Fictionable

The online literary magazine with short stories and comics from all around the world #books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #podcast

Magazine: https://fictionable.world

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2025-09-01 18:33:02 CEST

You can't escape a gripping idea. On the @npub126v…waln #podcast we follow Sheyla Smanioto into the world of dreams:
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/sheyla-smanioto-intruder-story-dream-out-of-earth
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2025-08-24 12:12:38 CEST

Is it too late already? On the @npub126v…waln #podcast Dafydd McKimm turns up the dial:
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/dafydd-mckimm-nosebleed-short-story
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2025-08-21 15:04:33 CEST

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And catch Diana on summer reading in our latest issue:
https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/diana-evans-summer-reading-weather-books
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2025-08-21 14:49:27 CEST

'A beautifully written story that draws together food, friendship, illness and separation, yet – despite everything – shimmers with hope and possibility'
Ann Kennedy Smith hails Diana Evans's short story Broth in the TLS:
https://www.the-tls.com/literature/essays/i-want-to-talk-to-you-broth-diana-evans-book-review-ann-kennedy-smith
Get your copy at your local bookshop, or direct from Fictionable:
https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans/

2025-08-15 18:59:11 CEST

The heat is stifling as Min and Hazel head to the park. But it’s not just tennis at stake in Proper Magic by Ali McClary:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/proper-magic-ali-mcclary
Image: Spencer Davis
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2025-08-13 09:58:54 CEST

Who watches the watchers? Pete Segall captures some unsettling footage in Bolex Man:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/bolex-man-pete-segall
Image: Alexander Andrews
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2025-08-12 08:53:58 CEST

A stranger comes to town, but there’s more than just the dish of the day on the menu in Sheyla Smanioto's short story Intruder, translated from Portuguese by Laura Garmeson and Sophie Lewis:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/intruder-sheyla-smanioto-translated-by-laura-garmeson-and-sophie-lewis
Image: Mínimo
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2025-08-11 14:34:42 CEST

Tab and Martin have gone upstate to walk in the woods. AL Kennedy examines the terrain in her short story Expedition Skills:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/expedition-skills-a-l-kennedy
Image: Patrick Mueller
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2025-08-08 16:52:09 CEST

On the @npub126v…waln #podcast we get to know how female friendship powers Ali McClary’s #fiction
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/ali-mcclary-proper-magic-friendship-short-story
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2025-08-07 18:09:55 CEST

Who’s the man behind the camera? Pete Segall steps into the frame on the @npub126v…waln #podcast
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/pete-segall-frame-picture-story-bolex-man
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2025-08-06 08:48:37 CEST

On the @npub126v…waln #podcast AL Kennedy argues that the empathy powering fiction puts politics at its heart:
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/a-l-kennedy-fiction-politics-expedition-skills
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2025-08-04 16:16:26 CEST

Is there really such a thing as summer reading? Diana Evans investigates:
https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/diana-evans-summer-reading-weather-books
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2025-08-01 16:52:16 CEST

Could it be something serious? Dafydd McKimm looks for a diagnosis in his short story The Nosebleed:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-nosebleed-dafydd-mckimm
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2025-07-31 14:13:19 CEST

The heat is stifling as Min and Hazel head to the park. But it’s not just tennis at stake in Proper Magic by Ali McClary:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/proper-magic-ali-mcclary
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #blog #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-07-30 08:57:31 CEST

Who watches the watchers? Pete Segall captures some unsettling footage in Bolex Man:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/bolex-man-pete-segall
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-07-28 08:59:23 CEST

Tab and Martin have gone upstate to walk in the woods. AL Kennedy examines the terrain in her short story Expedition Skills:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/expedition-skills-a-l-kennedy
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #blog #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-07-25 17:22:25 CEST

So here's #Summer with brand-new #ShortStories from AL Kennedy, Sheyla Smanioto translated by Laura Garmeson and Sophie Lewis, Pete Segall, Ali McClary and Dafydd McKimm. Plus Diana Evans on the joys of summer reading.
Catch it at https://fictionable.world
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2025-07-25 14:37:41 CEST

And so here's a sneak peek at the fantastic #ShortStories for #Summer2025 with AL Kennedy, Sheyla Smanioto read by Sophie Lewis, Pete Segall, Ali McClary and Dafydd McKimm.
Catch them all at https://fictionable.world
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2025-07-25 14:28:39 CEST

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… and this admirably focused #author is Dafydd McKimm…

2025-07-25 14:24:53 CEST

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… this clear-thinking #writer is the translator Sophie Lewis…

2025-07-25 14:21:10 CEST

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… and this crowded chair is for Pete Segall…

2025-07-25 14:15:21 CEST

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… so… this classic setup is… AL Kennedy.

