Reposted by Marni AppletonEd Solomon @edsolomon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026www.goldderby.com/film/2026/th...goldderby.comCan ‘The Christophers’ win Ian McKellen his 1st Oscar?Ed Solomon says that writing a lion in winter star turn for the Lord of the Rings star was a "career high." 1314019
Reposted by Marni AppletonRoxanne Douglas @roxannedouglas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026We have been very busy over at Women in World-Literature! Date one for your diary: 021
Reposted by Marni AppletonThe London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 21/07/2025The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open! We are delighted to announce that Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price will be this year’s judges for the prize. Enter here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-... 046
Marni Appleton @marniapple.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Thrilled with this review, thank you @fullstopmag.bsky.social ! “Appleton can stretch suspense through a story, binding her reader to the page, so effectively it should be studied.” !!! I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY is out in the US in August 🇺🇸 020
Reposted by Marni AppletonEd Solomon @edsolomon.bsky.social · 26/06/2025This makes me very excited. deadline.com/2025/06/tiff...deadline.comTIFF Adds Five World Premieres: Nia DaCosta’s ‘Hedda’, Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Christopers’, Alejandro Amenábar’s ‘The Captive’ & MoreThe 50th Toronto International Film Festival has set its first five World Premiere Special Presentation titles in the Official Selection including Alejandro Amenábar’s The Captive, Steven Soderbergh’s... 2375
Reposted by Marni AppletonTurnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Its out! Its here!! I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY has been released into the world and just begging to be on your bookshelves 🌭 From the fabulous Indigo Press, clever, convincing and wry, this is a collection of haunting and haunted stories from major talent Marni Appleton! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/i-ho... 001
Reposted by Marni AppletonLucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Terrific book of short stories just out 0203
Reposted by Marni AppletonSophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Love is all too often the reason we give when we don’t act to stop bad things, big or small. Nonetheless the global precariat sometimes does take the risk of combating violence, without knowing what is on the other side. This, too, is theorized everywhere as love. lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...lareviewofbooks.orgAn Unkillable Streak of the Utopian | Los Angeles Review of BooksSophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.” 0227
Reposted by Marni AppletonJonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I've just updated the apersonalanthology.com archive site with @marniapple.bsky.social's Anthology - her pick of and introduction to a dozen short stories all themed around girlhood, with its "capacity for imagining oneself anew, for changing, for grasping for something bigger". Check them out!apersonalanthology.comA Personal AnthologyWriters, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories 193
Reposted by Marni AppletonJonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 18/04/2025And off it goes, Marni Appleton’s Personal Anthology, roaming the floor in quadrants, running like a 'demented psycho’, pushing off into the water again, with legs that can piston it out of situations, carrying its ugly suitcase with a degree of irony, blasé as a window-shopper…open.substack.comA Personal Anthology, by Marni AppletonBefore my short story collection was published, it was part of a PhD thesis on ‘postfeminist feeling in contemporary women’s short stories’. 021
Reposted by Marni AppletonJonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 16/04/2025It's Wednesday evening, and so nearly the weekend – and A Personal Anthology! This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is @marniapple.bsky.social, whose collection I Hope You're Happy is published by The Indigo Press. Sign up to get it in your inbox here:apersonalanthology.substack.comAbout - A Personal AnthologyA weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc... 041
Reposted by Marni AppletonLucy Popescu @lucyjpop.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Marni Appleton’s wry observational style is well suited to these tales of young women navigating the modern world. @marniapple.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... publ by #Indigopresstheguardian.comI Hope You’re Happy by Marni Appleton review – a darkly comic look at millennial womanhoodEleven short stories tackle mother-daughter relationships and the curse of social media with insight and humour 042
Reposted by Marni AppletonLiam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 17/03/2025☕️I’m just about ready to get some more Rippling Pages out this week. Before then, I thought I’d curate some things I’d learnt from my latest guest @marniapple.bsky.social who wrote I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY (The Indigo Press) 🧵 111
Reposted by Marni AppletonLiam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 12/03/2025🌄“Getting up early - why is that inherently good?” More from Rippling Points on the Rippling Pages where @marniapple.bsky.social was talking about I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY 🫸 Influencers and being influenced 💻Writing and productivity open.spotify.com/episode/7rQD7G…open.spotify.com 001
Reposted by Marni AppletonLiam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 04/03/2025🪞 @marniapple.bsky.social talking specifically here about the role of mirrors in her story collection, I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY (The Indigo Press) 👀The ideas and themes of mirrors reflects - ahem - both on what we can and cannot see in ourselves and others podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip… 011
