Omg this tool makes it so easy, I was only clicking to check and it's done, might do it again later with some personal tweaks just to underline it

This Monday 1st June, sign up for a wonderful MASTERCLASS WEBINAR from @lkiew.bsky.social exploring Rewilding Gardens in Poetry What happens when we let the weeds and wild back in?🌱🌿 7-8pm BST Recorded in case ticket-holders cannot join us live £17 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclas...

This is a really useful letter template! I'd particularly urge my friends who aren't trans to write to their MPs about the new draft code -- the government needs to know that this is a thing that all of us care about!

Petition calling on the media and politicians to recognise that most women support the trans+ community! notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Once more for those at the back: There is NO WAY to reliably identify trans people, and certainly no dignified and respectful way to ask any person to prove their sex in a public facility. This will just cause harm to trans people and to cisgender people who don’t conform to gender stereotypes.

The Trans Greens have organised a letter writing campaign - bit.ly/ehrcletter This has been added to our website of campaigns and protests against the guidance. Read here: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

If you'd like to join a campaign against Palantir, I'd recommend checking out - and following - Foxglove: @foxglovelegal.bsky.social www.foxglove.org.uk/news/

💚 Day one for our record-breaking team of new Scottish Green MSPs. greens.scot/join

🧵Please share! @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social is hiring! - Co-Director (31 May) - Digital & Social Media Assistant (24 May) Both freelance, Scotland-based, remote with some travel. Highly encourage Black & PoC applicants + Co-Director Q&A: 26 May 👉🏽 scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/were-hiring-...

The politics of hope can prevail - if we get out and vote for it. 💚 @carolinelucas.bsky.social

"I have brought you a small grief so it can grow in your hands, and doors open to absence so you can attend." Feeling very moved as I do some event prep for this one tomorrow -- do come along!

Do I know anyone with a copy of the letters between Bachmann and Enzensberger? @pdavies.bsky.social, maybe? Am looking for a quote from a December 1963 letter...

Always good to be able to tick something off the to do list because it turns out your client decided to cancel the project 6 weeks ago but forgot to tell you and so you find out 10 days before the deadline when you send them an incidental question. Love that. Love that so much.

For regulars and newbies - due to a calendar confusion we missed out on our normal date on 13th - so this month's Chronic Illness writing group through Open Book is this evening, 20th April - on the April theme of 'wonder' - sign up here -

Scottish Greens are committed to protecting and restoring our green spaces. Let's demand better. Vote Scottish Greens on May 7th.

Thrilled to be starting a (roughly quarterly) online event series with @ptbopoetry.bsky.social, showcasing international poets and their English-language translators. First up on 28 April: Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun and his translator Catherine Cobham: www.citizenticket.com/events/push-...

Scottish Greens deliver for a fairer, greener Scotland #bbcdn 👇

The latest poll has the Scottish Greens as the 2nd largest party - overtaking Labour & the Tories and ahead of Reform. Let's demand better. On May 7th vote Scottish Greens.

As well as being the #2 candidate for the Greens on the Edinburgh & Lothians East regional list, I am delighted to announce I am also the constituency candidate for Edinburgh North Eastern and Leith! I feel incredibly lucky and privileged to be standing for such an inspiring part of our city 🌱 ⚓️ ✊️

The best thing about the IB longlisting has been seeing so many people discovering this novel for the first time and appreciating the complex personal stories of ordinary Iranians, in contrast to the statistics and snippets of current news coverage. www.anikopress.com/book-reviews...

Would you like to stay and write in a global literary hub? Here are the latest opportunities: 1. Residency in Lyon for French-language poetry (dl 28 Feb) 2. Korean–English translation residency in Norwich (dl 9 March) 3. Norwich–Jakarta circular residency (dl 31 March) buff.ly/vziVRSz

Also remember; a Scottish concessionary bus pass has been an approved form of ID in previous elections (and, hopefully, in future too)

I've been wanting to do more work championing artists at risk - and connecting Scottish and international artists - for quite a while now, so am super excited to be coming on board to Highlight Arts to do just that. Join me on this journey by joining our Board! highlightarts.org/about/volunt...

Spain has already banned the US military from using their air bases to wage Trump's illegal war in Iran. Scotland must do the same.

