An ill wind: Poppyland, by D.J. Taylor, reviewed
As the term refers to the stretch of the north Norfolk coastline between Sheringham and Mundesley, only one of the stories in D.J. Taylor’s engrossing new collection strictly takes place in ‘Poppyland...
An ill wind: Poppyland, by @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social , reviewed in The Spectator by George Cochrane
‘Norfolk life looks quietly bleak in these carefully worked short stories of broken homes, precarious employment, dwindling expectations and torpor’
05.06.2025 07:18 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
🌺 New from DJ Taylor – Poppyland 🌺
Published Mon 2nd June, a dazzling collection of short stories explores the murky edges of nostalgia, ambition, and identity in England.
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29.05.2025 06:45 — 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
YouTube video by Writing for Life
Writing For Life: Outro
and finally...
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24.05.2025 09:19 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
ENSFR
The European Network for Short Fiction Research was established in 2013 with the aim of fostering and promoting the study of short fiction in European universities and in interaction with short fic…
Some of my best PhD experiences @universityofessex.bsky.social included presenting and attending @ensfr.bsky.social conferences.
Here is my spotlight on writing short fiction (thanks Ines Gstrein & Paul Anthony Knowles). The challenge was answering 3 questions in 75 words!
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19.05.2025 09:20 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Writing for Life
Episode 7 Recovery
latest episode here!
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19.05.2025 08:38 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Writing for Life
Episode 6: Can publishing make you ill?
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11.05.2025 06:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
A blue swirled back featuring cartoon heads of the two hosts.
Small Pleasures podcast:
In the latest episode, Livi Michael and Sonya Moor look at two marvels of short fiction – Sarah Hall’s ‘Mrs Fox’ and Jackie Kay’s ‘My Daughter the Fox’.
09.05.2025 10:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Short fiction in a flash: a bite-size interview with Vesna Main, by Sonya Moor is now live on the ENSFR website.
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08.05.2025 07:29 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Routledge Book Cover: Blue and Green design with title in white band in the middle
New Book: Anthologisation and Short Fiction: Magnitudes of Telling by Paul Delaney
This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland. Specifically, it discusses the cultural, material, and ideological usages of the short form.
06.05.2025 09:24 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by The Short Story Podcast
Small Pleasures Episode 19: Sarah Hall 'Mrs Fox' and Jackie Kay 'My Daughter the Fox'
Our new Small Pleasures episode!
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06.05.2025 06:49 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A person looking out into the future
Final day for Papers!
Call for Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025.
The conference will take place in-person and online at the University of Manchester.
Deadline for abstracts: 2nd May 2025. To be sent to ensfrcg@gmail.com
02.05.2025 06:27 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An image of person looking out in the future represented by white clouds.
The person is covered in green foliage and electric wires.
A week to Go for CFP!
Call for Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025.
The conference will take place in-person and online at the University of Manchester.
Deadline for abstracts: 2nd May 2025. To be sent to ensfrcg@gmail.com
25.04.2025 16:51 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Northern Publishers' Fair returns this Saturday! 📚📣
📍Manchester Central Library
📅Sat, April 26th
🕚Starts 11am
🎟️FREE FOR ALL!
RSVP at: fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/71509...
22.04.2025 11:10 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
An Image of classical Greek Statues in green. A blue hand is behind it, and on the forefinger of the hand is a purple bust.
Mircea Eliade: Time, Death, and
the Unspeakable Secret
Translated from Romanian by Mac Linscott
Ricketts Edited by Bryan Rennie
30 May 2025: £13.99,
The Romanian writer Mircea Eliade Short Story collection
consists of six of his best short stories, taken from over a 30-year period.
15.04.2025 09:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
05.04.2025 14:41 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Springtime in Castlefield. Patricia Farrell, @elizabethbaines.bsky.social @confingopublishing.bsky.social and the other one is me.
04.04.2025 15:48 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
An Image of a person looking into the future. The person has leaves and computer wiring on their face.
Call for Papers for Ecological Futurity in Short Fiction Conference: 27th of June 2025.
The Ecological Futurity Conference will take place in-person and online at the University of Manchester on the 27th of June 2025.
Deadline for abstracts: 2nd May 2025. To be sent to ensfrcg@gmail.com
03.04.2025 15:15 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
On the Calculation of Volume — Solvej Balle’s tale of time at a standstill
In the first two of seven volumes, the International Booker-longlisted Danish author follows her protagonist, again and again, through the same day
"This being a serious work of literature, Tara doesn't think about playing the lottery or betting on the horses."
Me on Solvej Balle's time-loop novel Groundho-- ... I mean, On the Calculation of Volume Books I and II.
03.04.2025 06:51 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Thank you to everyone who came to the inaugural Northern School of Writing Publishers Fair at the University of Salford last Thursday. Thanks, too, to the Clifford Whitworth Library for hosting it and David Savill for organising it. We look forward to returning next year...
31.03.2025 16:10 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
So cool to see all 12 stories from The Book of Manchester on Commonword's Digital Lit Map of the city! 🐝📚
📍Click the Comma pins to read excerpts from each story pinned to their real-world location
📘The Book of Manchester
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🗺️Visit the map
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31.03.2025 10:03 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
A short story tour of Manchester.
31.03.2025 10:36 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Tessa mentioned Mavis Gallant the night she won the Edge Hill Prize @edgehillprize.bsky.social for her own brilliant work in the short story form.
30.03.2025 16:45 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Announcing… FAILED SUMMER VACATION by Heuijung Hur - translated by Paige Aniyah Morris.
‘A bold, weird, brave exploration of the imagination.’ Vanessa Onwuemezi.
‘These strange stories of isolation and longing will stay with you.’
Jessie Greengrass.
Out from Scratch Books 3rd June!
28.03.2025 06:14 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Writer of speculative fiction. Sunday Times Book of the Year, Carnegie Nominee. I’ve got a couple of novels looking for a home. Like unloved, lost cats that might scratch…
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