November 6th. Alan Beard’s latest collection Afternoon Drinking launches at Voce Books. Join us to hear Wendy Erskine ask Alan about his work and pick up a book hot off the press! eventbrite.com/e/1514851645049

🗣️ Just under 24 hours left to submit your work for this 👇 ♦️Window closes at 12pm, Wednesday 30th July.

What a turnout for Ozzy 💜🦇

This is it. This is the moment we MUST take our musical heritage seriously. Look at how much it means to people from across the globe! That would honour his legacy and provide comfort to his family. #Birmingham step up! 💜🦇

Done with this place since the algo started pushing that Yaxley twat to get engagement. Fuuuuuuck all that.

SUBMISSIONS TEMPORARILY OPEN We are opening submissions for a short time, requesting writing taking inspiration from prompts provided by writer Kerry Hadley-Pryce. Read the guidelines on our website carefully before submitting. floodgatepress.co.uk/submissions

Teign Gorge. #Dartmoor

🎤 Join an electric line-up featuring author & translator POLLY BARTON, novelist TARIQ GODDARD, writer & performance artist SOPHIE SLEIGH-JOHNSON & Birmingham-based spoken word artist KESOMI for the final STORIE of 2025! 🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

Here it is. The UK digital slavery deal in which we invite the worst companies on the planet to feast themselves on our national assets & compromise our national security. This isn’t just naive, it’s dangerous. We have just tied ourselves to a technofascist surveillance state.

Check out Timeout’s coolest districts guide with Digbeth at #13 and a shout out for a certain little Brum publisher (us!) along with pals Voce Books and Kilder/OPM, books/beer/burger meisters Par excellence. timeout.com/travel/coolest…

Out tomorrow! The Silent Screams anthology of quiet horror is a collection of 20 fictional terrors that will creep and whisper with their strange and twisted scenes, dark and demonic characters, nightmares great and small... Ed. MatGost mybook.to/SilentScreamsA…

Out today!! All proceeds going to charity. I love every story in this anthology

Silent Screams is out now. It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every story in it. If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet, with creeping dread, then this is the book for you. eBook and paperback: mybook.to/SilentScreamsA… #Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity

Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed... My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from Sasha Ravitch & JP Relph - Novella "Watcher" out now of TrashCatLit Read all about them here: matgost.substack.com/p/silent-screa…

🗣️ AUTUMN/WINTER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Hear from a true specialist of short-form fiction as Birmingham-based writer ALAN BEARD joins WENDY ERSKINE to launch his new Floodgate Press *subs closed* collection AFTERNOON DRINKING. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

Available for pre-order now, Alan Beard’s new collection AFTERNOON DRINKING. floodgatepress.co.uk/afternoon-drin…

Fungi galore… #Dartmoor #FungiFriday

Man: turns up dressed as SS officer in downtown bar. Assaults a woman with a beer bottle. Gets arrested. Losers on X: what a free speech hero. Relax it’s just a costume. How can I fund his legal fees? We truly are lost.

Saturday stroll in the woods. #dartmoor #autumncolour