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Jane Alexander

@janealexander.bsky.social
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Author, The Flicker Against the Light, A User's Guide to Make-Believe, The Last Treasure Hunt. linktr.ee/janealexander. Teach CW @ UoE. She/her. janealexander@net

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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I’m a huge fan of The Lovecraft Investigations - here’s hoping this new series meets its funding goal.
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Helen Sedgwick @helensedgwick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
On Thursday 1st May I’ll be talking to Dr Christina Neuwirth about their fascinating research into gender inequality in the Scottish literary sector - do join us! On zoom and free for SoA @societyofauthors.bsky.social members: societyofauthors.org/event/indust...
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Industry Insider – The 40% ceiling: Gender equality in the Scottish literary sector - The Society of Authors
Grab a cuppa and find out more about English novelist and game writer Naomi Alderman. Best known for her speculative science fiction novel The Power, which won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in...
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 21/04/2025
I just realized that webinar is an anagram of winebar. Suddenly, a way forward appears.
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a woman is holding a glass of wine with the words cheers written on the bottom
ALT: a woman is holding a glass of wine with the words cheers written on the bottom
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Peggy Hughes @hughespeg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Dear March - Come in - 🪻
Tile reads: 

Dear March - Come in - (1320)
Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

Dear March - Come in -
How glad I am - 
I hoped for you before - 
Put down your Hat - 
You must have walked -
How out of Breath you are -
Dear March, how are you, and the Rest - 
Did you leave Nature well -
Oh March, Come right upstairs with me - 
I have so much to tell -
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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 19/02/2025
Perhaps we *do* need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.
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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A fox looks up at Ayr Baths in the early 1980’s before the flume was put in and the urban myth about someone sticking razor blades in it
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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is brilliant - and, well, mea culpa, I suspect.
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@slnieckar.bsky.social @teacherkika.bsky.social
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Yes this
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
🎶 when you go, will you send back a lettuce from America? 🎶
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
The tuba kids meme with the girl pinned against the wall captioned trying to get through Sunday night without an existential crisis and the tuba playing girl captioned the that’s life theme tune
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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Esq Tom Phillips, Canto XV: [no title], 1981 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…
Purchased 1981
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Excellent review of a fascinating short story collection. I loved Schrödinger’s Wife - strong recommend.
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J Farrers @jfarrers.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
You can’t store your dog up there, mate
A Swiss police officer holding a dog up to the luggage racks.
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
Artwork by Mike Kelley. Fabric printed with the words F*CK YOU NOW GIVE ME A TREAT PLEASE
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Wonderful interview with Alan Garner. Such a powerful, rich-&-strange maker-teller. Your favourite Garner novel? Mine: The Owl Service. “She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.” *Shivers* Those commas. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Interview with Louise Bourgeois
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We don't have an elf on the shelf but we do have a
The book Smart Blonde by Dolly Parton on a blue library trolley
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My childhood copies — a bit less pristine, and the print is almost too small for me to read these days, but they’re no less loved for all that. Almost time for the Christmas re-read…
Complete 80s paperback set of The Dark is Rising books by Susan Cooper, with covers by Michael Heslop
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Day 1 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We retrieve the Bloody Boy ornament from the box of china Mummers. Some say it's not blood that makes his skin red, but crabapple bark dye. I say best not spoil the seasonal magic. Besides, we all know where the skin of his drum comes from.
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Philip Murray @philipmurray.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I see it's moving further to the left.
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Imagine The Void is haunted by the ghosts of 18th century hangovers
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Respect.
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Writing tip: Kill your darlings. Bake them in a pie and serve it to your editor at a grand dinner. When she compliments the chef, say, "Oh, do you like it? Aren't you curious about what meat it is?" and empty a sack onto the table. It is your darlings' decapitated heads!
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
💪 www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...
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Kneecap: UK government acted illegally in withholding funding from Irish rap trio
The Department for Business and Trade said Kemi Badenoch’s decision to rescind funding had been ‘unlawful and procedurally unfair’
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tobias @saboborke.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I STARE AT A PASSING TRAIN AND THE AGGREGATE OF THE FACES RUSHING PAST IN THE WINDOWS FORMS A PERFECT IMAGE OF JOHN NETTLES. AND YES, HE IS SMOKING A BLUNT
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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 27/11/2024
Ooh, I like this. Britpopple 80s 80s 80s #874 🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ @Britpopple #80s80s80s #Heardle britpopple.glitch.me
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Britpopple - Heardle for Britpop fans
Guess the Britpop song from the intro in as few tries as possible.
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 26/11/2024
Are you a #writer or #reader just getting started on Bluesky? I put together a list of many of the top literary magazines that have made the switch. Show them some love by following them and giving them the ability to leave Twitter for good. Feel free to share and repost. go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
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Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We are out here promoting diversity of all kinds in horror; combining the body and nature in horror, allowing the erotic and the terrifying, and creating a space for BIPOC authors in horror! *SUBMISSIONS OPEN*
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Rubbish spilling out from a rubbish truck into a dump
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish
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Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Celebrating Nova Scotia 2! 7pm – 8.30pm Wed 4th December, Old College, South Bridge, #Edinburgh EH8 9YL! Get your FREE ticket here! Hosted by Gavin Inglis. @shoreinf.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/shor...
Poster for a book event: On a blue palette, stand a lighthouse in the night (art by Jenny Coutts). The text reads: Celebrating Nova Scotia volume 2
7pm – 8.30pm Wednesday 4th December 2024

Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL

Nova Scotia Volume 2 is an anthology of new speculative fiction from Scottish Writers.

Edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson.

NS2 was launched to great acclaim at Glasgow Worldcon 2024 in August, and now it’s Edinburgh’s turn to celebrate this great collection of Scottish SF writing talent.

There will be:

Readings from

Ken MacLeod

Rhiannon A Grist

Lindz McLeod

Ali Maloney

 Conversations with the editors

Book signings

Hosted by Gavin Inglis

Gathering at a nearby pub post event (to be chosen)
Free entry/£15 with book.
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
52. Pretty close!
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Vinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Box of Delights is being repeated on BBC4 from Saturday 7th December, kicking off at 7pm with a Renny Rye Remembers... intro.
Devin Stanfield as Kay Harker and Patrick Troughton as Cole Hawlings in The Box of Delights (1984)
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
@liambellwrites.bsky.social, any ideas?
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Still feeling this
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 14/11/2024
The Scottish Universities’ International Summer School is currently accepting applications for: Modernism, Contemporary Literature, Scottish Literature; Creative Writing; Contemporary British & Irish Theatre & Performance. Scholarship opportunities available. www.suiss.ed.ac.uk
suiss.ed.ac.uk
Accepting Applications: 7th July - 16th August 2025 –
We're now accepting applications for our summer school courses in Literature, Creative Writing, and Theatre at the University of Edinburgh!
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Super proud to be in this starter pack of introvert piscean lurkers.
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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Feels hard to get excited about the Booker what with everything going on in the world, ie me not being nominated.
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
My writing process is that I don't write, then for a while I write, then frustratingly I don't write again, then I'm old.
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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 09/11/2024
You’re probably all bored with this but we (the tech workers of The NY Times) are still on strike because management refuses to come to the table. Thanks for your support and continuing to boycott Cooking and Games. #BreakYourStreak
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
A book must be an axe for the frozen sea within us - Kafka. (My cartoon for today’s Guardian books.)
Panel one:
"A book must be an axe for the frozen sea within us." says Franz Kafka. 
He looks solemn, and holds up a finger to show that he is serious.

Panel two:
The publishers across the table say "That's all very well, Franz. But we commissioned a board book for toddlers".

Panel three:
"And here it is!" Kafka answers proudly, holding up a colourful book. It is titled "Choppy Helps out" and shows a cute axe with a friendly face (presumably Choppy) and his friend, a frozen, smiling sea.

note: Herr Kafka gave me the manuscript for "Choppy Helps Out!" on the undertanding that I destroyed it after his death. I could not bring myself to do so. If you are a publisher and interested in purchasing the rights, please contact me via my website.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 23/09/2024
Hans Printz, Die Muskete, 1919
illustration
a etherial female figure watching a hand rising from the water
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 23/09/2024
The shortlist for The Kavya Prize 2024 has been announced! Many congratulations to: Lorraine Wilson: The Last to Drown Arun Sood: New Skin for the Old Ceremony Tim Tim Cheng: Tapping at Glass Amanda Thomson: Belonging Andrés N. Ordorica: At least this I know www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
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The Kavya Prize 2024 shortlist announced
The Kavya Prize seeks to recognise and encourage the literary achievement of Scottish writers of colour
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Heliograph @heliograph.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
mood
Three panel Tiina Menzel cartoon of a car pushing 2023 off the shelf
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2024?
Cast concrete sculpture of a reclining woman with breasts for a head, by Sarah Lucas.
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Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
For anyone following/horrified by the news of the decimation of Modern Languages at the University of Aberdeen, we now have a petition (with lots of links and information!) that anyone can sign. We'd really appreciate your support. www.change.org/p/save-langu...
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Sign the Petition
On 30 November of this year, all staff in the Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting section of the University of Aberdeen were told that they are at risk of redundancy, opening a false choice...
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Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
All the congratulations to @lunapress.bsky.social and @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social who aced the British Fantasy Awards last night! So well deserved.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 24/08/2023
PAID WRITING OPPORTUNITY: @unbounders are looking for essays for #OneinFive - an anthology about the realities of living in poverty. They are particularly keen to hear from writers of colour. £200 per essay. E-mail aliya@unbound.co.uk for more information. unbound.com/books/one-in...
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