Many thanks to Emily Firetog and the good people at @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this excerpt. #booksky

Add these lit mags to your summer reading list! New issues just came out from @afterdinnerconversation.com, @alocasiamag.bsky.social, @exactingclam.bsky.social, @fahmidangroup.bsky.social, @lilithmagazine.bsky.social, @newenglandreview.bsky.social, and more: www.clmp.org/news/june-20...

North Americans, you can now pre-order my Novel-prize shortlisted book Porcupine. The rest of the world, being less favoured, must wait a little longer I am afraid. Console yourselves with football, laudanum, whatever (or whoever) is at hand asterismbooks.com/product/porc...

You can now read ‘Necessary Hypocritical Luddism’, a piece by our founder @jgoldsmith.bsky.social, from Summer issue 21 @exactingclam.bsky.social online! The Barbellion Prize is open for subs for books of prose literature that represent the experience of chronic illness & disability until Sept. 1st.

This Thursday 25th June at 7pm (BST) join Guillermo Stitch live online to celebrate publication of his magnificent novel 'The Coast of Everything.' Guillermo will be in conversation with Luke Kennard. If you haven't already been invited contact me via my website davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

Roll up, roll up.

Thanks to @hotpress.com for this piece in the current issue.

Had a great time; was lovely to meet everyone (in the physical, non-digital realm). I look suitably grumpy in the photograph here but I can assure you I was highly focused and enjoying myself. Also, everyone must buy a copy of @guillermostitch.bsky.social's 'The Coast of Everything' double please

Huge thanks to @ronanhession.bsky.social for this!

👀 @exactingclam.bsky.social is open for submisisons olasubs.com/project/68fb...

I may have infiltrated BookTok. #booksky

These people know what they're talking about.

Can’t believe you found a pic of my fave muesli! Breakfast of kings 😋

"It was a good day for birds on Springfield Lane. I saw a song thrush, a dunnock, a Robin and a jackdaw." @kevinboniface.bsky.social  is out and about. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.social  https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-summer-2026/a-big-day-thursday-5-march-2026/

Anyone in Ireland - preorder your copy here with free delivery ! thebookshop.ie/guillermo-st... @guillermostitch.bsky.social

Thanks @susannacrossman.bsky.social!

"She thought they were paulownias, and I didn’t care." More thoughts from @uselessthings.bsky.social , unsavory and sweet. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.social . Time to subscribe: digital-only now available https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-summer-2026/unsavory-thoughts/ #booksky

"And who among our current rulers, or saleable pundits, shows any prudence or fit memory?" @jgoldsmith.bsky.social on livable Luddism. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.social  https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-summer-2026/necessarily-hypocritical-luddism/

This reading is absolutely mesmerizing, and exquisitely chosen. Deepest thanks to PJ Blumenthal.

Issue 21 of Exacting Clam is officially out today and just as stunning on the inside as it is on the front and back covers. The new digital-only subscription which will soon deliver the entirety of back issues online. https://www.exactingclam.com

Today's post from @exactingclam.bsky.social

Quite by accident, but also understandably, none of the books I have read this year have been written by Americans. Until I read these sly critical fictions of elfland by @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social

I might be the art director he's talking about. Cover art: @johnnymuggins.bsky.social (John Patrick Higgins), inspired by @guillermostitch.bsky.social's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING (Dickens weeps over breakfast cereal). Back cover, me, inspired by John Patrick Higgins ;) @exactingclam.bsky.social

Also www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21...

The new @exactingclam.bsky.social is out now. Great cover! I'm thrilled to be among the contributors. On March 5 this year I was passed by a google mapping van while out on my post round, something I've long dreamt about. I marked the occasion by writing the piece featured here : )

Today RTÉ has an excerpt of Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING:

Turns out getting an Art Director in has its advantages. Best cover yet, front and back. And this assessment has NOTHING TO DO with the artwork being inspired by my book. @tylergore.bsky.social @johnnymuggins.bsky.social @exactingclam.bsky.social

My essay ‘Necessarily Hypocritical Luddism’ is in the latest issue of Exacting Clam. (also included in my essay collection ‘In Extremis’, published by Sagging Meniscus Press) www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21... @exactingclam.bsky.social

Review of John Price’s Goethe’s Oak in @exactingclam.bsky.social by @charlesholdefer.bsky.social exactingclam.com/issues/no-21...

