Stu Hennigan
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 12.02.26)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 12.02.26)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
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Stu Hennigan
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
· Aug 4
A pinned thread about my new novel, Keshed, publishing on 12th Feb 2026 with @ortacpress.bsky.social. Pre-orders available now from all the usual bookshops/websites. See thread for some early pre-press takes from some AMAZING writers and links to other stuff.
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This'll be an entertaining, enriching and life-affirming evening cos Robin's shows always are, and for a great cause too 👌
This SUNDAY - COLCHESTER!!
A solo show for @samaritans.bsky.social
Tickets here
www.redlionbooks.co.uk/product/poet...
Tell your friends
A solo show for @samaritans.bsky.social
Tickets here
www.redlionbooks.co.uk/product/poet...
Tell your friends
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This'll be an entertaining, enriching and life-affirming evening cos Robin's shows always are, and for a great cause too 👌
4 hour graveyard shift in The Lair upon my return, been a top night but wired to fuck w/synaptic cracklings related to MS obsession and altogether too much caffeine. Fear sleep may be elusive, so thank fuck for the #cricket. Time to light the fire 💥
She's not on here but i've been out for a curry with Naomi Booth tonight. As lovely a lass as you could ever meet, one of my best friends and one of my very favourite writers.
#Booksky Raw Content is one of the very best novels of 2025. Get on it!
.
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi...
#Booksky Raw Content is one of the very best novels of 2025. Get on it!
.
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi...
raw content
'raw content is a work of dark, aching beauty' Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal
'A stunning mix of horror and tenderness, love and despair. It's rare ...
www.hachette.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
4 hour graveyard shift in The Lair upon my return, been a top night but wired to fuck w/synaptic cracklings related to MS obsession and altogether too much caffeine. Fear sleep may be elusive, so thank fuck for the #cricket. Time to light the fire 💥
"A brooding and bruising psychodrama about the anxieties of 21st century motherhood, that links the primal potency of the female body with the northern landscape’s elemental power" according to Stu Hennigan on the website + back cover 💯💯💯💯💯
She's not on here but i've been out for a curry with Naomi Booth tonight. As lovely a lass as you could ever meet, one of my best friends and one of my very favourite writers.
#Booksky Raw Content is one of the very best novels of 2025. Get on it!
.
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi...
#Booksky Raw Content is one of the very best novels of 2025. Get on it!
.
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi...
raw content
'raw content is a work of dark, aching beauty' Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal
'A stunning mix of horror and tenderness, love and despair. It's rare ...
www.hachette.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
"A brooding and bruising psychodrama about the anxieties of 21st century motherhood, that links the primal potency of the female body with the northern landscape’s elemental power" according to Stu Hennigan on the website + back cover 💯💯💯💯💯
She's not on here but i've been out for a curry with Naomi Booth tonight. As lovely a lass as you could ever meet, one of my best friends and one of my very favourite writers.
#Booksky Raw Content is one of the very best novels of 2025. Get on it!
.
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi...
#Booksky Raw Content is one of the very best novels of 2025. Get on it!
.
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi...
raw content
'raw content is a work of dark, aching beauty' Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal
'A stunning mix of horror and tenderness, love and despair. It's rare ...
www.hachette.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
She's not on here but i've been out for a curry with Naomi Booth tonight. As lovely a lass as you could ever meet, one of my best friends and one of my very favourite writers.
#Booksky Raw Content is one of the very best novels of 2025. Get on it!
.
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi...
#Booksky Raw Content is one of the very best novels of 2025. Get on it!
.
www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi...
In the last 24 hours I've heard about an amazing publisher who've just taken a massive hit in funding, and a local arts org/venue/community group in Leeds who've been doing amazing work forever who've lost 40% of their funding and half of their small team of core staff, all of which is related.
Tories want putting against a wall. Never forget Cameron and that poisonous cunt Osborne started all this, they can't be let off cos of the succession of shitshows that followed. Buckets of blood on countless money-grubbing hands.
The outgoing chief exec Tom Riordan said a couple of years ago, "councils are no longer sufficiently funded to provide the services expected of them."
Diabolical genius of austerity is a lot of folk don't know how LA's are funded so it's councils who are see as the bad guys when services disappear.
