Five days left to get your midlands themed writing in to us for potential publication on the website! floodgatepress.co.uk/submissions

Fire Damage, out soon! floodgatepress.co.uk/fire-damage

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Q&A with After Dinner Conversation author, Celia Lisset Alvarez. buff.ly/Z8btC11

We’re delighted that Hilary Taylor’s gripping novel Sea Defences, which was shortlisted for the Paul Torday Award last year, is now on the longlist for the New Angle Prize eye-books.com/books/sea-defe…

Clubbing is said to be dying nationwide - but especially in Birmingham. Join me on my birthday night out as I went to investigate ft. The Ketamine Blame Game, 2010s Euphoria and Getting Lost Dancing With Loved Ones. birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-art-of-clu…

🗣️ SPRING/SUMMER EVENTS AT VOCE BOOKS 📚 Join writer & filmmaker Adam Scovell as he takes us on a walk around LOCAL HAUNTS—his first collected edition of non-fiction tracing haunted landscapes & cultural connections. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

Great to hear school counsellor turned novelist Frances McKendrick talking to Anna Curran on BBC Radio Ulster about Adolescence, the teenage mental health crisis and her new therapy thriller WORDS FAIL ME. Interview starts at 8 mins bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Meta have stolen our words! We need to take action now #DoTheWriteThing The Society of Authors

Book 10 2025 read. Season by George Harrison Totally recommend this book, An Old man/Young man bonding over their shared love...their football team. Both have very different important things in their life, but the love & worry for the team & it's results overshadows them all

Good Friday. Here's my poem, Man of Sorrows foreshadowmagazine.com/magazine/man-o…

.Eye Books has signed Arctic Insanity, in which Jules Mountain tells the story of his quest to fly a lightweight helicopter across the Atlantic bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

Words Fail Me by Frances McKendrick is ‘an electrifying tale of revenge, by a psychotherapist author, and a warning of the damage wrought by the internet’, says Saga Magazine Saga amazon.co.uk/Words-Fail-Me-…

🗣️ SPRING/SUMMER EVENT AT KILDER BAR 🎙️ Shade yourself STORIE this summer with work from Midlands writers STUART KANE, ELIZABETH LEE & CHARLOTTE TAYLOR & Folkestone-based writer & prose night host JIMI ODELL. 🎟️ Please book your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio

🎉 Huge congrats to Jack Chandler @authorjck who's debut thriller Ripped Into is OUT NOW! 🔥 And Book 2 is already on pre-order! Inspired? Join the same courses! Ultimate Novel Writing Programme: buff.ly/VY07unn Self-Edit Your Novel Course: buff.ly/Xan5s9s

Was a pleasure to host the brilliant Karim Kattan, newly in translation for Foundry Editions, in conversation at Voce Books last night. An infectious conversation about vexed inheritance, queerness, the gothic, ghosts and soap opera family history - all set in Palestine.

Ocean, the new novel by Polly Clark, is out two weeks today. ‘Superb doesn’t begin to describe it,’ says Strong Words Magazine. ‘People are going to be talking of little else.’ Order your signed copy now from eye-books.com/books/ocean

I have a poem about my undergraduate years in #Paris published in the first issue of eche poetry — the first piece from my new book to be finished. You can read 'Saint-Joseph' here: echepoetry.co.uk/one/irigaray Happy to be in the company of poets like Simon Maddrell!

BARGAIN OFFER FOR PRIDE: this month only, all three of Adam Macqueen’s Tommy Wildeblood thrillers, dramatising late 20th century gay history through the eyes of a rent boy turned detective, are just 99p on Kindle. Download them now, read at your leisure! shorturl.at/jdmfm