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Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

Busy weekend: first up, we have a story featured on Hannah's Bookshelf (hannahkate.net/two-festive-...), from 2 pm to 4 pm, and then 2moro, me and Amanda are featured guests with the always lovely Ruth O'Reilly on Levenshulme's AllFM (www.allfm.org) from 3 pm to 5 pm.

Two Festive Shows from Hannah's Bookshelf - Hannah Kate

Coming up on North Manchester FM over the festive period, I’ve got two Special Editions of Hannah’s Bookshelf for you… Christmas Special Tune in on Saturday 22nd December, 2-4pm, for the (slightly ear...

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December 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

A new Romance story of mine, ‘The Wedding Weekend Before Christmas,’ has just been published on Micromance Magazine (Thanks, guys).

A somewhat different version can be found in my book ‘Threads’, available here - www.amazon.co.uk/Threads-Nich...

December 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Spoken Word Podcast) features Zoe Mitchell.

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#poetrypodcast #spokenwordpodcast #spokenword #poetry

New Spoken Label Podcast - Zoe Mitchell

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Zoe Mitchell. Zoe Mitchell is a widely-published poet whose work has b...

onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com

December 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

Two old/new tracks by Ocean in a bottle and Distance (the latter is 47 minutes long!) have appeared on this very noisy, experimental comp by Silber Records. Over the moon to be featured alongside Alan Sparrowhawk and Robert Poss among others.

silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/almost...

Almost Always Considered Undesirable, by Various Artists

22 track album

silbermedia.bandcamp.com

December 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

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1st bit of airplay for the Ward EP (oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com/.../ward-bli...) here today - just over a hour in and also a feature of a story spoofing my own Threads book too (www.amazon.co.uk/Threads-Nich...)

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December 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

#SpokenWord #OpenMicNight #PoetryEvent #LivePoetry #PerformancePoetry #StorytellingEvent #SpeakEasy #ChorltonEvents #ManchesterPoetry #ChorltonLife #MCRCreatives #ManchesterOpenMic #ChorltonArts #CreativeCommunity #SupportLocalArtists #IndieVoices

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December 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

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December 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

#SpokenWord #SpokenWordPoetry #SpokenWordArtists #PoetryCommunity #PoetryNight #PoetsOfInstagram #PerformancePoetry #OpenMicPoetry #OpenMicNight #LivePerformance #CreativeCommunity #IndieArtists #StageTime

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December 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

A new EP for #bandcampfriday from my new band 'Ward' featuring myself and Courtney Ward is out today.

oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com/album/ward-b...

#music #ambient #spokenword #poetry #bandcampmusic #experimental

December 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

#spokenwordopenmid #poetryopenmic #poetry #spokenwordchorlton #chorltonopenmic #manchesteropenmic

December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

Likely as A.E. Nicholson rather than Andy N, but this is looking pretty good now - just hit 52,000 words and still have another 70 pages to re-edit before I get to the final edit over Xmas. Aiming for Feb / Mar 25 release

#book #novel #newbook #newnovel

December 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

Editing this morning on Novel 3. (My Court stories novel). Just realised I have got 125 pages roughly edited aka 51,500 words or so. Things are defo starting to get serious.

December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

Enclosed below are the readers (Not the running order) for the next Speak Easy (our spoken word open mic night) at Dulicmer, Chorlton on Thurs 04 December 2025.

#spokenwordopenmic #spokenword #poetryopenmic #poetry #openmic #chorltonopenmic #chorlton #manchesterpoetry

November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

If anybody runs a writing podcast etc and would like me to come onto their show to talk about this, DM me.

#podcast #writingcommunity #writing #flashfiction

November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

Latest up from Spoken Label Podcast (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features making her debut is the wonderful Saira Anwar (Saira the Poet).

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#poetrypodcast #podcast #spokenword #spokenwordpodcast

New Spoken Label - Saira Anwar (Saira the Poet) (November 2025)

Latest up from Spoken Label features making her debut is the wonderful Saira Anwar (Saira the Poet). Saira Anwar is an educator, poet, aut...

onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com

November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

Just received this news - Micromance Magazine has nominated one of my stories I've had published with this for a Pushcart prize, and the best bit is it's in my Threads book, which is out on Amazon

(www.amazon.co.uk/.../B0FWDV22...).

Stunned!
#flashfiction #story #shortstory

November 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM

Andy N

@andynartist.bsky.social

oming in January 2026 – hopefully every week - Rage is a new project that will see me attempt an online graphic novel, focusing on the journey of a man as he slowly disintegrates.

Exclusively on andynartist.substack.com (1.2 through Part Two as I type)

#comic #onlinecomic