the universe wishes you a merry christmas! see? it even set up its own christmas tree 🎄

Teach like a Luddite! In which I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to argue for a Luddite praxis in education grounded in three elements: embracing strategic playfulness; developing localized tactics; and building networks of resistance. Read the article at Kappan:

Andy Hedgcock in The Morning Star has chosen "Maybe the Birds" as one of his cultural highlights of 2025. ✨🙏🏼💛 @ajashworth.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/trad...

Thanks to Andy Hedgecock for picking Maybe the Birds as a cultural highlight of 2025 💛 www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/trad... @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social

David Rose's new story in @exactingclam.bsky.social (you'll need a pen and paper to work out the hidden message, oh yes) www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...

It's such a treat to talk with others about writing and I was delighted to have this talk with Richard. I was surprised to find I had something to say about AI and writing, and the video game of Caroline Clark 👇🎮

A Personal Anthology, by Ailsa Cox open.substack.com/pub/apersona...

Thanks to Neil Warren for this audio recording of me reading the title story from my new collection 💛 ajashworth.com/audio-record... @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social

Good to see @goldsf.bsky.social @ajashworth.bsky.social "Maybe the Birds" featured! www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont... @unamccormack.bsky.social

Many thanks to Gus Gresham for this fab review of Maybe the Birds 💛 everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/11/revi... @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social

We're open for submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations. Please click on the link for our guidlesines #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Absolutely this. Apply what you know to what you learn and you'll make something that's personal and unique

Ah I love Under Milk Wood - ‘I must put my pyjamas in the drawer marked Pyjamas’ ❤️

Congrats @cdrose.bsky.social - fantastic news ❤️

Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove... Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛

We publish *imaginary* research abstracts! The Journal of Imaginary Research is now accepting submissions of new short fictional pieces. Click to read: Why Abstract fiction? The theme How to get started What to submit to us What *not* to submit journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog/2025/10/28/c...

Thanks so much to Foreword Reviews for this review of Maybe the Birds!https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/maybe-the-birds/ @unamccormack.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social 💛

Thanks so much to Foreword Reviews for this review of Maybe the Birds!https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/maybe-the-birds/ @unamccormack.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social 💛

For the afternoon crew: "The Guide" by @ajashworth.bsky.social available to read online; new collection MAYBE THE BIRDS out now from @goldsf.bsky.social!

And @ajashworth.bsky.social's fantastic new collection of speculative short stories, MAYBE THE BIRDS, is out now from @goldsf.bsky.social! www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

"The Guide" by @ajashworth.bsky.social available to read now on MIT Reader! thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-j-ashworth...

Brilliant night at The Arts Centre Edge Hill for the launch of AJ Ashworth’s Maybe The Birds - fantastic reading from Andrea!

And wonderful readings at the launch of AJ Ashworth’s Maybe The Birds at EHU Arts Centre in the first half from Prof Ailsa Cox, Elizabeth Baines and John D Rutter.

It’s a triple release day, with Common by Nikolai Duffy, Maybe the Birds by @ajashworth.bsky.social, and Virus is a Language by Chris Hables Gray all publishing today! www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... @unamccormack.bsky.social @jennashworth.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

In my new interview with author A.J. Ashworth, she talks about "Maybe The Birds," her second collection of speculative fiction and realist short stories. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🐦🦜🐦‍⬛

A podcast has just been released of my story 'Feather Girls' read by MyAnna Buring: wordtheatre.org/weekly/

And Maybe the Birds, a fantastic collection of short stories by AJ Ashworth, out now from @goldsf.bsky.social! www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Hilary Mantel championed emerging writers - a new prize in her memory will help them get published www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

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

Thanks to creative Writing Leicester from Private Eye

HORROR WRITERS' DAY at Chorlton Library! 👻✍ 📅 Aug 23 (11-3pm) 📍 Chorlton Library, M21 9PN ✍ Writing Workshop w/ Andy Murray @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 📚 Panel, Readings & Q&A with Andy, @bronteschiltz.bsky.social & @nicholasroyle.bsky.social 🎟️Free but RSVP www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/horror-wri...

8 week paid virtual internship here to learn about publishing with Orion, part of Hachette. Details below. Please share :)

Submission window open for children’s books for 5 - 12 years. Details in link. Please share :)

News from Edge Hill’s Fiction Writers’ Network including some info about my new book and a launch event at the uni in October 💛 blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/fin/2025/06/...

Writers from around the world can submit scripts for BBC Audio Drama with cash prize, and attendance at an award ceremony in the UK to participate in the recording of their dramas for a world premiere. Flight and accommodation expenses are covered by the BBC. Details in link. Please share :)

"We had sensed this need for greater diversity in the ecosystem" Editors of GoldSF @unamccormack.bsky.social & Paul March-Russell - on why they started a feminist sci-fi imprint, who they want to read proposals from and where the project is going! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhL...

Applications open for 1 *FREE* place for writer from an underrepresented community on our "Shorts: short fic, poetry, non fic & hybrids" residential @arvonfoundation.bsky.social course in Aug. Email [email protected] by 4 Jun telling me how you're eligible & why this particular course interests you!

I love teaching Write a Short Story in a Weekend (in person) for @citylit.bsky.social Generate a story from scratch with lots of feedback & discussion. £119, London, Sat 31 May and Sun 1 June. www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/writ...

✨️I'm teaching a one-off online writing workshop on the evening of Monday 23rd June all about IDEAS.✨️ How do you have them on demand? How do you recognise a good one? And when you've had one, what the hell do you do next? Sign up here! 🎟 www.eventbrite.com/e/ideas-writ...

Finally! We definitely need more publishers (initially) publishing men! Thankfully I no longer need a head because it’s just rolled away down the street after being laughed off.

All references to snow in The Dead by James Joyce (1914).

Two familiar faces from @edgehillprize.bsky.social

“The Mune” is our newest Gold SF title. 30 Victorian women - “surplus” mothers - are shipwrecked on an island in a parallel universe. To survive, they must create a new society. How will they shake off the patriarchal chains that bound them & raise their children to be free?

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

We're open to #microfiction so why not check us out? We're looking forward to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please follow the link for guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Here it is, twenty years after the first edition. Hope you like it. www.routledge.com/Writing-Shor...

New Author Interview - today on the blog we welcome @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social talking about science, its history plus the excellent collection Schrodinger's Wife (and Other Possibilities) www.runalongtheshelves.net/interviews/2...

Delightful evening listening to @berniemcgill.bsky.social read from her @edgehillprize.bsky.social winning collection This Train Is For at Edge Hill tonight. Looking forward to whatever comes next ❤️

We're now open to microfiction of up to 400 words. Do please check out our guidelines by following the link #microfiction #callforsubmissions fictivedream.com/submission-g...

One month until we open submissions to Scratch ‘A4… A perennially exciting short short story competition. No theme this year - just be brilliant!