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Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social · 21h

Having followed Richard’s brilliant PINS newsletter, this should be great, and may have found the perfect medium in Radio!

Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to announce that a radio adaptation of my project, PINS, (taken from my late dad’s never finished game) airs tomorrow. Episode 1: Weds 8th October. 20.00 CEST. God help you all.

radio.worm.org

A colour photograph of Accrington, taken from a train. Advertising PINS, a radio broadcast at Radio WORM in Rotterdam, episodes every month.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 2d

New thing here collating all the blurbs for the book, pre-order etc.

stuhennigan.substack.com/p/blatant-se...

Blatant self-promotion alert!

Oh please fuck off with that.......

stuhennigan.substack.com

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 2d

(And it’s TELLS ME, that typo’s bugging me and here’s the link) www.ortacpress.com/product-page...

Flower Factory | Ortac Press

Flower Factory: A Fairy TaleBy Richard Foster Freedom of Movement wasn’t always an alien concept to the British. Flower Factory tells of an English seasonal worker going to live and work in the Nethe...

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 3d

My publisher, the mighty @ortacpress.bsky.social tell me that the royalty advance on my first book Flower Factory is paid off. Now I can earn hard coin/good screw on it. Learn about the odd combo of raving and tulips in NL, anno 2000. Print, online, please consider buying one? Thank you, Richard xx

A copy of Flower Factory by Richard Foster, held in front of book shelves.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 5d

Keshed finally available for preorder via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social if anyone's after a copy. Out 12th Feb. Can't see any endorsements on here but there are tons in my pinned post and loads more on my tl from folk like Robin Ince, Mark Bowles, Wendy Erskine etc 🖤🙏

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/kesh...

Keshed

Check out Keshed - In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him...

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 5d

Preordering now and highly recommended.

Stu’s writing is incandescent, a word I’d rarely use for many other living writers I’ve read.

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 5d

Keshed finally available for preorder via @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social if anyone's after a copy. Out 12th Feb. Can't see any endorsements on here but there are tons in my pinned post and loads more on my tl from folk like Robin Ince, Mark Bowles, Wendy Erskine etc 🖤🙏

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/kesh...

Keshed

Check out Keshed - In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him...

uk.bookshop.org

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Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social · 6d

Today we publish Detour by Abele Navin.

Co-published with Pendle Press, this beautiful Tokyo-set photobook is a powerful exploration of bipolar disorder through images and prose.

You can order a copy of the book at a discounted price from our website.

www.ortacpress.com/product-page...

Detour | Ortac Press

Detour: Photography as Antidepressant Therapyby Abele Navin PUBLISHED 02/10/25 Coming soon from Pendle Press & Ortac Press—a collaborative publication between two small indie publishers. 'I couldn...

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 9d

Calling Bristol Heads! This will be a fantastic night with the best people!

Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social · 22d

Bristol! Join @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social and Joshua Jones for some Punk Rock Birdwatching at the brilliant East Bristol Books on Friday 10th October.

More details here! Spread the word, this will be fun.

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

Richard Foster: *Punk Rock Birdwatching Club* at East Bristol Books

A discussion and reading with artist and writer Richard Foster on his latest collection *The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club* (Ortac Press, 2025), in conversation with author Joshua Jones (*Local Fires*)....

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Robert @robertd1.bsky.social · 10d

The photo you see below was taken by the marvellous Travis Elborough in Bunhill Fields after Sinclair had walked us there. He had just climbed on top of the grave marking of John Bunyan seconds earlier. Sinclair is the real deal.

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 10d

Great interview with Iain Sinclair on the 50th anniversary of Lud Heat (speaking of Sinclair, I thought Pariah Genius, his recent book exploring the life and death of seedy photographer John Deakin, was his best work in ages)

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A London Dreaming: Iain Sinclair’s Lud Heat At 50 | The Quietus

On the fiftieth anniversary of his seminal 'book of the dead hamlets', author Iain Sinclair talks to Robert Davidson about London in the 70s, Hawksmoor churches and Arthur Machen

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 14d

Hennigan’s language is explosive, Baroque, think Henry Millar meets Jim Cartwright and Violette Leduc with the intelligence of Mark Fisher orchestrating the tune.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 14d

Keshed is a wild, lyrical, journey through the labyrinth of Northern English working-class culture. A story of escape and belonging, hope and loss, this is a beautiful, blazing debut, burning from first page right to last.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 14d

Another endorsement for Keshed, in two parts below, from the inordiantely talented @susannacrossman.bsky.social. Ngl these are knocking me over, and so many of them too 😱

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 14d

Keshed is a wild, lyrical, journey through the labyrinth of Northern English working-class culture. A story of escape and belonging, hope and loss, this is a beautiful, blazing debut, burning from first page right to last.

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Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social · 15d

We published @lukeathompson.bsky.social's Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum just over a year ago.

It's a fascinating and surreal journey through our attempts - real and imagined - at conversation with other species.