2025-07-25 12:14:45 CEST

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… thanks – an intriguing guess… but nope…

2025-07-25 09:57:39 CEST

#Summer 2025 is almost here, but here's a final #mystery #author or at least their #WritersDesk
A tight focus here on the job in hand: the blank page. But who could this focused #writer be?
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2025-07-24 14:41:46 CEST

Another #mystery #author another #WritersDesk
The glass desk suggests a writer who prefers clarity. But who is it?
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2025-07-23 12:52:48 CEST

Our next #mystery #WritersDesk is more chair than desk, but where are they going to sit with all those #books ?
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2025-07-22 17:54:13 CEST

So here's the first of our #mystery #authors for our #Summer issue – or their #WritersDesk at least.
A classic two-desk, ergonomic chair, inviting vista setup. But whose could it be?
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2025-07-21 18:25:11 CEST

It's raining in London, but it's nearly time for #Summer at https://fictionable.world
Image: Raphaël Biscaldi
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2025-07-10 22:02:16 CEST

Samantha Harvey follows Driscoll as he inches towards the end in our second @npub126v…waln edition, Bona Fide Nihon-kitsch.
Get your copy at https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-bona-fide-nihon-kitsch-by-samantha-harvey
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2025-07-09 16:28:53 CEST

Samantha Harvey examines love and redemption in our second @npub126v…waln edition, Bona Fide Nihon-kitsch.
https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-bona-fide-nihon-kitsch-by-samantha-harvey
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2025-06-30 20:32:33 CEST

2025-06-30 13:11:07 CEST

The fire burns bright in the convent's kitchen, as Sister Avis waits for Cromwell's man in Our Lady of Sorrows by PR Woods:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/our-lady-of-sorrows-p-r-woods/
Image: Andrea Seiler
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2025-06-27 18:07:45 CEST

The rasp of a chainsaw triggers a meditation on permanence and change in Kent's Oak by Jeremy Wikeley:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/kents-oak-jeremy-wikeley
Image: josh AD
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2025-06-25 17:20:33 CEST

How can you change if your past is made of holes? Bronia Flett goes searching for missing pieces in Leopard, Spots:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/leopard-spots-bronia-flett
Image: Paula Campos
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2025-06-24 19:16:30 CEST

Have you ever been in a real relationship? Fríða Ísberg talks it out in Fingers, translated from Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/fingers-frida-isberg-translated-by-larissa-kyzer
Image: Nikolett Emmert
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2025-06-23 19:24:45 CEST

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Image: Bohdan Stocek

2025-06-23 19:22:53 CEST

Susanna Clarke returns to the world of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – and The Raven King – in The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-bishop-of-durham-attempts-to-surrender-the-city-susanna-clarke
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2025-06-19 18:33:34 CEST

There's no rushing a comic. Woodrow Phoenix takes us from inspiration to final artwork:
https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/woodrow-phoenix-comics-drawing-digital-art-eager-beaver
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2025-06-18 15:49:00 CEST

We go back to the Tudors, as PR Woods takes on Hilary Mantel and gets into the habit on the @npub126v…waln #podcast
Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/p-r-woods-our-lady-sorrows-henry-tudors or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
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2025-06-16 15:01:49 CEST

On the @npub126v…waln #podcast Jeremy Wikeley explores time, home and nature as we look for the roots of his story, Kent's Oak.
Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/jeremy-wikeley-kents-oak-english-englishness-nature-home-story or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
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2025-06-12 20:05:04 CEST

Friendship, memory and regret. On the @npub126v…waln #podcast Bronia Flett goes looking for a theory of change.
Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/bronia-flett-leopard-spots-story-friendship or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
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2025-06-11 18:39:26 CEST

