APPLY NOW! Our newly announced Brutalist Ghost Stories project includes an Arts Council England-funded Emerging Writer Programme, with mentoring for three early stage writers to contribute to an anthology of short uncanny fiction. Deadline: 31 January 2025 https://t.co/3HIYQN30Vu
We are pleased to launch Issue 26 of The Manchester Review.
'...an eclectic goody-bag that showcases a wide range of genres, styles and perspectives and contains writing from well-established, upcoming, and first-time writers.'
https://t.co/nnwL2BZPiY
ANNOUNCEMENT! The Brutalist Ghost Stories project includes an Arts Council England-funded Emerging Writer Programme, and Confingo is looking to recruit three early stage writers for mentoring and help to contribute to an anthology of short uncanny fiction. https://t.co/3HIYQN30Vu
Confingo author Sonya Moor (The Comet & Other Stories) features in the Best British Short Stories 2024 anthology edited by fellow Confingo author @nicholasroyle and out now with @saltpublishing – order your copy in time for Christmas here… https://t.co/OMFdTSf2ui
Very lovely review of Duets in @GuardianBooks today!
“a unique and brave collection of stories, all of which zing with unexpectedness and a delight in literary collaboration.”
https://t.co/pQRZnUinUj
NEW: on the latest episode of The Stinging Fly Podcast, Nicole Flattery is joined by Mary O'Donoghue to read from Colm O'Shea's short story 'Feeling Gravity's Pull'.
https://t.co/Fx3pZWYeWy
Our Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Story and Novel prizes are re-open! If your head is spinning with writing ideas, don't panic. You've got time - deadline day is 31 May 2025. Just take it one day at a time. You'll get there.
All info at https://t.co/whjtTRnJnz
#WritingCommunity
'All is seamlessly layered: soaring orchestra, beautiful stage dressing and costumes, and dynamic physical performances.'
Joseph Hunter reviews The Magic Flute at The Lowry, Salford (@The_Lowry):
https://t.co/AGEz8KOWdK
📖🍂AUTUMN ISSUE! Order issue 22 of Cõnfingō Magazine with artwork by Anne Worthington, fiction by Nathan Bailey, David Bevan, Michelle Marie Ryan, Elizabeth Stott & IM Tomlinson, poetry by Becca Alexandra Hurst, reviews by Raya Shafiq & Christopher Witty. https://t.co/gKFl1VHFkt
📚❄️📚❄️📚WEEK TODAY! On Saturday 23 November 11am-3pm, we’ll be at House of Books & Friends @Books_n_friends for the Winter Book Fair. Come and say hello and pick up the perfect presents for your friends and family this Christmas! Full details here… https://t.co/jorcXvoyTu
Recent release The Book of Joys – “A joy to both read and peruse” (@Bookmunch); “The giddy pleasure” (@Northern_Soul_ @DesmondBullen) – is a collection of six stories by John Saul, featuring images by the late artist Albert Irvin. Order your copy here… https://t.co/kfhUo09KJ1
“This is with-out-doubt one of the most essential reads of 2024.”
Fantastic review of Duets by The Manchester Review @mancreview
https://t.co/mbNvn5COtc
'...an astonishingly good, eclectic anthology of short fiction'
Paul Anthony Knowles reviews Duets, from Scratch Books (@scratch_books):
https://t.co/DGGNiB4ERN
Two weeks to get your story, novel extract, essay or poem(s) into us.
Submission guidelines and access the Submittable link anseo: https://t.co/h9dTbSKLR5
'...we are always led to an understanding eventually, either through a single moment of epiphany or an accumulation of detail. We are rarely trusted to wonder for long.'
Sam Lamplugh reviews Held, by Anne Michaels:
https://t.co/SyzhDOdR6i
'...a fresh and compassionate insight into the plight of the two female leads'
Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells review Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon:
https://t.co/YhNhwcqqsW