"Environment shapes people, language and stuff. But I am wary of publishing-speak ... Often these labels become restrictive, they mean you’re only allowed to write about one thing. Stay in your lane ..." @stuhennigan.bsky.social x @susannacrossman.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/04/14/t...

read an extract from KESHED here: @stuhennigan.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/18/k...

Up on @minorliteratures.bsky.social now, a brilliant chat between @stuhennigan.bsky.social and @susannacrossman.bsky.social about Stu’s debut novel, Keshed, which we published two months ago. You can order a copy from your local bookshop now. @turnarounduk.bsky.social tinyurl.com/wcxrs75b

I interviewed the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about his debut #keshed @ortacpress.bsky.social. We chatted about his process, the complexities of writing class & addiction, blistering sentences, T.Harrison, Dylan Thomas, Pat Barker, punk poets & more. All thanks @minorliteratures.bsky.social.

Thursday in Glasgow! This will be a great time and tickets are free.

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and coming up this week ... — @susannacrossman.bsky.social interviews @stuhennigan.bsky.social — an extract from Darker with the Dawn by @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social

11th May! This is going to be a good one. Get your tickets.

We had a great time at the Alternative Book Fair in London on Saturday. @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social

There’s a Manchester event for Keshed next month! It’s at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social where @stuhennigan.bsky.social will be in conversation with @workshy-fop.bsky.social. Grab a ticket while you can.

We’ll be at the Indie Press Fair tomorrow as part of the Alternative London Book Fair. So many great presses, authors and panels. If you’re in London, come along to Islington Central Library between 10-5pm. Tickets are free! @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social

Punk Rock Birdwatching in Glasgow! Join @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social for an evening at the brilliant @weare1of100.bsky.social next Thursday. Tickets are free. Link below! weare1of100.co.uk/special/an-e...

Fascinating meeting of minds chatting with Susanna, always. Looking forward to reading this myself and seeing what we were on about!

Editing an interview with the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about his amazing debut novel Keshed for @minorliteratures.bsky.social . We talk about language, class, women, substance abuse, Dylan Thomas, editing &more…

@stuhennigan.bsky.social justice finished your novel. Extraordinary writing, especially about the childhood and college experiences, & depression. The end has done me in. Wasn’t expecting that. Well done, Stu. #booksky

Join @stuhennigan.bsky.social at Drake the Bookshop in Stockton this June. Bound to be a good one!

Had some belting reviews but "like Joyce's Dublin with more cheap speed" is somewhere near the top of the pile 💪👍 @ortacpress.bsky.social @turnarounduk.bsky.social

Finished this beauty/ beast of a book this week by @stuhennigan.bsky.social . If you haven’t read it yet, you NEED to. It achieves the rare feat of being savage and tender at the same time, and being genuinely original in an era of literary blandness. Real, essential writing…. Also…

Tomorrow. Join us! Me n Naomi are a great double act. I've interviewed her at least four times but we've never done it this way round and i can't wait. Always nice to be in York too, booked the day off for a proper jolly.

Big up Adam for taking the time to share these thoughts on Keshed. Word of mouth is the lifeblood for writers at this level of the game and it's truly appreciated every time.

A Molotov to a stale age of English literature. It’s visceral, raw and full of heart. @stuhennigan.bsky.social prose is breathless and hypnotic, a kaleidoscopic vision of addiction and depression, before settling to tender, quiet moments about the beauty and mundanity of life. What a book.

This was great. Even more drazzled and digressive than usual cos i didn't go to bed again on Sunday night 🤪

Wonderful to interview brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social today about his extraordinary debut Keshed for @minorliteratures.bsky.social. Words on: layered writing process, language, Dylan Thomas, vernacular, setting, people & place, visceral rhythms, love stories, class, belonging & what's left out.

Get Keshed with @stuhennigan.bsky.social and Naomi Booth at York Lit Festival this Wednesday! Some tickets still available. www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/stu-hen...

New arrival! Have heard lots of good things about this so very much looking forward to reading @stuhennigan.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social

All the deets here from Thursday. Shouts to @judecook.bsky.social @dantjenks.bsky.social @heidijames.bsky.social @jamesscudamore.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @nancykay-alt-acct.bsky.social @jonathangibbs.bsky.social @markabowles.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/stuhenni...

