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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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¦
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check out my new channel about writing and publishing!
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Many thanks for getting back to me. I see the 10.03 from KGX arr Leeds 12.16 is cancelled though, this looks ominous to me... would it have become the 12.45 Leeds-KGX train - i.e. will there be a knock-on cancellation for that service?
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@LNER Hi there, how bad is it currently at Leeds, genuinely? Hard to tell from online updates whether it's worth attempting to get the 12.45 to KX that I'm booked on. Is anything at all running leeds-doncaster? Thanks
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Itβs December 1! To officially kick off the 2024 Short Story Advent Calendar, hereβs a story about librarians, patrons, and one unusual musical instrument, from Robin Sloan. hingstonandolsen.com/2024/1-β¦ #ssac2024
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ANNOUNCEMENT! The Brutalist Ghost Stories project includes an Arts Council England-funded Emerging Writer Programme, and Confingo is looking to recruit three early stage writers for mentoring and help to contribute to an anthology of short uncanny fiction. confingopublishing.uk/thenewβ¦
Ha ha, it definitely has that vibe. Things will go dark enough soon enough, since "wherever we go, there we are" (people, that is). At least it's Muskless; that's my reason for shifting that way.
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Bring along your problem story: the one that never seems to be finished, or gets rejected, or refuses to do what it is told, and practise working through drafts, problem-solving and polishing up with Rubyβs guidance and encouragement. #shortstories #writers #writingcommunity
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A few places left on this brilliant course
My @londonlitlab short story Bootcamp course is back! Postponed due to illness but now raring to go, this course is somehow both leisurely (lots of writing/breathing/thinking time) and intense (lots of feedback & food for thought). I'd love to have youπ«΅londonlitlab.co.uk/course/shβ¦
My @londonlitlab short story Bootcamp course is back! Postponed due to illness but now raring to go, this course is somehow both leisurely (lots of writing/breathing/thinking time) and intense (lots of feedback & food for thought). I'd love to have youπ«΅londonlitlab.co.uk/course/shβ¦
(*Trying not to hyperventilate*) Thank you so much @pattonoswalt - 5 months later - missed this at the time...
As it happens, film rights remain available ποΈπͺοΈ
βWet Painβ Terence Taylor
βDolanβs Cadillacβ Stephen King
βThe Chaserβ John Collier
βThe Quest for βBlank Claveringiββ Patricia Highsmith
βThis Paradiseβ Ruby Cowling
βA Toy for Julietteβ Robert Bloch
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Well, yes... but writing proper people with proper accents is always a struggle and I want to do some learning!
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Can you name contemporary writers who "do" Yorkshire dialect well (i.e. without sounding like the old duffer out of Wuthering Heights)? Even if it's just a hint of dialect.
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