Giselle Leeb

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I answered some great questions from Joe Bedford, who interviewed me for his 'Writers on Research' series:
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk

I answered some great questions from Joe Bedford, who interviewed me for his 'Writers on Research' series:
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk

Cover of Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart by Gennarose Nethercott

Thanks to @jolloyds.bsky.social for recommending this.

Loved it like I love Kelly Link and Sarah Pinsker (perhaps also one for @giselleleeb.bsky.social )

Thanks, yes! Kelly Links is tops so sure I’ll enjoy it 😀

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for coming

I had my final writing class led by @giselleleeb.bsky.social at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham last night, and I must say I learned so much and am excited to put it all into my writing going forward.

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Interzone #302 In this issue: stories by Seán Padraic Birnie, Rachael Cupp, Bogdan Domakha, Alexandra Grunberg, E F McAdam, Carlos Norcia, Yukimi Ogawa, Kate Orman, Tamsin Showbrook, R.L. Summerling, and Steve Toase...

New @interzone.press issue is out! Featuring work by @seanpadraic.bsky.social, @stevetoase.bsky.social, @giselleleeb.bsky.social, Nick Lowe, ‪@nmamatas.bsky.social,‬ and lots of other cool people, full list here: weightlessbooks.com/interzone-302/

Very happy to have my story “No Shelter Beneath the Searchlights” in the latest @interzone.press alongside with @rlsummerling.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social, Aliya Whiteley, @giselleleeb.bsky.social and so many other great writers.

Some excellently feral stories including @jeffreyford8.bsky.social @giselleleeb.bsky.social and @giantratsumatra.bsky.social

Thanks @jonathangibbs.bsky.social

If anyone has some animal stories they can recommend, I’m all ears - hidden and asymetrical ones like those of an owl

#302 of the fab @interzone.press‬ avail. soon. I review 8 new intriguing & uncanny @nightjarpress.bsky.social stories by: @meganjstaylor.bsky.social, J G Lynas, imogenreid.bsky.social‬, @kirstennorrie.bsky.social, Philip Terry, @arthurmandal.bsky.social, @carolynstock.bsky.social, Alex Older

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An Animal Personal Anthology, by Charlotte Tierney Animals might be considered, broadly, unsophisticated and unremarkable, while also being cosmically bananas, like the rest of the natural world.

And off it goes, Charlotte Tierney’s Personal Anthology, as aloof and detached as a sleep-walker, going faster than the snail, watching the livestream of the goldfinch, staying in the aquarium of the Jardin des Plantes for hours, bellowing for the dog, twisting and snorting...

Our May submissions window for fantastical flash fiction is now open through 11:59 p.m., May 7.
Full guidelines and Submittable button here: fabulistmagazine.com/about/submis...

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#speculativefiction
#flashfiction

Check out all of my events upcoming for 2025 - so far - with stacks of online writing courses, workshops and events forthcoming! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis... #writing #writers #writingcommunity #horror #courses #wriitngcourses #writingworkshops #writingclasses

Thanks, Chuck :-)

Last few places left on @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Short Story course. Starts Tue 6 May. I've listed my top 5 books on writing in the course details. What are yours?
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/writi...

Take a photo she said, tote bags, lanyards, badges, tape, bookmarks. Put it on social media she said. What about the books? I thought, too late. Penguin Archive. There are also books.

So... just about finished our events programme for May. Highlights include a couple of events by @robinince.bsky.social, our first writing course by @giselleleeb.bsky.social, a book launch with Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, a lecture on Cavafy by Gregory Woods... www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events

River Trent here. We're taking orders for this edition (UK only) - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/is-a-river-alive/

We start our Irish book group tonight. Tomorrow our Pagan group. Wednesday our longest running, fiction, group.
Find us also with a stall @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social on Tuesday and with TM Logan at West Bridgford Library on Thursday. We try to keep busy...

Beautiful Poem!

WORD FACTORY SHORT STORY CLUB: George Saunders with Giselle Leeb An evening of discussion about Saunders' futuristic story, Jon

WORD FACTORY SHORT STORY CLUB: George Saunders with Giselle Leeb
I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories

The next Writing the Occult event will be digging into the world of relics - but there's plenty more to uncover in the series for 2025 too! www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/writing-t... @laurenwrites.bsky.social

Had a great day at ‘States of Independence’ today at DMU in Leicester - brilliant sessions from Pedestrian talking through their Leics folklore project, @rodduncan.bsky.social, @giselleleeb.bsky.social, as well as a brilliant keynote from Anthony Joseph. Huge thanks to all involved! 🙌

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Once again the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by the Jerusalem police, books seized, one of the owners arrested and the store closed. There was no search or arrest warrant.
@thebookseller.com @babooksellers.bsky.social
#booksellingisnotacrime

Bookselling in East Jerusalem these days

Book of the Day - all over the press and social media, as you would expect, that from "I'm literally a communist, you idiot" Ash Sarkar from Novara Media - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/minority-rule-adventures-in-the-culture-war/. Signed copies available.
Pay double if you are a hedge-fund spiv.