JL Bogenschneider
@bourgnetstogner.bsky.social
Shy retirer. Short fiction. Content repeater
Recent work in Helter Skelter, Ragaire, The Stinging Fly and The Pig's Back
Shortlisted for some stuff. Blacklisted for others
Recent work in Helter Skelter, Ragaire, The Stinging Fly and The Pig's Back
Shortlisted for some stuff. Blacklisted for others
Pinned
Received my contributor copies of The Curae II, collecting the shortlisted and prize-winning entries for this year’s Curae Prize, for writers who are also carers.
Many thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social for establishing the prize and @renardpress.com for publishing the anthology...
Many thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social for establishing the prize and @renardpress.com for publishing the anthology...
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If all you want for Christmas is new short stories from @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social Mark Haddon and (ahem) me
Then check out The Essay on Radio 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week
Three stories of winter journeys inspired by Schubert's Winterreisen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Then check out The Essay on Radio 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week
Three stories of winter journeys inspired by Schubert's Winterreisen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Winterreisen, Winter Machine by Jo Lloyd
A new short story by Jo Lloyd about a winter journey at Christmas, inspired by Schubert.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If all you want for Christmas is new short stories from @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social Mark Haddon and (ahem) me
Then check out The Essay on Radio 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week
Three stories of winter journeys inspired by Schubert's Winterreisen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Then check out The Essay on Radio 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week
Three stories of winter journeys inspired by Schubert's Winterreisen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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December 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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US galleys for xmas x
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
US galleys for xmas x
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Turns out a combination of not using That Other Site and the economic landscape at the moment in general does, in fact, makes fulfilling the whole "starving artist" stereotype a whole lot more achievable 😅
First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Turns out a combination of not using That Other Site and the economic landscape at the moment in general does, in fact, makes fulfilling the whole "starving artist" stereotype a whole lot more achievable 😅
Received my contributor copies of The Curae II, collecting the shortlisted and prize-winning entries for this year’s Curae Prize, for writers who are also carers.
Many thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social for establishing the prize and @renardpress.com for publishing the anthology...
Many thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social for establishing the prize and @renardpress.com for publishing the anthology...
December 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Received my contributor copies of The Curae II, collecting the shortlisted and prize-winning entries for this year’s Curae Prize, for writers who are also carers.
Many thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social for establishing the prize and @renardpress.com for publishing the anthology...
Many thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social for establishing the prize and @renardpress.com for publishing the anthology...
End-of-year bump for my story 'My Secession', originally included in the February print edition of The London Magazine:
thelondonmagazine.org/article/fiction-my-secession-by-jl-bogenschneider
thelondonmagazine.org/article/fiction-my-secession-by-jl-bogenschneider
Fiction | My Secession by JL Bogenschneider - The London Magazine
'The ways in which the individuals in a family unit relate to one another are shadowy and unclear.' New short fiction by JL Bogenschneider.
thelondonmagazine.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
End-of-year bump for my story 'My Secession', originally included in the February print edition of The London Magazine:
thelondonmagazine.org/article/fiction-my-secession-by-jl-bogenschneider
thelondonmagazine.org/article/fiction-my-secession-by-jl-bogenschneider
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Announcing The Scratch Winter Sale!
For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off.
For all the readers and writers in your life!
www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop
For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off.
For all the readers and writers in your life!
www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Announcing The Scratch Winter Sale!
For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off.
For all the readers and writers in your life!
www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop
For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off.
For all the readers and writers in your life!
www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop
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Thought I might post some short stories for advent - but I may be overestimating my industry & your interest
Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce...
(Not an excerpt despite what the link says)
Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce...
(Not an excerpt despite what the link says)
Preview Excerpt – Zoetrope: All-Story
www.all-story.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Thought I might post some short stories for advent - but I may be overestimating my industry & your interest
Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce...
