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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The short film adaptation of my story 'The Natural' (from my collection I'm Afraid That's All We've Got Time For) created by & starring the actor Charlie Rowe is now available on YouTube 🍿 youtu.be/XFPaRWObdnA?...

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He Followed His Hero To A Café After The Worst Audition Of His Life | The Natural | Short Film

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 07/08/2026

One week today! TELLING STORIES: S F SAID A talk for young readers (7+) by the author of VARJAK PAW & TYGER Fri 14 Aug, 2-3.30pm @ibraaz.bsky.social 93 Mortimer St, W1W 7SS, London FREE! Booking required All children to be accompanied by an adult #BookSky #KidLit 👉 ibraaz.org/whats-on/tel...

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Telling Stories | Ibraaz

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Poet Peter Scalpello turns his hand to prose in this psychedelic exploration of queerness and addiction ★★★★ book review: MIRRORSTAGE by Peter Scalpello, out today via @cipherpress.bsky.social www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @pscalpello.bsky.social

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Mirrorstage by Peter Scalpello: Book Review – The Skinny

Poet Peter Scalpello turns his hand to prose in this psychedelic exploration of queerness and addiction.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 20/02/2026

This is intentional destruction of spaces of freedom of expression and gathering, of local businesses supporting each other, and of an industry that refuses genAI & occupies the knowledge & creative spaces that the auto-correct machine wants to take over.

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

ANNOUNCING: PUBLISHER NOT FOUND - our final book and the 404 Ink Bursary, coming 2026. We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404. www.404ink.com/blog/publish...

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404 Ink co-founders launch new book and industry fundraiser for small presses — 404 Ink

404 Ink to publish one final book as part of small press fundraiser, launching in 2026.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 28/10/2025

Catflap #5 is *finally* out of the bag! Pre-orders from next week. Thrilled to share this glorious line-up, inc. Nat Raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social Juliet Jacques CAConrad Marion Hawkes & Katiee.eem + @chitawei.bsky.social @pscalpello.bsky.social @cipherpress.bsky.social's Jack Thompson & more

Front cover of catflap magazine issue 5: it's pale pink with the title and text in a deep burgundy, with a lime green whoosh curving around the title. The magazine's streamline is "Smart Queer Writing With a Disco Heart" and the list of articles reads
CAConrad ON SONG
Nat Raha ON THE DANCEFLOOR
Marion Hawkes & Katieeeem ON THE DECK
Juliet Jacques PUTIN ON DRAG

Back cover of catflap magazine issue 5: it's pale pink with a list of contributors in deep burgundy text, embraced by a lime-green whoosh.

Contributors list:
Emma Hurson
Juliet Jacques
Nat Raha
CAConrad
Marion Hawkes
Katiee.eem
Chi Ta-wei
Tobias Wray
Benjamin Lindsay
Peter Scalpello
Tara McGinn
Gemma Cooper-Novack
Cat Brogan
Jack Thompson

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 16/09/2025

It's here. BAD LANGUAGE 13/11/25 "made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social "Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social "incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

Cover of Bad Language by So Mayer: hand-drawn illustration of an illuminated capital B, which is a grey dragon wrapped around a blue tree. The dragon has a red eye and smoke rising from its nostrils. The author's name and book title are written in a simple, non-joined-up cursive, as if on a chalkboard.

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Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My debut poetry collection, Divinations on Survival, can now be pre-ordered! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... See below for more info. If you'd like to book me for a reading / talk / workshop next year, drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com #PoetryNews #UKPoetry

The cover of Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston against a starry mountain background.

Natalie Linh Bolderston's debut collection traces her matrilineal heritage across continents and centuries, interweaving her voice with those of her mother and grandmother. The poems move between 1930s China, 1970s Vietnam and an ancient landscape populated by mother's, daughters and deities from Vietnamese and Chinese myth.

