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social

‘Darling, he said, I have to go, but I’ll be back, I promise. Uwe must be free. Wait for me. Watch for me at the window’ - Beethoven, from Paris Fantastique, the final volume in Nicholas Royle's city-based story collections. Out 6 November. Pre-order for £9.50 + p&p: www.confingopublishing.uk/shop

the LRB has the London Review Bookshop. the TLS has a lettings agency on the outskirts of slough

Thanks to generosity of donors, this opportunity will be advertised again next year, with paperwork needing to be in place for spring 2026, check back for the next round of applications and spread the word to talented scholars in need of support - www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Only just found out that my my radio comedy series The Circle has had another airing, but there's still a chance to hear it from the first episode. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Exclusive to Short Fiction in Theory and Practice @intellectbooks.bsky.social

Join us at the Saul Hay gallery on 24 September for the launch of Maya Sharp's debut novel, The Garden. Maya will discuss the novel and her fascination with folklore with the writer and publisher Nicholas Royle. 7.30 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. Free entry but RSVP: www.confingopublishing.uk/event-list

@grantabooks.bsky.social short story collection! A first from them?

ONCE IN A HOUSE ON FIRE, a memoir of a working class Manchester childhood in the 70s and 80s, was a literary sensation. Then author Andrea Ashworth dropped out of sight. For @manchestermill.bsky.social I found out why. manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashwo...

Andrew Levy's book was one of the first I turned to when I started researching the short story. Thanks @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social

0.16FTE Lecturer in English Literature @ University of Glasgow, focusing on science fiction, literature and medicine, and/or post-war lit. More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK805/l...

My review of C.D. Rose’s superb new novel, We Live Here Now, is in the latest TLS @thetls.bsky.social.

My top tip is travel by public transport. Thanks to train delays I picked up a copy of @jcbuckley.bsky.social A Boat and whizzed through in no time.

A great list!

City streets and short story form @intellectbooks.bsky.social intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

New episode up now. The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington, with guest Paul March-Russell in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/246...