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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 17/09/2026

🌌 @carnyxpress.co.uk wants cosmic horror from writers living in the North of England. Ancient ruins, forbidden knowledge, malevolent planets, existential dread & the unknowable. 💰 £20 + 4 print copies 📝 2–8k words 📅 Oct. 1–Nov. 30 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So, yeah... brand new chapter of THE AFTER SCHOOL VILLAIN SOCIETY going up tonight around 8 pm (or, you know, whenever I finish it)! You can read the first two chapters here! I'm putting it all in one big thread! It's gonna be a very long thread eventually.

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Rob Jones - Letterer/Writer/WOTW: Thunder Child out NOW!!! @robjoneswrites.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Any artists who follow me up for a 4 page, paid, Mothman hunting noir story for the upcoming @limitbreakcomics.bsky.social Cryptids anthology? Drop me a line if you are!

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Why do people insist on quote tweeting Yougov polls as if they represent reality? Does nobody check on what Yougov is?

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Finished reading As a Kang Should Be by @dalesmithonline.com . In some ways not what I expected at all but exactly what it ought to be, a lovely exploration of identity with vivid characters set in a dystopian future familiar to Dr Who fans. An excellent read.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

That's Helmer Jr in those Gold Arthur adverts. What?!

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 27/07/2026

Four days left! 🧙‍♂️

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'll probably just watch that rathergood video of the misheard Madonna lyric "Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body" for a while.

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Lew Stringer @lewstringer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

As I overprinted on this one I still have plenty of copies of Combat Colin No.3 left. 40 pages collecting the Combat Colin stories from Transformers Nos.226 to 256, July 1989 to February 1990, plus bonus back up items! ko-fi.com/s/e794cb5a3f

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

For me, it was "have you tried reading some Carl Hiassen" when at 16 my friend sent him the first sixty pages of double-sided single-spaced typewritten manuscript of a first draft novel we were trying to write.

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Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 17/07/2026

Privatised water has failed us. I’m backing @labourlewis.bsky.social’s call to ensure Andy Burnham meets water campaigners who’ve fought for years to clean up our water -not just the water bosses who’ve profited from the system. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

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Dear Andy Burnham, meet with water campaigners to discuss bringing water back into public ownership

Privatised water is a complete failure. I’m backing Clive Lewis' call to ensure that Andy Burnham meets frontline water campaigners who’ve fought for years to clean up our water -not just the water ...

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Did that thing where you keep reading past the point where you would usually go to sleep because the end of the book was only 15 pages away and boy am I paying for it this morning.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Started watching the French series HPI which is the basis of the US High Potential series and enjoying Audrey Fleurot's lead performance but also how they're negotiating all the usual cliches, while also using some visual whimsy.

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 01/07/2026

Our second anthology is open for submissions! We're after short stories on the theme of sorcery, from writers living in the North of England. Take a look, send us a tale - and if you could help spread the word, that would be magical 🪄 🔮 carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

Submissions are open until the 31st July for our sorcery anthology We're looking for strange and lyrical stories from writers luving in the North of England.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So sad to hear the news about Justin Richards, I never met him, but I pitched to the PDAs a couple of times and was delighted to receive his kind, thoughtful feedback rather than a form response. And he wrote so well.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Well, cheat another hides a cheetah, who can leave you in the dust, and the past of might is been, so it's Dusty Bin!

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

That thing where you go, oh I wonder why I muted this lovely person I follow on bluesky and then after a couple of weeks you go, oh yes I remember now.

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Starmer is refusing to allow debate time for the Early Day Motion about the EHRC ‘guidance’, despite it being signed by over 140 MPs. If we get 100,000 signatures on this petition we can force a debate.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Holidays are good aren't they? I just had a holiday. The weather was diabolical and I had a sore foot that limited my mobility but I wrote the first draft of two short stories, went to an artisanal market, saw some art, went to a big bookshop and more.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Just thinking how much fun it would be if, like in the 90s, someone had the licence for Dr Who original novels and was given a carte blanche with the Piper Doctor (knowing how unlikely that is to be followed up on beyond maybe getting her in for a regen scene post-2031).

