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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 18h

I know I've said it before but I definitely need a longer fence 😲
It's getting to peak garden #Chough numbers now and it's only early October.
I'm guessing the daily count might top 70 this Winter.
Photos taken with my phone about 2 foot from the fence line.
#Anglesey
#WildWebsWednesday

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David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social · 1d

"You know happy-sad songs? Songs that sound happy but, if you pay attention to the lyrics at all, will completely devastate you?"

@kristinaten.bsky.social shared a playlist for her story collection Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/07/k...

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 1d

London! 🇬🇧 This is happening THURSDAY at @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social! The UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life! This Thus (Oct 9) I’ll be reading and talking with author Curtis Garner at 7 PM. If you’re in London, I would love to see you! ❤️ @alifeinbooks.bsky.social

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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. I wrote about wonder often in Beast. Here is a quote from page 2017

Screen shot from a page of my novel Beast:
Wonder is the flickering of an uncanny, lovely light, filling the dark corners curiosity cannot yet illuminate with understanding. It is no bad thing, wonder, no second rate superstition, best and soonest obliterated by the antiseptic swipe of science and
fact. It is a blessing. This much I know.
What some have chosen to make with it, that may be quite
a different matter.

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 1d

Reading between the lines, they don't have enough good stuff yet - so a good opportunity if you've got a masterpiece almost ready - reasonably generous word limit and some cracking judges (although the way this is laid out makes it look like they're awarding 1st 2nd and 3rd prizes to the judges 🙂 )

The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 8d

We have extended the deadline for our Short Story Prize by two weeks to give any last minute writers a chance to submit.

Entries close midnight on Sunday October 12th.

Further details and link to submit here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...

The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 - The London Magazine

The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. We are looking for unpublished short fiction, no longer than 4000 words.

thelondonmagazine.org

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 1d

From 'rotatory', 1993. 24 whole-page illustrations cut into equal parts and reassembled as new pictures. The collages all include one part from each in its original position.

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

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Lynda Clark @lyndac.bsky.social · 1d

We're seeking a prose writer to cover my colleague's research leave. Academia as a whole is a shit show but we're a friendly team in a lovely department and as a part-timer you'd still have writing time. Imagine that! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...

Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) at The University of Edinburgh

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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George Oliver Kowalik @kowalikgeorge.bsky.social · 2d

My book came out on Friday!

Hybrid Novels has chapters on Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith & David Foster Wallace, before turning to Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole & Tao Lin.

c20/c21 scholars/students… order in to your libraries!

www.routledge.com/Hybrid-Novel...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

random allusions to whales

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

Consider the subtleness of the sea

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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 3d

Monday #morningread
from a newly published cool book by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social:
The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands

From The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and Other Peatlands, ed. Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw.

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Jon Dunn @dunnjons.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not all been about orchids this past 24 hours in Madeira - @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social and I have been enjoying all the wildlife. Ferns, fungi, lichen, birds and, of course, butterflies. Yesterday we met some box-fresh Long-tailed Blue.

Long-tailed Blue (Lampides boeticus) © Jon Dunn

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 3d

"likable or at least relatable"

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 3d

Writing advice appropriate for about 1908?

Emma Devlin @theactualemma.bsky.social · 4d

The Horror Zine, infamously, doesn’t want to publish horror. What I’m absolutely fascinated by, though, is this writing advice.

“a chase scene might be desirable but not essential.”

Here are some general guidelines to writing short stories:

1) start with action
2) briefly familiarize the reader with your protagonist; make him/her likable or at least relatable
3) provide an obstacle for your protagonist
4) describe how your protagonist overcomes, or at least deals with, the obstacle
5) a chase scene might be desirable but not essential
6) give the reader hints as to the ending
7) provide a completely different ending than your hints

It is also important to balance the amount of dialogue to the amount of action. Too much dialogue and you are "telling" the story instead of "showing" the story.

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Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social · 4d

Blimey, some of these are stunning. Worth a look for anyone who enjoys such beautiful intersections between astronomy, history, and art

From the link shared in the quoted post:

Illustration from a 1587 treatise on comets and meteors, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and known as the Kometenbuch.

It's a beautifully colourful piece of early modern art showing a comet or meteor in the sky over a scene of trees, mountains, and a rowing boat on an estuary

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Myriam Frey @dustynewrose.bsky.social · 4d

My first collection of short stories is out this month (17 October) on @nightjarpress.bsky.social ! Very excited. And nervous. But mostly excited.

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 3d

Cover of The Cat Bride by Charlotte Tierney

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 4d

Today I am planning to celebrate winter squash by putting it into soup

The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 5d

Today is Tridi the 13th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate winter squash.#JacobinDay

More information on winter squash

An old time-y illustration of a Winter squash.

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Gwen E. Kirby @gwenekirby.bsky.social · 5d

Pull up a chair cuz it's chili night at The Los Angeles Review! Thanks so much for publishing my flash fiction! #flashfiction

Chili Night by Gwen E. Kirby - The Los Angeles Review

Her husband Kevin had made a pot of inedible chili and Megan was livid. She had told him not to deviate from the recipe she’d perfected: chili powder and chili flakes, diced bell peppers, ground beef seared in a hot pan, black beans made in the pressure cooker, not taken from a can. There was […]

losangelesreview.org

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T.C. Boyle @tcboyle.com · 5d

Are we in trouble yet?

MTK the Writist @mtksf.bsky.social · 7d

Meanwhile, @tcboyle.com the ongoing slaughter of the bull kelp by anemones off our coast - a direct result of warming oceans - tosses up casualties of war that sometimes look like bound souls. mtk

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 5d

This whole video is just glorious

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't read that one - but it's on the list now :)

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 5d

A shortlist to get excited about - isn't that what we want from a prize?

Huge congratulations @benpester.bsky.social @cdrose.bsky.social Sarah Hall Colwill Brown (who's had a very good week!) Yrsa Daley-Ward & Charlie Porter

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction

www.theguardian.com

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James Harding-Morris @bsbicountries.bsky.social · 7d

Two endemic Welsh whitebeams, both with Rowan ancestry.

Top is Ley's Whitebeam, Sorbus leyana, which has 9 remaining wild trees. Plant Atlas: share.google/INMlwgNZvgI7...

Bottom is Least Whitebeam, Sorbus minima, which has a wild population of over 700. Plant Atlas: share.google/E4VQ14l0PvKL...

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