In a world stripped of nuance, #fiction can explore the complications and contradictions of our daily lives, says Fríða Ísberg:
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/frida-isberg-fiction-women-fingers
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2025-06-09 19:38:33 CEST

On the @npub126v…waln #podcast we talk magic, illness and weather as Susanna Clarke returns to the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell with The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City.
Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/susanna-clarke-bishop-durham-city-jonathan-strange-norrell or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
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2025-06-06 18:02:55 CEST

"Everything in a story has to be justified. Every sentence, you have to ask yourself 'Does it belong there, is it needed?' And if it's not, then you turn it out."
Get your copy of Broth by Diana Evans at https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans
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2025-06-05 15:07:21 CEST

2025-06-02 18:59:30 CEST

The fire burns bright in the convent's kitchen, as Sister Avis waits for Cromwell's man in Our Lady of Sorrows by PR Woods:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/our-lady-of-sorrows-p-r-woods/
Image: Jason Leung
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2025-05-30 17:19:11 CEST

The rasp of a chainsaw triggers a meditation on permanence and change in Kent's Oak by Jeremy Wikeley:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/kents-oak-jeremy-wikeley
Image: Marek Studzinski
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2025-05-29 17:51:51 CEST

How can you change if your past is made of holes? Bronia Flett goes searching for missing pieces in Leopard, Spots:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/leopard-spots-bronia-flett
Image: Ariq Naufal
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2025-05-28 16:14:32 CEST

Have you ever been in a real relationship? Fríða Ísberg talks it out in Fingers, translated from Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/fingers-frida-isberg-translated-by-larissa-kyzer
Image: Anushka Sharma
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2025-05-27 15:14:41 CEST

When the Raven King arrived in northern England at the head of a fairy army, he found a country divided. Susanna Clarke charts shifting allegiances between English, Norman and fairy in The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-bishop-of-durham-attempts-to-surrender-the-city-susanna-clarke
Image: John Towner
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2025-05-23 14:35:19 CEST

On the @npub126v…waln #podcast we talk magic, illness and weather as Susanna Clarke returns to the world of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell with The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City:
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/susanna-clarke-bishop-durham-city-jonathan-strange-norrell
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-05-22 19:41:19 CEST

Jeremy Wikeley explores time, home and nature as we look for the roots of his story, Kent's Oak on the @npub126v…waln #podcast
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/jeremy-wikeley-kents-oak-english-englishness-nature-home-story
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2025-05-21 18:33:54 CEST

We go back to the Tudors on the @npub126v…waln #podcast as PR Woods takes on Hilary Mantel and gets into the habit.
Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/p-r-woods-our-lady-sorrows-henry-tudors or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
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2025-05-20 17:42:55 CEST

Friendship, memory and regret. On the @npub126v…waln #podcast Bronia Flett goes looking for a theory of change:
Catch it at https://fictionable.world or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and more…
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2025-05-19 16:39:36 CEST

In a world stripped of nuance, fiction can explore the complications and contradictions of our daily lives, says Fríða Ísberg:
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/frida-isberg-fiction-women-fingers
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2025-05-16 20:20:49 CEST

The fire burns bright in the convent's kitchen, as Sister Avis waits for Cromwell's man in Our Lady of Sorrow by PR Woods:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/our-lady-of-sorrows-p-r-woods
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2025-05-15 16:48:30 CEST

Jeremy Wikeley explores time, home and nature as we look for the roots of his story, Kent’s Oak on the @npub126v…waln #podcast
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/jeremy-wikeley-kents-oak-english-englishness-nature-home-story
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2025-05-14 18:49:16 CEST

How can you change if your past is made of holes? Bronia Flett goes searching for missing pieces in Leopard, Spots:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/leopard-spots-bronia-flett
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-05-13 16:02:12 CEST

Have you ever been in a real relationship? Fríða Ísberg talks it out in Fingers, translated from Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/fingers-frida-isberg-translated-by-larissa-kyzer
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-05-12 19:18:57 CEST

