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Celebrating indie publishing at the Southbank last night with @scratchbooks.bsky.social and @elfodongo.bsky.social

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Very happy to share Salt’s 2026 list — one of our most ambitious yet. New books from Michael Arditti, Louis de Bernières, Tibor Fischer, Michelle Lovric and Erica Wagner, plus striking debuts. Twenty-five books full of character. #SaltBooks #IndiePress #NewBooks2026
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Writing Against Silence: Susanna Crossman and the Radical Honesty of "The Orange Notebooks" When Susanna Crossman speaks about her new novel The Orange Notebooks, she talks about process, practice, and experimentation—terms that suggest not a tidy narrative but a living, breathing act of cre...

The excellent Jonathan Crain interviewed me about my novel The Orange Notebooks (@pressassembly.bsky.social & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social). We talked about reclaiming the lost language of mourning, my hospital work, bees, the colour orange, lost libraries & more.
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Skin Job by Catherine Eisner A Self-Narrative Assignment A high risk of re-offending,’ an incisive voice was heard to quote from my case file.The finality of these words was thought to prepare me for the inqui...

‘Skin Job’ – a new story by Catherine Eisner in House Magazine.

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Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. 80 years on, are the dead being betrayed? A quarter of Okinawan civilians died during the US invasion, some after being told to kill themselves. But today the legacy of the war dead is being complicated by the presence of tens of thousands of...

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. 80 years on, are the dead being betrayed? | Japan | The Guardian

David says everything he possibly can about a single, rich poem and keeps going... this leads to playful possibilities. He draws your full attention to one of the finest female poets today

Not so much giving you a "handle" on poetry, but showing you don't need one. You're enough of a reader already

Congratulations!! Looks fantastic

Published today.

Selma Dabbagh | In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible ‘Can you believe this has been going on for six hundred days?’ one of my fellow panellists asked the audience at...

‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

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'A Crumpled Swan' is published next Tuesday and you can pre-order on both sides of the Atlantic here: www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr...
The launch is at Hodges and Figgis in Dublin on Thursday 12 June. More details in my free monthly newsletter DM if you'd like to subscribe)

Okay folks, pre-orders for Keshed can be swagged direct from @ortacpress.bsky.social as of NOW so those lovely souls who've been bugging me for a link, crack on 😀 be appearing on all the other usual outlets a bit later in the year 👌👌👌👌

Feeling all the joy for the cover reveal of my novel 'The Orange Notebooks', out with the brilliant @pressassembly.bsky.social for North American readers 09/25.
Available for preorder now in Canada & the US from your favourite bookseller #shoplocal.
UK edition is out now @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Writers, join us for my @literatureworks.bsky.social life stories course -online & in-person- on situation & story, memory enhancement, social history & archives, French auto-fiction & the tricky questions of ethics & truth ! Can't wait to work together.

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A green textured background with the following poem excerpt in white text: 'and if we walk to the same sea later we’ll see something heaving up beside us: caskets of grey, white-capped, barren and loose, the way memories are. Signed: Chris Emery ©

Chris Emery’s 'Truer' is a meditation on memory and grief—on the things we don’t fully remember but still carry. @chrisemery.me

Read now!
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So great to see you x

The audience arriving for the launch at Waterstones, Trafalgar Square

Susanna Crossman reading from her new novel The Orange Notebooks at tonight's launch.

From left: Susanna's agent Jessica Craig, Susanna Crossman and Bluemoose publisher Kevin Duffy

A crowded selfie with Kevin 'Bluemoose' Duffy, Stu 'Ghost Signs' Henningan and David 'No Cool Middle Name' Collard at the launch of Susanna Crossman's THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS tonight

Then place to be tonight was the launch of Susanna Crossman's fine novel THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS and Waterstones, Trafalgar Square.

The best of early Twitter in person! Yes please do, would be great to hang out x

Yes! I was edging my way towards you but too slowly … Next time :)

Beautiful night celebrating @susannacrossman.bsky.social’s new novel #theorangenotebooks 🧡🍊📙

Writing Using Visual, Musical and Drama Technique - London Lit Lab From the visual arts we’ll examine tools like mind-mapping, and Russian cinematic collage montage technique to help us juxtapose, complement or amplify hybrid elements. From music, we’ll highlight jaz...

Please join us for my next 'Creative thinking & Writing' online workshop 26/04 2-4pm GMT (9-11 EST) @londonlitlab.bsky.social for writers, poets, teachers who are feeling stuck/want to reignite creative fires. There'll be mindmaps, Dada Merz, impro and more...
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Absolutely amazed to find this study of my novel Dreamtime in the Pakistan Research Journal of Social Studies today - an unbelievably thoughtful, detailed and generous dissection! The whole piece is here: prjss.com/index.php/pr... @saltpublishing.com

And lo: here we are, on Bluesky. Pls repost to spread the word!

Julian Stannard New and Selected Poems

Neil Campbell Saying Dirty Things in Regional Accents

Kerry Hadley-Pryce Lie of the Land

Ken Evans A Full-On Basso Profundo

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