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

Celebrate #ChristmasStory vid 2 from our #BlessedAndCursed festive special: THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE PERFECT by @rhystimson.bsky.social read by Clareine Cronin! In a twist on #AChristmasCarol Henry Pound, Packaging Monthly subeditor & pro pedant, is visited by 4 ghosts... youtu.be/aiaNYC_R6PA

Interrupting our festive posting to wish #janeausten a happy 250th birthday with 6 original #austen250 inspired stories! 📚 liarsleague.com/category/wom... @donnatracywriter.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social @margaretashleyvo.bsky.social @hannahahahah.bsky.social

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that the 250th birthday of Jane Austen is a grand time to re-acquaint yourselves with this year's @liarsleague.bsky.social, Austen inspired, Women&Girls stories! liarsleague.com/category/jan...

It’s the week before Christmas, & here come the #BLESSEDandCURSED festive stories! No. 1 is PRECIOUS CARGO by Hannah Downes, read by Aïsha Kent, in which Marty's December 25 parsnip emergency ends in her inviting teen neighbour Grizzy to her family's Christmas dinner… liarsleague.com/2025/12/15/p...

#LiarsLeague #PushcartPrize 2025 - GORGEOUS @alhalcrow.bsky.social - WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE Jennifer Gaboury - EVERYBODY WANTS LONDON Alix Owen - SO I TAKE THE BUS UP TO DROGHEDA @davidmcgraz.bsky.social - CHRISTMAS w/t IN-LAWS Quintin Forrest - GHOST OF XMAS FUTURE PERFECT @rhystimson.bsky.social

IT’S TONIGHT! Our festive story special at @ThePhoenix_W1 of course - but also & more importantly, AISHA’S BIRTHDAY! 🎂🎁🎉

Come to the Phoenix near Cavendish Square this Tuesday evening for a night of five festive short stories read by a cast of fantastic professional actors, including my subeditorial take on the Dickens classic! Inc free mince pies!

@simonelia.bsky.social is a local (Brockley, SE London) cartoonist & writes the adorable & thought-provoking #FluffyPulcino Here are the Beans doing Christmas Preparation... I feel seen! open.substack.com/pub/simoneli...

🎄Meet the #BLESSEDandCURSED Talent 5: actor Clareine Cronin reads author @rhystimson.bsky.social's cautionary tale of a #Scrooge-like subeditor "The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect" TOMORROW, Tue 9 Dec at The Phoenix W1 🎄 🎟️ Tickets £5! Email [email protected] 🎟️ 🎄All info: www.liarsleague.com

Meet the #BLESSEDandCURSED #ChristmasStory Talent 4: Actor @alexwoodhall.bsky.social makes a triumphant return to the #LiarsLeague reading Quintin Forrest's tale of (alternate) #PrinceHarry's traumatic festivities THIS Tue 9 Dec at The Phoenix. 🎟️Tickets £5 🎟️ Email [email protected] to reserve! 🎟️

🎄Meet the #BlessedAndCursed Talent 3! Introducing author Alex Edwards & actor David Mildon, who reads a tale of an opium-mad Victorian sailor & a cursed jewel this Tue 9 Dec at The Phoenix for our Xmas special! Host: @liamjhogan.bsky.social 🎟️Tickets only £5! Email [email protected] to reserve🎟️

🎄Meet the Talent!🎄Hi to author @hannahdownes.bsky.social & HAPPY BIRTHDAY to actress Aïsha Kent, reading Hannah's story PRECIOUS CARGO next Tue 9 Dec for Xmas show👼#BlessedAndCursed at The Phoenix. 🎟️TICKETS ONLY £5! Email [email protected] to snap up your spot liarsleague.com/2025/10/29/n...

A cold day in December, and therefore time for me to post a career highlight: David Mildon's magnificent performance of my Christmas story 'Mr Cromerty Of Boston', for the @liarsleague.bsky.social. Enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Lu...

Meet the #BlessedAndCursed talent #1: LL debutante @amy-c-author.bsky.social & veteran actor Silas Hawkins reading her black-magic tale A CREATURE STIRS (hint in pic 1) next Tue 9 Dec at @ThePhoenix_W1 🎟️Tickets £5, link below or email [email protected] to book. liarsleague.com/2025/10/29/n...

