#kirstylogan

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Getting in the mood for ghost stories yet? (I know we have a while till spooky season but it's not far off!). Got a few copies of my queer horror zine left with stories by the amazing Kirsty Logan - check it out over on my shop - https://buff.ly/3yD3Je0

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🍂Now She Is Witch🍂 Review

Now She Is Witch by @kirstylogan Review

‘My great-grandmother’s toy house and my grandmother’s herb books. The owl shrieked under my window and I can still feel her beside me.’

A beautifully written story about the power women has (or don’t) over themselves. Let it be a simple choice from; What should I wear today? to the right of their own function and the choice and forge of their own fate and future with their wisdom that comes from the biggest goddess of all; Mother Earth. 

I truly, truly highly recommend this book to everyone who needs some magic in their life or just a green light to finally be who they are. Kirsty Logan became one of the authors whose work I would definitely follow in the future and catch up on her past. A massive thank you to @tri.northern who brought these gems into my life. Like Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I can finally close 2022 with a satisfied sigh. 

Out by @vintagebooks 12/01/2023 

[thebookkatblog]

On an unnamed Scottish island, Mara and her family present to the reader a story about love, in its many forms. The Gloaming by @kirstylogan (named from the Scottish term for when the sun is setting, but darkness has not taken over the sky) is a bewitching tale of a family consumed by love, grief and the magic that draws one home. . The Gloaming is a fairytale, a reflection of human emotion, with water playing an important part. It gives and takes, offering the characters an emotional cleansing... a start over from their grief. . When Mara meets Pearl, a young woman with a rather large book collection, she undergoes a transformation of her own. She experiences a life away from the little island but she cannot help but be drawn back. . The book is a really beautiful tale of loving and grieving, making and unmaking, growth and decline. I really, really enjoyed this book... it is sweet and sad and has some seriously beautiful writing! . #thegloaming #kirstylogan #rainbowbooks #bookishrainbow #bluebooks #bookwormabroad #instabook #lovebooks #igreads #bookstagram #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #bookgram #reading #booknerd #booknerdigans #fullybooked #book #bookgram #ausyabloggers #diversebooks #bookphoto #booksofinstagram #booklife

[bibliobethblog]

Hi everyone and happy Friday!! Today I’m taking a break from hauling twice a week as I’m almost on top of my hauls 😂 and sharing another shelf from my bookshelf tour. This shelf contains fiction from authors where their surname begins with L going into M and are currently all unread. I do have plans to get to Apeirogon, The Shadow King, Consent and Things We Say In The Dark, the latter of which I think I remember @victoria_catherine_shaw loving. Swipe across to see the front of the shelf (yes I’ve double stacked 😂) If you’ve read any of these books and want to recommend them, please feel free. Also, if you’d like to buddy read any of them with me, let me know! Let’s have a chat in the comments 🥰 #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookshelftour #mybookcollection #tbrpile #booksimexcitedfor #apeirogon #columnmccann #consent #annabellyon #thingswesayinthedark #kirstylogan #theshadowking #maazamengiste #iwillreadtheseoneday https://www.instagram.com/p/CXBuHh_A1an/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bookramblings]

The Gloaming

Author: Kirsty Logan

Published by: Harvill Secker

Pages: 312

Format: Hardback

My Rating ★★★★

The best lives leave a mark.

Mara’s island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all the islanders before her.

Mara’s parents – a boxer and a ballerina – chose this enchanted place as a refuge from the turbulence of their previous lives; they wanted to bring up their children somewhere special and safe. But the island and the sea don’t care what people want, and when they claim a price from her family, Mara’s world unravels.

It takes the arrival of Pearl, mysterious and irresistible, to light a spark in Mara again, and allow her to consider a different story for herself.

My thoughts:

The Gloaming is a wonderful tale of love, self-discovery and grief, and the gap between fairy tales and real life.

The novel is a lovely new piece of magical realism from Kirsty Logan, and I really enjoyed it. It was a gentle, dreamy sort of read, but there was also a mysterious darker undercurrent, which kept me intrigued from beginning to end.

Throughout the book, fantasy cleverly intertwines with reality, which made the novel such an interesting and unique read. The writing is expressive and transporting, pulling readers into a world of strange fantasy. It is a book of quiet beauty with a haunting storyline that tugs at the heartstrings.

