www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13070 Joseph Hunter reviews Marina Abramović's Balkan Erotic Epic

Join us tonight form 6:00 Pm for an exclusive interview with Ra Page the founder of Comma Press. @commapress.bsky.social urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063 @saltpublishing.com

Join us for this exclusive interview with the founder of Comma Press. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

The 8th Annual ENSFR Conference (June 10-12, 2026) Dear ENSFR Members, Following the ideas initiated at the Leuven conference in 2017 on the short story, its contexts and co-texts, the 2026 ENSFR conference will be devoted to short forms appearing in magazines and newspapers. CFP to follow.

Submission Open 15th September to 15th of October 2025 Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13055 Nathan Kernan, A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler, reviewed by Ian Pople

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13028 Ian Pople reviews Henri Cole's The Other Love

Issue 27 of The Manchester Review is Now Live! We aim to bring together the best contemporary writing from a range of voices from across the globe. We hope you enjoy reading our new issue. www.themanchesterreview.co.uk

Astrid Meyer reviews Apparent Breviary by Gastón Fernández www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12967

Issue 27 will soon be here...

Dylan Stewart reviews Apotheosis of Music by Witold Wirpsza www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12914

Edith Powell reviews Nettles by Ethel Cain www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12903

Delighted to continue to dip my toes into literature, making my debut for @manchesterreview.bsky.social reviewing Stuart Maconie's Beatles, With a Little Help From Their Friends. A must read for fans. www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12899

🌺 New from DJ Taylor – Poppyland 🌺 Published Mon 2nd June, a dazzling collection of short stories explores the murky edges of nostalgia, ambition, and identity in England. 📖 Buy now: www.saltpublishing.com/products/pop... #Poppyland #DJTaylor #ShortStories #BookSky #IndieBooks #SaltModernStories

"an engaging, stridently witty voice brought back to life" David Rose reviews The Crib and Other Stories by Albertine Sarrazin (translated by Sonya Moor) @exactingclam.bsky.social www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17-summer-2025/albertine-sarrazins-emthe-crib-and-other-storiesem/

Paul Anthony Knowles Reviews Corinne Fowler's Our Island Stories. 'Fowler unearths the hidden legacies of slavery, capitalism and exploitation that make up contemporary British relationships with the countryside' www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12892

Edith Powell Reviews Hamlet Hail to the Thief www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12889

Forthcoming 2026 – the new short story collection from Guy Ware.

Small Pleasures podcast: In the latest episode, Livi Michael and Sonya Moor look at two marvels of short fiction – Sarah Hall’s ‘Mrs Fox’ and Jackie Kay’s ‘My Daughter the Fox’.

Short fiction in a flash: a bite-size interview with Vesna Main, by Sonya Moor is now live on the ENSFR website. ensfr.univ-angers.fr

New Book: Anthologisation and Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling by Paul Delaney This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland. Specifically, it discusses the cultural, material, and ideological usages of the short form.

Our new Small Pleasures episode! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac0U... @ensfr.bsky.social @ailsacox.bsky.social

Very excited to share our preview review to our next single “Slowly Fade” www.mancreview.com/2025/05/sing... @manchesterreview.bsky.social massive thanks to our friend Cindy Smith

Final day for Papers! Call for Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025. The conference will take place in-person and online at the University of Manchester. Deadline for abstracts: 2nd May 2025. To be sent to [email protected]

Confingo 23 - published 30 April. Photography: Evie Spicer. Fiction: Graham Mort, Livi Michael, David Rose. Poetry: Irina Dumitrescu, Ian Pople, T.E. Niemi. Reviews: Katie Mehers, Isobel Edmondson, Matthew Adamson, Franziska Götter, H.B. Waight, Nicholas Royle. Available from our online shop.

