Paul Tucker

It's Libra by DeLillo for me, for the language (that shrieking metro scene at the beginning...), for the way the gaps in the 'facts' of Oswald are filed so densely and so strangely, for the creep towards *the event* over decades.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

With no research on my part at all, what about The Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace?

There it is. As was long known, but there it is.

'Making Things Real Again' is quite a ridiculous story TBH, a wondering what might have happened had Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky dragged his ideas (and his prodigious temper) up a big hill. It was longlisted for the
@desperatelit.bsky.social prize last year.

My story 'Making Things Real Again' has been published in excellent US journal Action, Spectacle, guest edited by Ella Frears 🗯️

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This is such a cool archive - over 10,000 rights-free artworks spanning over 2,000 years, all free to download. Train your human intelligence, expand your human creativity!

@pdimagearchive.bsky.social

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Really chuffed to have made it to the final six of the Writers & Artists Prize!
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I'm very pleased to be on the longlist for the Writers & Artists prize! www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/longl...

Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Thank you! Hope you're good - I'm looking forward to The Benefactors hitting the shops!

A list of the winners and Highly Commended short fiction writers I'm the Cúirt New Writers Prize

Extremely grateful to make it onto the Highly Commended list in the Cúirt Festival (@cuirtfestival.bsky.social) New Writing Prize, judged by Wendy Erskine (@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social). 📝

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

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Or wherever, actually. I will travel!

A prize for whichever #cinema puts on a Payal Kapadia double feature in #London when All We Imagine as Light comes out. Someone, please!

La Piccioletta Barca | Witnesses - by Paul Tucker The following is adapted from transcripts of sub-frequency audio recordings that you’ll remember...

My story 'Witnesses' has been published by La Piccioletta Barca. It's loosely about land and movement and home. It's also based on an excellent Jock McFadyen painting, Pink Flats.

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Better late than never - I've just realised my story 'Making things real again' made the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize longlist a few weeks ago. 🥰

I (British, living in London) was chatting to an American I met recently who has just moved to the UK but has toured widely (not just the US, but also the UK, Europe and beyond) with quite a successful band, and he asked me quite innocently, "have you visited mainland Europe?"

Read novelist Lana Bastašić’s blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship. It is my political and human opinion that children should not be slaughtered and that German cultural institutions should know better when it comes to genocide. –Lana Bastašić   Last month, th…

“I… want to remind you that (fortunately for precarious writers like myself), you are not Literature. Your money is not Literature. S. Fischer is not Literature. Germany is not Literature. And we, the writers, will remember.”
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On 14th Feb Burley Fisher Books is teaming up with a load of other indies to raise money for PEN Emergency Fund for Writers at Risk, a fund to help writers get out of Gaza, more info below:

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Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine poster listing names of poets and artists killed by Israel since oct 7, 2023

Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine poster listing names of journalists killed by Israel since oct 7, 2023

Today, we remember the journalists, poets, artists killed by Israel in Gaza in the last one hundred days

A quote from the story: "My mother unhooks birds from the sky as if they’re cheap earrings that will turn her earlobes green. She tosses them into the cavern of her mouth and makes her mind a sky. My mother tells me not to think so much. That the moment I consider myself a failure, I take my foot off the neck of this rotten world. Because I’ll never have to live without knowing her, my mother will never die. Some lives are so wide that they can hold the whole of your own within them."

This is an incredible piece of fiction from K-Ming Chang in Guernica. I don't know how you write like this. t.co/MOWlK8ezLi

Teju Cole quoted in the New York Times. “That’s what trying to work with unconventional forms feels like: You’re crossing the bridge while you’re constructing the bridge,” he said. “I want people to read my work and think, ‘Wait, I didn’t know that was allowed.’ Any book that is finding its own form is implicitly saying, ‘Well, it’s allowed now.’”

I love this from Teju Cole. Part of the reason fiction (and cinema) connect is that his bridge analogy is how life works as well. Keep building bridges!

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@tomlake1.bsky.social just realised it was you who followed me. Hey man!

Is there a good place to find out about writing retreats/residencies in the UK and abroad? I'd like to apply for something lasting 1-2 weeks in the summer, but I'm not sure where to start.

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My always excellent, always friendly local bookshop (/institution) Kirkdale Books was burgled a couple of days ago. Please consider them for upcoming purchases: kirkdalebookshop.com/order-online/

‘In the last four weeks language has deserted me’: Adania Shibli on being shut down Speaking out for the first time since the cancellation of her award ceremony at the Frankfurt book fair, the Palestinian author sheds light on her work and the power of linguistics and erasure

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I haven't explained that well. What I'm saying is, read Tremors by Teju Cole. And read Black Paper. Read all of it.