Andrew Tucker Leavis

It's the last three days to crowdfund our new literary print journal, featuring 40 contributors from around the world. We've nearly hit £3000 - can you pitch in?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/new...

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New Nottingham Journal Support the rebel city's new journal of writing: top quality short fiction, slow journalism and poetry from around the world.

Fancying helping to create a new literary journal?

👉 www.tinyurl.com/kickstartnnj

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Presenting...the first New Nottingham Journal cover!

Short stories, journalism, poetry and B&W photography from the UK's rebel city.

You can support the project on Kickstarter now, should the mood strike you!

👉 www.tinyurl.com/kickstartnnj

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You’ve got five more days to submit to a new literary journal in print!

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5 most iconic fathers in video game history Dad pixels.

Back in the Radio Times. Who's your favourite gaming patriarch?

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In relationships I'm now embracing 'monogrammy'. I only date people who have their initials sewn on to all their clothes.

Every Doctor Who video game, ranked from worst to best Fancy a trip in the TARDIS?

For my first Radio Times piece I hopped into the famous blue box to obtain a BBC Micro computer - with mixed results...

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We want to get your stories, poems or essays into print. There's a new literary journal releasing later this year - open for submissions from around the world. Visit newnottinghamjournal.com.

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Submissions for the New Nottingham Journal are opening next week - stay tuned for details.

Can she step out from the Camplight? I reviewed Dilettante's live show last month for Under the Radar.

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Have friends who've been waiting for years for an ADHD diagnosis - the irony isn't lost on them about how much sustained concentration is required to get one! Best with it.

Making the most of a warm day and a thick head.

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Notts writer Hongwei Bao on the poetics of queer and diasporic experiences Raised in Inner Mongolia, Dr. Hongwei Bao is now a Director of Research at the University of Nottingham and the industrious community organiser of events like the Queer Chinese Arts Festival, Poetics ...

Thank @leftlion.bsky.social and @atleavis.bsky.social for this wonderful conversation about queerness, poetry and the diasporic experience: leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

DISSECTING MANCTOPIA 🐝
Readings & Ramblings from Book of Manchester Authors

📍 Feel Good Club, MCR
📅 Mar 20, 7-9pm

🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissecting...

What does Manchester mean to you? Join as we explore, celebrate & critiques the city Manchester was, and the one it has become...

‘Teeming with life’ - exactly why I love Dickens. Fab piece by @claireharman.bsky.social in the Literary Review

Impossumble.

We Chat to Bill Bailey Before He Brings His Thoughtifier Tour to Nottingham in March With his trademark musical stylings and characteristic wit, Bill Bailey will be bringing his Thoughtifier tour to Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena on 1 March. We caught up with him to find out more about...

Last year I spoke to Bill Bailey (before his morning coffee) and he shared with me his plan for surviving on a desert island, and his thoughts on the animal kingdom:

'If the bees are in strife, then maybe it's time for the wasps to sort of step up.'

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they do say action makes the heart grow Fonda

Garfunkel has aged phenomenally well.

the history of cartoon dogs is a series of footnotes to Pluto

Happy to get tongue-tied for Manchester's top indie publisher Comma Press, having spotted a good excuse to write about Jimmy Carter (mildly) sexually harassing the state of Poland.

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Many thanks guys! Always happy to roll out Jimmy Carter anecdotes.

Thanks, Dan. It's like you read my mind.

This is how to turn your unsolicited email into a solicited email.

🚨RELEASE DAY🚨

It takes a certain type of team to catch a killer...

Sequel to A Time For Dying, A House For Monsters is the new instalment of the DCI Tom McHale series by Bryce Main.

Order this dark and fast-paced character-driven crime novel now:
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New, many-hued review copies from @commapress.bsky.social!🎨 Thanks gang

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Manchester in Translation 2025 Join us for an evening of talks and workshops to celebrate all things literary translation, no experience required.

MANCHESTER IN TRANSLATION 2025 🐝

Arabic literary translation for complete beginners. Aimed at anyone interested in lit translation regardless of experience!

🗣️2 talks
✍️2 Workshops
🗓️Feb 19 5.30-7.30pm
📍 Manchester Uni Students Union

🎟️£3 eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester... or DM to sign up for free

Turning a new page: How Meadows Library escaped closure Set up to support the library in the Meadows, Friends of Meadows Library has provided an essential hub for almost 100 years. Thanks to community togetherness and smart campaigning, the Meadows Library...

Thanks to community togetherness and smart campaigning, the Meadows Library was recently saved from closure. We met Jackie and Di from the group, to find out what Friends of Meadows Library is there for, and why this special library was so worth saving.

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‘Don’t you…step on my crusade shoes. You can do anything, but lay off of my crusade shoes.’

Yes, reading back I’ve skirted close to embellishment there! Strictly an 8.30pm curfew. It’s a fantastic place.