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JL Bogenschneider @bourgnetstogner.bsky.social · 1d

A pleasure to have placed third in this year's Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize.

Anthology available in-store and at bricklanebookshop.org/product/brick-lane-bookshop-new-short-stories-2025

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 2d

Annual reminder that without literary translators, most Nobel Prize-winning authors couldn’t be read by the committee/readers, so celebrate them too. Congrats @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social et al! This isn’t taking away from the author, it’s adding recognition of the miracle/labour/skill of translation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins

Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm

www.theguardian.com

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 9d

A shortlist to get excited about - isn't that what we want from a prize?

Huge congratulations @benpester.bsky.social @cdrose.bsky.social Sarah Hall Colwill Brown (who's had a very good week!) Yrsa Daley-Ward & Charlie Porter

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 9d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com

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Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social · 10d

My spine is tingling as a short from my @boilerhouse.bsky.social collection is in Ghost Box IV: a deluxe coffin of spooky/horror stories from Canadian publishers of gorgeous box sets Hingston & Olsen w/ texts selected by excellent human @pattonoswalt.bsky.social 🙏 Out today, print run very limited!

Ghost Box IV — Hingston & Olsen Publishing

www.hingstonandolsen.com

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 23d

reminder: if you like cursed images, trash essays, Wiki aesthetic categories, shrimp Jesus & AI slop, book your ticket for the launch of Amateurs! How We Made Internet Culture and Why it Matters ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with @nrolah.bsky.social, tues sept 23rd!

badaude @badaude.bsky.social · Sep 2

LONDON LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT!

23 September, @burleyfisher.bsky.social with Nathalie Olah - tickets here!!!

burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

Launch: Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters by Joanna Walsh w/ Natalie Olah

Tuesday 23rd September 2025 6.30-9pm Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to v...

burleyfisherbooks.com

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here:

jencalleja.com/writing/

Image of an olive skinned woman with shoulder length dark hair looking to her left, in a white T-shirt. The background is blurred. Overlaid white text on black backing reads: I’m running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors.

Light blue background with whitish grid motif. Black text reads: - to improve author and translator pay
- to fight against AI use and its normalisation
- to represent both authors and literary translators

Same light blue background. Black text reads: - to bring my perspective as a working-class practitioner
- to share my experience as a publisher and press officer

Same light blue background. Black text reads: full statement available on my website and the society of authors website. Voting is for members by post and must be received by 22 October.

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’ve been touring this book since February and every time I’ve signed a copy for someone, I’ve asked them to sign my copy in return. Come to my last event of the year at @chorltonbookfest.bsky.social next Tuesday and be one of the last people to sign it.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · Sep 2

I have a new Radio 4 short story about an exorcism in a Nursing Home airing this month and I’ve just listened to the recording of Seamus O’Hara reading it and it’s only brilliant. Can’t wait for you all to hear it.

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Ben Pester @benpester.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just trying to make sense

The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 2

'My writing is always political work. It is a warning about the condition we are in. But I can’t offer answers. I don’t have them.'

Joseph Williams speaks to @benpester.bsky.social about his debut novel, The Expansion Project.

Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-th...

Interview | The Expansion Project: An Interview with Ben Pester - The London Magazine

Ben Pester discusses the move from short fiction to novels, the influence of scriptwriting on his prose and the work culture in the UK.

thelondonmagazine.org

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Shelley Hastings @shelleyhastings.bsky.social · Aug 29

My story ‘Small Bad Things’ which came third in @themothmagazine.bsky.social short story prize is published in @irishtimes.com today 🎉 There is a small paywall - (£1 for first month) 👇

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Aug 29

Small Bad Things by Shelley Hastings

The Moth Short Story Prize 2025 judge Evie Wyld awarded this third prize

www.irishtimes.com

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · Aug 25

If anyone is interested in some of the books that helped inform GREYHOUND, here is a short list. As summer comes to an end, there is still time for one more road trip, even if it's a literary one...
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/08/joan...

