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New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

LAST DAY to submit your prose and poetry to our print journal, #writingcommunity... Max word count for prose = 4000 Max character count for poetry = 2000 Visit newnottinghamjournal.com to find out more. Andiamo!

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New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Two days left to submit your prose and poetry to our print journal, #writingcommunity... Max word count for prose = 4000 Max character count for poetry = 2000 Visit newnottinghamjournal.com to find out more. Andiamo!

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New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Issue 1 has sold out - Issue 2 is now open for submissions. Short fiction, poetry, slow journalism. Submit your piece to the UK's newest, Nottinghamest print journal. Visit newnottinghamjournal.com/submissions to find out more.

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New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

It's the last three days to crowdfund our new literary print journal, featuring 40 contributors from around the world. We've nearly hit £3000 - can you pitch in? www.kickstarter.com/projects/new... #writingcommunity

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New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Presenting...the first New Nottingham Journal cover! Short stories, journalism, poetry and B&W photography from the UK's rebel city. You can support the project on Kickstarter now, should the mood strike you! 👉 www.tinyurl.com/kickstartnnj #writingcommunity #nottingham #literature #writing

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

You’ve got five more days to submit to a new literary journal in print! #writingcommunity

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Back in the Radio Times. Who's your favourite gaming patriarch? www.radiotimes.com/technology/g...

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5 most iconic fathers in video game history

Dad pixels.

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

In relationships I'm now embracing 'monogrammy'. I only date people who have their initials sewn on to all their clothes.

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

For my first Radio Times piece I hopped into the famous blue box to obtain a BBC Micro computer - with mixed results... www.radiotimes.com/technology/g... @radiotimes.bsky.social #doctorwho

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Every Doctor Who video game, ranked from worst to best

Fancy a trip in the TARDIS?

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New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

We want to get your stories, poems or essays into print. There's a new literary journal releasing later this year - open for submissions from around the world. Visit newnottinghamjournal.com. #writingcommunity

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New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Submissions for the New Nottingham Journal are opening next week - stay tuned for details.

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Can she step out from the Camplight? I reviewed Dilettante's live show last month for Under the Radar. @undertheradar.bsky.social www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/dile...

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

DISSECTING MANCTOPIA 🐝 Readings & Ramblings from Book of Manchester Authors 📍 Feel Good Club, MCR 📅 Mar 20, 7-9pm 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/dissecting... What does Manchester mean to you? Join as we explore, celebrate & critiques the city Manchester was, and the one it has become...

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

‘Teeming with life’ - exactly why I love Dickens. Fab piece by @claireharman.bsky.social in the Literary Review

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Last year I spoke to Bill Bailey (before his morning coffee) and he shared with me his plan for surviving on a desert island, and his thoughts on the animal kingdom: 'If the bees are in strife, then maybe it's time for the wasps to sort of step up.' leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

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We Chat to Bill Bailey Before He Brings His Thoughtifier Tour to Nottingham in March

With his trademark musical stylings and characteristic wit, Bill Bailey will be bringing his Thoughtifier tour to Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena on 1 March. We caught up with him to find out more about...

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

they do say action makes the heart grow Fonda

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

the history of cartoon dogs is a series of footnotes to Pluto

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy to get tongue-tied for Manchester's top indie publisher Comma Press, having spotted a good excuse to write about Jimmy Carter (mildly) sexually harassing the state of Poland. #writingcommunity #internationalmotherlanguageday

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is how to turn your unsolicited email into a solicited email.

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🚨RELEASE DAY🚨 It takes a certain type of team to catch a killer... Sequel to A Time For Dying, A House For Monsters is the new instalment of the DCI Tom McHale series by Bryce Main. Order this dark and fast-paced character-driven crime novel now: www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

New, many-hued review copies from @commapress.bsky.social!🎨 Thanks gang #writingcommunity

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

MANCHESTER IN TRANSLATION 2025 🐝 Arabic literary translation for complete beginners. Aimed at anyone interested in lit translation regardless of experience! 🗣️2 talks ✍️2 Workshops 🗓️Feb 19 5.30-7.30pm 📍 Manchester Uni Students Union 🎟️£3 eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester... or DM to sign up for free

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Manchester in Translation 2025

Join us for an evening of talks and workshops to celebrate all things literary translation, no experience required.