👻It's a fine tradition to read ghost stories in winter, but why not rest your eyes instead & listen to #HauntedAndHunted, our latest podcast feat. @carriecohen01.bsky.social @timlarkfield.bsky.social @timaldrich.bsky.social @davemcgrath.bsky.social You're welcome🎅 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

🔔CAST ANNOUNCED for #BlessedAndCursed Tue 9 Dec! • David Mildon: Victorian opium-fiend • Aisha Kent: @hannahdownes.bsky.social's Precious Cargo • Clareine Cronin: @rhystimson.bsky.social's subeditor • Silas Hawkins: @amy-c-author.bsky.social's sorcerer & @alexcuddles.bsky.social: Prince Harry! 🎄

#BlessedAndCursed SHORTLIST & LONGLIST revealed! Is your story in there? 📚 liarsleague.com/2025/10/29/n... Shortlisted authors will receive brief feedback on their submitted story within 4 weeks, PLUS 🎟️ a free ticket to the show on Tue 9 Dec at @thephoenix_w1 🥂 a drink on us - cos it’s Christmas!

WINNING STORIES ANNOUNCED! Check out our next event, the festively #BlessedAndCursed #ChristmasStory special on Tuesday 9th December at our usual venue of The Phoenix, W1 🎟️TICKETS £5 🥟FREE MINCE PIES Congrats @hannahdownes.bsky.social @rhystimson.bsky.social & more! liarsleague.com/2025/10/29/n...

Now that Halloween is out of the-- ARGH! Christmas Deadline for @liarsleague.bsky.social is TOMORROW! Blessed & Cursed, < 2000 words, for reading out in a pub (by actors!) #LiveLit #ShortStory liarsleague.com/2025/10/29/n... Get 'em, as they say, in!

#BlessedAndCursed #Christmasstories #submissionDeadline TONIGHT! Send your 800-2000 word story to [email protected] by 11.59pm UK time on Sun 2 Nov. liarsleague.com/2025/10/29/n... #CallForSubmissions #FeeFreeSubmissions #XmasStories #WinterStories #FlashFiction #ShortStories

HAPPY #HALLOWEEN! Your treat is 5 #HauntedAndHunted short stories: possessed doorbells, Russian skinwalkers, Polar terror, Irish mammies & the hi-tech home from Hell liarsleague.com/category/hau... Writer? SUBMIT to our Xmas theme #BlessedAndCursed, by THIS SUN 2 NOV: info at www.liarsleague.com

🎃 An icy touch of #ArcticHorror for #Halloween: shiver your timbers with MAGNITUDE by Katty Pearce read by Tim Larkfield for our #HauntedAndHunted spooky special 🎃 youtu.be/7H1HPLbuKI8?... Writer? Next deadline THIS SUN 2 Nov, theme #BlessedAndCursed #XmasStories liarsleague.com/2008/04/04/w...

🎃 #Halloween is coming & devices are rebelling 🎃Home tech = homewreck in INTEGRATED by Kate Griffiths-Lambeth read by Gloria Sanders for our #HauntedAndHunted special youtu.be/aBq2BSFHYkM?... Next deadline THIS SUN 2 Nov, theme #BlessedAndCursed / #ChristmasStories liarsleague.com/2008/04/03/f...

📰Got a lil piece about LL in the @citystgeorges.bsky.social Creative Digest this week, extolling the magic of listening to a story live ... ALSO: 🎃More #HauntedAndHUnted stories online soon! 👼#BlessedAndCursed🎄#ChristmasStories deadline next Sun 2 Nov! creativedigest.substack.com/p/creative-d...

🎃Today's #storyvideo from our #HauntedAndHunted pre-#Halloween special is THE BEAR-SKIN by David Klotzkin, read by Lin Sagovksy. 🐻A boorish Russian count takes a bride and hunts a bear. Can either escape him? A #skinwalker fable to chill your vodka ... youtu.be/Iu4BiMPNU-g

Friday night is date night! So here’s our 2nd video from #HauntedAndHunted, a quietly horrifying story to put you off ever meeting your new partner’s parents … SO I TAKE THE BUS UP TO DROGHEDA - a #shortstory by #DavidMcGrath #Halloween #GhostStoryKinda youtu.be/c-2VN8BEV0g?...

👻SHUDDER! Video 1 from our #HalloweenStories event #HAUNTEDandHUNTED is THE KEY by Lily Mac, read by Carrie Cohen at @ThePhoenix_W1 on Tue 14 Oct in a triumphantly terrifying opening to the show! 👻 🎃You'll never buy a Ring doorbell after this ... 🎃 youtu.be/581F_bOox0Q #shortstories #scarystories

Meet the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED Halloween Talent 4: David Klotzkin & Lin Sagovsky, who reads THE BEAR-SKIN, David's Russia-set story of a cowardly Russian Count, his downtrodden wife, and the bear(skin) that comes between them TONIGHT, Tue 14 Oc at @thephoenix_w1 £5 TIX: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...

