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Writers write, actors read. Top 10 Story Night (@TheGuardian.com) Account run by LL Director Katy Darby. NEXT EVENT: Tue 8 April @ 7.30pm - RISK & REWARD #shortstory show at The Phoenix pub. Tickets £5 at: http://liarsleague.com
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#RISKandREWARD at @ThePhoenix_W1 on Tue 8th April - winning #shortstories announced, feat. fugitive lovers, train heists, 30s jewel thieves & Lego PLUS #flashfiction from host @liamjhogan.bsky.social 's new collection A Short History of the Future! £5 tix here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Winning stories announced soon! Watch this space … www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Every year we add more to our list of #shortstories written and read by women and this year we've reached TWO HUNDRED! Link below: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... (Don't read them all at once ...) #InternationalWomensDay2025

Guess the #WorldBookDay costume! (Clue: winner gets a trip to Croydon)

#RiskAndReward 800-2000 words #shortstory #flashfiction or novel extract to [email protected] by 11.59pm UK time TONIGHT Sun 2 March www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Happy weekend! All the #DesireAndDespair #Valentine stories are now online in sexy text format! Swoon ...❤️ www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... ❤️ Want to join our lineup for April #RiskAndReward? You have 2 DAYS to submit! 800-2k, deadline Sun 2 Mar, details here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Storyvideo 6 from our love-themed show #DesireAndDespair is a scalpel-sharp medical romcom: BY APPOINTMENT by Lauren Van Schaik is read by actress Lizzie Muncey: youtu.be/FfqoHUB6r6U - & if you like that, why not submit to our #RiskAndReward theme by Sun 2 March? www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

3 spies. 2 couples, 1 high-stakes heist in Prague, 1963. Decades later, on a windswept coast, two men meet again ... Get your Cold War fix with the 5th story video from our #DesireAndDespair show: A COVERT AFFAIR by Bronia Flett, read by David Vickery. youtu.be/8peR7yoKQGY

CAT LADY KLAXON! Get your claws into this #shortstory video from our #DesireAndDespair #Valentine special: HE BRINGS ME BIRDS by @cherylpowell.bsky.social read by Grace Cookey-Gam youtu.be/MR9xzeb9PAE Meow! Why not submit your own story to #RiskAndReward by 2 Mar: liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Your post-Valentine wind-down begins with our 3rd #shortstory video from #DesireAndDespair, darkly #dystopianfiction WE HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE by Jennifer Gaboury, read by Clareine Cronin. Like it? Submit to #RiskAndReward by 2 Mar: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... youtu.be/W9qgC2avB9Y

YOUR #VALENTINESVIDEO PLAYLIST IS HERE! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Fall in love with six brand-new original #shortstories for #ValentinesDay - ❤️U authors Lauren, Cheryl, Andreas, Bronia, Al & Jennifer & actors Lizzie, Patsy, David, Grace, Clareine & @carrielondonactor.bsky.social!

"I found myself fingering Mrs Dalloway as I climaxed ..." Happy #ValentinesDay everybody! May author @alhalcrow.bsky.social 's literary lustfest GORGEOUS, read at our #DesireAndDespair #shortstory special by actress Patsy Prince, riffle your pages and thumb your spine: youtu.be/B8aMDv4EwTg

She couldn't BELIEVE no. 13!!! youtu.be/216LFA1pEko 24 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER by Andreas Paraskevaides read by @carriecohen01.bsky.social - Want to rid yourself of a pesky partner, pre-#Valentine's? Why not take some dumping tips from our #DesireandDespair #shortstory special?

We were gonna plug the final stories for #DESIREandDESPAIR tonight at @ThePhoenix_W1 ... but then we SOLD OUT*! (*technically - there may be standing room/foldy chairs if you make puppy eyes on the door) liarsleague.com/liars_league... See you there if you've booked - if not, watch on YouTube!

Can't think how to dump your bae, pre-Valentine's? 24 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER by Andreas Paraskevaides read by @carrielondon is the #shortstory for you! £5 Ticket link below: selling out! www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... #DESIREandDESPAIR #Valentine is at @thephoenix_w1 TOMORROW!

