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Trustee of the Republic of Consciousness Foundation, fan of innovative literary fiction from small presses, actuary, 한국어 (Korean) learner. Views own.

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Prize submission guidelines — Republic of Consciousness

One to enter into The Queen Mary Small Press Prize (run by The Republic of Consciousness Foundation)? www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize-submis...

06.09.2025 09:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This was another wonderfully distinctive book from Honford Star - "its encyclopedic style and penchant for weirdness" is a perfect tagline!

06.09.2025 09:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prize submission guidelines — Republic of Consciousness

One to enter into the The Queen Mary Small Press Prize (run by The Republic of Consciousness Foundation)? @honfordstar.bsky.social www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize-submis...

06.09.2025 09:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prize submission guidelines — Republic of Consciousness

RofC co-opting WG again. The Rofc partnered up, rebranded, and submissions are now open. Go here: www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize-submis...

@galleybeggars.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @charcopress.com

31.07.2025 16:15 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Prize submission guidelines — Republic of Consciousness

Well said. The perfect book for @stingingfly.bsky.social to enter for a prize that focuses on the press? www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize-submis...

06.09.2025 09:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prize submission guidelines — Republic of Consciousness

One to enter into The Queen Mary Small Press Prize (run by The Republic of Consciousness Foundation)? www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize-submis...

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Prize submission guidelines — Republic of Consciousness

One to enter into The Queen Mary Small Press Prize (run by The Republic of Consciousness Foundation)? www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize-submis...

06.09.2025 09:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prize submission guidelines — Republic of Consciousness

Looks great. One to enter to the The Queen Mary Small Press Prize (run by The Republic of Consciousness Foundation)? www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize-submis...

06.09.2025 09:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prize submission guidelines — Republic of Consciousness

A recommendation from @waidner.bsky.social is high praise indeed. One to enter into the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize (the prize formerly known as The Republic of Consciousness)? www.republicofconsciousness.com/prize-submis...

06.09.2025 08:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great to have the three of you on board for this year.

30.07.2025 23:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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New name and partner for groundbreaking prize for small press publishers Announcing The Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize

The Republic Of Consciousness Prize is undergoing a slight change as it celebrates it's tenth year. #Booksky, get this on your radar if it's not already.

therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com/p/new-name-a...

30.07.2025 17:28 — 👍 30    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 4

Good luck for the launch - I loved the book.

30.07.2025 23:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Our shadow panel picked their winner for the 2025 International Booker Prize. Ahead of the official decision. Which book do you feel will emerge as the winner of the official contest? Which one is your favorite? #InternationalBooker2025 shadowingtheibp.substack.com/p/we-have-a-...

18.05.2025 23:51 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Lovely to meet you both and many congratulations. And good luck for the International Booker.

04.04.2025 10:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations to all - great to see @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social and Peepal Tree Press on the list

20.03.2025 13:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There's a Monster Behind the Door From Paul Fulcher via his Goodreads page

Our IBP shadow panel has shared the first group member post about one of the longlisted books to our Substack! Paul Fulcher writes about There's a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert. shadowingtheibp.substack.com/p/theres-a-m...

26.02.2025 23:49 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Yes would have loved to have seen that on the list.

26.02.2025 00:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations. Has that gone to subscribers yet, as I am keen to read asap.

25.02.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Paul Fulcher's review of Overstaying 4/5: Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada Overstaying (2024) is Damion Searls's translation of Die Aufdrängung (2021) by Ariane Koch. This is a surreal n...

Overstaying, Damion Searls's translation of Die Aufdrängung by Ariane Koch, from Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

08.02.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Paul Fulcher's review of Lublin 4/5: Shortlisted for the Wingate Prize a literary award, given to the best book, fiction or non-fiction, to convey the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Co...

Lublin by Manya Wilkinson, from And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

08.02.2025 15:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Paul Fulcher's review of Tidal Lock 4/5: Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada Did you ever feel you didn't live in a real place? Maybe not. I call this city Tidal Lock. I'm looking for my fa...

Tidal Lock by Lindsay Hill, from McPherson & Company
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

08.02.2025 15:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Paul Fulcher's review of Your Absence Is Darkness 4/5: Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada Who you are is completely irrelevant. Where your life went. Your love and betrayal don't matter here. What matte...

