Graham Mort
@grahammort.bsky.social
Poet, short fiction writer, essayist, writer BBC drama. Emeritus Prof Lancaster University; Extraordinary Prof University Western Cape; National HE Teaching Fellow. Eric Gregory Award, Bridport & Edge Hill Prizes. Photography, blues & jazz enthusiast.
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We are delighted to welcome back Graham Mort with his #shortstory Celia, out tomorrow @grahammort.bsky.social #readingcommunity #writingcommunity.
November 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We are delighted to welcome back Graham Mort with his #shortstory Celia, out tomorrow @grahammort.bsky.social #readingcommunity #writingcommunity.
If you don’t yet know about the
@saloneurope.bsky.social
Writers Salon, you probably should. I attended their recent meeting in Brussels and the quality of readings and discussions was outstanding.
@saloneurope.bsky.social
Writers Salon, you probably should. I attended their recent meeting in Brussels and the quality of readings and discussions was outstanding.
Finding all the things we love best in Madrid
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October 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If you don’t yet know about the
@saloneurope.bsky.social
Writers Salon, you probably should. I attended their recent meeting in Brussels and the quality of readings and discussions was outstanding.
@saloneurope.bsky.social
Writers Salon, you probably should. I attended their recent meeting in Brussels and the quality of readings and discussions was outstanding.
Salt Books published my collection of short stories ‘Like Fado and other stories’ in 2020. Like a lot of independent presses their future depends on the support of writers and readers everywhere. See below for details. @saltpublishing.com 🦀 gofund.me/412e1a4a1
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October 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Salt Books published my collection of short stories ‘Like Fado and other stories’ in 2020. Like a lot of independent presses their future depends on the support of writers and readers everywhere. See below for details. @saltpublishing.com 🦀 gofund.me/412e1a4a1
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@markantonyowen.com has highlighted a typically unsentimental moment of Harrison self-awareness from this Guardian piece
'I always feel, especially in my fallow periods, that I don’t recognise this monster who finishes my work with such intensity. It’s like Rumpelstiltskin coming in and turning all the straw into gold and then going away again.'
#riptonyharrison
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#riptonyharrison
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Tony Harrison, poet and dramatist, dies aged 88
Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work in theatre, opera, film and TV but wanted to be thought of as a poet above all
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September 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
@markantonyowen.com has highlighted a typically unsentimental moment of Harrison self-awareness from this Guardian piece
Manchester Poets will be hosting my reading tomorrow evening (Sept 19th) at Chorlton Library. My reading will start just after 8.00pm after the Manchester Poets' slot. #poetry #poetryperformance
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Manchester Poets at Chorlton Library | Literature | Creative Tourist
This autumn Manchester Poets returns to its usual home of Chorlton Library, following its exile to Withington.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Manchester Poets will be hosting my reading tomorrow evening (Sept 19th) at Chorlton Library. My reading will start just after 8.00pm after the Manchester Poets' slot. #poetry #poetryperformance
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Just back from @saloneurope.bsky.social in elegant Brussels. An outstanding event encompassing workshops, performance and discussions about many aspects of writing – from finding an agent to marketing and the nature of language. Truly stimulating and highly memorable. #poetry #shortfiction #novels
September 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Just back from @saloneurope.bsky.social in elegant Brussels. An outstanding event encompassing workshops, performance and discussions about many aspects of writing – from finding an agent to marketing and the nature of language. Truly stimulating and highly memorable. #poetry #shortfiction #novels
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Did you meet @grahammort.bsky.social at #EWSBrussels2025 and think, ‘Hey this guy is ace I wish he was teaching a class’?
Well then you’re in luck!
Graham’s class will help you dive deep into your character’s minds with close third POV.
Still a few spots left!
Well then you’re in luck!
Graham’s class will help you dive deep into your character’s minds with close third POV.
Still a few spots left!
Who’s Speaking to Us and How? Prose Writing Workshop with Graham Mort
Come join us for a fun and informative online session to take a fresh look at Point of View (POV) in prose writing.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Did you meet @grahammort.bsky.social at #EWSBrussels2025 and think, ‘Hey this guy is ace I wish he was teaching a class’?
Well then you’re in luck!
Graham’s class will help you dive deep into your character’s minds with close third POV.
Still a few spots left!
Well then you’re in luck!
Graham’s class will help you dive deep into your character’s minds with close third POV.
Still a few spots left!
I’ve just finished updating my website. Check out the Blog for forthcoming events, workshops, and links to recently published work and the Featured Poem for poetry. @fictivedream.bsky.social and @saloneurope.bsky.social and more...
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September 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I’ve just finished updating my website. Check out the Blog for forthcoming events, workshops, and links to recently published work and the Featured Poem for poetry. @fictivedream.bsky.social and @saloneurope.bsky.social and more...
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I’ll be reading my poems at a gathering of Manchester Poets at Chorlton Library (UK) on the 19th of September. It’s a return home for me, so I’m looking forward to it. Drop by if you’re in town!
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Manchester Poets at Chorlton Library | Literature | Creative Tourist
This autumn Manchester Poets returns to its usual home of Chorlton Library, following its exile to Withington.
www.creativetourist.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I’ll be reading my poems at a gathering of Manchester Poets at Chorlton Library (UK) on the 19th of September. It’s a return home for me, so I’m looking forward to it. Drop by if you’re in town!
www.creativetourist.com/event/manche...
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ICYMI today we're feat. a superb #shortstory, The Nuns/The Statue by Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social #fiction #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/31/t...
August 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ICYMI today we're feat. a superb #shortstory, The Nuns/The Statue by Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social #fiction #writingcommunity. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/31/t...
