Richard V. Hirst
@richardvhirst.bsky.social
Another writer you've never heard of / books with Confingo and Dead Ink / runs Levenshulme Old Library
https://richardvhirst.co.uk/
https://richardvhirst.co.uk/
This, for reasons I can't really fathom, is 100% 'fully non-Christmas music which feels incredibly Christmassy to me'.
open.spotify.com/track/6e65fH...
open.spotify.com/track/6e65fH...
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This, for reasons I can't really fathom, is 100% 'fully non-Christmas music which feels incredibly Christmassy to me'.
open.spotify.com/track/6e65fH...
open.spotify.com/track/6e65fH...
During the 1990s Tony/Toni was the key multigender name. 'Here comes Tony!' someone would cry and you'd not know if you were on the lookout for a man a bit older than yourself or a younger, probably cooler woman?
In the 2000s it was supplanted by Joe/Jo. Today it's Jez.
Funny old world, really.
In the 2000s it was supplanted by Joe/Jo. Today it's Jez.
Funny old world, really.
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
During the 1990s Tony/Toni was the key multigender name. 'Here comes Tony!' someone would cry and you'd not know if you were on the lookout for a man a bit older than yourself or a younger, probably cooler woman?
In the 2000s it was supplanted by Joe/Jo. Today it's Jez.
Funny old world, really.
In the 2000s it was supplanted by Joe/Jo. Today it's Jez.
Funny old world, really.
Not enough fuss is made about Diane Cluck imho.
diane cluck
YouTube video by johnpegg
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November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Not enough fuss is made about Diane Cluck imho.
I love these Mark Edwards paintings - the Whitewood series. Strange, snow-covered worlds where men in bowler hats linger among winter trees. Part Magritte, part children's book illustration, part ghost story.
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I love these Mark Edwards paintings - the Whitewood series. Strange, snow-covered worlds where men in bowler hats linger among winter trees. Part Magritte, part children's book illustration, part ghost story.
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Calling all Manchester folks! I'll be at this event in Levenshulme next month in my capacity as a writer on the You Are Here podcast project - come and join us on November 7th at Levy Old Library 🦜
What does it mean to belong to a place - to walk its streets each day, to pass through its parks and live in its stories?
Join us for A Sense of Place, a very special one-off evening of fiction, memory and sound exploring Levenshulme itself.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leven...
Join us for A Sense of Place, a very special one-off evening of fiction, memory and sound exploring Levenshulme itself.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leven...
October 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Calling all Manchester folks! I'll be at this event in Levenshulme next month in my capacity as a writer on the You Are Here podcast project - come and join us on November 7th at Levy Old Library 🦜
Huge day for total bollocks.
October 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Huge day for total bollocks.
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What does it mean to belong to a place - to walk its streets each day, to pass through its parks and live in its stories?
Join us for A Sense of Place, a very special one-off evening of fiction, memory and sound exploring Levenshulme itself.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leven...
Join us for A Sense of Place, a very special one-off evening of fiction, memory and sound exploring Levenshulme itself.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leven...
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
What does it mean to belong to a place - to walk its streets each day, to pass through its parks and live in its stories?
Join us for A Sense of Place, a very special one-off evening of fiction, memory and sound exploring Levenshulme itself.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leven...
Join us for A Sense of Place, a very special one-off evening of fiction, memory and sound exploring Levenshulme itself.
www.tickettailor.com/events/leven...
In 2009 I split up with my ex and took her new internet DAB radio - it was played a random selection of podcasts and I found something called Comedy Death Ray which has now been doing a running joke on this bit pretty much every Halloween for 16 years as Comedy Bang Bang.
October 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
In 2009 I split up with my ex and took her new internet DAB radio - it was played a random selection of podcasts and I found something called Comedy Death Ray which has now been doing a running joke on this bit pretty much every Halloween for 16 years as Comedy Bang Bang.
Another dream last night that me and Nick Cave only have six hours to organise a traditional Appalachian hoedown.
October 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Another dream last night that me and Nick Cave only have six hours to organise a traditional Appalachian hoedown.
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I have two tickets for @warringtonruncorn.com in Manchester tomorrow but have been cruelly stricken with a sickness so can no longer go.
Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.
Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I have two tickets for @warringtonruncorn.com in Manchester tomorrow but have been cruelly stricken with a sickness so can no longer go.
Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.
Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.
I have two tickets for @warringtonruncorn.com in Manchester tomorrow but have been cruelly stricken with a sickness so can no longer go.
Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.
Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.
October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I have two tickets for @warringtonruncorn.com in Manchester tomorrow but have been cruelly stricken with a sickness so can no longer go.
Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.
Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.
Shortlisted for a proper thing - for doing ghost stories!
We’re absolutely delighted to share that Levenshulme Old Library is a finalist at this year's Manchester Culture Awards!
We're shortlisted in the 'best event' category for last year's Ghosts at the Old Library, our homegrown winter storytelling project.
Huge thanks to all involved.
Wish us luck!
We're shortlisted in the 'best event' category for last year's Ghosts at the Old Library, our homegrown winter storytelling project.
Huge thanks to all involved.
Wish us luck!
October 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Shortlisted for a proper thing - for doing ghost stories!
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New Review - today on the blog a look at the way different writers write fantasy with Writing The Magic - Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and @richardvhirst.bsky.social out now and strongly recommended! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...
Writing The Magic - Essays On Crafting Fantasy Fiction edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst — Runalong The Shelves
Publisher – Dead Ink Books Published – Out Now Price – £10.99 paperback £5.99 ebook From Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones , over the last hundred years few genres have captured the publi...
