Stu Hennigan
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 12.02.26)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 12.02.26)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
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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.
www.ortacpress.com/product-page...
www.ortacpress.com/product-page...
So tired i slept 13 hours straight last night, woke up at 1 p.m, had three coffees, went back to bed and have just woken up again.....Writing life, proper glamorous. Next dose of shingles can't be far off 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
So tired i slept 13 hours straight last night, woke up at 1 p.m, had three coffees, went back to bed and have just woken up again.....Writing life, proper glamorous. Next dose of shingles can't be far off 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
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If you want to see what child poverty means in real terms, the human right here. Starmer's stubborn refusal to sort this out is an absolute fucking scandal. Blood all over his hands.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
If you want to see what child poverty means in real terms, the human right here. Starmer's stubborn refusal to sort this out is an absolute fucking scandal. Blood all over his hands.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If you want to see what child poverty means in real terms, the human right here. Starmer's stubborn refusal to sort this out is an absolute fucking scandal. Blood all over his hands.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
If you want to see what child poverty means in real terms, the human right here. Starmer's stubborn refusal to sort this out is an absolute fucking scandal. Blood all over his hands.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/3871...
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"We need whole texts—novels, plays, or poems—to care about literature. Teachers are doomed to fail to inspire most students if they must teach deracinated skills for how to decode isolated excerpts..."
slate.com/life/2025/10...
slate.com/life/2025/10...
There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious.
You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.
slate.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
"We need whole texts—novels, plays, or poems—to care about literature. Teachers are doomed to fail to inspire most students if they must teach deracinated skills for how to decode isolated excerpts..."
slate.com/life/2025/10...
slate.com/life/2025/10...
I really should be doing some writing but I've been up till 3 a.m. every day this week and even though my brain is willing, it's also capsizing and the rest of my doesn't know my arse from my elbow. So gonna do some research reading instead. Fucking cursing myself though, wanna write dammit 😵😬
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I really should be doing some writing but I've been up till 3 a.m. every day this week and even though my brain is willing, it's also capsizing and the rest of my doesn't know my arse from my elbow. So gonna do some research reading instead. Fucking cursing myself though, wanna write dammit 😵😬
@ortacpress.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Big thanks to El Patron @thesecretdj.bsky.social for his thoughts on Keshed 🖤
"I love Hennigan, he's a genuine northern working class voice from the exact same streets I have trodden throughout my entire life. He loves books, it's his true calling. You can absolutely feel that with every syllable."
"I love Hennigan, he's a genuine northern working class voice from the exact same streets I have trodden throughout my entire life. He loves books, it's his true calling. You can absolutely feel that with every syllable."
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
@ortacpress.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Big thanks to El Patron @thesecretdj.bsky.social for his thoughts on Keshed 🖤
"I love Hennigan, he's a genuine northern working class voice from the exact same streets I have trodden throughout my entire life. He loves books, it's his true calling. You can absolutely feel that with every syllable."
"I love Hennigan, he's a genuine northern working class voice from the exact same streets I have trodden throughout my entire life. He loves books, it's his true calling. You can absolutely feel that with every syllable."
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Big thanks to El Patron @thesecretdj.bsky.social for his thoughts on Keshed 🖤
"I love Hennigan, he's a genuine northern working class voice from the exact same streets I have trodden throughout my entire life. He loves books, it's his true calling. You can absolutely feel that with every syllable."
"I love Hennigan, he's a genuine northern working class voice from the exact same streets I have trodden throughout my entire life. He loves books, it's his true calling. You can absolutely feel that with every syllable."
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Treat yourself it's Friday
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icing on the cakes, by Blackout Princesses
track by Blackout Princesses
blackoutprincesses.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Treat yourself it's Friday
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#Booksky this cult classic has been out of print for ages, essential read if Bukowski with a rainbow flag hanging out his arse pocket sounds like your idea of a good time but these aren't gonna stick around long. @drewgum.bsky.social is brilliant, so book yourself in for a few nights and enjoy💪📚🏳️🌈😀
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
#Booksky this cult classic has been out of print for ages, essential read if Bukowski with a rainbow flag hanging out his arse pocket sounds like your idea of a good time but these aren't gonna stick around long. @drewgum.bsky.social is brilliant, so book yourself in for a few nights and enjoy💪📚🏳️🌈😀
Always great writing from this fella. His books are outstanding. See my list of fave non-fic titles from a coupla years back @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social.
