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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · 22d

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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · 22d

Just reading your wonderful words on a train swaying towards the Fens and intermittently looking out to see fields and rivers and trees…

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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · 22d

Hi Des, great to hear from you. I haven’t been on here much lately. Thanks for the link. 😀

Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · Jul 3

I answered some great questions from Joe Bedford, who interviewed me for his 'Writers on Research' series:
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk

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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · Jul 3

I answered some great questions from Joe Bedford, who interviewed me for his 'Writers on Research' series:
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thanks to @jolloyds.bsky.social for recommending this.

Loved it like I love Kelly Link and Sarah Pinsker (perhaps also one for @giselleleeb.bsky.social )

Cover of Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart by Gennarose Nethercott

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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thanks, yes! Kelly Links is tops so sure I’ll enjoy it 😀

Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · Jun 19

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for coming

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Steve Rydz @handle.invalid · Jun 18

I had my final writing class led by @giselleleeb.bsky.social at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham last night, and I must say I learned so much and am excited to put it all into my writing going forward.

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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · Jun 7

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · Jun 5

New @interzone.press issue is out! Featuring work by @seanpadraic.bsky.social, @stevetoase.bsky.social, @giselleleeb.bsky.social, Nick Lowe, ‪@nmamatas.bsky.social,‬ and lots of other cool people, full list here: weightlessbooks.com/interzone-302/

Interzone #302

In this issue: stories by Seán Padraic Birnie, Rachael Cupp, Bogdan Domakha, Alexandra Grunberg, E F McAdam, Carlos Norcia, Yukimi Ogawa, Kate Orman, Tamsin Showbrook, R.L. Summerling, and Steve Toase...

weightlessbooks.com

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · Jun 5

Very happy to have my story “No Shelter Beneath the Searchlights” in the latest @interzone.press alongside with @rlsummerling.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social, Aliya Whiteley, @giselleleeb.bsky.social and so many other great writers.

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · May 31

Some excellently feral stories including @jeffreyford8.bsky.social @giselleleeb.bsky.social and @giantratsumatra.bsky.social

Thanks @jonathangibbs.bsky.social

If anyone has some animal stories they can recommend, I’m all ears - hidden and asymetrical ones like those of an owl

Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · May 30

And off it goes, Charlotte Tierney’s Personal Anthology, as aloof and detached as a sleep-walker, going faster than the snail, watching the livestream of the goldfinch, staying in the aquarium of the Jardin des Plantes for hours, bellowing for the dog, twisting and snorting...

An Animal Personal Anthology, by Charlotte Tierney

Animals might be considered, broadly, unsophisticated and unremarkable, while also being cosmically bananas, like the rest of the natural world.

apersonalanthology.substack.com

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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · Jun 5

#302 of the fab @interzone.press‬ avail. soon. I review 8 new intriguing & uncanny @nightjarpress.bsky.social stories by: @meganjstaylor.bsky.social, J G Lynas, imogenreid.bsky.social‬, @kirstennorrie.bsky.social, Philip Terry, @arthurmandal.bsky.social, @carolynstock.bsky.social, Alex Older

https://imogenreid.bsky.social‬

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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · May 31

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · May 30

And off it goes, Charlotte Tierney’s Personal Anthology, as aloof and detached as a sleep-walker, going faster than the snail, watching the livestream of the goldfinch, staying in the aquarium of the Jardin des Plantes for hours, bellowing for the dog, twisting and snorting...

An Animal Personal Anthology, by Charlotte Tierney

Animals might be considered, broadly, unsophisticated and unremarkable, while also being cosmically bananas, like the rest of the natural world.

apersonalanthology.substack.com

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The Fabulist Words & Art @fabulistmag.bsky.social · May 6

Our May submissions window for fantastical flash fiction is now open through 11:59 p.m., May 7.
Full guidelines and Submittable button here: fabulistmagazine.com/about/submis...

#opencall
#speculativefiction
#flashfiction

fabulistmagazine.com

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · Apr 29

Check out all of my events upcoming for 2025 - so far - with stacks of online writing courses, workshops and events forthcoming! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis... #writing #writers #writingcommunity #horror #courses #wriitngcourses #writingworkshops #writingclasses

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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thanks, Chuck :-)

Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · Apr 29

Last few places left on @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Short Story course. Starts Tue 6 May. I've listed my top 5 books on writing in the course details. What are yours?
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/writi...

Writing short stories, a six week course with Giselle Leeb – Five Leaves Bookshop

fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Apr 24

Take a photo she said, tote bags, lanyards, badges, tape, bookmarks. Put it on social media she said. What about the books? I thought, too late. Penguin Archive. There are also books.

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Apr 4

So... just about finished our events programme for May. Highlights include a couple of events by @robinince.bsky.social, our first writing course by @giselleleeb.bsky.social, a book launch with Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, a lecture on Cavafy by Gregory Woods... www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events

Events – Five Leaves Bookshop

www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Mar 21

River Trent here. We're taking orders for this edition (UK only) - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/is-a-river-alive/

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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social · Mar 24

We start our Irish book group tonight. Tomorrow our Pagan group. Wednesday our longest running, fiction, group.
Find us also with a stall @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social on Tuesday and with TM Logan at West Bridgford Library on Thursday. We try to keep busy...

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