Venetia Welby
@vvwelby.bsky.social
Novelist: DREAMTIME, MOTHER OF DARKNESS Escape artist | Shapeshifter | Cat demon www.venetiawelby.com
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Very happy to share Salt’s 2026 list — one of our most ambitious yet. New books from Michael Arditti, Louis de Bernières, Tibor Fischer, Michelle Lovric and Erica Wagner, plus striking debuts. Twenty-five books full of character. #SaltBooks #IndiePress #NewBooks2026
👉 www.saltpublishing.com
👉 www.saltpublishing.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Very happy to share Salt’s 2026 list — one of our most ambitious yet. New books from Michael Arditti, Louis de Bernières, Tibor Fischer, Michelle Lovric and Erica Wagner, plus striking debuts. Twenty-five books full of character. #SaltBooks #IndiePress #NewBooks2026
👉 www.saltpublishing.com
👉 www.saltpublishing.com
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The excellent Jonathan Crain interviewed me about my novel The Orange Notebooks (@pressassembly.bsky.social & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social). We talked about reclaiming the lost language of mourning, my hospital work, bees, the colour orange, lost libraries & more.
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Writing Against Silence: Susanna Crossman and the Radical Honesty of "The Orange Notebooks"
When Susanna Crossman speaks about her new novel The Orange Notebooks, she talks about process, practice, and experimentation—terms that suggest not a tidy narrative but a living, breathing act of cre...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The excellent Jonathan Crain interviewed me about my novel The Orange Notebooks (@pressassembly.bsky.social & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social). We talked about reclaiming the lost language of mourning, my hospital work, bees, the colour orange, lost libraries & more.
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‘Skin Job’ – a new story by Catherine Eisner in House Magazine.
Skin Job
by Catherine Eisner A Self-Narrative Assignment A high risk of re-offending,’ an incisive voice was heard to quote from my case file.The finality of these words was thought to prepare me for the inqui...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
‘Skin Job’ – a new story by Catherine Eisner in House Magazine.
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Help Salt take its publishing to the next level!
Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery
Help Salt Publish Brilliant New Books in 2026
For twenty-… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026
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October 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Help Salt take its publishing to the next level!
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New stories are waiting to be told, but we need your help to keep the pages turning. Every contribution counts! Share and support our mission to keep independent publishing alive. gofund.me/2b421813c
#BookIndustryNews #Writing #WritingCommunity
#BookIndustryNews #Writing #WritingCommunity
Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery
New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026
gofund.me
October 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
New stories are waiting to be told, but we need your help to keep the pages turning. Every contribution counts! Share and support our mission to keep independent publishing alive. gofund.me/2b421813c
#BookIndustryNews #Writing #WritingCommunity
#BookIndustryNews #Writing #WritingCommunity
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call me crazy but I don't think we should.
We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
call me crazy but I don't think we should.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. 80 years on, are the dead being betrayed? | Japan | The Guardian
Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. 80 years on, are the dead being betrayed?
A quarter of Okinawan civilians died during the US invasion, some after being told to kill themselves. But today the legacy of the war dead is being complicated by the presence of tens of thousands of...
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June 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. 80 years on, are the dead being betrayed? | Japan | The Guardian
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David says everything he possibly can about a single, rich poem and keeps going... this leads to playful possibilities. He draws your full attention to one of the finest female poets today
Not so much giving you a "handle" on poetry, but showing you don't need one. You're enough of a reader already
Not so much giving you a "handle" on poetry, but showing you don't need one. You're enough of a reader already
June 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
David says everything he possibly can about a single, rich poem and keeps going... this leads to playful possibilities. He draws your full attention to one of the finest female poets today
Not so much giving you a "handle" on poetry, but showing you don't need one. You're enough of a reader already
Not so much giving you a "handle" on poetry, but showing you don't need one. You're enough of a reader already
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‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Selma Dabbagh | In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible
‘Can you believe this has been going on for six hundred days?’ one of my fellow panellists asked the audience at...
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June 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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📚 FINAL DAYS! 📚
20% OFF all books at Salt Publishing — ends midnight 31 May.
Use code TheBigSaltSale at checkout or head straight here:
👉 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/The...
Support indie publishing — find your next unforgettable read.
#IndiePress #BookSky #ReadersOfBluesky #BookSale
20% OFF all books at Salt Publishing — ends midnight 31 May.
Use code TheBigSaltSale at checkout or head straight here:
👉 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/The...
Support indie publishing — find your next unforgettable read.
#IndiePress #BookSky #ReadersOfBluesky #BookSale
May 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
📚 FINAL DAYS! 📚
20% OFF all books at Salt Publishing — ends midnight 31 May.
Use code TheBigSaltSale at checkout or head straight here:
👉 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/The...
Support indie publishing — find your next unforgettable read.
#IndiePress #BookSky #ReadersOfBluesky #BookSale
20% OFF all books at Salt Publishing — ends midnight 31 May.
Use code TheBigSaltSale at checkout or head straight here:
👉 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/The...
Support indie publishing — find your next unforgettable read.
#IndiePress #BookSky #ReadersOfBluesky #BookSale
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'A Crumpled Swan' is published next Tuesday and you can pre-order on both sides of the Atlantic here: www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr...
The launch is at Hodges and Figgis in Dublin on Thursday 12 June. More details in my free monthly newsletter DM if you'd like to subscribe)
The launch is at Hodges and Figgis in Dublin on Thursday 12 June. More details in my free monthly newsletter DM if you'd like to subscribe)
A Crumpled Swan | Sagging Meniscus Press
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May 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
'A Crumpled Swan' is published next Tuesday and you can pre-order on both sides of the Atlantic here: www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr...
