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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · 1d

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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 3d

Allen Bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social will join us for a Book Club event to discuss his novel 'Henry, Henry' on Thursday, the 16th of October. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/3J0qZLg

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · 4d

Dubliners: on 16 October I'll be joining the Dublin City University book club to talk about Henry Henry with a very special interlocutor, Dr Kit Fryatt -- professor, husband, & indispensable literary collaborator.

Free and open to all, but please register ahead of time: www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandcu...

DCU Book Club with Allen Bratton | dcuartsandculture

www.dcu.ie

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · 6d

!! Hope you have fun! I enjoyed following your slow Shakespeare Richard II a while back.

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · 6d

Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 7d

Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton! @allenbratton.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 12d

Last day to submit!

Judged by Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price, the winning stories will receive cash prizes and publication in The London Magazine.

Submissions close at midnight. More details here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...

The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 - The London Magazine

The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. We are looking for unpublished short fiction, no longer than 4000 words.

thelondonmagazine.org

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Aug 28

Signed a few copies of Henry Henry in Heffers and Waterstones Cambridge

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Aug 22

Putting HBCUs and Hispanic Serving institutions at the beginning of the list and Asian Americans at the end of it thinking people will just skim and be like ah yes very progressive and miss the 'make x x again' stuff in the middle lol like why even try at this point we all know the score

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Aug 21

Also found this beautiful edition of SJ Naudé's Fathers and Fugitives which I read and enjoyed as an ARC last year

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Aug 21

Spotted Henry Henry in the front window of my beloved Hodges Figgis

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Aug 18

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Would red legs continue to proliferate if importation was limited, or is the population being sustained purely by repeated seasonal imports?

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Aug 7

Peak UK moment

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm always hearing about these

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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social · Aug 6

Minister Patrick O’Donovan has announced a 6-month extension to the Pilot Scheme for Basic Income for the Arts.

The NCFA are raising the profile of the sector call to Retain, Extend and Expand Basic Income for the Arts
🔗 ncfa.ie/2025/06/19/j...
/ email [email protected] link with your local constituency

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Aug 3

Finally faced a long-standing fear (watched Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back past the scene where Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite that scared me so much when I was like six that I had to turn the VHS off)

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Aug 2

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yeah reading through the paperback proofs was one of the most miserable things I've ever done

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Jul 25

He must have still been smarting after having returned from the war to find his wife had shacked up with a Free France member

allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Jul 25

'The upcoming general election' was the one in 1945

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 21

The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open!

We are delighted to announce that Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price will be this year’s judges for the prize.

Enter here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hello, my virtual Q&A with Itinerant Literate's Henry Henry book club is going to be livestreamed on youtube tomorrow, Jul 15th, 7:30 pm EDT

Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...

Henry Henry by Allen Bratton - Interview with the Author

YouTube video by Itinerant Literate Books

www.youtube.com

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allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social · Jul 7

Oh that's lovely my partner was a bookseller at Heffers many years ago. He took me there last summer and showed me his dim basement corner

Jan Trnka @jantrnka.bsky.social · Jul 5

Bought this quite randomly in Heffers in Cambridge and enjoyed it very, very much! By @allenbratton.bsky.social

Book cover of Allen Bratton’s “Henry Henry” showing a painting of a blonde, blue-eyed young man.

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gaystheword.bsky.social @gaystheword.bsky.social · Jul 3

Gay’s the Word pop-up is NOW OPEN and just in time for Pride London. So come pay a visit at our temporary and rather spacious new premises at 58-60 Marchmont Street (10 seconds from our usual location) and say hi. Please note over the Summer of 2025 we will be closed on Mondays! Happy Pride!

Image of Gay’s the Word pop-up bookshop
Interior featuring our new layout and lots of books.

Image of spray painted neon pink triangle sign indicating the location of Gay’s the Word pop-up location at 58-60
Marchmont Street

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · Jul 3

t.s. eliot
gave a jellytot
he had found
on the ground
to ezra pound

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