David Frankel
@daveyfrankel.bsky.social
Prize-dodging writer of stories. Here despite popular demand. 'Forgetting is How We Survive' pub'd Saltpublishing.bsky.social . Shortlisted @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Chapbooks @nightjarpress.bsky.social & @salopress.bsky.social .
www.davidfrankel..co.uk
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David Frankel
@daveyfrankel.bsky.social
· Feb 20
My story collection, 'Forgetting Is How We Survive' is shortlisted for the #EdgeHillPrize - the prize event is tonight 🤞. If you want to find out what the fuss is about, it's available to buy in all the usual places, or from @saltpublishing.com here...
www.saltpublishing.com/products/for...
www.saltpublishing.com/products/for...
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We are now taking Poetry submissions for Southword. 3 weeks to get your entry in. Click on the website link to submit your entry. Good luck! www.munsterlit.ie
#poetry #southword #poetrywriting
#poetry #southword #poetrywriting
January 9, 2026 at 1:25 PM
We are now taking Poetry submissions for Southword. 3 weeks to get your entry in. Click on the website link to submit your entry. Good luck! www.munsterlit.ie
#poetry #southword #poetrywriting
#poetry #southword #poetrywriting
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Last copies!
After a flurry of unexpected but joyous sales over the past few days, we're thrilled that these six chapbooks are close to selling out 😍 We have one copy of each.
Thank you, as ever, for supporting us and our writers.
(Also, did you know, our writers are paid a huge 50% royalty? ✊️)
After a flurry of unexpected but joyous sales over the past few days, we're thrilled that these six chapbooks are close to selling out 😍 We have one copy of each.
Thank you, as ever, for supporting us and our writers.
(Also, did you know, our writers are paid a huge 50% royalty? ✊️)
December 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Last copies!
After a flurry of unexpected but joyous sales over the past few days, we're thrilled that these six chapbooks are close to selling out 😍 We have one copy of each.
Thank you, as ever, for supporting us and our writers.
(Also, did you know, our writers are paid a huge 50% royalty? ✊️)
After a flurry of unexpected but joyous sales over the past few days, we're thrilled that these six chapbooks are close to selling out 😍 We have one copy of each.
Thank you, as ever, for supporting us and our writers.
(Also, did you know, our writers are paid a huge 50% royalty? ✊️)
This is a cool little article about Lucy Scott’s process of illustrating my story, ‘The Builder’. Lucy’s work is fantastic. She’s been illustrating the new anthologies and chapbooks from @uncertainstories.com . It's great to see her process .
www.uncertainstories.com/inside-stori...
www.uncertainstories.com/inside-stori...
Illustrating 'The Builder'.
A look at how we created the artwork for David Frankel's story 'The Builder'.
www.uncertainstories.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This is a cool little article about Lucy Scott’s process of illustrating my story, ‘The Builder’. Lucy’s work is fantastic. She’s been illustrating the new anthologies and chapbooks from @uncertainstories.com . It's great to see her process .
www.uncertainstories.com/inside-stori...
www.uncertainstories.com/inside-stori...
Looking for an interview where I babble on about reading, writing and short stories? Look no further…
Thanks to all at @uncertainstories.com !
www.uncertainstories.com/inside-stori...
Thanks to all at @uncertainstories.com !
www.uncertainstories.com/inside-stori...
Q & A with David Frankel.
David Frankel answers some questions for us about writing, reading, and his short story 'The Builder'.
www.uncertainstories.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Looking for an interview where I babble on about reading, writing and short stories? Look no further…
Thanks to all at @uncertainstories.com !
www.uncertainstories.com/inside-stori...
Thanks to all at @uncertainstories.com !
www.uncertainstories.com/inside-stori...
My essay in the new @panoramajournal.bsky.social is about the landscape of East Kent (link below). In it, I briefly discuss the pollution of the waterways. With uncanny timing there has been a serious pollution event in the very waterway I was discussing…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Swans and several thousand fish die amid Kent pollution incident
The affected area is Sarre Penn and the adjacent River Wantsum, near Canterbury, say officials.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My essay in the new @panoramajournal.bsky.social is about the landscape of East Kent (link below). In it, I briefly discuss the pollution of the waterways. With uncanny timing there has been a serious pollution event in the very waterway I was discussing…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kent County Council is considering closing libraries and rubbish tips to cut costs. Denizens of Kent - please sign. I'm not saying this coz I'm an author - libraries are a vital part of any civilised society... Kids need libraries ... I did when i was a kid.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ci...
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ci...
Save vital Kent services
Kent County Council is considering closing local libraries and rubbish tips to cut costs. Kids need libraries to learn, and tip closures risk fly-tipping on our streets. I’ve signed to stop this. Will...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Kent County Council is considering closing libraries and rubbish tips to cut costs. Denizens of Kent - please sign. I'm not saying this coz I'm an author - libraries are a vital part of any civilised society... Kids need libraries ... I did when i was a kid.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ci...
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ci...
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If you're in Sheffield, we can deliver by hand, on foot, to any address in the city encircled by the blue line (and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost). This might be useful for any last-minute Christmas orders (last day to order via this method is Tuesday 23 Dec).
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If you're in Sheffield, we can deliver by hand, on foot, to any address in the city encircled by the blue line (and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost). This might be useful for any last-minute Christmas orders (last day to order via this method is Tuesday 23 Dec).
