Very happy to have a short story in the latest issue of Popshot Quarterly -- and especially love the illustrations by James Fenwick.

A bit late, but very happy to have a short story in the latest Harvard Review -- it's a great issue, with a poem by Vid in too, as well as brilliant stories by Miciah Bay Gault, Tabish Khair and Case Q. Kerns amongst others...

I've given up waiting for @TwitterSupport to reunite us with our hacked account (now rebranded as @Slatata2010) - it's time to regenerate. So I'm back tweeting here on our old handle Border Community - any RTs greatly appreciated to help rebuild our list of followers...

So the Beckhams aren't allowed an opinion for "not knowing anything", and Nobel prize winners aren't for being "experts"... I'm now confused

Time for Prac Crit 7! New poems from Katrina Porteous, Sylvia Legris, Matthew Welton (Matthew Welton) & @kikipetrosino tinyurl.com/jmposja

new essay on Katrina Porteous in the ace Prac Crit! x.com/praccrit/statu…

BREAKING: FA confirms new England manager, after he clarifies money was just resting in his account.

Leave Elena alone

But the key ingredients are there – the footprints as weeping eyes, the snaking road for an S, the final R redolent of a bird taking flight.

vid's not on twitter, so here's his poem: bbc.co.uk/programmes/art… #freetheword

Slipping down a ginnel today, anyone? BBC Leeds #freetheword #NationalPoetryDay The OED bbc.in/2xzfL9T

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Women crochet sweaters to shield rescued elephants from cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India, 2017 #womensart #WorldKindnessDay

Painted depictions of everyday life are a particularly Dutch phenomenon. As an artist, De Hooch mainly painted figures in domestic settings. A characteristic element in many of his paintings is a view of a room through an open door or window. bit.ly/2kTXXBf #GoingDutch

Yes, Cathy! xxx x.com/GalleyBeggars/…

YES! So excited for my dear friend -- well deserved! xxx x.com/GalleyBeggars/…

‘Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.’ Philip Roth, 1933 - 2018