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LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Thanks to community togetherness and smart campaigning, the Meadows Library was recently saved from closure. We met Jackie and Di from the group, to find out what Friends of Meadows Library is there for, and why this special library was so worth saving. leftlion.co.uk/features/202...

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Turning a new page: How Meadows Library escaped closure

Set up to support the library in the Meadows, Friends of Meadows Library has provided an essential hub for almost 100 years. Thanks to community togetherness and smart campaigning, the Meadows Library...

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

‘Don’t you…step on my crusade shoes. You can do anything, but lay off of my crusade shoes.’

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

In the summer I managed to blag a creaky night-time stay at an 18th century library. Was this going to be the tonic for a jittery modern lifestyle - or just another new way to unnerve myself? Read how it went down, if you must, in the Nottingham Post.

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I went inside members-only library after hours. It felt like another world

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The Notts Review @thenottsreview.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

LeftLion's @andrewtuckerwriter.bsky.social raises a toast to Nottingham, and to years that go by with the snap of a finger 📕 thenottsreview.substack.com/p/city-of-li...

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City of Literature Virtual Writer-in-Residence Andrew Tucker on what makes Nottingham's literary scene so great

Even at midnight in Waterstones...

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

At least once, a Scottish Pest Removal firm has arrived at a house to find a surprise Moose infestation

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

First they came for the socially awkward, And I did not speak out. For I was not really sure whether I'd met them before, And if so what the dynamic/general vibe was

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Just adding my mum's maiden name 'Leavis' to mine, as I'm close to both halves of the family, and to help distinguish from another Andrew Tucker who's a fashion writer... Plus, F. R. Leavis confirmed to my grandad that he believed they were distantly related, so that's arguably a cool connection!

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Restless Dreg Syndrome: the need to drink the cold remainder of a forgotten cup of tea, rather than throwing it away #writingcommunity

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LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The December issue of LeftLion is out now! ❄ Featuring magical cover art by Marcus Gilmore, in this edition we feature George the Gorilla, Working Man's Kitchen, Saltbox's Sam Heaton, The Woolly Tellers, Victory Lap & lots more! Pick up a copy in Notts' best bars, cafes & hangouts, or read online 🌲

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Stanley Middleton’s daughter Penny giving her father’s Booker Prize to Nottingham Library today 🏆 50th anniversary of his win - the only year it was given to two authors. (I was meanwhile spooning the cream off a lotus biscoff hot chocolate from the library cafe. Can a drink be disrespectful?)

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I think reading this has ‘disrupted’ my stomach a bit

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Theciscokidder @theciscokidder.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My wife and I are at the age where we wake up, drink coffee and just continuously clear our throats for 45 mins.

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A quick hello - I'm on lit desk at Leftlion, freelance for the Nottingham Post while white-knuckling my degree. I'm now on a ‘virtual’ writing residency in Melbourne alongside fab writers whose CVs make mine look about as exhaustive as Herod’s Christmas list. Here I am in front of my fence.

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Dear 'Bloomsbury group' stans - I'm looking for a good first book on literary modernism, any suggestions? :)

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Reading the google books preview with exaggerated nonchalance so it can't sense which parts to omit

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

One thing we feel strongly is that we are not in competition with other orgs supporting writers. We want the same thing - a good, creative life. If you share our values, we will boost your posts, publicise your events, feature you in our newsletter. If you want to discuss this, get in touch

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

up early & off work -- ready for another session of staring at a bit of white pulped tree making up elaborate things that never happened

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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Good morning - I hope you slept like a beetle-stuffed dunnock - I'm starting with 'Sunlight in the South Room, Kellie', John Henry Lorimer, oil on canvas, 1913.

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Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

at this point I'm not even sure it's divergent to be neurodivergent in the writing world. We're just neuro

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