(Not an excerpt despite what the link says)
Still, here's day one at least - something quietly astonishing from the great David Means in Zoetrope www.all-story.com/preview-exce...
(Not an excerpt despite what the link says)
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A new Joy Williams story up at Lit Hub - lithub.com/the-fellow from her collection The Pelican Child - out now in US and early December in UK
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A new Joy Williams story up at Lit Hub - lithub.com/the-fellow from her collection The Pelican Child - out now in US and early December in UK
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Support indie bookshops !!!
Argonaut Books needs your help 📣
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
November 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Support indie bookshops !!!
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My Personal Anthology of short stories is now on the website, along with lots of other great Personal Anthologies 👇
I've updated the apersonalanthology.com website with @iancritchley.bsky.social's selection – his pick of and introduction to a dozen favourite short stories.
Check them out here, along with nearly 3,500 other short story recommendations!
Check them out here, along with nearly 3,500 other short story recommendations!
A Personal Anthology
Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories
apersonalanthology.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
My Personal Anthology of short stories is now on the website, along with lots of other great Personal Anthologies 👇
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And - on this day when probably no one but BBC Radio is broadcasting new literary fiction - here's some new Joe Dunthorne 👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The Accident Report Book - new fiction by Joe Dunthorne specially commissioned by @BBCRadio4 22.45 Mon-Fri. When Marian is tasked with reporting a bizarre workplace accident, she finds herself enjoying the act of writing. Read by Ell Potter & Clive Hayward www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Accident Report Book by Joe Dunthorne, Episode 1
Marian has to write up a bizarre workplace accident - original fiction by Joe Dunthorne
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
And - on this day when probably no one but BBC Radio is broadcasting new literary fiction - here's some new Joe Dunthorne 👇👇👇
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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I wrote about London, psychogeography and Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia for @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social October / November issue.
Read the first few pages below and then buy a copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Thanks @jamiepcameron.bsky.social for the great editorial work
Read the first few pages below and then buy a copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Thanks @jamiepcameron.bsky.social for the great editorial work
November 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I wrote about London, psychogeography and Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia for @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social October / November issue.
Read the first few pages below and then buy a copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Thanks @jamiepcameron.bsky.social for the great editorial work
Read the first few pages below and then buy a copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Thanks @jamiepcameron.bsky.social for the great editorial work
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This is tomorrow, I know it is staying in, eating soup, watching telly weather but do please come along, we promise to do our utmost to delight you & tickets are free, although you can also order a book with one included
Glasgow loves please join me & @benpester.bsky.social at Mount Florida Books on the 6th of November to talk about the marvel that is The Expansion Project.
Everyone* is saying it’s going to be the real fireworks night
*No one is saying that. But it will be good
mountfloridabooks.com/products/the...
Everyone* is saying it’s going to be the real fireworks night
*No one is saying that. But it will be good
mountfloridabooks.com/products/the...
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is tomorrow, I know it is staying in, eating soup, watching telly weather but do please come along, we promise to do our utmost to delight you & tickets are free, although you can also order a book with one included
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Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes
A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes
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A rather pathetic plea that I don't get paid to make these (No TV company has taken up any of these pitches) so every penny counts in helping me make more silly stuff through these terrible cozzie lives ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
A rather pathetic plea that I don't get paid to make these (No TV company has taken up any of these pitches) so every penny counts in helping me make more silly stuff through these terrible cozzie lives ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
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It's Wednesday afternoon, and so nearly the weekend... and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is June Caldwell, @junec.bsky.social, author of the collection Room Little Darker.
Hitting inboxes Friday. Sign up below!
Hitting inboxes Friday. Sign up below!
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...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's Wednesday afternoon, and so nearly the weekend... and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is June Caldwell, @junec.bsky.social, author of the collection Room Little Darker.
Hitting inboxes Friday. Sign up below!
Hitting inboxes Friday. Sign up below!
