Reposted by C.D. RoseDavid Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 5hIt's National Poetry Day and yes, it should run for a week, or a month, or even longer. Here's my book about reading one short poem very closely for a year - and what a poem! www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr... 1137
Reposted by C.D. RoseGoldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2026 shortlist! 🎉🎉 Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Visit our website to find out more www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... 03010
Reposted by C.D. RoseJonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As always, I'm keen to hear from potential contributors. You just need i) to love short stories ii) to be able to narrow that love down to 12 (TWELVE!) stories and iii) be able to write about what they mean to you. DMs open. Don't be shy! 025
Reposted by C.D. RoseRichard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Jongens, gadver, I have written about the new Joy Division box set and the band in NL in 1980. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...thequietus.comUpdate Factory Settings: Joy Division Live | The QuietusAhead of a comprehensive box set of live recordings, Richard Foster considers the 'other' Joy Division – one that barely gets mentioned. 3164
Reposted by C.D. RoseEuropean Network of Short Fiction Research @ensfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Please find the ENSFR Events Programme below. ENSFR Events Programme - Autumn 2026 ensfr.univ-angers.fr/2026/09/19/e...ensfr.univ-angers.frENSFR Events Programme – Autumn 2026Links to the individual events: ENSFR General Meeting: September 28 @ 18 h 00 min – 19 h 00 min The Short Story Salon: October 19 @ 18 h 00 min – 19 h 00 min Short Story Anthologies Rou… 062
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I know the new China Miéville is a big one, but *35 quid*? 360
Reposted by C.D. RosePatrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Noticing a few "publications" lifting a lot of my recent Soft Cell feature wholesale, so re-upping it in case there's anyone who still wants to read it from the source! 22210
Reposted by C.D. RoseAnakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It appears in 2026 we're back again with some insisting the novel must end at Middlemarch. Some days it's as though modernism never happened. This is the only work where you're requested to do it poorly to satisfy people's tame and dull appetites. We would never been this unambitious for visual art 1271
Reposted by C.D. RosePhilippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 03/09/20263 September 1832 Enraged that the head of a 3-year-old cholera victim had been severed from his body, a mob attacked the cholera hospital, Swan St Manchester. The head was retrieved from the home of a medical student who fled the town. 033
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A great piece here from Sofia Hallström, regarding a (possibly) non-existent show at a (possibly) non-existent gallery, which would have been even too much for my 'We Live Here Now.' www.interviewmagazine.com/art/ferrari-...interviewmagazine.comFerrari x2 Is the Buzziest Gallery in London That Doesn't Actually ExistIf a joint exhibition between George W. Bush and Louise Bourgeois happens and no one is around to see it, did it really happen? 020
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Manchester! I will soon be leading a @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social Reading Round at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social looking at works related to the collection of Enriqueta Rylands. Come along, it's free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-ro...eventbrite.co.ukReading Round at The John Rylands LibraryA time for stories, poems, and community in the historic John Rylands Library. 0179
Reposted by C.D. Rose'M-Dash' Devereaux @michelledevereaux.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Feeling increasingly okay about not being able to get a 'proper' academic job at a UK university (such as this one, which I've had more than one unsuccessful interview with). It's all just a straight-up ethical shitshow ain't it.theguardian.comExeter University approves deal with Saudi Arabia to train military officers and officialsIn move that could generate millions, Exeter academics to deliver MA at National Defense University in Riyadh 031
Reposted by C.D. RoseLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/08/2026‘In the centre of the exhibition is a case of non-existent books. Florence Jung’s 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 (2015) is invisible, apparent only through an invoice (€47, which seems rather steep, even if it does include shipping).’ Gill Partington in Brussels, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...lrb.co.ukGill Partington | At the WittockianaThe Wittockiana museum has a slight air of mystery. Deep in suburban Brussels, crouching discreetly behind ramparts of... 061
Reposted by C.D. RoseTom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026More of the sentences I'm sharing every day on Substack. 084
Reposted by C.D. RoseGuillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026New update via Substack. guillermostitch.substack.com/p/i-live-in-... 155
