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7 Mar 2022
My hybrid chapbook of interspecies intimacies URTH is out now alongside the @_SpikeIsland residency πππ±
Part folk-horror, part camp-gothic, part post-gentrification city writing, finding the Weird everywhere. You can order below ππ (1/2)
bigwhiteshed.co.uk/urth
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28 May 2024
Loved chatting with Helen Oyeyemi about her new novel Parasol Against the Axe, as well as the through lines of play, perplexity, shape-shifting narrators, that weave across her work. Listen here:
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28 May 2024
New episode with the legendary Helen Oyeyemi! We chat about her dizzying new novel Parasol Against the Axe, writing Prague, shape-shifting narratives, the role of play and perplexity across her work & so much more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks ππ»π§οΈ
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29 Apr 2024
Loved talking to Andrew McMillan about his novel PITY: how the novel can hold multiple truths, the need to find a new language to talk about the past & community, the dangers of describing post-industrial towns by their lack or an absence & so much more ππ§
29 Apr 2024
Season 6 is here! We chat Andrew McMillan (@AMcMillanPoet ) about his novel Pity, post-industrial northern identities, how everyoneβs village, town or city is worthy of literature & much, much more @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks ππ§
bit.ly/AndrewTB
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29 Apr 2024
Season 6 is here! We chat Andrew McMillan (@AMcMillanPoet ) about his novel Pity, post-industrial northern identities, how everyoneβs village, town or city is worthy of literature & much, much more @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks ππ§
bit.ly/AndrewTB
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8 Apr 2024
Thrilled to be chatting to the very brilliant Jean-Baptise del Amo @StanfordsBrist about his new book with @FitzcarraldoEds ' The Son of Man' on 29.5.24. Tickets below ππ₯
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4 Mar 2024
Was such an honour to host this live episode with @AnnieBrooker_ last week in-house @StorysmithBooks, we covered so much in this conversation: around politics of care, activist affordances, play as world-making & much, much more π
4 Mar 2024
New LIVE episode with Marianne Brooker ποΈπ
We discuss her new book Intervals, the politics of care, writing as reparative magic, intersections of class, gender and disability and so much more @StorysmithBooks @FitzcarraldoEds @AnnieBrooker_ ππ§
storysmithbooks.com/tenderbuβ¦
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19 Feb 2024
Listened to our Sheila Heti ep. yet? We discuss hybrid forms, what it means to write away from a 'writer' performance, the rhythm & materiality of language, pushing the boundaries of the novel and much more @FitzcarraldoEds @StorysmithBooks
bit.ly/3Sf7dfW
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29 Jan 2024
Thrilled to share our latest episode with Sheila Heti: we go deep into her new book Alphabetical diaries, writing like painting, against linear time & continuous ideas of the self, hybridity of form & much, much more
bit.ly/3Sf7dfW
29 Jan 2024
New episode with Sheila Heti ποΈπ₯
We discuss her new book Alphabetical Diaries (@FitzcarraldoEds): formal constraints, beyond linear time, progress & ideas of a complete, continuous narrative of selfhood across her work & much more π
bit.ly/3Sf7dfW
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29 Jan 2024
New episode with Sheila Heti ποΈπ₯
We discuss her new book Alphabetical Diaries (@FitzcarraldoEds): formal constraints, beyond linear time, progress & ideas of a complete, continuous narrative of selfhood across her work & much more π
bit.ly/3Sf7dfW
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27 Nov 2023
New episode with Nathalie Olah (@nrolah) π₯ ποΈ
We talk about her brilliant new book Bad Taste & ideas of cultural capital, social mobility, Pamela Anderson & Dolly Parton, austerity aesthetics, & the politics of scarcity & much more. Listen here ππ§
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13 Nov 2023
Honoured to have my eerie short story of grief, graveyards and ghost plants in the new issue of @lunatejournal , amongst very fine company indeed. Limited edition, pre-orders below (very few left apparently!): lunate.co.uk/shop/p/lunate-vβ¦
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24 Oct 2023
bristol people interested in writing! we're doing a creative workshop about writing into / against gaps in history. come queer / disrupt sh*t with us! πΈπͺ
no previous writing experience necessary (but confident writers definitely v welcome)
> > storysmithbooks.com/product/β¦
ALT a composite image. text overlaid reads "Re-awakening Archives: a creative writing workshop. Join us for a relaxed, inclusive writing workshop exploring how to create characters and narratives from images and archives. Monday 30th October, 6.30-8.30pm. Β£15. @ Storysmith Bookshop, 236 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JD". a background of different clippings of old-fashioned handwritten papers. a self-portrait photo of the queer artist Gluck. a photo of Dame Emily Smith and her ladies maid Dolly Fitzway in butch 1940s skirt suits. a late 1700s painting by Agostino Brunias depicting free Dominicans in fashionable period attire. in the foreground, a photo of Jack and Eli holding sheets of paper as if mid-discussion.
