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Amy Grandvoinet

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Fruit Journal @fruitjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Issue 9 is HERE! Featuring an EXCLUSIVE interview with Saleem Haddad and an extract from his new novel Floodlines. Plus all the LGBTQ+ poems, stories and non-fiction you could want. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ... 1/3 🍎Get it here: fruitjournal.co.uk 🥝
Image is a colourful abstract painting with white text superimposed. Text reads: Fruit queer literary journal issue 9 out now.
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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Like a magic eye that reveals a new image, and perhaps new self, with every glance. — Poppy Cockburn @poppycockburn.bsky.social The Indigo Hours is watery fortification. — Amy Grandvoinet @amygrandvoinet.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
whack some poor athlete in the head with my strokes. I learned a lot then. Learned to close my world, slim the lines, narrow and harden. Wrapped in a towel, aged twelve, I shivered on the patio as my grandmother told me I had ‘childbearing hips.’ Ever since then, I’ve carried any weight lopsided. The restaurant required me to lift chairs and tables, crates of glasses and sandwich board signs. I kept a bruise, permanently, on my left hipbone. At night I stroked the everchanging smudge of blue/purple/grey/green and wondered who it belonged to. The board signs flapped their truths in my fantasies, something about fresh deals, beauty sleep, are you ready. 

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I could try to describe the prairie. The cheddar-red homecoming sunsets, sense of the flame-tipped birches in early winter. The nowhereness of every mile lost. Honestly it was like a place from your dreams, yours specifically, a place in-between one world and the next. One girl and the next. Endless flatness. All hope of foliage had long been stamped into the ground, remaining but a texture on earth. People had disappeared on the prairie. Ruthie told me about the will-o’-the-wisp that lit little spirals in the air at night. 

“If a story in which we escape a fire,” she said. She didn’t finish the conditional. She exhaled smoke. I tried to remember what fire we escaped, maybe a classroom in flames when the plug exploded. What teacher forgot to tell us to leave, spraying the flames herself. Blue fluid, red flame. Kicking open doors with her boots, toes of steel. On the prairie, your breath levelled out to a sigh. I could only watch it from my father’s back garden, while the chickens squawked in their cage behind me. The thing about the prairie was you had to cross all that marshland to get there. You had to risk sinking.
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Folding Rock Magazine @foldingrockmag.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Featuring words from: Manon Steffan Ros Greg Flynn Beth Preece @amygrandvoinet.bsky.social Yasmin Zaher Horatio Clare Grug Muse @aniacard.bsky.social Liz Churchill Hannah Dafforn Natalie Ann Holborow Emma Glass Maya Jordan Pre-Order now: foldingrock.com/shop/standal...
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Folding Rock 002: Speak to Me – Folding Rock
Featuring new work from writers including Horatio Clare, Emma Glass, Manon Steffan Ros and Ania Card. The multitude of languages we use to communicate, be they spoken or non-verbal, are arguably the m...
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Amy Grandvoinet @amygrandvoinet.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Save Modern Languages Cardiff University, please click: www.savecardifflanguages.org 💗.
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Save Cardiff Languages is a campaign to save the teaching of Modern Language degrees and Translation at Cardiff University.
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Amy Grandvoinet @amygrandvoinet.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Installment 2/2 now on @beckettreading.bsky.social blog ~ read for Beckett & healings & The Substance (2024) & bananas (research.reading.ac.uk/beckett/bein...) ❤️‍🔥¡
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Being Poorly with Samuel Beckett (An Addendum) - The Samuel Beckett Research Centre
Amy Grandvoinet Royal Berkshire Hospital’s A&E department is directly opposite the Museum of English Rural Life, where the Samuel Beckett Special Collection at the University of Reading is held, and.....
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Amy Grandvoinet @amygrandvoinet.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Last September I went to the Samuel Beckett Research Centre @beckettreading.bsky.social <thanki> for a coupla weeks & look'd into the Heroic Dramaturge(et. al.)'s relationship with Alexander Trocchi u can read abowdit here ❤️‍🔥 !
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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Amy is a unique and precious gem. Everything about her writing is delightful in the extreme. This is no different...
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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
And I'm finally up to date with my Personal Anthology... I've just updated the apersonalanthology.com website with Amy Grandvoinet’s selection of a dozen favourite short stories. Check them out here!
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A Personal Anthology
Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories
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