Paul Tucker
@paultucker.bsky.social
Fiction.
Brixton Review of Books; The London Magazine; La Piccioletta Barca; Action, Spectacle
Cúirt Festival Prize runner-up
Writers & Artists Prize shortlisted
Desperate Literature Prize longlisted
MA Prose Fiction at UEA.
🎸 in Thee Alcoholics
Brixton Review of Books; The London Magazine; La Piccioletta Barca; Action, Spectacle
Cúirt Festival Prize runner-up
Writers & Artists Prize shortlisted
Desperate Literature Prize longlisted
MA Prose Fiction at UEA.
🎸 in Thee Alcoholics
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Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
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There it is. As was long known, but there it is.
BREAKING: Israeli ministers agree on plan to capture all of Gaza and remain there for an unspecified amount of time, two officials say.
Israel approves plans to intensify Gaza operations, official says
An Israeli official says Cabinet ministers have approved plans to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip.
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May 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
There it is. As was long known, but there it is.
My story 'Making Things Real Again' has been published in excellent US journal Action, Spectacle, guest edited by Ella Frears 🗯️
www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-...
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April 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My story 'Making Things Real Again' has been published in excellent US journal Action, Spectacle, guest edited by Ella Frears 🗯️
www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-...
www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-...
This is such a cool archive - over 10,000 rights-free artworks spanning over 2,000 years, all free to download. Train your human intelligence, expand your human creativity!
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April 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is such a cool archive - over 10,000 rights-free artworks spanning over 2,000 years, all free to download. Train your human intelligence, expand your human creativity!
@pdimagearchive.bsky.social
pdimagearchive.org/galleries/al...
@pdimagearchive.bsky.social
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Really chuffed to have made it to the final six of the Writers & Artists Prize!
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SHORTLIST: Writers' & Artists' Short Story Competition 2025 | Writers & Artists
Our 2025 Writers' and Artists' Short Story Competition shortlist is officially out!
www.writersandartists.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Really chuffed to have made it to the final six of the Writers & Artists Prize!
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I'm very pleased to be on the longlist for the Writers & Artists prize! www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/longl...
LONGLIST: Writers' & Artists' Short Story Competition 2025 | Writers & Artists
Our 2025 Writers' and Artists' Short Story Competition longlist is officially out!
www.writersandartists.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm very pleased to be on the longlist for the Writers & Artists prize! www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/longl...
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Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
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March 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Fellow authors! The @societyofauthors.bsky.social has issued a statement about Meta’s theft of copyrighted books to train its AI. societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
Extremely grateful to make it onto the Highly Commended list in the Cúirt Festival (@cuirtfestival.bsky.social) New Writing Prize, judged by Wendy Erskine (@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social). 📝
March 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Extremely grateful to make it onto the Highly Commended list in the Cúirt Festival (@cuirtfestival.bsky.social) New Writing Prize, judged by Wendy Erskine (@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social). 📝
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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
My story 'Witnesses' has been published by La Piccioletta Barca. It's loosely about land and movement and home. It's also based on an excellent Jock McFadyen painting, Pink Flats.
www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/www-pi...
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La Piccioletta Barca | Witnesses - by Paul Tucker
The following is adapted from transcripts of sub-frequency audio recordings that you’ll remember...
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September 28, 2024 at 9:59 AM
My story 'Witnesses' has been published by La Piccioletta Barca. It's loosely about land and movement and home. It's also based on an excellent Jock McFadyen painting, Pink Flats.
www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/www-pi...
www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/www-pi...
Better late than never - I've just realised my story 'Making things real again' made the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize longlist a few weeks ago. 🥰
July 2, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Better late than never - I've just realised my story 'Making things real again' made the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize longlist a few weeks ago. 🥰
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“I… want to remind you that (fortunately for precarious writers like myself), you are not Literature. Your money is not Literature. S. Fischer is not Literature. Germany is not Literature. And we, the writers, will remember.”
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Read novelist Lana Bastašić’s blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship.
It is my political and human opinion that children should not be slaughtered and that German cultural institutions should know better when it comes to genocide. –Lana Bastašić Last month, th…
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January 31, 2024 at 10:47 AM
“I… want to remind you that (fortunately for precarious writers like myself), you are not Literature. Your money is not Literature. S. Fischer is not Literature. Germany is not Literature. And we, the writers, will remember.”
lithub.com/read-novelis...
lithub.com/read-novelis...
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On 14th Feb Burley Fisher Books is teaming up with a load of other indies to raise money for PEN Emergency Fund for Writers at Risk, a fund to help writers get out of Gaza, more info below:
www.gofundme.com/f/valentines...
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January 29, 2024 at 2:39 PM
On 14th Feb Burley Fisher Books is teaming up with a load of other indies to raise money for PEN Emergency Fund for Writers at Risk, a fund to help writers get out of Gaza, more info below:
www.gofundme.com/f/valentines...
www.gofundme.com/f/valentines...
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Today, we remember the journalists, poets, artists killed by Israel in Gaza in the last one hundred days
January 18, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Today, we remember the journalists, poets, artists killed by Israel in Gaza in the last one hundred days
This is an incredible piece of fiction from K-Ming Chang in Guernica. I don't know how you write like this. t.co/MOWlK8ezLi
January 16, 2024 at 10:46 PM
This is an incredible piece of fiction from K-Ming Chang in Guernica. I don't know how you write like this. t.co/MOWlK8ezLi
I love this from Teju Cole. Part of the reason fiction (and cinema) connect is that his bridge analogy is how life works as well. Keep building bridges!
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/b...
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December 19, 2023 at 12:57 PM
I love this from Teju Cole. Part of the reason fiction (and cinema) connect is that his bridge analogy is how life works as well. Keep building bridges!
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/b...
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/b...
@tomlake1.bsky.social just realised it was you who followed me. Hey man!
December 18, 2023 at 1:14 PM
@tomlake1.bsky.social just realised it was you who followed me. Hey man!
Is there a good place to find out about writing retreats/residencies in the UK and abroad? I'd like to apply for something lasting 1-2 weeks in the summer, but I'm not sure where to start.
December 18, 2023 at 1:13 PM
Is there a good place to find out about writing retreats/residencies in the UK and abroad? I'd like to apply for something lasting 1-2 weeks in the summer, but I'm not sure where to start.
My always excellent, always friendly local bookshop (/institution) Kirkdale Books was burgled a couple of days ago. Please consider them for upcoming purchases: kirkdalebookshop.com/order-online/
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December 18, 2023 at 1:09 PM
My always excellent, always friendly local bookshop (/institution) Kirkdale Books was burgled a couple of days ago. Please consider them for upcoming purchases: kirkdalebookshop.com/order-online/
Teju Cole's writing is so good at undercutting realities in a barely perceivable way. In Tremors, of the 31 pgs I've read, it's all third person, except for a run of four paras where he shifts to addressing "you", as a character involved in the story, then shifts back without revealing anything.
October 30, 2023 at 10:32 PM
Teju Cole's writing is so good at undercutting realities in a barely perceivable way. In Tremors, of the 31 pgs I've read, it's all third person, except for a run of four paras where he shifts to addressing "you", as a character involved in the story, then shifts back without revealing anything.