Manchester Poets will be hosting my reading tomorrow evening (Sept 19th) at Chorlton Library. My reading will start just after 8.00pm after the Manchester Poets' slot. #poetry #poetryperformance www.creativetourist.com/event/manche...

Just back from @saloneurope.bsky.social in elegant Brussels. An outstanding event encompassing workshops, performance and discussions about many aspects of writing – from finding an agent to marketing and the nature of language. Truly stimulating and highly memorable. #poetry #shortfiction #novels

Did you meet @grahammort.bsky.social at #EWSBrussels2025 and think, ‘Hey this guy is ace I wish he was teaching a class’? Well then you’re in luck! Graham’s class will help you dive deep into your character’s minds with close third POV. Still a few spots left!

I’ve just finished updating my website. Check out the Blog for forthcoming events, workshops, and links to recently published work and the Featured Poem for poetry. @fictivedream.bsky.social and @saloneurope.bsky.social and more... grahammort.com

I’ll be reading my poems at a gathering of Manchester Poets at Chorlton Library (UK) on the 19th of September. It’s a return home for me, so I’m looking forward to it. Drop by if you’re in town! www.creativetourist.com/event/manche...

ICYMI today we're feat. a superb #shortstory, The Nuns/The Statue by Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social #fiction #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/31/t...

Migratory birds and human conflict have always compelled me to write. Here’s a new poem of mine published in 'The North' magazine (Issue 71) by The Poetry Business, UK.

I’m offering an online creative writing workshop with @saloneurope.bsky.social on September 25th. The EWS is bringing together writers across Europe through the medium of English. See below for details of my workshop and information about the Salon. bit.ly/4ovvpKc

I’ve gone back to analogue photography. Here’s an image of the Picos Mountains (North-West Spain) shot on my 1951 Leica. Once the world’s most advanced camera, it still works perfectly and is a joy to operate.

Here’s the latest issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social with my poem ‘Waveforms’ and work by an international cast of poets!

We are delighted that @grahammort.bsky.social will be teaching a Prose writing class for us online. Read all about it and other events in our newsletter open.substack.com/pub/european...

‘Inkfish 4’ appears today. It contains my story ‘Lepidopterists’ and much more excellent work: inkfishmag.com/read/

I found this poem again by CP Cavafy yesterday. It seems so sad and irresolute and yet hopeful too. All lives are hidden and yet there is the urge to share them. Maybe that’s especially true of writers where the aesthetic form of their work is a veil that can be parted.

The new edition of Cōnfingō magazine is out and contains an eclectic range of writers! www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...

The new edition of 'Book of Matches’ (Issue 14) is here, including my short fiction ‘Water’ amongst other work from a wide array of writers. www.bookofmatcheslitmag.com/post/issue-1...

Here’s my new flash fiction, A Relief Map of the World’ published by: @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/04/18/a...

New story - nearly here! @fictivedream.bsky.social‬

I read some poems @saloneurope.bsky.social‬ last night. What a stimulating and thoughtfully curated event. Great readings of very high standard from a broad range of writers. Highly recommended!

I’m really looking forward to this reading ‪@saloneurope.bsky.social‬

My new flash fiction, ‘Latent’, published in Flash Fiction Magazine and set in Italy where the past haunts the present. flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/03...

My letter to The Guardian newspaper joins the debate around AI generated creative writing. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Copies of my Candlestick Press anthology have just arrived! Poems by Emily Brontë, John Clare, Gillian Clarke, Helen Dunmore, Norman MacCaig, Grace Nichols, Sheenagh Pugh, Neil Rollinson, Annette Volfing - and Graham Mort. Copies are available from: www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten...

Little Toller’s journal of place and ecology, ‘The Clearing’, has published my personal essay, ‘Pilgrim’. See: www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing...

My new short story ‘Swordfish’ published by Literally Stories today. A cautionary tale about a retired academic working his way around the local supermarket where he meets and old student... literallystories2014.com

Just finished this excellent book - a comprehensive overview of what has gone wrong in the evolution of our mangled system of education. Highly recommended if you’re involved in education or teaching at any level – entertaining, provocative, socially aware and incisive. @sammywright.bsky.social

Learn about artist Claudia McGill's creative process in the making of her artwork for Afghan by @grahammort.bsky.social by following the link to her blog #artwork #microfiction #flashfiction #flashfictionfebruary claudiamcgillart.com/2025/02/09/a...

"The door handle turns and for a moment David looks like Chris." Afghan by Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social #microfiction #flashfiction #flashfictionfebruary. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/02/09/a...

'Short Fiction' is a great magazine - and that's praise indeed! I love the illustrations, which accompany each story. @shortfiction.bsky.social

Hoar frost this morning in North Yorkshire. A small detail from a landscape re-made overnight by below zero temperatures.

You can get my book of short fiction 'Like Fado and Other Stories' here in the @saltpublishing.com winter sale: www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...

Just working on a new piece of flash fiction. So like writing poetry. I love that stage after the first draft, when you start to feel what the story is really about. Whatever was troubling your sub-conscious begins to guide the narrative through little shifts in vocabulary and sentence structure...

Lovely to get @undertheradar.bsky.social magazine (Issue 34) through the post from @ninearchespress.bsky.social this morning. My short story, ‘Wasps’, is in there, but it’s also packed with poetry, fiction and reviews, just in time for Christmas!

Thorn tree colonised by moss, North Yorkshire. A little patch of rain forest. Spot the berries!

My new short story, ‘The Scent of Magnolia’, was published in The Manchester Review today. ’No one can ever know what goes on behind four walls’…or can they? www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12572

‘The Comet’ by Sonya Moor’ is beautifully produced by Confingo and features some brilliant short stories. I was hugely impressed by the opening piece, ‘Lapin à la Moutarde’, in which the act of cooking recalls a past that defines and haunts a mother’s relationship with her son…highly recommended!

Ingleborough wearing a cap of snow at 3.00pm this afternoon. Ravens over Kingsdale. A big russet kestrel flapping lazily from tree to tree. Huge, rolling clouds lit by low sun over the southern horizon on the way home – they looked like they mean business!

Here’s my latest story, ‘Scoop’, with the brilliant @fictivedream.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2024/11/08/s...

Poet and short fiction writer, I've also written non-fiction and drama for the BBC. Emeritus professor at Lancaster University and visiting professor at the University of the Western Cape, my academic writing includes essays on creative writing and education. I’m looking forward to meeting you all!