Reposted by C.D. Roseminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 16/08/2026two weeks left to send us fiction, essays and experimental texts ... details here: minorliteratures.com/submissions/minorliteratures.comsubmission[s]We are open for submissions of reviews, interviews, extracts, beefs, and textos en español/textes en français year round. Please read submissions requirements carefully before sending your work. Fi… 01112
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 04/08/2026While I may own more steam train recordings than is strictly necessary, I read a sleeve note like this and have to buy another. 1121
Reposted by C.D. RoseGuillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"What each review has in common with the others is that it reads like the report of a surveyor who can’t find the front door, and so (for his supper) surveys the facade." A response to some baffling reviews of The Coast of Everything. Share if you care. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-litera... 02615
Reposted by C.D. RoseLibération @liberation.fr · 30/07/2026⚫ Le penseur belge Raoul Vaneigem, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», inspirateur de Mai 68. ➡️ l.liberation.fr/Vc3 22216
Reposted by C.D. RoseErratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 30/07/2026ERRATUM REVIEWS | open for submissions | tangents welcome erratumpress.com/reviews 095
Reposted by C.D. Roseintergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Out now! The first title in Series 5: 'Amorous Electrons' by @vikshirley.bsky.social, a sequence of images & poetry that draws on electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics'. Buy the pamphlet + poster here: intergraphia.cargo.site/Vik-Shirley-... 02014
Reposted by C.D. RoseTom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Relative letter frequency in The Odyssey, indicated by thickness of white wave, alphabetical, top to bottom. 1184
Reposted by C.D. RoseTobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026best bit advice for submitting fiction to @minorliteratures.bsky.social is the one fewest people follow: know what we publish and don't just send whatever cos it's open ... recent pieces here: minorliteratures.com/category/fic...minorliteratures.comfiction – minor literature[s]Posts about fiction written by @MinorLits 0139
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 23/07/2026London! I will be reading in you. This Sunday, 3.30pm, Ellie's Bar on Kingsland Road. (As part of the Soho Reading Series.) 0137
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 23/07/2026'Ian and I were getting to know each other ... We were planning to do some music together...' Surely one of the great 'what ifs.' www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...theguardian.com’Ian Curtis didn’t have a chance’: the Durutti Column on departed friends, Factory Records and fun with MorrisseyAs they release their first album in 16 years, the Vini Reilly-fronted band answer your questions on sandpaper record sleeves, having Harry Styles as a fan and inventing a new style of guitar music 040
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 22/07/2026In the @thetls.bsky.social, re @guillermostitch.bsky.social, 'The Coast of Everything,' and the necessity of messy, drunken literature. 1185
Reposted by C.D. RoseTom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026References to rain in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847), in order of occurrence. 1206
Reposted by C.D. RoseMelville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026There on the horizon…could it be…yes....the Sale Boat! ⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚⛵️📚 Wednesday, July 15 (tomorrow), all books on our site are 30% off. That means most titles are going for under $20, and many for less than $15. 121
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Happy Bastille Day! Post a French banger grandveymont.bandcamp.com/album/persis...grandveymont.bandcamp.comPersistance et changement, by Grand Veymont1 track album 030
Reposted by C.D. RoseA. J. Ashworth @ajashworth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Short Fiction in Theory and Practice is looking for short stories for its forthcoming special issue ‘Writing Across Languages: Anglophone Short Stories by Multilingual Authors’. Deadline 1st December and guest edited by Elsa Court, Nina Ellis and Sonya Moor: www.intellectbooks.com/short-fictio...intellectbooks.comShort Fiction in Theory & PracticeShort Fiction in Theory & Practice; Short Fiction in Theory & Practice provides an international forum for all those writing, reading, translating or publishing the short story, in all its diversi... 062
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Happy Canada Day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ei...youtube.comRaindrops Cast in LeadYouTube video by CorsairAZ 151
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Sylvia Purr-lath appreciating ‘Light Across the Plains,’ forthcoming from @sharonduggal.bsky.social and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social 0194
Reposted by C.D. Rose'M-Dash' Devereaux @michelledevereaux.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Whoops, sorry, I'm clearly blowing things out of proportion. The UK HE sector will be fine. Why, just today I saw this ad for an associate film lecturer. Thinking of applying--too bad my machete is currently in the shop! 022
