Giselle Leeb
@giselleleeb.bsky.social
Short story collection, Mammals, I Think We Are Called (@saltpublishing.bsky.social), Edge Hill Short Story Prize '23 Longlist, Word Factory Apprentice '19, Best British Short Stories '17 https://giselleleeb.com/
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Giselle Leeb
@giselleleeb.bsky.social
· Jun 5
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#302 of the fab @interzone.press avail. soon. I review 8 new intriguing & uncanny @nightjarpress.bsky.social stories by: @meganjstaylor.bsky.social, J G Lynas, imogenreid.bsky.social, @kirstennorrie.bsky.social, Philip Terry, @arthurmandal.bsky.social, @carolynstock.bsky.social, Alex Older
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I answered some great questions from Joe Bedford, who interviewed me for his 'Writers on Research' series:
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I answered some great questions from Joe Bedford, who interviewed me for his 'Writers on Research' series:
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk
I answered some great questions from Joe Bedford, who interviewed me for his 'Writers on Research' series:
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I answered some great questions from Joe Bedford, who interviewed me for his 'Writers on Research' series:
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk
INTERVIEW: Giselle Leeb on nature, normality and ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’
You can read the interview, and others, here: 😀
joebedford.co.uk
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Thanks to @jolloyds.bsky.social for recommending this.
Loved it like I love Kelly Link and Sarah Pinsker (perhaps also one for @giselleleeb.bsky.social )
Loved it like I love Kelly Link and Sarah Pinsker (perhaps also one for @giselleleeb.bsky.social )
June 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Thanks to @jolloyds.bsky.social for recommending this.
Loved it like I love Kelly Link and Sarah Pinsker (perhaps also one for @giselleleeb.bsky.social )
Loved it like I love Kelly Link and Sarah Pinsker (perhaps also one for @giselleleeb.bsky.social )
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I had my final writing class led by @giselleleeb.bsky.social at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham last night, and I must say I learned so much and am excited to put it all into my writing going forward.
June 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I had my final writing class led by @giselleleeb.bsky.social at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham last night, and I must say I learned so much and am excited to put it all into my writing going forward.
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New @interzone.press issue is out! Featuring work by @seanpadraic.bsky.social, @stevetoase.bsky.social, @giselleleeb.bsky.social, Nick Lowe, @nmamatas.bsky.social, and lots of other cool people, full list here: weightlessbooks.com/interzone-302/
Interzone #302
In this issue: stories by Seán Padraic Birnie, Rachael Cupp, Bogdan Domakha, Alexandra Grunberg, E F McAdam, Carlos Norcia, Yukimi Ogawa, Kate Orman, Tamsin Showbrook, R.L. Summerling, and Steve Toase...
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June 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New @interzone.press issue is out! Featuring work by @seanpadraic.bsky.social, @stevetoase.bsky.social, @giselleleeb.bsky.social, Nick Lowe, @nmamatas.bsky.social, and lots of other cool people, full list here: weightlessbooks.com/interzone-302/
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Very happy to have my story “No Shelter Beneath the Searchlights” in the latest @interzone.press alongside with @rlsummerling.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social, Aliya Whiteley, @giselleleeb.bsky.social and so many other great writers.
June 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Very happy to have my story “No Shelter Beneath the Searchlights” in the latest @interzone.press alongside with @rlsummerling.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social, Aliya Whiteley, @giselleleeb.bsky.social and so many other great writers.
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Some excellently feral stories including @jeffreyford8.bsky.social @giselleleeb.bsky.social and @giantratsumatra.bsky.social
Thanks @jonathangibbs.bsky.social
If anyone has some animal stories they can recommend, I’m all ears - hidden and asymetrical ones like those of an owl
Thanks @jonathangibbs.bsky.social
If anyone has some animal stories they can recommend, I’m all ears - hidden and asymetrical ones like those of an owl
And off it goes, Charlotte Tierney’s Personal Anthology, as aloof and detached as a sleep-walker, going faster than the snail, watching the livestream of the goldfinch, staying in the aquarium of the Jardin des Plantes for hours, bellowing for the dog, twisting and snorting...
