Frances Orrok

Gearing up to start a new novel revision with new working title, new font, new feel. All I need now is to be marooned on a planet with 30 hour days. 20 to write, 10 to sleep. The dream.

Perfection in songform.

Music By Men.

Florence's new album.

Graphic for the Geneva Writers Conference. Navy blue background with white text that reads "Student scholarships available! The 14th Geneva Writers Conference. 14-16 November 2025. genevawriters.org/conference" with a white strip at the bottom that says "Kindly sponsored by" followed by The de Groot Foundation open book logo that says "Investing in writers & the literary arts"

Exciting news for students writers!

In partnership with The Geneva Writers Group @genevawriters.bsky.social , we are thrilled to sponsor four Emerging Voices Scholarships for the 2025 Geneva Writers Conference November 14–16. Applications close Oct. 26.

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Indeed. It’s a place-holder.

Hi! Sooo bad at remembering to go online. Pathological.

The otherppl podcast celebrates its 1000th episode today. 1000 author conversations there for the listening. Congrats and thank you @bradlisti.bsky.social for this huge archive. Dorthe Nors, Kate Zambreno, Tony Tulathimutte, Anne Enright… too many favourites. 🌟

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

Just under 20 days to get your micros (-250 words) in! Fiction, CNF, hybrid, published, unpublished, translations. We're so easy. What about that killer micro you published 20 years ago? It's eligible. We're searching for the best. Deadline Nov 15th. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

So brilliant. Love it!

Oh Emily I feel so seen! Yikes.

“I just want her to be happy,” I say. “I just want her to write poetry,” I say.

Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest:

Oooh. I need this so badly! Though not sure what I’d do with the extra 3 hours I currently spend speaking to it like a sometimes-reasonable toddler.

Julia Roberts to narrate new BBC series Leonard and Hungry Paul The feel-good series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties who meander through leafy suburban life finding solace in their quiet routines

Good morning.

What a week.

I love that a quiet book is making such a big splash.

A book corporate publishing wouldn't know what to do with is travelling the world.

Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social

Indy publishing.

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Wow! Congratulations Glenn.

And so we shall only be glad - SmokeLong Quarterly I am glad my daughters see me cry and launch themselves against the bathroom door. They bang and shout things like they want to see me whole, or something I can’t quite hear, and I do falter for a min...

Gladness? www.smokelong.com/stories/and-...

Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...

‘Entrances to the underworld were usually located on the coast, while the highest and lowest of men were buried there, from local heroes to dead fisherfolk.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast:

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New @fallowmedia.bsky.social with a Marguerite Duras film script & companion essays by Daniel Fraser & myself, Lisa Robertson on Adnan, Maija Makela on Notley, Owen Hatherley, Stephen Sexton, Lalla Romano, JC Vaughan, Maria Sledmere, Devki Panchmatia & Russell Persson fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

Announcing a special micro category for the Baltimore Review fall issue: 400 words max, one or two micros in one sub, micro submission period (9/1 – 9/14) and response by 9/30. Payment for accepted work at our usual rate. Because we love the short and surprising. baltimorereview.org

Oh my, THIS. Beauty on the page and ascending above my day. Thank you @jmgatford.bsky.social

Dead Ink Books launches Outsider Classics republishing forgotten masterpieces and once-censored provocations to open the debate about the canon - who gets to create it, who gets excluded from it – and show that it is a malleable and changeable thing. @deadinkbooks.bsky.social

Brilliant.

A mosaic of 8 book covers. In the center of the mosaic is a torn square of gray paper that reads "What to Read When You want to Find Mystery in the Ordinary, written and curated by Tom McAllister".

"If you find yourself, like me, wishing for quieter stories, for books that treat the mundane as worthy of serious attention, then this list is for you."

‪@tmcallister.bsky.social‬ shares the books that helped him write It All Felt Impossible (@rosemetalpress.bsky.social‬).

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Three Authors on Writing With Creative Constraints - Electric Literature Naomi Cohn, Darien Gee, and Tom McAllister discuss methods that have helped them overcome writer’s block

Authors Darien Hsu Gee, Naomi Cohn, and Tom McAllister (tmcallister.bsky.social) participate in a craft roundtable discussion about how constraints play an important role in the writing process.

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Have you seen me? Frances Orrok   Have you seen my hat you say and it’s not just any hat it’s the funny tight cap that flattens your ears and goes under your helmet to stop the wind and I know this is important…

"you say, it’s minus 4 outside and there is only one glove, and the smallest says she needs two bunches not one and so I give everyone a banana and carry her kicking into the car" I feel so seen in this @francesorrok.bsky.social micro in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/have-you-see...

Yay!!!!! Congratulations, Frances!

Thank you!

A super short must-read from the amazing @francesorrok.bsky.social! Breathless and tight and funny and exhausting!

Aw— happy/ not happy to hear that. 🍌

Thank you Emily! ❤️

Thank you Claudia ❤️