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Nicholas Royle
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Writer. Latest: Shadow Lines (Salt). Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com

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Nicholas Royle is an English novelist, editor, publisher, literary reviewer and creative writing lecturer.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 12d
Tears flowing in Storm Claudia-tossed Manchester, not for @iancritchley.bsky.social’s choosing Colette de Curzon’s @nightjarpress.bsky.social story in his Personal Anthology hosted by @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, nor for his kind words about me & The Cast, but for *his* story about his twin brother.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 12d
I’m doing ‘cosy Friday’ at @notquitelight.bsky.social Creative Weekend, 21 Nov. Tkts still available notquitelight.com/nql-creative...
NQL CREATIVE WEEKEND NOVEMBER 2025 - notquitelight.com
WELCOME TO THE 2ND NQL CREATIVE WEEKEND EVENT! FRI 21st – SUN 23rd NOVEMBER 2025 NQL HQ ISLINGTON MILL JAMES STREET, SALFORD M3 5HW FRIDAY 21st  STORIES & MUSIC AN EVENING OF FINE FOOD, GOOD CONVERSAT...
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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 13d
I chatted to @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social about short stories www.spreaker.com/episode/like...
Like Old Photographs in Second-hand Books (With Nicholas Royle) - A Small, Good Thing
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A Small, Good Thing @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social · 13d
New Episode!
Listen to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social talk about his latest short story collection “Paris Fantastique” (@confingopublishing.bsky.social), his passion for second-hand books and much more!

Listen here: www.spreaker.com/episode/like...

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 16d
Sighting at Islington cafe of @serpents-tail.bsky.social edition of The Course of the Heart @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 19d
A word on your alphabetically ordered bookshelf: meticulous.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · 23d
It was twenty years ago today. I can’t remember how it happened.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 24
Yes although not on site. I’ll email you.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 23
☺️

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 23
‘That Nicholas Royle, what an idiot’?

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 22
Excellent, Seán. Do you know which story she was reading?

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · Oct 15
Edited by novelist and short story writer @nicholasroyle.bsky.social, Manchester-based @nightjarpress.bsky.social publishes limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors. Browse and buy their titles at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct
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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 11
I’ll introduce you.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 11
Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063
Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells - The Manchester Review
A timely reminder of the ability of the contemporary short form to move, shock and surprise its reader in a myriad of ways. Best British Short Stories 2025 | edited by Nicholas Royle | Salt Publishing...
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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 6
Amazing. Great work.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 5
Remarkable essay in the form of marker posts, a haunting record of a walk through landscape, encountering nature, human activity & industrial archeology & recording evidence of personal endurance & the menace of nationalism & reflecting grief for a lost friend.
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A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 4
I did like those early stories.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 2
More of their crap going in the recycling. Might as well get some good out of it.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Oct 1
Whenever I come across child-killers’ literature in book exchanges, I take it away – and recycle it.

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david-bevan.bsky.social @david-bevan.bsky.social · Sep 30
Very happy see my story ‘Helium’ in here alongside so many great stories and writers. Many thanks to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and @saltpublishing.com and @fictivedream.bsky.social

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Sep 30
A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 29
On a TGV, running a slight delay, which could affect my connection. SNCF have emailed me, saying they’ve booked me on the next one should that be the case. Just sitting here, watching the French countryside fly past, trying to imagine that happening in the UK.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 28
About time too @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 24
Please don’t worry. Now I know it’s large format I’m not so interested.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 23
Is it one of those weird large format things?

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 23
What the hell is that? I’ve never seen it. May we see the spine & back cover?

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 23
Love that about the buses.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 20
That book was a bestseller. A fact that makes it stand out rather on my CV.

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 19
😂

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Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social · Sep 18
Every morning, the dustbins would form a semi-circle under her apartment just off the Champs-Elysées & serenade her.

Did this image make it into Paris Fantastique? Oui ou non?

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