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Tony Williams
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Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · Nov 19
Hi new followers 👋 I write poetry and fiction, most recently Cole the Magnificent, which is a novel with bits of verse tucked in here and there, such as this song about a dismembered housecarl
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New word just dropped. I do feel affectional about the Grauniad's legendary proofreading.
Screenshot containing the 'word' 'affectionally'
October 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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I'd like my drag name to be 'Airy Thinness
October 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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She's found something she loves more than her ball
A dog sitting very close to a fire
October 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The future of UK Independent presses hang by a thread. Supporting the sector is vital: this is where ALL the bravery lies. The big houses are risk averse, but copycat small press successes to revitalise their lists. Small presses are the motor!
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Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK
The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Please consider supporting indie publishing by contributing to this fundraiser for @saltpublishing.com You can of course also support Salt by buying a book or two - I particularly recommend Cole the Magnificent, Hawthorn City, Nutcase, etc...
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Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery
New books and reprints arrive daily at Salty Towers – and we'… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026
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October 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Lydia Davis, from the Collected Stories
Getting to Know Your Body If your eyeballs move, this means that you're thinking, or about to start thinking. If you don't want to be thinking at this particular moment, try to keep your eyeballs still.
September 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I'm very much enjoying Andrew Neilson's pamphlet Summers Are Other from Rack Press, particularly the lovely lyric 'The Viaduct'
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First stanza of The Viaduct: As a child I would cross with my father's brother, and in summer weather we would walk into loss. Pamphlet titled Summers Are Other
September 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Ind Coope's Story of Testicles
Beer mat saying, Ind Coope's Story of Beer: Tegestology
September 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Cherry plums
Cherry plums
August 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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I call it an OranGINa
An orange cocktail
August 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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That's like a cross between turning in his grave and rolling in the aisles - he's fuming, but he's also amused, because he knows how inflation works.
Newspaper headline: Freddo bar creator would be 'rolling in his grave' at its price today, daughter says
August 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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A classic of the genre*

*the genre = M John Harrison novels
mjohnharrison.bsky.social m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · Aug 7
Begun 1983. Published 1992. Out again today.
Cover of a book. Background: a strange, rather menacing blue background, like the product of an abandoned printing process. Against that a self-reflexive pattern of trees and ruins and water makes the shape of a skull. It's looking at you. It's looking at me. It's looking at everyone.
August 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry) at Bath Spa, 0.6 FTE
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Lecturer - Creative Writing - Poetry (Part-time) at Bath Spa University
Recruiting now: Lecturer - Creative Writing - Poetry (Part-time) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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August 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Lecturer in Creative Writing (fiction) at Bristol, 0.5 FTE
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOF238/l...
Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Bristol
Apply now for the Lecturer in Creative Writing role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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You seem to have mistyped 'Life: A User's Manual, by Georges Perec'
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · Jul 22
Yes Moby-Dick is the best book I have ever read. You do not have to agree. In fact, I don't want you to! Tell me your one, and I will eventually get round ot it. Don't be shy. We're all here to celebrate whatever this is. Just name it.
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · Jul 22
This is a bit of the very, very best book I have ever read. You should try it too. There is NOTHING like it. OILY VINTAGES #QueuingForCrumble
July 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Can't quite express how grateful I am to have a poem included in 'Ten Poems from the Peak District' from @candlestickpress.bsky.social - not only because it's a beautiful object, nor that I find myself among poets I deeply admire, but also because... 1/3
Pamphlet titled 'Ten Poems from the Peak District' selected and introduced by Katharine Towers
July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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"Sleaford Mods out of their minds on spice."

Banging recommendation of Nutcase from @stuhennigan.bsky.social whose novel KESHED is out from Ortac Press next year

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How To Get Keshed and Influence People
A list of titles related to Keshed. Some are works by my literary influences; some are by writers who other people have said Keshed reminds them of; and some are linked in other ways. To keep it inter...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Brilliant and brutal sounds right... KESHED by @stuhennigan.bsky.social will be ace
oziasmidwinter.bsky.social David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social · Jul 13
Always hard reading a book by a mate but needn’t have worried here. @stuhennigan.bsky.social’s KESHED is a brilliant and brutal beast of a book which unflinchingly explores themes of class, masculinity, addiction, depression and parenthood. Not an easy read but pretty much an essential one.
July 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Lecturer in Creative Writing at Exeter post, closes 15 July 💙https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS852/lecturer-in-creative-writing-education-and-scholarship
Lecturer in Creative Writing (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
Recruiting now: Lecturer in Creative Writing (Education and Scholarship) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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July 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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I've just heard about this book about a long journey, with a live story at its heart, which is apparently completely made up and written by a total crook 1/
July 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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RIP Phil Lynott
Chickpeas in a jar
July 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Maigret's subordinates are so endearing
'I'm starting to understand. ' 'To understand what?' Janvier turned red. 'I don't know,' he said. She went out, closing the two doors behind her, while little Lucas looked at Maigret with the air of a man who has just received a blow on the head. He was so afraid of saying something stupid that he kept silent, observing Maigret's face in the hope of reading on it what he must be thinking.
July 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I know it's, in one sense, not a laughing matter, but, on the other hand, this paragraph 🤩🤩
Newspaper lede: 'A religious sect, whose leader claims to be the new pope and whose followers say he can make the moon disappear, is operating out of a former orphanage in Crewe, Cheshire, where at least a dozen children are being home schooled.'
July 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM