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Ian Critchley
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Writer and Editor | Winner Hammond House, HISSAC | Stories in Best British Short Stories, Structo, Lighthouse, Litro, Fiction Desk and others | Short story chapbook published by Nightjar Press

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Ian Critchley @iancritchley.bsky.social · Feb 5
Delighted to say my short story chapbook 'Removals' is now available to buy from the Nightjar Press website, alongside a new story by Alison Moore. Such a thrill to be part of this brilliant series of stories

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Front cover of short story chapbook 'Removals' by Ian Critchley published by Nightjar Press
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Yesterday I was on BBC Points of View giving my point of view on the TV adaptation of @ronanhession.bsky.social's Leonard and Hungry Paul

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Points of View
The show that lets you air your views on the BBC's television programmes.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. Since the re-launch laste week we've raised 10% of our target, so there's still a way to go. Pllease support this unique literary award barbellionprize.org Thank you!
The Barbellion Prize | A prize recognising literary representation of chronically disabled lives.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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You are all cordially invited to the launch of:

Orca and Bird by Anna Chilvers.

Hebden Bridge library Wednesday 26th November at 7pm

The event is free and you can book here.

ticketsource.co.uk/calderdalelibraries
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Lovely Scribblers, you know we like to be positive, but naturally selling books is tough - indeed website sales for the last few months have been slim.

We keep almost 100% of the income when you buy direct - and we can therefore give more % to our authors too!

Check out www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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What a joy this adaptation of @ronanhession.bsky.social's novel Leonard and Hungry Paul is. Utterly charming and very funny. Highly recommended @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
TV adaptation of Leonard and Hungry Paul
October 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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I love the idea that if the Internet completely crashes some people will get together in a pub to decide what to do
Extract from Guardian article: If the internet were ever fully shut down, it is unclear if it could be started up again, says Murdoch. “No one has turned off the internet after it’s been turned on. No one is really sure how it could be turned on again.” In the UK, there is a non-virtual contingency plan, or at least there was. If the internet shuts down, the people who know how it works will meet up in a pub outside London and decide what to do, says Murdoch.
October 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Really enjoyed this collection of stories - the first anthology from @uncertainstories.com. Strange and spooky and unsettling
Front cover of Broken Ground, an anthology of stories published by Uncertain Stories. Image is a composite of things including a tree, a cube, stone etc.
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Something rather exciting is coming in three short weeks – a beautiful collection of excerpts, poems, short stories, scenes from all the authors we’ve published in our first five years.

📚 All proceeds to our Bookbanks scheme.