An Animal Personal Anthology, by Charlotte Tierney
Animals might be considered, broadly, unsophisticated and unremarkable, while also being cosmically bananas, like the rest of the natural world.
apersonalanthology.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Some excellently feral stories including @jeffreyford8.bsky.social @giselleleeb.bsky.social and @giantratsumatra.bsky.social
Thanks @jonathangibbs.bsky.social
If anyone has some animal stories they can recommend, I’m all ears - hidden and asymetrical ones like those of an owl
Thanks @jonathangibbs.bsky.social
If anyone has some animal stories they can recommend, I’m all ears - hidden and asymetrical ones like those of an owl
#302 of the fab @interzone.press avail. soon. I review 8 new intriguing & uncanny @nightjarpress.bsky.social stories by: @meganjstaylor.bsky.social, J G Lynas, imogenreid.bsky.social, @kirstennorrie.bsky.social, Philip Terry, @arthurmandal.bsky.social, @carolynstock.bsky.social, Alex Older
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June 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
#302 of the fab @interzone.press avail. soon. I review 8 new intriguing & uncanny @nightjarpress.bsky.social stories by: @meganjstaylor.bsky.social, J G Lynas, imogenreid.bsky.social, @kirstennorrie.bsky.social, Philip Terry, @arthurmandal.bsky.social, @carolynstock.bsky.social, Alex Older
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And off it goes, Charlotte Tierney’s Personal Anthology, as aloof and detached as a sleep-walker, going faster than the snail, watching the livestream of the goldfinch, staying in the aquarium of the Jardin des Plantes for hours, bellowing for the dog, twisting and snorting...
An Animal Personal Anthology, by Charlotte Tierney
Animals might be considered, broadly, unsophisticated and unremarkable, while also being cosmically bananas, like the rest of the natural world.
apersonalanthology.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
And off it goes, Charlotte Tierney’s Personal Anthology, as aloof and detached as a sleep-walker, going faster than the snail, watching the livestream of the goldfinch, staying in the aquarium of the Jardin des Plantes for hours, bellowing for the dog, twisting and snorting...
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Our May submissions window for fantastical flash fiction is now open through 11:59 p.m., May 7.
Full guidelines and Submittable button here: fabulistmagazine.com/about/submis...
#opencall
#speculativefiction
#flashfiction
Full guidelines and Submittable button here: fabulistmagazine.com/about/submis...
#opencall
#speculativefiction
#flashfiction
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May 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Our May submissions window for fantastical flash fiction is now open through 11:59 p.m., May 7.
Full guidelines and Submittable button here: fabulistmagazine.com/about/submis...
#opencall
#speculativefiction
#flashfiction
Full guidelines and Submittable button here: fabulistmagazine.com/about/submis...
#opencall
#speculativefiction
#flashfiction
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Check out all of my events upcoming for 2025 - so far - with stacks of online writing courses, workshops and events forthcoming! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis... #writing #writers #writingcommunity #horror #courses #wriitngcourses #writingworkshops #writingclasses
April 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Check out all of my events upcoming for 2025 - so far - with stacks of online writing courses, workshops and events forthcoming! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis... #writing #writers #writingcommunity #horror #courses #wriitngcourses #writingworkshops #writingclasses
Last few places left on @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Short Story course. Starts Tue 6 May. I've listed my top 5 books on writing in the course details. What are yours?
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/writi...
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/writi...
Writing short stories, a six week course with Giselle Leeb – Five Leaves Bookshop
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April 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Last few places left on @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Short Story course. Starts Tue 6 May. I've listed my top 5 books on writing in the course details. What are yours?
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/writi...
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/writi...
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Take a photo she said, tote bags, lanyards, badges, tape, bookmarks. Put it on social media she said. What about the books? I thought, too late. Penguin Archive. There are also books.
April 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Take a photo she said, tote bags, lanyards, badges, tape, bookmarks. Put it on social media she said. What about the books? I thought, too late. Penguin Archive. There are also books.
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So... just about finished our events programme for May. Highlights include a couple of events by @robinince.bsky.social, our first writing course by @giselleleeb.bsky.social, a book launch with Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, a lecture on Cavafy by Gregory Woods... www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events
Events – Five Leaves Bookshop
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk
April 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So... just about finished our events programme for May. Highlights include a couple of events by @robinince.bsky.social, our first writing course by @giselleleeb.bsky.social, a book launch with Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, a lecture on Cavafy by Gregory Woods... www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events
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River Trent here. We're taking orders for this edition (UK only) - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/is-a-river-alive/
March 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
River Trent here. We're taking orders for this edition (UK only) - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/is-a-river-alive/
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We start our Irish book group tonight. Tomorrow our Pagan group. Wednesday our longest running, fiction, group.
Find us also with a stall @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social on Tuesday and with TM Logan at West Bridgford Library on Thursday. We try to keep busy...
Find us also with a stall @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social on Tuesday and with TM Logan at West Bridgford Library on Thursday. We try to keep busy...
March 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We start our Irish book group tonight. Tomorrow our Pagan group. Wednesday our longest running, fiction, group.
Find us also with a stall @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social on Tuesday and with TM Logan at West Bridgford Library on Thursday. We try to keep busy...
Find us also with a stall @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social on Tuesday and with TM Logan at West Bridgford Library on Thursday. We try to keep busy...
