📍 Stadio Olimpico, Roma

Very proud to make the @mslexia.bsky.social short story competition longlist 🎉

Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 12.11. | 2:00 PM with Neal Dawson @nealdawson.bsky.social / University of Glasgow @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
📍@fiwivienna.bsky.social, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻
→ vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804)

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Four Seasons as Body Parts

Spring as lips that’ve just been kissed
Summer, a hot hand on your hip
Autumn as nipples that twist under jumpers
Winter, cold fingers creeping in

illness dragging (not

like a cigarette) like a

body in a bag

21:46 #haiku

illness dragging, not

like a body in the floor

more, a southern drawl

11:11 #haiku

Honoured to be included in the latest anthology from @bathflashaward.bsky.social

England, England - Julian Barnes

📍 Newfoundland, Canada

Another day, another word count achieved anywhere but my desk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Horror girl summer 💀

Thank you @cymerafestival.co.uk for including “The Second Amen” in your longlist!

St. Andrews looking better than the south of France ☀️

Bilbao, Spain

@nealdawson.bsky.social

@interpretmagazine.bsky.social

We're giving away this VANISHING WORLD goodie bag to a lucky winner on both Bluesky and Instagram 🍎

To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is:
- Follow @grantabooks.bsky.social
- Repost
- Leave a comment tagging a friend (more tags = more entries)
- Enter by 2 May

See below for T+Cs.

What’s left of men when they kill off the softest parts of themselves?

De Marcken’s experimentalism meets the intensity of both feeling and concept of Kang’s ‘Human Acts’, GRUNT explores the consequences of patriarchy and war through a surreal descent into a shattered psyche. 

#scotwriterpitch2025

GRUNT is a novel of war, opioids and PTSD. A kaleidoscopic look at masculinity and addiction. A surreal descent into a shattered psyche. Law, a US veteran, has a pig heart transplant. Soon he starts to lose himself in flashbacks; in strange, squealing dreams. #scotwriterpitch2025

So desperate to

start my life / So worried it’s

already over

00:17 #haiku

It’s spring time again

and you’re not here. You haven’t

been here in ages

🌷 #haiku #worldpoetryday

What’s the name for this?

it’s on the tip of my tongue.

Like lips, fingertips

#haiku

Can restlessness be

inherited like eyes, smiles -

I toss, turn like her

#haiku

The novel speaks to the quiet bravery of loving someone through hopelessness. I love the world Kazuo Ishiguro created in order to focus in on the delinquent romance of doomed young lovers. It’s a world I come back to frequently, anytime I sense my heart needs breaking.

Missing the salt and the sea

#photography #photosky #sanfrancisco

Kazuo Ishiguro on why the characters in Never Let Me Go don't run ‘Why don’t they run?’To celebrate Never Let Me Go’s twentieth anniversary, Faber Members and readers sent in questions about the novel to the author. One of ...

'Why don't they run?'

Kazuo Ishiguro discusses why the characters in Never Let Me Go don't try to escape: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYx14nN9Cw&t=6s

His body, a met-

-ronome sets the days cadence

passing time, I dance

#haiku

Do we move through days

or do days move through us with-

-out a second thought?

#haiku