Our Mugwort Magazine submissions inbox is OPEN until 31/10 for our special winter issue, Spectral & Strange, to be published in December. Check out the guidelines: mugwortmag.wordpress.com/special-call... ...then send us your best eerie, weird, or unsettling fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and art!

The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55

Sharing my upcoming poetry-film launch event as it's #NationalPoetryDay today! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... @imageworkscardiff.bsky.social

For #nationalpoetryday on the theme of #play here's my poem 'Learning to Play' from my collection Octopus Mind... 🎹 👌📖 createdtoread.com/about/poetry... @serenbooks.bsky.social

For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍‍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂 Christmas-Winter 4 #toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn

New blog post! A summer 🏝️🌞 of Publication createdtoread.com/summer-of-pu... poems being rather like buses 🚌 always arriving together... @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social @streetcakemag.bsky.social @gillconnors.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social

I have a flash fiction piece in the latest issue of Mugwort Magazine! It's called 'In Queen Street' ✍️

I'm really pleased to have a poem appear in Lighthouse Literary Journal and happy to see my villanelle in the Write Out Loud anthology, which was long-listed in their 'echoes' competition a few months ago. The villanelle is #ekphrastic, responding to a painting by Gwen John.

Still time to sign up! The #ekphrasticwriting course starts in 3 weeks time! createdtoread.com/more-online-... Please do share with anyone interested in #poetry #creativewriting or #ekphrasis! @serenbooks.bsky.social

I have a villanelle in this anthology celebrating 20 years of Write Out Loud! - www.writeoutloud.net/books/

Join me, @zoebrigley.bsky.social, Tangie Mitchell and Kandace Siobhan Walker on 21st of September at 3pm London Time. Register here: course.veevart-apps.com/emilydickins...

I'll be speaking as part of this 'Divergent Writers' panel at the online @nawewriters.bsky.social conference this November alongside @christiecollins.bsky.social & other contributors to the forthcoming @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social book 📚 www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-e...

This conference is is packed with great content and is amazing value for money. All sessions are recorded, so if you can't attend live, or have sessions you want to attend running at the same time, you can listen back later. Please share #NAWEConf25 #InspiringWriting

**AUDITIONS OPEN IN 14 DAYS** From Sep 20th-27th, auditions for @iambapoet.com open for the first time since 2022 – and for just ONE week! Be ready when the submission form goes live. Head to the journal's Audition page for full details. Good luck with your audition! 🍀 iambapoet.com/audition

Reminder that we are open year-round for prose submissions! Have an idea for an essay, interview or conversation? Drop us a line. andotherpoems.com/essays/

I'll be running two online #creativewriting courses this autumn 🍁 createdtoread.com/more-online-... There's also a fee waiver scheme & free places for Aber uni students & staff! @serenbooks.bsky.social @aberenglishdept.bsky.social

On this day, the anniversary of Seamus Heaney's passing, it is this poem that sits with me. 'I have seen halls in flames, hearts in cinder, benches filled and emptied, the circles of companions called and broken' #poetry #poemoftheday #SeamusHeaney

I have a new #ekphrastic poem in the @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social responding to this painting by Gainsborough from the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social collection - www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast... @serenbooks.bsky.social

I am now a published fiction writer 😀 'The Appointed Story' is in the latest issue of Mugwort Magazine! mugwortmag.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

I'll be running 2 new online #creativewriting courses this autumn! 'Poetry Writing 1: Starting to Write' & 'Inspired by Art: Ekphrastic Poetry & Prose' are available to book now createdtoread.com/more-online-... Please share... #ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social #ekphrasticpoetry #poetry

Somehow it's Sunday again, somehow August. Writing is a winged thing flitting about in the late afternoon sun and I am trying to be still enough for it to land on me. Happy #smallpoemsunday. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

I'm so excited to be launching my new poetry-film 'Fragments of Us' in Cardiff! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... It responds to the creativity of museum visitors who contributed to an interactive #poetry display @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social

New blog post! A review of 'Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets' createdtoread.com/a-review-of-... with recommendations of other books on this theme published by @serenbooks.bsky.social & @lucentdreaming.bsky.social #poetry @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Bridport Prize starter pack @bridportprize.bsky.social with winners & shortlisted writers including @kitdewaal.com @dreenawriting.co.uk @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @esloudon.bsky.social Please follow & repost the pack & tell me if you want to be included #booksky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Really pleased to have my 'Multiple Choice' poem published in the latest issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social magazine (composed out of texts written by visitors in response to the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social interactive poetry display that I organized in 2022)

New blog post! I'll be delivering this course along with four other #creativewriting courses next year! createdtoread.com/an-online-cr... "Writing Neurodiversity: Processing Lived Experience through Poetry" will run on Tuesday evenings from 27th January...

Enjoyed hearing @wendycaitlin.bsky.social read from 'Portrait in Mustard' last week @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social #thesealeychallenge #sealeychallenge

Submissions are now open for issue nine. The theme is Trespass: rights and wrongs; encroachment and colonisation; faults and forgiveness. Please see the website (link in bio) for information and guidelines. Window closes August 31st. 🕊 xx

📣 Our submission window is now OPEN for the month of August. Get your blooms to us while the sun is shining! badlilies.uk/submit

Submissions are open for the next issue! 💙 We can't wait to see your work 😍

New blog post! I'll be delivering this course along with four other #creativewriting courses next year! createdtoread.com/an-online-cr... "Writing Neurodiversity: Processing Lived Experience through Poetry" will run on Tuesday evenings from 27th January...

Hay Castle was looking lovely in the sunshine yesterday. And I may have accidentally bought a few novels. Summer resolution is to actually read all the books I have bought in the last six months or so.... I'm not doing the Sealey Challenge properly this August, but I will be reading A LOT. 🌞 📚 📖

New blog post! 'Poem Under Construction No.1' has now been constructed... 👷🏗️📝Read my reflections on the construction process & listen to the poem here: createdtoread.com/poem-under-c... #ekphrasis #poetry

We’re delighted to see Abeer Ameer on the shortlist for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social Best Single Poem – Written! 🎉 Her poem ‘At Least’ was first published by @modronmagazine.bsky.social.

A fab week full of poetry & wildlife at Totleigh Barton - fantastic discussions & prompts from tutors @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Will Harris, & guest reader @ellafrears.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social

Really excited to have my poem 'Kaleideneurodivergescope' published in the latest issue of @streetcakemag.bsky.social

I’ve looped back to play with time in what I’m thinking of as a sequel to #Erato @serenbooks.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

I'm giving a poetry reading, and leading a short workshop, in CHELTENHAM tomorrow (Sunday) evening. Open mic, too. I'd love to see you there. Info: buzzwordspoetry.blogspot.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Sometimes, a whole Mediterranean village would turn out to try and get the duvet back in its cover. (Art: Sewing the Sail by Joaquín Sorolla, 1896)

As Artistic Director of Winchester Poetry Festival in letting you know our programme is now LIVE! 🧵 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

Reading in the shade by the brook: 'Eurydice in The Ruined House' by @annasaund.bsky.social It re-imagines the Eurydice & Orpheus myth in some intriguing ways. Almost wish I could live in a cold cave deep underground today. @indigodreamspub.bsky.social #myth #poetry #ekphrasis

This conversation between Jack Underwood and Kaveh Akbar in The Poetry Review I think gets to the heart of what #poetry can do: "a poem can be a kind of communal meeting place..." #poetryreview #poetrycommunity

Here's my meta-ekphrastic surreal poem in the latest issue of Dust Magazine...

It's here! Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in July 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Huge thanks to Helen Smith wordsmith.bsky.social for an excellent English: Shared Futures conference. It was inspiring, exciting, and fun, and especially moving to hear so many friends and colleagues speaking about why and how English matters to them

An amazing opportunity for 10 writers to spend up to a month for free at seaside cottage to write. All details in the link below. Please share :)

Celebrate these 3 books, all out now📚 Join our Triple Online Launch featuring Erica Hesketh, @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social & @julwe1.bsky.social Tuesday 22 July 7pm BST Pay What You Can Recording link sent in case you can't join us live. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

3 days of the English Shared Futures conference in sunny York, soaking up the history and chatting about literature, language and writing!

Today is 2 years since Octopus Mind was published! But because of the delay with printing, the book has two different book birthdays - 3rd July AND 17th July...?!? So I think I'll celebrate both days. Why not? @serenbooks.bsky.social

Some really interesting ideas on poets reviewing other poets, from Fiona Sampson www.versopolis.com/multimedia/c... I agree - there are certainly benefits for the poet in sharpening our own craft as we closely analyze the craft of others... #poetryreview