🦜Polly wants a cracker? Enjoy #storyvideo no. 1 from #IllusionAndConfusion last night: THE PARROTS OF CHELM by LL debut author @jesterbellart.bsky.social read by actress @carriecohen01.bsky.social
youtu.be/xQKwMkW5Zcg?...
(PS Happy birthday for yesterday Carrie!🎈)
#liarsleague #shortstory #fable
Thanks Duotrope! That's our subs pile sorted 👍
TONIGHT at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square!
Get yer lastminute tickets at www.liarsleague.com & you can drink in the sun for an hour beforehand!
Tagging author Matt @italianosoprano.bsky.social
Thanks @mslexia.bsky.social! So looking forward to the show ❤️Got fantastic actresses @carriecohen01.bsky.social & Rose Biggin reading, & stories by 2 new-to-us female authors inc. @jesterbellart.bsky.social
TWO DAYS TO GO! The #LiarsLeague spring special #IllusionAndConfusion at The Phoenix W1 is this Tue 21 April (doors 630, show 730)!
🎟️Tickets just £5 at www.liarsleague.com
🤩Starring @carriecohen01.bsky.social @jesterbellart.bsky.social @callumjacobs.bsky.social @ray-is-writing.bsky.social
@ray-is-writing.bsky.social
Talent cocktail #5 for #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION #shortstories this Tue 21 April at The Phoenix, W1 is author @callumjacobs.bsky.social & Tony Bell as Soho lush Henry, in THE FUTURE'S ALREADY HERE, IT'S JUST NOT EVENLY DISTRIBUTED.
🎟️Earlybird tix only £5! liarsleague.sumupstore.com/product/liar...
#LiarsLeague ❤️s debut authors & actors (& sea monsters)! Meet 2 new talents this Tue 21 April when actor Noah Lukehurst reads Ray Chanteur’s story DAGON, LORD OF THE OCEANS.
Will the Great Old One rise? FIND OUT with a £5 earlybird ticket to #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION stories at www.liarsleague.com!
Escher stairs And
(Who knew #Escher drew worms?!)
BOOK NOW: next Tue the sublime Rose Biggin reads #LiarsLeague debut author Matt Bianca's short story THE RED TAPEWORM: a comic, #Kafkaesque plunge into an absurd metafictional bureaucracy!
#ILLUSIONandCONFUSION 🎟️ Tickets £5 - 7.30 Tue 21st April at @thephoenix_w1
Meet the ILLUSION & CONFUSION Talent 2! @carriecohen01.bsky.social reads LL debut author Mira Singer's THE PARROTS OF CHELM, a cautionary fable of a small town overrun by squawking nonsense. Catch it this Tue 21 April at The Phoenix W1!
🦜5 earlybird tickets here: liarsleague.com/2026/03/31/n...
❤️📚🎤Our #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION LIVE #shortstory show is next Tue 21 April: let's meet the talent!
Actor Jeremiah O'Connor is a dead fella pulling a bank heist in smalltown Ireland in Tom O'Brien's tragicomic THE GHOST WHO ROBS BANKS. £5 earlybird tix here! liarsleague.sumupstore.com/product/liar...
If you are in London, this promises to be a delightful night. Go hear my (live!) story featuring two sweet weirdos, a doomsday cult, and a concerningly cheap vacuum!
(Do I have to play it cool how excited I am? Someone please go in my stead, because I really wish I could be there irl.)
🥚HAPPY EASTER!🐣
Cultists! Kafkaesque bureaucracy! Hi-tech skinsuits! Ghost heists! Parrots! & more!
📚 Winning stories for our 21 April event #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION are revealed here liarsleague.com/2026/03/31/n... inc. work by @jesterbellart.bsky.social
🎟️ £5 earlybird tickets on sale RIGHT NOW!
The Horse Hospital is a wonderful space, a proper hidden gem (& great for book launches!)
