We are exceptionally proud of this year's writers and we hope you'll enjoy their work.
Eleven Stories 2025 is available for pre-order (and you can get the pdf today!):
https://t.co/7J7MRepJ3o
THE 2025 SHORTLIST:
"Generous, soulful distillations. A tasting flight of prosaic kerosene. Each story ignited a flare in a forsaken corner of my mind. I can’t wait to experience more from these voices." —Henry Hoke, judge
Get the pdf and pre-order the book on our website!
🎶 Double the impact, double the joy!
Donations made before 12pm on 30 June will be matched — helping us hit our £5,000 goal to support Singing with Friends, our dementia-friendly choir.
Your kindness brings connection, creativity & community.
👉 Donate: https://t.co/lD9zARGH6O
It wasn’t part of the plan. In fact, you didn’t even think it was possible… not at your age. But it happened and now an impossible decision sits before you.
📚 Catch @DebAshWat's affecting story in our 2025 anthology & meet all our shortlisted writers: https://t.co/cKokziia3E
🎶 Double the impact, double the joy!
Donations made before 12pm on 30 June will be matched — helping us hit our £5,000 goal to support Singing with Friends, our dementia-friendly choir.
Your kindness brings connection, creativity & community.
👉 Donate: https://t.co/lD9zARGH6O
📣Our very own Shelley has written an article about the work we do in our Creative Spaces for the Journal of Dementia Care's special Arts Edition!
Read it here: https://t.co/PrJInvrigy
went to the last day of the Raymond Briggs exhibition at ditchling museum yesterday. All the drawings and sketches and layers of care taken. All the grief and love. The masterpiece of When the Wind Blows. Heart cracked open at the short video of him at home on his crumpled sofa.
Very excited to announce today PATHEMATA: OR, THE STORY OF MY MOUTH – a stunning new original work by Maggie Nelson, a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss – which we are proud to publish on Fern Press in May 2025! 🔵🟠 https://t.co/Nf3CsHs1nt
Thank you @JDementiaCare - inspiring & thought provoking couple of days at the dementia congress so many excellent chats and presentations - & beautiful to see @ResonateArts groups front page of the journal. 😍 #UKDC2024
It’s a wrap! Thank you to our sponsors, partners, speakers and delegates for making the 18th UK Dementia Congress such a success. Do keep an eye on our website to keep up-to-date with our work: https://t.co/hwb9C187iK
#UKDC2024#ukdc#dementiacongress#dementia
Delighted to be one of three winners of the #LetterReview Prize for Short Fiction 2024. Congrats to the other winners and shortlisters :-)
https://t.co/W8n6eKQAe9
The NINE SIXTEENTHS trailer has arrived 👀
Coming to @ThePleasance this November!
Inspired by Janet Jackson, Created by me✨
With an incredible cast @EndyMckay, @emergentp, Julianne Doko & @livia_k_alour
On Sale Now! 🎟️https://t.co/xCu2vQuO5r🎟️
Friends, readers, writers 31/10 6.30pm Join me at excellent @OwlBookshop in London. 🎉 I’ll be talking about growing up in a 70s/80s commune, institutions, home, the story of silent witnesses & my memoir ‘Home Is Where Is Where We Start’ @FigTreePenguin
https://t.co/DLo96Me6xQ