Pls note they added my book to the list, i didn't do it myself 🤣
uk.bookshop.org/lists/food-f...
Pls note they added my book to the list, i didn't do it myself 🤣
uk.bookshop.org/lists/food-f...
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Always great writing from this fella. His books are outstanding. See my list of fave non-fic titles from a coupla years back @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social.
Pls note they added my book to the list, i didn't do it myself 🤣
uk.bookshop.org/lists/food-f...
Pls note they added my book to the list, i didn't do it myself 🤣
uk.bookshop.org/lists/food-f...
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Happy that these 3 poems have found a home in Prague's BODY journal . . . thank you @sdelbos.bsky.social
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/27/a...
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/27/a...
B O D Y | Berlin Variations by Alexander Booth
Alexander Booth is a poet and translator who lives in Berlin. His collection of poems Triptych was published in 2021 and Kantor in 2023.
www.bodyliterature.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Thread.
Tl;dr this poll is fucking bullshit and grossly irresponsible.
Tl;dr this poll is fucking bullshit and grossly irresponsible.
Talk about loaded questions. For all but the most serious offences we should be talking about education and rehabilitation. So much crime is driven by poverty and social circumstances - prisons are overcrowded because too many people are put in them unnecessarily.
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How effective do Britons think capital / corporal punishment would be at reducing crime, and how does this compare to other punishments?
Long prison: 66% say effective
Death penalty: 62%
Flogging: 31%
Community service: 31%
Fines: 31%
Stocks: 29%
Short prison: 18%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Long prison: 66% say effective
Death penalty: 62%
Flogging: 31%
Community service: 31%
Fines: 31%
Stocks: 29%
Short prison: 18%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thread.
Tl;dr this poll is fucking bullshit and grossly irresponsible.
Tl;dr this poll is fucking bullshit and grossly irresponsible.
Talk about loaded questions. For all but the most serious offences we should be talking about education and rehabilitation. So much crime is driven by poverty and social circumstances - prisons are overcrowded because too many people are put in them unnecessarily.
1/
1/
How effective do Britons think capital / corporal punishment would be at reducing crime, and how does this compare to other punishments?
Long prison: 66% say effective
Death penalty: 62%
Flogging: 31%
Community service: 31%
Fines: 31%
Stocks: 29%
Short prison: 18%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Long prison: 66% say effective
Death penalty: 62%
Flogging: 31%
Community service: 31%
Fines: 31%
Stocks: 29%
Short prison: 18%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Talk about loaded questions. For all but the most serious offences we should be talking about education and rehabilitation. So much crime is driven by poverty and social circumstances - prisons are overcrowded because too many people are put in them unnecessarily.
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A lot less stupid questions along the way, too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Who's looking to hear some weird new music? Visionary ghostwave, haunted wizard synth and dub-splattered hypnogogia perfect for soundtracking intense journeys thru inner space!
etherdiver.bandcamp.com
#musicsky
etherdiver.bandcamp.com
#musicsky
Ether Diver
Instrumental psychedelia for discerning psychonauts.
Need a ship to explore inner space? The Ether Diver will take you where you need to go, and bring you back in one piece.
etherdiver.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Who's looking to hear some weird new music? Visionary ghostwave, haunted wizard synth and dub-splattered hypnogogia perfect for soundtracking intense journeys thru inner space!
etherdiver.bandcamp.com
#musicsky
etherdiver.bandcamp.com
#musicsky
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You have till November 9th to bid for a signed, dedicated copy of VIANNE - all in aid of Children in Need... www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
Children in Read 2025
Authors and Illustrators around the globe, sign & dedicate their books for the biggest online signed book auction in the world.All Postage & Packaging is free.All proceeds are in aid of the B....
www.jumblebee.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You have till November 9th to bid for a signed, dedicated copy of VIANNE - all in aid of Children in Need... www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...
