Your Opinions Are Not Your Identity
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If you would like to cover the prize in any way, and help us spread the word some more, please do get in touch. We would love to hear from you!
Please visit barbellionprize.org for full details.
Birthday Book 🎂📚
Attention-Seeking Behaviour by @aeavvw.bsky.social has been lying in wait (in wrapping paper) for my birthday. Finally get to peak inside 📖
For Western civilisation not to implode politically, we need to return to the idea that your views about politics, society, and art are not your identity.
Thank you Michael Caines for giving us a mention in @thetls.bsky.social!
"A notable revival is the Barbellion prize-named for W.N.P. Barbellion, the diarist, who suffered from multiple sclerosis - which "celebrates & promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness & disability"…
The Barbellion Prize
Jake Goldsmith
Vlad Vexler
The Barbellion Prize
Had a great time; was lovely to meet everyone (in the physical, non-digital realm). I look suitably grumpy in the photograph here but I can assure you I was highly focused and enjoying myself. Also, everyone must buy a copy of @guillermostitch.bsky.social's 'The Coast of Everything' double please
Jake Goldsmith
Busy fortnight:
Thur 4th June 7pm (BST)
online book launch with Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
Thur 11th June
www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/dada-d...
Mon 15th June
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-coast-...
Tue 16th June
Allender Calendar podcast (pre-recorded)
Wed 17th June
www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-for...
An intimate evening of fiction, conversation and live comedy.
"And who among our current rulers, or saleable pundits, shows any prudence or fit memory?"
@jgoldsmith.bsky.social on livable Luddism. Issue 21 of @exactingclam.bsky.socialÂ
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21-summer-2026/necessarily-hypocritical-luddism/
Issue 21 of Exacting Clam is officially out today and just as stunning on the inside as it is on the front and back covers. The new digital-only subscription which will soon deliver the entirety of back issues online.
https://www.exactingclam.com
It was quite a room. Thanks to everyone who came.
Tonight's launch at The Wheatsheaf Tavern in Fitzrovia of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything.' You had to be there.
Tonight's launch at The Wheatsheaf Tavern in Fitzrovia of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything.' You had to be there.
Tonight's launch at The Wheatsheaf Tavern in Fitzrovia of Guillermo Stitch's 'The Coast of Everything.' You had to be there.
