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Just read ‘Broken Ground’ by new indie publisher Uncertain Stories.
Some fantastic short stories, dotted in between with some lovely art illustrations. Well worth buying.
@uncertainstories.com

If you don't already know @salopress.bsky.social , check them out. They are a small publisher based in the UK and (although I'm slightly biased) I think they publish some brilliant work.

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
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Today is #BookshopDay. Visit your local independent bookshop and say hello. If you can’t get to your local indie you can support them by ordering through Bookshop.org – just as easy as amazon, but kinder to publishers and authors.
@booksaremybag.bsky.social

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

It's been tough going for small publishers for a while, but they continue to publish a lot of the most exciting new work, and are the main supporters of the short story as a form. Support indie publishing when you can!
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Uncertain Stories Uncertain Stories is a new publishing house specialising in short fiction.

#BrokenGround is the 1st anthology from @uncertainstories.com . Out on 21st October. Stories by myself, Mark Taylor, Eva Carson, and Tamsin Hopkins, Nathaniel Spain, Jack Edwards, and Flo Ward. Ed Rob Redman & illustrated by Lucy Scott 🔥🔥🔥.
Read excerpts and pre-order here
www.uncertainstories.com

The Hours of Our Lady film has its ‘U.S. premiere’ at The Experimental Film Fest in NC tonight. Made by filmmaker @cathysrogers.bsky.social & sound designers Adam Collins & Sean Price. Features performance artist Sam Talbot reading selected text from my chapbook (pub'd by @salopress.bsky.social )

Running sheets for the anthology “Broken Ground”, photographed on a cutting mat.

Running sheets! Our first anthology has been printed. It just needs to be bound, and then it’ll be out in the world...

Laurence Edwards 'SCULPTURE 2025' - Messums Org Laurence Edwards’ practice has long been preoccupied by the entwining of man, nature and time. One of the few sculptors who casts his own work, he is fascinated by human anatomy and the metamorphosis ...

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A brief photosplat from Laurence Edwards’s stunning exhibition at @messumswest.bsky.social . The large scale work has incredible presence, but the smaller work and drawings are also incredible.
Final weekend, so if you can make it to Wiltshire in time, go and see it – it’s an incredible show!

YouTube video by MSNBC We warned you about Project 2025. Well, it’s here…

Weren't we talking about this before the last election?
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Awesome - congrats Dave😀

Very happy to share that my story, ‘Shipping Out made the shortlist of the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition. It will be published in Southward next year along with the winning stories and the other shortlisted stories. Thanks to judge, Laura Jean McKay, and the @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social .

I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs.

We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.

What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

Keep fracking out of Britain! I live in Lincolnshire, and a new gas field has been found nearby. Reform UK are already shouting “drill, baby, drill,” and fracking isn’t banned - it’s only paused. That means they could start drilli...

Reform UK are yelling “drill, baby, drill” 🙄 But fracking is reckless & won’t even cut bills. Time to end this nonsense. Tell Ed Miliband: BAN FRACKING permanently. Add your name: 38d.gs/tstk?utm_cam...

SHOP | David Frankel Online shop for prints and original artwork by David Frankel

In a stunning victory for the Rapid Response Tech Team here at Frankel Towers, my website’s shop is back online after a ‘temporary’ twelve year service outage. Free UK P&P. Have a look... 🙏🙂
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👇👀👇 20%off at SALT. Have a browse, maybe buy some books... maybe buy my book! 😉

I'm very excited to have a story in the first anthology from the new publishing house, ‪‪@uncertainstories.com - the dark, creepy twin of @thefictiondesk.com . They've got some fantastic projects lined up, so if weird/uncanny stories are your thing give them a follow or sign up for the mailing list!

Anselm Kiefer at The White Cube. Marvellous!

My story collection, 'Forgetting Is How We Survive' is shortlisted for the #EdgeHillPrize - the prize event is tonight 🤞. If you want to find out what the fuss is about, it's available to buy in all the usual places, or from @saltpublishing.com here...
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Inside the ghost museums of Ukraine: exhibits replaced by fragments of war and occupation The curators of shattered historical buildings near the eastern frontline are preserving wartime memories as they reconstruct their collections

Inside the ghost museums of Ukraine: exhibits replaced by fragments of war and occupation

YouTube video by Democracy Now! James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

They really think we are all morons

Forgetting is How We Survive, David Frankel 'In Forgetting Is How We Survive', people are haunted by ghosts of the past, tormented by doppelgangers and pining for lost futures. Each character faces a turn

Since its original outing in the London Magazine it became part of my collection ‘Forgetting is How We Survive’ – so if you like this one, give the other stories a go too!
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Downstream the Water Darkens - The London Magazine There are only a few days before we have to go home. Summer is nearly over. A flash of brilliant blue and green that came and went, like the dragonflies near the water’s edge. Kristin and I are on the riverbank at the furthest corner of the farm. The fields end at a wall...

Just realised that my short story, ‘Downstream The Water Darkens’ is available to read for free on the London Magazine archive. It’s a good one for a lazy sunny afternoon, if you fancy a read as you wilt in the heat.
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#shortstories #forgettingishowwesurvive

Good luck Dave🤞🏻Hope you win it - I’ll be watching the ceremony next week.

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I’m hugely honoured to have been shortlisted for the 2025 #CWprize ! Congratulations to my all my fellow shortlisted writers. Find out more here: commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-...

Here's a small photosplat of the landscape I described in my recent essay for @panoramajournal.bsky.social .
Read the words that go with the pictures here:
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#placewriting #psychogeography #landscapewriting #landscapephotography #kentcoast #kentlandscape