thank you Ben!
29.01.2026 13:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0thank you Ben!
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Thank you so much to our guest author @benpester.bsky.social for visiting us at Colchester WriteNight this week! Such a fascinating interview about writing, short fiction and his extraordinary debut novel #TheExpansionProject Thank you everyone who came, joined in the Big Interview & wrote with us.
29.01.2026 09:51 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Yay! And So Did I (Boiler House Press, 2025) is now on the dedicated Malachi Whitaker stand at Waterstones, Bradford. Alongside The Journey Home & Other Stories (Persephone, 2017) and Benighted by JB Priestley (who went to the same Bradford school).
20.01.2026 14:40 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@benpester.bsky.social is visiting Colchester WriteNight for The Big Interview about writing, short fiction and his surreal novel, The Expansion Project, shortlisted for The Goldsmith’s Prize and the Nero Prize for Debut Fiction. We’ll all be interviewing/writing together, you’re welcome to join us
19.01.2026 12:43 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@benpester.bsky.social is visiting Colchester WriteNight for The Big Interview about writing, short fiction and his surreal novel, The Expansion Project, shortlisted for The Goldsmith’s Prize and the Nero Prize for Debut Fiction. We’ll all be interviewing/writing together, you’re welcome to join us
19.01.2026 12:43 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Cannot wait to hear these stories!!!!
22.12.2025 12:48 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
CALLING BOOK REVIEWERS
Boiler House Press are looking for reviewers of their Recovered Books series -- including Malachi Whitaker's super-relevant 1939 memoir, "And So Did I".
Interested? Message @bhousepress.bsky.social
Best British Short Stories 2025 is here – the fifteenth volume of our landmark annual anthology. Edited by Nicholas Royle, it gathers the most exciting short fiction of 2024 from major names and brilliant new voices.
A perfect festive gift for the reader in your life.
#BBSS2025 #ShortFiction
Congratulations @benpester.bsky.social! 👏🎉👏
20.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0My Monday had been brightened by this! Thank you to @fictivedream.bsky.social #fkashfiction #microfiction #amwriting @ninearchespress.bsky.social
10.11.2025 19:30 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1Fantastic Olga!
10.11.2025 22:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
ICYMI today we're thrilled to be featuring Hidden Leopard by Olga Dermott-Bond @olgapoet.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/10/m...
10.11.2025 18:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
'Challenge is part of our lives, make it part of our reading lives too'
@cdrose.bsky.social on winning the Goldsmiths Prize
'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.'
@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Book covers: The Witching Hour anthology, Dance of the Earth by Anna M Holmes, The Sad Ghost Club: Find Your Kindred Spirits by Lize Meddings, Secret Lives of the Dead by Tim Lebbon, and The Whisper of Stars by Cristin Williams
October reads! Get yer October reads! Paaaahnd a bowl! See what I read and otherwise got up to last month: https://www.draliceviolett.com/what-i-read-in-october-2025 #bookstodon #BookMastodon
01.11.2025 11:57 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Another great Colchester WriteNight session on Symbols this week hosted by talented local writer @clareshaw.bsky.social. Thank you Clare and everyone who comes along and joins in! Next session is our pre-Christmas party on 24 November. See you there @writingcommunity.bsky.social
31.10.2025 07:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We’re meeting this evening (27 October) at Colchester WriteNight. The brilliant @clareshaw.bsky.social is leading on Symbols! Everyone is welcome to join us for writing activities and refreshments. DM for details! Pls RT? @writingcommunity.bsky.social
27.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We’re meeting this evening (27 October) at Colchester WriteNight. The brilliant @clareshaw.bsky.social is leading on Symbols! Everyone is welcome to join us for writing activities and refreshments. DM for details! Pls RT? @writingcommunity.bsky.social
27.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Copy of the Best American Short Stories 2025, edited by Celeste Ng
Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.
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Our October sale has gone EVEN deeper! 🤩
33% off selected items while stocks last! 🚀
Discount applied automatically in our checkout.
Head now to: www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
Last chance to sign up for the FREE Online Book Launch of Malachi Whitaker's light dark n witty 1939 memoir, 'And So Did I'.
With Boiler House Press Editor, Brad Bigelow, and Malachi Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse.
TONIGHT, 14/10.
7pm UK, 8pm CET
Link below
Celebration day for editor, Nicholas Royle and all the contributors of Best British Short Stories 2025! 🥳🎉🎈🥂
13.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 34 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1Congratulations! Reading it now!
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11.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On my way home!
@saltpublishing.com @nicholasroyle.bsky.social #booksky @ensfr.bsky.social
Two fantastic #BMHS events this October! 🎭
📚 Archive on Show @ Lambeth Archives – Thu 9 Oct, 2pm
🎤 Kirsty Roberts Talk @ The Water Rats – Tue 21 Oct, 7pm (celebrating Black performers in Morecambe’s history)
📖 Book here: britishmusichallsociety.com/events
Our first guest on the new ACL Essex podcast was @drabbiecairns.bsky.social 🙌 We talked art, teaching, writing her new book pub’d by Routledge & her ice skating antics. We had a lot of fun!
Link below to her book & the new podcasting course Lewis Walsh & I are running here, if you fancy having a go
