Leftists everywhere are winning elections and rising in polls by refusing to pander on the right on migrant rights, trans rights, Palestinian freedom etc. Let these lessons sink in, I beg

🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻✨This calls for a proper celebratory cuppa.

Just saw the film adaptation of that genius Helen Macdonald's 'H is for Hawk' starring Brendan Gleeson and Clare Foy might release in theatres where I live as a wee gift for me for my January birthday. Thank you, Cosmos. If you haven't yet read the book: fly. Fly and hunt your own copy down now!

We take a lot of people from the universities down here... these guys are so talented and they’re so enthusiastic, because it is an opportunity that they can’t really get anywhere else, says John Twiggs on Hungry Tomato 👇 #BookSky

Best Anthology is Bury Your Gays - An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, edited by Sofia Ajan, Ghoulish Books.

Woohoo! Queer as Folklore has won Best Non Fiction at the British Fantasy Awards!

“Myth is always there imbuing our ordinary lives with meaning, but I find that myth is always rendered somewhat ridiculous at the same time. There will be some kind of expansive mythic moment of imagining, say, a dragon—and then the dragon is just a lizard.”

To encourage early applications: Thx to the good folks at UBC Press, 1 lucky person who applies *by 28 October* & ends up coming to CHESS will receive $250 worth of books in the Nature | History | Society series - winner's choice! www.ubcpress.ca/nature-histo... #envhist #climatehistory #cdnhist

"What I can tell you, clearly and unambiguously, is that it is not always an easy matter to settle on what is true." @rachellayown.bsky.social's interview with @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social on her new book "Guardians & Saints” (Cornerstone Press) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/24/t...

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Whether or not Woolf would receive a diagnosis today, her traits and her way of experiencing the world contributed to the stunning uniqueness of her writing. Her stories open a window into a different kind of mind – and offer a glimpse of how an autistic person might perceive the world

HarperNorth has acquired Things We Found in the Ground by Eleanor Bruce and Lucilla Gray in a six-way auction. The book will be released in spring 2026 👇 #BookSky

Over 50,000 cis women have signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter rejecting the narrative that trans women are a danger to women. The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat to women is male violence. Add your name today: notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Happy Friday!! It's Leonard and Hungry Paul day💛 First two episodes on tonight on BBC 1 starting at 9pm. Really chuffed for my pals @ronanhession.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Alan Garner is 91 today. A brilliant and unique author. His books have inspired and enchanted me since I read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen at the age of 11. Here is my treasured copy of Red Shift. The Le Guin quote on the cover is wholly accurate.

New essay up at @aeon.co about the obsession I had in my 20s for excitement -- and the fear I had of the mundane. In the piece, more on my journey to find the treasure in everyday life. aeon.co/essays/like-...

It feels like every author I know is being inundated by the next gen of (mainly) AI scam emails. Covered a few of the basics over on the @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social blog. www.scottishbooktrust.com/articles/how...

One of the things I was most proud of this year was being chosen as part of this gang, especially as I look around the world right now and hope so much for connection and compassion. nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...

10/10 all true, and Aubrey makes this so easy to understand in her newsletter! We should have had her make this graphic for us a long time ago!!!

Another beautiful cover by Jon McNaught on the new @lrb.co.uk

AI-generated copycat books are likely to increasingly become a problem for Amazon and it is not clear how it can keep up with it or what strategies are in place to control it, says Aviva Guttmann 👇 #BookSky

#booksky #writerscommunity #amwriting #wip #novella

My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I discussed our new book #ScienceUnderSiege with the great @petedominick.bsky.social. Here's the full segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZoj...

the word is Attacking, not "cracking down". Attacking.

This was a lot of fun, chatting to Michelle, one of my favourite authors, about her brilliant ghost story, Dark Matter. You can watch the discussion on the link below - and Michelle even reads a bit of the book - it will give you tingles down your spine! 😱👻

If you’re at the #FrankfurtBookFair, drop by the @paradigmpubserv.bsky.social stand (Stand D92 in Hall 4.0) to learn more about the new database for the Collected Works of Albert Einstein, forthcoming from PUP and Paradigm! #FBM25 #AlbertEinstein

Annie Dillard on how to live www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/14/a...

This is fascism.

I was the first to put the brilliant @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social together on air so I take FULL credit for their AMAZING new book "Science Under Siege" Listen to my conversation with them after I give you today's most important news and clips shorturl.at/AURNw

This message is human approved! 👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻✨ #NoAI

BOG QUEEN is out today from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social! A literary murder mystery in which the victim is a two-thousand year old bog body. Also a story about the non-human world and who is really in charge here on earth, us or the bogs? geni.us/bogqueen

Happy #pubday to BOG QUEEN by @annanorth.bsky.social! An iron age druid. A forensic anthropologist in the present day. What do these two women have in common? A lot, it turns out... On sale now! geni.us/bogqueen

Not just because we get a lovely shout-out but because "I have measured my life out in book spines"❤️ From the wonderful Aoife McLysaght in the Irish Country Magazine

⭐️ Our 2026 internship opportunities are live! ⭐️ Check out 30+ paid internships & artist residencies for Arts & Humanities PhD researchers in Scotland. Gain real-world experience, build skills & grow your networks with diverse partners. 🕔 Apply by 31 Oct 2025 👉 www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/

For those whose works were included in the Anthropic class action, the Authors Guild and settlement administrators are hosting a webinar on what you need to know: authorsguild.org/event/anthro... You can check if your works have been included here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1... @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social

I want answers, but there are only the wild geese Calling, high in the almost-dark, bearing south, And me, stopped short, clutching a bag of groceries On the doorstep of my not-quite home… —Susan Mansfield, “Bearing South” from THE ROOFTOP BUSKER (ASL, 2015) #poetry #poem #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

Calling Scottish #writers! Apply for the 2026 Scottish Writing Fellowship at the @universityofotago.bsky.social’s Centre for Irish & Scottish Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand, from 1 Aug–30 Sept 2026. Includes flights, accommodation & stipend. Deadline 31 Oct! #writing www.otago.ac.nz/ciss

"They don’t confront us like mountains, comfort us like oceans, or envelop us like forests; they don’t seem to want to have anything to do with us at all. Swamps hide. Swamps demur." longreads.com/2025/10/02/t...

Help Salt take its publishing to the next level!

Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani

#writingtip #writingtips #bravewrite #amwriting #writingcommunity

Rose Dommu on being trans at straight weddings, the possibilities of transition, and the necessity of intimacy and community for queer people. buff.ly/YMoTneH

Sharing because vaccinations save lives. #ScienceIsReal

Book*hug Press is proud to be part of the Certified Canadian Publisher program, newly launched by @cdnpublishers.bsky.social. 🍁📖 Look for the seal when you buy books and you'll: 📖Support Canadian jobs 🏆Champion Canadian talent 🏘Strengthen communities 💰Boost our economy 🍁Preserve Canadian stories

Missed the event last night with Michelle Winters, @catebush.bsky.social & Caitlin Galway? Thanks to @gooselane.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social for the books! and TYPE Books Junction, Cayley Brightside & @rollwithheather.bsky.social youtu.be/AdGtf8ncp28

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature for the 2025 National Book Awards.