Top night in East London for the launch of @stuhennigan.bsky.social’s novel Keshed. Savage Northern poetic literature onslaught in darkest Mile End. Perfect 👌

Great evening celebrating @stuhennigan.bsky.social’s brilliant new novel #Keshed @ortacpress.bsky.social

Proper post and shout outs later, but w/thanks to Neil Griffiths, here's a snippet of the openig of last night's event 🙏

Last call for this tonight. Do come along to hear @stuhennigan.bsky.social talk about his debut novel, KESHED, with me at Bárd Books this evening at 7pm. Should be a belter. @ortacpress.bsky.social. Tickets here: www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

ICYMI, my dear old friend from the golden age of literary twitter, the lovely @ratherbereading.bsky.social, spent yesterday getting Keshed and the msg i got off her at bedtime provided one of my favourite ever responses to anything i've published thus far 🙏💘😍

This should be awesome. Do come along to hear @stuhennigan.bsky.social talk about his fierce & moving debut novel, KESHED, with me at Bárd Books this Thursday 12th March, 7pm. @ortacpress.bsky.social Tickets going fast: 👇 www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

This time next week i'll be in London for this one, would be great to see loads of you there given that between the train, travelodge and two days off work, it's costing me more than HALF the advance just to come and do it 😳😳😳😳😳😳 www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

#GetKeshed at York LitFest

Keshed reviewed in @irishtimes.com. ‘Heartbreaking yet exhilarating … Hennigan’s unflinching debut channels the entire history of British kitchen-sink realism.’ @stuhennigan.bsky.social @turnarounduk.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Finished this on the way to work. Can we just give all the awards to @stuhennigan.bsky.social now?

Taken me since nine o'clock to do this fuckin update. Man oh man, when am I EVER going to get back to my manucript?!?! 😩 open.substack.com/pub/stuhenni...

@stuhennigan.bsky.social #getkeshed by the sea in Cornwall

KESHED in Cologne @stuhennigan.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social

Skip this to about 3:20 if you wanna hear the breakfast show book club from yesterday where i talked to Rima about @jamesscudamore.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Naomi Booth, Wuthering Heights, audio books and loads more 🙏📚 #BookSky www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Monthly Dispatch #32 — ft. @yanisiqbal.bsky.social Michael Templeton, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @farsouthproject.bsky.social @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social @kentkosack.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social & more ... out now: minorlits.substack.com

Get yourselves down East Bristol Books. Doing things right. Good to have a gander @stuhennigan.bsky.social 'Keshed' while I was there. #booksky #literature #books

The end of this book made me cry on the train. Don’t #GetKeshed if you want to preserve the tattered veil of your masculinity. @stuhennigan.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social

Radio Leeds Book Club tomorrow morning, live at 9.15ish. Tune in if you wanna hear me talk about books by the dazzling triumverate of Naomi Booth, @jamesscudamore.bsky.social and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, plus whatever else Rima wants to bring up. Not saying which books though 😀

Saw Keshed out in the wild today @stuhennigan.bsky.social! They have it on the back of the front window display case where they keep all their recommended books in Gloucester Road Books in Bristol

Up on the @bookshop.org homepage now. Keshed is actually featured twice on the homepage at their moment, as The Margate Bookshop have it on their Feb Favourites list!

Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social is the Republic of Consciousness Book of the month for Feb. Subscribers receive an indie press book in the post every month. Also, the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize just announced their 2026 longlist. Wonderful books. Take a look! tinyurl.com/523wssk7

A fantastic event in Stockport tonight with @stuhennigan.bsky.social to celebrate the release of his debut novel KESHED. A dark and brutal look at modern masculinity, class and mental health which is also infused with Northern humour and a lot of love. Huge thanks to Jae for hosting!

Bloody hell, @stuhennigan.bsky.social that was an incredible, brutal ride! Keshed is an awesome novel - can’t recommend highly enough #getkeshed⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Purposely posting this at an hour when there's mostly Americans on my TL - the book's published in the UK but you can get free delivery in the US via Blackwell's. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...