Issue 1 has sold out - Issue 2 is now open for submissions. Short fiction, poetry, slow journalism. Submit your piece to the UK's newest, Nottinghamest print journal. Visit newnottinghamjournal.com/submissions to find out more.

It's the last three days to crowdfund our new literary print journal, featuring 40 contributors from around the world. We've nearly hit £3000 - can you pitch in? www.kickstarter.com/projects/new... #writingcommunity

Fancying helping to create a new literary journal? 👉 www.tinyurl.com/kickstartnnj #writingcommunity #nottingham #literature #writing

Presenting...the first New Nottingham Journal cover! Short stories, journalism, poetry and B&W photography from the UK's rebel city. You can support the project on Kickstarter now, should the mood strike you! 👉 www.tinyurl.com/kickstartnnj #writingcommunity #nottingham #literature #writing

You’ve got five more days to submit to a new literary journal in print! #writingcommunity

Back in the Radio Times. Who's your favourite gaming patriarch? www.radiotimes.com/technology/g...

In relationships I'm now embracing 'monogrammy'. I only date people who have their initials sewn on to all their clothes.

For my first Radio Times piece I hopped into the famous blue box to obtain a BBC Micro computer - with mixed results... www.radiotimes.com/technology/g... @radiotimes.bsky.social #doctorwho

We want to get your stories, poems or essays into print. There's a new literary journal releasing later this year - open for submissions from around the world. Visit newnottinghamjournal.com. #writingcommunity

Submissions for the New Nottingham Journal are opening next week - stay tuned for details.

Can she step out from the Camplight? I reviewed Dilettante's live show last month for Under the Radar. @undertheradar.bsky.social www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/dile...

Making the most of a warm day and a thick head. @parisreview.bsky.social

Thank @leftlion.bsky.social and @atleavis.bsky.social for this wonderful conversation about queerness, poetry and the diasporic experience: leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

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...

‘Teeming with life’ - exactly why I love Dickens. Fab piece by @claireharman.bsky.social in the Literary Review

Last year I spoke to Bill Bailey (before his morning coffee) and he shared with me his plan for surviving on a desert island, and his thoughts on the animal kingdom: 'If the bees are in strife, then maybe it's time for the wasps to sort of step up.' leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

they do say action makes the heart grow Fonda

Garfunkel has aged phenomenally well.

the history of cartoon dogs is a series of footnotes to Pluto

Happy to get tongue-tied for Manchester's top indie publisher Comma Press, having spotted a good excuse to write about Jimmy Carter (mildly) sexually harassing the state of Poland. #writingcommunity #internationalmotherlanguageday

This is how to turn your unsolicited email into a solicited email.

🚨RELEASE DAY🚨 It takes a certain type of team to catch a killer... Sequel to A Time For Dying, A House For Monsters is the new instalment of the DCI Tom McHale series by Bryce Main. Order this dark and fast-paced character-driven crime novel now: www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

New, many-hued review copies from @commapress.bsky.social!🎨 Thanks gang #writingcommunity

MANCHESTER IN TRANSLATION 2025 🐝 Arabic literary translation for complete beginners. Aimed at anyone interested in lit translation regardless of experience! 🗣️2 talks ✍️2 Workshops 🗓️Feb 19 5.30-7.30pm 📍 Manchester Uni Students Union 🎟️£3 eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester... or DM to sign up for free

Thanks to community togetherness and smart campaigning, the Meadows Library was recently saved from closure. We met Jackie and Di from the group, to find out what Friends of Meadows Library is there for, and why this special library was so worth saving. leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

‘Don’t you…step on my crusade shoes. You can do anything, but lay off of my crusade shoes.’

In the summer I managed to blag a creaky night-time stay at an 18th century library. Was this going to be the tonic for a jittery modern lifestyle - or just another new way to unnerve myself? Read how it went down, if you must, in the Nottingham Post.

LeftLion's @andrewtuckerwriter.bsky.social raises a toast to Nottingham, and to years that go by with the snap of a finger 📕 thenottsreview.substack.com/p/city-of-li...

At least once, a Scottish Pest Removal firm has arrived at a house to find a surprise Moose infestation

First they came for the socially awkward, And I did not speak out. For I was not really sure whether I'd met them before, And if so what the dynamic/general vibe was

Just adding my mum's maiden name 'Leavis' to mine, as I'm close to both halves of the family, and to help distinguish from another Andrew Tucker who's a fashion writer... Plus, F. R. Leavis confirmed to my grandad that he believed they were distantly related, so that's arguably a cool connection!

Restless Dreg Syndrome: the need to drink the cold remainder of a forgotten cup of tea, rather than throwing it away #writingcommunity

The December issue of LeftLion is out now! ❄ Featuring magical cover art by Marcus Gilmore, in this edition we feature George the Gorilla, Working Man's Kitchen, Saltbox's Sam Heaton, The Woolly Tellers, Victory Lap & lots more! Pick up a copy in Notts' best bars, cafes & hangouts, or read online 🌲

Stanley Middleton’s daughter Penny giving her father’s Booker Prize to Nottingham Library today 🏆 50th anniversary of his win - the only year it was given to two authors. (I was meanwhile spooning the cream off a lotus biscoff hot chocolate from the library cafe. Can a drink be disrespectful?)

Golden hour in Nottingham ⚜️

I think reading this has ‘disrupted’ my stomach a bit

My wife and I are at the age where we wake up, drink coffee and just continuously clear our throats for 45 mins.

Did you know that Richard Armitage (of very attractive dwarf fame) has become a critically acclaimed crime writer? I caught up with him last month to find out more… #writingcommunity leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

Today’s snowy workspace in Nottingham. #writingcommunity

Trouble brewing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A quick hello - I'm on lit desk at Leftlion, freelance for the Nottingham Post while white-knuckling my degree. I'm now on a ‘virtual’ writing residency in Melbourne alongside fab writers whose CVs make mine look about as exhaustive as Herod’s Christmas list. Here I am in front of my fence.

Dear 'Bloomsbury group' stans - I'm looking for a good first book on literary modernism, any suggestions? :)

Reading the google books preview with exaggerated nonchalance so it can't sense which parts to omit

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up early & off work -- ready for another session of staring at a bit of white pulped tree making up elaborate things that never happened

Good morning - I hope you slept like a beetle-stuffed dunnock - I'm starting with 'Sunlight in the South Room, Kellie', John Henry Lorimer, oil on canvas, 1913.

at this point I'm not even sure it's divergent to be neurodivergent in the writing world. We're just neuro

(living alone and seeing something around the house that needs to be done) I hope someone gets around to that soon

‘We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.’ —Walter Savage Landor ‘Imaginary Conversations’