So we had a RECORD number of stories for our #ILLUSIONandCONFUSION theme: nearly 200!
📘(Which is a LOT to read, & we do read ALL of them)
🏆 & we were going to announce winners TODAY!
🤡 but oops. It's #APRILFOOLSDAY 😂
- so (even though that's very on-theme) we're revealing winners tomorrow instead 😉
Happy (UK) Mother’s Day!
(Image courtesy of the Kentish Town Placard Poet)
Started the day by talking to my son about robot emotions (thanks to Peter Brown's The Wild Robot). Here's an old short story I wrote for the @liarsleague.bsky.social on the same subject (some years, I should say, before AI really happened). richardsmyth.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/w...
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Fancy watching some brilliant women reading #shortstories by some other brilliant women? We've got over 200 of them here! liarsleague.com/category/int...
#InternationalWomensDay2026 #liarsleague
SEDUCE YOUR EARS with our #EXandNEXT podcast: comedy, homicide & twisted romance …
• Apple podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
• Jellycast autoplay: liarsleague.jellycast.com/audio/play/274
STARS: @kategl.bsky.social @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social @jamborini.bsky.social @lrb.bsky.social
It's his birthday today too! Happy birthday @paulclarke.com ❤️🎁
Dating prospects looking bleak? A lonely penguinologist on an Antarctic island reckons it's the last place he'll run into his ex. Right?
The 6th #storyvideo from #LiarsLeague's twisted #Valentine show #ExAndNext is THE FINNISH FOR F*CK by Jeff Wood read by Jeremiah O'Connor
youtu.be/Ot8DTI1xd0c?...
The exquisite Elara is making a lovers' alphabet, but it's missing two letters...could U or I be next?
AN ORDERLY LIST, a short story by @kategl.bsky.social was read by Mia Nuttgens for the #LiarsLeague #ExAndNext Valentine show at The Phoenix, Cavendish Sq youtu.be/_IhqluCfw90?... #ValentineStory
Our 4th #shortstoryvideo from #EXandNEXT poses the question: can you murder your husband ... by accident?
🫖 A COLD CUP OF TEA, a #flashfiction by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social was read by Patsy Prince for the #LiarsLeague #ValentineStory show at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square youtu.be/t52d0YQknbc?...
Beautifully observed & quietly excruciating, featuring the immortal line "He just said c*nt into that Pingu" our 3rd #ExAndNext video is KING MARVIN by Grace McKenzie read by Miranda Harrison.
An awkward divorce-date in a grim seaside town: what's not to love?♥️ youtu.be/gCmKuxJzCxI?... #shortstory
HAPPY #VALENTINESDAY! Ben takes his grandma out on a date with a difference, continuing a love story started 50yrs ago.
Enjoy the most romantic video from our V-Day #EX&NEXT story special, by Liars' League debut author Lor Vanden & beautifully read by actor Jay Hunt. ♥️ youtu.be/margLdc9JiA?...
<24h till #ValentinesDay! When a 7ft stag-headed Celtic god attends a Regency ball things get horny, in THE NOTORIOUS DEBUT OF LORD CERUNINCOS by @lrb.bsky.social read by @jamielaird.bsky.social
From #ExAndNext, it's the #JonathanStrange / Emma crossover #Austen never wrote youtu.be/i8YGI4ZszHw?...
Don’t want to promise too much, but there’s JUST A CHANCE you could win one of these cool pencils (and a book) if you come along to EX & NEXT tonight & know the answer in our interval book quiz.
#thingsthatwentunsaid
7.30 at @ThePhoenix_W1
£5 Tickets at liarsleague.sumupstore.com/product/liar...
There’s no delicate way to say it - #LiarsLeague is officially the cheapest date in the West End! Why blow £££ on jukebox musicals when you can woo your crush with pro actors reading stories for just a fiver?!*
See liarsleague.com for £5 earlybird tickets NOW
*No catch. Free sweets. And ❤️
