David Frankel

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

It's been tough going for small publishers for a while, but they continue to publish a lot of the most exciting new work, and are the main supporters of the short story as a form. Support indie publishing when you can!
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Today is #BookshopDay. Visit your local independent bookshop and say hello. If you can’t get to your local indie you can support them by ordering through Bookshop.org – just as easy as amazon, but kinder to publishers and authors.
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Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
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Little Uncertainties are v. short books, each containing a single story. You can't buy them: over the next year, @uncertainstories.com are aiming to give away 12,000 with book orders and via participating cafes and bookshops. All to spread the love of short stories! What an amazing thing to do!

Photograph of some stickers showing a scorpion tail, terminating in a pen nib.

Some stickers for the packaging of our anthology Broken Ground. There’s a tale in the sting…

He was a great actor. Loved this series, but couldn't remember the name and nobody else I know watched it. I was starting to think I'd dreamt the whole thing!

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Uncertain Stories Uncertain Stories is a new publishing house specialising in short fiction.

It’s officially released into the wild on the 21st, but you can read excerpts from ‘Broken Ground’, and pre-order a copy, here:
www.uncertainstories.com

“They’re stories that take the world as it really is, more or less here, more or less now, and then they put a crack in that reality, just to see what light gets in.”
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Just got my author’s copies of #BrokenGround . Rob Redman, editor of @uncertainstories.com , has done a fantastic job, and the illustrations by @lucyscottpictures are superb.
Stories by me, Mark Taylor, Eva Carson, Tamsin Hopkins, @nathanielspain.bsky.social , Jack Edwards, and Flo Ward.

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Uncertain Stories Uncertain Stories is a new publishing house specialising in short fiction.

#BrokenGround is the 1st anthology from @uncertainstories.com . Out on 21st October. Stories by myself, Mark Taylor, Eva Carson, and Tamsin Hopkins, Nathaniel Spain, Jack Edwards, and Flo Ward. Ed Rob Redman & illustrated by Lucy Scott 🔥🔥🔥.
Read excerpts and pre-order here
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Running sheets for the anthology “Broken Ground”, photographed on a cutting mat.

Running sheets! Our first anthology has been printed. It just needs to be bound, and then it’ll be out in the world...

Carrying on my theme of failing to do justice to a subject by using bad photography: here’s @thomas_dennyart ’s new(ish) window at St John’s church, Tisbury. Like all his windows, it’s a stunner. Very much worth a visit if you’re in the area.

The Hours of Our Lady - David Frankel Our Lady of Darkness has been with us since the beginning. She exists in the places other gods forget, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. For Thomas De Quincey, writing in 1845, ...

You can find a copy of the chapbook here:
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The Hours of Our Lady film has its ‘U.S. premiere’ at The Experimental Film Fest in NC tonight. Made by filmmaker @cathysrogers.bsky.social & sound designers Adam Collins & Sean Price. Features performance artist Sam Talbot reading selected text from my chapbook (pub'd by @salopress.bsky.social )

I sense that media reports in the U.S. discussing Trumps visit to the UK are carrying his line that he’s popular over here. For the record, as far as I can tell, the ONLY people in the UK that like Trump are right wing extremists.

The bitter irony of Sally Rooney not being able to enter the country, just days after the one of the leaders of a genocidal government, personally named in an ICJ report, was welcomed with open cheeks by our PM…

Laurence Edwards 'SCULPTURE 2025' - Messums Org Laurence Edwards’ practice has long been preoccupied by the entwining of man, nature and time. One of the few sculptors who casts his own work, he is fascinated by human anatomy and the metamorphosis ...

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A brief photosplat from Laurence Edwards’s stunning exhibition at @messumswest.bsky.social . The large scale work has incredible presence, but the smaller work and drawings are also incredible.
Final weekend, so if you can make it to Wiltshire in time, go and see it – it’s an incredible show!

Hugely honoured to be in such good company here...

Thanks, Suzanne! Hope you like it! Looking forward to reading 'Stay'!

Huge congratulations, Suzanne!

Very happy to share that my story, ‘Shipping Out made the shortlist of the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition. It will be published in Southward next year along with the winning stories and the other shortlisted stories. Thanks to judge, Laura Jean McKay, and the @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social .

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