When the Raven King arrived in northern England at the head of a fairy army, he found a country divided. Susanna Clarke charts shifting allegiances between English, Norman and fairy in The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-bishop-of-durham-attempts-to-surrender-the-city-susanna-clarke
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2025-05-10 16:54:40 CEST

2025-05-09 15:53:59 CEST

Fictionable arrives on paper with a stylish edition of Diana Evans' short story Broth, where three friends go out for dinner. But are they all ready to share?
And Diana talks pared-back prose, female friendship and category errors on the Fictionable #podcast
Get your copy at https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-05-08 17:50:04 CEST

We go back to the Tudors, as PR Woods takes on Hilary Mantel and gets into the habit on the @npub126v…waln #podcast
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/p-r-woods-our-lady-sorrows-henry-tudors
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2025-05-08 15:29:50 CEST

2025-05-06 20:27:07 CEST

The fire burns bright in the convent’s kitchen, as Sister Avis waits for Cromwell’s man in Our Lady of Sorrow by PR Woods:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/our-lady-of-sorrows-p-r-woods
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2025-05-05 14:01:51 CEST

The rasp of a chainsaw triggers a meditation on permanence and change in Kent's Oak by Jeremy Wikeley:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/kents-oak-jeremy-wikeley
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2025-05-04 14:12:57 CEST

How can you change if your past is made of holes? Bronia Flett goes searching for missing pieces in Leopard, Spots:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/leopard-spots-bronia-flett
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2025-05-03 15:02:50 CEST

Have you ever been in a real relationship? Fríða Ísberg talks it out in Fingers, translated from Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/fingers-frida-isberg-translated-by-larissa-kyzer
Image: Scott Webb
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2025-05-02 18:54:43 CEST

When the Raven King arrived in northern England at the head of a fairy army, he found a country divided. Susanna Clarke charts shifting allegiances between English, Norman and fairy in The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City.
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/the-bishop-of-durham-attempts-to-surrender-the-city-susanna-clarke
Image: Nikola
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2025-05-01 16:49:03 CEST

Friendship, memory and regret. On the @npub126v…waln #podcast Bronia Flett goes looking for a theory of change:
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/bronia-flett-leopard-spots-story-friendship
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2025-04-30 13:12:01 CEST

There’s no rushing a comic. Woodrow Phoenix takes us from inspiration to final artwork:
https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/woodrow-phoenix-comics-drawing-digital-art-eager-beaver
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2025-04-29 15:44:16 CEST

The fire burns bright in the convent’s kitchen, as Sister Avis waits for Cromwell’s man in Our Lady of Sorrows by PR Woods:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/our-lady-of-sorrows-p-r-woods
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-27 14:55:31 CEST

How can you change if your past is made of holes? Bronia Flett goes searching for missing pieces in her short story Leopard, Spots:
https://www.fictionable.world/stories/leopard-spots-bronia-flett
#books #reading #writing #fiction #ShortStories #translation #comics #podcast #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-26 16:04:33 CEST

Have you ever been in a real relationship? Fríða Ísberg talks it out in a story translated from Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer.
https://fictionable.world/stories/fingers-frida-isberg-translated-by-larissa-kyzer
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2025-04-25 17:43:39 CEST

2025-04-24 18:34:09 CEST

#Spring is here, with exclusive #ShortStories from Susanna Clare, Fríða Ísberg translated by Larissa Kyzer, Bronia Flett, Jeremy Wikeley and PR Woods.
And Woodrow Phoenix gives us a glimpse of his sketchbook.
Catch it all at https://fictionable.world
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2025-04-24 12:04:10 CEST

So here's a brief taste of the amazing #ShortStories for #Spring2025 with Susanna Clarke, Bronia Flett, Jeremy Wikeley, PR Woods and Fríða Ísberg, translated by Larissa Kyzer.
Catch them all at https://fictionable.world
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2025-04-24 11:54:22 CEST

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… and this master of lore? It's PR Woods…

2025-04-24 11:43:48 CEST

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… and this cheery contributor is Larissa Kyzer…

2025-04-24 11:33:25 CEST

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… something fishy here? Better ask Jeremy Wikeley…

2025-04-24 11:27:24 CEST

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… so… stuck on the Post-Its? Questions to Bronia Flett…

