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Writers write, actors read. Top 10 Story Night (@TheGuardian.com) Account run by LL Director Katy Darby.

Christmas Event: BLESSED & CURSED, Tue 9 Dec @7.30pm (doors at 6.30) at The Phoenix W1 - Tickets ONLY £5 at: http://liarsleague.com
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🎄Meet the #BLESSEDandCURSED Talent 5: actor Clareine Cronin reads author @rhystimson.bsky.social's cautionary tale of a #Scrooge-like subeditor "The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect" TOMORROW, Tue 9 Dec at The Phoenix W1 🎄
🎟️ Tickets £5! Email liars@liarsleague.com 🎟️
🎄All info: www.liarsleague.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Meet the #BLESSEDandCURSED #ChristmasStory Talent 4: Actor @alexwoodhall.bsky.social makes a triumphant return to the #LiarsLeague reading Quintin Forrest's tale of (alternate) #PrinceHarry's traumatic festivities THIS Tue 9 Dec at The Phoenix. 🎟️Tickets £5 🎟️ Email liars@liarsleague.com to reserve! 🎟️
December 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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🎄Meet the #BlessedAndCursed Talent 3! Introducing author Alex Edwards & actor David Mildon, who reads a tale of an opium-mad Victorian sailor & a cursed jewel this Tue 9 Dec at The Phoenix for our Xmas special! Host: @liamjhogan.bsky.social

🎟️Tickets only £5! Email liars@liarsleague.com to reserve🎟️
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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🎄Meet the Talent!🎄Hi to author
@hannahdownes.bsky.social
& HAPPY BIRTHDAY to actress Aïsha Kent, reading Hannah's story PRECIOUS CARGO next Tue 9 Dec for Xmas show👼#BlessedAndCursed at The Phoenix.

🎟️TICKETS ONLY £5! Email liars@liarsleague.com to snap up your spot
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December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Meet the #BlessedAndCursed talent #1: LL debutante @amy-c-author.bsky.social & veteran actor Silas Hawkins reading her black-magic tale A CREATURE STIRS (hint in pic 1) next Tue 9 Dec at @ThePhoenix_W1

🎟️Tickets £5, link below or email liars@liarsleague.com to book.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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👻It's a fine tradition to read ghost stories in winter, but why not rest your eyes instead & listen to #HauntedAndHunted, our latest podcast feat. @carriecohen01.bsky.social @timlarkfield.bsky.social @timaldrich.bsky.social @davemcgrath.bsky.social You're welcome🎅

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December 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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🔔CAST ANNOUNCED for #BlessedAndCursed Tue 9 Dec!

• David Mildon: Victorian opium-fiend
• Aisha Kent: @hannahdownes.bsky.social's Precious Cargo
• Clareine Cronin: @rhystimson.bsky.social's subeditor
• Silas Hawkins: @amy-c-author.bsky.social's sorcerer
& @alexcuddles.bsky.social: Prince Harry! 🎄
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#BlessedAndCursed SHORTLIST & LONGLIST revealed! Is your story in there? 📚
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Shortlisted authors will receive brief feedback on their submitted story within 4 weeks, PLUS
🎟️ a free ticket to the show on Tue 9 Dec at @thephoenix_w1
🥂 a drink on us - cos it’s Christmas!
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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WINNING STORIES ANNOUNCED! Check out our next event, the festively #BlessedAndCursed #ChristmasStory special on Tuesday 9th December at our usual venue of The Phoenix, W1
🎟️TICKETS £5
🥟FREE MINCE PIES
Congrats @hannahdownes.bsky.social @rhystimson.bsky.social & more!

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November 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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#BlessedAndCursed #Christmasstories #submissionDeadline TONIGHT!

Send your 800-2000 word story to liars@liarsleague.com by 11.59pm UK time on Sun 2 Nov.

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#CallForSubmissions #FeeFreeSubmissions #XmasStories #WinterStories #FlashFiction #ShortStories
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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HAPPY #HALLOWEEN! Your treat is 5 #HauntedAndHunted short stories: possessed doorbells, Russian skinwalkers, Polar terror, Irish mammies & the hi-tech home from Hell liarsleague.com/category/hau...

