The independent pizza place (that gloriously overused salt) in my home town has closed due to the old guy’s retirement

📣PLEASE SHARE 📣 Call for Writers! Two 8-month residencies (2026) at AGA & @aowensarchive.bsky.social exploring Neglected Voices. Supported by Creative Scotland. £12k fee, flexible structure. Apply by 4 Dec 2025 👉 [email protected], Link on website to application brief & criteria✍️

Really nice way to receive an out-of-print book I ordered

Contributor copy of New Writing Scotland arrived! Proud of my story in it; cat unimpressed and refusing to strike a pose. @asls.org.uk

A CHAOS OF LIGHT New Writing Scotland 43 Ed. Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici & Niall O’Gallagher “writing that unsettles and challenges, that questions assumptions…A rich, boisterous, tender, charming, angry, sorrowful, gleeful mix” Available now from all good bookshops! 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

Brutally accurate summation of British cinema in the GFT’s promotional material

‘a tasty nugget of absolute delight’ sounds like the reviewer is the child snatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

A CHAOS OF LIGHT New Writing Scotland 43 Ed. by Kirstin Innes, Chris Powici & Niall O’Gallagher “writing that unsettles and challenges, that questions assumptions… A rich, boisterous, tender, charming, angry, sorrowful, gleeful mix” Aug 2025 – available for preorder! 💙📚 asls.org.uk/publications...

I was thinking of Glamis Castle when I wrote this story, published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social : www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/autu...

5. David Peace- Red Riding Quartet Claustrophobic and dark, this is a superlative sequence of crime novels. A microcosm of British life during these time periods, with a heady mix of detective novel and police procedural, and whiplash inducing shifts in narrative and perspective. #booksky 💙📚

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As Dan says, anyone into horror, weird and adjacent lit should check out his stuff!

The One Hundred Years of Solitude tv show is proving the rule of comedy that dressing someone as Napoleon is always funny

First review of PAPERBOY is out there! Huge thanks to Morag Bootland and @scottishfield.bsky.social !

Listen! Read! Read while listening! Hiking through the Weird!

I'm in this podcast coming up and they're amazing. Such a good one ♡ support them! FEED THE POD

In other news, the cat appears to be utterly entranced by the Vincent Price cooking show? I think he just really likes his voice?

Read this! It’s excellent and Weird!

So excited to appear in Forge this week! And you can Read me! :) it's under 1000 words so a quick one ♡♡♡

In a bid to take my Bluesky account more seriously, here’s me posting a thread about stuff I published in 2024 👾 Expect to see posts relevant to my research & writing on here in 2025. First up, here’s a poem I wrote titled “unreal love/r(s)” — very close to my heart. asls.org.uk/publications...

Damn. RIP to a true genius, legend, and visionary. Thank you for a lifetime of enduring art. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

The January issue is out now! Have you had a chance to dig in yet? Single issues are available here: bit.ly/3W4KKEM

This is an AMAZING story and you want to read it, trust me. It is well worth the very minimal fee. A fun magazine in general.

Gotta new story out in this month’s Cosmic Horror Monthly!

An incredibly well-researched piece on the horrors of Neil Gaiman. It is extremely upsetting and explicit. Please be careful reading it. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

We have a stellar line-up of guests on TSS this January! Sampling. Here's a brilliant conversation w/ @scottmcnee.bsky.social from some months ago. We spoke to him about writing, existential dilemmas, Greek myth & Kazuo Ishiguro, among other things. Read here: www.thesubjectivespace.com/scottmcnee

Please share! With @agrayarchive.bsky.social & Hussein Mitha on 28/1/25 at 17.00 we are running a FREE WEBINAR on Colonialism in Alasdair Gray's work: Beyond POOR THINGS. Funded by @sgsah.bsky.social as part of Global Connects programme, this follows Hussein's research at the Archive. Link in bio.

Bumped my head on the boiler because I was squatting to check the pressure and the cat walked up and headbutted me on the arse

This happened to me in Edinburgh btw

Dark, really well written fantasy story @bcsmagazine.bsky.social by the amazing @scottmcnee.bsky.social. well worth a read! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/autu...

I sneezed and one of my contact lenses came out. I run on Looney Tunes physics

New friend

Escaped twitter