Reposted by Marni AppletonLiam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 06/03/2025💯Bonus content on Rippling Pages! @marniapple.bsky.social talks the influence of Taylor Swift in I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY her short stories published by Indigo Press 🎵 What is it about the invention or reinvention of Taylor Swift that Marni finds so fascinating? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip… 001
Reposted by Marni Appletonbookanista @wearebookanista.bsky.social · 07/03/2025What's the worst that could happen to a group of teenage millennials on a supervised school cruise to the Greek islands? Ease into the weekend with a story from @marniapple.bsky.social's scintillating debut collection. Out now from The Indigo Press 💙📚😱 bookanista.com/under-the-ci...bookanista.comUnder the circumstancesA drink-fuelled school cruise out of Athens leads to unwanted liaisons and recriminations. From Marni Appleton’s debut story collection I Hope You’re Happy. 041
Reposted by Marni AppletonMarni Appleton @marniapple.bsky.social · 21/02/2025‘Margot’, a story from I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY is online here: thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-marg...thelondonmagazine.orgFiction | Margot by Marni Appleton - The London MagazineAn extract from her new short story collection 'I Hope You're Happy', 'Margot' by Marni Appleton is a story of toxic friendships and lies. 091
Reposted by Marni AppletonLouise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Absolutely LOVING this short story collection by @marniapple.bsky.social. But oof, 'Under the Circumstances' hit me hard. Devastating. (In a good way.) #BookSky 📚💙 221
Reposted by Marni AppletonLiam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 27/02/2025🌎“We construct a specific presentation of ourselves for the world” @marniapple.bsky.social was on RP to discuss her very recently released collection of short stories, I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY 🤳We talk all sorts including self presentation in the digital age podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rip… 001
Reposted by Marni AppletonNewWriting.Net @newwritingnet.bsky.social · 21/02/2025UEA #CreativeWriting news newwriting.net/category/news I Hope You’re Happy by Marni Appleton (@marniapple.bsky.social) Father Myself by James McDermott Ashley Hickson-Lovence is a Read for Empathy Collection choice Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin 001
Marni Appleton @marniapple.bsky.social · 21/02/2025‘Margot’, a story from I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY is online here: thelondonmagazine.org/fiction-marg...thelondonmagazine.orgFiction | Margot by Marni Appleton - The London MagazineAn extract from her new short story collection 'I Hope You're Happy', 'Margot' by Marni Appleton is a story of toxic friendships and lies. 091
Reposted by Marni AppletonLiam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 18/02/2025🆕 @marniapple.bsky.social is going to be joining me on Rippling Pages to discuss her short story collection, I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY coming out from the The Indigo Press 💡moments in the spotlight, s relationship, theatre and mirrors…we’re going to be discussing it all through Marni’s short stories! 111
Reposted by Marni AppletonNewWriting.Net @newwritingnet.bsky.social · 17/02/2025UEA #CreativeWriting news newwriting.net/category/news I Hope You’re Happy by Marni Appleton (@marniapple.bsky.social) Father Myself by James McDermott Ashley Hickson-Lovence is a Read for Empathy Collection choice Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin 012
Reposted by Marni AppletonCelia Silvani @celiasilvani.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Today’s the day! Launch day! Baby Teeth is out in the world @orionbooks.bsky.social 042
Reposted by Marni AppletonEd Solomon @edsolomon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024This is a terrific book of short stories by an exciting new writer 1324
Marni Appleton @marniapple.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Many incredible people said nice things about my book and I made a reel! 🌭❤️✨ coming in Feb! Links in bio. 0135
Reposted by Marni AppletonNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Don’t shoot the messenger: #RecipeOfTheDay is Sweet Potatoes with Marshmallows! In fact, after initial hesitation, I’ve grown to see the once-a-year appeal of the dish. Happy Thanksgiving! www.nigella.com/recipes/swee... #Thanksgivingnigella.comSweet Potatoes With MarshmallowsThe American tradition of cooking sweet potatoes with marshmallows is a bit of a leap for the European reader. But it always pays to keep an open mind. I find myself strangely compelled by the lusciou... 6138330
Marni Appleton @marniapple.bsky.social · 30/08/2024Hey Bluesky! Haven’t been here for a while, so I’m here to inform you that a) I saw a black bear and cubs in the wild this week, and b) my short stories will be published in Feb! Evidence enclosed. 181
Marni Appleton @marniapple.bsky.social · 31/01/2024My latest peer-reviewed article is up, open-access: academic.oup.com/cww/advance-...academic.oup.com“Stuckness” and the Fraying Promise of Postfeminism in Contemporary Women’s Short StoriesAbstract. While postfeminism is typically associated with upbeat feelings, such as confidence and resilience, scholars have begun to examine the emergence of le 010
Marni Appleton @marniapple.bsky.social · 29/01/2024Surprised by how much I liked Poor Things (not really a Yorgos fan) but my overriding question is who taught Bella to remove her body hair? She has no underarm hair or leg hair, and a very neatly trimmed bush. Very confusing. 020
Marni Appleton @marniapple.bsky.social · 29/11/2023This is such a boring thing to post but I cannot tell u how much it ENRAGES me when I get charged the extra 30p when I bring a reusable cup!! I’m being helpful! Reward me!! Also coffee in London is extortionate anyway 🤪 020
