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Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Announcing The Scratch Winter Sale! For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off. For all the readers and writers in your life! www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop

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Eve White Literary Agency @evewhiteagency.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The marvellous @ccrrll.bsky.social is taking November by storm! Her selection as a judge for the Bristol Short Story Prize 2026 is a fantastic achievement; congratulations, Claire!! [ #booksky 📚💙 #WriterSky #WritingCommunity]

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Eve White Literary Agency @evewhiteagency.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Hello #booksky 📚💙 @ccrrll.bsky.social has had a piece of eco-criticism featured in The Climate Issue of @stingingfly.bsky.social! A Thousand, Thousand Slimy Things is about a real-life sea voyage taken by Claire, @gary-grace.bsky.social and her grandpa this summer. Congratulations, Claire!

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

My ride or die wrote this story about a slightly mad lad going on an unorthodox quest for basketball glory and redemption in Argentina. It's in @irishexaminer.bsky.social which is pretty rad. You'll laugh, you'll cry, it'll change your life. Proud of the one and only 🖤 @gary-grace.bsky.social

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Gary Grace @gary-grace.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

If you like acid, and you like tennis, and you like me...order this gnarly anthology of debauchery published by @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I'm being very social media minimal at the moment (last 6 months of PhD etc) but here is a podcast I did with The Library of Lazy Thinking, released this week! I spoke to Glenn Fisher about one of my all-time top faves 'The Doll's Alphabet' by Camilla Grudova. open.spotify.com/episode/1WNG...

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I had a very nice time last week in Dublin @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social ! Big thanks to everyone who came to listen to me bang on about dead birds and the short story from, and big big thanks to Declan and all at HF (and Tom, despite the fact that he never tags me in anything!)

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Me and Tom from @scratchbooks.bsky.social and @declanmeade.bsky.social will be talking in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social in Dublin in 24 hours. Thank you to whomever put my mad book in the middle of the display 😚. Come see us here from 6pm tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd)

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Herewith declaring a 2025 thread of short story collections that I have read and liked or loved. (I read novels too, I do, but short fiction is my soulmate....) Recommend these to all the readers in your life who claim not to like short fiction. 😚

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A eulogy to my deceased Twitter Bot! Thanks to @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social for giving it a home!

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

David Lynch, squinting, holding a cigarette weirdly between his fingers while standing against a cement wall.

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Declan Meade @declanmeade.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Looking forward to talking to Claire next week.

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Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Scratch Books take over @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social on 22nd January! Join the brilliant @ccrrll.bsky.social and the immense Declan Meade of @stingingfly.bsky.social in conversation! Tickets free!

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Gary Grace @gary-grace.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Please join us 🙏 Claire in conversation with Declan Meade. @ccrrll.bsky.social @scratchbooks.bsky.social

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

💥 d u b l i n 💥 Looking forward to being in conversation with Declan Meade of @stingingfly.bsky.social in a couple of weeks! Come join us @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social on Wednesday 22nd from 6pm...

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If you fancy dusting off that draft this January and need a little support, I have spaces for editorial and mentoring in the early part of this year! My rates are based on £200 per day, but I can tailor bespoke packages for projects of any scale. Drop me a line on cccrrllwriter[at]gmail[dot]com

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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Art should be funded like science. To properly fund art, you fund failure. Funding failure will give you occasional excellence. Creating any art with the aim of it being popular enough to make money, will give you consistent mediocrity. Arists need funding to play and fail because that's the process

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Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

If you’re near Dublin come along to this brilliant event at @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social on 22nd January!

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

you are being suffocated Joe Wenderoth, ‘Early Capitalism’

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

If anyone is in any doubt about joining the academy, this is one of the key perks and makes everything else worthwhile.

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Gary Grace @gary-grace.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"We made it, baby!" Christmas has come early. Feeling euphoria having signed on to be represented by Steve Evans at Eve White Literary Agency. On the mobile view, Claire is right above me. Beach Goth Dark Angel that I could not have gotten my manuscript in the shape it's in.

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hello! I've made a very limited number of vouchers for editorial and mentoring available just in time for the festive period. If you're looking for something that won't contribute to landfill for the writer in your life, please hit me up! Full details on my website ccrrll.co.uk/vouchers

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Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🌲May: @ccrrll.bsky.social and THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER @scratchbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip…

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Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🌲May: @ccrrll.bsky.social and THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER @dauntbookspub.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

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Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Christmas shopping? Get 20% off Scratch Books this week at our online shop. Including these two beauties - the best short story collections in 2024! scratch-books.co.uk/shop

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm horribly biased, for reasons that will become clear when you read the piece, but this does actually go very hard. Eternally proud of this lad. 🚌🚬🌊

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Gary Grace @gary-grace.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

CCGG Books of 2024. Last dance for the wonderful @lunatejournal.bsky.social Featuring @sineadgleeson.bsky.social @conorniland.bsky.social @nellstevens.bsky.social and more. www.lunate.co.uk/home/boty-20...

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It's the final @lunatejournal.bsky.social Books of The Year feature! Me and @gary-grace.bsky.social have an unhinged joint entry, where we talk about our 2024 faves, including Ferdia Lennon, Naomi Wood, @sineadgleeson.bsky.social, @giantratsumatra.bsky.social, @scratchbooks.bsky.social, and more!

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 29/11/2024

don't order books (or anything) from Amazon today! Instead, order from a small press, Bookshop, a local bookstore, or request a book from your local library. Yes, Amazon is "easy," but it's continuing to kill local businesses and concentrate wealth.

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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Next four I’ve enjoyed recently… Turducken by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social The Wooden Hill by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social One Person Away From You by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social Terminal by Ricky Monaghan Brown

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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ok, so not going to stick to just five. Got eight. First four are… Hollows by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Child Craft by @amygcb.bsky.social Attention Seekers by Emma Brankin The Unreliable Nature Writer (obvs) by @ccrrll.bsky.social

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bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska Stevens Variations by Juliet Jacques Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera (trans. Lisa Dillman) Get 'em Young, Treat 'em Tough, Tell 'em Nothing by Robin Maclean Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti Three published by And Other Stories oddly enough

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Last five short story collections PLUS a bonus anthology.... ■ Reason to Live by Amy Hempel ■ Folk by Zoe Gilbert ■ Belly Up by Rita Bullwinkel ■ This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things by Naomi Wood ■Open Up by Thomas Morris (still reading, hence bookmark) ◇ DUETS from Scratch Books!

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Has anyone started a last five short story collections one of these yet...? *flexes fingers....*

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bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Last five novels: Everything for Everyone by @genderhorizon.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo Outline by Rachel Cusk

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is such good timing for my AI startup that writes 8,000 extremely mean-spirited reviews a year

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Claire Carroll 🌊🌊 @ccrrll.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My most favourite lad has been given a scholarship to go and write in this in this insanely beautiful place, and I am extremely proud of him and not even slightly jealous....

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 16/11/2024

Happy publication to all our wonderful contributors! Best British Short Stories 2024 is available now! 🥳🎉🥂 Buy now: www.saltpublishing.com/products/bes...

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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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