I answered some great questions from Joe Bedford, who interviewed me for his 'Writers on Research' series: INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’ You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀 joebedford.co.uk

I answered some great questions from Joe Bedford, who interviewed me for his 'Writers on Research' series: INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’ You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀 joebedford.co.uk

Thanks to @jolloyds.bsky.social for recommending this. Loved it like I love Kelly Link and Sarah Pinsker (perhaps also one for @giselleleeb.bsky.social )

I had my final writing class led by @giselleleeb.bsky.social at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham last night, and I must say I learned so much and am excited to put it all into my writing going forward.

New @interzone.press issue is out! Featuring work by @seanpadraic.bsky.social, @stevetoase.bsky.social, @giselleleeb.bsky.social, Nick Lowe, ‪@nmamatas.bsky.social,‬ and lots of other cool people, full list here: weightlessbooks.com/interzone-302/

Very happy to have my story “No Shelter Beneath the Searchlights” in the latest @interzone.press alongside with @rlsummerling.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social, Aliya Whiteley, @giselleleeb.bsky.social and so many other great writers.

Some excellently feral stories including @jeffreyford8.bsky.social @giselleleeb.bsky.social and @giantratsumatra.bsky.social Thanks @jonathangibbs.bsky.social If anyone has some animal stories they can recommend, I’m all ears - hidden and asymetrical ones like those of an owl

#302 of the fab @interzone.press‬ avail. soon. I review 8 new intriguing & uncanny @nightjarpress.bsky.social stories by: @meganjstaylor.bsky.social, J G Lynas, imogenreid.bsky.social‬, @kirstennorrie.bsky.social, Philip Terry, @arthurmandal.bsky.social, @carolynstock.bsky.social, Alex Older

And off it goes, Charlotte Tierney’s Personal Anthology, as aloof and detached as a sleep-walker, going faster than the snail, watching the livestream of the goldfinch, staying in the aquarium of the Jardin des Plantes for hours, bellowing for the dog, twisting and snorting...

Our May submissions window for fantastical flash fiction is now open through 11:59 p.m., May 7. Full guidelines and Submittable button here: fabulistmagazine.com/about/submis... #opencall #speculativefiction #flashfiction

Check out all of my events upcoming for 2025 - so far - with stacks of online writing courses, workshops and events forthcoming! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis... #writing #writers #writingcommunity #horror #courses #wriitngcourses #writingworkshops #writingclasses

Last few places left on @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Short Story course. Starts Tue 6 May. I've listed my top 5 books on writing in the course details. What are yours? fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/writi...

Take a photo she said, tote bags, lanyards, badges, tape, bookmarks. Put it on social media she said. What about the books? I thought, too late. Penguin Archive. There are also books.

So... just about finished our events programme for May. Highlights include a couple of events by @robinince.bsky.social, our first writing course by @giselleleeb.bsky.social, a book launch with Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, a lecture on Cavafy by Gregory Woods... www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events

River Trent here. We're taking orders for this edition (UK only) - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/is-a-river-alive/

We start our Irish book group tonight. Tomorrow our Pagan group. Wednesday our longest running, fiction, group. Find us also with a stall @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social on Tuesday and with TM Logan at West Bridgford Library on Thursday. We try to keep busy...

Beautiful Poem!

WORD FACTORY SHORT STORY CLUB: George Saunders with Giselle Leeb I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories

The next Writing the Occult event will be digging into the world of relics - but there's plenty more to uncover in the series for 2025 too! www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/writing-t... @laurenwrites.bsky.social

Had a great day at ‘States of Independence’ today at DMU in Leicester - brilliant sessions from Pedestrian talking through their Leics folklore project, @rodduncan.bsky.social, @giselleleeb.bsky.social, as well as a brilliant keynote from Anthony Joseph. Huge thanks to all involved! 🙌

Once again the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by the Jerusalem police, books seized, one of the owners arrested and the store closed. There was no search or arrest warrant. @thebookseller.com @babooksellers.bsky.social #booksellingisnotacrime

Bookselling in East Jerusalem these days

Book of the Day - all over the press and social media, as you would expect, that from "I'm literally a communist, you idiot" Ash Sarkar from Novara Media - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/minority-rule-adventures-in-the-culture-war/. Signed copies available. Pay double if you are a hedge-fund spiv.

“Come and enjoy panel discussions and talks on Leicester folklore, the ethics of biofiction, gay modernism, science and screenwriting, workshops on writing the uncanny and world-building…” This sounds brilliant. 🙌🙌

WORD FACTORY SHORT STORY CLUB: George Saunders with Giselle Leeb I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories

States of Independence, wkend of 22 March 25, celebrating small publishers! I'm there with @chrisparkerwriter.bsky.social selling our @saltpublishing.com books & @meganjstaylor.bsky.social's new @bloodhoundbooks.bsky.social novel. I'm taking a workshop on the uncanny. Info: tinyurl.com/3vr4d7ua 😀

Jesus! How did this ridiculous orange man ever get into power? He's like a 3 year old bully. Frightening in a grown-up context. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you are in Nottingham or the environs, me and my book 'Mammals, I Think We Are Called - @saltpublishing.com - will be the guests at the @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social book group on 27 Feb Info: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/febru...

Kudos to @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social

Hello everybody. Remains is a magazine created by Andy Cox and Richard Wagner. The first issue has just been published and the second is out soon. We are rubbish at social media but look forward to making new friends and talking about stuff.

📖 sample to peek insideand share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Great night and enjoying the book, especially as it mentions the Kalahari Surfers 😀

My latest book is Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance. It's a social history of the twentieth century but one that takes in the human impulse to create, share and enjoy the one thing that connects cultures and spans generations: music. It's out in America next week! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/rebe... (2)

This lovely man gave a talk at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social alongside Matthew Teller, about their important book, Daybreak in Gaza, telling the stories of people's lives in Gaza. He was arrested for selling books. #booksellingisnotacrime

The East Jerusalem bookshop story continued... Ahmad was released late last night and Mahmoud has just been released, though both under house arrest for a week. They each had to pay a 5000 Shekel £1250) fine for the incarcerated, having their rights violated and their shop ransacked.

Only two places left...

Hello Bluesky! We're Sustrans, the charity making it easier for everyone to walk, wheel and cycle. Custodians of the #NationalCycleNetwork 👣🚲 Happy to be here! 🙌

information than the thread on x.com/monisha_raje.... These bookshops have traded openly and usefully, and this poster has visited them several times. Indeed, the distributed a book we published on Shatila some years ago. We are certain there will be worldwide protests from publishers, authors

Thread: We are concerned to hear that Mahmoud Muna of the American Colony and Educational Bookshops in East Jerusalem has been arrested and some of his stock seized. The American Colony is the hotel where senior NGOs, journalists and politicians often stay, and his shop there is a major resource

The story so far … buy the latest books from Salt. www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...

Tasavvur is one of South Asia's few dedicated sff/h magazines. They're not on bsky to do promo. Do read/share them if you're interested in global fantastika (biased as they've reprinted 2 of my stories, including in this issue, helmed by guest editor @architamittra.bsky.social):

The team behind Black Static couldn't stay retired, and they are back with Remains, a new horror magazine. Yours truly is honored to be in the first issue with a new story "A Heartwarming Tale of a Girl and Her Monkey." (and subs are open!) 🫀 remains.uk

New Horror Magazine Remains locusmag.com/2025/01...

Contains my story, 'Inclusions': "Wonderfully dark horror."