Blade Runner, rashes spread by foxes, takeaway food, colonialism…all beautifully connected. #podcast shows.acast.com/blindboy/epi...

Love @sagetyrtle.bsky.social's writing and her teaching. This will be brilliant!

I’ve huge admiration for Matt. For his brilliant teaching and writing and because he’s one of the few facilitators who risks talking about money. So, if you can afford to please consider paying Matt something for all the work he does.

We moved last month and found many treasures under the ancient wallpaper. Including this, which I think is a farting mole holding a sword?

A rom com, a poetic tree and more🎄 The Art & Flash monthly digestif is here - mailchi.mp/adec416514d7... #ekphrastic #writingworkshop

A rom com, a poetic tree and more🎄 The Art & Flash monthly digestif is here - mailchi.mp/adec416514d7... #ekphrastic #writingworkshop

Coming up - an artist who makes wildly colourful, participatory artworks & is preoccupied with ideas of losing oneself, the possibility of being obliterated, which, I think sits well with the reflections, anxieties, and celebrations that end-of-year festivities can bring. mailchi.mp/b005d79500f7...

Sarah Evans snowy landscapes are firmly on my wish list.

Across the UK, our team are experiencing the variety of British Winter weather, but we're already planning for Spring! Submissions for our Spring issue are OPEN! Please be sure to read our submission guidelines before submitting via our form at the bottom of the page. acoupofowls.com/submissions/

Someone just asked me how to make #poetrycommunity connections. So I'm reposting all my starter packs about #poetsonbluesky starting with this starter pack of poets seeking a publisher for their collection. Please follow, share, repost. Thank you! #booksky #poetry

I LOVED this smart, surreal, true book SO MUCH. I wish it'd been around when I went to art college. I might have been less bothered by tutors saying things like ’there’s no point in looking at art made before the 1960s’ or ’narrative has no place in art’. www.hive.co.uk/Product/The-...

tomorrow is the 1st -- all subs will be open tomorrow at 5am arizona time

Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

Got a New York story or poem for Pure Slush? #submissionsopen pureslush.com/submissions/...

Gah, I saw a place open for subs and asking for more 50 word stories. But I didn’t bookmark it 🙄 Anyone recall who was asking?

New A5 notebook anyone? Limited edition of 10. #collage www.collage-studio.com/collages/p/a...

It’s open!!!!!!

New A5 notebook anyone? Limited edition of 10. #collage www.collage-studio.com/collages/p/a...

It’s that time of year when I choose an artist whose work could, in some tangential way, be considered 'Yuletidey'. Expect something shiny and wildly colourful, deeply psychological and at times, totally immersive. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop Book for Dec 15 here - tinyurl.com/mvfy3ncb

It’s that time of year when I choose an artist whose work could, in some tangential way, be considered 'Yuletidey'. Expect something shiny and wildly colourful, deeply psychological and at times, totally immersive. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop Book for Dec 15 here - tinyurl.com/mvfy3ncb

**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.

WestWord is looking for #flashfiction that explores what home means. Money raised will go to UK homelessness charity St Mungo’s. Word count: Up to 1,000 words Theme: Home Submission fee: FREE for all submissions Deadline: 21st December 2025 substack.com/home/post/p-...

November’s Art & Flash Digestif, 300 Dolls and 1 Doll’s House is here - mailchi.mp/8f08e3ae8f2c... #Ekphrastic #writingworkshop #contemporaryart #writingprompts

Asking for a thing: what are your favorite hermit-crab stories? (Can be "that you've written" or "by somebody else")

Final week to enter the ceramics raffle of clay-cast sentences drawn from 19 years of The Marginalian: www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/23/c...

'You and Kate are you-and-Kate with no interruption and that is how you love me.' You-and-Kate in a Field, Loving Me by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

In November's Art & Flash there will be puppets & costumes & love. We’ll think about the bodies we inhabit and the bodies we create. Bring along a beloved character you can’t stop writing about for an hour or writing and art appreciation. 🔗 buytickets.at/anikacarpenter #ekphrastic #writingworkshop

Booking for our next online salon, 28 Jan is open! Amazing line-up of readers Host @kiklodge.bsky.social Quiz and community www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...

In November's Art & Flash there will be puppets & costumes & love. We’ll think about the bodies we inhabit and the bodies we create. Bring along a beloved character you can’t stop writing about for an hour or writing and art appreciation. 🔗 buytickets.at/anikacarpenter #ekphrastic #writingworkshop

UK friends who, like me, might have some relatives thinking of voting Reform, you might want to tell them about this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions of previously published work on November 24th

Blessèd Samhain, everyone! We're still looking for submissions for our micro-excerpt, #63. ≤200 words. If you can fit it in that little room, send it along! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Sign me up!

Poets @kiklodge.bsky.social wants you! Kik’s bloomin’ lovely and does great stuff with @saloneurope.bsky.social who run brilliant online and in-person events for writers.

Love this gentle, funny podcast. This week there’s a weasel in pjs and...tax returns. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️

I'm running an online workshop: 'Creating Flash Collections: Getting Your Work Out There' for WestWord on 22 Nov 📚 www.tickettailor.com/events/westw...

Love this gentle, funny podcast. This week there’s a weasel in pjs and...tax returns. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Struggling Irish creatives have been given good news. Ireland’s Basic Income for Artists pilot scheme has been made a permanent fixture.

Mara Livermore is conducting research into how people in the British Isles engage with their ancestors. Any kind of engagement with 'ancestors' - literary, personal, familial, natural, qualifies. If this applies to you, she’d love to hear about it - forms.office.com/e/z35tjxcxRW

October’s Art & Flash digestive is here. #ekphrastic #writingworkshops 🔗 tinyurl.com/3andkxhw

October’s Art & Flash digestive is here. #ekphrastic #writingworkshops 🔗 tinyurl.com/3andkxhw

‘...not even enough room for their hands holding tight to the hem of her skirt, not even for their overtired tears...' The Suitcase of Lost Belongings by @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/10/09/t...

At the heart of this month's Art & Flash - dreams, sex and rebellion! Join me for an hour of writing and art appreciation in the company of one of surrealism’s lesser-known artists. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

At the heart of this month's Art & Flash - dreams, sex and rebellion! Join me for an hour of writing and art appreciation in the company of one of surrealism’s lesser-known artists. #ekphrastic #writingworkshop www.tickettailor.com/events/anika...

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924 'Several years after hearing of its existence, I have at last got my hands on a copy of Zamyatin's We, which is one of the literary curiosities of this book-burning age.’ - George Orwell, 1946 #BannedBooksWeek

The @failingwriters.bsky.social #flashfiction competition is open. Word count: 300 Prize: £500 Full details via the podcast👇

These are great! The readings are always so good and so varied. And @kiklodge.bsky.social is a wonderful host.

Thank you for having me @paragraphplanet.bsky.social 🙏

Thank you for having me @paragraphplanet.bsky.social 🙏