Divinations on Survival asks what it means to share a lineage in the shadow of war, and traces the complex legacies of survival that emerge as a result of conflict. Always returning to the question of how intimate, familial ties are warped and undone by political turmoil, violence and displacement, the collection distils and expands on stories passed down from grandmother to mother, to daughter, and casts women not as victims, but as powerful protectors, healers and survivors.

Formally innovative and supple, these poems disrupt and unsettle meaning, confronting the colonising force of language to work towards a radical new poetics.

Divinations on Survival comes out in spring 2026 and can be pre-ordered now. If you would like to book me for a reading, talk or workshop, please feel free to drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com

Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize. Her poem 'Middle Name with Diacritics' came third in the 2019 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. In 2024, she was Creative Future’s writer-in-residence for Stoke-on-Trent, her hometown. Her pamphlet, The Protection of Ghosts, was published by V. Press in 2019.

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Cipher Press @cipherpress.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

We're publishing a new book by the incredible @pscalpello.bsky.social in 2026! A sexy and thought-provoking novel-in-verse, MIRRORSTAGE is follows our narrator on a road trip through modern Britain after their release from hospital. More info 👀 : www.instagram.com/p/DK1t0AIou-...

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

💫 ANNOUNCING THE POETRY IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 💫 Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce the Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/06/anno...

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Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson 'Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.' www.silverpress.org/products/the...

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The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson

Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine idea...

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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

2 years of Vehicle 🧡 I’m so glad this book is still going. Thanks to everyone who’s reading it, sharing it with others, taking the time to review it, citing it in their own projects, teaching it 🧡 @prototypepubs.bsky.social prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/vehi...

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 30/01/2025

Delighted to have Oluwaseun Olayiwola here this evening in conversation with Camille Ralphs and reading from STRANGE BEACH, the first book in the new poetry list from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Signed copies are available to order here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/strang...

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We're delighted to announce our two titles for Fall 2025. Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM and Laura Vazquez's THE ENDLESS WEEK (trans. by Alex Niemi). Both books will be out on 10-7-25. Please visit our website for more info on these two amazing books and their authors/translator! 🦉

A slide with text reading "Announcing the 2025 Dorothies . . ." and then two book covers. On the left the cover for Lana Lin's The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam, which is orange on top with a black and white photograph of Lana Lin and her partner H. Lan Thao Lam in their home. The cover is an overt homage to the 1933 cover of Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which featured a photograph of Stein and Toklas taken by Man Ray. On the left is the cover for The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez (translated by Alex Niemi). The cover features a work by the French artist Pierette Bloch that looks something like a sea of small black clouds floating on a cream-colored background, and, below this, the title and author and translator names in black text on white.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 09/12/2024

CAConrad says: "be the revolution where you stand IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE COLLABORATIVE CHAPBOOKS EVER!" THE GOD FILE: YENTLING ✏️me & Sarah Crewe 🎨Loose Associations 🖨️ riso @burleyfisher.bsky.social 💰to #Valentines4Palestine tx @englishpen.bsky.social Buy: burleyfisherbooks.com/products/the...

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The God File: Yentling (broygas edition)

The God File: Yentling (broygas edition) A5, 32 pages 16 poems by Sarah Crewe & So Mayer that revisit Yentl, Black Sabbath, doykheit, dumplings & Port of Liverpool to always always say “Zionis...

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

As we’re all starting out, here’s a Starter Pack of LGBTQIA+ writers to enrich your life and feed. Will update as more folk arrive. 🌈 📖 ❤️ go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7Wa

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 01/12/2024

Blue was the very first film screening I ever organised, as a fundraiser, on World AIDS Day. I was 19. Programming started as activism & awareness for me, and it still is, including democratising programming & curation itself!

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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hello! 👋 How nice it is to be here. We are Prototype, an independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies and interdisciplinary projects, based in London. prototypepublishing.co.uk

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 29/11/2024

And like a magical charm @pscalpello.bsky.social appears here!!! Everyone get their book LIMBIC from @cipherpress.bsky.social & follow them 💞💘❤️‍🔥

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