Stop telling people they don’t have a ‘real job’ if they don’t work 9 to 5. Being a freelance writer is a real job, Lying in a pond waiting to hand Excalibur to the rightful kind is a real job. Your work matters.
The Welkin Genre Prize is a competition for microfiction up to 100 words. It will open for entries on 1st June 2026 with a deadline of 15:00 BST on 30th June 2026. Details and rules can be found here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
Have a springy sunny snail
2
ROBERT TAKES OVER THE @BBC6MUSIC 6MIX AHEAD OF HIS 'CUREATION' OF THIS YEAR'S TEENAGE CANCER TRUST CONCERTS AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL MARCH 23-29. TUNE IN FRIDAY 11PM UK TIME www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Information on the upcoming 2026 Tennyson conference, 14-17 July 2026 tennysonsociety.com/2026-tennyso...
Our next Tennyson Talk will be Thursday 5th March at 7.30pm, when Dr Justin Sider of the University of Oklahoma will be speaking on 'Verse and Virtuosity from Tennyson to Parnassus'.
Yeah, I did watch the Netflix stuff, I even contributed to the first Kickstarter. But it was just meh for the most part. I do enjoy Rifftrax somewhat, but this... it'll be nice to get back a little bit of that uncomplicated fun from when I was 15/16.
I actually cried a little when I first saw the news.
BOYS DON’T CRY
1979
1986
2026
Photo by Andy Vella
Happy birthday!!
WATCH 'BOYS DON'T CRY' LIVE AT TROXY 2024 VIA youtu.be/5k69qXrK7X8
#THESHOWOFALOSTWORLD
Thank you! Yes, it's out now.
youtu.be/jeYCyCaK_5k?...
Poisoned Soup book cover: cauldron over an open fire with green fumes
Soup’s on. Happy release day to Wendy and Grace and all the authors who came to the table.
Pink background. Graphic is a green and purple psychedelic closeup of the eyes and hair of the Bride of Frankenstein. Text reads: "Calling all female-identified and femme-presenting horror writers! TALES TO TERRIFY PODCAST will soon open to flash (under 2k) submissions from *previously unpublished* horror writers for Women in Horror Month 2026. STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS..."
Check back here for more submission details soon...
Hey! This is available to preorder now. Coming 12/16:
I'm in here with a bunch of cool kids. You know what to do.
@brigidsgatepress.bsky.social 🖤
bookshop.org/p/books/pois...
Series 4, Episode 2 of our Tennyson Talks is now available on our website and Youtube. Prof Patrick Scott on ‘Tennyson and Contemporary Science: Herschel’s Preliminary Discourse, A Book that Got Away’. tennysonsociety.com/talks/
Coming soon from @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social. Very excited to have a drabble in this anthology!
ROBERT HAS AGAIN CREATED ARTWORK FOR THE HEART RESEARCH UK #ANONARTPROJECT, WHICH IS LIVE NOW UNTIL 9PM (GMT) ON 9TH NOVEMBER. PLEASE BID NOW AT anonheartcatalogue.heartresearch.org.uk
#anonartproject #charityartauction
THE SHOW OF A LOST WORLD - A RECUT, REMIXED AND REMASTERED FILM DIRECTED BY GRAMMY-NOMINATED NICK WICKHAM, WITH NEW SURROUND SOUND BY ROBERT SMITH. EXPERIENCE IN CINEMAS FOR LIMITED TIME FROM DECEMBER 11TH. HTTPS://THECURELOSTWORLD.COM
Happy Halloween and welcome to 718. First, we meet the four runners-up and one winner of our first ever Halloween Flash Fiction Contest. Then, a classic tale about a man who inherits a house and the dark history that comes with it.
talestoterrify.com/episodes/718-halloween-flash-contest-e-f-benson
A little treat for All Hallows Eve Eve - three hours of spooky tunes, creepy chat and that whole David S. Pumpkins vibe. Any questions?
wrob.studio/2025/10/29/m...
Come to the Tennyson Talk: 6/11 at 7.30pm - Professor Patrick Scott: 'Tennyson and Contemporary Science: Herschel's Preliminary Discourse, A Book That Got Away', free online - vpurton@hotmail.co.uk for joining details @lindakhughes.bsky.social @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @victorianweb.bsky.social
