Pause your scroll and help us give a welcome to our next guest! You can find her @rakelrank.bsky.social 🎊🎊🎊 #sypscotcon25 #sypscotland #literatureconference #publishingconference

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

Oh, to be a white cat in a sea of snowdrops 🤍🌿

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the gutter.

Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025

Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

Feeling this very much today. Via poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.

Very pleased to share the news that @writerscentre.bsky.social has been awarded Place of Sanctuary status in recognition of our dedication to supporting individuals fleeing violence and persecution. Full story: buff.ly/42RhC8x

⭐ Announcing the Longlisted & Shortlisted Proposals from our August 2024 Call for Submissions ⭐ @bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social @catherineredford.bsky.social @milenawilliamson.bsky.social @monicadebhailis.bsky.social 🔗 READ MORE: https://buff.ly/3QeZYDU

Writers looking for opportunities! Last week's Five Things Friday is now available to free subscribers! 👀 Opps from @cbcreative.bsky.social @britisharts.bsky.social @writersandartists.bsky.social & more! halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...

Thank you so much to the American-Scandinavian Foundation for awarding me the 2024 Nadia Christensen Prize! This prize is for an outstanding literary translation from a Nordic language into English, and I was awarded it for my translation of Karoline Brændjord's 'Jeg vil våkne til verden'.

I’m judging the Plough Poetry Prize this year, deadline 28 March, first prize is £1,000. Send us your best poems! www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...

The Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize opens now, closes in June. The prize supports writers who have not published book-length works, no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri Details in link. Please share :)

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Oh I'm sorry, are you crying? Are you crying because your plagiarism machine that made stuff by copying everybody's stuff was used to train another machine that made stuff by copying stuff? Are you going to cry? Cowards, losers, pathetic

Got to love #Leith 💚✌️

Q: Who'd have predicted that an underfunded HE system where unis could overrecruit domestic students on fees fixed for decade - and was thus reliant on international visitors - would have been skewered by a combination xenophobic policies, inflation, and excessive building projects? A: EVERYONE.

Six new feeds available, each dedicated to specific creative outlets: Traditional Art - bsky.app/profile/did:... Photography - bsky.app/profile/did:... Painting - bsky.app/profile/did:... Ceramics - bsky.app/profile/did:... Crafts - bsky.app/profile/did:... Poetry - bsky.app/profile/did:...

How depressing. Was contacted about a possible book translation last year. Today they got back in touch to ask if, instead of translating the book, I'd be interested in editing the machine translation. I am SO BORED of talking about AI. It's BORING. Give me work and cash!!!!!!

Truth!

We’re mourning the loss of the wonderful Michael Longley, who has died in Belfast aged 85. A Vice President of The Poetry Society, we were proud to publish him in our magazine The Poetry Review throughout his long career. Sharing below a 2014 poem which celebrated his long marriage to Edna Longley.

The great Michael Longely has died. We have lost a poet of immense stature. This recent BBC doc will give you a flavour of how he made made words sing: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Join us next week for the lunchtime* launch of MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on #Catalan' Tickets are free / pay what you can, and we're joined by contributors Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau... (*UK lunch time, 1-2pm)

Shout out to all poets, writers, artists, activists, if you'd like us to boost your new books, music, art, fundraisers & community projects for 2025 please add to this thread, we're just making a list for our 1st show of the year & will share @roaring20sradio.bsky.social #sohoradio thank you

StAnza 2025 St Andrews & online, 14–16 March 2025 Tickets for StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, are on sale from today – presenting poetry in all its forms & many languages, & featuring poets from Scotland, the UK & around the world stanzapoetry.org/festival/sta...

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Submissions to the next issue of our anthology, PROTOTYPE 7, are now open until 1 February. The anthology is a space for new work, open to all, free from formal guidelines or restrictions. We welcome poetry, prose, visual work & experiments in between. prototypepublishing.co.uk/submissions/

Weatherglass Prize for a novella (rare in this day and age), with the wonderful Ali Smith as judge. International. Please share: weatherglassbooks.com/novella-priz...

If you’re a creator or work in the creative industries or otherwise have a heart, then please add your voice to this UK Gov consultation on AI and Copyright. I said ‘freelance’ for company and ‘unsure’ for super-granular legal stuff but made my voice heard. You can too. www.gov.uk/government/c...

This is so creepy 🫣

My translation of the poem 'Light' by Karoline Brændjord, as published in the latest edition of @mptmagazine.bsky.social ✨️

After a hellish couple of months of (quite literally) all work and no play, I have finally finished up today for a month, and I am starting as I mean to go on - pyjamas, couch, and tiny, soft, sleepy little cat on my lap 😺

I've said this a million times, but I'll say it again: People who use AI don't actually want to *create* something, they want to *have created* something, and those are not the same thing.

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2024. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Editing pro tip: you can fix any paragraph with one handy footnote

Interested in a basic (pay what you can) How to Edit Poems hour on zoom? When mentoring and editing I find that I say the same things over and over + that so many poems would benefit from a little editing. Let me know if you’d be interested in an hour of how to put poems through their paces?!

Still a couple of opportunities open from last week's Five Things Friday - including @mslexia.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social & @jerichowriters.bsky.social. Next one comes out tomorrow for paid subscribers - make sure you're signed up! halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...

The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.

I made a starter pack of some poets on Bluesky go.bsky.app/VsG51ms

Young Black women aged 18-30 are invited to join an exciting new hybrid programme for budding archivists and curators. Open until 9th December. Please share :)

Anyway, The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2024 is now open, to find out more or enter online mosey over here. Reposts positively encouraged, thanks all. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...

6. Grasses by Selima Hill

Annie's Poetry Advent Calendar has been such a wonderful way to start each morning in December - and there is still time to sign up, with all donations going to MSF!

An amazing list of UK-based poets for your Bluesky-following pleasure - how amazing! Thank you, Hannah, for putting this together and allowing the poets to find their people ❤️✍️

I am absolutely living for my poem a day in @annierutherford.bsky.social’s Poetry Advent Calendar. Such poems! All donations will go to Médecins Sans Frontières. Still time to sign up! book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...

Feeling seen.

2023 research shows that only 19% of readers of the top 20 bestselling female fiction authors are male. (1/3)

Last night Turner Prize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur used her acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to demand an end to institutional complicity in Israels genocide & to call for an immediate arms embargo.

📚 I'm delighted to have two translations of poems by Norwegian poet Karoline Brændjord in the latest edition of @mptmagazine.bsky.social!