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You might think it’s a bit limited, given that we’ve only published one book, but this is really all the Christmas shopping you’ll need to do:
Uncertain Stories Christmas Gift Guide 2025
A guide to which book to buy for your nearest and dearest, from Uncertain Stories.
www.uncertainstories.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
You might think it’s a bit limited, given that we’ve only published one book, but this is really all the Christmas shopping you’ll need to do:
The brilliant new 'Encounters' edition of @panoramajournal.bsky.social is available to read now.
Over 110 works by more than 100 authors. It includes essays, fiction, reviews, poetry, nature writing, and photos. As always, it’s completely free to read.
panoramajournal.org
Over 110 works by more than 100 authors. It includes essays, fiction, reviews, poetry, nature writing, and photos. As always, it’s completely free to read.
panoramajournal.org
Issue 16: Encounters | Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 16th edition: Encounters. In this edition, you will find over 110 works by more than 100 authors, 78 of whom are new to Panorama. 30 new...
panoramajournal.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The brilliant new 'Encounters' edition of @panoramajournal.bsky.social is available to read now.
Over 110 works by more than 100 authors. It includes essays, fiction, reviews, poetry, nature writing, and photos. As always, it’s completely free to read.
panoramajournal.org
Over 110 works by more than 100 authors. It includes essays, fiction, reviews, poetry, nature writing, and photos. As always, it’s completely free to read.
panoramajournal.org
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A Personal Anthology, by Ailsa Cox
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A Personal Anthology, by Ailsa Cox
Each time I’ve prepared a new edition of Writing Short Stories, I’ve referred to some different texts from writers I haven’t mentioned before.
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A Personal Anthology, by Ailsa Cox
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open.substack.com/pub/apersona...
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This is depressing. Can we get AI to do the boring stuff please and leave authors to write the novels? #BookSky #AI
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
More than half of UK novelists believe AI will replace their work
A new study by the University of Cambridge found many authors’ work has already been used – without their permission – to train large language models
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This is depressing. Can we get AI to do the boring stuff please and leave authors to write the novels? #BookSky #AI
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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‘Let’s reserve the definition of “hard work” for shifts in a care home, laying undersea cable, working as an air-traffic controller without being paid’
📚 Erica Wagner on the secrets of a Booker prize judge
https://bit.ly/3XjVfEr
📚 Erica Wagner on the secrets of a Booker prize judge
https://bit.ly/3XjVfEr
Secrets of a Booker Prize judge | The Observer
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November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
‘Let’s reserve the definition of “hard work” for shifts in a care home, laying undersea cable, working as an air-traffic controller without being paid’
📚 Erica Wagner on the secrets of a Booker prize judge
https://bit.ly/3XjVfEr
📚 Erica Wagner on the secrets of a Booker prize judge
https://bit.ly/3XjVfEr
This was brilliant, as always. Already looking forward to next year's #TheHauntedLandscape ...
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This was brilliant, as always. Already looking forward to next year's #TheHauntedLandscape ...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.'
@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
CD Rose Q&A: “Novels are like massive clouds which lower overhead”
The 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the art world, how we measure value and the role of criticism today
www.newstatesman.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
'A book with an innovative approach will ... deliver no message.... But, lord, you will have experienced something.'
@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
@cdrose.bsky.social talks to the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Emily Lawford about the wonderful #GP2025 shortlisted novel, We Live Here Now
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Really enjoyed this collection of stories - the first anthology from @uncertainstories.com. Strange and spooky and unsettling
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Really enjoyed this collection of stories - the first anthology from @uncertainstories.com. Strange and spooky and unsettling
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I read this over the weekend and I can't recommend it highly enough. It's an impeccable collection of beautifully tense short fiction with an uncanny edge. Loved it. Go to @uncertainstories.com and get your copy now.
October 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I read this over the weekend and I can't recommend it highly enough. It's an impeccable collection of beautifully tense short fiction with an uncanny edge. Loved it. Go to @uncertainstories.com and get your copy now.
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We’ve updated our submissions pages with news of our winter call, and info on the new ghost story call:
Short Story Submission Opportunities at The Fiction Desk
Information on submitting short stories to the Fiction Desk.
www.thefictiondesk.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We’ve updated our submissions pages with news of our winter call, and info on the new ghost story call:
On a recent visit to Salisbury, I spotted the ghost of ‘Er Madge trapped in an old shop. Other highlights of the trip were the Haunch of Venison and a chat about Sebald and some new recommendations with the chaps in Waterstones – both of which I failed to document.
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
On a recent visit to Salisbury, I spotted the ghost of ‘Er Madge trapped in an old shop. Other highlights of the trip were the Haunch of Venison and a chat about Sebald and some new recommendations with the chaps in Waterstones – both of which I failed to document.
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I wasn't sure if these would arrive in time for @smallpublishers.bsky.social, but here they are. 'Inventory' is a print version of an essay that appeared online earlier this year: this edition will be free with all purchases of Longbarrow hardbacks at Conway Hall tomorrow & Saturday.
October 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
I wasn't sure if these would arrive in time for @smallpublishers.bsky.social, but here they are. 'Inventory' is a print version of an essay that appeared online earlier this year: this edition will be free with all purchases of Longbarrow hardbacks at Conway Hall tomorrow & Saturday.
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Our winter submissions call is now open! Details at: www.thefictiondesk.com/news/this-wi...
October 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Our winter submissions call is now open! Details at: www.thefictiondesk.com/news/this-wi...