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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Jul 31

RofC co-opting WG again. The Rofc partnered up, rebranded, and submissions are now open. Go here: www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize-submis...

@galleybeggars.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @charcopress.com

Prize submission guidelines — Republic of Consciousness

www.republicofconsciousness.com

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Mar 10

Please join us in Deptford on Thursday for readings of this years Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses.

Support literary events outside city centres. @bullaunpress.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @dividedpublishing

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Mar 6

Haven't had access to Blue Sky for 3 days so here's our first shout out to @saraiddesilva.bsky.social for the @womensprize.bsky.social long listing of AMMA. Congratulations. We're thrilled.

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Mar 6

I haven't counted exactly but in excess of 150.

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Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social · Mar 4

A fabulously varied longlist for the 2025 @womensprize.bsky.social for fiction, inc Amma by Saraid de Silva, Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches & Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (longlisted for the RoC Prize). A good day for small presses! @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social @hollandhousebooks.bsky.social

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Jellybooks Ltd @jellybooks.bsky.social · Mar 4

'Amma' by Saraid de Silva

Three generations, Three continents, Three sexualities

published by @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social and longlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social for fiction! #womensfiction

📖 sample to peek inside and share
www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Sample of "Amma" by Saraid de Silva

Peek inside this book and discover another great read.

www.jellybooks.com

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Alex @alexthebookish.bsky.social · Mar 5

Today's book post 😍📖 @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social #womensprize

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Feb 26

Congratulations to @glenjamesbrown.bsky.social for

“Set in the fifth century and narrated by an irrepressible bard called Mother Naked, this novel is bawdy, funny and tragic. The voice of Mother Naked is entirely authentic. Both an entertaining read and a serious work of historical fiction.”

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Feb 26

Congratulations to @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social for

“Celina is a quiet book, written with great integrity. It tells the story of a young woman, born into poverty, who works as a maid in the household of Victor Hugo. In restrained and unsentimental prose it illuminates lives forgotten by history.”

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Feb 26

Congratulations to @dividedpublishing for

“An urgent, bleakly funny, fragmentary account of displacement, queer desire, and finding a place in the world. Using a collage technique, Bakhti has produced an outstanding novel about identity and endurance.”

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Feb 26

Congratulations to @cbeditions.bsky.social for

“Offbeat, elegantly written tale about two authors marooned an exchange programme in an unnamed totalitarian country. The narrative voice is great company, by turns droll, plaintive and ruminative.Surprisingly compulsive for a largely plotless novel.”

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Feb 26

Congratulations for @bullaunpress.bsky.social for their shortlisting for:

“A rollicking, sardonic picaresque set on the French outpost of La Réunion in the. 1980s. The novel has important things to say about colonialism and society, but it’s also tremendous fun — darkly funny, acerbic, energetic.”

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Feb 26

Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2025 taking over Weatherglass Books once more. Announcing the Short List here:

therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com/p/short-list...

RofC Prize for Small Presses, Short List 2025

A great short-list highlighting the extraordinary work of small presses in the UK and Ireland

therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com

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Sukhy @mrscookesbooks 📚🌿 @mrscookesbooks.bsky.social · Feb 18

Thank you @publicistkelly.bsky.social @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social for sending the intriguing sounding #WeHexedTheMoon by #MollyHallSeeley ♥️

Billed as ‘Pitch Perfect meets The Craft’ 👏🏽

Coming April 🙌🏽

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Feb 6

Thank you, Ruby. @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Feb 6

Thank you, Dave @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Jan 30

I'm going to, but we're changing the name in two months, so want to do it then. Hope all is good.

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Jan 30

For one day only The Republic of Consciousness is taking over Weatherglass Books to announce 2025 Long List. Take a look here:

therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com/p/announcing...

Announcing the 2025 Long list for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses

I cannot believe we've made it to Year 9.

therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · Jan 24

New book in from @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social! Deborah Tompkins’ Aerth is their second book chosen by Ali Smith for their novella prize.

Photo of the cover of the book Aerth by Deborah Tompkins. It’s a collage of photos of the earth and old color photos of gardens and maybe dusty mountains. Something is on fire. It gives the impression of the earth’s future.

Photo of the back of the book, which says:

JOINT WINNER OF THE 2024
WEATHERGLASS NOVELLA PRIZE
chosen by All Smith
"What planet are we on? Can we leave?
Does it mean we can never go home again if we do? What does a phrase like worlds apart really mean? Deep-forged, witty and resonant, this dimensionally stunning novella deals with dystopia and hope in a way that reveals them as profoundly related.
A work of real energy and narrative grip, brilliantly earthy and airy at once, it blasts open a reader's past/future consciousness and taps into literary antecedents as disparate as Hardy and Atwood. Funny, terrifying, humane, this is a thrilling journey in a story the size of a planet - no, the size of several, all of them altogether strange and uncannily familiar."
Ali Smith

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Jan 24

Yes, out tomorrow.

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Jan 24

Hello.

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Truda Spruyt @trudaspruyt.bsky.social · Jan 16

Wonderful to see Weatherglass Novella Prize winner Aerth getting such rave reviews. Congrats @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social

Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Jan 12

Rave review of our latest book from Telegraph. Thank you! @lukekennard.bsky.social @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social

www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...

A stunning vision of life on a parallel Earth (or two)

In Deborah Tomkins’s Aerth, a smart blend of sci-fi thriller and speculative parable, an Aerthling travels to Urth – with disastrous results

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Jan 15

I was going to post something about watching the show every night after the 6pm news hour. That whole time was one of the best times of my life.

www.theguardian.com/culture/gall...

Tony Slattery – a life in pictures

The comedian Tony Slattery has died aged 65 after a heart attack. Here are his most memorable moments, from Whose Line Is It Anyway? to playing Marlene Dietrich

www.theguardian.com

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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · Jan 14

Another great review of Aerth by @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social This time @guardianbooks.bsky.social Thank you.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

Aerth by Deborah Tomkins; Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix; Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao; The Garden by Nick Newman

www.theguardian.com

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