THIS PARADISE: Short stories @bhousepress // tinyurl.com/RCTParadise // Shortlisted Edge Hill Prize 2020; Longlisted Orwell Prize 2020 // I am on Bsky //
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3 Jun 2022
Thanks to my ace publisher @bhousepress for keeping it real in the paradise that is Jubilee Britain. This book might be for you if you're interested in what @badaude called 'the unsteady pulse of the suppurating British body politic' - and other fun stuff boilerhouse.press/product-pa…
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30 Mar 2025
check out my new channel about writing and publishing!
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1 Dec 2024
It’s December 1! To officially kick off the 2024 Short Story Advent Calendar, here’s a story about librarians, patrons, and one unusual musical instrument, from Robin Sloan. hingstonandolsen.com/2024/1-… #ssac2024
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26 Nov 2024
ANNOUNCEMENT! The Brutalist Ghost Stories project includes an Arts Council England-funded Emerging Writer Programme, and Confingo is looking to recruit three early stage writers for mentoring and help to contribute to an anthology of short uncanny fiction. confingopublishing.uk/thenew…
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16 Nov 2024
Bring along your problem story: the one that never seems to be finished, or gets rejected, or refuses to do what it is told, and practise working through drafts, problem-solving and polishing up with Ruby’s guidance and encouragement. #shortstories #writers #writingcommunity
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15 Nov 2024
A few places left on this brilliant course
5 Nov 2024
My @londonlitlab short story Bootcamp course is back! Postponed due to illness but now raring to go, this course is somehow both leisurely (lots of writing/breathing/thinking time) and intense (lots of feedback & food for thought). I'd love to have you🫵londonlitlab.co.uk/course/sh…
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5 Nov 2024
My @londonlitlab short story Bootcamp course is back! Postponed due to illness but now raring to go, this course is somehow both leisurely (lots of writing/breathing/thinking time) and intense (lots of feedback & food for thought). I'd love to have you🫵londonlitlab.co.uk/course/sh…
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1 Nov 2024
(*Trying not to hyperventilate*) Thank you so much @pattonoswalt - 5 months later - missed this at the time...
As it happens, film rights remain available 🎞️🌪️
29 May 2024
“Wet Pain” Terence Taylor
“Dolan’s Cadillac” Stephen King
“The Chaser” John Collier
“The Quest for ‘Blank Claveringi’” Patricia Highsmith
“This Paradise” Ruby Cowling
“A Toy for Juliette” Robert Bloch
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31 Oct 2024
Can you name contemporary writers who "do" Yorkshire dialect well (i.e. without sounding like the old duffer out of Wuthering Heights)? Even if it's just a hint of dialect.
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15 Oct 2024
Special Issue Call for Papers: ‘Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives’
Submission deadline: 15 September 2025
For more information click here ow.ly/VToW50TKKZ0
#CFP @SFITAPJournal
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24 Oct 2024
Excellent thread. History isn't something that's "over" or that we "move on from". It creates everything that is today.
24 Oct 2024
A thread of facts to help you understand the reparations ‘debate’
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18 Oct 2024
Jus a few weeks let to apply for the @STWevents London Writers Awards 2025.
The awards aims to increase the number of writers from under-represented communities being taken up by agents and publishers.
Find out more & apply on their website here bit.ly/4hb17Ja
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17 Oct 2024
Last chance to grab tickets for DUETS this evening in the atmospheric Reading Room with @scratch_books
@jon_mcgregor, @GurnaikJohal, @rubycowling, @annawoodyes and @CharlotteMende1.
Book now: londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on…
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17 Oct 2024
Happy launch day to these burnished birdies! Available in all good bookshops!
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15 Oct 2024
Short fiction thrives on contradictions—brief yet expansive, grounded yet wild.
Join @YanGeMay for an Online Writing Day exploring global short stories, voice, structure, and the art of strangeness. For those at any stage of their writing journey ✨
arvon.org/writing-courses/co…
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15 Oct 2024
Publishing is not an industry that is short on cash. It’s an industry where cash in incredibly unevenly distributed.
Where consolidation means capital (publishers) are organised and low rates of unionisation means labour (authors and publishing staff) is not.
What can we do?
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13 Oct 2024
After years in the planning Duets is launching this Thursday!
You can get yours at our shop here to arrive on launch day!
scratch-books.co.uk/product-…
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11 Oct 2024
Last tickets left for this brilliant event next week at @TheLondonLib! Featuring @jon_mcgregor @GurnaikJohal @rubycowling @annawoodyes and @chris_power
It’ll be a hoot!
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10 Oct 2024
Because I have great taste and so do they - I just backed @Influxpress Influx 2025 on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/inf…
If you can, do consider supporting one of our absolute best small presses
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