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#beautifulbooks #booksky
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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If you’re in Edinburgh and you fancy a free(!) short story to read, you’ll currently find a stack of our Little Uncertainties in Argonaut Books, Curiouser & Curiouser, Golden Hare, the Portobello Bookshop, Topping & Co, and Typewronger. Spread the word, and grab yourself one before they’re gone!
A pile of little books - Briar Rose by Alex Clark.
October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Very grateful to @manchesterreview.bsky.social for these lovely comments about my story 'Ghost Walks' in their review of Best British Short Stories 2025 @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063
Another unusually surprising story was Ian Critchley’s, ‘Ghost Walks’, telling the story of a woman having a moment of Déjà vu as she revisits York, where she once spent her student days and met her future husband. What, at surface level, can be read as a deceptively simple ghost story turns into a complex exploration of identity, marriage and retrospection on the lives we thought we would live in the halcyon days of youth.
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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We’re nearing the end of our fundraiser — £1,659 raised so far! 💙
Help us reach our £5,000 goal to publish new voices and stories in 2026.
Please donate or share — every boost keeps indie publishing alive.
👉 gofund.me/7d367540a
#IndiePublishing #SupportIndies #SaltPublishing
Donate to Help Us Publish the Books Others Won’t – Support Salt 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery
We’re building the future of indie publishing – one book at a… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Help Us Publish the Books Others Won’t – Support Salt 2026
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October 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Great to meet @isabellekenyon.bsky.social @sjkenyon.bsky.social and @cbeditions.bsky.social and to see @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and Tom Conaghan @scratchbooks.bsky.social again!
October 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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A good haul from yesterday's @smallpublishers.bsky.social - books from @nightjarpress.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social and @scratchbooks.bsky.social
Four books: The Building Inspector by Myriam Frey, Spent Light by Lara Pawson, The Truth Has Arms and Legs by Alice Fowler and The Unreliable Nature Writer by Claire Carroll
October 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Come to @smallpublishers.bsky.social today.
October 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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#booksky, can you help? In so many ways this has been a glorious week of collaboration and support, but it’s ended on a downer…
Reader, we need you. This morning we woke to the extraordinary news that our bank accidentally duplicated several of our payments that were scheduled to be paid – ‘we’re sorry for any inconvenience.’ As you no doubt know, small presses, like many small businesses, are run on a knife edge, and as our print reps will attest, every transaction is a haggle, a struggle to ensure survival. To be clear, this will not kill us off, but we do need to quickly find around £1,000 to pay our next print bills on time. It’s a hard time for so many, we know, and we do not ask this lightly, but if you’re planning on buying books for Christmas presents, it would make the world of difference if you headed to our site today and bought a book. 🧡
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Edited by publisher and writer Tom Conaghan, @scratchbooks.bsky.social is a small London press dedicated to the craft of the short story, publishing anthologies & collections, and organising competitions & events. You can find them at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 October
October 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Another exciting piece of #bookpost - Tim MacGabhann's collection of stories published by @scratchbooks.bsky.social. Very much looking forward to reading these
Front cover of Saints, a short story collection by Tim MacGabhann, published by Scratch Books. Image shows an ancient statue of a man or god
October 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Many congrats @troutiemcfish.bsky.social!
northodoxpress.bsky.social Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 19d
🚨RELEASE DAY🚨

The Blue of You by the wonderful Amanda Huggins is available everywhere now!

A literary Christmassy romance, this tale of ghosts, memories and letting go is not to be missed!

Order yours now:
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October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Book post! The final volume of @nicholasroyle.bsky.social's trilogy of uncanny stories set in London, Manchester and Paris. Lovely ohotos too! @confingopublishing.bsky.social
Front cover of Paris Fantastique, a collection of short stories by Nicholas Royle, published by Confingo. Cover is typographical on an olive background. Accompanied by three black and white photographs. One shows a strange figure in a window, the second shows a woman walking under a picture of Franz Kafka, and the third shows three sets of feet behind a barrier near a shop called Le Mirage
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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If you're in London, bookish folk, this 2 day event is for you! 📚💙 #booksky. Plse SHARE to support all the lovely small publishers & authors who'll be there. Come say hello to us too on the @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social table, with authors @johnironmonger.bsky.social and @amylilwall.bsky.social
smallpublishers.bsky.social Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 20d
Two days to go! Here's a webpage with all the essential info for your visit to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall, London, this Fri & Sat (24 & 25 Oct, 11am-7pm): programme, new titles, map, venue info, directions (table plan available tomorrow)
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/get-the-most...
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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A joy to return to Fragmented Voices with a new story Amongst Others, Unnoticed. The membrane between private and public grows ever thinner, with attendant confusions…
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Among Others, Unnoticed by Mike Fox
I wished I could unremember the newspapers. They all said the same thing.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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A week to launch day! Thank you so much for all your fabulous advance reviews 😍
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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And just like that… 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

It’s official! Five years of Renard Press! 🦊

📚 165 books published
🌲 2,500 trees planted
😳 650 writers published or anthologised

📚 renardpress.com/books/
October 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Afternoon Drinking with Alan Beard - One of Britain's Best short story tellers has a new book of flash fiction out in November ...the latest story in Outsideleft - outsideleft.com/main.php?sto...
Afternoon Drinking with Alan Beard - One of Britain's Best short story tellers has a new book of flash fiction out in November ...the latest story in Outsideleft
Outsideleft.com an independent Arts, Music and Culture Magazine our newest story is Afternoon Drinking with Alan Beard
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October 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM