TIL there's a huge major comedy show in Saudi Arabia happening and also that Zach Woods remains a king

I've gone early with @thetoypress.bsky.social #WordOfTheWeek #Wrap Early era hip-hop and far, far too early for Christmas. #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryCommunity #PoetryForKids #KidLit #WordPrompt

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Reminder that submissions open for our next issue on October 1st! We’re looking for writing FOR kids, BY writers of all ages!

Icymi! 💥 Frazzled News 💥

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in alphabetical order. Perfect Sunday morning thinking. 15 Stories High A Bit of Fry & Laurie Arrested Development S1-2 Blackadder S2-4 Delocated I Think You Should Leave I’m Alan Partridge S1 Limmy’s Show Porridge Seinfeld Taskmaster

Number 6 is an organisation for autistic adults and it's been an absolute lifeline for me over the past year. Edinburgh council are taking away its funding so it'll have to close, please sign this petition to help keep it open!! chng.it/vJDYwT4L4J

Just when I thought I was out, he pulls me back in. #Disney #Kimmel #Hulu #ABC #Trump #Kirk #FreeSpeech #CancelCulture #Poetry #Limerick

Saturday was so bad from a UK politics POV that on Sunday I was mentally & physically drained from the doomscrolling etc. Monday I wrote a response poem about flags that's maybe too explicit and may never be published, but it made me feel a little better. Oh, and I ate some lovely cheesecake.

Launching today - the beautiful Stirring Words edition of Little Thoughts Press, guest edited by @jthomasabc.bsky.social Come along and have a look - and maybe even try an instrument on page 6! 🎺It’s #pandemonium ! www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues @littlethoughtspress.com #poetry #poetryforkids

Very pleased to have a few scary poems boarding The Poetry Express. A whole bunch of fantastic writers along for the ride by the looks of it! scaryness.com/new-poems-no... #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryCommunity #PoetryForKids #KidLit #WordPrompt

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We have NEWS! We are opening for submissions for Issue 2, on the theme TRUSTWORTHY! Oct 1-Nov 30; poetry, fiction, and illustrations for kids 5-14, by adults and kids! Details here: epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit... Check back soon for writing prompts to help the kids in your life get started!

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Wrong Channel The world at the moment Is a broken Television set Whenever I turn it on, all I get Is ‘white noise.’ © Bernard Pearson

Happy anniversary of my one and only banger of a tweet.

WEBSITE UPDATE Check out our newly revamped website with a ton of new info to look through. We're adding teacher resources, an announcement page, and a place to sign your school or library up to collab with us epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit/

Thanks @thetoypress.bsky.social! #WordOfTheWeek #Smooth #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryCommunity #PoetryForKids #KidLit #WordPrompt

I’m loving the spooky poems for kids on the wonderful new website scaryness.com, a free resource for scary poems (with a sprinkle of fun)! Extra excited to have my own spooky work haunting the site soon! 👻🧙‍♀️📚 #poetry #poetryforkids #kidlit

I randomly stumbled upon Fujio Kito, an artist who documents Japanese playgrounds at night. It was a fun little rabbit hole to follow. fujio-pand-park.tumblr.com

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Following my poem in their recent Ekphrasis Adventure issue, there's a short interview with me up on the @littlethoughtspress.com website: www.littlethoughtspress.com/post/intervi...

Delighted to have a few poems featured in the excellent SHINE Quarterly issue 4. @shinepoetry.bsky.social #shinepoetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

Following my poem in their recent Ekphrasis Adventure issue, there's a short interview with me up on the @littlethoughtspress.com website: www.littlethoughtspress.com/post/intervi...

Delighted to have a few poems featured in the excellent SHINE Quarterly issue 4. @shinepoetry.bsky.social #shinepoetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

We love seeing your submissions coming our way. There's not long left to the deadline. Don't miss it! Deadline: Midnight 14th Sept! Theme: Changes - Come As You Aren't! We can't wait to see what you come up with! paperboundmag.com/submit #KidLit #KidLitArt #PaperBoundMag

Poems uploaded to the Dirigible Balloon for our autumn flight #ImagineTheFuture supporting creativity in schools celebrating next year's 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. Find them here >>> dirigibleballoon.org Hope you like the poems. JH x 😊

Happy to learn that the magical🎈 DIRIGIBLE BALLOON 🎈will publish three of my latest children's poems as part of their new #ImagineTheFuture wave of #PoemsForChildren Looking forward to reading all the other participating poets interpretations of this theme too!🌐 dirigibleballoon.org/writer/carme...