Writer? SUBMIT to our Xmas theme #BlessedAndCursed, by THIS SUN 2 NOV: info at www.liarsleague.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Meet the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED Halloween Talent 4: David Klotzkin & Lin Sagovsky, who reads THE BEAR-SKIN, David's Russia-set story of a cowardly Russian Count, his downtrodden wife, and the bear(skin) that comes between them TONIGHT, Tue 14 Oc at @thephoenix_w1

£5 TIX: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Meet the #HAUNTEDANDhunted #Halloween Talent 3!
Kate Griffiths-Lambeth's INTEGRATED is read by Gloria Sanders TOMORROW, Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix, W1

Leo & Clara's futuristic home is the perfect servant - till it starts to take control ...

Info & £5 tickets here: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Meet the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED #Halloween #Shortstories Talent 2: Katty Pearce's Victorian #ArcticHorror MAGNITUDE is read by @timlarkfield.bsky.social this Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix, W1.

"The ice is full of horrors ... God help you if you find ..."

More info & £5 tix: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...
October 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Meet the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED #Halloween Talent 1! LL debutante author Lily Mac's techno-terror tale THE KEY is read by @carriecohen01.bsky.social Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix W1

*When your smart doorbell senses motion, but nobody's there - DON'T go out to look*

£5 TIX: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...
October 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🎃We're thrilled & chilled to reveal the ghastly CAST, sinister SHORTLIST & loathsome LONGLIST for #HAUNTEDandHUNTED, our #Halloween spookstravaganza (not a word/now a word) THIS Tue 14 Oct @The Phoenix, W1 🎃
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Hurrah @timlarkfield.bsky.social @carriecohen01.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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More info & £5 tickets here:
liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/nex…

NB the event page isn’t yet updated to include INTEGRATED but we SWEAR we’re gonna read it

NB2 @DaveMcgrath1’s story is actually called “So I take the bus up to Drogheda” but who can fit that in a post?!

🎉CONGRATS ALL!!!🎃
October 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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🥁DRUMROLL PLEASE!🥁

The WINNING STORIES

for the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED #Halloween SPECIAL

Next Tue Oct 14

at The Phoenix

are:

MAGNITUDE- Katty Pearce
DROGHEDA- David McGrath
THE KEY- Lily Mac
THE BEAR-SKIN- David Klotzkin
INTEGRATED- Kate Griffiths-Lambeth

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October 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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LL UPDATE: Our terrified judges are hiding behind the sofa reading stories for our next event, #HauntedAndHunted, on Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix, W1.

We'll announce the winning stories, longlist & shortlist next week on our BRAND NEW WORDPRESS WEBSITE & can't wait to scare your pants off!
September 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Last story from our #JaneAusten show & LAST CALL for our #HAUNTEDandHUNTED theme: 800-2000w, deadline 11.59pm UK time TONIGHT Sun 7 Sep! www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Need inspiration? Aïsha Kent reads SHOTS & SHAMELESSNESS by @donnatracywriter.bsky.social www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...
September 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Friday's #JaneAusten inspired fiction is the awardwinning
@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social reading Lauren Van Schaik's snappy satire ABDUCTIONS & ADAPTATIONS liarsleague.co.uk/2025/08/25/a...
PLUS our #HAUNTEDandHUNTED theme deadline is THIS SUN 7 Sep: submit here liarsleague.co.uk/2008/04/03/f...
September 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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More #JaneAusten inspired goodness! Lucy Mabbitt reads @hannahahahah.bsky.social TO KEEP YOU AS MY OWN: desire vs duty in Georgian England.
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PLUS submissions for our next theme #HAUNTEDandHUNTED close next Sun 7th Sep: submit here
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August 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Another #JaneAusten inspired story is up! @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social's DICTIONARY OF DAYS, read by @margaretashleyvo.bsky.social
www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

ALSO subs for our next theme, #HAUNTEDandHUNTED, close next Sunday 7th September - submit here:
www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...
August 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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READERS REJOICE!
SHOTS & SHAMELESSNESS by @donnatracywriter.bsky.social read by Aisha Kent at our #JaneAusten special is online here:
www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

WRITERS WRESPOND!
Subs for next theme, HAUNTED & HUNTED, close next Sun 7 Sep - more here:
www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...
August 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM