A pleasure to have placed third in this year's Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize.

Anthology available in-store and at bricklanebookshop.org/product/brick-lane-bookshop-new-short-stories-2025

Spent Sunday afternoon in the company of the final issue of Lunate, which features my own contribution 'Alice Truly - A Life In Fiction.'

It's been a joy and a privilege to be part of it all. Thanks to Claire, Han & Gary.

Vol. 6 and more available at lunate.co.uk/shop

When you pre-order books it supports both publisher and author and you get a nice surprise when it arrives and you forgot you'd bought it

I hope this happens (calling all pugilistic independent publishers) but I'll always have my copy of Anthropology thanks to a recommendation in the Big Issue

My story 'My Secession' is in the latest issue of @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social (along with the inaugural London Magazine crossword). For fans of micronations and inscrutable family dynamics

Reading Duets from @scratchbooks.bsky.social and The Backyard of Fuck Around and Find Out by @rubycowling.bsky.social and Anna Wood is the best thing I've read all year.

[Had I read it in 2024 it would have been the best thing I'd read all year also]

Bookpost from Desperate Literature, featuring my shortlisted story for this year's Fiction Prize, 'In The Insect Colony'.

You can read it at

helterskelter.in/2024/11/in-the-insect-colony-jl-bogenschneider

...and buy the anthology at

desperateliterature.com/product/eleven-stories-2024/

I don't know what three-days-ago me was going for with this note/idea but I can only give it a go...

I have a similar bone to pick with And Other Stories...

New fiction (by me) in The Stinging Fly: 'Nulla Osta'. For fans of obscure authors and unreliable everythings.

I had lots of fun writing this.

New story—'Nulla Osta'—in the winter issue of The Stinging Fly, available to order at stingingfly.org/product/winter