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Inigo Purcell
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Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.

Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.

Often not thinking about the 21st century by default

(he/him)

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Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social · Jan 16
My short story about the heatwave of 2017, egg freezing, Sir Kenneth Clark's Civilization: A Personal View and allowing oneself to imagine a future

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Transitional Summer | The Manifest Station
There are a lot of appointments that summer: ultrasounds every few days, blood tests, and other routine ones which are finally coming around.
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inigopurcell.bsky.social
The second series of Dinosaur is really great and just very lovely. (And very funny)
February 8, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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February 7, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
If you buy Susan Stranks Big Ideas Book for thoughts on how to radically decentre the nuclear family & reimagine networks of care, or ideas on abolishing the carceral system, you’ll be disappointed.
However, if you’re seeking heaps of things to make from leaves, wool & paper plates then jackpot baby
The cover of a book called Susan Stranks The Big Ideas Book featuring Susan, a young, white, smiling woman with brown eyes and shiny black bowl cut, wearing wide legged blue jeans, green trainers, yellow and green striped socks and white dagger collar shirt under a fitted red yellow green and red jumper. She is sitting in a cross legged position on a cream shag pile carpet with a length of tasseled red wool wrapped round her right hand, at her feet are lots of paper craft objects, very 1970s, clearly intended to be made by children and she looks friendly, as if inviting you to join her in making some of things surrounding her such as tissue flowers and little paper houses
February 4, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social a buddy of mine in high school was on a rap battle forum and I remember him explaining you couldn't ever post on friday or saturday nights because people would bring up you bein home on the weekend against you in their verse May 10, 2024 at 11:28 PM
June 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
inigopurcell.bsky.social
A lot of the time at the moment I just don't really want to think about AI/LLMs. I have a really finite amount of energy, time and attention and I just... I don't want to have to think about them. I'm good at sitting in a corner thinking about my own niche things.
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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carinr.bsky.social
See Brother Philip practicing signing his name in many different scripts.

From the bottom of last year's thread on St. Amand manuscripts for St. Amand's day. Click through and go upthread to see the full selection. #medievalsky #paleography
carinr.bsky.social Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · Feb 6
Oh wait, I need to add one more paleographical fun thing to today's St. Amand thread. Valenciennes 503 is a 16th-c dossier of St. Amand materials on paper once owned, or at least used, by Brother Philippus Ultraquensis of St. Amand, who REALLY liked to sign his name.
Many versions of the signature of Brother Philippus Brother Philippus's name on a banner in a Carolingian page used as a flyleaf in a 16th-c. manuscript
February 6, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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My Hugo and Nebula award winning novel Among Others about a science fiction reading girl with fantasy problems is on sale as an ebook for $2.99 www.amazon.com/Among-Others...
Among Others: A Novel (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel)
Among Others: A Novel (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel)
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February 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Visiting Assistant Professor of English: Seventeenth-Century Literature The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks applicants for a full-time Visiting Professor with expertise in seventeen...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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katertot.bsky.social
good lord, I love how the most unhinged thing I've ever posted On Here gets the most likes. anyway, I am pure of heart and only make beautiful things like this monarch butterfly cardigan (just finished it this week!)
A crocheted black and orange cardigan sweater that resembles a monarch butterfly. The arms are very big and baggy so they look like wings Mirror selfie of me proudly wearing my butterfly cardigan Me showing the side of the cardigan Me holding out my arm to show the wing shape of the cardigan
February 5, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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khandozo.bsky.social
🧶 Question for regular sock knitters: I made a pair of thick cozy socks a couple months back and the soles, at the heel, are already much thinner than the rest of the sock. I want to reinforce before there are holes. What would you advise?
February 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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A hugely enjoyable & inspiring evening hearing @stuhennigan.bsky.social talk about his new novel #Keshed with the wonderful @regretteruane.bsky.social and @davidcollard.bsky.social Thank you for such a great event 💙📚💙

Published by @ortacpress.bsky.social 📚💙📚

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Messed by Stu Hennigan Stu Hennigan Rose Ruane
February 5, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Happy Publication Day to @stuhennigan.bsky.social
This extraordinary work of brutal beauty is blazing into the world today & I wholeheartedly recommend that everyone #GetKeshed
stuhennigan.bsky.social Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · Aug 4
A pinned thread about my new novel, Keshed, publishing on 12th Feb 2026 with @ortacpress.bsky.social. Pre-orders available now from all the usual bookshops/websites. See thread for some early pre-press takes from some AMAZING writers and links to other stuff.

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February 5, 2026 at 9:13 AM
inigopurcell.bsky.social
Excited for the online launch of @stuhennigan.bsky.social 's Keshed later, with @regretteruane.bsky.social

#GetKeshed
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
For World Cancer Day, here is another poem. I have such a hostility in me to everything this cancer has changed or taken away and that includes making me wear gloves when I change my son; making me treat him as a problem, as something I can't handle, even for a moment, is unforgivable.
Cytotoxic Omar Sakr I grew accustomed to your piss and shit, your snot and spit it seems, in retrospect, immediatelythough once at least I must have grimaced or mimed a gagfor three years, I fielded every fluid and excretion, I wore a signature blend of blots and stains, I grumbled and complained, but I know now that there is nothing more natural in this life than wiping your arse, patting it clean, putting some cream or powder for the rash; how gnarly our hands become, roughened with a hundred thousand washes, how holy this cracked skin, this evidence of worship. I can't touch what passes through you, they tell me this behind masks, cocooned in purple or yellow plastic, they say it's radioactive, it's cytotoxic, it's not to be held, this slight residue-already filtered by your flesh of what I'm forced to feed you in full. The disease took even your waste from me, my boy, and yes my love is greedy like this, my love is reckless and filthy and uncontainable. Skin to skin was the promise from birth, mine to yours, hayati, and l am a man of my word. Give me your poison, child. I will bear it.
February 4, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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This is unbelievable. By which I don’t mean that I don’t believe it, just that I think it’s beyond the scope of what should be considered doable.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
February 4, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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glastomichelle.bsky.social
'Into the fray' This evening in Glastonbury at sunset. A bit dramatic maybe but so fed up of grey sky I thought it was worth it. 😂
February 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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wrathofgodherself.bsky.social
Slightly terrifying/ultimately quite revelatory about re-reading/re-listening-to writings done 15 years ago by yr younger self. 'SO, that's who I was then' is the redux.

These - first broadcast 2010 - are listenable for 28 days if you have 3 x 15 minutes for fiction.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Radio 4 - I Got the Dog by Susie Maguire - Available now
Available episodes of I Got the Dog by Susie Maguire
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February 4, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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tambourine.bsky.social
in honour of five years since my cancer surgery, here’s my poem about it
tambourine.bsky.social charlotte geater @tambourine.bsky.social · Dec 6
since I’m sharing it elsewhere again today, here’s a poem i published this summer in the poetry review. very proud of it and didn’t publish much else this year:
CHARLOTTE GEATER dissection after surgery if i said no. if the coil. if it bit me & hung there. where did so much blood come from. if i found sesame seeds in my coffee. if i was still bleeding. if the blood spat. dry as wicker worked in summer. if the silver nitrate cleaned me dry. if its alchemie made me new. if my cycle was religious as the full moon & not always looping further from me. if sex cured cancer. if the ultrasound technician put the tube inside me. if i threw up eight glasses of water & had to drink them again. if my ovaries were alive. if no part of me could speak. if the medical incinerator ran backwards and all the discarded parts of us came back again. if my womb had thumbs. if my cervix wore a hat. if kissing was enough. if id not worked myself through the desk & into loam & bone fragments. if eating well made me sick & starvation made me better. if my body was still mine. if id never been too tired to read. if i'd never given up the pill. if i'd never slept too much for a regular schedule. if i never bled. if i never tasted blood. if id had a baby young. if i never left. if i never met any of you. if the speculum didn't hurt. if sugar rained from the sky & coated my hair. if water poured from the ceiling & never stopped. if it poisoned me & i was allowed time to recover or die. if my body was a birthing pillow. if i could walk to the marshes & back. if i could hold down a job. if i had thumbs for eyes. if i didn't know what had been cut. where did the hospital begin. if there was never so much blood again. if i started to shed my hands & face. if i opened up in fresh water. if the pain was the whole payment. if i ate oysters & fries all summer & sat on the grass & watched the castle inflate tiny bodies moving inside
February 3, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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wrathofgodherself.bsky.social
Thank you to you kind souls who have helped by retweeting my radio/audio story-links this week, much appreciated. The last from the trilogy is tomorrow, Wednesday and it's read by the brilliant Vicki Pepperdine as Chiara, who is talking to herself.. 15:45
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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carolinederry.bsky.social
The 1921 census required every household to identify a 'head' - assumed to be a husband - but it offered no way to record same-sex relationships. So how did women and gender non- conforming people record their lives? Often subversively, as some examples show 🧵 (1/6)

#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26
February 2, 2026 at 5:20 PM
inigopurcell.bsky.social
Really horrible pain flare today and I do not know why, beyond that it is quite cold and that I should probably be using my heavier duty mobility aids a bit more. But haven't done an excessive amount of walking or standing or anything.
February 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Jeanne Moreau and Miles, 1957.
February 2, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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pollyrowena.bsky.social
Huge thanks to all the US indie booksellers who've taken #TheCompanyOfOwls to heart and to their shelves, meaning it's squeezed into the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Indie Top 40 pre official pub date. My 1st time on a bestseller list other our own shop's. As a writer and bookseller it means so much.
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
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February 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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littlehen.bsky.social
People of the Netherlands. Two questions please:

1) what do your plug sockets look like so I can bring the right whatsit

2) what treat might I bring from the UK to share at a meeting that Netherlanders might enjoy and can’t get there?
A double Uk three pin power socket in a tiled wall.
February 2, 2026 at 6:51 PM
inigopurcell.bsky.social
Post brings admin I must do for the DWP and HMRC which I am pretty sure is to do with their errors not mine, but which is nevertheless exhausting as it comes accompanied with the ghosts of lots of past stressful admin
February 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM