🎧#IllusionandConfusion podcast's up. Tell your ears! 🎧 5 twisted fictions read live in London, starring @carriecohen01.bsky.social @liamjhogan.bsky.social Web: liarsleague.com/2016/07/05/p... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... Album cover credit: www.posterlounge.co.uk/artists/diet...

The full text of my flash fiction story “The Parrots of Chelm” has been published by Liar's League @liarsleague.bsky.social, and you can read it for free here! liarsleague.com/2026/04/29/t...

🍸”There are two types of people who really annoy me, and you appear to be three of them."🍸 youtu.be/EjtG7spFqgo?... THE FUTURE’S ALREADY HERE … a tart, smart tale of twisted tech by Callum Jacobs, performed by actor Tony Bell as Soho barfly Henry (channelling #PeterOToole as #JeffreyBernard)

Meet THE GHOST WHO ROBS BANKS as he pulls his most crucial heist yet: this story by @tomwrote.bsky.social was read by Jeremiah O'Connor for #LiarsLeague Apr '26 youtu.be/w_P1EU1vnJs?... #shortstory #audiostory #flashfiction #livefiction #livereading #audiobook #audiofiction #irishstory #ghoststory

POV: Greg from Craigslist is selling his Switch2 cuz he's preparing to be devoured by #Dagon ... so you play Super Smash Bros till 2am 🎮 Today's #IllusionAndConfusion #shortstory is DAGON, LORD OF THE OCEANS by Ray Chanteur read by Noah Lukehurst in his #LiarsLeague debut! youtu.be/paEX4w_F3Ag?...

An author seeking permission to confuse from the Dept of Misdirection enters a Kafkaesque weirdscape, where nothing's as it seems - not even herself. THE RED TAPEWORM by @italianosoprano.bsky.social was read by Rose Biggin for #LiarsLeague youtu.be/bslGnKCdOps #shortstory #audiostory #flashfiction

🦜Polly wants a cracker? Enjoy #storyvideo no. 1 from #IllusionAndConfusion last night: THE PARROTS OF CHELM by LL debut author @jesterbellart.bsky.social read by actress @carriecohen01.bsky.social youtu.be/xQKwMkW5Zcg?... (PS Happy birthday for yesterday Carrie!🎈) #liarsleague #shortstory #fable

Thanks Duotrope! That's our subs pile sorted 👍

TONIGHT at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square! Get yer lastminute tickets at www.liarsleague.com & you can drink in the sun for an hour beforehand!

Thanks @mslexia.bsky.social! So looking forward to the show ❤️Got fantastic actresses @carriecohen01.bsky.social & Rose Biggin reading, & stories by 2 new-to-us female authors inc. @jesterbellart.bsky.social

TWO DAYS TO GO! The #LiarsLeague spring special #IllusionAndConfusion at The Phoenix W1 is this Tue 21 April (doors 630, show 730)! 🎟️Tickets just £5 at www.liarsleague.com 🤩Starring @carriecohen01.bsky.social @jesterbellart.bsky.social @callumjacobs.bsky.social @ray-is-writing.bsky.social

Talent cocktail #5 for #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION #shortstories this Tue 21 April at The Phoenix, W1 is author @callumjacobs.bsky.social & Tony Bell as Soho lush Henry, in THE FUTURE'S ALREADY HERE, IT'S JUST NOT EVENLY DISTRIBUTED. 🎟️Earlybird tix only £5! liarsleague.sumupstore.com/product/liar...

#LiarsLeague ❤️s debut authors & actors (& sea monsters)! Meet 2 new talents this Tue 21 April when actor Noah Lukehurst reads Ray Chanteur’s story DAGON, LORD OF THE OCEANS. Will the Great Old One rise? FIND OUT with a £5 earlybird ticket to #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION stories at www.liarsleague.com!

(Who knew #Escher drew worms?!) BOOK NOW: next Tue the sublime Rose Biggin reads #LiarsLeague debut author Matt Bianca's short story THE RED TAPEWORM: a comic, #Kafkaesque plunge into an absurd metafictional bureaucracy! #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION 🎟️ Tickets £5 - 7.30 Tue 21st April at @thephoenix_w1

Meet the ILLUSION & CONFUSION Talent 2! @carriecohen01.bsky.social reads LL debut author Mira Singer's THE PARROTS OF CHELM, a cautionary fable of a small town overrun by squawking nonsense. Catch it this Tue 21 April at The Phoenix W1! 🦜5 earlybird tickets here: liarsleague.com/2026/03/31/n...

❤️📚🎤Our #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION LIVE #shortstory show is next Tue 21 April: let's meet the talent! Actor Jeremiah O'Connor is a dead fella pulling a bank heist in smalltown Ireland in Tom O'Brien's tragicomic THE GHOST WHO ROBS BANKS. £5 earlybird tix here! liarsleague.sumupstore.com/product/liar...

