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Writer, web dev, runner
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National Flash Fiction Day
4 days ago
National Flash Fiction Day is two weeks today 13 June). If you are celebrating the day with an event, pls let us know. Please consider supporting us by buying our new anthology ‘Mudlarking’. Other NFFD anthologies available from our bookshop:
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...
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Adelle Stripe
6 days ago
New record from Vini. Just what the doctor ordered.
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National Flash Fiction Day
18 days ago
We’re thrilled to introduce the title & cover of our 2026 anthology which is now available to pre-order from our bookshop. The cover is by our artist-in-residence
@joannacampbell.bsky.social
& the title is taken from a flash from
@rachaeldunlop.com
www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
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Adelle Stripe
18 days ago
New favourite writer alert. This novel is brilliant. Now going to read everything by her.
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Jay Hulme
about 1 month ago
My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.
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Thanks
@doesithavepockets.bsky.social
for giving a home to the poem I wrote about how I was not very good at therapy!
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27 days ago
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Atrium
2 months ago
and suddenly you are the old – Steve Pottinger
@bigstevepoet.bsky.social
atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/20/a...
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and suddenly you are the old – Steve Pottinger
and suddenly you are the old . . Steve’s work regularly appears online in CultureMatters and Yorkshire Bylines, and he’s won prizes in a fistful of poetry competitions. His seventh volume of poems,…
https://atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/20/and-suddenly-you-are-the-old-steve-pottinger/
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Taco Bell Quarterly
3 months ago
If there is a point to being human, it probably is something stupid like writing poems and songs. So go write your book. Do your part.
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This is my weekend reading also - loving it so far
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2 months ago
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Nine Arches Press
2 months ago
Happy
#WorldPoetryDay
Let's celebrate together, use the LOVEPOETRY code at the Nine Arches checkout for 25% off
#poetry
books when you spend £15+ What's missing from your shelves?
ninearchespress.com/shop
#ReadMorePoetry
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Excited to have one of my rare forays into fiction appearing in this
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3 months ago
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Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈
4 months ago
I’ve just added a few more free and pay-what-you-can places - come join us!
www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
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Spending Sunday morning writing a poem attempting to unpick some of my feelings about technology. I had one published in the latest
@frazzledlit.bsky.social
as well
www.frazzledlit.com/p/two-poems-...
. Definitely a theme I keep returning to...
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Two Poems by Jo Rigg
The reassurance machine
https://www.frazzledlit.com/p/two-poems-by-jo-rigg
4 months ago
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Would recommend picking up Necrosmologies while its on sale (or even if it wasn't)...alternate realities, strange creatures and an industrial setting, what more could you want?
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4 months ago
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I've got a couple of poems in the latest
@frazzledlit.bsky.social
which is a BUMPER issue...perfect reading for a cosy Sunday morning!
www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...
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Issue 4 Has Landed!
Welcome to our Spring 2026 issue!
https://www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-has-landed
5 months ago
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Black Bough Poetry
5 months ago
‘Well, here you are again with your plucked lurex tights’ Sally Baker in our Christmas winter anthology.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
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Jennifer McMahon
5 months ago
Front cover of Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit
@frazzledlit.bsky.social
. We'll be launching the issue in nine days time, on the morning of January 11th, and boy, is it going to be a great issue! Back cover coming tomorrow!
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A bargain! Absolutely love this book
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6 months ago
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Visual Studio tends to ask me this right at the time I'm dealing with some weird bug or other. "Now is not the time to be needy VS"
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6 months ago
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CHOAM VP of Community Impact
over 1 year ago
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
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Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈
6 months ago
Today is
#FuelPovertyAwarenessDay
so why not pick up a copy of the FUEL anthology of prizewinning flash fictions - it's a great read and profits go to four
#fuelpoverty
charities, including
@nea.org.uk
. The brand new ebook has 75+12 bonus stories = 87 flash stories! Buy here:
www.fuelflash.net
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Really interesting stuff: "the architecture of disordered discourse"...
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6 months ago
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Probably maybe my favourite Fall album (today anyway)...certainly the first one I bought. A fine choice to start with.