"I found myself fingering #MrsDalloway as I climaxed" ... GORGEOUS, a brand-new #shortstory by Al Crow will be read by bookish bombshell Patsy Prince at #DESIREandDESPAIR #Valentine Stories this Tuesday 11th Feb at The Phoenix. £5 ticket link below! www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

🩺♥️🥼#DesireAndDespair this Tue 11 Feb asks how far a gal will go to see a doctor? @laurenvanschaik’s BY APPOINTMENT is read by actress @lizziuncey for our pre-Valentine show at 7.30pm at @ThePhoenix_W1. Be there or be struck off! 🎟️ £5 tickets here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

#DesireAndDespair winning #shortstories announced! (short & longlist will hear back soon). Roll up, roll up for your £5 tickets to the best alternative literary #Valentine event in London! Tue 11 Feb at The Phoenix, Cavendish Square, more details & tix here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

NEXT DEADLINE: #DesireAndDespair for Valentine's EXTENDED to Sunday 12th January www.liarsleague.com/liars_league... - 800-2000 words - #flashfiction, #shortstory or novel extract - submit to [email protected] #callforsubmissions #valentinestories ALL OTHER THEMES ALSO OPEN NOW

🥳 #HappyNewYear & here’s to a wild (& less wet) 2025! 🎇The fireworks may be over, but if you want to make the festive spirits last a little longer, click below to read (or watch, or listen to) six brand new spooky #shortstories to chill, charm & cheer. www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Squeaking into the year's last hours, our Best Stories of 2024 (+ 4 hon. mentions) CONGRATS to winners Lisa Farrell, Lisa Muncey, Dave McGrath, Georgina Sims, Sarah Richardson & E. Ce Miller & hons Ricardo Visinho Kathryn Sharpe Hannah Noyce & Angelita Bradney! www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

🎁Christmas is coming, the nights are drawing in & those gifts need paper, so hunker down with a mound of gifts & wrap to #WreathsAndWraiths - let our new podcast of spooky festive tales keep you sane! 🎁 Jellycast: liarsleague.jellycast.com/audio/play/267 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

🤮Sick of Christmas already?🎄 So is #TinyTim, all grown up & ready to punch his "Uncle" Scrooge in HUMBUG, our final #shortstory from #WreathsAndWraiths. Words by Ian Aikman, performed by Magnus Rook for #liarsleague youtu.be/Zpr7o-PdDvg?... #AChristmasCarol #NotAChristmasCarol #christmasstory

🎄 And for the 5th story of Christmas ... here's "Uncle Lewis", a #shortstory by David Mathews, read by Gloria Sanders at our #WreathsAndWraiths festive special! 🎅 youtu.be/5wXrxvZN9Jo?... 🐉Will Uncle Lewis, last of nine Welsh Uncles, come for Christmas this year? Only "Silent Night" will tell ...

❄️Video 4 from our #WreathsAndWraiths Christmas special is SNOWY by Jonathan Weil, read by David Mildon. ❄️ If you like a slow-burn, blood-freezing New England midwinter horror #shortstory this is very much up your snow-piled alley ... #liarsleague youtu.be/xRmfIrWQ6sg

#shortstory video no. 3 from our #WreathsAndWraiths Christmas special is THE WREATH THIEF! Get your traditional #Victorian ghost story thrills in this #shortstory by Amy Eddings, read by the League's joint winner of Most Valuable Player 2024, Tony Bell! youtu.be/JxIOzznWpdU #christmasghoststory

Prepare yourself for SOME APOLOGY, a #shortstory by @LianneWarr read by @paulclarke.com - in which ghostly Gerald has plenty to say sorry to Helen for, not least scaring her half to death ... Video 2 from our #WreathsAndWraiths Xmas special at @deHems_London youtu.be/aKawLpWTt4M?...

And that's a Christmas wrap! Here's the first short story video from our final event of 2024, Wreaths & Wraiths: a haunting tale of love, loss & watery death along Bristol's Victorian canals in THE SUMMONING BELL by Rebecca Miles, read by Lin Sagovsky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kSt... #liarsleague

Encounter a HAUNTED WREATH in our final story for WREATHS & WRAITHS Christmas Stories - now at DE HEMS BAR, Soho! TONIGHT in “The Wreath Thief” by Amy Eddings, read by Tony Bell 6.30 doors, 7.30 show, upstairs at De Hems, 11 Macclesfield St Tickets £5 - literally about 2 left. Www.liarsleague.com

🎄Nine uncles descend on a small house in Wales for Christmas - but will UNCLE LEWIS come this year? Find out tomorrow at #WreathsAndWraiths at @deHems_London, when Gloria Sanders reads David Mathews's lyrical #shortstory set amid chaotic and harmonious family festivities.

