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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Oh my God, enough about the em dash!

Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Delightful news that Aberystwyth has become Wales' first UNESCO City of Literature. As anyone who has been here knows, this town has a rich bilingual culture of creativity. I owe so much to the region, its institutions, and its mentors. Llongyfarchiadau! nation.cymru/news/aberyst...

nation.cymru

Aberystwyth becomes Wales' first UNESCO City of Literature

Aberystwyth has joined a global network of 350 Creative Cities that have been recognised for their excellence in creative fields across the world by becoming Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature Abe...

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Delighted to see this in-depth interview with the wonderful Imogen Davies appear. We talked about Owain Glyndŵr, washed-up whales, and all the other things which make up the Aberystwyth psycho-sphere: nation.cymru/culture/alex...

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Alex Hubbard on his debut novel Storm

Imogen Davies Alex Hubbard’s scintillating debut novel is an intriguing story about love, friendship, and our links with the past – a contemporary Gothic masterpiece which will leave you nostalgic fo...

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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

And I shall do my best to answer them, as long as I'm not held up by resurrected soldiers on the way there (will bring a #Snickers just in case though) #IYKYK #Aberystwyth

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

So excited to chat to Mari. I have MANY questions

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Music for your weekend! And my novel. Mostly the second one… open.substack.com/pub/alexhubb...

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Have you ever seen the rain?

A playlist for Storm: the novel

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

My latest substack, detailing some feelings on my upcoming novel, Aberystwyth, and the seasons. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/alexhubb...

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Storm Season

Thoughts at the end of summer on the coming of a novel

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I know you’re enjoying the summer But there’s some bad weather coming Utterly delighted that my debut is available for pre-order from Seren’s website!

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

In our algorithmic world, perceiving differently is more important than ever. Here, working from the ‘The Politics in a Poem’, published earlier this year in C21, I argue poetry is uniquely placed to heal our polarised, misinformed society. How? Because it records what we might not otherwise see.

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How poetry can help to fight polarisation and misinformation

By encouraging people to imagine beyond their own experience, reading poetry can help them see things from a different perspective.

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

So excited to be a part of the Seren family

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 08/04/2025

New issue of @c21literature.bsky.social, Volume 12, Issue 1 (Spring 2025) is out now! Featuring articles and reviews on #C21Literature writings Read it here: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1419/i... @bacls.bsky.social

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This is utterly outstanding

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I am thrilled my article, ‘The Politics in a Poem,’ is in the latest issue of C21. Writing this piece was long, challenging, and incredibly rewarding. I am immensely grateful for the thoughtful feedback from peer reviewers and the meticulous attention of the editor, Alice Bennett.

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The Politics in a Poem: ‘Peripheral reading’ <em>North End Love Songs</em> and <em>Estate Fragments</em>

This article examines the political dimensions of poetry through the lens of ‘peripheral reading’, considering textual representations of a place in relation to its socio-political context. It focuses...

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

We essentially voted to kick an unpopular can down the road instead of calling the whole thing off.

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Even those we love, we don’t know. Yet, always, we are perceiving others, and using those perceptions to shape ourselves. Occasionally, we see our own ethically murky but utterly necessary processes. I wrote about such a moment in ‘Visiting Hours’, three years ago: forgelitmag.com/2021/09/06/v...

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Visiting Hours - The Forge Literary Magazine

The children were at football practice till two and I was at the mental hospital, visiting Ryan. My chair was plastic and the curve dug into my spine. The tables…

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

‘Those who were left behind refused The Free Gift of Eternal Life as a child of God’ Can you dodge the rapture? What would being trapped, forever, with your weird flatmate be like? How many tins of fish is too many? Read ‘Who Are Left’ to find out: issuu.com/nawrmag/docs...

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nawr 007 Winter/Spring 2022

This issue of nawr is an attempt to grapple, in some way, with what it means to inhabit such a climate. The work in this issue ranges from bleak, satirical humour, in Spike Dennis’s Eat Me on page 42 ...

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Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The now is an era of utter anxiety. Play is as necessary as thought. Two years ago, emerging from a nasty case of Covid, a cold winter, a worsening climate, and some exciting encounters with Beckett and Joyce, I wrote ‘The Coin’. You can read it, here: pure.aber.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

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