2025-04-23 19:05:33 CEST

And here's another mystery contributor for our #spring issue – or at least their mysterious writer's desk.
This one's a wholesome scene: bananas at the ready, plants and trees in full view and a copy of The Lore of the Land within easy reach. But who is it?
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2025-04-23 17:57:39 CEST

Another mystery contributor, but a slightly less cheery vibe. It's a classic two-screen set-up, with the traditional piles of #books used as props.
But are they trying to tell us something?
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2025-04-22 16:21:05 CEST

Our second mystery author for Spring 2025 has taken up residence on the kitchen table.
Pen — check. Notebooks — check. Toast rack — OK. But what's with the fish?
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2025-04-21 16:39:29 CEST

To get things started, here's our first mystery author, saying it in Post-Its: 'CARPENTER, After Dinner Conversation, The Wife… LAND! PICNIC BY THE AUTOBAHN, LYDIA, STONES, THE FOYER ON STAGE.'
But what could it all mean?
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2025-04-17 19:16:08 CEST

In a divided world, fiction can break through the barriers that keep us apart, says Rachida Lamrabet.
Catch her on the @npub126v…waln #podcast at https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/rachida-lamrabet-fiction-perspective-choice-bicycles
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2025-04-16 16:09:42 CEST

When you assemble stories from fragments of real life, you need to take the long view, says Helga Schubert.
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/helga-schubert-story-distance-fragments
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2025-04-16 08:47:54 CEST

'In the age of the attention economy, as our culture is reorganizing its ideas about reading, scholarly close reading and everyday reading for the plot have gone from enemies to allies.'
Plot twist: Milan Terlunen argues that literary scholars need to pay attention to the story.
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2025-04-15 19:48:06 CEST

On the @npub126v…waln #podcast we look for meaning in the world to come with the writer Joanna Kavenna:
https://www.fictionable.world/podcasts/joanna-kavenna-notes-future-world-meaning-characters
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2025-04-15 10:00:56 CEST

Twenty-five writers from 18 countries. Here's the Commonwealth short story prize 'shortlist' for 2025:
https://commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-prize
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2025-04-14 10:07:34 CEST

'My research demonstrates that UK school librarians are facing equivalent levels of distress and hostility in the face of book ban challenges such as these.'
Librarians in the UK are coming under increased pressure to take books off the shelves:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/librarians-in-uk-increasingly-asked-to-remove-books-as-influence-of-us-pressure-groups-spreads
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2025-04-12 18:15:30 CEST

Browse the @npub126v…waln #archive with more than 50 exclusive #ShortStories from writers including Samantha Harvey, Jenny Erpenbeck, M John Harrison and more.
https://www.fictionable.world/issues_front.html
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2025-04-11 15:54:16 CEST

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… aw thanks – means a lot…

2025-04-11 15:43:15 CEST

All around the city and from coast to coast… Diana Evans's Broth is now available from #bookshops all across the UK.
Or get your copy via https://fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans
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2025-04-11 14:32:02 CEST

'The strange political and social events of the last few years have paved the way towards different kinds of horror'
Heloise Wood on the remorseless rise of #horror #fiction
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/sporror-and-the-substance-horror-fiction-spreads-its-spores-as-submissions-pile-in
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2025-04-10 17:05:12 CEST

And here's our first @npub126v…waln edition a stylish booklet of Diana Evans' story Broth, where three friends go out for dinner. But are they all ready to share?
https://www.fictionable.world/pages/fictionable-edition-broth-by-diana-evans
#books #reading #writing #ShortStories #fiction #bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-04-10 16:53:51 CEST

… to start things off, here's our #LatestIssue with stories from Joanna Kavenna, Helga Schubert translated by Aaron Sayne and Lillian M Banks, Rachida Lamrabet translated by Johanna McCalmont, Ben Sorgiovanni and Julian George.
Plus Annie Proulx calls for #writers to defend democracy and Andrzej Klimowski opens his #sketchbook
Catch it all at https://fictionable.world
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2025-04-10 16:38:57 CEST

… it's Thursday, so must be time for a #NewServer
Hello from @npub126v…waln
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