Things are gearing up! Launch events in Dublin, in London and online in June, and other celebrations. Keep watching the skies.

The first Irish review. Short but sweet write-up in the May issue of Hotpress magazine. "As wildly innovative a novel as you could hope to read." Interview to follow in next month's issue. Thanks to @hotpress.com

Auraist asked me to write about style. Big-ups to @ronanhession.bsky.social @cdrose.bsky.social and @davidcollard.bsky.social among others.

Hello New Yorkers! We'll be in Greenwich Village at the CLMP/PEN Indie Lit Fair on Washington Square South TOMORROW, Saturday, May 2, from noon till 6! Come by for a FREE BOOK if you record a reading! (And you can buy things, too.)

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece will reading her story "The Mandrake", which first appeared in Exacting Clam #18, this evening on Story Hour  https://www.storyhour2020.com/calendar

COVER REVEAL: Norman Conquest's WHAT'S HECUBA TO HIM, OR HE TO HECUBA?, coming in September in our "Sagging Shorts" series of pocket books. Preorder at https://asterismbooks.com/product/whats-hecuba-to-him-or-he-to-hecuba-norman-conquest

In @psychologytoday.com , Susan Perry talks with Merrill Joan Gerber about her life as a writer, her new collection SOMEONE SHOULD KNOW THIS STORY, small press publishing, and having her archives at Yale. https://is.gd/SD34dL

Please follow this brilliant prize: @thebarbellionprize.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Thrilled to be working with them @disruptedblue.bsky.social We have a few teething problems getting the Bluesky set up, but please do follow and spread the word in the meantime. Submissions are open! Thank you! 💙 🙏

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

New Substack. Form and forward motion. guillermostitch.substack.com/p/close-up-t...

"If you can’t be sure that your dinner won’t escape, then you need to make sure they’re already dead—no ifs, ands, or buts." Carnivorous fiction from Gina DeMartino. Subscribe today. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/human-instinct-easy-recipes-to-craft-flesh-to-perfection/

"It becomes part of our individual geography: one that is moulded by the landscape of another’s mind." @cclarklewes.bsky.social on Gerald Murnane's 'Inland'. Subscribe today. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/behind-the-scenes-with-gerald-murnane-a-first-reading-of-eminlandem/

This is the correct headgear.

“It was not Nelle Harper dropping him, it was Truman going away from her.” Kat Meads on Nelle Harper Lee, the real and the fictional. Exacting Clam 20. Digital-only subscriptions now available. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/nelle-harper-lee-character/

"It's time for us to die." Thomas Walton's thoughts are getting unsavoury-er. Exacting Clam 20. Subscribe for full online access to each issue. Digital-only subscriptions now available. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/unsavory-thoughts/

Recommend @exactingclam.bsky.social's new issue (delighted it has my Murnane essay in it), not least for @jgoldsmith.bsky.social's essay on friendship and envying artists 👇🦋🐚

"It’s possible that we have to remain in the dark, ignorant, we have to stay dumb long enough to regenerate the species." Thomas Walton's unsavory thoughts. issue 20, out now. Digital-only subscriptions now available. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/unsavory-thoughts/

"The image of the grass having a simple call, like a bird, is straightforward, charming and distinctly inventive. Which is to say, typical Simic." Kurt Luchs on Charles Simic. Issue 20.  https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/listening-to-the-grass-and-to-charles-simic/

That’s me

"One envies other lives for the subterranean reason that makes all life so difficult: death." @jgoldsmith.bsky.social  on 'Envying Artists'. Issue 20, out now.  Pick up or gift a digital subscription at a much lower price. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/envying-artists/