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8 months ago
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Brian Groom
9 months ago
The Rigg, Bingley, Yorkshire, painting by Jane Fielder.
#WomensArt
#NorthernArt
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Hannah Bluish
10 months ago
People love it
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Read A Little Poetry
10 months ago
Today’s poem is selected by Chen Chen (
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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Brian Groom
10 months ago
Castlefield Carnival, Manchester, 1985 (Manchester Libraries).
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Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to
@taniahershman.bsky.social
@thebraag.bsky.social
@prototypepubs.bsky.social
@jamiewoods77.bsky.social
Bring on the rainy weekend
11 months ago
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Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈
11 months ago
Last few seats in the Zoom room for the launch tomorrow night of my hybrid creative non-fiction book on time: 'It's Time - A Chronomemoir' (
@guillemotpress.bsky.social
). Come join us, I'd love to have you there! (It's also my birthday 😊) Grab a free ticket here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
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This dvd is probably the only reason I keep my dvd player
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11 months ago
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Jonathan Slater
11 months ago
Caught Cats
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The New Yorker
12 months ago
“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.
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“The School,” by Donald Barthelme
Fiction, from 1974: “They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/06/17/the-school?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Despite my general dislike of all things morris I have a total soft spot for the coconutters. The power of childhood nostalgia!
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about 1 year ago
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And Other Poems
about 1 year ago
Friends, a little announcement: we’re now accepting submissions year-round for a new essays feature. We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives. We can’t wait to hear from you!
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Pleased that one of my poems has found a home here amongst some great company...
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about 1 year ago
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Joseph Rezek
about 1 year ago
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
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And Other Poems
about 1 year ago
Issue Six of And Other Poems, out on Wednesday 16th. We can't wait for you to read these poems.
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The reasons below are all true...and reading this lovely piece about the similarities of writing and running after my run this morning was my reason for hitting the 'buy' button today.
longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/c...
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about 1 year ago
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Brian Groom
about 1 year ago
Girl on a Spacehopper, Byker, Newcastle, 1971, by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.
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Having a restful afternoon ahead of tomorrow's running endeavours. Reading Diane Seuss' Modern Poetry which is EXCELLENT
about 1 year ago
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Been writing a poem this week that fits for
#poemsabout
#dawn
so finally time to post after enjoying people's contributions
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Absolutely this, writing is about so much more than the outcome
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over 1 year ago
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Comfortably Numb
almost 2 years ago
Pretty much
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McSweeney's
over 1 year ago
"Inject creativity into your day in small ways. Doodle on your leg with a random pen some idiot left within reach. Redecorate the couch with a Play-Doh slipcover. Change up your look by styling your freshly washed hair with pancake syrup."
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New Year’s Resolutions for Toddlers
1. Finish what you start Resilience is a difficult skill to learn, so work up to it in small doses. Instead of watching the first three seconds of ...
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Nice snowy morning walk before it all turns to slush and ice
over 1 year ago
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
over 1 year ago
Read a poem that stayed with you? With #LiftToTheSky, you can share it with the world. Celebrate a poet every Monday starting January 13th. More info:
shorturl.at/5avf0
#LiftToTheSky,
#PoetrySky
#PoetryCommunity
#PoetsOfBlueSky
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#LiftToTheSky: The Poetry Initiative Bringing Writers Together on Bluesky - The Broken Spine
On Monday, January 13th, we’re kicking off something big: #LiftToTheSky, a weekly tradition where poets lift each other higher by sharing work, celebrating
https://shorturl.at/5avf0
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Enjoyed dipping into this today
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over 1 year ago
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Beautiful morning in york
over 1 year ago
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Starting my Christmas readathon with an enormous book of Norman MacCaig poems
over 1 year ago
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Jemima Kelly
over 1 year ago
Just a reminder, as you look outside and notice it's already getting dark 😱, that today is the earliest sunset of the year (15:51 in London). From tomorrow the sunsets slowwwwly start getting later again. (Sunrises don't start getting earlier until Dec 30th hence solstice on 21st.) YOU ARE WELCOME.
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