Meet the #HAUNTEDANDhunted #Halloween Talent 3! Kate Griffiths-Lambeth's INTEGRATED is read by Gloria Sanders TOMORROW, Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix, W1 Leo & Clara's futuristic home is the perfect servant - till it starts to take control ... Info & £5 tickets here: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...

Meet the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED #Halloween #Shortstories Talent 2: Katty Pearce's Victorian #ArcticHorror MAGNITUDE is read by @timlarkfield.bsky.social this Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix, W1. "The ice is full of horrors ... God help you if you find ..." More info & £5 tix: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...

Meet the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED #Halloween Talent 1! LL debutante author Lily Mac's techno-terror tale THE KEY is read by @carriecohen01.bsky.social Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix W1 *When your smart doorbell senses motion, but nobody's there - DON'T go out to look* £5 TIX: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...

🎃We're thrilled & chilled to reveal the ghastly CAST, sinister SHORTLIST & loathsome LONGLIST for #HAUNTEDandHUNTED, our #Halloween spookstravaganza (not a word/now a word) THIS Tue 14 Oct @The Phoenix, W1 🎃 liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n... Hurrah @timlarkfield.bsky.social @carriecohen01.bsky.social

🥁DRUMROLL PLEASE!🥁 The WINNING STORIES for the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED #Halloween SPECIAL Next Tue Oct 14 at The Phoenix are: MAGNITUDE- Katty Pearce DROGHEDA- David McGrath THE KEY- Lily Mac THE BEAR-SKIN- David Klotzkin INTEGRATED- Kate Griffiths-Lambeth liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...

LL UPDATE: Our terrified judges are hiding behind the sofa reading stories for our next event, #HauntedAndHunted, on Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix, W1. We'll announce the winning stories, longlist & shortlist next week on our BRAND NEW WORDPRESS WEBSITE & can't wait to scare your pants off!

Last story from our #JaneAusten show & LAST CALL for our #HAUNTEDandHUNTED theme: 800-2000w, deadline 11.59pm UK time TONIGHT Sun 7 Sep! www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... Need inspiration? Aïsha Kent reads SHOTS & SHAMELESSNESS by @donnatracywriter.bsky.social www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Friday's #JaneAusten inspired fiction is the awardwinning @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social reading Lauren Van Schaik's snappy satire ABDUCTIONS & ADAPTATIONS liarsleague.co.uk/2025/08/25/a... PLUS our #HAUNTEDandHUNTED theme deadline is THIS SUN 7 Sep: submit here liarsleague.co.uk/2008/04/03/f...

More #JaneAusten inspired goodness! Lucy Mabbitt reads @hannahahahah.bsky.social TO KEEP YOU AS MY OWN: desire vs duty in Georgian England. www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... PLUS submissions for our next theme #HAUNTEDandHUNTED close next Sun 7th Sep: submit here liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Another #JaneAusten inspired story is up! @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social's DICTIONARY OF DAYS, read by @margaretashleyvo.bsky.social www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... ALSO subs for our next theme, #HAUNTEDandHUNTED, close next Sunday 7th September - submit here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

READERS REJOICE! SHOTS & SHAMELESSNESS by @donnatracywriter.bsky.social read by Aisha Kent at our #JaneAusten special is online here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... WRITERS WRESPOND! Subs for next theme, HAUNTED & HUNTED, close next Sun 7 Sep - more here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Hey reader! SUITORS & SUITABILITY by Amy Eddings, read by @clairelacey.bsky.social at our #JaneAusten special is now online here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... Hey writer! Submissions for our next theme, HAUNTED & HUNTED, close next Sun 7 Sept - more here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Relax into your Bank Holiday evening with a sweet sextet of #JaneAusten inspired stories: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... Feat. @donnatracywriter.bsky.social @clairelacey.bsky.social @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social @margaretashleyvo.bsky.social @hannahahahah.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social

Relax into your Bank Holiday evening with a sweet sextet of #JaneAusten inspired stories: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... Feat. @donnatracywriter.bsky.social @clairelacey.bsky.social @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social @margaretashleyvo.bsky.social @hannahahahah.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social