I’m going 😊 Looking forward to being on a panel with the fabulous @fionajanemack.bsky.social & @jupiterjonz.bsky.social

‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became

punk-post-punk

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

new flash is up at @fictivedream.bsky.social 💕

Last night I was in Newtown with @mayajordanwrites.bsky.social on the publication of her magnificent full-throttle memoir CHOPSY. We talked about 'emergency chickens' posh writers, libraries, Tracey Emin, the invisibility of working-class women and much, much more. Get your hands on a copy asap!

Submission (Im)possible! - Spring 2026 Edition Get your work out there! Join us for a co-working session dedicated to submitting your creative writing, etc. in a supportive community.

It's back! Join @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and I for Submission (Im)possible online on Saturday, 18 April to focus on everything to do with getting your writing in the world, in a supportive community. It's free! Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/submission...

Absolutely delighted to be a finalist for Small Press of the year 2026! @thebookseller.com #nibbies

Our 2025 in a snapshot...

1. Strengthened frontlist performance, working with authors we have developed over the years on their second novels, and developed new relationships with agents. 8 books

The future is written in the margins: Indie Night at the Southbank Centre

ICYMI: If you want to know what we will all be reading in a decade’s time, you only need to look at what the indies are publishing right now, says Southbank Centre's Ted Hodgkinson 👇 #BookSky

Call for Submissions: Poetry With Spit, Spine, and Something to Say - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout February 2026 | Publication Later That Year

No rhyming couplets about “the moon” here.
We want the kebab on the curb, the protest bruise, the overdraft confession.
Make it hurt. Make it howl.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow

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Just today & tomorrow to get your subs into our micro comp (up to 100 words, no theme) & our anthology (theme of BRIDGES, up to 500 words). Subs open till 23:59 on 15 Feb! Cash prizes & publication! More details here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

Images of the poets Len Lukowski, Julia Bell and Simon Maddrell and their most recent book covers, set against a rainbow flag

To mark LGBTQ+ History Month, our @mklitfest.bsky.social friends welcome 3 superb poets - Len Lukowski, Julia Bell and Simon Maddrell - whose work draws on their own histories to reflect diversity and commonality of experience. 24 Feb, 7pm, Zoom. Info: bit.ly/mklflgbtq
#lgbtqhistory
#poetry

Aww, cheers, TrashCat! 😊

Paper Sisters - Paperback (Pre-Order) | Northodox Press Publishing February 2026 May 1914, and as the First World War approaches, three women are living, trapped between marsh, river, and fen. Their lives held fast by grief, the past, and the looming prese...

Paper Sisters - Paperback (Pre-Order) | Northodox Press share.google/Eh0GFlEH3KYQ...

Thanks, Ruth! 😊

Thanks, Chris! 😊

Cheers! 😊

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Subs to NFFD’s anthology (up to 500 words) on the theme of BRIDGES & entries to our micro comp (up to 100 words, no theme) close a week today (15 Feb). Cash prizes for micro comp & 2 authors from our anthology will receive prizes too! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

That green sludge looks bloody disgusting!

Go for it!

8 days to go!

Paper Sisters preorders will be arriving from today! Get your copy of one of the most anticipated historical fiction books in the UK this year now!

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Candles and Driveways: San Francisco’s Mayor Focuses on the Little Things

“For a city known for its anything-goes ethos, for its embrace of letting your freak flag fly, the list of activities one could not legally do in San Francisco was remarkable.”

Had fun learning about strange city rules for this. No parking in your own driveway?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

Screenshot of the Substack essay with the title 'Triple shit sandwich - a reading recommendation, the topics of medical and historical misogyny, Mary Toft' by Noémi Kiss-Deáki against a grey background of an illustrated rabbit (a detail from an 18th century portrait of Mary Toft).

Mary and the Rabbit Dream was mentioned in a personal essay on medical misogyny on Substack. It spurred, not fiction, but some thoughts and remembered historical facts. Link below (and link to the essay as well in my text).

open.substack.com/pub/noemikis...

Call for Submissions: Poetry With Spit, Spine, and Something to Say - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout February 2026 | Publication Later That Year

Tired of journals that ask for poems about your garden and then ghost you?
This one wants the bin, the syringe, the protest chant.
This one’s built with spit.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow

Cheers, Kik! 😊

Thanks, Bronwen!

Thanks, Sumitra 😊

Cheers, Dan! 😊

Why thank you! thank you! thank you! 🧡

Thanks! I'm glad you like the sound of it!

We'll get glammed up! 😎

Thanks, Philippa - I hope it lives up to Ali Smith's wonderful description! 😊