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Stu Hennigan

@stuhennigan.bsky.social

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Writer, poet, editor, musician. Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022) Keshed (Ortac Press, 12.02.26) Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027) #MDANT https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan https://stuhennigan.substack.com/

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Aug 4

A pinned thread about my new novel, Keshed, publishing on 12th Feb 2026 with @ortacpress.bsky.social. Pre-orders available now from all the usual bookshops/websites. See thread for some early pre-press takes from some AMAZING writers and links to other stuff.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2h

Speaking of joyous, if you can spare two and a half minutes, this is joy of the purest grade, the last 60 secs particularly. I defy anyone to watch it and not smile.

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2000 Light Years Away

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks bro. It's nearly 4.30 a.m
so technically it was yesterday but i can't seem to stop eating flapjack and drinking black tea with honey and watching Spongebob. Full of chilli infested pizza too. It's been a proper chilled day 👌🙏

How's you keeping? Always nice to see you pop up on my TL 💯💯💯💯

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2h

Tbf i was 6 foot tall and weighed about 8 stone, and my head got shaved to the wood at a party, peak Trainspotting era and everyone called me Rentom the whole summer 🤣 so i can kinda see where those kind-hearted folk were coming from 🖤🤪

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

The follies of youth, our kid. Mu mate even nicked a traffic cone but when he tried to wear it a massive spider fell out of it onto his head. Scenes. I was also mistaken for homeless while semi-comatose outside Maccy's waiting for my mates and people kept offerimh to buy me cups of tea 😳

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

Ah cool, i'm glad that place is still around. Lizzy was great, what a fucking writer. Have you got a link to any of yours? I'll have a read when i get chance.

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

My man 🙏🖤🤜

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

Awesome 👌🙏

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

Cheers! It's 330 a.m so technically it was yesterday but i'm gonna watch a couple more SpongeBobs before bed 🤣

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

Cheers! It's 330 a.m so technically it was yesterday but i'm gonna watch a couple more SpongeBobs before bed 🤣

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 3h

#BirthdaySelfie. Behold the ravages of time! Looks like all them years fighting the rock n roll wars might have taken their toll after all but fuck it, cos against every conceivable odd and despite all my best/worst efforts, i'm still here, on me feet and swinging, and on we go again🤣✊️🤘

Colour photo of a very stoned 45 year old man with dyed purple hair, wearing black jeans and a red t-shirt slightly visible beneath a massive sage green Cobain style cardy. Overall look of tragic-middle-aged-grungeboi disaster offset by his guitar, an alpine white Les Paul Custom of the James Dean Bradfield variety, an axe of class and beauty with an iconic aesthetic of such force that even Stu can't make it look scruffy.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 4h

Proper.

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 4h

In whatever media, at this level of the game are struggling big time for all the same reasons, and i see a success for one of us as being a success for us all. And it's WAY more fun shouting about work you love by others than the distasteful shithouse business of promoting your own 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 4h

Proper old-school, that's how i try to do it in my corner of the lit world ✊️🙏 my entire publishing life started on Twitter w/me getting to know writers and small pubs thru the fact i was constantly championing their work. I'm almost comically naive by today's cynical standards, but all artists,

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 4h

All of you putting your principles into practice and fighting the good fight together. Love to see it.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 5h

Ah cool, i thought you might be but always pays to check 🙏🖤

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 5h

Sounds fab, i hope you have a blast 🙏🖤 If i asked for a video those that don't know me would probs raise an eyebrow so i won't; but you can tell me about it after 😘🤣

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 8h

I've posted it, i get tons of messages from people saying it reminded them of certain events in their lives and stuff and i love that, devastating as it all is.

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 8h

Heartbreaking magic that i can bring her to life in that way and use her character, if you like, in work that really hits. I didn't post last night cos everyone's probs sick of the sight of it, but when it first came out, and when it was published online, and almost every time since

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 8h

Story about the night her and Ste met. I wasn't there but i'd heard it a million times and it was funny so i gave them it as a Xmas gift and she had it stuck to the fridge for YEARS 🙏

I've another piece about her brewing as well. Kills me she'll never read em but it's a special kind of

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 8h

I remember for sure, hehe, i wouldn't have gone to the bother of typing if not! Perfect illustration of what i was trying to say. Even more special to me for being the first fiction i had published in physical print and no one supported my writing more than Em.

When we'd made friends, i wrote a

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks hombre🙏

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 8h

@florgoth.bsky.social @doomdisco.bsky.social @iheartnoise.bsky.social @etherdiver.bsky.social are Bluesky superheroes and have built a proper community for sharing music made by people on here, give em all a follow, you'll feel right at home 👌

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 8h

#SpreadTheLove 🙏🖤

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