First it was an incredible £50 donated from the WI in St Neots after I did my talk and then a further £50 from sales of my books here and from my socials and open mics. All to the MS Trust. Thank you so much everyone! £2400 raised! 💙

Very cool, Julie! Congratulations!! 🎉✨🎉✨

Winner of last year's Broken Spine Chapbook Comp... it's been out for just over 2 months. If you don't have it yet, why not!? 😎 You can rectify this via the Broken Spine website, or message me if you want a signed author-copy with free handcrafted bookmark featuring a bonus poem. 👍

Just one day left to send your poems to the @cheltenhampoetryfestival Festival's International Poetry Competition! We welcome poems from all over the world! To enter and find out more info visit: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...

Fab questions and I loved and could relate to 'An Unwelcome Dessert!' xxx

Great poems! 🌟

Lovely interview! 👏🏻💐💫

Congratulations Julie! Such a fab show too! 💐

Thanks Rob Jelly for having me on BBC Upload last night, interview and 2 poems. I really enjoyed listening, feel rather special. I’m on after about 17 minutes, link below 🙂🌟 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Getting ready to read The Aftershock Review. Look at those names. Oh my! Many thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social🌟

Looking forward to hearing my interview and poem on BBC Upload tonight and Saturday night at 6pm with Rob Jelly. Thanks Rob!

Getting his #Caturday belly rubs 😸🐾

Just been interviewed by Rob Jelly of BBC Upload. Watch this space! 😯

If water can do it, then so can I 😉💦

Just done a talk to a local WI group on MS and Poetry. How brilliant that was!

Delighted to have a poem in The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press’ anthology ‘Lines of Communication’. 😍 collection, edited by @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & @wennieevans.bsky.social, on overlooked beauty in the natural world. Proceeds to @starlighttrust.bsky.social & Long Forest - @keepwalestidy.cymru 👏💥

The colours are lovely today but it is so humid and about to pour down any minute, come in cold weather and blue skies.

Let the light speak 🙂💙🤍

open the back door a small moth and its shadow follow the light in

I painted this yesterday, I haven't painted water in a while.

🖼️ Sarah Bays

Joe doesn’t care what the clock says, he wants his belly rubs when he wants them.

Brilliant Julie. 🌟

Congratulations!

From my poem To my Therapist from the Comfort Zone anthology published by @dragonflyflight.bsky.social. Many thanks, such a great read 🙂

Loving this new book from @citizen-chris.bsky.social. Thanks Chris 🥳

My poem How to See a Whale from my pamphlet Forest Girl. Photo from Jenevieve Carlyn. Many thanks. Some whales for you 🙂🐳 Did you know my publisher @dragonflyflight.bsky.social has 25% off all books on their website, including Forest Girl? Info on their page. Go support 🙂🌳

Autumn Ivy, Ogata Kenzan, c.1700.

Huge thanks to @secretsoliloquies.bsky.social in Sussex for this photo of Forest Girl with @petestrongpoet.bsky.social. All books from @dragonflyflight.bsky.social and you can hear us read at the Showcase on zoom on 25th November 7.30pm. Can’t wait for this. Smudge would like to come too 🥰🖤🤍

Down by the river

@littlethoughtspress.com takes kid lit seriously—and so do we. They’ve been spotlighted for #IndieLitMagGala 2025 for their stunning, thoughtful, contributor-friendly work. Big thanks to @tracierenee.bsky.social for the beautiful nomination. Read the full piece: thebrokenspine.co.uk...

June 2024 !❤️

Oh I could live there 🥰

Recent visits. Fun times!

Announcement!🔈 ICE FLOE PRESS will be opening for submissions from 25th Oct-18th Nov. I am honoured to be guest curator along with brilliant @icefloepress.bsky.social EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social 🔥 Seeking hybrid works on the theme of PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHER (WOR(L)D)(S). Get ready!!

⭐ COMING UP ON 17 NOVEMBER ⭐: Join Kim Moore in an exciting workshop that will explore the vital art of the line break: how it shapes rhythm, breath, emotion, meaning and echo. Book your ticket here: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/line-b...

Please check out my free YouTube channel where I'm sharing a selection of my published poems on overcoming and working through emotions. 🫶🏻 Here below I'm reading 'I AM ALONE' for #Macmillan - a poem about #reframingloneliness 🪐 Wishing you a #FearlessFriday 💪🏻 #FridayReads youtube.com/shorts/fFiT6...

Many thanks to @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social for hosting #PoemsAbout #BreaktheMould for @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Here's my offering: an attempt at a mini dramatic monologue. I'll try and catch up with others in due course but I'm travelling this week

My poem Vis Aeternitatis👇published in @takahemagazine.bsky.social is getting featured on BBC Upload! Thu 16 & Sat 18 October 6-8pm Here's a link to Upload's SE site www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... I'll publish the programme link after the broadcast #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #HildegardofBingen

Really love your poem and Jess thrilled to be able to illustrate for your book ❤️👍

Delighted my poem Pumpkin Rat features in Brian Moses' Halloween blogspot: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2023/10/anot... Also beautifully illustrated in my latest children's anthology Moon in the Morning by student artist Jess Stevens available from www.waterstones.com/book/moon-in...

Delighted my children's poetry anthology Moon in the Morning is here. Proceeds support the healthcare and educational projects for youngsters in Nepal, Africa and UK through the charities Kids at School in Nepal and Care Highway International. DM X@kathrynbeevor or www.facebook.com £12 with P&P

Forest Girl led me here 😉🌳

Taken from my poem New Furnishings first published in To Lay Sun Into A Forest from @sidhepress.bsky.social. Many thanks again ❤️

**PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES ANNOUNCED** Please join @iambapoet.com in congratulating Theresa Donnelly, Kerry Trautman, Rishika Williams, @jahshabby.bsky.social, @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @johnglenday.bsky.social on their nominations for the next edition of the @pushcartprize.bsky.social.

I'm sharing my poems published here in The High Window since the second of them, Mercy, has a connection to @rfsmith.bsky.social's excellent #PromptCombo theme #Character #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky #writingcommunity

Morning. Blackbird, Archibald Thorburn.

Forest Girl pics arriving from @wendyeslater.bsky.social in Vermont, USA and @miriamo77.bsky.social in Germany. Thanks both. A few copies left if anyone would like one 🌿 www.jumpingjulespoetry.com/book-shop

think of an ash tree starting to dream of autumn its head full of light