Diabolical genius of austerity is a lot of folk don't know how LA's are funded so it's councils who are see as the bad guys when services disappear.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
In the last 24 hours I've heard about an amazing publisher who've just taken a massive hit in funding, and a local arts org/venue/community group in Leeds who've been doing amazing work forever who've lost 40% of their funding and half of their small team of core staff, all of which is related.
Can't wait to get mine. Nice early Christmas present for some folk on here, who know who they are 💘💘💘💘💘
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Can't wait to get mine. Nice early Christmas present for some folk on here, who know who they are 💘💘💘💘💘
Got home from band practice at 11 and got a 3 hr writing shift in 🤘💪
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Got home from band practice at 11 and got a 3 hr writing shift in 🤘💪
Don't think i've ever seen Crawley out playing a massive drive before 😱
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Don't think i've ever seen Crawley out playing a massive drive before 😱
The Roses soundtracked some of the maddest years of my life, so many amazing memories that can't be separated from those tunes. Don't normally feel stuff like this but fucking gutted to hear about Mani today.
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Roses soundtracked some of the maddest years of my life, so many amazing memories that can't be separated from those tunes. Don't normally feel stuff like this but fucking gutted to hear about Mani today.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Trans rights are human rights and if you think otherwise you can fuck off, cos i don't wanna know ya.
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈💜💜💜💜
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈💜💜💜💜
Well said @stuhennigan.bsky.social. @robinince.bsky.social your work is a shining light and really helps people, not many can say that
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Trans rights are human rights and if you think otherwise you can fuck off, cos i don't wanna know ya.
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈💜💜💜💜
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Go-Go's/Belinda Carlisle too. Here's a vid not listed public on my YT cos it's far from perfect and next to impossible to sing if you're not a proper vocalist with actual skill, power and range but i fucking love this song and i'm determined to nail it one day 🤘🤣
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib_...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib_...
Summer Rain (incomplete rehearsal)
YouTube video by Stu Hennigan
m.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Reposted by Stu Hennigan
On #TransDayofRemembrance, I want to honour the memory of every single trans person hurt by a monster and every single trans person who felt they couldn’t live in a world full of monsters.
If you don’t want trans people to exist, get help. Fix your heart.
It’s you. Not them.
💕
If you don’t want trans people to exist, get help. Fix your heart.
It’s you. Not them.
💕
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
On #TransDayofRemembrance, I want to honour the memory of every single trans person hurt by a monster and every single trans person who felt they couldn’t live in a world full of monsters.
If you don’t want trans people to exist, get help. Fix your heart.
It’s you. Not them.
💕
If you don’t want trans people to exist, get help. Fix your heart.
It’s you. Not them.
💕
Noticed the last coupla years it feels like in about 90% of my personal relationships the energy only ever flows in one direction I do my best not to let it bother me when things are hectic for everyone but the more i think about it, the more i realise it properly bums me out.
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Noticed the last coupla years it feels like in about 90% of my personal relationships the energy only ever flows in one direction I do my best not to let it bother me when things are hectic for everyone but the more i think about it, the more i realise it properly bums me out.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 excellent book.
Today is Trans+ Day of Remembrance.
In her book 'Before Gender', author & activist @elierlick.bsky.social shed light on the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.
Available now from all good bookshops. #booksky
In her book 'Before Gender', author & activist @elierlick.bsky.social shed light on the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history.
Available now from all good bookshops. #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 excellent book.
But imagine heading a party elected with a gigantic mandate to DO something to change all this, and instead refusing to take measures to reduce child poverty to score political points while mithering on about refugees and single sex bogs. Every bit as despicable as the cunts who preceded them.
Tories want putting against a wall. Never forget Cameron and that poisonous cunt Osborne started all this, they can't be let off cos of the succession of shitshows that followed. Buckets of blood on countless money-grubbing hands.
The outgoing chief exec Tom Riordan said a couple of years ago, "councils are no longer sufficiently funded to provide the services expected of them."
Diabolical genius of austerity is a lot of folk don't know how LA's are funded so it's councils who are see as the bad guys when services disappear.
Diabolical genius of austerity is a lot of folk don't know how LA's are funded so it's councils who are see as the bad guys when services disappear.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
But imagine heading a party elected with a gigantic mandate to DO something to change all this, and instead refusing to take measures to reduce child poverty to score political points while mithering on about refugees and single sex bogs. Every bit as despicable as the cunts who preceded them.
