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Splice @thisissplice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our first new title for 2027 will be IN THE SILVER LIGHT OF A STAR THAT IS NO STAR by @froid.bsky.social, a mindbending Borgesian trip into noir, folklore, and lands that exist only in language. 15 February 2027. Pre-orders available now at www.ThisIsSplice.co.uk/fiction/in-the-silver-light

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Splice @thisissplice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's been a year in the making, but at last Splice is back with a full slate for 2027! Four novellas and four story collections: one new book every six weeks from February 15. Available individually or as bundles, with a discount on pre-orders before January 31. Full details: www.ThisIsSplice.co.uk

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Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP Annie Dillard, one of the true greats. I was reading ‘Living Like Weasels’ for the umpteenth time only last night, urged to return to it perhaps by the energy of a cosmic coincidence. “We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need.”

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Annie Dillard RIP. I teach parts of Tinker Creek. And I also point students towards Alexander Chee’s excellent essay on being taught by Annie Dillard. You can read it here: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...

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Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News

Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.

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Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Deirdre Shanahan, one of the writers whose work is published by Splice, passed away last month. I’ve written a brief note of appreciation for Deirdre’s work here, and a pair of new short stories I was editing with her are available today at 3:AM… danieldaviswood.substack.com/p/in-memoria...

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In Memoriam, Deirdre Shanahan

Some words of appreciation for a distinctive writer of short fiction

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Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I had the pleasure of writing about Alan Fyfe’s latest novel, ‘The Cross Thieves,’ and his début, ‘T,’ for the Sydney Review of Books: sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/a-sh.... I thought they were both fantastic examples of what’s happening at the (aesthetic) margins of Australian literature.

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A Shape Close to a Life | Sydney Review of Books

Need fiction be ‘relatable’ in order to move us? Dissecting the poetic and art-referential aesthetics of Alan Fyfe’s T and The Cross Thieves, Daniel Davis Wood foregrounds other, perhaps counterintuit...

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Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Obviously this is excellent, detailed, and in many ways pretty terrifying - essential reading for anyone with even a passing concern for literature, thought, learning etc. I would only add that there is an even broader crisis here around attention. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Restacking this one post, but if you click onto it you’ll get a run-down of all the short fiction published so far this year at 3:AM: twenty-odd stories in total. More to come in the second half of the year!

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Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

New short fiction at 3:AM Magazine kicked off again this week with a gem from Max Steiner, ‘One Good Look Is What You’re Worth’: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/one-good.... Dark nostalgia (is that a thing?) and kind of a run-on voice that pulls against the wordlessness of the kid at the centre of the piece

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One Good Look Is What You’re Worth – 3:AM Magazine

If someone asks you—like say the USPS guy passes by you where you’re tossed belly sunward on the lawn and on his way to the mail slot asks you—hey there kid what’s new, you say nothing much, except la...

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Loved this chat @beyondzero.bsky.social, in particular @danieldaviswood.bsky.social’s top 5 (Heti/Pawson/Lutz/Biles/N Turner if you want a shortcut!) On Nicholas Turner: “NOBODY else could have written the sentences in this book…his similes are out-of-this-world” www.patreon.com/posts/bristo...

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Bristol Vaudrin and Daniel Davis Wood | Beyond The Zero Podcast

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Good thread on that thing everyone’s raging about

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Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“The world betrays everyone—the key is how we react to that. ... We fight our temperaments for decades and maybe we don’t let go until it’s in our interest, but what if our interests become passionless?” — @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social in Q&A Mark de Silva: markdesilva.substack.com/p/souls-of-g...

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Souls of Grit

A Conversation with Greg Gerke

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

For a dissenting view of Everett's James (as well as a positive notice of Harvey's Orbital), see Tom LeClair's piece in Open Letters Review: openlettersreview.com/posts/orbita...

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Orbital by Samantha Harvey & James by Percival Everett: — Open Letters Review

Critic Tom LeClair reflects on two major prize-noticed new novels

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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Camilla Grudova, ladies and gentlemen:

A page of text reading: “How delicious it would be roasted, the sailors cried, but the captain stopped them: a zoo in Berlin or Moscow would buy the octopus and they would all be rich. In the 200, it would wear a bowtie and make love to women pretending to be mermaids, the captain told his crew, redirecting their appetites. They made eel stew for dinner, and put the octopus in a bucket filled with water, with a lid on top.”

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I'd be interested to hear about the best book you read during 2024 that you have not seen widely reviewed or praised, that has gone under the radar. A work that deserves more attention. Newspapers and mags have their end of year round ups coming out and they rarely surprise. Please surprise me.

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Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

One of my favorite online literary contexts, always beautifully and invisibly curated

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Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I'd usually leave this until year's end, but now seems like a good time for it. So here's a look back at short fiction at 3:AM in 2024: one shout-out per day until they're done, with notes on why I went for each piece. First up, J. Billings' 'Automatism': danieldaviswood.substack.com/p/3am-fictio...

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Daniel Davis Wood @danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

An influx of mutuals from that other site on here feels like a freshening breeze. Hopefully more will follow. For sure the old place is beyond hope now. Might as well give this one a go.

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