If you are in London, this promises to be a delightful night. Go hear my (live!) story featuring two sweet weirdos, a doomsday cult, and a concerningly cheap vacuum! (Do I have to play it cool how excited I am? Someone please go in my stead, because I really wish I could be there irl.)

🥚HAPPY EASTER!🐣 Cultists! Kafkaesque bureaucracy! Hi-tech skinsuits! Ghost heists! Parrots! & more! 📚 Winning stories for our 21 April event #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION are revealed here liarsleague.com/2026/03/31/n... inc. work by @jesterbellart.bsky.social 🎟️ £5 earlybird tickets on sale RIGHT NOW!

So we had a RECORD number of stories for our #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION theme: nearly 200! 📘(Which is a LOT to read, & we do read ALL of them) 🏆 & we were going to announce winners TODAY! 🤡 but oops. It's #APRILFOOLSDAY 😂 - so (even though that's very on-theme) we're revealing winners tomorrow instead 😉

Happy (UK) Mother’s Day! (Image courtesy of the Kentish Town Placard Poet)

Started the day by talking to my son about robot emotions (thanks to Peter Brown's The Wild Robot). Here's an old short story I wrote for the @liarsleague.bsky.social on the same subject (some years, I should say, before AI really happened). richardsmyth.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/w...

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Fancy watching some brilliant women reading #shortstories by some other brilliant women? We've got over 200 of them here! liarsleague.com/category/int... #InternationalWomensDay2026 #liarsleague

SEDUCE YOUR EARS with our #EXandNEXT podcast: comedy, homicide & twisted romance … • Apple podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e... • Jellycast autoplay: liarsleague.jellycast.com/audio/play/274 STARS: @kategl.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamborini.bsky.social @lrb.bsky.social

Dating prospects looking bleak? A lonely penguinologist on an Antarctic island reckons it's the last place he'll run into his ex. Right? The 6th #storyvideo from #LiarsLeague's twisted #Valentine show #ExAndNext is THE FINNISH FOR F*CK by Jeff Wood read by Jeremiah O'Connor youtu.be/Ot8DTI1xd0c?...

The exquisite Elara is making a lovers' alphabet, but it's missing two letters...could U or I be next? AN ORDERLY LIST, a short story by @kategl.bsky.social was read by Mia Nuttgens for the #LiarsLeague #ExAndNext Valentine show at The Phoenix, Cavendish Sq youtu.be/_IhqluCfw90?... #ValentineStory

Our 4th #shortstoryvideo from #EXandNEXT poses the question: can you murder your husband ... by accident? 🫖 A COLD CUP OF TEA, a #flashfiction by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social was read by Patsy Prince for the #LiarsLeague #ValentineStory show at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square youtu.be/t52d0YQknbc?...

Beautifully observed & quietly excruciating, featuring the immortal line "He just said c*nt into that Pingu" our 3rd #ExAndNext video is KING MARVIN by Grace McKenzie read by Miranda Harrison. An awkward divorce-date in a grim seaside town: what's not to love?♥️ youtu.be/gCmKuxJzCxI?... #shortstory

HAPPY #VALENTINESDAY! Ben takes his grandma out on a date with a difference, continuing a love story started 50yrs ago. Enjoy the most romantic video from our V-Day #EX&NEXT story special, by Liars' League debut author Lor Vanden & beautifully read by actor Jay Hunt. ♥️ youtu.be/margLdc9JiA?...

<24h till #ValentinesDay! When a 7ft stag-headed Celtic god attends a Regency ball things get horny, in THE NOTORIOUS DEBUT OF LORD CERUNINCOS by @lrb.bsky.social read by @jamielaird.bsky.social From #ExAndNext, it's the #JonathanStrange / Emma crossover #Austen never wrote youtu.be/i8YGI4ZszHw?...

Don’t want to promise too much, but there’s JUST A CHANCE you could win one of these cool pencils (and a book) if you come along to EX & NEXT tonight & know the answer in our interval book quiz. #thingsthatwentunsaid 7.30 at @ThePhoenix_W1 £5 Tickets at liarsleague.sumupstore.com/product/liar...

There’s no delicate way to say it - #LiarsLeague is officially the cheapest date in the West End! Why blow £££ on jukebox musicals when you can woo your crush with pro actors reading stories for just a fiver?!* See liarsleague.com for £5 earlybird tickets NOW *No catch. Free sweets. And ❤️

Meet the #ExAndNext talent: 3 authors (& 2 LL debuts) Lor Vanden @lrb.bsky.social & @kategl.bsky.social bring tales of train timetable love stories, Regency indiscretions & A-Z seductions this Tue 10 Feb. Tix £5: cheapest Valentine's date in the West End! liarsleague.sumupstore.com/category/my-...