Tories want putting against a wall. Never forget Cameron and that poisonous cunt Osborne started all this, they can't be let off cos of the succession of shitshows that followed. Buckets of blood on countless money-grubbing hands.
The outgoing chief exec Tom Riordan said a couple of years ago, "councils are no longer sufficiently funded to provide the services expected of them."
Diabolical genius of austerity is a lot of folk don't know how LA's are funded so it's councils who are see as the bad guys when services disappear.
Diabolical genius of austerity is a lot of folk don't know how LA's are funded so it's councils who are see as the bad guys when services disappear.
I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk at the start of last year that 2025/6/7 was going to be a bloodbath for what's left of the UK's public services. LCC is one of the more financially responsible authorities in the UK so if it's this bad here christ knows how it is everywhere else.
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Tories want putting against a wall. Never forget Cameron and that poisonous cunt Osborne started all this, they can't be let off cos of the succession of shitshows that followed. Buckets of blood on countless money-grubbing hands.
The outgoing chief exec Tom Riordan said a couple of years ago, "councils are no longer sufficiently funded to provide the services expected of them."
Diabolical genius of austerity is a lot of folk don't know how LA's are funded so it's councils who are see as the bad guys when services disappear.
Diabolical genius of austerity is a lot of folk don't know how LA's are funded so it's councils who are see as the bad guys when services disappear.
I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk at the start of last year that 2025/6/7 was going to be a bloodbath for what's left of the UK's public services. LCC is one of the more financially responsible authorities in the UK so if it's this bad here christ knows how it is everywhere else.
“since the start of 2010 the authority had seen reductions equating to a real terms decrease in funding of £465.9m - 70% of its overall budget”
and people are wondering why the UK is “broken”
it’s not “boats” it’s austerity
“Leeds City Council plans £101m of savings”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
and people are wondering why the UK is “broken”
it’s not “boats” it’s austerity
“Leeds City Council plans £101m of savings”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The outgoing chief exec Tom Riordan said a couple of years ago, "councils are no longer sufficiently funded to provide the services expected of them."
Diabolical genius of austerity is a lot of folk don't know how LA's are funded so it's councils who are see as the bad guys when services disappear.
Diabolical genius of austerity is a lot of folk don't know how LA's are funded so it's councils who are see as the bad guys when services disappear.
I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk at the start of last year that 2025/6/7 was going to be a bloodbath for what's left of the UK's public services. LCC is one of the more financially responsible authorities in the UK so if it's this bad here christ knows how it is everywhere else.
“since the start of 2010 the authority had seen reductions equating to a real terms decrease in funding of £465.9m - 70% of its overall budget”
and people are wondering why the UK is “broken”
it’s not “boats” it’s austerity
“Leeds City Council plans £101m of savings”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
and people are wondering why the UK is “broken”
it’s not “boats” it’s austerity
“Leeds City Council plans £101m of savings”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Leeds City Council plans £101m of savings
The council plans to publish its budget proposals, including how savings will be made, in December.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk at the start of last year that 2025/6/7 was going to be a bloodbath for what's left of the UK's public services. LCC is one of the more financially responsible authorities in the UK so if it's this bad here christ knows how it is everywhere else.
Best post i've seen for ages 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Best post i've seen for ages 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Reposted by Stu Hennigan
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
My grandmother, bless her drunken soul, liked to welcome family to the Thanksgiving gathering with wise words:
"You can't soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys."
She followed it with making heavy eye contact with all in attendance.
"You can't soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys."
She followed it with making heavy eye contact with all in attendance.
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
First reading of 2026 for me 👀👀👀👀
Join us for a night of literature and community with our free quarterly Online Open Mic Salon with host @kiklodge.bsky.social.
As usual, it will feature excellent readings and a highly competitive quiz.
Reading spots are limited, so sign up soon!
As usual, it will feature excellent readings and a highly competitive quiz.
Reading spots are limited, so sign up soon!
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
First reading of 2026 for me 👀👀👀👀
Totally endorse, it's fucking awesome.
Rebecca Tamás' collection 'Witch' is one I just cannot stop coming back to. Highly recommend it.
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Totally endorse, it's fucking awesome.
@dantjenks.bsky.social i may be mistaking the name so apols if so but think this might be one for you?
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
@dantjenks.bsky.social i may be mistaking the name so apols if so but think this might be one for you?