Earlier this summer I had a wonderfully thoughtful & wide-ranging conversation with Jessica Andrews & Jack Young at Storysmith for their podcast Tender Buttons Podcast. A privilege to be read so intelligently & interviewed with such curiosity. Listen now at the link below 🌀💚🌋

Listened to our episode with Octavia Bright yet? We chat active listening, Louise Bourgeois & spirals, Eliot & Margate, the importance of symbols and/or images in life writing & much more 🌀 🌋 Canongate (has left) Storysmith Listen here: buff.ly/47RiXfi

Excited to announce our new patreon for Tender Buttons Podcast , want to submit qs to upcoming guests including Eliza Clark, Nathalie Olah, Sheila Heiti, Marianne Brooker, Noreen Masuud? Want early episode access? Free merch? Book giveaways? Sign up here: patreon.com/tenderbuttons

We now have a Tender Buttons Podcast Patreon subscription! Sign up for loads of good stuff & to support our work📚

Checked out our new patreon yet? 👇 Free merch, books, ask questions to our guests, discounts + more Storysmith buff.ly/3sPgVwg This season you can expect: Sheila Heiti, Eliza Clark, Nathalie Olah, Noreen Masuud, Marianne Brooker & more. WE ARE EXCITED 🎧 🔥

Loved chatting to Eliza Clark (Eliza Clark (mostly offline) ) about true crime, the internet, toxic media, Brexit shadows in fiction, difficult female characters and so much more. Check out here! 👇🎧 bit.ly/45Z5UXY

Listened to our new episode with Eliza Clark yet? 🎧 we chat about violence & transgression in fiction, true crime, the internet, writing difficult female characters & more Faber Books Storysmith (1/2)👇 🔥 buff.ly/3PXbnJ6

We chatted to Eliza Clark about transgression in fiction, true crime & the internet; regional inequality, how mainstream & social media shapes narratives about people & places; writing difficult female characters & more Faber Books Storysmith buff.ly/3PXbnJ6

Checked out our episode with Eliza Clark yet? We chat violence and true crime, regional inequality, Brexit, the internet, writing difficult female characters & more Faber Books Storysmith 👇 🎧 buff.ly/3PXbnJ6

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Honoured to have my eerie short story of grief, graveyards and ghost plants in the new issue of @lunatejournal , amongst very fine company indeed. Limited edition, pre-orders below (very few left apparently!): lunate.co.uk/shop/p/lunate-…

New episode with Nathalie Olah (@nrolah) 🔥 🎙️ We talk about her brilliant new book Bad Taste & ideas of cultural capital, social mobility, Pamela Anderson & Dolly Parton, austerity aesthetics, & the politics of scarcity & much more. Listen here 👇🎧 buff.ly/3Gg5X6n

New episode with Sheila Heti 🎙️🔥 We discuss her new book Alphabetical Diaries (Fitzcarraldo Editions): formal constraints, beyond linear time, progress & ideas of a complete, continuous narrative of selfhood across her work & much more 👇 bit.ly/3Sf7dfW Storysmith

Thrilled to share our latest episode with Sheila Heti: we go deep into her new book Alphabetical diaries, writing like painting, against linear time & continuous ideas of the self, hybridity of form & much, much more bit.ly/3Sf7dfW

Listened to our Sheila Heti ep. yet? We discuss hybrid forms, what it means to write away from a 'writer' performance, the rhythm & materiality of language, pushing the boundaries of the novel and much more Fitzcarraldo Editions Storysmith bit.ly/3Sf7dfW

Was such an honour to host this live episode with Marianne Brooker last week in-house Storysmith, we covered so much in this conversation: around politics of care, activist affordances, play as world-making & much, much more 👇

Thrilled to be chatting to the very brilliant Jean-Baptise del Amo @StanfordsBrist about his new book with Fitzcarraldo Editions ' The Son of Man' on 29.5.24. Tickets below 👇🔥

Season 6 is here! We chat Andrew McMillan (Andrew McMillan ) about his novel Pity, post-industrial northern identities, how everyone’s village, town or city is worthy of literature & much, much more Canongate (has left) Storysmith 👇🎧 bit.ly/AndrewTB

Loved talking to Andrew McMillan about his novel PITY: how the novel can hold multiple truths, the need to find a new language to talk about the past & community, the dangers of describing post-industrial towns by their lack or an absence & so much more 👇🎧

Loved chatting with Helen Oyeyemi about her new novel Parasol Against the Axe, as well as the through lines of play, perplexity, shape-shifting narrators, that weave across her work. Listen here: bit.ly/HelenO