The main focus of the novel is on Mara, a middle child, and her life upon the island she was raised on for the latter half of her life. Then tragedy strikes and there is something incredibly solitary about the characters and the way they try to deal with their grief. Eventually, as each of Mara’s parents age more and their bodies stiffen, they feel death approaching and, as is tradition on the island, they must go up the steep hill and become statues to stay forever looking out to sea. The isolated island setting is so important to the feel of the book, and I really was hooked by the writing.

For Mara, magic returns to her life upon meeting Pearl, another woman living on the island. Pearl is a mysterious and strange outsider, and her arrival into Mara's life changes things. Kirsty Logan creates a wonderfully intriguing atmosphere of melancholy and quiet magic, allowing the reader to see and interpret the novel as they wish. Depending on how the individual reader perceives the writing is key to understanding Pearl, who indeed may or may not in fact be an actual real mermaid. Like all good magical realism books, there is of course a hint of darkness underneath everything, and I felt that with Pearl in particular. She is enigmatic, puzzling and secretive. Personally, her character left me with the sense that she was definitely hiding something, but the individual reader must decide whether or not this is actually the case. This is furthered by the clever handling of the ending, which takes an ambiguous approach that is both original and perfectly pitched for a tale of this kind. After all, perhaps the best stories, just like fairy tales, never really end...

From start to finish, the narrative focuses on the issues of identity, what it is to be a woman, loss, grief and love. I enjoyed the book very much, but in the end I did feel a little confused as to whether or not I had really understood the story in the way the author actually intended. Reflecting on it now, however, I think that maybe that is exactly the point. As with Mara, her parents and her siblings, the true meaning of a story is simply different for everyone.  

Ultimately, I would describe The Gloaming as an enchanting coming-of-age novel that flows with bewitching imagination, beautiful language, along with imaginative twisted fairy tales.

Overall reaction:

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Day 20 of #harpiesreadaug is "LGBTQIA+", and I'm rereading A PORTABLE SHELTER. a gorgeous, queer, captivating short story collection/fairytale retelling by @kirstylogan - two wives are expecting their first child, and they promise to only tell the child truths. However, the pregnant partner tells the baby stories when her wife is at work, and the non-pregnant partner tells the baby stories when her wife is asleep. We get to read those stories, and they're brilliant 📚❤️🏳️‍🌈 #books #read #reading #bookish #booklover #booklife #bibliophile #lgbtqia #shortstories #fairytales #retelling #kirstylogan #aportableshelter

[a-trichster-life]

I've finished my first book for @booktubeathon 💪😊 Loved this book! 4.5 ⭐ Also how beautiful is this cover? 😍 How is everyone else doing? ☺️ #booktubeathon #booktubeathon2017 #btat17 #booktuber #bookstagram #bookish #bookworm #booklover #bookphotography #books #bookshelf #thegracekeepers #kirstylogan

[annetsagkari]

I recently had a discussion with another bookstagrammer about short stories.

They are a hit and miss for me.

✨Q: What are some of your favourite short story collections?

I've loved Things We say in the dark by Kirsty Logan and would absolutely recommend this to anyone who loves atmospheric, folk, feminist horror. A real gem and I'm excited to read her other books.

Apple and Knife was an interesting collection, with many stories about ghosts and with an overall feeling of creepiness.

Mouthful of Birds was a decent collection, with a few memorable stories and others which were too short and left me unimpressed.

I'm looking forward to reading Foxfire, Wolf skin and other stories of shape shifting women.

🏷️ #shortstories #kirstylogan #fictionbooks #bookstagram #magicalrealism #appleandknife #intanparamaditha #mouthfulofbirds #samanthaschweblin #thingswesayinthedark #feministhorror #bookflatlay #feministfiction #womenintranslation #beautifulbookcovers #bookphotography #summereads #comfortreads #booklover #bookworm #booknerd #bookaddict #bookstagrammer @vintagebooks

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This time last year I was listening to the Point Horror audiobooks from #storycircleproductions A Halloween flashback to the 90s. Ghosts, murder, secrets and teen angst galore! This year I have discovered @teenagescreampod by @kirstylogan and @heather_parry that lovingly or fondly dissects the best and worst of 90s teen horror. A funny and nostalgic look at this massively popular series. #teenagescream #podcast #pointhorror #theaccident #thedeadgirlfriend #thefunhouse #halloweennight #thecemetary #dreamdate #trickortreat #thewitness (at Crawley) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGuX6HZHKG0/?igshid=158we5lm8f48z

[cathygeha]

