Very excited to be leading an all-day poetry workshop at @soanemuseum.bsky.social for @citylit.bsky.social on May 14. I promise it’ll be weird and curious and surprising.

Very excited to be leading an all-day poetry workshop at @soanemuseum.bsky.social for @citylit.bsky.social on May 14. I promise it’ll be weird and curious and surprising.

Maybe the most bizarre rejection email I've ever received.

You can get a copy for a complete stranger, too, if you want to do that. We’ll pick a name out of the phone book if you want and send it to them. (We’d do that, wouldn’t we, @kymdeyn.bsky.social?)

It’s World Poetry Day. And my little book of haunted, gothic, sad, spooky, depressing, very weird and numinous poetry is just over a year old. Get yourself a copy! thebraag.co/product/ever...

EGG-WAKEN YOUR EASTER. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!?!

Not even 7am and I’m thinking about @andrewblair.co.uk’s upcoming grimoire.

They’ll have to call it something else, this will just cause needless confusion www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...

I keep forgetting I’m allowed to have ice cream for breakfast.

You know the economy is bad when scammers are trying to get emerging writers and authors. Baby, you got off at the wrong exit.

Love is in the air at Edinburgh zoo. Pebbling marks the start of the breeding season for Gentoo penguins. Kids at Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to choose from and present to their mates.

Wishing a very warm welcome to our new @citylit.bsky.social tutor, @timothyfox.bsky.social! Study with Timothy on these short courses: Creative writing: getting started - 21 Feb www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/crea... Micropoetry: small poems, big ideas - 31 Jul www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/micr...

certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

Article doesn’t mention this but this is the first time the blood moon will be actual blood. Pretty cool.

Be careful.

Be careful.

Kawanabe Kyōsai, Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai, 1871-78

Dracula Frankenstein’s Monster Wolfman Creature from the Black Lagoon

among my favorite French Revolution details: the King's cousin, the Duke of Orleans, was so shook by the events of the revolution that he not only voted to execute his cousin but legally changed his name to Equality Phil.

While sudden cliff falls at Birling Gap (near my home town of Eastbourne) are no joke, I really love how much it looks like we’ve roused a grumpy, sleepy sea-wizard.

Didn’t even realize it was Friday the 13th. What a waste of a day.

Got some literary spam from Steve Buscemi

I’m overjoyed to have a story published by ergot. I’ve admired the work they’ve championed for a few years now. It’s a privilege to be one of the cool kids.

If you've been thinking about grabbing any books from us, now would be a brilliant time! Our sale ends tomorrow, Feb 10th. 🖤 thebraag.co 🖤

How to be a Writer. 1. Stare out of window at rain. 2. Experience a certain lassitude. 3. Contemplate the infinite. 4. Tea.

Always a good thing listening to RLP read out loud mind melting literature.

ICYMI

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

"He’s so small. I pick him up and put him back to bed. ‘I’ve been dead a long time,’ he says. ‘Really?’ I ask. ‘Why yes,’ he says. ‘And what are you doing here? You haven’t been born yet.’" Today on ergot.: 'The Forest of Almost Death' by @timothyfox.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Timo...

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

"The hospital is built on a cliff overlooking the ocean. From his room, I can see down the coast to where the fires burn. When I’m not sitting at his bedside, I walk the long hallways..." Today on ergot.: 'The Forest of Almost Death' by @timothyfox.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Timo...

Tomorrow on ergot.: a new trip to the hospital with Timothy Fox @timothyfox.bsky.social

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

YOU CAN NOW PRE-ORDER MY BOOK 💚🪱 also, look at my babygirl worm on the cover 😭

Tonight I told my friend about @andrewblair.co.uk’s upcoming pamphlet and he snorted his burger out of his nose. Not boogers. Like the actual burger that he was eating. Like an actual burger.

We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social, @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨ 💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚

Don't we all

I can now also show you the cover for 'polblar tmolkop' by @andrewblair.co.uk 👾💚 Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'

We can now show off the cover for @gitaralleigh.bsky.social's new pamphlet, empirical! Which will be published by us in March of this year 🎉

Quick reminder that I run a micro-press called The Braag @thebraag.bsky.social / thebraag.co We have 🐸 poetry in the language of a pond 🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale 🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction 💀 Queer Texan hauntings 🪐 Plannet-hopping poems 🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction All for sale!

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

A periodic reminder that Ian Nairn made 30 films for the BBC, all of which are extant, but none have been released on DVD/Blu-ray, etc. This is an Outrage. #architecture #subtopia #nairn

Cats, amiright?

Thanks to @mynachang.bsky.social for mentioning my short, sharp and shocking story about a spider!

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

A huge thank you to @horrortree.com for mentioning my @molotovlitzine.bsky.social prize winning flash story 'We Were Never Afraid of the Spider' in their This Week in Speculative Fiction newsletter! Available to read here: themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/flash...

A huge thank you to @horrortree.com for mentioning my @molotovlitzine.bsky.social prize winning flash story 'We Were Never Afraid of the Spider' in their This Week in Speculative Fiction newsletter! Available to read here: themolotovcocktail.com/vol-16/flash...