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Shelley Hastings
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Writer | Producer | Artist Facilitator | Kitchen Raver | Arts & Dementia: Resonate Arts | Winner: Sean Ó Faoláin Prize & Aurora Prize | Stories: Irish Times, Desperate Literature, Southword, Miro, Chroma Editions…
www.shelleyhastings.co.uk
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A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.
My shadow walking across a dry river bed in the dark
October 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.
September 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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ICYMI: The Southbank Centre is launching Indie Night, a new initiative celebrating the work of independent presses 👇 #BookSky
Southbank Centre's new Indie Night initiative celebrates indie presses
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September 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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saloneurope.bsky.social
Have a read of this with your morning ☕️

🇫🇷 We're going to Paris!
🖋 Fantastic courses in poetry, prose, and memoir
📖 Another European Book Club
🖥 Online Salon

Don't miss out!

@grahammort.bsky.social @susannacrossman.bsky.social
saloneurope.bsky.social European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · Sep 6
✨NEWLETTER DAY✨

We're announcing an exciting new event, as well as the expansion of our online course offerings.

We have so many events planned online and in-person, there really is something for everyone.

We hope you'll join us!
The one city you wish we'd visit? Yeah, we're going there
Plus new online courses and events
europeanwriterssalon.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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‘The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination’ by @michaelavieser.bsky.social & @ekostories.bsky.social, a wonderful book of 36 short essays on sound in place & imagination I commissioned for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. Published this week.
September 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Karen (@karenmcleod.bsky.social) is an excellent writer/teacher/person and this masterclass is a bargain, online and will be excellent. 👇👇✍️✍️

www.outsavvy.com/event/29810/...
Write a short story from life with Karen McLeod Tickets - - OutSavvy
Join award-winning author Karen McLeod for an inspiring, interactive Masterclass that dives into the art of writing from life. Together we will explore how to delve into long-lost material, then hone ...
www.outsavvy.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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minorliteratures.bsky.social
back this week with a stacked September, incl. interviews with @alinaetc.bsky.social Tim MacGabhann & Austyn Wohlers; extracts from work by @andrewgallix.bsky.social Charlotte Northall, Adam Judah Krasnoff & Joseph Nechvatal; fiction from @addisonzeller.bsky.social & @robrubsam.bsky.social ...

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August 31, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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This is very good:

Strike! at Asquith Street Background Painters Association — Emily Lu minorliteratures.com/2025/05/08/s...
Strike! at Asquith Street Background Painters Association — Emily Lu
The forecast predicted sun and a high of minus seventeen. In our houses, we pulled on long underwear over our underwear, a grey long sleeve, a neon poofy vest, and over that an oversized hand-me-do…
minorliteratures.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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My story ‘Small Bad Things’ which came third in @themothmagazine.bsky.social short story prize is published in @irishtimes.com today 🎉 There is a small paywall - (£1 for first month) 👇
August 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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If you are tall enough to see over the paywall, my story 'Bee Box' is up on the @irishtimes.com now, after coming second in @themothmagazine.bsky.social The Moth Short Story Prize.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Bee Box by Martha Sprackland
The runner-up in this year’s Moth Short Story Prize, chosen by judge Evie Wyld
www.irishtimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Nice to see @shelleyhastings.bsky.social come third in the Moth short story prize. Shelley read at an online event I did years ago and was a different class. Great things to come I'm sure.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Moth Short Story Prize winner takes judge Evie Wyld ‘right back to the loneliness of having a small baby’
Clare Roche wins prize, with Martha Sprackland second and Shelley Hastings third
www.irishtimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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themothmagazine.bsky.social
Every issue of The Moth is crammed full with beautiful art, two great interviews, short stories and new poetry on familiar and surprising subjects – in the case of Issue 45, meatballs, neck braces, and conceiving in the Aldi carpark...

🌷bit.ly/pastmoths
August 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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saloneurope.bsky.social
We’re so delighted to announce that we’ve chosen @desperatelit.bsky.social prize shortlistee @shelleyhastings.bsky.social’s story ‘Glimpses of Her’ for our Annual Salon prize!

Shelley will join us at next year’s Annual Salon in Madrid, where she’ll be invited to read.
Photo of writer Shelley Hastings Full shortlist of the Desperate Literature Prize
August 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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What a treat to hear the wonderful @davidcollard.bsky.social chat with @ronanhession.bsky.social & read from his new book #ACrumpledSwan - a brilliant online event - thank you so much 👏💙💙👏

www.waterstones.com/book/a-crump...

#books #booksky
Photo of David Collard Cover of a book called A Ceumpled Swan by David Collard.
August 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
shelleyhastings.bsky.social
Totally delighted to be shortlisted for this - and to also win the @saloneurope.bsky.social prize - I cannot wait to take part in the salon next year in Madrid 😍 you can pre order the book and order the anthology of all the brilliant stories now 👇👇
desperatelit.bsky.social Desperate Literature @desperatelit.bsky.social · Aug 12
THE 2025 SHORTLIST:

"Generous, soulful distillations. A tasting flight of prosaic kerosene. Each story ignited a flare in a forsaken corner of my mind. I can’t wait to experience more from these voices."
—Henry Hoke, judge

Get the pdf or pre-order the book: desperateliterature.com/product/elev...
August 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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So after Brussels, we'll be off to Madrid with @saloneurope.bsky.social in October. Want to read your work @desperatelit.bsky.social, eat good food, explore Madrid and make new writer friends?

It's a small event so only a few tickets left. I can't wait!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/madrid-lit...
Barbara reading in Berlin
August 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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seventydys.bsky.social
‘The Life of Andy’, a short story of mine online at the late The White Review: www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/the-...
THE WHITE REVIEW THE LIFE OF ANDY October 12, 1976, Soho, London. Andy stood in the alley outside the Prince of Wales. He felt in the pocket of his leather jacket and found most of a sheet of orange sunshine. Andy couldn't remember putting it there. He couldn't remember how he got to the cinema from the squat in Stoke Newington. But he knew that it was morning, that he was in a crowd of people, some heavy, heavy people, some lightweights, old freaks, young punks, odd straights, and that FANTASIA was about to start inside. Andy balled the blotter in his hand and quickly stuffed it in his mouth. He gagged but kept chewing until it was gone. He turned and gestured to a wrinkly geezer wearing a tartan scarf but no shirt who was seated on a blackened sheet of cardboard in front of the fire exit. The man held up a can of bitter. Andy bolted a swig and handed it back. "Ta very much', said one, 'Nae bother', said the other. A short time later Andy was sat in the dark amid zoo noises, crying and slurping, and that is when the lights began. April 13, 1972, Blackpool. Andy opened the front door and dropped two plastic bags at the foot of the stairs: one with his schoolwork, the other with his PE kit in. He went into the kitchen, turned off the radio, took a bowl from the draining board, opened a cupboard door
July 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Sarina Sarina 😍❤️😍💫🥳😎⚽️
July 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Very excited about this collaboration and commission it’s been a long old process. It brings together my writing practice, obsession with ‘close looking’ & how expansive that can be - and my arts facilitation work with people living with dementia. 😎🔬

www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
Dream Under Microscope
By Shelley Hastings and Georgia Akbar (Artist) Annarita Scardamaglia (MSc/Research Technician at Department of Neuromuscular Diseases) Arbor 2025-6
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I used to be better at telling people I'm doing stuff.

In 2 weeks I'm bringing back the multi-award-winning HEADS UP for one night only in a stripped back performance as part of the Shedinburgh programme, and I'd love you to come.

Aug 2, 8pm, Wee Red Bar

bookings.shedinburgh.com/event/9854:1...
A man (he's me, but younger) sits onstage at a small old wooden desk. He wears a dark navy two piece suit over an open collar white shirt, with bare feet. In front of him is a mic, and two audio samplers from which electrical cables spiral away from the desk. He lights a large white candle with a match. He is in light, but all around him is shadow.
July 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Camilla Grudova writes brilliantly about how precarious it is to live as a successful & dedicated writer who doesn’t come from money. Recommended reading especially for publishers, institutions & funding bodies

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The Golden Pie of Literature – The Stinging Fly
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June 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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taniahershman.bsky.social
Do you tend to write in one "form" & fancy sampling another? Do you write "long" & are wondering about going short? Come along to my Pick'n'Mix Zoom writing workshop, July 2nd, for a little poetry, flash fiction & hybrids! All welcome, pay-what-you-can available: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
Four bowls, one yellow and three white, each containing multicoloured sweets and candies.
June 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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susiemesure.bsky.social
"Art isn't the province of the young."
I interviewed short story author @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social about her brilliant debut novel, The Benefactors. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...
Northern Ireland’s most exciting novelist – who’s making her debut in her 50s
Wendy Erskine wrote The Benefactors around her English teaching and is adamant that ‘art isn’t only the province of the young’
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Just finished this and it is brilliant, hilarious, moving, clever, excellent music, beautifully shot. Hoping there will be a season 3. Like nothing else. Thank you @bridgetchristie.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Nostalgic night - Roni Size following me from 90’s Bristol to Fox & Firkin Lewisham. 💃🏻Packed full of people who were there the first time round.
Purple light packed dance floor everyone in shadow at Roni Size in Lewisham.
May 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM