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

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...