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🌱 Writer | Queer Ecologies ❇️ Participatory artist πŸŽ™οΈ Co-Host @buttons_tender: https://t.co/h4OXWKI7wU Recent βœ’οΈ : https://t.co/B9I5HMIBcv

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@JMDemus
Jack Young
4 years
My hybrid chapbook of interspecies intimacies URTH is out now alongside the @_SpikeIsland residency πŸ›πŸ„πŸŒ± Part folk-horror, part camp-gothic, part post-gentrification city writing, finding the Weird everywhere. You can order below πŸ”—πŸ‘‡ (1/2) https://t.co/NR8zk9N6Oj
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Jack Young
1 year
Loved chatting with Helen Oyeyemi about her new novel Parasol Against the Axe, as well as the through lines of play, perplexity, shape-shifting narrators, that weave across her work. Listen here: https://t.co/lVGzCK41SI
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storysmithbooks.com
Tender ButtonsΒ is a Bristol-based literary podcast, in partnership with us at Storysmith, hosted by local writers Jessica Andrews (author ofΒ SaltwaterΒ andΒ Milk Teeth) and Jack Y…
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Tender Buttons Podcast
1 year
New episode with the legendary Helen Oyeyemi! We chat about her dizzying new novel Parasol Against the Axe, writing Prague, shape-shifting narratives, the role of play and perplexity across her work & so much more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks πŸ‘‡πŸ»πŸŽ§οΈ https://t.co/Ur0e4i6BBw
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Jack Young
1 year
Loved talking to Andrew McMillan about his novel PITY: how the novel can hold multiple truths, the need to find a new language to talk about the past & community, the dangers of describing post-industrial towns by their lack or an absence & so much more πŸ‘‡πŸŽ§
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Tender Buttons Podcast
1 year
Season 6 is here! We chat Andrew McMillan (@AMcMillanPoet ) about his novel Pity, post-industrial northern identities, how everyone’s village, town or city is worthy of literature & much, much more @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks πŸ‘‡πŸŽ§ https://t.co/QoalAZXuJ0
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Tender Buttons Podcast
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Season 6 is here! We chat Andrew McMillan (@AMcMillanPoet ) about his novel Pity, post-industrial northern identities, how everyone’s village, town or city is worthy of literature & much, much more @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks πŸ‘‡πŸŽ§ https://t.co/QoalAZXuJ0
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Jack Young
1 year
Thrilled to be chatting to the very brilliant Jean-Baptise del Amo @StanfordsBrist about his new book with @FitzcarraldoEds ' The Son of Man' on 29.5.24. Tickets below πŸ‘‡πŸ”₯
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Jack Young
2 years
Was such an honour to host this live episode with @AnnieBrooker_ last week in-house @StorysmithBooks, we covered so much in this conversation: around politics of care, activist affordances, play as world-making & much, much more πŸ‘‡
@buttons_tender
Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
New LIVE episode with Marianne Brooker πŸŽ™οΈπŸŒ‹ We discuss her new book Intervals, the politics of care, writing as reparative magic, intersections of class, gender and disability and so much more @StorysmithBooks @FitzcarraldoEds @AnnieBrooker_ πŸ‘‡πŸŽ§ https://t.co/PMyw3yBW6s
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Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
Listened to our Sheila Heti ep. yet? We discuss hybrid forms, what it means to write away from a 'writer' performance, the rhythm & materiality of language, pushing the boundaries of the novel and much more @FitzcarraldoEds @StorysmithBooks https://t.co/943z0ku6Dm
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Jack Young
2 years
Thrilled to share our latest episode with Sheila Heti: we go deep into her new book Alphabetical diaries, writing like painting, against linear time & continuous ideas of the self, hybridity of form & much, much more https://t.co/lFXdWmlNHu
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storysmithbooks.com
Tender ButtonsΒ is a Bristol-based literary podcast, in partnership with us at Storysmith, hosted by local writers Jessica Andrews (author ofΒ SaltwaterΒ andΒ Milk Teeth) and Jack Y…
@buttons_tender
Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
New episode with Sheila Heti πŸŽ™οΈπŸ”₯ We discuss her new book Alphabetical Diaries (@FitzcarraldoEds): formal constraints, beyond linear time, progress & ideas of a complete, continuous narrative of selfhood across her work & much more πŸ‘‡ https://t.co/943z0ku6Dm @StorysmithBooks
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Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
New episode with Sheila Heti πŸŽ™οΈπŸ”₯ We discuss her new book Alphabetical Diaries (@FitzcarraldoEds): formal constraints, beyond linear time, progress & ideas of a complete, continuous narrative of selfhood across her work & much more πŸ‘‡ https://t.co/943z0ku6Dm @StorysmithBooks
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Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
New episode with Nathalie Olah (@nrolah) πŸ”₯ πŸŽ™οΈ We talk about her brilliant new book Bad Taste & ideas of cultural capital, social mobility, Pamela Anderson & Dolly Parton, austerity aesthetics, & the politics of scarcity & much more. Listen here πŸ‘‡πŸŽ§ https://t.co/zExLlKa8V0
