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Keith Ridgway

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fiction writer / london / dublin forthcoming - Dooneen / new novel publishing in 2026, from New Directions, and Fitzcarraldo Editions previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc agented by @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social

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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 9d

Two New Videos from Batool Abu Akleen now on our Youtube channel.

At the age of 15, Batool won the Barjeel poetry prize. Her widely lauded debut poetry collection, 48kg, published by Tenement Press, was recently listed in the Guardian's Best Recent Poetry roundup.

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The Palestine Festival of Literature

The Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) is a cultural initiative committed to the creation of language and ideas for combating colonialism in the 21st century. The festival was created as an ...

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Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · 3h

Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · 7d

There are a few of these floating around out there. Please be careful.

Advance review copy of my novel Dooneen, out from Fitzcarraldo Editions next year.

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

Aren't they just??? Thanks Trish!

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you Karl!

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks Steve

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks David.

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks Ben - and congrats on the Expansion reviews. Hope you're enjoying it!

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks So!

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

I know, I'm sorry. Maybe treat yourself to some books?

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks Gabriel, I appreciate it. And congratulations to you on Poor Ghost, which I've heard such good things about, and I'm looking forward to reading.

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.

Fitzcarraldo Editions to publish Keith Ridgway's DOONEEN | Fitzcarraldo Editions

Fitzcarraldo Editions publisher Jacques Testard has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights excluding Canada, with exclusivity in Europe, to Keith Ridgway’s novel Dooneen from Laurence Laluyaux at RCW. Ridg...

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Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ok. Still don't really understand what it means. But presumably the process will not involve using ai to make calls about the ai-ness of texts, which would rather defeat the purpose. Interested to see how it develops.

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 6

This is very positive, very good to see. Congrats Sam! But I do have to ask - what is "technology-led text analysis"? Would human-led, technology-assisted text analysis not be better?

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Jul 31

Alice Zoo was part of Writing Fiction last year. Great to see that her story Little Venice is one of 12 shortlisted for the Brick Lane Bookshop Prize 2025. All the stories will be published together in October I believe.
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Alice is also a very fine photographer.

Alice Zoo Photography

Alice Zoo // Photographer based in London

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Jul 28

It's many years since I've read him. Of mostly historical sociological interest now I think, but sure aren't we all.

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Jul 26

You are loved 🏳️‍⚧️

Trans flags approaching Palace of Westminster as the Trans Pride march passes Downing Street on the way down Whitehall

Colourfully dressed people , one holding a sign saying WHY U SO OBSESSED WITH US?, seen from behind as Trans Pride march proceeds down Whitehall, tower of Westminster coming up.

Person seen from behind on Trans Pride march holding up a simple sign saying YOU ARE LOVED

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · Jul 16

Novelist, essayist, critic and recently departed literary icon Gary Indiana would have turned 75 today.

Gary Indiana

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · Jun 30

Please enjoy this picture of Wisława Szymborska pointing out the way to the Cliffs of Moher in 2008.

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Jun 20

And I met you.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · Jun 9

the time needed

Franz Kafka, 'The Next Village', tr Willa and Edwin Muir

The Next Village
My grandfather used to say: 'Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that - not to mention accidents - even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a
journey?'
Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · Jun 5

It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · May 23

It's no accident, Margaret.

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Mar 18

The pitch one I mean. Yours is nice

Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Mar 18

Really obnoxious account.