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 02/06/2026

CONGRATS AGAIN to "THE REALITY ENGINEER" by Konstantin, an Honorable Mention, in the Internet Archive’s 2026 #PublicDomain Film Remix Contest 🏅 A scientist alters reality, only to find that each well-intentioned fix deepens the chaos. Full short ⤵️ archive.org/details/the-... #PublicDomainDay

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Writing a short story with the meeting of a certain prominent surrealist and a certain prominent occultist and feel like that's probably hitting the idea that you should write for yourself slightly too hard.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Watched "I saw the TV glow" at the weekend. It is intriguingly twisty and saying something that needs thinking about, depending on which way you read the narrative.

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Damyanti Patel @damyantipatel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Been great to see the #zine collection grow this last year

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Got to the end of Alice in Borderland S2, thinking hang on, isn't there supposed to be a S3? Kind of glad there's more as while the explanation is good, it feels like the sort that would hamper rewatches.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Went to SciFi Scarborough the other week and listened to Paul McGann say that if Who producer he would try going back to 25 minute episodes. It reminded me of something I think @lanceparkin.bsky.social said about doing Who this way & I keep thinking abt how it could be like Futurama & Rick&Morty

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

If you're Scarborough based or can make it over, my friend's film festival should have something of interest for you: www.scarboroughfilmfestival.co.uk/copy-of-sff-...

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SFF 2026 | Scarboroughfilmfesti

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

If you are a real person and sent me a DM, sorry I can't see em!

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Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... I’m not sure if this is even possible but as somebody somewhere said “you can have clean water and you can have privatised water but you can’t have clean privatised water”.

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Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset

To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

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Lew Stringer @lewstringer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Brickman No.2 is out now, only available exclusively from me. Buy it from my webshop or from my table at the London Comic Con this coming weekend (Feb 28th, March 1st). ko-fi.com/s/23af8d5d8a

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BRICKMAN No.2 - Lew Stringer's Ko-fi Shop

Second of a three issue mini-series, BRICKMAN No.2 collects the Brickman comic strips from the mid 1990s. 28 interior pages in black and white on sil...

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I don't think I realised during chemo how much it stunted my creativity. Had no motivation or clarity or concentration. Since it finished I now have on my desktop five creator-owned comic pitches, two for Marvel and three for DC. Now all I need to do is get people to read and greenlight them.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Have you backed THE DEVIL'S SOUND yet? The new immersive audio experience in the world of Withered Hill. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

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The Devil’s Sound

A 6 episode immersive audio folk horror experience, set in David Barnett's Withered Hill universe.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I really love the live action Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe series. The recent "At a Confessional" is shot like an episode of Inspector Morse, but with a ghostly curse.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

There is a film where people insist that Audrey Hepburn is an odd choice as a model because she has a "funny face". Audrey Hepburn.

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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

In our latest blog, Matt Lewis from the RSPB interviews Matt Trevelyan, the man who walked 53 miles...dressed as a Curlew. Find out why now: www.curlewaction.org/the-man-who-...

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I once wrote a flash fiction-y thing called Technofetish about a posthuman Bond on Mars.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

@alexdecampi.bsky.social Enjoyed the reveal re: biochips in this week's Ghost Patrol, feel like this is going to have a big impact!

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 23/09/2025

There's one week left for writers in the North of England to send us their stories! We're looking for folklore-inspired tales to publish in our first anthology. It's been a real treat to read all the submissions so far, but we'd love to squeeze a few more in 🙏 carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions

One week left: submissions close midnight 30th September

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Sent off a short story this week. Now the waiting begins. But it's nice to be back on the horse after giving up for a while.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Having watched the Final Programme twice, I found myself writing a bit of Jerry Cornelius pastiche microfiction as an exercise. It all ended up very pithy and pulped the mot juste (I quite liked the idea of macrodosing which popped up).

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 01/09/2025

It's September, which means our submissions call-out for writers in the North of England closes at the end of this month! We're looking for strange, lyrical, literary and mesmerising short stories for our first anthology, on the theme of folklore 🍂 Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

Last month to submit: Submissions close for our folklore anthology at midnight on the 30th September.

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I'm rereading the Dalek Factor by Simon Clark of an evening and this time I'm choosing to read the undefined Doctor as Richard E Grant, and it works rather well so far.

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SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

COMING SOON! Ideas are Everywhere creative writing workshop at Abbey House Museum. Friday 26th September, 2-4pm, £12.50. Book: my.leedstickethub.co.uk/31009?queuei...

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Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I'd probably make it through Andor faster if just one of the English actors wasn't upper class.

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