Claire Dean
@clairedean.bsky.social
Writer & maker. Short stories, zines & book arts. Also a conservator. Mostly to be found cleaning and repairing old manuscripts, maps & plans in an archive.
#BSL sign name, bird 🐦⬛
📍Lancashire, North of England
#BSL sign name, bird 🐦⬛
📍Lancashire, North of England
Sketching stone on stone paper at #MorecambeBaySketchClub today
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Sketching stone on stone paper at #MorecambeBaySketchClub today
In the attic at Salts Mill, Bradford
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In the attic at Salts Mill, Bradford
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My new short story colllection The Building Inspector is now available from @nightjarpress.bsky.social on nightjarpress.weebly.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
My new short story colllection The Building Inspector is now available from @nightjarpress.bsky.social on nightjarpress.weebly.com
It was an absolute joy to be at the launch of Myriam Frey's (@dustynewrose.bsky.social 's) first collection, 'The Building Inspector', published by the indomitable @nightjarpress.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
It was an absolute joy to be at the launch of Myriam Frey's (@dustynewrose.bsky.social 's) first collection, 'The Building Inspector', published by the indomitable @nightjarpress.bsky.social
A podcast has just been released of my story 'Feather Girls' read by MyAnna Buring: wordtheatre.org/weekly/
Weekly Stories · WORDTheatre
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October 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A podcast has just been released of my story 'Feather Girls' read by MyAnna Buring: wordtheatre.org/weekly/
The heart-shaped wood in the Lune Valley Gorge #CommuterGaze
October 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The heart-shaped wood in the Lune Valley Gorge #CommuterGaze
Barrow looking beautiful on my dinnertime wander yesterday.
September 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Barrow looking beautiful on my dinnertime wander yesterday.
At my dayjob in an archive today, workmen started bringing me the retro rubbish they found in the loft, including a 1960s fag packet and a 1990s coke can. There was also a 1980s page 3 (not pictured 😂)
September 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
At my dayjob in an archive today, workmen started bringing me the retro rubbish they found in the loft, including a 1960s fag packet and a 1990s coke can. There was also a 1980s page 3 (not pictured 😂)
Drawing the seaweed pools on Hest Bank Wharf at today's #MorecambeBaySketchClub
September 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Drawing the seaweed pools on Hest Bank Wharf at today's #MorecambeBaySketchClub
Moved my eldest for university yesterday. He's still in the north but right across at the other side 😭
September 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Moved my eldest for university yesterday. He's still in the north but right across at the other side 😭
This is a bit exciting :) Tickets available here: www.brasseriezedel.com/events/wordt...
September 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This is a bit exciting :) Tickets available here: www.brasseriezedel.com/events/wordt...
Sometimes my dayjob brings niche excitements, like how ridiculously happy I was to get a reduction in rat wee staining with minimal moisture migration using low cost, cut-to-size gellan gum gel yesterday.
September 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Sometimes my dayjob brings niche excitements, like how ridiculously happy I was to get a reduction in rat wee staining with minimal moisture migration using low cost, cut-to-size gellan gum gel yesterday.
Thrilled that an old story of mine 'Feather Girls' is being performed at this event!
Join us for Seasons of Yearning, the next installment in our Best British Short Stories Series, at The Crazy Coqs on Saturday, September 20th at 2pm.
Tickets & more information in our bio!
Tickets & more information in our bio!
August 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Thrilled that an old story of mine 'Feather Girls' is being performed at this event!
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Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.
"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."
It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."
It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City
“We understand these are our last days.”
www.dropsitenews.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.
"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."
It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."
It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
My wonderful parents-in-law. Married 60 years ago in Yorkshire ❤️
August 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
My wonderful parents-in-law. Married 60 years ago in Yorkshire ❤️
Sketched the lovely cool, still-damp seaweed today at #MorecambeBaySketchClub
August 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Sketched the lovely cool, still-damp seaweed today at #MorecambeBaySketchClub
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We’re delighted that @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social is now stocking Nightjars. Little interview about it here deadinkbookshop.com/blogs/requir...
Nightjar Press: An Interview with Nicholas Royle
We’ve just started stocking short story chapbooks from Nightjar Press. If you, like us, are fans of the gothic, the weird, the surreal, and the supernatural, we recommend you check them out here in th...
deadinkbookshop.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We’re delighted that @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social is now stocking Nightjars. Little interview about it here deadinkbookshop.com/blogs/requir...
Early morning cloud train to Carlisle
August 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Early morning cloud train to Carlisle
According to a brilliant book I'm reading (The Lichen Museum by A.Laurie Palmer) these little wonders make up about 8% of the biomass of the world. Growing quietly everywhere and nearly always unnoticed.
August 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
According to a brilliant book I'm reading (The Lichen Museum by A.Laurie Palmer) these little wonders make up about 8% of the biomass of the world. Growing quietly everywhere and nearly always unnoticed.
Beach architecture by honeycomb worms
July 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Beach architecture by honeycomb worms
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Books.
Quote this with a technology that gives you hope about the future
July 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Books.
Out for my lunchbreak walk in Barrow, I found an abandoned shop that's very much alive.
July 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Out for my lunchbreak walk in Barrow, I found an abandoned shop that's very much alive.