Thank you to the TWO people who borrowed Ghost Signs from Irish libraries in 2024.
PLR means this nets me 16 cents, which can't be paid cos it's less than 2 Euros 😵💫
PLR means this nets me 16 cents, which can't be paid cos it's less than 2 Euros 😵💫
November 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thank you to the TWO people who borrowed Ghost Signs from Irish libraries in 2024.
PLR means this nets me 16 cents, which can't be paid cos it's less than 2 Euros 😵💫
PLR means this nets me 16 cents, which can't be paid cos it's less than 2 Euros 😵💫
I've been promoted today. Old lad with schizophrenia in the sheltered accomodation down the road i like a chat with started calling me Mick Jagger recently cos he said i'm the coolest dad he's ever seen on the school run.
Saw me across the street today; "Arright Iggy Pop, howzitgoinlike?" 😀
Saw me across the street today; "Arright Iggy Pop, howzitgoinlike?" 😀
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I've been promoted today. Old lad with schizophrenia in the sheltered accomodation down the road i like a chat with started calling me Mick Jagger recently cos he said i'm the coolest dad he's ever seen on the school run.
Saw me across the street today; "Arright Iggy Pop, howzitgoinlike?" 😀
Saw me across the street today; "Arright Iggy Pop, howzitgoinlike?" 😀
Amazing. Lovely lass and force for good in the publishing world. 📚📚📚🖤🖤🖤
Wow! Isabelle Kenyon has been shortlisted for Leader of the Year and The Fly on the Wall Press Publishing Academy has been shortlisted for a FutureBook Excellence Award by The Bookseller !
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/post/fly-on-... @inpressbooks.bsky.social
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/post/fly-on-... @inpressbooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Amazing. Lovely lass and force for good in the publishing world. 📚📚📚🖤🖤🖤
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A reminder, there is no such thing as "conservative feminism." Conservative feminism is an oxymoron fabricated by patriarchal women for whom whiteness trumps all.
Also fuck Ross Douthat. Don't put his shit on the timeline.
Also fuck Ross Douthat. Don't put his shit on the timeline.
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A reminder, there is no such thing as "conservative feminism." Conservative feminism is an oxymoron fabricated by patriarchal women for whom whiteness trumps all.
Also fuck Ross Douthat. Don't put his shit on the timeline.
Also fuck Ross Douthat. Don't put his shit on the timeline.
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I just want a place of learning where we can read books, learn languages, plant trees, figure things out, build houses, fix plumbing, ride bikes, do childcare, ask questions, welcome strangers, grow food, care for older people, and dance, who's in
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I just want a place of learning where we can read books, learn languages, plant trees, figure things out, build houses, fix plumbing, ride bikes, do childcare, ask questions, welcome strangers, grow food, care for older people, and dance, who's in
ICYMI, in December we're publishing CASANOVA 20: Or, Hot World, the new novel by Davey Davis. An exploration of art, desire, and mortality, it follows a young man isolated by his extraordinary beauty and his strange friendship with an older painter. Read more:
Casanova 20: Or, Hot World — Cipher Press
IMPORTANT UPDATE: As a result of VAT changes that came into place on the 1st July, we can no longer sell books directly to EU customers via our website. We are working on a solution to this, and will…
www.cipherpress.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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“You’re always telling people to support indie bookstores over billionaires.”
Yeah, it’s called having a consistent brand voice and a conscience.
Yeah, it’s called having a consistent brand voice and a conscience.
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“You’re always telling people to support indie bookstores over billionaires.”
Yeah, it’s called having a consistent brand voice and a conscience.
Yeah, it’s called having a consistent brand voice and a conscience.
Send lawyers, guns and money. The shit's gonna hit the fan when his unquiet spirit crashes the joint 💥☠️
A grave injustice will finally be rectified on Saturday when Warren Zevon enters the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Revisit his emotional final visit to 'Late Show With David Letterman' following his cancer diagnosis.
Warren Zevon Says Goodbye
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Send lawyers, guns and money. The shit's gonna hit the fan when his unquiet spirit crashes the joint 💥☠️