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jimmmmmbo.bsky.social
Author of The Bygones (Tangerine Press) Best British Short Stories 2023 (SALT) Nightjar Press, The Quietus, 3am Magazine Co-founder of Hand Job Zine and Hi Vis Press Rural working class literature ✌ https://jimgibsonauthor.com/home
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This review for The Bygones is just in from Instagram and really gets to the heart of the book, thanks to Daniel Sheen for the kind words ✌️

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This review for The Bygones is just in from Instagram and really gets to the heart of the book, thanks to Daniel Sheen for the kind words ✌️

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

BIG NEWS. Absolutely delighted to announce that my debut novel, Keshed, is going to be publishing in the autumn with @ortacpress.bsky.social one of the freshest, most interesting and eclectic indies on the scene. What a delight to have two books on the way with such a great press 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 35 days ago • 100 comments

Here's a bit of a thread of some recent publications, forthcoming ones and events for anyone who's interested. All of them are well worth a look regardless of my work, fantastic creative spaces that it's been a pleasure to contribute to ✌️

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

When I was born, an appalling roar rumbled across the sky. Black clouds billowed and flashed with blue light as I emerged into the jarring horror of this reality. A wasp flew out from my mother’s cunt and stung the midwife on the nose. The poor midwife screamed, flung me across the room in shock...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Jimbo is a proper treasure; such a fresh and distinctive voice.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Here's a bit of a thread of some recent publications, forthcoming ones and events for anyone who's interested. All of them are well worth a look regardless of my work, fantastic creative spaces that it's been a pleasure to contribute to ✌️

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to this

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You can pre-order Grass magazine now, a beautiful magazine of working class literature and art. My story 'Quad' is included which was long listed for the DesperateLit Lit prize last year and is it's first outing. Grab one while they're hot ✌️ grassmagazine.bigcartel.com/product/pre-...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Can't wait to be part of the Working Class Stories event at Blackwells in Manchester with Neil and Wayne in March. If anyone's around, nip down for a chat ✌️

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

IN THE SCUMRAG WITH A POEM OR SUMAT. IT'S ABOUT DEPRESSION AND THAT I THINK, NOT SURE. I GET CONFUSED EASILY. www.scumbagpress.co.uk/product/the-...

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I've got a poem in DeepSNAKES ai psychofauna odyssey if anyone fancies their minds melting ✌ youtu.be/r4K5jF7U41A?...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Some hype coming in from the other place and one of me and the cru for the fanclub. More coming soon ✌

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

If you see this, post an album cover with a car (truck, motorcycle, tractor) on it

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Out here with the dog and Lankum and visiting places in my head for the new novel, revealing motives, actions and emotions before getting back home and to the page.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the first para of Just Dads and Chainsmoking from Spinners issue 7. It was a fun one to write, this one.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Another fantastic (and I mean fantastic in the true sense) book by a great writer. This is a pukka book of stories. Jim is one me favourites. Doing something a bit different.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

The Bygones - small stories out via Tangerine Press. Say no more. ✌️ youtu.be/lHFJGfDSk34?...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you Jim, for making the day a lot less grim!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

The Longest Road I Know is a beautiful new zine by Craig Scott, a journey through the American deep south visiting backwater towns and taking an often poetic look at harsh past via slavery, deprivation & Faulkner. theprocessofnothing.bigcartel.com?fbclid=PAY2x...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

This Dean Wilson pairing is the 👌. The poems had me bobbing through like a pebble's journey to the shore. Very funny and a pleasure to read. Loved every second of it. @deanwilson.bsky.social

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

A schizophrenic with insomnia, hallucinations, strange perception of altered state as default, paranoia, avolition, lack of motivation, etc. is outcast among others, and is like a supernatural creature. A spectral entity of diabolic, repulsive nature, who exists beyond the fringes of society.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Thought for 2025: Writers and artists - if you're going to have a portrait done - go all in. Here is the great László Krasznahorkai.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Is it me or are all these starter packs starting to sound a bit far-fetched?

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Such a pleasure to be involved with this unique publication. Every moment in it is sublime. If you can find a copy, buy it and cherish it.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

This is a magnifecent set. Jim is Proper. Really distinctive voice and these stories are so well observed. Greap press too.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

The Bygones - small stories out via Tangerine Press. Say no more. ✌️ youtu.be/lHFJGfDSk34?...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment