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Caroline Clark
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Own Sweet Time, CB editions
Sovetica, CB editions
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions

https://minorliteratures.com/2025/01/09/the-complimiment-caroline-clark/
https://sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/nosta-and-senti-a-homecoming-essay-caroline-clark
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · Dec 4
Slow River, a film-poem. I recorded this in 2018 at the end of a cancer year during the radiotherapy finale.

Filmed and edited by Harriet Holman Penney. Watch in landscape:

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So enjoyed this conversation with @fictionable.bsky.social
fictionable.bsky.social Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social · 9d
Write what you know or write what you don't? On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast Caroline Clark tells us she's certain of one thing – she's making it up

Catch it at www.fictionable.world/podcasts/car...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
A portrait of the writer Caroline Clark, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'I can never say where the story started'
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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into the season
holly berries with dewy cobweb
November 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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A one-way system on the outskirts of Madrid is the road to hostility and blame in I Will Go by @cclarklewes.bsky.social But is there another way?

Find out at www.fictionable.world/stories/i-wi...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast
A one-way sign on a wall, with a quote from Caroline Clark's short story I Will Go: 'We're still driving around that infernal one-way system…'
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Read Palestine Week is coming up on 29 November-December 5.

A great way to support Palestinian writers is to read their work. Also, it's good to read it because of its quality.

Why not take part and perhaps discover a talented writer you haven't read before.
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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In the latest @poetrybrum.bsky.social 👇
cclarklewes.bsky.social Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · May 30
My latest essay in @poetrybrum.bsky.social on nightingales in poetry and life and learning Russian. With disconnected footnotes on interpreting in Russian for Ukrainian refugees.
Cover of Poetry Birmingham Literary Review First page of my essay: ‘The Making of the Moscow Nightingale: A Dual Time Essay’
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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bright day
Beech woods: leaf crisp ground, some green leaves still on the trees, blue sky
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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ICYMI: my interview with Richard Lea of @fictionable.bsky.social. There’s a mention of my next book with @blackheraldpress.bsky.social and discussion of my previous two with @cbeditions.bsky.social. 👇🪁
cclarklewes.bsky.social Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 9d
Many thanks to Richard Lea @fictionable.bsky.social for this enjoyable conversation!
fictionable.bsky.social Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social · 9d
Write what you know or write what you don't? On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast Caroline Clark tells us she's certain of one thing – she's making it up

Catch it at www.fictionable.world/podcasts/car...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Many thanks to Richard Lea @fictionable.bsky.social for this enjoyable conversation!
fictionable.bsky.social Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social · 9d
Write what you know or write what you don't? On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast Caroline Clark tells us she's certain of one thing – she's making it up

Catch it at www.fictionable.world/podcasts/car...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
A portrait of the writer Caroline Clark, with a quote from her podcast interview: 'I can never say where the story started'
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill.

#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
Enraged ink blotty dubious rendition of Shakespeare in a ruff stabbing a malfunctioning robot in the eye with a giant quill. Ink is spurting from the robot's eye. Shakespeare's teeth are very large.
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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the great hello, goodbye #4
Red-leafed tree like in your dreams, woodland surrounds
November 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Bright red leaf with rust coloured patterns on brick wall
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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A round of applause for @jgoldsmith.bsky.social following tonight's relaunch of The Barbellion Prize, which he founded. You can donate to this unique and essential literary award here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you! (You may wish to note the above)
November 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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the great hello, goodbye #3
Golden beech leaves, blue sky
November 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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the great hello, goodbye #2
Golden leaves, blue sky
November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Um, er, well here’s my first published story. 😅
fictionable.bsky.social Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social · 14d
A one-way system on the outskirts of Madrid is the road to hostility and blame in I Will Go by @cclarklewes.bsky.social But is there another way?

Find out at www.fictionable.world/stories/i-wi...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
The writer Caroline Clark leans against the trunk of a tree, with a quote from her short story I Will Go: 'The doctors tell me he will end today…'
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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November 1st: Mr S and I got married 17 years ago, together for 25. Here’s one of his many stories that makes me laugh. And here he is on the back of a book I wrote about him. Какая муза.

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Factory I had the chance to work in a factory for a month. They told everyone to bring a black work coat. I didn't look for one and forgot about it but the day before work started I remembered and asked my mum. She didn't have a black one but she had a white one as she was an engineer. A white one like doctors have. I took it and went to work. After about two days I realised that everyone thought I was an engineer or boss so I stopped working and just walked around the factory floor. No one questioned me. I walked around talking to people and they spoke politely to me. One time I saw a women about to steal something. She saw me and was scared. I said, Don't worry I didn't see anything. Soviet passport photo of the boy himself on the back cover of my book Sovetica, which is heaving with endorsements. Buy it, buy it and get a free fridge magnet. What more could you want?
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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guess which one I made
3 pumpkins: face, kite, knife head
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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the great hello, goodbye
turning leaves overhead
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Every morning, news reaches us from around the globe. And yet we lack remarkable stories. Why is this the case? It is because no incidents reach us any longer not already permeated with explanations.

—— Walter Benjamin, The Art of Storytelling (ICYMI)
October 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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📸Photographs are like writing - they’re all about editing and what you choose to leave out!

Bonus content with @joannapocock.bsky.social is now out - we’re talking more about objects of influence and GREYHOUND @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Come and listen👇

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October 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Here's #Autumn2025 with box fresh #ShortStories from Helon Habila, Ephameron, @cclarklewes.bsky.social Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall and Kasimma – plus Chadwick Allen on the classics of #Indigenous #literature

Catch them at fictionable.world

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #translation #blog
The contributors to Fictionable's Autumn 2025 issue. From top left Helon Habila, Kasimma, Ephameron, Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, Caroline Clark and Chadwick Allen
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Here's Autumn's harvest of amazing #ShortStories with Helon Habila, Ephameron, @cclarklewes.bsky.social Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall and Kasimma.

Catch them all at fictionable.world

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #translation #blog
October 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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My seasonal ‘desk’ 👇
fictionable.bsky.social Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social · 18d
Our next #MysteryAuthor hasn't sent in a picture of a #WritersDesk at all. It's a #doorstep

A nice doorstep. A pretty doorstep. But a doorstep nevertheless.

Takes all sorts.

But who could it be?

#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #comics #translation
A so-called writer's desk. In fact, a doorstep, with a nice pot of geraniums and some other cheery flowers
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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last light
Those hills at sunset
October 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Next Saturday (1st November) online at 7pm: the re-launch of The Barbellion Prize barbellionprize.org. Hosted by prize founder @jgoldsmith.bsky.social with some very special guests. The submission window for the 2026 prize will open on the night. All welcome!
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October 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM