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Black Bag In Luke Kennard's audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psyc...

Here are some places you can get Black Bag! but you should really get it from your local bookshop because that’s the only way we have anything resembling a functional culture in the UK.
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Black Bag by Luke Kennard review – a campus comedy for our end times Drawing on a real-life 1960s experiment, this story of an out-of-work actor paid to cover himself in a black leather bag fizzes with wit and invention

Rave review for @lukekennard.bsky.social's new novel. HIs first, The Transition was both funny and profound, so I have high hopes for this one.

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…Springer's Literary Disability Studies and Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Disability. He is also author and editor of a range of academic books.

Full details about The Barbellion Prize here:

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…He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. David is Book Series Editor of Routledge's Autocritical Disability Studies and Joint Editor of…

David Bolt is the Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity at Liverpool Hope University, where he is Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies and Programme Lead on the Disability Studies MA…

…Last autumn, she finished her latest novel, The Widow of Rock-a-Nore, which is currently out on submission while she develops a new folk horror novella. Penny lives in St Leonards-on-Sea and is represented by Abi Fellows of DHH.

…Her work features in Elemental (2024), Hemingway Shorts (2021), Poet Town (2025) and Mslexia. Besides her column for Byline Times, Penny’s articles have also featured in The Guardian and, more recently, The Bookseller, in which she highlights the lack of disability representation in fiction…

Penny Pepper is an award-winning author, poet, and activist whose stories explore the disability narrative through provocation and humour. Her memoir, First in The World Somewhere, was published in 2017; her poetry collection, Come Home Alive, in 2018…

…Her installation Anchorage, a reimagining of a medieval hermitage for the modern-day sick artist was shown at Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester in her first solo show.

…In 2023 her self-published artists book Book of Hours, a collection of poetry and lyric essays won the Barbellion Prize for Literature and was featured on BBC Radio Four’s Front Row…

Letty McHugh is an artist and writer based in West Yorkshire, she is currently researching what healing practices in medieval monasteries can teach her about living with chronic illness today….

@lettymchugh.bsky.social

Meet the judges of the 2026 Barbellion Prize!

Read about Letty McHugh, Penny Pepper & David Bolt in this thread.

The Barbellion Prize is now open for submissions of fiction and non-fiction which celebrate and promote writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability.

Please note new Bluesky address @barbellionprize.bsky.social. And do get involved!

The Bluesky account for the Barbellion Prize has changed to @barbellionprize.bsky.social Do please follow!
The submission window for authors and publisher is open from now until 1st September, and there are full details on the new website barbellionprize.org

Ok, technical issues resolved. A new account for the fantastic Barbellion Prize set up. Please follow and spread the word! Submissions are open!

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Please follow this brilliant prize: @thebarbellionprize.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

Thrilled to be working with them @disruptedblue.bsky.social

We have a few teething problems getting the Bluesky set up, but please do follow and spread the word in the meantime.

Submissions are open!

Thank you! 💙 🙏

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Big news! The 2026 Barbellion Prize opens for new submissions today. Full details on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DWoHpNLCGhW/
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Submissions for the 2026 Barbellion Prize are now open! 🎉

The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability.

Submission are open from today 2nd April - 1st September, 2026.

@thebarbellionprize.bsky.social

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Very sorry to hear that Glen Baxter has died. He lived in John Ruskin Street when Coracle Press was in Camberwell, and often around. I first saw his work in the late 1970s and bought his books at Compendium; this battered NYC-published one from 1977 still going strong, great bw drawings and texts.

Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP

An Evening of Poetry with Sarah Stewart | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening of Poetry with Sarah Stewart today.

Mentee Sarah Stewart will be launching her debut in Edinburgh next month: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @tapsalteerie.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

V glad to have a poem in the latest issue of Gutter! 🤩

One review and two poems in Tears in the Fence 83 I usually post on this blog to alert people to the fact that I’ve published a poem or two in Tears in the Fence or – more recently – an anno...

Pleased to say I have 2 new poems and a review of 3 books by Tim Allen in TEARS IN THE FENCE no. 83. @tearsinthefence.bsky.social I write about them here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/02/one-...

Next Thursday 26th February at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street we launch Glasgow Makar Jim Carruth’s novel-in-verse Knockan! Please join us in this celebration and book your tickets via the link below. We look forward to seeing you there! 🎉🎉🎉

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Book cover shows the author, Gustaf Sobin, at his writing desk.

And now for a new book. Just out here, although we don't actually have physical copies yet, is Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems, all 738-pages, in both paperback and hardcover editions. In the UK we can supply from stock (once we have some, which will be next week.)
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This time last year I discovered Kenny Knight and read his previous with @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social, warming to his candid realism and delightful imaginative tangents. The poetry here reflects even more on experiences of isolation, loss and constraint while escaping in glorious other worlds

Ian Seed - Forgetfulness Published 2026. Paperback, 80pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £10.95 / $18 ISBN 9781837380114 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .] In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness move...

…It is a collection which seeks to re-construct & re-inhabit the past through the truths of imagination & fiction, as well as the storytelling of remembrance. Throughout these pages, the end is uncertain, forever in the making, & only possibly true.

Order here:

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Now available: @ianseedauthor.bsky.social’s
Forgetfulness, from Shearsman Books.

In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, & finally to a series of splintered memories….

Discover books as art - walking, making, thinking in pages - in a recent blog post and in a wonderful exhibition of #ArtistsBooks from the collections of the #ArtAndDesignLibrary.
The exhibition is on show Edinburgh Central Library until 28 February - don't miss it!
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