🌱 Writer | Queer Ecologies ❇️ Participatory artist 🎙️ Co-Host @buttons_tender: https://xitter.cf/t.co/h4OXWKI7wU Recent ✒️ : https://xitter.cf/t.co/B9I5HMIBcv
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My hybrid chapbook of interspecies intimacies URTH is out now alongside the @_SpikeIsland residency 🐛🍄🌱
Part folk-horror, part camp-gothic, part post-gentrification city writing, finding the Weird everywhere. You can order below 🔗👇 (1/2)
bigwhiteshed.co.uk/urth
Loved chatting with Helen Oyeyemi about her new novel Parasol Against the Axe, as well as the through lines of play, perplexity, shape-shifting narrators, that weave across her work. Listen here:
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New episode with the legendary Helen Oyeyemi! We chat about her dizzying new novel Parasol Against the Axe, writing Prague, shape-shifting narratives, the role of play and perplexity across her work & so much more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks 👇🏻🎧️
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Loved talking to Andrew McMillan about his novel PITY: how the novel can hold multiple truths, the need to find a new language to talk about the past & community, the dangers of describing post-industrial towns by their lack or an absence & so much more 👇🎧
Season 6 is here! We chat Andrew McMillan (@AMcMillanPoet ) about his novel Pity, post-industrial northern identities, how everyone’s village, town or city is worthy of literature & much, much more @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks 👇🎧
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Season 6 is here! We chat Andrew McMillan (@AMcMillanPoet ) about his novel Pity, post-industrial northern identities, how everyone’s village, town or city is worthy of literature & much, much more @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks 👇🎧
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Thrilled to be chatting to the very brilliant Jean-Baptise del Amo @StanfordsBrist about his new book with @FitzcarraldoEds ' The Son of Man' on 29.5.24. Tickets below 👇🔥
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Was such an honour to host this live episode with @AnnieBrooker_ last week in-house @StorysmithBooks, we covered so much in this conversation: around politics of care, activist affordances, play as world-making & much, much more 👇
New LIVE episode with Marianne Brooker 🎙️🌋
We discuss her new book Intervals, the politics of care, writing as reparative magic, intersections of class, gender and disability and so much more @StorysmithBooks @FitzcarraldoEds @AnnieBrooker_ 👇🎧
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Listened to our Sheila Heti ep. yet? We discuss hybrid forms, what it means to write away from a 'writer' performance, the rhythm & materiality of language, pushing the boundaries of the novel and much more @FitzcarraldoEds @StorysmithBooks
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Thrilled to share our latest episode with Sheila Heti: we go deep into her new book Alphabetical diaries, writing like painting, against linear time & continuous ideas of the self, hybridity of form & much, much more
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New episode with Sheila Heti 🎙️🔥
We discuss her new book Alphabetical Diaries (@FitzcarraldoEds): formal constraints, beyond linear time, progress & ideas of a complete, continuous narrative of selfhood across her work & much more 👇
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@StorysmithBooks
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New episode with Sheila Heti 🎙️🔥
We discuss her new book Alphabetical Diaries (@FitzcarraldoEds): formal constraints, beyond linear time, progress & ideas of a complete, continuous narrative of selfhood across her work & much more 👇
bit.ly/3Sf7dfW
@StorysmithBooks
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New episode with Nathalie Olah (@nrolah) 🔥 🎙️
We talk about her brilliant new book Bad Taste & ideas of cultural capital, social mobility, Pamela Anderson & Dolly Parton, austerity aesthetics, & the politics of scarcity & much more. Listen here 👇🎧
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Honoured to have my eerie short story of grief, graveyards and ghost plants in the new issue of @lunatejournal , amongst very fine company indeed. Limited edition, pre-orders below (very few left apparently!): lunate.co.uk/shop/p/lunate-v…
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bristol people interested in writing! we're doing a creative workshop about writing into / against gaps in history. come queer / disrupt sh*t with us! 🌸🔪
no previous writing experience necessary (but confident writers definitely v welcome)
> > storysmithbooks.com/product/…
ALT a composite image. text overlaid reads "Re-awakening Archives: a creative writing workshop. Join us for a relaxed, inclusive writing workshop exploring how to create characters and narratives from images and archives. Monday 30th October, 6.30-8.30pm. £15. @ Storysmith Bookshop, 236 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JD". a background of different clippings of old-fashioned handwritten papers. a self-portrait photo of the queer artist Gluck. a photo of Dame Emily Smith and her ladies maid Dolly Fitzway in butch 1940s skirt suits. a late 1700s painting by Agostino Brunias depicting free Dominicans in fashionable period attire. in the foreground, a photo of Jack and Eli holding sheets of paper as if mid-discussion.
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Checked out our episode with Eliza Clark yet? We chat violence and true crime, regional inequality, Brexit, the internet, writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks 👇 🎧
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We chatted to Eliza Clark about transgression in fiction, true crime & the internet; regional inequality, how mainstream & social media shapes narratives about people & places; writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks
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Listened to our new episode with Eliza Clark yet? 🎧
we chat about violence & transgression in fiction, true crime, the internet, writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks (1/2)👇 🔥
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Loved chatting to Eliza Clark (@FancyEliza ) about true crime, the internet, toxic media, Brexit shadows in fiction, difficult female characters and so much more. Check out here! 👇🎧
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New episode with Eliza Clark (@FancyEliza) 🎉🔥
We chat violence & transgression, true crime & the internet; regional inequality, how mainstream & social media shapes narratives about people & places; writing difficult female characters & more 👇🎧(1/2)
bit.ly/45Z5UXY
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Checked out our new patreon yet? 👇 Free merch, books, ask questions to our guests, discounts + more @StorysmithBooks
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This season you can expect: Sheila Heiti, Eliza Clark, Nathalie Olah, Noreen Masuud, Marianne Brooker & more. WE ARE EXCITED 🎧 🔥
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We now have a @buttons_tender Patreon subscription! Sign up for loads of good stuff & to support our work📚
🚨 OUR PATREON IS LIVE! 🚨
Head to buff.ly/3sPgVwg to sign up for:
📚 Early episode access
📚 10% off books at Storysmith online/in-person
📚 Free merch
📚 Submit questions for upcoming guests
📚 Exclusive book giveaways each month
+ more TBA
Excited to announce our new patreon for @buttons_tender , want to submit qs to upcoming guests including Eliza Clark, Nathalie Olah, Sheila Heiti, Marianne Brooker, Noreen Masuud? Want early episode access? Free merch? Book giveaways? Sign up here: patreon.com/tenderbuttons
🚨 OUR PATREON IS LIVE! 🚨
Head to buff.ly/3sPgVwg to sign up for:
📚 Early episode access
📚 10% off books at Storysmith online/in-person
📚 Free merch
📚 Submit questions for upcoming guests
📚 Exclusive book giveaways each month
+ more TBA
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Listened to our episode with Octavia Bright yet? We chat active listening, Louise Bourgeois & spirals, Eliot & Margate, the importance of symbols and/or images in life writing & much more 🌀 🌋 @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks
Listen here: buff.ly/47RiXfi
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Earlier this summer I had a wonderfully thoughtful & wide-ranging conversation with @jessicacandrews & @JMDemus at @StorysmithBooks for their podcast @buttons_tender. A privilege to be read so intelligently & interviewed with such curiosity. Listen now at the link below 🌀💚🌋
In this special live summer episode we spoke to @octaviabright_ about THIS RAGGED GRACE 🌋
We chat active listening, the pornographic and the erotic in life writing, care work, symbols and images, influences like Louise Bourgeois & much, much more 👇🎧
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