Looking forward to seeing one of my favourite authors for the first time shortly @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

New literary scams emerge every few days. Who’s behind them? Snigdha Poonam explains the inner workings of the highly organized industry, and why authors are a coveted target. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

The Lucrative World of Literary Scams — The Dial

Why writers are the perfect target.

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Heading up to Lumb Bank as a guest on @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and @kerryhp.bsky.social’s @arvonfoundation.bsky.social writing course. First time there in nearly thirty years! Looking forward to it and feeling reflective. www.arvon.org/tutors/simon...

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Writer in Residence opportunity with @uniofreading.bsky.social - Blooming Bloomsbury - collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Call for Applications: Writer in Residence - Blooming Bloomsbury and the Modernist Archives Publishing Project -Creativity and Community Co-Curation (2026)  | Museums and Collections

The selected writer will spend the summer months (June—September 2026) drawing inspiration from MAPP to develop new creative work. From September to December, they will build on this...

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Novel temporalities: for the latest Snap! Criticism, @danhartland.bsky.social looks at recent work by Simon Okotie & Madeleine Thien to highlight how speculative and formal elements interact.

Snap! Criticism: Okotie and Thien

Dan Hartland In a letter on May 14, 1981, Philip K. Dick was characteristically pugnacious: “I will define science fiction, first, by saying what sf is not. It cannot be defined as ‘a story (or nov…

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A thoughtful review of my book The Future of the Novel, which was published in the UK a year plus a week ago today, alongside Madeleine Thien’s novel The Book of Records, which I will look forward to reading. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/02/25/s...

Snap! Criticism: Okotie and Thien

Dan Hartland In a letter on May 14, 1981, Philip K. Dick was characteristically pugnacious: “I will define science fiction, first, by saying what sf is not. It cannot be defined as ‘a story (or nov…

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I successfully defended my PhD thesis in English Literature at the University of Reading on Wednesday. With thanks to my supervisor Conor Carville and examiners Peter Robinson and Peter Boxall (pictured).

En route to meet my PhD supervisor on the South Bank to prepare for my viva (which is next week!).

Why CD Rose won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction, by @SimonOkotie.bsky.social

Why CD Rose won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction

His fourth book We Live Here Now challenges the novel’s form by focusing on texture, atmosphere and resonance

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'We Live Here Now emerged similarly mysteriously, flying steadily & consistently under the radar before assuming its rightful place as the winner of this year’s Goldsmiths Prize.' Judge @simonokotie.bsky.social on why C.D. Rose won this year's Goldsmiths Prize. www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Why CD Rose won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction

His fourth book We Live Here Now challenges the novel’s form by focusing on texture, atmosphere and resonance

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@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social

The waiting is nearly over! Our judges - Mark Haddon, Megan Nolan, @simonokotie.bsky.social, and @asack.bsky.social - have read, deliberated and decided. Winner announcement TONIGHT around 7.30pm🔥

I dug out this top for my run today - a third kit from the early 2000s modelled on Inter Milan. I’m hoping it will bring us luck (and an Italian defensive display) against Porto this evening.

Nicholas Royle ends his much appreciated comments on A Personal Anthology by saying that, like a favourite bar or secondhand bookshop, it shouldn't be allowed to close. I agree! But it can only go on as long as there are contributors, so if you'd like to take part, please get in touch!

#GoldsmithsPrize2025 judge, @simonokotie.bsky.social, on C.D. Rose's We Live Here Now:

It's publication day for this beauty, with stories by David Bevan @iancritchley.bsky.social @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, @simonokotie.bsky.social, C.D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Naomi Wood, lucky old me! et al. Thank you @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & @saltpublishing.com 🔥

#GoldsmithsPrize2015 judge, @simonokotie.bsky.social, on Yrsa Daley-Ward's 'extraordinary shape-shifting, genre-defying work of fiction'

Our '25 judges, @simonokotie.bsky.social Amy Sackville (Chair) & Mark Haddon together @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social to decide this year's shortlist! Megan Nolan joining virtually. Announcement next Thursday, 2nd October around 9pm! 🔥

Literary Bluesky! According to Maeve Binchy in the Irish Times (14th May 1980) Samuel Beckett "had admired Myles na Gopaleen and laughed so much at everything he had written but had been a bit disappointed when he met him because he had expected too much." Details of the encounter? When and where?

In my dream last night I played tennis against the Queen.

We’re delighted that @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social is now stocking Nightjars. Little interview about it here deadinkbookshop.com/blogs/requir...

Nightjar Press: An Interview with Nicholas Royle

We’ve just started stocking short story chapbooks from Nightjar Press. If you, like us, are fans of the gothic, the weird, the surreal, and the supernatural, we recommend you check them out here in th...

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I’m delighted to be speaking about my book The Future of the Novel at this year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival. As someone who spans 'the two cultures' of science and the humanities, I am pleased with organiser's title for the event. So much to say! www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/autho...

Have just submitted my intention to submit [my PhD] form, which I have been intending to submit for some time.

I'm grateful for the review of my book The Future of the Novel in this week's TLS but I do want to clarify one thing: I don't believe that the prospect of a novel generated by AI is still some way off - it is already with us. www.the-tls.com/literature/l...

One of the best pieces I’ve read on this hot topic. Thank you John. This, for instance, is an exquisite distillation of the issues: ‘The LLMs, by definition, can only synthesise from existing texts; they cannot originate. Bestsellers and prize-winners tend to come from nowhere, not from everywhere.’

John Self@john-self.bsky.social · last yr.

“It’s almost taboo among writers to say, ‘I am interested in finding out what a person could do with this technology.’” I spoke to @naomialderman.bsky.social, @richbeard.bsky.social and Sarah Hall about what AI means for novelists, in this week’s @ftweekend.com Books Essay:

The Republic Of Consciousness Prize is undergoing a slight change as it celebrates it's tenth year. #Booksky, get this on your radar if it's not already. therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com/p/new-name-a...

New name and partner for groundbreaking prize for small press publishers

Announcing The Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize

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Glad to be one of the crew on this ship (with my story ‘When viewed from the head rather than the foot’). Pre-order details below.

Salt Books@saltpublishing.com · last yr.

Pre-order our flagship anthology, ‘BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES 2025’, with a massive 25% discount from Waterstones today – head to bit.ly/4l4lZT4 You will need to enter “SUMMER25” at the checkout to redeem the offer to receive 25% off RRP Offer ends 31 July. #WPreorder #BookSky

I am friends with the window cleaner at my local café and he was pretty much the first person I saw on the morning after I returned to London earlier this month following my mum's death.