A week to Go for CFP! Call for Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025. The conference will take place in-person and online at the University of Manchester. Deadline for abstracts: 2nd May 2025. To be sent to [email protected]

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12884 Livi Michael reviews Albertina Sarrazin, The Crib and Other Stories, translated by Sonya Moor. @confingopublishing.bsky.social

The Northern Publishers' Fair returns this Saturday! 📚📣 📍Manchester Central Library 📅Sat, April 26th 🕚Starts 11am 🎟️FREE FOR ALL! RSVP at: fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/71509...

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12879 Anna O'Boyle reviews He Used to Do Dangerous Things by Gaia Homes. @commapress.bsky.social

Call for Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025. The Ecological Futurity Conference will take place in-person and online at the University of Manchester on the 27th of June 2025. Deadline for abstracts: 2nd May 2025. To be sent to [email protected]

A short story tour of Manchester.

John Cooper Clarke, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Mike Garry, Jan Brierton, Freya Beer : Live Review of biggest poetry gig in UK #johncooperclarke #LintonKwesiJohnson #poetry #mikegarry #salford #manchester louderthanwar.com/john-cooper-... via @louderthanwar

Thank you to everyone who came to the inaugural Northern School of Writing Publishers Fair at the University of Salford last Thursday. Thanks, too, to the Clifford Whitworth Library for hosting it and David Savill for organising it. We look forward to returning next year...

Tessa mentioned Mavis Gallant the night she won the Edge Hill Prize @edgehillprize.bsky.social for her own brilliant work in the short story form.

Announcing… FAILED SUMMER VACATION by Heuijung Hur - translated by Paige Aniyah Morris. ‘A bold, weird, brave exploration of the imagination.’ Vanessa Onwuemezi. ‘These strange stories of isolation and longing will stay with you.’ Jessie Greengrass. Out from Scratch Books 3rd June!

Nice to see Atef Abu Saif's 'The Drone Eats with Me' among bookstagrammer Chinelo Ikem's all-time favourite books, alongside 'Slaughterhouse-Five' and Octavia Butler's Kindred'': www.russh.com/chinelo-ikem...

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12873 Paul Knowles and Edith Powell Review Opera North's production of the Flying Dutchman

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12868 Joseph Hunter reviews Monica Ali's London Book Fair in conversation.

Pleased my little piece on Pasolini's David will appear in minor literature[s] this week. Here is the poem, with Pasolini's own Italian translation and Stephen Sartarelli's English version. Many many thanks to @roughghosts.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12864 Joe Hunter reviews Claudia Piñeiro LBF25 in conversation.

Our chums @TLCUK's Self Editing Fiction Course is back. It’s a must for writers looking to refine structure, strengthen storytelling & polish prose. Perfect for WIPs & first drafts, whether published or not… Interested? More info here: literaryconsultancy.co.uk/event/self-e...

www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12859 Joseph Hunter reviews Broken Biscuits by Adam Farrer 'A touching, searching, and warm memoir of troubles with masculinity'

August 5th.

"the stories contain a pervasive element of things unknown, perhaps unknowable" Mike Fox’s @exactingclam.bsky.social review of The Guiltless Bystander by David Wheldon (Confingo, 2022) probes the mysterious connections and forces that lie at the heart of Wheldon’s work and world.

'Submissions for Issue 27 of The Manchester Review are now open. The submission window will be open from 24th Feb to 24th March 2025. Please take a look at the submission guidelines on our website before you submit.

Scratch A4 Summer ‘25 opens today! Send us a fantastic <1000 word story before 26th April! More info on judges and submitting here: www.scratch-books.co.uk/scratcha4com...

DISSECTING MANCTOPIA 🐝 Readings & Ramblings from Book of Manchester Authors 📍 Feel Good Club, MCR 📅 Mar 20, 7-9pm 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissecting... What does Manchester mean to you? Join as we explore, celebrate & critiques the city Manchester was, and the one it has become...

This new issue of SFTP has just come out, based on the Manchester ENSFR conference. Among its riches: an inspiring lecture from Jon McGregor, an interview with Thomas Morris and many interesting articles. My own small contribution is a review of Delaney and Patten's superb anthology Dublin Tales.