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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 20h

45 minutes between you admiring the concept and its arrival - that's some impressive short story carrier pigeon you've got there :)

(Will it work for me?)

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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 1d

'wily lyricism' where ' rhythm and cadence never falter'
Enjoyed this perceptive review of a worthwhile, hard-to-pin-down novella.

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 1d

"This epic sweep is a lot to ask a little novella to hold, but Rowe moves with wily lyricism and speed."

My review of Josephine Rowe's Little World is now up with Adroit

theadroitjournal.org/2025/10/08/a...

The cover of the US edition of Josephine Rowe's novella Little World is a line drawing of in gold foil on a parchment background, showing a church like space with a shining featureless head floating in the air.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 1d

Making a list of all the types of readers who enjoy my novels www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...

ghosts, boggles, Bloody Bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, spectres, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins,[4] pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds,[5] lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans,

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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 1d

a page of Krasznahorkai

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 1d

This story sounds right up my street :)

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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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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 1d

Based on the Wirral, @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is the imprint of queer poet and book artist Jeremy Dixon. Small runs often incorporate collage with the emphasis on handmade, happenstance, and recycling found text and images. We welcome him back to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall on 24/25 Oct

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely photo

Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like it might be better to have a bakery equidistant between the flat and the top of the Down :)

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 1d

ooh ooh ooh OOH!!!!!!!!

Mothy and the Squid @mothyandthesquid.bsky.social · 1d

A roundup of this week’s new colourways. Everything for @glasgowschoolofyarn is dyed and dried, awaiting twisting up, labelling and packing. You’ll love these colourways, the new Aran, and the next set of British Fungi designs I have for the show. #mothyandthesquid #yarn 🧶 mothyandthesquid.com

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote this quite a few years ago now. CW: what you'd expect. richarddsmyth.com/2020/11/03/o...

Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 2d

Today marks the start of Baby Loss Awareness Week.

This year, it comes as the UK is about to pass a law guaranteeing the right to bereavement leave for miscarriage, making us one of only 4 countries in the world to offer it.

My heart is with everyone who experiences the heartbreak of baby loss.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 2d

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate sunflowers.#JacobinDay

More information on sunflowers

An old time-y illustration of a Sunflowers.

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbreaking

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Longley, from 'Ghost Orchid'

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 2d

In Bristol for a reading with the mighty Joshua Jones at the marvelous East Bristol Books tomorrow, yes, Friday 10 October, doors 18.30. Come & say hello!

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

Today on BBC Radio4: 'Song of the Deer' reimagines the monumental C18th Gaelic poem, 'Moladh Beinn Dobhrain' - 'In Praise of Ben Dorain' - a celebrated Munro in the Scottish Highlands - featuring my husband Garry MacKenzie's translation! 🥳
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Multitrack, Song of the Deer

A mountain, a deer and a ghillie - a re-imagination of Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dobhrain.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 2d

Above "us", obvs - Above US would be a whole different story

Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a short story by László Krasznahorkai that you can read for free thanks to @yalereview.bsky.social - An Angel Passed Above US, translated by John Batki yalereview.org/article/kras...

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 2d

Did anyone manage to find the extract?

Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 2d

💋 BIG KISS, BYE-BYE by Claire-Louise Bennett published today 💋

‘Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent.’
— Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of THE WOLVES OF ETERNITY
💋
Read an extract and order a copy: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/big-ki...

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 3d

There is such poignancy in that single end-stopped line that opens the poem

'Just Once' by Anne Sexton

#poetry
#poemoftheday

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Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social · 3d

I'm starting a free online course for readers and learners in Balochistan to explore literature and translation across Urdu, Persian, and English.
Places limited to the first fifteen sign-ups.
Message me here or email at [email protected] to register

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote “Some Zombie Contingency Plans” on a plane on the way to a workshop. Got off the plane, looked up the nearest Kinko’s & printed it out.

Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 3d

We should all tell our stories like this...mine is "the time I totally forgot about an essay and cranked out a paper on Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus in two hours and ended up winning an award for it"

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 3d

I know I've said it before but I definitely need a longer fence 😲
It's getting to peak garden #Chough numbers now and it's only early October.
I'm guessing the daily count might top 70 this Winter.
Photos taken with my phone about 2 foot from the fence line.
#Anglesey
#WildWebsWednesday

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David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social · 4d

"You know happy-sad songs? Songs that sound happy but, if you pay attention to the lyrics at all, will completely devastate you?"

@kristinaten.bsky.social shared a playlist for her story collection Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/07/k...

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 4d

London! 🇬🇧 This is happening THURSDAY at @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social! The UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life! This Thus (Oct 9) I’ll be reading and talking with author Curtis Garner at 7 PM. If you’re in London, I would love to see you! ❤️ @alifeinbooks.bsky.social

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