FULL CAST for #LiarsLeague #EXandNEXT #ValentineStories this Tue 10 Feb at The Phoenix! Mia Nuttgens Jay Hunt Patsy Prince @jamborini.bsky.social Jeremiah O'Connor & Miranda Harrison read seduction shopping-lists, Antarctic yearning, divorce dates & more 🎟️£5 TIX: liarsleague.sumupstore.com/products

Meet the #ExAndNext Talent 3! @Jeremiah O’Connor reads THE FINNISH FOR FUCK by Jeff Wood next Tuesday 10 Feb at The Phoenix. Admire their handsome faces! Imagine the bleakness of being a lonely Antarctic penguinologist! Earlybird tickets just £5: liarsleague.sumupstore.com/products

💘Meet the #ExandNext talent: actress Patsy Prince reads @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social's A COLD CUP OF TEA at LL's #Valentine show next Tue 10 Feb! 🎟️ TIX £5: cheapest date in town 😉https://liarsleague.sumupstore.com/product/liars-league-ticket-event-1-ex-and-next-valentine-special-tue-10-feb-at-7-30pm

DRUMROLL PLEASE! Meet the #EXandNEXT #ValentineStories Talent #1! Catch Grace McKenzie's razor-toothed "KING MARVIN" a dire divorce-date tale (with teens 💀) next Tue 10 Feb at @thephoenix_w1 for ONLY £5! Tickets here: liarsleague.sumupstore.com/products 🐧"He just said c*nt into that Pingu."

Thanks for the shout out @mslexia.bsky.social ♥️!

Don't miss the Liars' League 'EX & NEXT' Valentine Special ❤️ Get ready for stories of awkward Antarctic yearning, divorce dates, hooking up with Celtic gods & devotion that transcends time... Tue 10 Feb @ 7.30pm in the basement bar at The Phoenix, 37 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0PP

All their 2026 themes are ✨ OPEN ✨ Fire up the laptop, crack out the notebook, scroll through your 3am story ideas & get submitting: liarsleague.com/2008/04/03/f...

WINNING STORIES for Valentine show #ExAndNext Tue 10 Feb at The Phoenix revealed! Seduction A-Zs, Antarctic awks, divorce dates, "accidental" murder etc. Congrats to authors @kategl.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social Grace McKenzie Jeff Wood+ debutante Lor Vanden liarsleague.com/2026/01/08/n...

Loooook! liarsleague.sumupstore.com/product/liar...

* IRL #WRITINGWORKSHOP * DEADLINE WED 14 JAN * Katy, LL's Editor/Director runs a Wed eve #WritersWorkshop for @citystgeorges.bsky.social where students submit a huge 15k of fiction over 10 wks - 7 PLACES REMAIN - signup deadline 14 Jan - 1st class Wed 21 Jan www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-...

This is your writerly klaxon KLAXON! Just the weekend left to hone those #Shortstories (or, gulp, start them) and send them to the first @liarsleague.bsky.social event of 2026! (I know, I know, the stores are full of Easter eggs, you might be forgiven for imagining #Valentines has come and gone!)

Hey writer! Are you in a pre-Christmas meh-slump, wishing you had a 2026 #submissiondeadline to write a story for? 🤩 WE HAVE SIX! 🤩 #1 is EX & NEXT on Sun 4 Jan 2026 for our Valentine’s show, & the rest are all open NOW, so get your 800-2000w stories in! Details: liarsleague.com/2008/04/03/f...

@simonelia’s entertaining ideas on how technology addiction will be cured … (think retro). She’s great, her alter ego Fluffy Pulcino is adorable, and her substack is free. Just sayin’! open.substack.com/pub/simoneli...

Despite the malicious Gods of tech, the #BlessedAndCursed podcast is now online! (Along with all the others from 2025). Get your festive ears around this (Santa) baby ... & happy Christmas everyone! liarsleague.com/2016/07/05/p...

Hey writer! Are you in a pre-Christmas meh-slump, wishing you had a 2026 #submissiondeadline to write a story for? 🤩 WE HAVE SIX! 🤩 #1 is EX & NEXT on Sun 4 Jan 2026 for our Valentine’s show, & the rest are all open NOW, so get your 800-2000w stories in! Details: liarsleague.com/2008/04/03/f...

From Basildon to Balmoral! #BlessedAndCursed story 5 explores #PrinceHarry's CHRISTMAS WITH THE IN-LAWS by Quintin Forrest, read by @alexwoodhall.bsky.social youtu.be/U8iito6k3ZY?... 👑 Harry's going to marry - again! Time to meet the in-laws, an Essex crime family who really mean business ...👑

Tis the night before Christmas and A CREATURE STIRS by #LiarsLeague debutante Amy Ferguson, read by Silas Hawkins, is our Friday #BlessedAndCursed #ChristmasStory video from The Phoenix! 🎄 youtu.be/i3JfWjAQEB0?... (Beware the elf … he’s connected 🧝)

#ThrowbackThursday #storyvideo from #BlessedAndCursed Xmas show:💎THE VAUXHALL VAGABOND💎 youtu.be/TOsGyROMeVI by Alex Edwards read by David Mildon. 💎Penniless & itching for a smoke of opium, a sailor's wandering the frozen streets of Victorian London, when he stumbles across a mysterious jewel💎 #TBT