Richie Jones
@richiejones.bsky.social
Writer, reader. Scouse-Irish.
Recent fiction and non-fiction in The London Magazine, HOWL New Irish Writing. Runner-up in the Desperate Literature Prize 2024 and shortlisted for The London Magazine Short Story Prize and the Bridport Prize.
Recent fiction and non-fiction in The London Magazine, HOWL New Irish Writing. Runner-up in the Desperate Literature Prize 2024 and shortlisted for The London Magazine Short Story Prize and the Bridport Prize.
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Richie Jones
@richiejones.bsky.social
· Dec 2
Current Issue - The London Magazine
Buy the newest edition of The London Magazine here. You can read samples from each issue on our online archive, and read an exclusive sneak peak here.
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Latest issue of The London Magazine out now, featuring my essay ‘Rough Comforts’: Jack Reacher, literary comfort and why headbutts are best left to the fictional professionals. Thanks to Jamie Cameron and the team - excited to read the issue!
Glad to see my essay online @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social - about the warm bath that is a Reacher novel…
'Twenty-nine Jack Reacher novels and counting. What does it say about me that I have read them all?'
From our sold-out December/January 2025 issue,
@richiejones.bsky.social examines the enduring appeal of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series.
Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
From our sold-out December/January 2025 issue,
@richiejones.bsky.social examines the enduring appeal of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series.
Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
Essay | Rough Comforts by Richie Jones - The London Magazine
From our December/January 2025 issue, Richie Jones examines the enduring success and appeal of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series.
thelondonmagazine.org
May 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Glad to see my essay online @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social - about the warm bath that is a Reacher novel…
Latest issue of The London Magazine out now, featuring my essay ‘Rough Comforts’: Jack Reacher, literary comfort and why headbutts are best left to the fictional professionals. Thanks to Jamie Cameron and the team - excited to read the issue!
Current Issue - The London Magazine
Buy the newest edition of The London Magazine here. You can read samples from each issue on our online archive, and read an exclusive sneak peak here.
thelondonmagazine.org
December 2, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Latest issue of The London Magazine out now, featuring my essay ‘Rough Comforts’: Jack Reacher, literary comfort and why headbutts are best left to the fictional professionals. Thanks to Jamie Cameron and the team - excited to read the issue!
Haven’t played anyone yet.
December 1, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Haven’t played anyone yet.
Haven’t played anyone yet.
November 27, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Haven’t played anyone yet.
New issue of The London Magazine now available to pre-order. Among many other delights, my essay on Jack Reacher, literary comfort and headbutt technique…
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Single Issues - The London Magazine
Buy the latest issue of The London Magazine, pre-order our next or enjoy copies dating back to 2010. You can read samples from each issue online.
thelondonmagazine.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:46 PM
New issue of The London Magazine now available to pre-order. Among many other delights, my essay on Jack Reacher, literary comfort and headbutt technique…
thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...
thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...
Reposted by Richie Jones
Starter pack del día: Working-Class Literature.
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November 23, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Starter pack del día: Working-Class Literature.
go.bsky.app/UQVX5Lb
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Reposted by Richie Jones
Hi flash fiction and short story bluesky folks! Here's a starter pack of writers of flash fiction and short fiction, editors, magazines & competitions.
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go.bsky.app/4Rd8hDS
November 23, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Hi flash fiction and short story bluesky folks! Here's a starter pack of writers of flash fiction and short fiction, editors, magazines & competitions.
go.bsky.app/4Rd8hDS
go.bsky.app/4Rd8hDS
Must be satisfying to a hardcore ironist to win an award you throughly rinsed in one of your best known works.
Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize
Percival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US’s most prestigious literary prizes, for James, his acclaimed reimagining of…
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November 22, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Must be satisfying to a hardcore ironist to win an award you throughly rinsed in one of your best known works.
Ecstatic that my story ‘Death Rituals’ has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award for Short Fiction. Huge thanks to the judges, and congratulations to my fellow shortlisters!
November 20, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Ecstatic that my story ‘Death Rituals’ has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award for Short Fiction. Huge thanks to the judges, and congratulations to my fellow shortlisters!
Reposted by Richie Jones
Starter pack for #literaryfiction writers to find each other! Comment/repost and I'll add you go.bsky.app/ARue8c8
#literaryfiction #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors 💙📚
#literaryfiction #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors 💙📚
November 18, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Starter pack for #literaryfiction writers to find each other! Comment/repost and I'll add you go.bsky.app/ARue8c8
#literaryfiction #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors 💙📚
#literaryfiction #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors 💙📚
Reposted by Richie Jones
this flash & short fiction writers starter pack filled up incredibly quickly (150 is the max, and I guess there are a lot of us). Anyway share if you're into short and flash fiction!
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go.bsky.app/53R6ziA
November 15, 2024 at 2:40 AM
this flash & short fiction writers starter pack filled up incredibly quickly (150 is the max, and I guess there are a lot of us). Anyway share if you're into short and flash fiction!
go.bsky.app/53R6ziA
go.bsky.app/53R6ziA
Reposted by Richie Jones
Here's the beginnings of a starter pack of people working on, working in, thinking about, working-class literature. Writers and critics and allies and groups - please send me more names of accounts on Bluesky & I'll add them of course.
go.bsky.app/UQVX5Lb
go.bsky.app/UQVX5Lb
November 16, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Here's the beginnings of a starter pack of people working on, working in, thinking about, working-class literature. Writers and critics and allies and groups - please send me more names of accounts on Bluesky & I'll add them of course.
go.bsky.app/UQVX5Lb
go.bsky.app/UQVX5Lb
By way of introduction - a story shortlisted for the @scratchbooks.bsky.social A4 spring event, adapted from my novel, People from Good Homes
Curriculum Vitae | Scratch Books
www.scratch-books.co.uk
November 14, 2024 at 1:14 PM
By way of introduction - a story shortlisted for the @scratchbooks.bsky.social A4 spring event, adapted from my novel, People from Good Homes
Really happy to be shortlisted for the Short Story Prize - congratulations to the winners!
We recently announced our Flash Fiction, Short Story, Poetry and Novel results!
Head to bridportprize.org.uk/results/ to meet our 2024 winners. 🏆
Congratulations to all! 🎉
Huge thanks to our judges, partners and everyone who entered and trusted us with their words. 🤍
Competition re-opens 15 Nov
Head to bridportprize.org.uk/results/ to meet our 2024 winners. 🏆
Congratulations to all! 🎉
Huge thanks to our judges, partners and everyone who entered and trusted us with their words. 🤍
Competition re-opens 15 Nov
November 14, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Really happy to be shortlisted for the Short Story Prize - congratulations to the winners!