INTERNATIONAL AND UNDER-REPRESENTED VOICES

DOMINATE THE LONGLIST FOR THE

15th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE

  Key Dates

Shortlist Announcement – 7th April

British Library Event with shortlisted authors, London– 13th May

Winner Announcement and award ceremony, Swansea – 14th May

  From left: Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, Meena Kandasamy, Kirsty Logan, Helen Mort, Yelena Moskovich, Téa Obreht, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Stephen Sexton, Madhuri Vijay, Ocean Vuong and Bryan Washington

 www.swansea.ac.uk/dylan-thomas-prize/   @dylanthomprize    #SUDTP20

From Brazil to Hong Kong, India, and Ukraine via Vietnam, this year’s powerful Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist combines a rich, international collection of young , experimental writers who are offering platforms for under-represented voices and exploring pressing social and world themes across identity, culture and power.

Celebrating the Prize’s 15th anniversary, we are thrilled to announce acclaimed Indian feminist writer and novelist,

Meena Kandasamy

, Hong Kong born LGBTQ+ poet

Mary Jean Chan

, Ukrainian-born artist and writer

Yelena Moskovich

, Brazilian-British debut novelist

Yara Rodrigues Fowler

, Vietnamese-American novelist

Ocean Vuong

, and Belgrade-born Orange Prize winner

Téa Obreht

are among the 12 authors on the longlist for the

£30,000  ~ Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.

The 12 longlisted titles will be judged by a bumper guest panel chaired by Swansea University’s Professor Dai Smith CBE, including annual judge Professor Kurt Heinzelman, the award-winning writer and founder of Jaipur Literature Festival Namita Gokhale, acclaimed writer and 2011 winner of the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize Lucy Caldwell, the British-Ghanaian writer, poet and critic Bridget Minamore, celebrated writer and presenter of BBC Radio 3: The Verb Ian McMillan and national arts and culture journalist Max Liu.

This year’s longlist comprises seven novels, three poetry collections and two short story collections:

·       Surge - Jay Bernard (Chatto & Windus)

·       Flèche - Mary Jean Chan (Faber & Faber)

·       Exquisite Cadavers - Meena Kandasamy (Atlantic Books)

·       Things we say in the Dark - Kirsty Logan (Harvell Secker, Vintage)

·       Black Car Burning - Helen Mort (Chatto & Windus)

·       Virtuoso- Yelena Moskovich (Serpent’s Tail)

·       Inland - Téa Obreht (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

·       Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler (Fleet)

·       If All the World and Love were Young - Stephen Sexton (Penguin Random House)

·       The Far Field - Madhuri Vijay (Atlantic Books)

·       On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong (Jonathan Cape, Vintage)

·       Lot - Bryan Washington (Atlantic Books)

Worth £30,000, it is one of the UK’s most prestigious literary prizes as well as the world’s largest literary prize for young writers. Awarded for the best published literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or under, the Prize celebrates the international world of fiction in all its forms including poetry, novels, short stories and drama.

On receiving the 2019 award for his debut novel In Our Mad and Furious City, Guy Gunaratne said: “Dylan Thomas has always meant a lot to me, he’s a writer I’ve always turned to for inspiration. And after winning this prize, my mind just goes to all the other writers, or aspiring writers, who are writing from a place like where I began. A place like Neasden, somewhere I always thought was a nowhere place. But to make art out of the world, the language, the voices I grew up around I always felt was important…”

The shortlist will be announced on the 7th April, followed by a British Library Event, London on the 13th May and Winner’s Ceremony held in Swansea on International Dylan Thomas Day, 14th May.

 For further information including interview requests for the judges please contact

Kate Appleton at Midas Public Relations I Kate.appleton@midaspr.co.uk 020 7361 7866

  NOTES FOR EDITORS

Key Dates for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize

·       Shortlist will be announced 00:00 GMT 7th April 2020

·       British Library London Event Wednesday 13th May 2020

·       Winner will be announced evening of Thursday 14th May 2020  

 About the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize: Launched in 2006, the annual Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize is one of the most prestigious awards for young writers, aimed at encouraging raw creative talent worldwide. It celebrates and nurtures international literary excellence. Worth £30,000, it is one of the UK’s most prestigious literary prizes as well as the world’s largest literary prize for young writers. Awarded for the best published literary work in the English language, written by an author aged 39 or under, the Prize celebrates the international world of fiction in all its forms including poetry, novels, short stories and drama. The prize is named after the Swansea-born writer, Dylan Thomas, and celebrates his 39 years of creativity and productivity. One of the most influential, internationally-renowned writers of the mid-twentieth century, the prize invokes his memory to support the writers of today and nurture the talents of tomorrow.

ABOUT THE LONGLIST

Jay Bernard, Surge (Chatto & Windus)

Jay Bernard is the author of the pamphlets Your Sign is Cuckoo, Girl (Tall Lighthouse, 2008), English Breakfast (Math Paper Press, 2013) and The Red and Yellow Nothing (Ink Sweat & Tears Press, 2016), which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2017. A film programmer at BFI Flare and an archivist at Statewatch, they also participated in ‘The Complete Works II’ project in 2014 and in which they were mentored by Kei Miller. Jay was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2005 and a winner of SLAMbassadors UK spoken word championship. In 2019 Jay was selected by Jackie Kay as one of Britain's ten best BAME writers for the British Council and National Centre for Writing's International Literature Showcase. Their poems have been collected in Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe, 2009), The Salt Book of Younger Poets (Salt, 2011), Ten: The New Wave (Bloodaxe, 2014) and Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets (Bloodaxe, 2014).

 Mary Jean Chan, Flèche (Faber & Faber)

Mary Jean Chan is a London-based poet, lecturer and editor from Hong Kong. Her debut poetry collection, Flèche (Faber & Faber), is the winner of the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry. Chan has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and is the recipient of a 2019 Eric Gregory Award and the 2018 Poetry Society Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. Chan currently lectures in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University. Follow her on Twitter @maryjean_chan

Meena Kandasamy, Exquisite Cadavers (Atlantic Books)

Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010), and the critically acclaimed novel, Gypsy Goddess. Her second novel, When I Hit You, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for fiction 2018. She currently lives in East London. Follow her on Twitter @meenakandasamy

Kirsty Logan, Things we say in the Dark (Harvell Secker, Vintage)

Kirsty Logan is the author of the novels The Gracekeepers and The Gloaming, the short story collections A Portable Shelter and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales, the flash fiction chapbook The Psychology of Animals Swallowed Alive, and the short memoir The Old Asylum in the Woods at the Edge of the Town Where I Grew Up. Her books have won the LAMBDA Literary Award, the Polari First Book Prize, the Saboteur Award, the Scott Prize and the Gavin Wallace Fellowship, and been selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. In 2019 she was selected as one of the ten most outstanding LGBTQ British writers for the International Literature Showcase. Her short fiction and poetry have been translated into Japanese and Spanish, recorded for radio and podcasts, exhibited in galleries and distributed from a vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine. She lives in Glasgow with her wife and their rescue dog. Follow her on Twitter @kirstylogan

Helen Mort, Black Car Burning (Chatto & Windus)

Helen Mort was born in Sheffield in 1985 and grew up in nearby Chesterfield. Five times winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, she received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and won the Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008. Her first collection, Division Street (2013), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Costa Poetry Award and won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. In 2014, she was named as a ‘Next Generation Poet’, the prestigious accolade announced only once every ten years, recognising the 20 most exciting new poets from the UK and Ireland. No Map Could Show Them (2016), her second collection, about women and mountaineering, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Helen has been the Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence and the Derbyshire Poet Laureate and was named one of the RSL’s 40 under 40 Fellows in 2018. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Sheffield. Black Car Burning is her first novel. Follow her on Twitter @HelenMort

Yelena Moskovich, Virtuoso (Serpent’s Tail)

Yelena Moskovich was born in the former USSR and emigrated to Wisconsin with her family as Jewish refugees in 1991. She studied theatre at Emerson College, Boston, and in France at the Lecoq School of Physical Theatre and Université Paris 8. Her plays and performances have been produced in the US, Canada, France, and Sweden. Her first novel The Natashas was published by Serpent's Tail in 2016. She has also written for New Statesman, Paris Review and 3:AM Magazine, and in French for Mixt(e) Magazine, won the 2017 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize in 2017 and was a curator for the 2018 Los Angeles Queer Biennial. She lives in Paris. Follow her on Twitter @yelenamoskovich

 Téa Obreht, Inland  (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Téa Obreht is the author of The Tiger’s Wife, winner of the Orange Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and Inland. She was born in Belgrade, in the former Yugoslavia, in 1985 and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve. She currently lives in New York City. Follow her on Instagram @teaobreht

Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Stubborn Archivist  (Fleet)

