David Frankel

Issue 15: Paris | Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature Paris has long been the site of opulence, resistance, rebellion, and style. It has inspired great writing and writers, philosophy and philosophers. In this collection, we share work that connects with...

A weekend read for you - the new issue of @panoramajournal.bsky.social . Always brilliant! This issue's theme is 'Paris'. Have a read here...
panoramajournal.org

Radical with Amol Rajan - Books v Screens: Why Every School Needs a Library (Katherine Rundell) - BBC Sounds Children’s author Katherine Rundell on the crisis of reading amongst kids.

Worth a listen...
"Only one in three children in the UK enjoy reading in their spare time – the lowest rate recorded in 20 years, according to a survey for the National Literacy Trust."
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

New Edinburgh-based publishing house Uncertain Stories launches Uncertain Stories, a new Edinburgh-based publishing house focused on illustrated volumes of new short fiction for adults, has been launched by Rob Redman, founding editor of The Fiction Desk, and artist Lucy Scott.

Uncertain Stories, a new Edinburgh-based publishing house focused on illustrated volumes of new short fiction for adults, has been launched by Rob Redman, founding editor of The Fiction Desk, and artist Lucy Scott 👇

'We Live Here Now' is now in shops. You know what to do.

You can read my story ‘The Crossing’ on the Adda website - shortlisted for the 2025 #CWprize. The other shortlistees are there too, so fill yer boots!
Thanks to the editors and staff at Adda and @cwfcreatives, and to Ameesha Lee for a fantastic illustration.
www.addastories.org/the-crossing/

Possibly the most chilling book I've read. My copy is very old, and I'm not sure it's still in print. If not, somebody should republish it.

A small Stodmarsh photosplat...

Interesting article in yesterday's Grauniad by Martin Ingle - Definitely one for anyone interested in hauntology...

Thanks, Julian!

I'm very excited to have a story in the first anthology from the new publishing house, ‪‪@uncertainstories.com - the dark, creepy twin of @thefictiondesk.com . They've got some fantastic projects lined up, so if weird/uncanny stories are your thing give them a follow or sign up for the mailing list!

Prize — Galley Beggar Press

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories:

www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Closing date 8 November!

Three copies of Steve Ely's collection 'Eely' arranged against an orange background.

Visionary, urgent… truly extraordinary blendings of environmental & social history. - Mark Wormald
A spirited, astonishing, bewildering collection. - Adam Piette
One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok

'Eely'
Steve Ely
£2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Haven't posted a 'staircase to nowhere' for a while, so here...

The first 'inclusion' * I've come across in a long time, tucked inside a second hand book. This one was inside a copy of 'Garden State' by Rick Moody. "Laundry bags of 75 (50) books for Nice lady! Tues 8/7"
(* phrase stolen from Nick Royle, Shadow Lines)

The Co-op showing more backbone than the government...

I somehow managed to forget my firstborn's second birthday last week. 🤦 Belated happy birthday #forgettingishowwesurvive .
Available in all the usual places or direct from @saltpublishing.com !

Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.

Finally made it down @plunderbooks.bsky.social , Rammo’s brand new bookshop. Great selection of books. Picked up a couple of issues of the excellent ‪‬@seasidegothic.com ‬, edited and produced by ‪@sebreilly.com , co-owner of the shop. Magazine and shop both highly recommended!

We are open for #submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction #callforsubmissions and we're looking forward to reading your work. Please follow the link to check out our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

A sculpture splat. Some of my highlights from a recent visit to the excellent collection of contemporary sculpture at the Can Mario Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Palafrugell.
Work by: Marcel Marti, Xavier Mascaro, Gerard Mas,David Moreno

Off Road # 7, (Oil on board)

Off Road # 6

Inside the ghost museums of Ukraine: exhibits replaced by fragments of war and occupation The curators of shattered historical buildings near the eastern frontline are preserving wartime memories as they reconstruct their collections

Inside the ghost museums of Ukraine: exhibits replaced by fragments of war and occupation

Off Road # 5

Off Road # 4

Off Road # 3