David Hayden Scratch Books Brilliant isn’t it!

Claire Carroll’s striking first book, ‘The Unreliable Nature Writer’, unsettles the reader into stories of imagined natures, ones we live in & beside, & that might outlive us. Worlds of present & approaching dread, slow cooked in catastrophe, of transformed or extinct personhood.

This is the first piece of work I ever read by Claire Carroll, now I’m hooked on her work for life! If you only read one story about infinite husbands today, make it this one! ❤️
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Have you read ‘Infinite Husbands’? Claire Carroll’s delicious dreamy menfolk story first published in The London Magazine

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The delightfully dark FRAGILE ANIMALS by Genevieve Jagger is published today and we’re thrilled to announce that she’ll be here in Manchester on Wednesday 19th June talking about the book with Jenn Ashworth alongside Claire Carroll (THE UNRELIABLE NATURE WRITER)

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Creative Writing was pioneered Edge Hill University starting with the MA. Places available this autumn.

This is your “one month until Scratch A4 closes” alarm

Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for Underrepresented Writers is officially open! ✨

It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £23k of prizes.

The theme this year is Reveal.

#WritingCommunity – send us your best work!
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Highly recommend sending 1000 of your finest words to the Scratch A4 comp. Because it's a highly lovely event! 😊😊😊

Enter 'Scratch A4' - Scratch Books' <1000 word short story competition. Deadline May 25th. For judges and prizes go to scratch-books.co.uk

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The Unreliable Nature Writer is going on a very exciting summer tour - catch us at one of these venues in June and July!

Huge thanks to Arts Council England…

The faces here! This is what makes Scratch A4 so special…

Scratch A4 is a biannual short story event held in London. Enter your less than 1000 word story for the Summer '24 event on Sat, July 6th in Soho. Judges: Francesca Reece, Laurie Robertson & Tom Conaghan. Scratch Books. Closes May 25th. scratch-books.co.uk/scratcha4compe… #amwriting

Pop into the brilliant Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop to see their brilliant republic of books. And preorder The Unreliable Nature Writer!

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Hyped to be appearing on The London Magazine podcast very soon, where I will be telling you all my worst secrets...

Beautiful story to start the week with. Thank you Lunate, Scratch Books and 🌊🌊

This story stopped us in our tracks and inspired something of an aesthetic reset for Lunate. It, indirectly, led to Claire temporarily joining us and then, thankfully, sticking around for good.

You know what to do.