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Beautiful Poem!
New today from Reckoning 9, "Guarda Silencio", a butterfly poem in honor of two murdered Mexican conservationists, by Lee Nash: reckoning.press/guarda-silen...
Guarda Silencio | Reckoning
They arrive in the autumn for the Day of the Dead three days of celebrations the Purépecha tossing oranges into the coffin of the grinning corpse the burning of candles overnight ofrendas hung with fl...
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March 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Beautiful Poem!
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WORD FACTORY SHORT STORY CLUB: George Saunders with Giselle Leeb
I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories
I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories
WORD FACTORY SHORT STORY CLUB: George Saunders with Giselle Leeb
An evening of discussion about Saunders' futuristic story, Jon
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March 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
WORD FACTORY SHORT STORY CLUB: George Saunders with Giselle Leeb
I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories
I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories
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The next Writing the Occult event will be digging into the world of relics - but there's plenty more to uncover in the series for 2025 too! www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/writing-t... @laurenwrites.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The next Writing the Occult event will be digging into the world of relics - but there's plenty more to uncover in the series for 2025 too! www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/writing-t... @laurenwrites.bsky.social
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Had a great day at ‘States of Independence’ today at DMU in Leicester - brilliant sessions from Pedestrian talking through their Leics folklore project, @rodduncan.bsky.social, @giselleleeb.bsky.social, as well as a brilliant keynote from Anthony Joseph. Huge thanks to all involved! 🙌
March 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Had a great day at ‘States of Independence’ today at DMU in Leicester - brilliant sessions from Pedestrian talking through their Leics folklore project, @rodduncan.bsky.social, @giselleleeb.bsky.social, as well as a brilliant keynote from Anthony Joseph. Huge thanks to all involved! 🙌
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Once again the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by the Jerusalem police, books seized, one of the owners arrested and the store closed. There was no search or arrest warrant.
@thebookseller.com @babooksellers.bsky.social
#booksellingisnotacrime
@thebookseller.com @babooksellers.bsky.social
#booksellingisnotacrime
March 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Once again the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by the Jerusalem police, books seized, one of the owners arrested and the store closed. There was no search or arrest warrant.
@thebookseller.com @babooksellers.bsky.social
#booksellingisnotacrime
@thebookseller.com @babooksellers.bsky.social
#booksellingisnotacrime
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Bookselling in East Jerusalem these days
March 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Bookselling in East Jerusalem these days
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Book of the Day - all over the press and social media, as you would expect, that from "I'm literally a communist, you idiot" Ash Sarkar from Novara Media - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/minority-rule-adventures-in-the-culture-war/. Signed copies available.
Pay double if you are a hedge-fund spiv.
Pay double if you are a hedge-fund spiv.
March 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Book of the Day - all over the press and social media, as you would expect, that from "I'm literally a communist, you idiot" Ash Sarkar from Novara Media - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/minority-rule-adventures-in-the-culture-war/. Signed copies available.
Pay double if you are a hedge-fund spiv.
Pay double if you are a hedge-fund spiv.
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“Come and enjoy panel discussions and talks on Leicester folklore, the ethics of biofiction, gay modernism, science and screenwriting, workshops on writing the uncanny and world-building…”
This sounds brilliant. 🙌🙌
This sounds brilliant. 🙌🙌
States of Independence, wkend of 22 March 25, celebrating small publishers! I'm there with @chrisparkerwriter.bsky.social selling our @saltpublishing.com books & @meganjstaylor.bsky.social's new @bloodhoundbooks.bsky.social novel. I'm taking a workshop on the uncanny. Info: tinyurl.com/3vr4d7ua 😀
States of Independence 2025 – Leicester Centre for Creative Writing
States of Independence is an annual one-day festival that celebrates indie publishing. Now in its 15th year, States 24 will be hosted by the Leicester Centre for Creative Writing at DMU and our…
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March 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Come and enjoy panel discussions and talks on Leicester folklore, the ethics of biofiction, gay modernism, science and screenwriting, workshops on writing the uncanny and world-building…”
This sounds brilliant. 🙌🙌
This sounds brilliant. 🙌🙌
WORD FACTORY SHORT STORY CLUB: George Saunders with Giselle Leeb
I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories
I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories
WORD FACTORY SHORT STORY CLUB: George Saunders with Giselle Leeb
An evening of discussion about Saunders' futuristic story, Jon
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
WORD FACTORY SHORT STORY CLUB: George Saunders with Giselle Leeb
I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories
I'll be discussing one of my favourite short stories.Online event. If you can't make it, you can read the story on the New Yorker site. @wordfactoryuk.bsky.social 😀#shortstories