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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 9h

New arrival. I'm really looking forward to this one; it will be out in February. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Book: A Parish Chronicle by Halldór Laxness. Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.

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Rob Hudson @robhudson.bsky.social · 23h

Flowers and grasses from the garden. Making the most of the tail end of the year.

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

The last word on rules :)

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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 1d

There are very specific rules for what makes a good short story owen-booth.com/2017/10/24/2...

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BOObara Byar 👻👻 @barbarabyar.bsky.social · 1d

Writing "what you know" is memoir, not fiction

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

'I was, in that moment, the thirty-four-year-old lecturer discussing the craft of writing at Aberystwyth University. I was, also, the fifteen-year-old boy in his parent’s bathroom in Beirut sheltering from the Israeli airstrikes of 2006.'

Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-betwee...

Essay | Between Beirut, Gaza and Glangwili by A. Naji Bakhti - The London Magazine

A. Naji Bakhti on the dissonance of living in Wales teaching creative writing while his home city, Beirut, and Gaza continue to be bombed.

thelondonmagazine.org

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

Sneeze 😀 Is that why she's covering her ears?

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

Will try :)

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

I will be looking out for it

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

Delighted to hear that :)

When is your collection out?

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

And about time too

(My most unhinged literary opinion is that short stories need root vegetables - save those fancy above-ground crops for novels)

The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 1d

Today is Tridi the 23rd of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate turnips.#JacobinDay

More information on turnips

An old time-y illustration of a Turnips.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 1d

This book looks great. $9.99!

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 2d

"This attachment should be confronted and deleted prior to passing the phone on to a new owner, otherwise the phone will continue to pine for its original owner"

Really enjoyed this funny & subtle @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social story at 3:AM magazine www.3ammagazine.com/3am/tracker-...

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Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social · 1d

Margery Kempe and Dame Julian of Norwich share the narrative in this exquisite novel by @vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Contrasting medieval lives, each with the same intent, their circumstances and inner worlds rendered with deep insight and authenticity. A wonderful book.

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 2d

It was a pleasure to read :)

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Jo Lloyd 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 2d

"This attachment should be confronted and deleted prior to passing the phone on to a new owner, otherwise the phone will continue to pine for its original owner"

Really enjoyed this funny & subtle @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social story at 3:AM magazine www.3ammagazine.com/3am/tracker-...

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Rob Hudson @robhudson.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday worship

- in colour.

A hymn to vegitation.

#OudolfField

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

45 minutes between you admiring the concept and its arrival - that's some impressive short story carrier pigeon you've got there :)

(Will it work for me?)

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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 4d

'wily lyricism' where ' rhythm and cadence never falter'
Enjoyed this perceptive review of a worthwhile, hard-to-pin-down novella.

Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social · 4d

"This epic sweep is a lot to ask a little novella to hold, but Rowe moves with wily lyricism and speed."

My review of Josephine Rowe's Little World is now up with Adroit

theadroitjournal.org/2025/10/08/a...

The cover of the US edition of Josephine Rowe's novella Little World is a line drawing of in gold foil on a parchment background, showing a church like space with a shining featureless head floating in the air.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 4d

Making a list of all the types of readers who enjoy my novels www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...

ghosts, boggles, Bloody Bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, spectres, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains, fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins,[4] pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds,[5] lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans,

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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 4d

a page of Krasznahorkai

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

This story sounds right up my street :)

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JL Bogenschneider @bourgnetstogner.bsky.social · 4d

A pleasure to have placed third in this year's Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize.

Anthology available in-store and at bricklanebookshop.org/product/brick-lane-bookshop-new-short-stories-2025

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 5d

Based on the Wirral, @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is the imprint of queer poet and book artist Jeremy Dixon. Small runs often incorporate collage with the emphasis on handmade, happenstance, and recycling found text and images. We welcome him back to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall on 24/25 Oct

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

Lovely photo