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The Letters Page is back!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Letters Page is back!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
The Letters Page is back and better than ever. We have some exciting things for you in the works, so keep an eye out and get ready!
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I’ll be on Front Row on Radio 4 this evening talking about all things uncanny and unsettling in literature. Tune in after 7 or catch up later on BBC sounds.
October 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I’ll be on Front Row on Radio 4 this evening talking about all things uncanny and unsettling in literature. Tune in after 7 or catch up later on BBC sounds.
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Had a truly life affirming, cathartic & beautiful time talking to John for this, one that made it clear he’d handle the experiences of all who spoke to him with empathy, wit & profound care.
It is a really special book by an extraordinary writer & human so preorder the net curtains out of it, please
It is a really special book by an extraordinary writer & human so preorder the net curtains out of it, please
Let's take a ride... My next book is coming out with @faberbooks.bsky.social. Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains will be published March 12 2026. Preorder links in profile, and lots more on the book and the remarkable stories people told me to come over the next few months...
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Had a truly life affirming, cathartic & beautiful time talking to John for this, one that made it clear he’d handle the experiences of all who spoke to him with empathy, wit & profound care.
It is a really special book by an extraordinary writer & human so preorder the net curtains out of it, please
It is a really special book by an extraordinary writer & human so preorder the net curtains out of it, please
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My huge face in the New Statesman today
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
@grantabooks.bsky.social @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
@grantabooks.bsky.social @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
Ben Pester Q&A: “Feeling weird is essential”
The 2025 Goldsmith Prize-shortlisted author on the pleasure of generational differences and the value of messy literature
www.newstatesman.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
My huge face in the New Statesman today
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
@grantabooks.bsky.social @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
@grantabooks.bsky.social @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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Lovely comments today from the very generous @polyscribe70.bsky.social - my book came out during lockdown when all the bookshops were closed - I can't tell you how nice it is to see readers picking it up now
Loved this quirky, engaging collection by @jolloyds.bsky.social. Vivid, relatable characters and original sentences on every page. Jo is very much her own writer, but if you enjoy the stories of, say, Penelope Fitzgerald or Carys Davies, I'm sure you'll enjoy these.
October 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Lovely comments today from the very generous @polyscribe70.bsky.social - my book came out during lockdown when all the bookshops were closed - I can't tell you how nice it is to see readers picking it up now
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Issue Seven of The Pig's Back is now available for pre-order. Featuring new writing from Sophie Corser, Wendy Erskine, Rosa Mäkelä, Dara McWade, Laura Morris, Nicole Morris and Odrán Waldron.
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Issue Seven of The Pig's Back is now available for pre-order. Featuring new writing from Sophie Corser, Wendy Erskine, Rosa Mäkelä, Dara McWade, Laura Morris, Nicole Morris and Odrán Waldron.
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🎺Issue 10 Cover Reveal🎺
Our beautiful Issue 10 Cover Art is 'Inappropriate' by photographer Debbie Castro.
Cover design by Sarah McCoy.
The issue features Wendy Erskine, Jon Fosse, Kim Keum Hee, and many others, and can be pre-ordered here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...
Our beautiful Issue 10 Cover Art is 'Inappropriate' by photographer Debbie Castro.
Cover design by Sarah McCoy.
The issue features Wendy Erskine, Jon Fosse, Kim Keum Hee, and many others, and can be pre-ordered here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...
October 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🎺Issue 10 Cover Reveal🎺
Our beautiful Issue 10 Cover Art is 'Inappropriate' by photographer Debbie Castro.
Cover design by Sarah McCoy.
The issue features Wendy Erskine, Jon Fosse, Kim Keum Hee, and many others, and can be pre-ordered here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...
Our beautiful Issue 10 Cover Art is 'Inappropriate' by photographer Debbie Castro.
Cover design by Sarah McCoy.
The issue features Wendy Erskine, Jon Fosse, Kim Keum Hee, and many others, and can be pre-ordered here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...