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Jack Young
2 years
Honoured to have my eerie short story of grief, graveyards and ghost plants in the new issue of @lunatejournal , amongst very fine company indeed. Limited edition, pre-orders below (very few left apparently!):
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2 years
bristol people interested in writing! we're doing a creative workshop about writing into / against gaps in history. come queer / disrupt sh*t with us! 🌸πŸ”ͺ no previous writing experience necessary (but confident writers definitely v welcome) > > https://t.co/4GjdN789Sq
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Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
Checked out our episode with Eliza Clark yet? We chat violence and true crime, regional inequality, Brexit, the internet, writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks πŸ‘‡ 🎧 https://t.co/28WKRkPY8q
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Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
We chatted to Eliza Clark about transgression in fiction, true crime & the internet; regional inequality, how mainstream & social media shapes narratives about people & places; writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks https://t.co/28WKRkPY8q
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Tender Buttons Podcast
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Listened to our new episode with Eliza Clark yet? 🎧 we chat about violence & transgression in fiction, true crime, the internet, writing difficult female characters & more @FaberBooks @StorysmithBooks (1/2)πŸ‘‡ πŸ”₯ https://t.co/28WKRkPY8q
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Jack Young
2 years
Loved chatting to Eliza Clark (@FancyEliza ) about true crime, the internet, toxic media, Brexit shadows in fiction, difficult female characters and so much more. Check out here! πŸ‘‡πŸŽ§ https://t.co/syJ8CBa365
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In this episode, we speak to novelist and short story writer Eliza Clark about her novel, Penance. We discuss violence and transgression within fiction, and what this can reveal about wider society....
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Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
New episode with Eliza Clark (@FancyEliza) πŸŽ‰πŸ”₯ We chat violence & transgression, true crime & the internet; regional inequality, how mainstream & social media shapes narratives about people & places; writing difficult female characters & more πŸ‘‡πŸŽ§(1/2) https://t.co/SRLCP7TYXl
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Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
Checked out our new patreon yet? πŸ‘‡ Free merch, books, ask questions to our guests, discounts + more @StorysmithBooks https://t.co/LvsTQorw8O This season you can expect: Sheila Heiti, Eliza Clark, Nathalie Olah, Noreen Masuud, Marianne Brooker & more. WE ARE EXCITED 🎧 πŸ”₯
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Jessica Andrews
2 years
We now have a @buttons_tender Patreon subscription! Sign up for loads of good stuff & to support our workπŸ“š
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Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
🚨 OUR PATREON IS LIVE! 🚨 Head to https://t.co/LvsTQorw8O to sign up for: πŸ“š Early episode access πŸ“š 10% off books at Storysmith online/in-person πŸ“š Free merch πŸ“š Submit questions for upcoming guests πŸ“š Exclusive book giveaways each month + more TBA
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Jack Young
2 years
Excited to announce our new patreon for @buttons_tender , want to submit qs to upcoming guests including Eliza Clark, Nathalie Olah, Sheila Heiti, Marianne Brooker, Noreen Masuud? Want early episode access? Free merch? Book giveaways? Sign up here:
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Interviews with writers about their process and politics
@buttons_tender
Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
🚨 OUR PATREON IS LIVE! 🚨 Head to https://t.co/LvsTQorw8O to sign up for: πŸ“š Early episode access πŸ“š 10% off books at Storysmith online/in-person πŸ“š Free merch πŸ“š Submit questions for upcoming guests πŸ“š Exclusive book giveaways each month + more TBA
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Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
Listened to our episode with Octavia Bright yet? We chat active listening, Louise Bourgeois & spirals, Eliot & Margate, the importance of symbols and/or images in life writing & much more πŸŒ€ πŸŒ‹ @canongatebooks @StorysmithBooks Listen here: https://t.co/0NlUCPygnh
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octavia bright
2 years
Earlier this summer I had a wonderfully thoughtful & wide-ranging conversation with @jessicacandrews & @JMDemus at @StorysmithBooks for their podcast @buttons_tender. A privilege to be read so intelligently & interviewed with such curiosity. Listen now at the link below πŸŒ€πŸ’šπŸŒ‹
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Tender Buttons Podcast
2 years
In this special live summer episode we spoke to @octaviabright_ about THIS RAGGED GRACE πŸŒ‹ We chat active listening, the pornographic and the erotic in life writing, care work, symbols and images, influences like Louise Bourgeois & much, much more πŸ‘‡πŸŽ§ https://t.co/5IxDqG3ycw
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