Reposted by C.D. Roseminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 18/06/2026“The older I get, the more I distrust discourse”: An Interview with M. John Harrison — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/06/18/t...minorliteratures.com“The older I get, the more I distrust discourse”: An Interview with M. John Harrison — Cristina PolitanoIn M. John Harrison’s most recently published novel, The End of Everything (Serpent’s Tail, 2026), the reader encounters a narrative that is as chaotic and combative as its title sugges… 03319
Reposted by C.D. RoseDavid Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Tonight's launch at The Wheatsheaf Tavern in Fitzrovia of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything.' You had to be there. 12210
Reposted by C.D. RoseOrla Owen @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social · 15/06/2026A fun & fabulous evening at the launch of @guillermostitch.bsky.social new novel #TheCoastOfEverything Loved seeing him turn the tables & interview @davidcollard.bsky.social about it & @cdrose.bsky.social & Johnny White Really Really were fantastic 👏👏 The best Monday evening 💛📚💛 #books #booksky 0144
Reposted by C.D. RoseDavid Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Celebrations marking the publication of Guillermo Stitch's long-awaited novel The Coast of Everything. Tonight: London launch! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coast-... Tuesday: Allender Calendar podcast! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Wednesday: Dublin launch! www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-for...eventbrite.comThe Coast of Everything — Literary salon and comedy performanceAn intimate evening of fiction, conversation and live comedy. 186
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026London! Come to this tomorrow! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coast-...eventbrite.comThe Coast of Everything — Literary salon and comedy performanceAn intimate evening of fiction, conversation and live comedy. 000
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Cover versions of Fall songs are rarely a good idea, but this - by Elaine Mitchener and Elizabeth Kenny, voice and (I believe) theorbo - is remarkable. (Here, from 32:00) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukRadio 3 in Concert - Wigmore Hall 125th Anniversary: Elaine Mitchener & Elizabeth Kenny - BBC SoundsWigmore Hall 125th Anniversary: vocalist Elaine Mitchener joins lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. 263
Reposted by C.D. RoseThe Quietus @thequietus.com · 04/06/2026Sinking in a sea of AI clickbait and fakery? Let us guide you to safer shores with a tQ Subscription, handcrafted since 2008. Don’t miss our special Spring Sale discounts, plus enjoy your first 30 days for free: buff.ly/BI2xy93 0145
Reposted by C.D. Rosewww.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026“Studio at the Wall” - information for people in East Berlin was provided by mobile transmitters from the West near the wall. Photographer unknown. Landesarchiv Berlin 2154
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 29/05/2026A massive thank you to whoever left this at Todmorden station. It has found a good home. 0110
Reposted by C.D. RoseDavid Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Launch events for Guillermo Stitch's colossal novel 'The Coast of Everything' kick off in London on Monday 15th June at The Wheatsheaf pub in Rathbone Place. Joining the author will be myself, Johnny White Really-Really and C. D. Rose. Free, but you need to book: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coast-... 2149
Reposted by C.D. Roseminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Beauty, Burning: The Condition Of Music — Daniela Cascella ( @erratumpress.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2026/05/21/b...minorliteratures.comBeauty, Burning: The Condition Of Music — Daniela CascellaWhat is beauty? The question emerged, viscerally and persistently. It pierced with the ancient force of a presence and a summoning. Here I am. Come. The answer does not answer but hosts and conside… 0109
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Now available in pocket-sized* affordable** paperback! Hie thee to a bookshop! * if you've got good pockets ** £10.99 0176
Reposted by C.D. RoseGuillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Auraist asked me to write about style. Big-ups to @ronanhession.bsky.social @cdrose.bsky.social and @davidcollard.bsky.social among others.open.substack.comThe International Booker Prize: the best-written book on the shortlistAnd Guillermo Stitch answers our qustions on prose style 2126
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 10/05/2026The most oddly striking thing about this (excellent) piece by Luke Roberts (via @jntod.bsky.social) is the idea of J.H. Prynne rolling a fat one while cranking up the volume on 'Among the Living' before getting the munchies and hitting the mini cheddars. www.littlemirrormag.com/luke-roberts...littlemirrormag.comLuke Roberts, Object Lessons — Little Mirror 291
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The kids who hang out at the skate ramps in my local park have constructed this, which (on an otherwise bleak day) has warmed my heart: such a simple example of collective care and responsibility. 1150