THIS PARADISE: Short stories @bhousepress // https://teapawt.net/t.co/9l3h57QZRV // Shortlisted Edge Hill Prize 2020; Longlisted Orwell Prize 2020 // I am on Bsky //
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All those people who've said this is very good are quite correct. Intense, unapologetic, refreshingly outward-facing stories from from @C_CRRLL that get better & better as you get deeper in. (Feel a bit bad that I once told her I hated italics... but she's redeemed them for me)
ALT Cover of The Unreliable Nature Writer by Claire Carroll
Hello #shortstory writers! If your story/draft won't behave but also won't let you go, my @londonlitlab Bootcamp course is for you. Tons of great story analysis, supportive feedback on your work & in-depth advice on how to tackle intransigent problemsπ οΈ tickettailor.com/events/londβ¦
ALT Poster for Short Story Bootcamp course 9 October to 10 December
Strange mixture of proud and embarrassed to realise it's 5 years today since my offspring and its 3 excellent siblings were born (tho' 2020β2022 don't count, I know.) It's the best feeling to know people are still buying/reading it boilerhouse.press/product-paβ¦
ALT Boiler House Press 4 fictions - front covers
I have just podcasted with the brilliant @LiviMichael and Sonya Moore on their series Small Pleasures. 20 mins of deep short-story chat here youtube.com/watch?v=f8BDLKk9β¦ - with a focus on my new story Emeralds Live, published in @lunatejournal vol.4 π
Fabulous new episode with fascinating insights from guest Ruby Cowling!
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Great. Brilliant. To merch up their Xmas ad @JohnLewisRetail creates millions of these 100% polyester bits of death-cult consumerist crap made in China that no one needs or even wants. Forgotten by January, won't break down for centuries. We are so screwed. So screwed.
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Very late, yet again, to the party - but it was a great party! Brilliant, brisk stories from some of the best in the business, accompanied by interviews that are superbly revealing ππ
Congrats @tomconagh and everyone involved
I adored @jamelbrinkley's first collection, A Lucky Man. Am similarly agog after finishing his new one, Witness (thanks to @KishWidyaratna). Stories that kicked my arse as a reader AND a writer - the title story in particular. So sophisticated, so sharp. Buy it. #shortstories
Here's something cool you could do to please your ears on Tue 4 July in Clerkenwell β
(Eventbrite link tinyurl.com/LSPFound)
ALT Atmospheric and inspiring poster for an evening gig by London Sound Project: 40 singers, a band like no other, a summer setlist from the mellow to the majestic. Tickets from Eventbrite. Doors at 7.30pm.
May not get over this.
Unabashedly sharing these very kind words - from *Patton Oswalt*! What an absolutely wonderful extra delight, on top of being in the super #ssac2022
Stop the presses! @rubycowling just popped up in @pattonoswalt short story advent calendar and now he wants to read everything she's ever written! π instagram.com/p/CmFvuRrJJRb/β¦
Has anyone written a book about, or analysis of, the incredibly convoluted style that arises in football writing? It's fascinating how rococo things can get.
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Bit of a special offer here from @Confingo - but only until 31 Aug! Both We Were Strangers AND Waiting For The Gift - anthologies of short stories inspired by Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures & David Bowie's Low - for Β£20 inc UK postage. shorturl.at/optw1
Thanks to my ace publisher @bhousepress for keeping it real in the paradise that is Jubilee Britain. This book might be for you if you're interested in what @badaude called 'the unsteady pulse of the suppurating British body politic' - and other fun stuff boilerhouse.press/product-paβ¦