🎄Who’s this winsome urchin? Why @magnusrook as Tiny Tim in @IanJAikman’s story HUMBUG! Meet them all TOMORROW at our #WreathsAndWraiths Christmas stories special - 6.30 for 7.30 at @deHems_London - just seven £5 tickets remain! Link in bio.

VICTORIAN CANAL MURDER at #WreathsAndWraiths in “The Summoning Bell” by #LiarsLeague debut author Rebecca Miles, read by Lin Sagovsky on Tue 10 Dec at De Hems bar, Soho. *The Cutter’s Inn, 1844* Winter trees reach with long dark fingers into an unresponsive sky as the figure strikes a match ...

🎄HONEYMOON HORROR at #WREATHSandWRAITHS in SNOWY by Jonathan Weil, read by David Mildon TOMORROW at @deHems_London "Snowy." The voice was right in his ear, snapping him out of the grey half-dreaming zone that he’d drifted into while walking. Her voice...the snow, the moonlight, the country road...

Thanks for all the new follows! We follow back fiction writers, readers & publishers & love to hear from new talent 😍

‼️ STOP PRESS - VENUE CHANGE to DE HEMS Dutch Bar for #WREATHSandWRAITHS next Tue 10 Dec ‼️ Full details at liarsleague.com any questions in replies or just email [email protected]

Winning #shortstories announced for the #LiarsLeague Christmas special #WreathsandWraiths on Tue 10 Dec at The Phoenix, W1! Our seasonal selection-box of 6 is by turns spine-chilling & heart-warming PLUS 🎟️tickets are ONLY £5 inc. free mince pie 🥧 & book quiz! www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Went to see LL hero Tony Bell in his one-man show at Brockley Jack theatre last night: “Man in the Rain” was funny and moving, brave and bravura by turns, performed with heart, humour and guts. Go and see it! brockleyjack.co.uk/jackstudio-e... On till Sat 30 Nov! 7.30pm, 70 min. Tickets £15/17

🎄Our final #submissiondeadline of 2024, for #WreathsAndWraiths, is TONIGHT at 11.59pm GMT! 👻We want any story that's festive, tinsel-draped or winter-set BUT ALSO tales of ghosts, wraiths, revenants & the uncanny, so crack out the Christmas spirits! 800-2000w. www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

All our pre- #Halloween short story videos from #BellBookAndCandle are here, now! If you performed or wrote one, please follow us on here and say hi and we’ll follow you back. If not, just enjoy! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Great fun rehearsing LITTLE MAN with author @rhystimson.bsky.social & actor Tony Bell. If you like creepy, funny, oddly poignant stories involving frogs, alchemists & knob gags this is your niche choice. See it live THIS TUE 8 Oct at The Phoenix W1. £5 tix here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

Today’s #ghoststory teaser is THIS BIG FUTURE by Elizabeth Stott, to be read by Clive Greenwood at our pre-#Halloween event, BELL, BOOK & CANDLE this Tue 8 Oct at The Phoenix pub, W1 When David answers the phone, he doesn’t expect to speak to his dead wife … £5 tickets here: www.liarsleague.com

Pleased to report last night's rehearsal of "Two Down" by #LiarsLeague debut author Hannah Noyce, read by Kim Scopes gave us not only icks but also chills! Get your creepy conundra & clue-setting stalkers at #BellBookAndCandle on Tue 8 Oct at The Phoenix for £5: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...

🎃 BOO! 🎃 #BellBookAndCandle, our #HalloweenStory special is GO next Tue 8 Oct at The Phoenix, W1. Listen to six spooky actor-read stories of poison-books & creepy crosswords, body-bags, alchemy, ghost cats & wives who won't stay dead, for just £5! Tickets here: www.liarsleague.com/liars_league...