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Tim Cooke

@timc1986.bsky.social
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Writer. Short story collections DARK PLAY and WHERE WE LIVE. Nightjar Press chapbook THE JUDGMENT. Early years teacher, PhD student. From Bridgend, South Wales.

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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 15h
Great work! Will grab a copy 👍
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Submitted a new story today - fully back in the swing of short fiction! 🤞
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
First official half marathon today - hard work, but I loved it…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@greenmanfest.bsky.social tickets in the bag - 13th time since 2010… already Looking forward to lineup news.
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Congrats! What a feeling! 👊
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I first read Hawksmoor in my early 20s and I really enjoyed it, but this time round I am absolutely loving it. Gonna read London novels by Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcock next…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Have started another story - a new collection is taking shape!
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I much preferred Butcher’s Crossing.
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You must!
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes!
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The view from the train…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
just about finished my first short story in over 18 months, having been knee-deep in nonfiction. Looking forward to getting ’Disharged’ out there… #weirdfiction
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"There’s a real thrill to a well-deployed epigraph". If that doesn't get your blood pumping for Zach Gillan's review of Tim Cooke's collection Dark Play, I don't know what will. "This book exemplifies the use of vagueness and productive ambiguity. It lives in the ellipsis as much as the words."
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Living in the Ellipsis: a review of Dark Play by Tim Cooke, from Zachary Gillan - Seize The Press
There’s a real thrill to a well-deployed epigraph, particularly when it’s a theoretical concept used to set the stage for a work of fiction. For a particularly excellent example—of both use of epigrap...
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Penda’s Fen is on tonight… it’s been a while 👌
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Enjoying the new Dinosaur Jr.
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wow, have only just come across this fantastic piece on my weird little book, Dark Play. Thank you very much @seizethepress.bsky.social @megapolisomancy.bsky.social
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Latest short story: Man leaves hospital, gets bus halfway home, walks the rest…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Home from a long summer holiday to a couple of great looking Nightjars to get stuck into… @nightjarpress.bsky.social
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As I finish my first piece of weird fiction in ages, due to long-term PhD immersion, here’s a throwback to when one of my favourite writers reviewed my last collection. #finestmoment nation.cymru/culture/book...
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Book review: Dark Play by Tim Cooke
Niall Griffiths is engrossed and intrigued by a debut collection of stories full of deep oddness. Rural noir, folk horror, the new weird: constrained by word count here, I’d advise you to consult Wiki...
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@salopress.bsky.social 🙂
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think this went out of print in the time it took to percolate to the top of my to-read pile but do track it down if you like things creepy and understated
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wow, have only just come across this fantastic piece on my weird little book, Dark Play. Thank you very much @seizethepress.bsky.social @megapolisomancy.bsky.social
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh wow! Thanks so much for this Zach - I’ve only just seen it. Made my week!
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As I finish my first piece of weird fiction in ages, due to long-term PhD immersion, here’s a throwback to when one of my favourite writers reviewed my last collection. #finestmoment nation.cymru/culture/book...
nation.cymru
Book review: Dark Play by Tim Cooke
Niall Griffiths is engrossed and intrigued by a debut collection of stories full of deep oddness. Rural noir, folk horror, the new weird: constrained by word count here, I’d advise you to consult Wiki...
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Enjoying a long awaited holiday… and about to start some equally long awaited weird fiction.
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Thanks!!
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
After 7 years, the dissertation is done. Referencing has been quite the journey…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Referencing/roasting…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Pamuk is fast becoming a real favourite. This book is beautiful…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Bloody hell, finished…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
My daughter found this very old-looking horse shoe in Epping Forest a while back - any thoughts on date or how to date it?
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Enjoying The Dark Wizard series about Dean Potter - reminding me, at points, of M John Harrison’s Climbers. What a novel that is.
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Nice Parkrun pb and now off to Cardiff for Super Furry Animals. Great Saturday!
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Just started reading this to my daughters - had almost forgotten how beautiful it is…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I’m no longer happy with it… 😩
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
2000 words in two days of writing that I’m relatively happy with - a feat rarely achieved.
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My 7-year-old daughter draws the coolest pictures…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Great work! Well done 👍
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I’ve not finished it yet, but this has got about everything I want in a book. It’s about place, childhood (how odd it is), memory, history, family and more. It’s strange, poetic, unpredictable and scholarly. Seriously good writing…
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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Choosing four favourite writers is extremely tough. I’m just about happy with these, I think…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
That’s the plan 👍
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Sounds like my PhD dissertation.
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
View from today’s writing desk.
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Some good books on the go at the moment…
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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Really dug @justintaylor.bsky.social's review of a newly-translated Halldor Laxness novel. www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
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A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review
That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Love this. Independent People is one of the greatest novels I’ve read. I think I’m due another Laxness…
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Brilliant book!
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Snowing in Wales. Think I’ll stay in and write.
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Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
That is amazing!
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