Shelley Hastings

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‘Generous, soulful distillations. A tasting flight of prosaic kerosene.’
-Henry Hoke

For the full goss:
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You too J! 💫

I am standing in scarf and hat in front of a pink and peach sky on a beach in whitstable

Happy New Year - hard to keep up with the socials but life is happening and that’s the main thing - hope this year brings you what you need

Congrats Wendy! 🎉

My shadow walking across a dry river bed in the dark

A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.

Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.

Southbank Centre's new Indie Night initiative celebrates indie presses

ICYMI: The Southbank Centre is launching Indie Night, a new initiative celebrating the work of independent presses 👇 #BookSky

Have a read of this with your morning ☕️

🇫🇷 We're going to Paris!
🖋 Fantastic courses in poetry, prose, and memoir
📖 Another European Book Club
🖥 Online Salon

Don't miss out!

@grahammort.bsky.social @susannacrossman.bsky.social

‘The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination’ by @michaelavieser.bsky.social & @ekostories.bsky.social, a wonderful book of 36 short essays on sound in place & imagination I commissioned for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. Published this week.

Karen (@karenmcleod.bsky.social) is an excellent writer/teacher/person and this masterclass is a bargain, online and will be excellent. 👇👇✍️✍️

www.outsavvy.com/event/29810/...

Thanks Susanna x

Just got one. Looks beautifully made and I’m very interested to read xx

back this week with a stacked September, incl. interviews with @alinaetc.bsky.social Tim MacGabhann & Austyn Wohlers; extracts from work by @andrewgallix.bsky.social Charlotte Northall, Adam Judah Krasnoff & Joseph Nechvatal; fiction from @addisonzeller.bsky.social & @robrubsam.bsky.social ...

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Strike! at Asquith Street Background Painters Association — Emily Lu The forecast predicted sun and a high of minus seventeen. In our houses, we pulled on long underwear over our underwear, a grey long sleeve, a neon poofy vest, and over that an oversized hand-me-do…

This is very good:

Strike! at Asquith Street Background Painters Association — Emily Lu minorliteratures.com/2025/05/08/s...

Thanks Jo!

Ah thanks Cristín!

My story ‘Small Bad Things’ which came third in @themothmagazine.bsky.social short story prize is published in @irishtimes.com today 🎉 There is a small paywall - (£1 for first month) 👇

Bee Box by Martha Sprackland The runner-up in this year’s Moth Short Story Prize, chosen by judge Evie Wyld

If you are tall enough to see over the paywall, my story 'Bee Box' is up on the @irishtimes.com now, after coming second in @themothmagazine.bsky.social The Moth Short Story Prize.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Moth Short Story Prize winner takes judge Evie Wyld ‘right back to the loneliness of having a small baby’ Clare Roche wins prize, with Martha Sprackland second and Shelley Hastings third

Nice to see @shelleyhastings.bsky.social come third in the Moth short story prize. Shelley read at an online event I did years ago and was a different class. Great things to come I'm sure.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Ah blimey thanks so much Rónán! Yes chipping away… so chuffed to come third in this prize it’s such a good one. Very happy @themothmagazine.bsky.social & Irish Times continue to champion & publish short stories too ❤️

Every issue of The Moth is crammed full with beautiful art, two great interviews, short stories and new poetry on familiar and surprising subjects – in the case of Issue 45, meatballs, neck braces, and conceiving in the Aldi carpark...

🌷bit.ly/pastmoths

Thanks Shaoni 😍

Thanks so much Jen! ❤️

Thank you!

Thanks David and to you great to be at your launch!

Thanks Rónán!

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Full shortlist of the Desperate Literature Prize

We’re so delighted to announce that we’ve chosen @desperatelit.bsky.social prize shortlistee @shelleyhastings.bsky.social’s story ‘Glimpses of Her’ for our Annual Salon prize!

Shelley will join us at next year’s Annual Salon in Madrid, where she’ll be invited to read.

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Cover of a book called A Ceumpled Swan by David Collard.

What a treat to hear the wonderful @davidcollard.bsky.social chat with @ronanhession.bsky.social & read from his new book #ACrumpledSwan - a brilliant online event - thank you so much 👏💙💙👏

www.waterstones.com/book/a-crump...

#books #booksky

Totally delighted to be shortlisted for this - and to also win the @saloneurope.bsky.social prize - I cannot wait to take part in the salon next year in Madrid 😍 you can pre order the book and order the anthology of all the brilliant stories now 👇👇

This is so brilliant