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Writer. Short story collections DARK PLAY and WHERE WE LIVE. Nightjar Press chapbook THE JUDGMENT. Early years teacher, PhD student. From Bridgend, South Wales.
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Jesus, just caught Matt Goss on #frontrow on the way home. Very quickly reminded of how wild that film was…

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Have only recently got into John Cale, and I’m a bit obsessed. Delighted to see this coming out…

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Got a new story in this. It’s called Debris, and it features a piece of space junk on the South Wales Coalfield… 5767.co.uk/product/spin...

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Interesting set up this morning… #iconoclasmaschildsplay

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This is very, very good…

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New books…

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Hard to believe that it’s been a whole year since ‘The Hours of Our Lady’ was pub'd by @salopress.bsky.social . Huge thanks to everyone that bought a copy, and those who said nice things about it! If you'd like to read it, it’s available from the Salo Press store! www.salopress.com/store/the-ho...

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Contrary to this post, I have started 2025 with my first piece of short fiction in over a year. Sent it off this morning… 🤞

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Went all the way to Hereford to watch Nosferatu this evening, then took a stroll past the cathedral…

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Thanks to everyone who read Dark Play in 2024, and to those who reviewed it - the response has been a highlight of my year. Massive thanks to @salopress.bsky.social for publishing it. Once my PhD is done, I’ll have more weird on the way.

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Last book of the year. Kathleen Jamie is always outstanding…

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The view that inspired my story, The Visitor - which you can read here nation.cymru/culture/shor... - and from which, at times, you can see fog glaciers…

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Tree of cormorants… 💀

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Booked tickets to see Propagandhi in Amsterdam in May - first time since 2009, when they were touring this beast… m.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWB...

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A ghost story for Christmas (sort of), if you fancy it… nation.cymru/culture/shor...

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Windy in Wales…

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Packing for the Christmas break…

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In the xmas spirit of gratuitous self-promotion, here’s a reminder that I’ve also written 2 #chapbooks. For the price of a pint you could buy ‘Return’ from @nightjarpress.bsky.social , or ‘The Hours of Our Lady’ from @salopress.bsky.social and feel the warm glow of supporting great small publishers.

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"Tim Cooke’s stories bleed originality. They are eye-opening, distinctive and often absurd, and they continue to surprise and delight." - @lmcknighthardy.bsky.social salopress.com

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#The16DaysOf @nightjarpress.bsky.social #Day4 #TheJudgment Buildings, conversions & trauma porn opportunism. Absences. And an absence of absolution? The Women. The Questions. The Game. A controlled, spine-tingling #folkhorror that'll have you checking the fusebox. Not that it'll do you any good...

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Wild Twin is one of Psychogeographic Review's Books of the Year. Thanks to @bobbyseal.bsky.social for including me in such great company.

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It's @bobbyseal.bsky.social with his books of the year. psychogeographicreview.com/psychogeogra...

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In good company there!

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Whilst there's no seasonal discounts here, we'd like to give a shout-out to our ridiculously good bundle offers 🤩 You can get our poetry chapbooks for less than £4 each... Free postage, too 😏 salopress.com/store

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Two stories! Thanks so much @datlow.bsky.social

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Apologies for one last shameless plug… Still buzzing about this review of Dark Play by the brilliant Niall Griffiths. You can buy it here: salopress.com/store/dark-p... nation.cymru/culture/book...

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Great book!

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This is immense. All the excellent mundane drama of his autobiographical work, with a deeply weird edge. Can’t stop reading…

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Hey kids, do you like the lonely isolation of the city? Do you love to read stuff that makes you feel cold and empty and like the world makes just a little less sense than it did before? Then ask your parents to add HUNTING BY THE RIVER to your Christmas list!

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One of my favourite ever writers has reviewed my book and I might just retire on it. Thanks Niall Griffiths and @nation.cymru

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Folk horror, rural noir, the new weird. A debut collection of oddball stories is all of these and more wp.me/p8Mk4U-ReJ

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"What this collection does brilliantly is to rupture the diurnal; to show the deep oddness at the heart of domesticity, and, especially, at the core of parenthood..." salopress.com/store

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The Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia by William Burns - book review. psychogeographicreview.com/the-ghost-of... @headpress.bsky.social

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