Joanna Pocock’s GREYHOUND reading list | Fitzcarraldo Editions

A list of works that inspired the writing of Joanna Pocock’s latest book, Greyhound. Combining memoir, reportage, environmental writing and literary criticism, Greyhound is a moving and immersive book...

fitzcarraldoeditions.com

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Dan Bradley @danielgbradley.bsky.social · Aug 24

Still a week left if you want to support this vital Bristol indie 👇

Donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

@bookhaus.bsky.social

bookhaus - Bristol's radical home

I have managed bookhaus since the beginning. The owners have decided to retire, and I am raising the funds to buy it and carry on our legacy

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Ben Pester @benpester.bsky.social · Aug 21

Dream dream dream
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social @jasonarthur.bsky.social

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · Aug 20

What is it that most says 'Autumn's on its way' to you? A chill in the air? Birds gathering on telephone wires to fly south? School uniforms in shop window displays?

Or me putting a call out for contributors to A Personal Anthology when it returns in September?

Love short stories? Prove it!

About - A Personal Anthology

A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

apersonalanthology.substack.com

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JL Bogenschneider @bourgnetstogner.bsky.social · Aug 3

Spent Sunday afternoon in the company of the final issue of Lunate, which features my own contribution 'Alice Truly - A Life In Fiction.'

It's been a joy and a privilege to be part of it all. Thanks to Claire, Han & Gary.

Vol. 6 and more available at lunate.co.uk/shop

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · Aug 14

My story ‘Taints’ published last year in @bansheepress.bsky.social is now available to read online. bansheepress.org/read/taints-...

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'Taints' by David Hayden
Night is one star exchanged for many stars.
There is no escaping the motion of our home towards imperfect darkness. I hid in a storm drain in the park until closing time, escaping from what I might find of myself in the sight

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David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is going to be quite the event!

Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ben Pester’s THE EXPANSION PROJECT and the paperback of Sam Mills’ THE WATERMARK are released by @grantabooks.bsky.social today and we’re thrilled to be welcoming both Ben and Sam Stockport on Monday 6th October when they’ll be discussing their books with Valerie O’Riordan and Nell Osborne.

🎫👇🏻

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Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social · Aug 13

If you have an unpublished novel in a computer file somewhere, this one's for you.

My Failed, Unpublished Novel

On so-called "failures" and the "shoulds" of writing

laceyndunham.substack.com

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · Aug 13

it's been forever since my book came out (nearly a year?!). if anyone wants to buy a story collection that i think is apt in these weird, hard times, here it is!

Sad Grownups

Check out Sad Grownups - For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. Winne...

bookshop.org

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Shelley Hastings @shelleyhastings.bsky.social · Aug 12

Totally delighted to be shortlisted for this - and to also win the @saloneurope.bsky.social prize - I cannot wait to take part in the salon next year in Madrid 😍 you can pre order the book and order the anthology of all the brilliant stories now 👇👇

Desperate Literature @desperatelit.bsky.social · Aug 12

THE 2025 SHORTLIST:

"Generous, soulful distillations. A tasting flight of prosaic kerosene. Each story ignited a flare in a forsaken corner of my mind. I can’t wait to experience more from these voices."
—Henry Hoke, judge

Get the pdf or pre-order the book: desperateliterature.com/product/elev...

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

'Winter Sutra', one of two poems by John Burnside in our August / September 2025 issue. @jonathancape.bsky.social

Order a copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

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Ben Pester @benpester.bsky.social · Aug 10

Outlandish in the Observer today

Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · Aug 10

‘Surreal & unsettling…With a steely commitment to its outlandish form & plot, @benpester.bsky.social’s novel is as nebulous, mind-bending & delightfully strange as the workplace it describes.’

The Expansion Project

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Ben Pester’s dark satire on the world of work | The Observer

In his surreal and unsettling debut novel The Expansion Project, Pester makes a dystopia of the modern office

observer.co.uk

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Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social · Aug 5

My novel is comped to Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Donna Tartt in this ⭐ STARRED REVIEW ⭐ at Library Journal!!! 🤩

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · Aug 6

'Traversing urban metropolises and desert vistas, GREYHOUND is an erudite study of how living among others became a dying art.' Ellen Peirson-Hagger reviews GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock for @theobserveruk.bsky.social: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

A window on to American decline | The Observer

Joanna Pocock’s account of two Greyhound bus journeys, 17 years apart, charts the US’s fracturing society and depleted landscape

observer.co.uk

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · Aug 5

“I want to tell you a few stories: stories from an old town far up north, far up east, a town by the sea.”
@deepbaltic.bsky.social published excerpts from my translation of “Death in Reval” (Der Tod von Reval, 1939) by Baltic German Werner Bergengruen (1892-1964). deepbaltic.com/2025/08/05/d...

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