Vicky Grut
@vickygrut.bsky.social
Writer. Short story collection 'Live Show, Drink Included' shortlisted for 2019 Edge Hill Awards. Pushcart nominated, 2023. Work in Masters Review XIII in 2025 and Best British Short Stories 2026. www.vickygrut.com
Do look up the outstanding joint winners: Nell Osbourne (Ghost Driver)and Rebecca Grandsen (Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group)
Stu Hennigan@stuhennigan.bsky.social · 14h agoYes, the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize (formerly Republic of Consciousness) celebrated it's 10th birthday this year, i was on the panel with @susannacrossman.bsky.social and @marinabenjamin.bsky.social www.republicofconsciousness.com
Brunel university is co-sponsoring the Nero New Writers Prize. Open to writers not previously published by an established book publisher or magazine, deadline: Fri, 11 September: nerobookawards.com/new-writers-...
NEW WRITERS PRIZE 2026 - Nero Book Awards
Celebrating outstanding writing by authors living in the UK and Ireland, these awards list the best books of the year.
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In this helpful post, @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social tackles an issue familiar to many writers: "the writing doldrums", at around 30,000 words in, and what to do about it! #womenwriters #WritingCommunity
Emma Darwin@emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social · 5d agoBrand new on This Itch of Writing: why so many writers find themselves in the writing doldrums at around 30,000 words, and how to get out of them. buff.ly/UhFR4dj, link in bio or search this itch of writing doldrums
Mujahed Mofleh, one of Palestine’s finest editors, nearly died after leaving Israeli detention. When I visited him, he could barely move, yet wrote he had messages from prisoners he needed to deliver. That’s when I realized the prison never left him. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/muja...
Mujahed Mofleh: When the prison never leaves you
Mujahed Mofleh, one of Palestine’s finest editors, nearly died after leaving Israeli detention. When I visited him, he could barely move, yet wrote he had messages from prisoners he needed to…
mondoweiss.net
The @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social short story prize is open for submissions until 18 October! #womenwriters #WritingCommunity
The London Magazine@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · last wk.The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2026 is now open for entries. Further details and entry link here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...
We're open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #submissionsopen #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We look forward to reading your words fictivedream.com/submission-g...
Submission Guidelines
We publish short stories, including translations, of up to 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online (including your own blog and social media). We offer th…
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Powerful essay by Sophie Lewis: 'The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in [Israel's] parliament.' www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...
“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide
The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.
thekeymagazine.com
Lots of writers now only quote from original interviews, archives or physical books -- anything else is too dangerous. It takes forever and I'm not sure there's another way.
Great North Run, Maggie's cancer centres, generously, please, thank you. ajbellgreatnorthrun2026.enthuse.com/pf/richard-s...
Great North Run 2026
Here we go again. In September, on the eve of my 48th birthday, I will be flogging myself around 13-point-something miles of sheer Tyneside, in support of Maggie's centres and in memory of my lovely m
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@elizabethbaines.bsky.social so looking forward to reading this -a special signed out of print copy. How lovely to meet at Conference thanks to @ensfr.bsky.social
When I returned to writing stories some thirteen years ago I never dreamt they might gain a review like this. Profound thanks to @livimichael.bsky.social for her time and generosity.
Livi Michael@livimichael.bsky.social · 2w agoMy review of this excellent collection: ensfr.univ-angers.fr/2026/07/21/m... @polyscribe70.bsky.social
ICYMI... my story Constellations, which has a nod to R.A. Lafferty in it and also tp M.R. James.
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4mo agoThrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr
Growth has failed to eradicate poverty or to promote wellbeing. Poverty is not inevitable. It is manufactured. Our op-ed with @deschuttero.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social @thomaspiketty.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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The Palestinian author and visionary Ghassan Kanafani was murdered by Israeli agents on the 9th of July in 1972, together with his niece, who was a child. Kanafani's family was forced out of their home during the Nakba in 1948.
I am often reminded that several people who have read Let This Radicalize don't know that we created a number of FREE resources (including a workbook) that can be used along with the book. You can find those here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care — Interrupting Criminalization
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You by Kely Hayes and Mariame Kaba is a practical and imaginative resource for activis...
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A splendid opportunity to buy "The Anechoic Chamber, and other weird tales", just as you've been waiting to do
Salt Books@saltpublishing.com · 3w agoMorning lovelies! Here's a sneaky summer saver for you! 20% off when you click the link below or use discount code 5T2JNKFV98VT in our checkout! Offer ends 31 July. www.saltpublishing.com/discount/5T2...
New York has become the first state to enact a data center moratorium. Permits for hyperscale data centers will be paused for a year while the state develops a regulatory framework around AI. The state is also considering legislation that would strip data centers of tax subsidies.
New York Enacts Nation’s First Statewide Moratorium on Data Centers
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing the construction of the largest data centers for one year while the state assesses their effects on the environment and energy use.
nytimes.com
I wrote about The End of Everything & I think the paywall is down so: observer.co.uk/culture/book...
The visions of M John Harrison | The Observer
The End of Everything is a bravura, brain-melting sci-fi in which Britain comes under attack from the astral plane
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What a review!! 'The fabric of reality has changed: there’s always the risk of walking into a “bad patch”, which forces you to experience something that may have already happened, or is happening elsewhere, over and over again.' This book is going on my list.
Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 3w agoI wrote about The End of Everything & I think the paywall is down so: observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Haven’t yet decided on what I’ll read for women in translation month in August, but here are some recommendations Fleur Jaggy, Anna Seghers, Tove Ditlevsen, Colette, Shahrnush Parsipur, OlgaTokarczuk, Lalla Romano Titles, translators and original languages in alt text. #WITMonth
In just six months, Mamdani has already made huge progress on: -Lowering rent -Enacting universal childcare -Taxing the super rich -Improving city buses -Cracking down on junk fees and subscription traps -Protecting gig workers from wage theft This is what delivering for the people looks like.
The Art of Opposition by Courttia Newland review – piercing essays on culture and creativity
The Art of Opposition by Courttia Newland review – piercing essays on culture and creativity
The novelist issues a inspiring call for artists to exercise their autonomy in a world of gatekeepers
theguardian.com
3/4 of media reports on June heat didn't mention clinate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis
Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating
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Palantir sells a myth: «For all Thiel and Karp’s boasts of omniscience, AI-fuelled warfare and civilisational conflict, Palantir is fundamentally a software business … What its leadership has grasped is that in an age of revanchist nationalism, there is an advantage to exaggerating one’s own threat»
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Almost to the day, The Middlepause is 10 years old. Of all my books I'm happiest that this one is out there still doing business, since it had important business to traffic.
