Nicholas Royle

Good point.

Thanks @newstatesman1913.bsky.social for celebrating & supporting the rich culture of the short story in the UK today by publishing a story by… Anton Chekhov.

2025 & 2026 Booker Prize judging panels. Can we look forward to novelists & short story writers being invited to join judging panels for Golden Globes & Mercury Prize?

Jonathan, I regret missing the chance to agree with you sooner on this issue. I was, however, singing your praises in an online session this evening with @vickygrut.bsky.social and some very nice short story folk.

Dave, that looks idyllic.

Thank you to Jonathan Coe (The Proof of My Innocence) for selecting Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle for the Observer’s ‘Writers recommend: the best books of 2025’ feature: observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/writers-recommend-the-best-books-of-2025

Thanks Judson ☺️

I wonder if Avanti West Coast’s delay repay portal crashes on a day like today under sheer weight of traffic, or if they take it down in the hope that a good percentage of today’s frustrated passengers will forget to claim tomorrow.

Tears flowing in Storm Claudia-tossed Manchester, not for @iancritchley.bsky.social’s choosing Colette de Curzon’s @nightjarpress.bsky.social story in his Personal Anthology hosted by @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, nor for his kind words about me & The Cast, but for *his* story about his twin brother.

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Sighting at Islington cafe of @serpents-tail.bsky.social edition of The Course of the Heart @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

A word on your alphabetically ordered bookshelf: meticulous.

It was twenty years ago today. I can’t remember how it happened.

Yes although not on site. I’ll email you.

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‘That Nicholas Royle, what an idiot’?

Excellent, Seán. Do you know which story she was reading?

I’ll introduce you.

Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063

Amazing. Great work.

Remarkable essay in the form of marker posts, a haunting record of a walk through landscape, encountering nature, human activity & industrial archeology & recording evidence of personal endurance & the menace of nationalism & reflecting grief for a lost friend.

I did like those early stories.

More of their crap going in the recycling. Might as well get some good out of it.

Whenever I come across child-killers’ literature in book exchanges, I take it away – and recycle it.

Very happy see my story ‘Helium’ in here alongside so many great stories and writers. Many thanks to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and @saltpublishing.com and @fictivedream.bsky.social

On a TGV, running a slight delay, which could affect my connection. SNCF have emailed me, saying they’ve booked me on the next one should that be the case. Just sitting here, watching the French countryside fly past, trying to imagine that happening in the UK.

About time too @mjohnharrison.bsky.social