Your Absence is Darkness, Philip Roughton's translation of Fjarvera þin er myrkur by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, from Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

08.02.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Paul Fulcher's review of Lesser Ruins 4/5: Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada ... she later admitted having trouble getting through it, actually taken aback, she said, by the tone which felt...

Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber, from Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

08.02.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've completed the @usrofc.bsky.social Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada longlist. Fantastic selection by the judges and don't envy them having to choose a shortlist. But given they have to, I've forced myself to do so - and my 5 would be:

08.02.2025 15:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
This UK Prize Picks the Best Fiction You’ve Never Heard Of
YouTube video by Eyes on Indie This UK Prize Picks the Best Fiction You’ve Never Heard Of

A very useful run through all of the titles and publishers on the Republic of Consciousness prize longlist from that great champion of indie publishing @eyesonindie.bsky.social
@weatherglassbooks.bsky.social
@bullaunpress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AydS...

06.02.2025 21:10 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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No. 28: Célina — Les Fugitives Catherine Axelrad translated from the French by Philip Terry Published: 18 July 2024 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, listed by Marina Warner By the age of fifteen, Célin...

You can still purchase our Republic of Consciousness Prize long listed title Célina on our website www.lesfugitives.com/all-books/ca...

31.01.2025 09:28 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to the small presses and writers on the Republic of Consciousness Prize longlist, announced today on Substack: therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com/p/announcing.... The RoC isn't on BlueSky, so here's the list:

30.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 43    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 4
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Announcing the 2025 Long list for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses I cannot believe we've made it to Year 9.

Absolutely delighted to see The Seers on the longlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, which recognises and celebrates the work of small presses. Congratulations to
Sulaiman Addonia and all of the longlisted writers and publishers! 🥂🙌

therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com/p/announcing...

30.01.2025 10:47 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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2025 Longlist Announcement — Republic of Consciousness

We are delighted to be longlisted for this year's Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, with 'There's a Monster Behind the Door.'

Congratulations to all & a big thank you to RofC for their longstanding support of independent publishing!

www.republicofconsciousness.com/2024-longlist

31.01.2025 19:22 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
2025 Longlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, UK & Ireland -- image of the 10 books selected for the longlist:
-There's a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem tr. Laëtitia Saint-Loubert & Karen Fleetwood (Bullaun Press)
-Invisible Dogs by Charles Boyle Invisible Dogs by Charles Boyle (CB Editions)
-How to Leave the World by Marouane Bakhti How to Leave the World by Marouane Bakhti tr. Lara Vergnaud (Divided Publishing)
-Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (Holland House Books)
-Célina by Catherine Axelrad Célina by Catherine Axelrad tr. Philip Terry (Les Fugitives)
-Mother Naked by Glen James Brown Mother Naked by Glen James Brown (Peninsula Press)
-The Seers by Sulaiman Addonia The Seers by Sulaiman Addonia (Prototype Publishing)
-Goodlord, an email by Ella Frears Goodlord by Ella Frears (Rough Trade Books)
-Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches Somewhere Else by Jenny Daiches (Scotland Street Press)
-Daybook by Nathan Knapp Daybook by Nathan Knapp (Splice)

2025 Longlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, UK & Ireland -- image of the 10 books selected for the longlist: -There's a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem tr. Laëtitia Saint-Loubert & Karen Fleetwood (Bullaun Press) -Invisible Dogs by Charles Boyle Invisible Dogs by Charles Boyle (CB Editions) -How to Leave the World by Marouane Bakhti How to Leave the World by Marouane Bakhti tr. Lara Vergnaud (Divided Publishing) -Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (Holland House Books) -Célina by Catherine Axelrad Célina by Catherine Axelrad tr. Philip Terry (Les Fugitives) -Mother Naked by Glen James Brown Mother Naked by Glen James Brown (Peninsula Press) -The Seers by Sulaiman Addonia The Seers by Sulaiman Addonia (Prototype Publishing) -Goodlord, an email by Ella Frears Goodlord by Ella Frears (Rough Trade Books) -Somewhere Else by Jenni Daiches Somewhere Else by Jenny Daiches (Scotland Street Press) -Daybook by Nathan Knapp Daybook by Nathan Knapp (Splice)

2025 Longlist for the Republic of Consciousness Small Press Prize, UK & Ireland #booksky #literature #smallpresses #prizes 📚💙

01.02.2025 01:06 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

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