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16 Oct 2023
Checked out our episode with Eliza Clark yet? We chat violence and true crime, regional inequality, Brexit, the internet, writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks π π§
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2 Oct 2023
We chatted to Eliza Clark about transgression in fiction, true crime & the internet; regional inequality, how mainstream & social media shapes narratives about people & places; writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks
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29 Sep 2023
Listened to our new episode with Eliza Clark yet? π§
we chat about violence & transgression in fiction, true crime, the internet, writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks (1/2)π π₯
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25 Sep 2023
Loved chatting to Eliza Clark (@FancyEliza ) about true crime, the internet, toxic media, Brexit shadows in fiction, difficult female characters and so much more. Check out here! ππ§
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25 Sep 2023
New episode with Eliza Clark (@FancyEliza) ππ₯
We chat violence & transgression, true crime & the internet; regional inequality, how mainstream & social media shapes narratives about people & places; writing difficult female characters & more ππ§(1/2)
bit.ly/45Z5UXY
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22 Sep 2023
Checked out our new patreon yet? π Free merch, books, ask questions to our guests, discounts more @StorysmithBooks
buff.ly/3sPgVwg
This season you can expect: Sheila Heiti, Eliza Clark, Nathalie Olah, Noreen Masuud, Marianne Brooker & more. WE ARE EXCITED π§ π₯
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18 Sep 2023
We now have a @buttons_tender Patreon subscription! Sign up for loads of good stuff & to support our workπ
18 Sep 2023
π¨ OUR PATREON IS LIVE! π¨
Head to buff.ly/3sPgVwg to sign up for:
π Early episode access
π 10% off books at Storysmith online/in-person
π Free merch
π Submit questions for upcoming guests
π Exclusive book giveaways each month
more TBA
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18 Sep 2023
Excited to announce our new patreon for @buttons_tender , want to submit qs to upcoming guests including Eliza Clark, Nathalie Olah, Sheila Heiti, Marianne Brooker, Noreen Masuud? Want early episode access? Free merch? Book giveaways? Sign up here: patreon.com/tenderbuttons
18 Sep 2023
π¨ OUR PATREON IS LIVE! π¨
Head to buff.ly/3sPgVwg to sign up for:
π Early episode access
π 10% off books at Storysmith online/in-person
π Free merch
π Submit questions for upcoming guests
π Exclusive book giveaways each month
more TBA
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11 Sep 2023
Listened to our episode with Octavia Bright yet? We chat active listening, Louise Bourgeois & spirals, Eliot & Margate, the importance of symbols and/or images in life writing & much more π π @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks
Listen here: buff.ly/47RiXfi
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25 Aug 2023
Earlier this summer I had a wonderfully thoughtful & wide-ranging conversation with @jessicacandrews & @JMDemus at @StorysmithBooks for their podcast @buttons_tender. A privilege to be read so intelligently & interviewed with such curiosity. Listen now at the link below πππ
25 Aug 2023
In this special live summer episode we spoke to @octaviabright_ about THIS RAGGED GRACE π
We chat active listening, the pornographic and the erotic in life writing, care work, symbols and images, influences like Louise Bourgeois & much, much more ππ§
bit.ly/3YNr7l1
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