Writer. Essays, fiction and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, Slightly Foxed, Exacting Clam, Review 31, Poetry Birmingham, minor literature[s]. Author of Beckett and the Second World War (Bloomsbury)
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W. J. Davies
Fake Men Having Fake Fights, my article on wrestling, manliness and storytelling, is out now with @minorliteratures.bsky.social
Fake Men Having Fake Fights, my article on wrestling, manliness and storytelling, is out now with @minorliteratures.bsky.social
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For this week's TLS, I wrote about Malc's Boy, Shaun Wilson's debut and the first publication from Conduit Books. www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
My pick for @review31.bsky.social's Books of the Year 2025 is Alex Pheby's Waterblack, the third volume in the Cities of the Weft trilogy. Superb, strange fantasy that has reinvigorated the genre. @alexpheby.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social
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1/2 The Guardian's list of forthcoming 2026 fictions (www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...) overlooks these indie highlights (alphabetically, by title):
Anti-social Behaviour by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
As If by Isabel Waidner
The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
I spent some time with last year's Nightjar Press chapbooks and ended up writing about creepy birds and the contemporary gothic. Review 31 kindly took it on. Free to read here: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
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I spent some time with last year's Nightjar Press chapbooks and ended up writing about creepy birds and the contemporary gothic. Review 31 kindly took it on. Free to read here: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
@review31.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social
last week @ minor lits...
— @wjdavies.bsky.social on masculinity
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— an extract from @nameofauthor.bsky.social
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— Daniel Gianfranceschi relinquishing control
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Monthly Dispatch #31 — ft. Daniel Gianfranceschi, Sharon Zhang, Steinar Løding @zissenberg.bsky.social @wjdavies.bsky.social David Vichnar @nameofauthor.bsky.social @gpayares.bsky.social Antonio Moresco, Jennifer K. Dick & more...
OUT NOW
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T was I and not u and not me neither u T was masterfully planned, ahead, wif a head, not mine neither urs neither their and not I but T was planned and planned T was, whether this life or not, this…
"In 1998, I watched Mark Calaway hurl Mick Foley from the roof of a 16-foot-high cage ..."
Fake Men Having Fake Fights: On Wrestle-Lit and Masculinity — @wjdavies.bsky.social
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"In 1998, I watched Mark Calaway hurl Mick Foley from the roof of a 16-foot-high cage ..."
Fake Men Having Fake Fights: On Wrestle-Lit and Masculinity — @wjdavies.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2026/01/20/f...
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In 1998, I watched Mark Calaway hurl Mick Foley from the roof of a 16-foot-high cage. It was the World Wrestling Federation’s third ever ‘Hell in a Cell’ match, which usually sees wrestlers locked …
In 1998, I watched Mark Calaway hurl Mick Foley from the roof of a 16-foot-high cage. It was the World Wrestling Federation’s third ever ‘Hell in a Cell’ match, which usually sees wrestlers locked …
