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New mail and current desk situation @galleybeggars.bsky.social (I got the book, thank you!)
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
New mail and current desk situation @galleybeggars.bsky.social (I got the book, thank you!)
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Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
First arrivals!!!
New mail and current desk situation @galleybeggars.bsky.social (I got the book, thank you!)
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
First arrivals!!!
Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Our new newsletter is newsy: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
Features glad tidings about this beauty:
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Yo #booksky peeps: a BIG #ShoutOut for #BookBanks via Sam @galleybeggars.bsky.social
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Bookbanks
A good deed in a weary world
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November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Yo #booksky peeps: a BIG #ShoutOut for #BookBanks via Sam @galleybeggars.bsky.social
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Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Prize — Galley Beggar Press
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November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
Prize — Galley Beggar Press
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November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Final few hours of our short story competition! You can still enter here: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
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Thanks so much, Leia 😊 if you want to support writers & their publishers Forget Amazon and buy direct from small indies 🙏 @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @sidhepress.bsky.social
I picked up these wonderful books a few weeks ago at the small publishers fair and can confirm @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social books are beautiful. Highly recommend supporting them ⬇️
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Thanks so much, Leia 😊 if you want to support writers & their publishers Forget Amazon and buy direct from small indies 🙏 @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @sidhepress.bsky.social
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New on the Writer’s Bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the wonderful @philipwomack.bsky.social.
The writer’s bookshelf: Philip Womack
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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November 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
New on the Writer’s Bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the wonderful @philipwomack.bsky.social.
This is a desecration of the most beautiful scene in modern cinema. it’s a small story in itself about how capitalism can’t help smearing everything with its shitty stick: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n... Hope the Aftersun makers are collecting royalties
John Lewis ad kickstarts Christmas countdown to the tune of 90s club classic
Department store chain banks on nostalgia to get customers into festive mood with Where Love Lives
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November 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This is a desecration of the most beautiful scene in modern cinema. it’s a small story in itself about how capitalism can’t help smearing everything with its shitty stick: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n... Hope the Aftersun makers are collecting royalties
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Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
(Also this beautiful poem:)
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
(Also this beautiful poem:)
Brick Lane never fails.
October 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Brick Lane never fails.
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Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...
Bookbanks
A good deed in a weary world
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October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...
Sirius loves autumn.
(Prince of dogs.)
(Prince of dogs.)
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Sirius loves autumn.
(Prince of dogs.)
(Prince of dogs.)
Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...
Bookbanks
A good deed in a weary world
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...
Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
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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!
barbellionprize.org
October 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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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Our latest newsletter is full of news. News about human-authorship vs AI, news about Telenovela, news about artworks and more: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
A proud first for our press - and our world of letters
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October 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Our latest newsletter is full of news. News about human-authorship vs AI, news about Telenovela, news about artworks and more: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/campaigns/vi...
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We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
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Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books
UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
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Happy Friday!! It's Leonard and Hungry Paul day💛 First two episodes on tonight on BBC 1 starting at 9pm.
Really chuffed for my pals
@ronanhession.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Really chuffed for my pals
@ronanhession.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Happy Friday!! It's Leonard and Hungry Paul day💛 First two episodes on tonight on BBC 1 starting at 9pm.
Really chuffed for my pals
@ronanhession.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
Really chuffed for my pals
@ronanhession.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
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My brilliant publisher @galleybeggars.bsky.social helping to pioneer the crucial Books by People initiative in an age of encroaching AI:
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2025: Identity Stamps
Two new startups, Books by People and Amlet, aim to certify a book’s authenticity in the AI era
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October 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
My brilliant publisher @galleybeggars.bsky.social helping to pioneer the crucial Books by People initiative in an age of encroaching AI:
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...