JL Bogenschneider

A shortlist to get excited about - isn't that what we want from a prize?

Huge congratulations @benpester.bsky.social @cdrose.bsky.social Sarah Hall Colwill Brown (who's had a very good week!) Yrsa Daley-Ward & Charlie Porter

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Ghost Box IV — Hingston & Olsen Publishing

My spine is tingling as a short from my @boilerhouse.bsky.social collection is in Ghost Box IV: a deluxe coffin of spooky/horror stories from Canadian publishers of gorgeous box sets Hingston & Olsen w/ texts selected by excellent human @pattonoswalt.bsky.social 🙏 Out today, print run very limited!

reminder: if you like cursed images, trash essays, Wiki aesthetic categories, shrimp Jesus & AI slop, book your ticket for the launch of Amateurs! How We Made Internet Culture and Why it Matters ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with @nrolah.bsky.social, tues sept 23rd!

Image of an olive skinned woman with shoulder length dark hair looking to her left, in a white T-shirt. The background is blurred. Overlaid white text on black backing reads: I’m running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors.

Light blue background with whitish grid motif. Black text reads: - to improve author and translator pay - to fight against AI use and its normalisation - to represent both authors and literary translators

Same light blue background. Black text reads: - to bring my perspective as a working-class practitioner - to share my experience as a publisher and press officer

Same light blue background. Black text reads: full statement available on my website and the society of authors website. Voting is for members by post and must be received by 22 October.

I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here:

jencalleja.com/writing/

I’ve been touring this book since February and every time I’ve signed a copy for someone, I’ve asked them to sign my copy in return. Come to my last event of the year at @chorltonbookfest.bsky.social next Tuesday and be one of the last people to sign it.

I have a new Radio 4 short story about an exorcism in a Nursing Home airing this month and I’ve just listened to the recording of Seamus O’Hara reading it and it’s only brilliant. Can’t wait for you all to hear it.

Just trying to make sense

My story ‘Small Bad Things’ which came third in @themothmagazine.bsky.social short story prize is published in @irishtimes.com today 🎉 There is a small paywall - (£1 for first month) 👇

Joanna Pocock’s GREYHOUND reading list | Fitzcarraldo Editions A list of works that inspired the writing of Joanna Pocock’s latest book, Greyhound. Combining memoir, reportage, environmental writing and literary criticism, Greyhound is a moving and immersive book...

If anyone is interested in some of the books that helped inform GREYHOUND, here is a short list. As summer comes to an end, there is still time for one more road trip, even if it's a literary one...
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/08/joan...

Still a week left if you want to support this vital Bristol indie 👇

Donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

@bookhaus.bsky.social

Dream dream dream
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social @jasonarthur.bsky.social

About - A Personal Anthology A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

What is it that most says 'Autumn's on its way' to you? A chill in the air? Birds gathering on telephone wires to fly south? School uniforms in shop window displays?

Or me putting a call out for contributors to A Personal Anthology when it returns in September?

Love short stories? Prove it!

Spent Sunday afternoon in the company of the final issue of Lunate, which features my own contribution 'Alice Truly - A Life In Fiction.'

It's been a joy and a privilege to be part of it all. Thanks to Claire, Han & Gary.

Vol. 6 and more available at lunate.co.uk/shop

BANSHEE PRESS 'Taints' by David Hayden Night is one star exchanged for many stars. There is no escaping the motion of our home towards imperfect darkness. I hid in a storm drain in the park until closing time, escaping from what I might find of myself in the sight

My story ‘Taints’ published last year in @bansheepress.bsky.social is now available to read online. bansheepress.org/read/taints-...

This is going to be quite the event!

My Failed, Unpublished Novel On so-called "failures" and the "shoulds" of writing

If you have an unpublished novel in a computer file somewhere, this one's for you.

Sad Grownups Check out Sad Grownups - <p><strong>For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Winne...

it's been forever since my book came out (nearly a year?!). if anyone wants to buy a story collection that i think is apt in these weird, hard times, here it is!