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October 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
New Review - today on the blog a look at the way different writers write fantasy with Writing The Magic - Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and @richardvhirst.bsky.social out now and strongly recommended! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...
Long story but I'm taking my son an open top bus tour through Manchester during Storm Amy.
October 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Long story but I'm taking my son an open top bus tour through Manchester during Storm Amy.
RIP Patricia Routledge.
Always thought of this as genuinely deeply Kafkaesque.
youtu.be/BKXEM3VcSEA?...
Always thought of this as genuinely deeply Kafkaesque.
youtu.be/BKXEM3VcSEA?...
Hyacinth Bucket meets Mr Blobby.
YouTube video by digivoka
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
RIP Patricia Routledge.
Always thought of this as genuinely deeply Kafkaesque.
youtu.be/BKXEM3VcSEA?...
Always thought of this as genuinely deeply Kafkaesque.
youtu.be/BKXEM3VcSEA?...
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Next month, as part of our mini-season of Halloween goings-on, we're bringing you Harvest Horror, a folk horror writing workshop, exploring haunted landscapes, uncanny traditions and the strange rituals of the season.
📍 Levenshulme Old Library, M19 3QE
🎟 Tickets: buytickets.at/levenshulmeo...
📍 Levenshulme Old Library, M19 3QE
🎟 Tickets: buytickets.at/levenshulmeo...
September 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Next month, as part of our mini-season of Halloween goings-on, we're bringing you Harvest Horror, a folk horror writing workshop, exploring haunted landscapes, uncanny traditions and the strange rituals of the season.
📍 Levenshulme Old Library, M19 3QE
🎟 Tickets: buytickets.at/levenshulmeo...
📍 Levenshulme Old Library, M19 3QE
🎟 Tickets: buytickets.at/levenshulmeo...
I always wanted to write a piece on how Bowie and Scott Walker responded to one another creatively, and this does a better job than I would likely manage.
(The piece seems to suggest the two might not have met but I'm fairly certain Bowie is Walker's interviewer in much of 30th Century Man)
(The piece seems to suggest the two might not have met but I'm fairly certain Bowie is Walker's interviewer in much of 30th Century Man)
'Tilt is an album of ghosts, emptiness and terrifying remove. If anyone was living in Walker’s head at this point, it was, simply, the dead, the victims, their killers, the crush of history’s flow...'
David Bowie, #ScottWalker and the 1990s
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David Bowie, #ScottWalker and the 1990s
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September 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I always wanted to write a piece on how Bowie and Scott Walker responded to one another creatively, and this does a better job than I would likely manage.
(The piece seems to suggest the two might not have met but I'm fairly certain Bowie is Walker's interviewer in much of 30th Century Man)
(The piece seems to suggest the two might not have met but I'm fairly certain Bowie is Walker's interviewer in much of 30th Century Man)
Strangely nostalgic for stock images of internet piracy.
September 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Strangely nostalgic for stock images of internet piracy.
There's a bloody Reform UK pop-up by my local Tesco.
I live in Andrew Gwynne's constituency so I guess they think there's some truth to the rumours about Andy Burnham trying to take it on.
I live in Andrew Gwynne's constituency so I guess they think there's some truth to the rumours about Andy Burnham trying to take it on.
September 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
There's a bloody Reform UK pop-up by my local Tesco.
I live in Andrew Gwynne's constituency so I guess they think there's some truth to the rumours about Andy Burnham trying to take it on.
I live in Andrew Gwynne's constituency so I guess they think there's some truth to the rumours about Andy Burnham trying to take it on.
Hey! I have a new book out!
It's called Writing the Magic and it's a collection of essays on fantasy writing co-edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and myself (but mainly Dan), and it's published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social today.
deadinkbooks.com/product/writ...
It's called Writing the Magic and it's a collection of essays on fantasy writing co-edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and myself (but mainly Dan), and it's published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social today.
deadinkbooks.com/product/writ...
September 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hey! I have a new book out!
It's called Writing the Magic and it's a collection of essays on fantasy writing co-edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and myself (but mainly Dan), and it's published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social today.
deadinkbooks.com/product/writ...
It's called Writing the Magic and it's a collection of essays on fantasy writing co-edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and myself (but mainly Dan), and it's published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social today.
deadinkbooks.com/product/writ...
Nice to see the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water dressed for a state visit.
September 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Nice to see the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water dressed for a state visit.
Daniel Knox - “Alligator” - Official Video
YouTube video by Daniel Knox
youtu.be
September 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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NEW ALBUM: Mercado 48. Out Dec 5. First single Alligator out now.
🎹 Listen + Pre-order: danielknox.lnk.to/alligator
🎥 Watch the new music video Directed by Manuel Sá and starring my dog Flor: t.co/DR1NmXykTS
🎹 Listen + Pre-order: danielknox.lnk.to/alligator
🎥 Watch the new music video Directed by Manuel Sá and starring my dog Flor: t.co/DR1NmXykTS
September 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
NEW ALBUM: Mercado 48. Out Dec 5. First single Alligator out now.
🎹 Listen + Pre-order: danielknox.lnk.to/alligator
🎥 Watch the new music video Directed by Manuel Sá and starring my dog Flor: t.co/DR1NmXykTS
🎹 Listen + Pre-order: danielknox.lnk.to/alligator
🎥 Watch the new music video Directed by Manuel Sá and starring my dog Flor: t.co/DR1NmXykTS
I don't think we talk enough about what a big deal it is that all of Doctor Who is just there for free on iPlayer.
September 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I don't think we talk enough about what a big deal it is that all of Doctor Who is just there for free on iPlayer.