Graham Mort

ICYMI today we're featuring Celia by Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social #shortstory #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/16/c...

We are delighted to welcome back Graham Mort with his #shortstory Celia, out tomorrow @grahammort.bsky.social #readingcommunity #writingcommunity.

If you don’t yet know about the
@saloneurope.bsky.social
Writers Salon, you probably should. I attended their recent meeting in Brussels and the quality of readings and discussions was outstanding.

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Salt Books published my collection of short stories ‘Like Fado and other stories’ in 2020. Like a lot of independent presses their future depends on the support of writers and readers everywhere. See below for details. @saltpublishing.com 🦀 gofund.me/412e1a4a1

@markantonyowen.com has highlighted a typically unsentimental moment of Harrison self-awareness from this Guardian piece

Manchester Poets at Chorlton Library | Literature | Creative Tourist This autumn Manchester Poets returns to its usual home of Chorlton Library, following its exile to Withington.

Manchester Poets will be hosting my reading tomorrow evening (Sept 19th) at Chorlton Library. My reading will start just after 8.00pm after the Manchester Poets' slot. #poetry #poetryperformance

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Just back from @saloneurope.bsky.social in elegant Brussels. An outstanding event encompassing workshops, performance and discussions about many aspects of writing – from finding an agent to marketing and the nature of language. Truly stimulating and highly memorable. #poetry #shortfiction #novels

Did you meet @grahammort.bsky.social at #EWSBrussels2025 and think, ‘Hey this guy is ace I wish he was teaching a class’?

Well then you’re in luck!

Graham’s class will help you dive deep into your character’s minds with close third POV.

Still a few spots left!

House martin flying with outspread wings.

I’ve just finished updating my website. Check out the Blog for forthcoming events, workshops, and links to recently published work and the Featured Poem for poetry. @fictivedream.bsky.social and @saloneurope.bsky.social and more...

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Manchester Poets at Chorlton Library | Literature | Creative Tourist This autumn Manchester Poets returns to its usual home of Chorlton Library, following its exile to Withington.

I’ll be reading my poems at a gathering of Manchester Poets at Chorlton Library (UK) on the 19th of September. It’s a return home for me, so I’m looking forward to it. Drop by if you’re in town!
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ICYMI today we're feat. a superb #shortstory, The Nuns/The Statue by Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social #fiction #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/31/t...

Text of Graham Mort’s poem ‘Fever'.

Migratory birds and human conflict have always compelled me to write. Here’s a new poem of mine published in 'The North' magazine (Issue 71) by The Poetry Business, UK.

I’m offering an online creative writing workshop with @saloneurope.bsky.social on September 25th. The EWS is bringing together writers across Europe through the medium of English. See below for details of my workshop and information about the Salon.

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An images of sharp-peaked mountains with clouds above.

I’ve gone back to analogue photography. Here’s an image of the Picos Mountains (North-West Spain) shot on my 1951 Leica. Once the world’s most advanced camera, it still works perfectly and is a joy to operate.

Here’s the latest issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social with my poem ‘Waveforms’ and work by an international cast of poets!

Even more events for European writers?? Plus a new course—don't miss out!

We are delighted that @grahammort.bsky.social will be teaching a Prose writing class for us online. Read all about it and other events in our newsletter
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Inkfish Magazine Recent editions of Inkfish Magazine.

‘Inkfish 4’ appears today. It contains my story ‘Lepidopterists’ and much more excellent work:

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Text of poem ‘Hidden Things’, by CP Cavafy.

I found this poem again by CP Cavafy yesterday. It seems so sad and irresolute and yet hopeful too. All lives are hidden and yet there is the urge to share them. Maybe that’s especially true of writers where the aesthetic form of their work is a veil that can be parted.

Cõnfingō 23 | confingo Front cover by Evie Spicer Contributors: FictionGraham MortLivi MichaelDavid Rose PoetryIrina DumitrescuIan PopleT.E. Niemi ReviewsKatie MehersIsobel EdmondsonMatthew AdamsonFranziska GötterH.B. Waigh...

The new edition of Cōnfingō magazine is out and contains an eclectic range of writers!

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Issue 14 Unfurls its Petals! There is so much satisfaction in longing. We wait through coolness for the violence of a daffodil’s yellow and wait through rain for the jonquil’s confident white. It is the moments borrowed in antici...

The new edition of 'Book of Matches’ (Issue 14) is here, including my short fiction ‘Water’ amongst other work from a wide array of writers.
www.bookofmatcheslitmag.com/post/issue-1...

A Relief Map of the World by Graham Mort Kelly. Her very first day at work, leaning against the coffee machine in a cream coloured suit, her hair in a chignon (I had to look that up), her fingers wrapped around the coffee c…

Here’s my new flash fiction, A Relief Map of the World’ published by: @fictivedream.bsky.social
fictivedream.com/2025/04/18/a...

New story - nearly here! @fictivedream.bsky.social‬

I’m glad you like it. The paintings you post are a revelation and a confirmation of art and humanity. Keep them coming!

Thanks Tom - likewise your own reading. Great stuff. Yeah, Brussels, I’m going to think about it. I really enjoyed the reading last night.

I read some poems @saloneurope.bsky.social‬ last night. What a stimulating and thoughtfully curated event. Great readings of very high standard from a broad range of writers. Highly recommended!

I’m really looking forward to this reading ‪@saloneurope.bsky.social‬

Thank you - and you’re welcome!

Image shows a narrow alleyway lit by sun at the far end.

My new flash fiction, ‘Latent’, published in Flash Fiction Magazine and set in Italy where the past haunts the present.
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For great stories, we need people, not AI | Letters Letters: Readers respond to a piece by the author Jeanette Winterson in which she praises OpenAI’s metafictional short story

My letter to The Guardian newspaper joins the debate around AI generated creative writing.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ten Poems about Weather The weather is always a good topic of conversation, especially if we don’t know the other person very well. Wherever we are on the planet we can’t help noticing when it’s too hot or too cold ...

Copies of my Candlestick Press anthology have just arrived! Poems by Emily Brontë, John Clare, Gillian Clarke, Helen Dunmore, Norman MacCaig, Grace Nichols, Sheenagh Pugh, Neil Rollinson, Annette Volfing - and Graham Mort. Copies are available from:
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