Totally delighted to be shortlisted for this - and to also win the @saloneurope.bsky.social prize - I cannot wait to take part in the salon next year in Madrid 😍 you can pre order the book and order the anthology of all the brilliant stories now 👇👇

'Winter Sutra', one of two poems by John Burnside in our August / September 2025 issue. @jonathancape.bsky.social

Order a copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

Outlandish in the Observer today

"Reader who or the unsettling charms of Shirley Jackson’s or Daphne du Maurier’s stylish, gothic-imbued brand of horror and anyone who loved the cliquish, killer cast of characters in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History will be enthralled with Dunham’s exemplary debut." —Library Journal, starred review

My novel is comped to Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Donna Tartt in this ⭐ STARRED REVIEW ⭐ at Library Journal!!! 🤩

A window on to American decline | The Observer Joanna Pocock’s account of two Greyhound bus journeys, 17 years apart, charts the US’s fracturing society and depleted landscape

'Traversing urban metropolises and desert vistas, GREYHOUND is an erudite study of how living among others became a dying art.' Ellen Peirson-Hagger reviews GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock for @theobserveruk.bsky.social: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

“I want to tell you a few stories: stories from an old town far up north, far up east, a town by the sea.”
@deepbaltic.bsky.social published excerpts from my translation of “Death in Reval” (Der Tod von Reval, 1939) by Baltic German Werner Bergengruen (1892-1964). deepbaltic.com/2025/08/05/d...

Winter Papers - IRELAND'S ANNUAL ARTS ANTHOLOGY — ARCHIVE 2015 - 2023 SELECTED WORK / VOLUME 8 FROM THE MOUNTAINS David Hayden The countryside was empty now, and for an age past. Theresa and Martin sat at the kitchen table and waited for the oven to warm up, which it never really did. Martin, and then Theresa, thought about going to bed, ate some cheese and crackers, threw away the raw lasagne, and went to bed. There were two kinds of silence, one inside that was a still and boundaried quiet, and another outside that was like the totality of all absences that, when the lights were out, forced its way through the bittood t there that

My story ‘From the Mountains’ in @winterpapers.bsky.social archive. winterpapers.com/selected-wor...

Spent Sunday afternoon in the company of the final issue of Lunate, which features my own contribution 'Alice Truly - A Life In Fiction.'

It's been a joy and a privilege to be part of it all. Thanks to Claire, Han & Gary.

Vol. 6 and more available at lunate.co.uk/shop

‘Richard Osman made £10m, but I  got £250 last year’: How much money novelists really make The big hitters of the literary world draw headlines for their book deals. But the reality of writing fiction for a living is an altogether less lucrative existence

A good, transparent piece on author advances. Nice to see @akblakemore.bsky.social here

inews.co.uk/culture/book...

An Interview with Liadan Ní Chuinn — TOLKA by Catherine Hearn

“What has happened in the past is still playing out now.”

New online — Tolka editor Catherine Hearn spoke to Liadan Ní Chuinn about their debut short story collection Every One Still Here, published by @grantabooks.bsky.social and @stingingfly.bsky.social. www.tolkajournal.org/read-online/...

Nightjar Press Nightjar Press publish original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks.

I have a new story out on Nightjar press called Flight Paths. Get one here for only £3.00. I suggest buying mine along with Joe Stretch ‘s as they were both commissioned for Stockport Stories, and complement each other like an earthy wine with a ripe brie. nightjarpress.weebly.com?fbclid=IwQ0x...

Inklings pitch submissions open from the 1st to 31st August 2025. More information on the Saraband website.

We’re delighted to announce that we’re now open to Inklings pitch submissions until the 31st August!

Visit our website for further information - we’re really looking forward to reading your submissions!

saraband.net/2025/07/11/i...

#Booksky #Writers
@404ink.bsky.social
📚💙

The best books to read in summer 2025 Big Issue's summer books 2025 include tales of boys finding friendship through learning birdsong and scathing putdowns of pretentious bohos.

'We Live Here Now' is a 'pick of the summer crop' according to @bigissue.com
Many thanks!
www.bigissue.com/culture/book...