Migratory birds and human conflict have always compelled me to write. Here’s a new poem of mine published in 'The North' magazine (Issue 71) by The Poetry Business, UK.
August 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Migratory birds and human conflict have always compelled me to write. Here’s a new poem of mine published in 'The North' magazine (Issue 71) by The Poetry Business, UK.
I’m offering an online creative writing workshop with @saloneurope.bsky.social on September 25th. The EWS is bringing together writers across Europe through the medium of English. See below for details of my workshop and information about the Salon.
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Who’s Speaking to Us and How? Prose Writing Workshop with Graham Mort
Come join us for a fun and informative online session to take a fresh look at Point of View (POV) in prose writing.
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August 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I’m offering an online creative writing workshop with @saloneurope.bsky.social on September 25th. The EWS is bringing together writers across Europe through the medium of English. See below for details of my workshop and information about the Salon.
bit.ly/4ovvpKc
bit.ly/4ovvpKc
I’ve gone back to analogue photography. Here’s an image of the Picos Mountains (North-West Spain) shot on my 1951 Leica. Once the world’s most advanced camera, it still works perfectly and is a joy to operate.
August 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I’ve gone back to analogue photography. Here’s an image of the Picos Mountains (North-West Spain) shot on my 1951 Leica. Once the world’s most advanced camera, it still works perfectly and is a joy to operate.
Here’s the latest issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social with my poem ‘Waveforms’ and work by an international cast of poets!
July 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Here’s the latest issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social with my poem ‘Waveforms’ and work by an international cast of poets!
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We are delighted that @grahammort.bsky.social will be teaching a Prose writing class for us online. Read all about it and other events in our newsletter
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Even more events for European writers??
Plus a new course—don't miss out!
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June 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We are delighted that @grahammort.bsky.social will be teaching a Prose writing class for us online. Read all about it and other events in our newsletter
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‘Inkfish 4’ appears today. It contains my story ‘Lepidopterists’ and much more excellent work:
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Inkfish Magazine
Recent editions of Inkfish Magazine.
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June 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
‘Inkfish 4’ appears today. It contains my story ‘Lepidopterists’ and much more excellent work:
inkfishmag.com/read/
inkfishmag.com/read/
I found this poem again by CP Cavafy yesterday. It seems so sad and irresolute and yet hopeful too. All lives are hidden and yet there is the urge to share them. Maybe that’s especially true of writers where the aesthetic form of their work is a veil that can be parted.
May 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I found this poem again by CP Cavafy yesterday. It seems so sad and irresolute and yet hopeful too. All lives are hidden and yet there is the urge to share them. Maybe that’s especially true of writers where the aesthetic form of their work is a veil that can be parted.
The new edition of Cōnfingō magazine is out and contains an eclectic range of writers!
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Cõnfingō 23 | confingo
Front cover by Evie Spicer Contributors: FictionGraham MortLivi MichaelDavid Rose PoetryIrina DumitrescuIan PopleT.E. Niemi ReviewsKatie MehersIsobel EdmondsonMatthew AdamsonFranziska GötterH.B. Waigh...
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May 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The new edition of Cōnfingō magazine is out and contains an eclectic range of writers!
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The new edition of 'Book of Matches’ (Issue 14) is here, including my short fiction ‘Water’ amongst other work from a wide array of writers.
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Issue 14 Unfurls its Petals!
There is so much satisfaction in longing. We wait through coolness for the violence of a daffodil’s yellow and wait through rain for the jonquil’s confident white. It is the moments borrowed in antici...
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May 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The new edition of 'Book of Matches’ (Issue 14) is here, including my short fiction ‘Water’ amongst other work from a wide array of writers.
www.bookofmatcheslitmag.com/post/issue-1...
www.bookofmatcheslitmag.com/post/issue-1...
Here’s my new flash fiction, A Relief Map of the World’ published by: @fictivedream.bsky.social
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A Relief Map of the World
by Graham Mort Kelly. Her very first day at work, leaning against the coffee machine in a cream coloured suit, her hair in a chignon (I had to look that up), her fingers wrapped around the coffee c…
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April 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Here’s my new flash fiction, A Relief Map of the World’ published by: @fictivedream.bsky.social
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New story - nearly here! @fictivedream.bsky.social
We're delighted to bring you A Relief Map of the World by Graham Mort, out tomorrow @grahammort.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity
April 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New story - nearly here! @fictivedream.bsky.social
I read some poems @saloneurope.bsky.social last night. What a stimulating and thoughtfully curated event. Great readings of very high standard from a broad range of writers. Highly recommended!
April 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I read some poems @saloneurope.bsky.social last night. What a stimulating and thoughtfully curated event. Great readings of very high standard from a broad range of writers. Highly recommended!
I’m really looking forward to this reading @saloneurope.bsky.social
🎤 Our next reader at our online salon is @grahammort.bsky.social 🎤
Graham is emeritus professor at Lancaster University (UK) and an extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa).
Graham is emeritus professor at Lancaster University (UK) and an extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa).
April 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I’m really looking forward to this reading @saloneurope.bsky.social
My new flash fiction, ‘Latent’, published in Flash Fiction Magazine and set in Italy where the past haunts the present.
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March 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
My new flash fiction, ‘Latent’, published in Flash Fiction Magazine and set in Italy where the past haunts the present.
flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/03...
flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/03...
My letter to The Guardian newspaper joins the debate around AI generated creative writing.
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For great stories, we need people, not AI | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to a piece by the author Jeanette Winterson in which she praises OpenAI’s metafictional short story
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March 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
My letter to The Guardian newspaper joins the debate around AI generated creative writing.
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