The launch is at Hodges and Figgis in Dublin on Thursday 12 June. More details in my free monthly newsletter DM if you'd like to subscribe)
The launch is at Hodges and Figgis in Dublin on Thursday 12 June. More details in my free monthly newsletter DM if you'd like to subscribe)
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Okay folks, pre-orders for Keshed can be swagged direct from @ortacpress.bsky.social as of NOW so those lovely souls who've been bugging me for a link, crack on 😀 be appearing on all the other usual outlets a bit later in the year 👌👌👌👌
📣 Announcement 📣
Keshed by Stu Hennigan
We are incredibly excited to publish the dark, complex, and visceral debut novel by @stuhennigan.bsky.social, one of the finest and most essential voices chronicling life in the UK today.
Find out more and pre-order from: www.ortacpress.com/shop
Keshed by Stu Hennigan
We are incredibly excited to publish the dark, complex, and visceral debut novel by @stuhennigan.bsky.social, one of the finest and most essential voices chronicling life in the UK today.
Find out more and pre-order from: www.ortacpress.com/shop
May 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Okay folks, pre-orders for Keshed can be swagged direct from @ortacpress.bsky.social as of NOW so those lovely souls who've been bugging me for a link, crack on 😀 be appearing on all the other usual outlets a bit later in the year 👌👌👌👌
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Feeling all the joy for the cover reveal of my novel 'The Orange Notebooks', out with the brilliant @pressassembly.bsky.social for North American readers 09/25.
Available for preorder now in Canada & the US from your favourite bookseller #shoplocal.
UK edition is out now @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Available for preorder now in Canada & the US from your favourite bookseller #shoplocal.
UK edition is out now @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Feeling all the joy for the cover reveal of my novel 'The Orange Notebooks', out with the brilliant @pressassembly.bsky.social for North American readers 09/25.
Available for preorder now in Canada & the US from your favourite bookseller #shoplocal.
UK edition is out now @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Available for preorder now in Canada & the US from your favourite bookseller #shoplocal.
UK edition is out now @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
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Writers, join us for my @literatureworks.bsky.social life stories course -online & in-person- on situation & story, memory enhancement, social history & archives, French auto-fiction & the tricky questions of ethics & truth ! Can't wait to work together.
Info: quaywords.org.uk/events/short...
Info: quaywords.org.uk/events/short...
May 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Writers, join us for my @literatureworks.bsky.social life stories course -online & in-person- on situation & story, memory enhancement, social history & archives, French auto-fiction & the tricky questions of ethics & truth ! Can't wait to work together.
Info: quaywords.org.uk/events/short...
Info: quaywords.org.uk/events/short...
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Chris Emery’s 'Truer' is a meditation on memory and grief—on the things we don’t fully remember but still carry. @chrisemery.me
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/chris-emery-2/
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #PoetryCommunity
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/chris-emery-2/
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #PoetryCommunity
May 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Chris Emery’s 'Truer' is a meditation on memory and grief—on the things we don’t fully remember but still carry. @chrisemery.me
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/chris-emery-2/
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #PoetryCommunity
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/chris-emery-2/
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #PoetryCommunity
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Then place to be tonight was the launch of Susanna Crossman's fine novel THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS and Waterstones, Trafalgar Square.
May 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Then place to be tonight was the launch of Susanna Crossman's fine novel THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS and Waterstones, Trafalgar Square.
Beautiful night celebrating @susannacrossman.bsky.social’s new novel #theorangenotebooks 🧡🍊📙
May 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Beautiful night celebrating @susannacrossman.bsky.social’s new novel #theorangenotebooks 🧡🍊📙
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Please join us for my next 'Creative thinking & Writing' online workshop 26/04 2-4pm GMT (9-11 EST) @londonlitlab.bsky.social for writers, poets, teachers who are feeling stuck/want to reignite creative fires. There'll be mindmaps, Dada Merz, impro and more...
www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi...
www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi...
Writing Using Visual, Musical and Drama Technique - London Lit Lab
From the visual arts we’ll examine tools like mind-mapping, and Russian cinematic collage montage technique to help us juxtapose, complement or amplify hybrid elements. From music, we’ll highlight jaz...
www.londonlitlab.co.uk
April 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Please join us for my next 'Creative thinking & Writing' online workshop 26/04 2-4pm GMT (9-11 EST) @londonlitlab.bsky.social for writers, poets, teachers who are feeling stuck/want to reignite creative fires. There'll be mindmaps, Dada Merz, impro and more...
www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi...
www.londonlitlab.co.uk/course/writi...
Absolutely amazed to find this study of my novel Dreamtime in the Pakistan Research Journal of Social Studies today - an unbelievably thoughtful, detailed and generous dissection! The whole piece is here: prjss.com/index.php/pr... @saltpublishing.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Absolutely amazed to find this study of my novel Dreamtime in the Pakistan Research Journal of Social Studies today - an unbelievably thoughtful, detailed and generous dissection! The whole piece is here: prjss.com/index.php/pr... @saltpublishing.com
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And lo: here we are, on Bluesky. Pls repost to spread the word!
February 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
And lo: here we are, on Bluesky. Pls repost to spread the word!
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The story so far … buy the latest books from Salt.
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February 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The story so far … buy the latest books from Salt.
www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
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The punishment for taking a Durian onto the MRT cannot be expressed in monetary terms. #SingaporeMRT #Singapore
December 3, 2024 at 1:56 PM
The punishment for taking a Durian onto the MRT cannot be expressed in monetary terms. #SingaporeMRT #Singapore