The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open! We are delighted to announce that Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price will be this year’s judges for the prize. Enter here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...

Thrilled with this review, thank you @fullstopmag.bsky.social ! “Appleton can stretch suspense through a story, binding her reader to the page, so effectively it should be studied.” !!! I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY is out in the US in August 🇺🇸

This makes me very excited. deadline.com/2025/06/tiff...

Its out! Its here!! I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY has been released into the world and just begging to be on your bookshelves 🌭 From the fabulous Indigo Press, clever, convincing and wry, this is a collection of haunting and haunted stories from major talent Marni Appleton! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/i-ho...

Terrific book of short stories just out

Love is all too often the reason we give when we don’t act to stop bad things, big or small. Nonetheless the global precariat sometimes does take the risk of combating violence, without knowing what is on the other side. This, too, is theorized everywhere as love. lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...

I've just updated the apersonalanthology.com archive site with @marniapple.bsky.social's Anthology - her pick of and introduction to a dozen short stories all themed around girlhood, with its "capacity for imagining oneself anew, for changing, for grasping for something bigger". Check them out!

And off it goes, Marni Appleton’s Personal Anthology, roaming the floor in quadrants, running like a 'demented psycho’, pushing off into the water again, with legs that can piston it out of situations, carrying its ugly suitcase with a degree of irony, blasé as a window-shopper…

It's Wednesday evening, and so nearly the weekend – and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is @marniapple.bsky.social, whose collection I Hope You're Happy is published by The Indigo Press. Sign up to get it in your inbox here:

Marni Appleton’s wry observational style is well suited to these tales of young women navigating the modern world. @marniapple.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... publ by #Indigopress

☕️I’m just about ready to get some more Rippling Pages out this week. Before then, I thought I’d curate some things I’d learnt from my latest guest @marniapple.bsky.social who wrote I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY (The Indigo Press) 🧵

🌄“Getting up early - why is that inherently good?” More from Rippling Points on the Rippling Pages where @marniapple.bsky.social was talking about I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY 🫸 Influencers and being influenced 💻Writing and productivity open.spotify.com/episode/7rQD7G…

🪞 @marniapple.bsky.social talking specifically here about the role of mirrors in her story collection, I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY (The Indigo Press) 👀The ideas and themes of mirrors reflects - ahem - both on what we can and cannot see in ourselves and others podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip…

💯Bonus content on Rippling Pages! @marniapple.bsky.social talks the influence of Taylor Swift in I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY her short stories published by Indigo Press 🎵 What is it about the invention or reinvention of Taylor Swift that Marni finds so fascinating? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip…

What's the worst that could happen to a group of teenage millennials on a supervised school cruise to the Greek islands? Ease into the weekend with a story from @marniapple.bsky.social's scintillating debut collection. Out now from The Indigo Press 💙📚😱 bookanista.com/under-the-ci...

‘Margot’, a story from I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY is online here: thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-marg...

Absolutely LOVING this short story collection by @marniapple.bsky.social. But oof, 'Under the Circumstances' hit me hard. Devastating. (In a good way.) #BookSky 📚💙

🌎“We construct a specific presentation of ourselves for the world” @marniapple.bsky.social was on RP to discuss her very recently released collection of short stories, I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY 🤳We talk all sorts including self presentation in the digital age podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip…

UEA #CreativeWriting news newwriting.net/category/news I Hope You’re Happy by Marni Appleton (@marniapple.bsky.social) Father Myself by James McDermott Ashley Hickson-Lovence is a Read for Empathy Collection choice Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin

‘Margot’, a story from I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY is online here: thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-marg...

🆕 @marniapple.bsky.social is going to be joining me on Rippling Pages to discuss her short story collection, I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY coming out from the The Indigo Press 💡moments in the spotlight, s relationship, theatre and mirrors…we’re going to be discussing it all through Marni’s short stories!

UEA #CreativeWriting news newwriting.net/category/news I Hope You’re Happy by Marni Appleton (@marniapple.bsky.social) Father Myself by James McDermott Ashley Hickson-Lovence is a Read for Empathy Collection choice Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin

Today’s the day! Launch day! Baby Teeth is out in the world @orionbooks.bsky.social

This is a terrific book of short stories by an exciting new writer

Many incredible people said nice things about my book and I made a reel! 🌭❤️✨ coming in Feb! Links in bio.

Don’t shoot the messenger: #RecipeOfTheDay is Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows! In fact, after initial hesitation, I’ve grown to see the once-a-year appeal of the dish. Happy Thanksgiving! www.nigella.com/recipes/swee... #Thanksgiving

Hey Bluesky! Haven’t been here for a while, so I’m here to inform you that a) I saw a black bear and cubs in the wild this week, and b) my short stories will be published in Feb! Evidence enclosed.

My latest peer-reviewed article is up, open-access: academic.oup.com/cww/advance-...

Surprised by how much I liked Poor Things (not really a Yorgos fan) but my overriding question is who taught Bella to remove her body hair? She has no underarm hair or leg hair, and a very neatly trimmed bush. Very confusing.

This is such a boring thing to post but I cannot tell u how much it ENRAGES me when I get charged the extra 30p when I bring a reusable cup!! I’m being helpful! Reward me!! Also coffee in London is extortionate anyway 🤪

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