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Jim Gibson
@jimmmmmbo.bsky.social
Author of The Bygones (Tangerine Press)
Best British Short Stories 2023 (SALT)
Nightjar Press, The Quietus, 3am Magazine
Co-founder of Hand Job Zine and Hi Vis Press
Rural working class literature


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The Bygones - small stories out via Tangerine Press.
Say no more.
✌️
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Jim Gibson — The Bygones
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This review for The Bygones is just in from Instagram and really gets to the heart of the book, thanks to Daniel Sheen for the kind words ✌️
February 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This review for The Bygones is just in from Instagram and really gets to the heart of the book, thanks to Daniel Sheen for the kind words ✌️
February 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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BIG NEWS.

Absolutely delighted to announce that my debut novel, Keshed, is going to be publishing in the autumn with @ortacpress.bsky.social one of the freshest, most interesting and eclectic indies on the scene. What a delight to have two books on the way with such a great press 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Also today, and not entirely unrelated to previous tweets, anyone waiting on news of Keshed, my debut novel, keep em peeled cos had a seismic mtg on that front today 👀👀👀👀

@the-bookseller.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Here's a bit of a thread of some recent publications, forthcoming ones and events for anyone who's interested. All of them are well worth a look regardless of my work, fantastic creative spaces that it's been a pleasure to contribute to ✌️
January 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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When I was born, an appalling roar rumbled across the sky. Black clouds billowed and flashed with blue light as I emerged into the jarring horror of this reality. A wasp flew out from my mother’s cunt and stung the midwife on the nose. The poor midwife screamed, flung me across the room in shock...
January 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Jimbo is a proper treasure; such a fresh and distinctive voice.
Here's a bit of a thread of some recent publications, forthcoming ones and events for anyone who's interested. All of them are well worth a look regardless of my work, fantastic creative spaces that it's been a pleasure to contribute to ✌️
January 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Here's a bit of a thread of some recent publications, forthcoming ones and events for anyone who's interested. All of them are well worth a look regardless of my work, fantastic creative spaces that it's been a pleasure to contribute to ✌️
January 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Jim, I'm almost at the end of The Bygones and it's been a real treat. I read Little Robbie the other evening and it absolutely floored me. A great collection filled with some fabulous storytelling - well done.
January 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
You can pre-order Grass magazine now, a beautiful magazine of working class literature and art. My story 'Quad' is included which was long listed for the DesperateLit Lit prize last year and is it's first outing. Grab one while they're hot ✌️
grassmagazine.bigcartel.com/product/pre-...
(Pre-order) GRASS Magazine Issue 5 (Spring 2025)
GRASS Issue 5 will be published in February 2025. This issue features work by Am Ubhi, Elif Yilmazturk, Eva Dixon, Ezra Miles, Gavin Watson, Jim...
grassmagazine.bigcartel.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Can't wait to be part of the Working Class Stories event at Blackwells in Manchester with Neil and Wayne in March. If anyone's around, nip down for a chat ✌️
January 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
IN THE SCUMRAG WITH A POEM OR SUMAT. IT'S ABOUT DEPRESSION AND THAT I THINK, NOT SURE. I GET CONFUSED EASILY.
www.scumbagpress.co.uk/product/the-...
January 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I've got a poem in DeepSNAKES ai psychofauna odyssey if anyone fancies their minds melting ✌
youtu.be/r4K5jF7U41A?...
December 31, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Some hype coming in from the other place and one of me and the cru for the fanclub. More coming soon ✌
December 17, 2024 at 12:50 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a car (truck, motorcycle, tractor) on it
December 2, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Out here with the dog and Lankum and visiting places in my head for the new novel, revealing motives, actions and emotions before getting back home and to the page.
November 30, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Here's the first para of Just Dads and Chainsmoking from Spinners issue 7. It was a fun one to write, this one.
November 28, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Yes. Another fantastic (and I mean fantastic in the true sense) book by a great writer. This is a pukka book of stories. Jim is one me favourites. Doing something a bit different.
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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The Bygones - small stories out via Tangerine Press.
Say no more.
✌️
youtu.be/lHFJGfDSk34?...
Jim Gibson — The Bygones
YouTube video by The Tangerine Press
youtu.be
November 21, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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Thank you Jim,
for making the day
a lot less grim!
This Dean Wilson pairing is the 👌. The poems had me bobbing through like a pebble's journey to the shore. Very funny and a pleasure to read. Loved every second of it. @deanwilson.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 3:49 PM
The Longest Road I Know is a beautiful new zine by Craig Scott, a journey through the American deep south visiting backwater towns and taking an often poetic look at harsh past via slavery, deprivation & Faulkner.
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November 24, 2024 at 2:07 PM
This Dean Wilson pairing is the 👌. The poems had me bobbing through like a pebble's journey to the shore. Very funny and a pleasure to read. Loved every second of it. @deanwilson.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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A schizophrenic with insomnia, hallucinations, strange perception of altered state as default, paranoia, avolition, lack of motivation, etc. is outcast among others, and is like a supernatural creature. A spectral entity of diabolic, repulsive nature, who exists beyond the fringes of society.
November 23, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Thought for 2025: Writers and artists - if you're going to have a portrait done - go all in.

Here is the great László Krasznahorkai.
November 23, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Is it me or are all these starter packs starting to sound a bit far-fetched?
November 23, 2024 at 8:34 AM