I've been wanting to do more work championing artists at risk - and connecting Scottish and international artists - for quite a while now, so am super excited to be coming on board to Highlight Arts to do just that. Join me on this journey by joining our Board! highlightarts.org/about/volunt...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

Emergency Dream by @pollyrowena.bsky.social is so, so good. The book I needed to read, the book that held me ❤️

Apply & share! @englishpen.bsky.social writing residencies for "writers currently based in England who identify as experiencing displacement – including (but not only) refugee writers, writers seeking asylum, and writers in exile." www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

An imbolc poem from #EmergencyDream. I wish you inclement weather for immortal hags today. I wish you fuel enough for your fire but less need for it. I wish you an early and thorough thaw. Melted ice. A new season of hope blooming. Spring spring spring spring spring. #Imbolc #BrigidsDay #Cailleach

"If you use AI there’s a loss of process—art process, theatre making, translation....Process is where you build knowledge. Just going from A to B without process, you gain no knowledge, no human experience. You gain zero opportunity because you are not having to engage with anybody else..." #xl8 💙📚

In Praise of PLR (Public Lending Rights), all those who fought for them, lending services, all those who use them! Viva Libraries! PLR statement day. Incredibly helpful payment (£140 for me this time) but most of all I love to see which of my books have been borrowed. Keep reading!

Ahhhh I almost forgot to do one last shout out about my NEXT event. Join me online tomorrow evening - Tuesday 20th January - for an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social at home Online Masterclass - On 'winter writing as (self) preservation Saving up Light for The Long Night'. #WritingSky #BookSky

Question for publishing people! Is Unbound Edition Press connected in anyway to the now defunct Unbound publishers, or is the name just a coincidence?...

'Write a memory, soak and tear into as many pieces as your years... I cannot promise you it will work'. Love this poem, 'Home-Charm' by Harry Josephine Giles on @annierutherford.bsky.social 's Advent Calendar today in aid of #msf Still time to sign up! mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...

“There is still hope in the handwriting that refuses to be mass-produced for the world.” Leena Norms Let me recommend the Advent Poetry Calendar by @annierutherford.bsky.social raising funds for #MSF This year’s selection fits the world we live in like a glove mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...

My email account finally learnt not to send these to junk today 🤦‍♀️ no taste! Every day so far has been a jewel, so glad I signed up

V proud to have had poems included in Annie’s brilliant poetry advent calendar each year. It can be a difficult time but what better company through it than a poem sent to you every day? And knowing that is helping others in terrible need? That’s the spirit of the season. Not too late to sign up!

My other beautiful advent calendar, @annierutherford.bsky.social’s poetry calendar benefitting @msf.ca, today features Polly Atkin locating hope & endurance in the form of a grey wagtail’s winter lessons. I needed that. @pollyrowena.bsky.social

What a lovely treat to find this, Paul! Thank you so much for doing it. Along with @annierutherford.bsky.social 's advent calendar for @msf.ca that's the season sorted 🙏 😊 🙏

The best Advent Calendar is back!

This is a lovely thing.

This was a lovely part of my December last year and I'm glad to see it return. Perhaps your inbox could use some poetry, too?

When I first came up with this idea back in 2023, I told myself that if the Poetry Advent Calendar could raise £500 for MSF, I'd be more than chuffed - this year, we've surpassed that in the first 90 minutes of the advent calendar going live! Huge thanks to everyone who's donated and shared so far ❤️

Time ONCE MORE for the best advent calendar of them all! Donate! Get a poem every day throughout this miserable month!

Signed! Thank you for putting the effort into organising this again, Annie. It was fabulous last year, and most importantly it's for @msf.ca Poetry friends, Annie brings you the gift of poetry, please sign up👇

Perhaps, like me, you already have an extraordinarily indulgent & fancy chocolate advent calendar sent by your extravagantly delightful sibling 😇 But I recommend also signing up for Annie’s poetry advent calendar to benefit MSF & their indispensable relief work. Last year’s was an utter joy.

It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...

In advance of this -- if any of my fellow translators have some favourite reviews, which you think deal with translation particularly well, I'd love to see them!

✨ A week to go ✨ Join @annierutherford.bsky.social for 'Reviewing Translations: Making the Translator Visible' ONLINE on Wednesday 22 October 📚 ✨ Find out more and book: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... In partnership with @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social

Join our Board of Directors! Deadline for applications: Monday 20 October at 2 pm. Find out more and to apply on our vacancy page: buff.ly/IMUuTQP #EdinburghCharity #BoardMembersWanted #JoinOurTeam #NonprofitLeadership #CharityRecruitment #VolunteerOpportunities #InclusiveLeadership