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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 15h

Amazing news London people Persephone is coming back! 🥳

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 10h

You have until midnight tomorrow to get 25% off ANYTHING on the Carcanet website. Go poetry mad: www.carcanet.co.uk Code: POETRYWEEK ✒️

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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026! The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir. The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, Boyd Tonkin. For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6

The 13 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation are photographed stood on a wooden shelf with their spines facing the camera. The 13 titles are:

• Batool Abu Akleen, 48Kg., trans. from Arabic (Palestine) by Batool Abu Akleen, with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti, Yasmin Zaher (Tenement Press)

• Hanna Johansson, Body Double, trans. from Swedish (Sweden) by Kira Josefsson (Scribe)

• Krisztina Tóth, Eye of the Monkey, trans. from Hungarian (Hungary) by Ottilie Mulzet (Seven Stories Press UK)

• Linn Ullmann, Girl, 1983, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Martin Aitken (Hamish Hamilton)

• Lalla Romano, In Farthest Seas, trans. from Italian (Italy) by Brian Robert Moore (Pushkin)

• Hélène Bessette, Lili Is Crying, trans. from French (France) by Kate Briggs (Fitzcarraldo)

• Eva Luka, The Minotaur’s Daughter: Selected Poems, trans. from Slovak (Slovakia) by James Sutherland-Smith (Seagull)

• Geetanjali Shree, Our City That Year, trans. from Hindi (India) by Daisy Rockwell (Tilted Axis)

• Anjet Daanje, The Remembered Soldier, trans. from Dutch (Netherlands) by David McKay (Scribe)

• Ichiyo Higuchi, Troubled Waters, trans. from Japanese (Japan) by Bryan Karetnyk (Pushkin)

• Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, We Are Green and Trembling, trans. from Spanish (Argentina) by Robin Myers (Harvill)

• Anna Nerkagi, White Moss, trans. from Russian (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) by Irina Sadovina (Pushkin)

• Ingvild Rishøi, Winter Stories, trans. from Norwegian (Norway) by Diane Oatley (Grove Press UK)

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This (alternatively) storied landscape… great piece from @patrickbarkham.bsky.social on Nick Hayes’ beautiful & fierce new book #TheMedicineTree. It’s a book that shares a few references with mine (I grew up here too) & I’m delighted to have a small cameo in it! It’s a really great book.

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‘We have been dispossessed’: Nick Hayes on land rights and a peaceful revolution at the real Toad Hall

The co-founder of the Right to Roam campaign and author of The Book of Trespass discusses the Oxfordshire riverside community he calls home and how Hardwick Hall has been taken back by the people

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Matthew Clegg's 'Have You Always Been Here?', Fay Musselwhite's 'The Gleaning', and Steve Ely's 'Eely'. You can order them here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, spines facing out.

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Alison @alisonbee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have a lovely weekend 🐑🐏

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Poetry as a form of attention practice. Three pamphlets exploring how careful noticing can deepen our relationship with place, time and the more-than-human world. Have You Always Been Here? @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

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Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …

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Dreamsquare @dreamsquare.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ruskin's 'The Stones of Venice' changed how I see architecture. That passage about Gothic ornament being the worker's joy still gives me chills.

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes! It's so obvious in one way, yet we seem to forget the truth of it so often...

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My October newsletter is up and free to read for the next fortnight. I’m thinking about the radical act of paying attention to what you value (and banging on about John Ruskin a wee bit as usual…). Lots of book recommendations too (not all Ruskin). victoriamackenzie.substack.com/p/if-you-can...

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If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world

Things I'm writing, things I'm reading, things I'm teaching...

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Genre categories may help the selling of a book but they hinder the reading of it.

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The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Join founding editor Kate Knowles as she sits down with @lukekennard.bsky.social to unpack the madness, heart, and romance behind one of 2026's most talked-about books.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is lovely. Happy birthday! And your stack of notebooks is a joy... 🌈

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sounds like a brilliant project! And no, but I'll crack it open tomorrow! 😅You're getting the idea of my teaching style now, right??

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One True Sentence @nico0511.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For those with young aspiring writers (family, class) the 2026/7 Junior Orwell Prize has launched www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y... They also need reviewers to provide feedback to entrants and help with long and shortlisting… it’s a fantastic experience

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The Orwell Youth Prize | The Orwell Foundation

“In a world where the young are increasingly taught what to think rather than how to think, we badly need some subversion. And what could be more subversive than George Orwell’s windowpane prose, and ...

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you! (And also - oh, the pressure! 😅)

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm going to be known as that Ruskin woman for the next little while aren't I... #ILoveRuskin 🥰

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oooh, that is very nice. Lonesome Dove is one of the best novels ever written (objective fact) so you are going to have a wonderful time!