Perhaps as we've published two anthologies, we ought to think about a third to round it off? To my mind, a trio seems more suitable than a brace (goodness knows we have enough poems to choose from on the Dirigible Balloon) ... 🙂 #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon

8 weeks to go 😃 (Just 12 & a bit until December!) Thank you for all the support and pre-orders so far, and to Joshua Seigal for the seal of approval🎄 #ChristmasPoems #UkKidLit #KifLitUK @tinytreebooks.bsky.social

Thrilled to know my poem An Unwelcome Dessert will be on BBC Upload BBC Radio Cambridgeshire tonight 6pm and Saturday night too. Many thanks to Rob Jelly for choosing. I love Upload, such a great place to have your writing featured ❤️

Today is the launch date of the latest children's anthology by Macmillan. Honoured that my poem about #reframingloneliness is within, amongst Emily Dickinson, Phillip Larkin & Wendy Cope. ✨ I'm so glad that the editors placed it in the category entitled 'HOPE'. 🫶🏼 @panmacmillan.bsky.social

Hello, happy September! Here is your #wordoftheweek! #wordprompt #writingcommunity #writingforchildren #poetryforchildren #poetrycommunity #poetryforkids #kidlit

I have very much learnt something this morning.

Poetry prompt: When children return to school , don’t ask what they’ve done in the holidays because some children will have done very little. Instead, ask them to be imaginative about the things they didn’t do. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2021/09/this...

Train rides as a child was what the prompt brought to mind. But surely it would be much too niche, and the wordplay it would involve too tortuous and alienating? Yes, a pointless exercise, not worth a second thought. So here it is. "Enjoy". @thetoypress.bsky.social #Train @theemmapress.bsky.social

I have some poems up, for adults rather than children this time. With thanks to @shinepoetry.bsky.social samanthaterrell.weebly.com/shine-poetry... #PoetryCommunity

without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

Enjoy @ianbrownlie.bsky.social's poem "Ali the Artist," inspired by the illustration Portrait Painting by young artist Olivia McGinty (@steenahernandez.bsky.social). Little Thoughts Press Issue 10: An Ekphrasis Adventure is available now in print & pdf. www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues

Hello, happy August bank holiday! Here is your #wordoftheweek. #writingcommunity #writingforchildren #poetryforkids #poetrycommunity #poetryforchildren #Kidlit #wordprompt

I have some poems up, for adults rather than children this time. With thanks to @shinepoetry.bsky.social samanthaterrell.weebly.com/shine-poetry... #PoetryCommunity

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."

SHINE Quarterly, Issue 4 launches in just a couple of weeks! This issue is full of talent from 24 poets from around the globe...including Ian Brownlie. Stay tuned! #shinepoetry #poetrycommunity #internationalcommunity

What a lovely post to read as a 50-year-old not totally fulfilled creative.

So proud to be in this anthology with a host of talented writers. Thanks to Jonny Syer and @northerngravy.bsky.social for this! It's available to buy at northerngravy.com/shop/ And would be a great decision!

Submissions are open for Issue 12: Better Together! Send us your #kidlit poetry, stories & artwork on the theme of community and collective action now through September 22nd. www.littlethoughtspress.com/submissions

About to head to the beach for the afternoon, so this is self-consciously appropriate @thetoypress.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryForKids #PoetryCommunity #PoetryForChildren #KidLit #Sweet

Your daily reminder that if you’re talking freely on the radio, being widely quoted in newspapers and properly interviewed in magazines, you’re not actually being at all cancelled.

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Taking a tumble for @thetoypress.bsky.social this week. #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryForKids #PoetryCommunity #PoetryForChildren #KidLit #Tumble