We're delighted as always to be hosting the launch of Howl's 2024 edition. Contributors past and present will be in attendance. Please join us if you can!

No idea why I’m doing the Iron Claw in this photo… a great night with great writers and a generous audience. Huge thanks to Róisín Leggett Bohan and Lauren O'Donovan for a wonderful launch of HOWL New Irish Writing

‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter theguardian.com/culture/2024/o…

Really pleased to make the shortlist for The Bridport Prize with my short story ‘Death Rituals’ - many thanks to the judges and huge congratulations to the winners and highly commended!

Excited to be in Madrid to read at this tonight!

Coming soon…👀 December / January 2025

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 #CWA2025

Looking forward to reading at this - huge thanks to Tom Conaghan and the judges!

My essay on Jack Reacher, literary comfort and headbutt technique in the upcoming The London Magazine - many thanks to Jamie Cameron for his thoughtful edits

Haven’t played anyone yet.

Haven’t played anyone yet.

Delighted to be part of this - thank you to Aesthetica Magazine and congratulations to deserved winner Nicholas Petty

Thanks to Tom Conaghan and Scratch Books you can read my story ‘Lone and Level Sands’ inspired by Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’… a rather GCSE pick but I rolled with it… and five other wonderful, strange, funny, moving stories.

Why don’t we just ask Howard Webb who he wants to win the league, give them the trophy and save us all another 6 months of dreck?

Until the end of this week, you can buy our latest issue for only £6.99. Our December / January issue includes the three winning stories from our 2024 Short Story Prize, poems by CAConrad, Isabelle Baafi and Mimi Khalvati and more! Order your copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curren…

Hear what 2024 winner Sukie Wilson and runner-up Richie Jones have to say about the Prize... desperateliterature.com/prize

Absolutely fucking bang on

Happy to see this online The London Magazine - my essay on the warm bath that is a Reacher novel. Love the TC photo that accompanies too ;)

Chris Martin very much the Gwyn Barry of music