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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A selection of fabrics and wallpapers from the Festival of Britain exhibition, 1951, published in 'Design from the Festival', one of the many digitised resources available on our website - designarchives.brighton.ac.uk/resources/do... @designcouncil.bsky.social archive DCA/32/2/1/78

a 2-page magazine spread with colour and black and white photos of wallpapers and textiles. Patterns include florals, checks, stripes

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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Literature Live — next episode of my monthly radio books programme is Monday 12 October 2026, 8:00–9:00pm. My guests this month are @lukekennard.bsky.social and @judecook.bsky.social — readings and chat with the emphasis on writers reading from their fiction. @resonancefm.bsky.social — don’t miss!

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 28/09/2026

Franz Schoenberner was beaten and left paralyzed from the neck down by a couple of New York thugs. You Still Have Your Head: Excursions From Immobility is his attempt to understand the good and bad that could come from the experience and his slow recovery. neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar. My god, what a book. "He’d cut His throat with the knife. He’d near chopped off His hand with the meat cleaver. He couldnt object so I lit a Silk Cut. A sort of wave of something was going across me. There was fright but I’d daydreamed how I’d be."

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And you put your hand in my hand and you said, You aren’t very old, as if that settled it. I told you you might have a very different life from mine, and from the life you’ve had with me, and that would be a wonderful thing, there are many ways to live a good life."

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I’m old, and you said, I don’t think you’re old.

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm teaching a workshop on style in fiction this Saturday (free to all my paid Substack subscribers: victoriamackenzie.substack.com/subscribe - £4 a month!) and falling in love with Marilynne Robinson's 'Gilead' again:

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Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can buy BROKEN BISCUITS direct from HarperCollins with 40% off using the code AUTUMN40, which is what I’d do if I didn’t already know what happens at the end*. harpercollins.co.uk/products/bro... *it’s memoir, so what happens at the end is me posting this link and urging you to buy it.

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A reminder that I’m giving a free writing workshop for paid Substack subscribers on the morning of Saturday 3rd Oct 10-12 noon. A subscription is just £4 per month or £40 per year, and entitles you to two free online writing workshops every year. victoriamackenzie.substack.com

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Victoria MacKenzie | Substack

My debut novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain (Bloomsbury, 2023), won the Saltire First Book Award. My second novel, Each Leaf, Each Curve of Stem, about John Ruskin, will be publish...

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A great interview, full of bookish treasures...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/09/2026

‘In a rather moving way, each of Anita Brookner’s later novels could be titled “The Following Day”; they are small, sometimes perfect treatises on unfathomable longing and the pressure of imminence.’ Andrew O’Hagan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Andrew O’Hagan · Omelettes and Whisky: Anita Brookner’s Edge

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become...

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's still time to sign up for today's Personal Anthology, which comes courtesy of @davidcollard.bsky.social. A dozen favourite short stories, picked and introduced. Hitting inboxes 2pm. Sign up below. RT to spread the word if you're already subscribed! apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

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About - A Personal Anthology

A 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...

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Loved it! Will be thinking about it... And will never see recreations of meals in historical houses the same way! 🍞🍐🥩

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes! Luscious and yet pared back. Enjoyed it so much, I think it's v smart.

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ah, interesting! I'm looking forward to reading it very much. And I'm always interested in troubling that fiction/memoir/non-fiction boundary!

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I recognised you in the photo on your most recent post - with a rather lovely doggie! Lord no, still more than 2 weeks till I teach it! 😉Will probably start on 1st Oct, I need it as fresh as possible in my head...

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I do love it when people see Ruskin stuff and think of me! 😊

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Really liked this. Deliciously offbeat and I loved how Perry brought the scenes together at the end. Quiet, meditative, thoughtful and sensual. 🍏🍗🧀Thanks @wendypratt.bsky.social for recommending it to me, you were right! 😉#BookerPrize2026

Photo of hardback book, May We Feed the King, by Rebecca Perry.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Of course I miss the water, but at least I don't have to think for myself anymore ..." #HigherEd #EduSky #Edtech #PhdChat #learning#datacentre #AI

LARGE DESERT DATA CENTRE BUILDING. "Of course I miss the water, but at least I don't have to think for myself anymore ..."

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Duane Keiser Water and Lemon Oil on Canvas - 9 x 7.5 inches 2022

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Loveliest signing photos ever! And you DO want a signed copy because @cclarklewes.bsky.social is a wonderful writer and this book of essays, WHAT LIES AHEAD, is incredibly generous and thoughtful and will enrich your life. Out now from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social

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