Yara Rodrigues Fowler is a novelist from South London. She is also a trustee of Latin American Women’s Aid, an organisation that runs the only two refuges in Europe for and by Latin American women. Stubborn Archivist is Yara’s first novel; she is currently writing her second. Follow her on Twitter @yazzarf

 Stephen Sexton, If All the World and Love were Young  (Penguin Random House)

Stephen Sexton lives in Belfast where he teaches at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. His first book, If All the World and Love Were Young, is forthcoming from Penguin. Follow him on Twitter @ssexton02

 Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field (Atlantic Books)

Madhuri Vijay was born and raised in Bangalore. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her writing has appeared in Best American Non-Required Reading, Narrative Magazine, and Elle India, among other publications. The Far Field is her first book. She currently lives in Hawaii.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Jonathan Cape, Vintage)

Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have also been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. In 2019 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he serves as an Assistant Professor of English at UMass-Amherst. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is his first novel. Follow him on Twitter @oceanvuong​

Bryan Washington, Lot (Atlantic Books)

Bryan Washington has written for the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Paris Review, Boston Review, Tin House, One Story, GQ, FADER, The Awl, and Catapult. He lives in Houston, Texas. Follow him on Twitter @BryWashing

ABOUT THE JUDGES

Belfast-born Lucy Caldwell was shortlisted for the inaugural Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize in 2006 for her debut novel, Where They Were Missed, and won the award in 2011 for her second novel, The Meeting Point. She has since written a third novel, several stage plays and radio dramas and, most recently, two collections of short stories, Multitudes (2016) and Intimacies, forthcoming with Faber in June, as well as editing the critically-acclaimed anthology Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (2019).  She was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  She tweets at @beingvarious.

Namita Gokhale is an award-winning writer, publisher and festival director. She is the author of eighteen books, including ten works of fiction. Her latest novel, Jaipur Journals, will be released in January 2020. Gokhale is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival and of Mountain Echoes, the Bhutan Literature Festival. She is also one of the founder directors of Yatra Books, a publishing house specialised in translation. Follow her on Twitter @NamitaGokhale_

Bridget Minamore is a British-Ghanaian writer, poet, critic, and dramaturg from south-east London. As a journalist, she is a contributor to The Guardian. She was chosen as one of Speaking Volumes’ 40 Stars of Black British Literature, has read her work internationally, and is the co-lead tutor for the Roundhouse Poetry Collective. Titanic (Out-Spoken Press), Bridget’s debut pamphlet of poems on modern love and loss, was published in May 2016. She is currently working on her first novel, an extract of which was published in anthology New Daughters of Africa (Myriad) in 2019. She tweets @bridgetminamore

Ian McMillan is a writer and broadcaster who presents The Verb on BBC Radio 3 every Friday night. He's written poems, plays, a verse autobiography Talking Myself Home and a voyage round Yorkshire in Neither Nowt Nor Summat. He watches Darfield and Yorkshire Cricket Clubs and the only time he played cricket, at Low Valley Juniors in 1963, Mrs Hudson told him to take his balaclava off or she'd make him wear his mother's Rainmate. Ian’s latest collection is To Fold The Evening Star - New and Selected Poems (Carcanet). Ian was recently awarded The Freedom of Barnsley .

Ian is poet-in-residence for The Academy of Urbanism, Barnsley FC and now Barnsley Poet Laureate. As well as presenting The Verb every week, he’s a regular on BBC Breakfast, Coast, Countryfile, Pointless Celebrities, Pick of the Week, Last Word and BBC Proms Plus. He’s been a castaway on Desert Island Discs. Previously, he was resident poet for English National Opera, UK Trade & Investment, Yorkshire TV’s Investigative Poet and Humberside Police’s Beat Poet. He also narrates the stories of The Yorkshire Dales and The Lakes (More4).

Now, he’s writing a libretto, The Tin Soldier, with Jonathan Dove for Leeds Festival Chorus, then a new show for Mikron Theatre’s 50th anniversary year of touring in 2021 and a libretto for a Yorkshire Barber of Seville with Freedom Studios. Cats make him sneeze. @IMcMillan www.ian-mcmillan.co.uk

 Max Liu grew up in Cornwall in a community of artists and writers. He's written about arts, culture and society for the i, the Financial Times and the Guardian. He reviews books and interviews authors for newspapers and has been a guest on Radio Four’s Open Book. In 2019, he interviewed, among others, Elif Shafak, Isabel Allende, Jhumpa Lahiri and wrote elsewhere about subjects including men’s responses to the #MeToo movement and the gendered nature of housework. His essay about losing friends in his thirties went viral and sparked debates about the nature of male friendship. He lives in London where he regularly chairs literary events. Follow him on Twitter @maxjliu

Professor Dai Smith CBE is a distinguished historian and writer on Welsh arts and culture. As a Broadcaster he has won numerous awards for arts and historical documentaries and from 1992 to 2000 was Head of Programmes at BBC Wales. He was Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Glamorgan from 2001 until 2005 and is currently the Emeritus Raymond Williams Research Chair in the Cultural History of Wales at Swansea University. He was Chair of the Arts Council of Wales from 2006 until 2016. In 2013, he published a novel Dream On and in 2014 edited definitive anthologies of Welsh short stories, Story I & II, for the Library of Wales. In 2020 he published the novel, The Crossing, as the final part of his projected fictional trilogy of work. Professor Smith is Chair of the Judging Panel.

Professor Kurt Heinzelman is a poet, translator, and scholar. His most recent book of poems is Whatever You May Say and he has translated Demarcations, a collection of poems by Jean Follain. He has been the Executive Curator at the Harry Ransom Centre and the Director of Education at the Blanton Museum of Art. A Professor of English at the University of Texas-Austin specializing in Poetry and Poetics and a teacher in the Michener Centre for Writers, he is also the former Editor-in-Chief of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL), and the co-founder and long-time Advisory Editor of Bat City Review.

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Fancy some spooky reads in time for Halloween? I still have a few copies of my zine with the amazing author @kirstylogan available over on my shops. Featuring 6 short queer stories inspired by myths and legends from the British Isles. Grab one while you can! www.blockforest.co.uk/links

[helenlp1]

Today's face: @KirstyLogan #drawingfaces #portraiture #thesketchbookproject #illustration Today's face: Kirsty. This is the third page in my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project on the theme "people I wish I knew". Drawn in a The Sketchbook Project sketchbook with a Micron 005 pen and Copic markers.

[cazvincent]

Things We Say in the Dark - Kirsty Logan

#bookreview #DylanThomasLongList Things We Say in the Dark - Kirsty Logan @kirstylogan #SUDTP20 dylanthomasprize @midaspr

Fear. Dread. The unexpected, the unexplainable, the utterly incomprehensible and the unsettling all combined into the stories of Kirsty Logan’s ‘Things We Say in the Dark’. A collection of dark and disturbing, sometimes bizarre, tales that cannot leave you untouched ~ that keep hurdling through your mind.

The Blurb

So here we go, into the dark.

Some things can’t be spoken about in the…

[giftsforbooklovers]

RT @booksintights: our house in the middle of the street. @KirstyLogan #BookPhotography https://t.co/cH1Zk1f62V

our house in the middle of the street. @KirstyLogan #BookPhotography http://pic.twitter.com/cH1Zk1f62V

— Books in Tights (@booksintights) April 5, 2017

[booksforyears]

Day 28 of the #squeakybookishlibrary FRIENDS Challenge is "Ugly Naked Guy". Here are some of my naked hardbacks - hardcover books published without a dust jacket. They may be naked, but never ugly 📚❤️😏 #books #read #reading #bookish #booklover #booklife #bibliophile #uglynakedguy #nakedhardbacks #urgentunheardstories #roxanegay #shortstories #envelopepoems #emilydickinson #poetry #sladehouse #davidmitchell #aportableshelter #kirstylogan #bookstagram #booksofinstagram

[annetsagkari]

I recently had a discussion with another bookstagrammer about short stories.

They are a hit and miss for me.

✨Q: What are some of your favourite short story collections?

I've loved Things We say in the dark by Kirsty Logan and would absolutely recommend this to anyone who loves atmospheric, folk, feminist horror. A real gem and I'm excited to read her other books.

Apple and Knife was an interesting collection, with many stories about ghosts and with an overall feeling of creepiness.

Mouthful of Birds was a decent collection, with a few memorable stories and others which were too short and left me unimpressed.

I'm looking forward to reading Foxfire, Wolf skin and other stories of shape shifting women.

🏷️ #shortstories #kirstylogan #fictionbooks #bookstagram #magicalrealism #appleandknife #intanparamaditha #mouthfulofbirds #samanthaschweblin #thingswesayinthedark #feministhorror #bookflatlay #feministfiction #womenintranslation #beautifulbookcovers #bookphotography #summereads #comfortreads #booklover #bookworm #booknerd #bookaddict #bookstagrammer @vintagebooks

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