Order a copy from your bookshop of choice, or from our website:

tinyurl.com/4xyf24ck

Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animals | Ortac Press

Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animalsby Luke Thompson PUBLISHED 05/09/24 What do the longest-serving Canadian Prime Minister and a ketamine-injecting psychonaut have in common? ...

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Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social · 22d

Bristol! Join @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social and Joshua Jones for some Punk Rock Birdwatching at the brilliant East Bristol Books on Friday 10th October.

More details here! Spread the word, this will be fun.

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

Richard Foster: *Punk Rock Birdwatching Club* at East Bristol Books

A discussion and reading with artist and writer Richard Foster on his latest collection *The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club* (Ortac Press, 2025), in conversation with author Joshua Jones (*Local Fires*)....

www.headfirstbristol.co.uk

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 26d

ICYMI. Tix available now for the first Manc area Keshed gig @serenitybookshop.bsky.social, with thanks to David for this ringing endorsement.

David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social · 27d

Lucky enough to have read an early copy of Stu’s Keshed and it’s stunning - a brilliant and brutal beast of a book that will be one of THE novels of 2026 for those who know their stuff. Stu and Terri are a match made in heaven and I cannot wait for this event!

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 27d

In news unrelated to shit mental health, tech hassles or grindcore......Tix now available for the @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Keshed gig in Feb, hosted by the force of nature that is Terri White. Get em while you can 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...

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David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social · 27d

Lucky enough to have read an early copy of Stu’s Keshed and it’s stunning - a brilliant and brutal beast of a book that will be one of THE novels of 2026 for those who know their stuff. Stu and Terri are a match made in heaven and I cannot wait for this event!

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 27d

In news unrelated to shit mental health, tech hassles or grindcore......Tix now available for the @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Keshed gig in Feb, hosted by the force of nature that is Terri White. Get em while you can 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 27d

In news unrelated to shit mental health, tech hassles or grindcore......Tix now available for the @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Keshed gig in Feb, hosted by the force of nature that is Terri White. Get em while you can 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social · 29d

Internals from Detour, a photobook we publish next month in partnership with Pendle Press.

Combining striking photography and stark memoir, Detour documents Tokyo architect Abele's experience with Bipolar disorder.

A meditation on the power of creativity in managing mental health.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Done 12 hours on this today and finally, FINALLY feel like i'm actually WRITING the fucker. What a buzz. Gonna be a long old haul but with Keshed out next year this won't drop till mid-2027 i don't reckon so i got all the time in the world. The blag is truly afoot.

@ortacpress.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Sep 8

From first inception i'm 22 months into this project and finally, here i am, standing at the bottom of the mountain, ready to go. Game on 💥💪

Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Collated my notes into four main master docs now to systematically sculpt and stick together later on. You wanna flavour of what i'm up against, the first doc alone, analysing LTZ, ROA and The Informers, currently has more words than Keshed, which is 400 pages long 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · Aug 27

BEYOND delighted to announce that @weare1of100.bsky.social is making a Punk Rock Birdwatching Club teeshirt! You can successfully hide in scrub near a cycle path and not look dodgy! In fact, you’re better dressed than Beau Brummell with this on, phwoar! Details soon, add this in your spotter book.

The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club teeshirt, in grey with white lettering and olive, tan & scarlet design. Made by We Are 1 of 100, Glasgow.

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Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social · Aug 19

Join @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social at @krankenhausfest.bsky.social this BH Sunday! Richard is part of an excellent lineup.

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · Aug 19

Heads up to anyone in Rotterdam tonight. I’m going to be reading from my first book, Flower Factory, at WORM tonight. 19.30 in the foyer, free.

worm.org/production/b...

Book Bar: Richard Foster – Flower Factory - Worm - A Rotterdam based organisation working at the intersection of culture and arts.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Aug 3

And another here that the UK print media wouldn't touch with a bargepole but was good enough to get a personal rejection from the literary editor of the New Yorker. Thankfully 3 A:M supremo @andrewgallix.bsky.social doesn't flinch at the tough stuff.

www.3ammagazine.com/3am/shit-lif...

Shit Life Syndrome – 3:AM Magazine

They didn’t share ice creams, hold hands in the street or lounge on the swings at the park strewn with dog turds like landmines. They didn’t play mummies and daddies, tig or tag, or join the kissing g...

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Aug 3

For a flavour of ny fiction, here's a tiny Christmas ghost story, first published in 2022 in a micropress anthology by Massive Overheads, republishwled online at the legendary 3:AM magazine.

www.3ammagazine.com/3am/last-cal...

Last Call – 3:AM Magazine

So that’s it for another year. The months of Capitalist foreplay, the gluttonous slew of foodporn ads, the same golden turkeys being sliced over and over as if they haven’t already suffered enough, th...

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Aug 3

There's also a BIG list of books here that are linked to the text in one way or another if anyone's interested in trying to figure out what kind of book could possiblty be the bastard offspring of this lot 🤣

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How To Get Keshed and Influence People

A list of titles related to Keshed. Some are works by my literary influences; some are by writers who other people have said Keshed reminds them of; and some are linked in other ways. To keep it inter...

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