An amazing feeling to see my poem about mental health and geese in this beautiful hardback anthology from @panmacmillan.bsky.social with so many brilliant poets past and present ☺️🪿

Really happy to have two poems in Issue 35 of Under the Radar from @ninearchespress.bsky.social, including this one 😊 This is my third time being part of this excellent magazine, and it is always a lovely publishing experience ❤️

Overjoyed to be part of @channel-lit.bsky.social with my poem 'The hill with the frogs', about living with polycystic ovaries and finding comfort and awe in nature ☺️🐸

The launch of Elizabeth Gibson's collection 'A love the weight of an animal' will take place at SEESAW Manchester on 6th August!

Very happy to have two poems in here 😊

So excited for a brilliant night of poetry and fun - it would be amazing to see you there 😊 www.confingopublishing.uk/event-detail...

'Cinnabar grubs are officially here: skinny tiger sausages, vast tiger-sausages, curling or dangling from ragwort, clinging on with iron-hook feet...' Really happy to have this poem in my book! 🐯🐛 Huge thanks to @modronmagazine.bsky.social for first publishing it ☺️

Super-excited to be launching my collection with a fabulous evening of poetry at Seesaw, Manchester, on 6th August ☺️ Do come along! 🦊 www.confingopublishing.uk/event-detail...

Overjoyed to have a poem accepted for Anthropocene - a dream publication ☺️

A genuinely transformative week representing @thewritingsquad.bsky.social and @mcrlitfest.bsky.social in the ReWrite exchange in Aarhus 🇩🇰 I worked with a brilliant group of writers, performed at the Literature Exchange festival, and explored beaches, forests, and river trails. It was wonderful ☺️

Excited to have quite a personal poem about Manchester accepted for Ey Up 4 from @writtenoffbooks.bsky.social and to see that so many friends and fab writers are also going to be in it 😊

I really enjoyed being interviewed by @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social for the Festival of Libraries about accessibility, mental health, and neurodivergence ☺️ www.manchestercityofliterature.com/news/festiva...

It's really special to be part of the out.skirts anthology with my poem 'Fusion' 🌈 Sharing it feels quite vulnerable, but Romina Ramos and @sunshinedaisybaby.bsky.social being the Editors meant a lot to me, as they are both brilliant poets and people. I hope you enjoy my poem ❤️

It's June, and less than a month until my book comes out! 🦊 You can pre-order it at the link below for a special price ✨ This poem was first published by lovely @sinkmagazine.bsky.social, and I'm really happy to have it in the collection ☺️ www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page... 🌿

Excited to have a poem in this anthology! 🌈

A fabulous evening performing at Verbose with this lovely lot 😊

Last week, I had my second, and hopefully final, ulnar (elbow) nerve surgery, and I'm now in the Lake District (with my sling) for some rest 🌿 I wanted to share my poem 'Ulnar', which I wrote back before my first surgery, exploring the word. It was published by lovely @howlwriting.bsky.social ❤️

Look at this beautiful cover! 😍 Very happy to have a poem in this upcoming issue of Channel ❤️

Really happy to have a poem about queer love and self-discovery in Ambient Receiver 🌈 There are so many fabulous people I know in this issue - can't wait to explore it ☺️ www.ambientreceiver.org/elizabeth-gi...

Very excited to have two poems, including this satsuma moment, in There Are Only So Many Ways You Can Write About Fruit, an anthology of words and art beautifully curated by Tallulah Howarth 😊🍊

Lovely to receive my copy of Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon ☺️ It means a lot to me to share this poem about my experience of PCOS and changes in my body and trying to see them as neutral and not negative. I hope you enjoy it ❤️

Such an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime moment to hold my first book in my hands! ☺️ It is so gorgeous, with its cover flaps and beautiful illustrations by Michelle Freeman. It is out in July, but you can preorder it now for the special price of £7! 🦊 www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page... ✨

Super-excited that my debut collection is available to pre-order for the special price of £7! 😊 Do have a look, especially if you are interested in foxes, geese, queer joy, and/or neurodivergent urban exploring 🦊 www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...

A very special evening at @royalholloway.bsky.social launching Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon with @sidekickbooks.bsky.social and @brihughespoet.bsky.social ☺️ It was lovely to meet my fellow contributors, chat a lot, and share our space-themed poems 🪐

Really lovely to see this poem published in The Cormorant, a Sligo literary broadsheet ☘️ I love cormorants and Sligo, and the quality of work in this issue is incredible ❤️

I am very honoured and moved to have a poem in this anthology on grief from @sidhepress.bsky.social ❤️

Very excited to launch Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon with @sidekickbooks.bsky.social next Tuesday! 😊 It will be lovely to share my poem and meet some of my fellow lunar adventurers 🌒

It is amazing to be part of Crannóg with my poem about learning to play the tin whistle and connecting to my Irish heritage in a new way ☺️ This has been a dream publication for years, and I'm still in awe ☘️

So excited to announce that my debut poetry collection is coming out in July and is available to pre-order now! ☺️ It is full of urban wildlife 🦊, neurodivergent joy ✨, and queer love and community 🌈 www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...

So magical to meet one of my favourite writers, @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, at @cuirtfestival.bsky.social, and to be introduced to the work of @shirleyannemcm.bsky.social and @pforde123.bsky.social, which I am really enjoying reading ❤️ Very glad I was in Galway when the Festival was on ☘️

Honoured to have a poem in this anthology on grief from @sidhepress.bsky.social ❤️

A lovely evening launching Crannóg at The Crane Bar in Galway and performing my poem 'Whistle' 😊 A warm and supportive atmosphere, excellent readings, and fab conversation - was great to catch up with @martinadalton.bsky.social! Really glad I made the journey here ☘️

Very excited to have a poem about playing the tin whistle, the body, nature, and identity published in Crannóg! 🎶 It has been a dream publication for me for years, so this was lovely news ❤️

I've completed the first residency in the ReWrite project, which was in Aalborg! 🇩🇰 I still can't quite believe I get to be part of this amazing collaboration with a brilliant group of writers from Denmark and the UK. We will also be working together in Aarhus in June and in Manchester in October ✨

I had a fascinating and rewarding time attending Manchester Translation Series at @manmetuni.bsky.social, with workshops with Jeffrey Yang, on Chinese poetry, and A. E. Stallings, on Latin and Greek poems. It is so helpful for these events to be available and accessible, and I have learnt a lot ✨

Lovely to have a poem about queer love and self-discovery accepted for the next issue of Ambient Receiver ❤️

So happy and proud to have been chosen to represent @thewritingsquad.bsky.social and @mcrlitfest.bsky.social in ReWrite, an exchange between writers in Manchester, Aalborg, and Aarhus! 😊 Really excited to head to Denmark this weekend for the first stage 🇩🇰 www.writingsquad.com/project/rewr...

I was excited to be approached to create course materials for a new unit, 'On Creativity', for UCIL at @officialuom.bsky.social. I was filmed delivering a zine-making tutorial and discussing zines, neurodivergence, and creativity, and I created written guidance. I hope I inspire some zine-making! 😊

Honoured to have a poem chosen for the upcoming @sidhepress.bsky.social anthology on the theme of Grief. It was lovely being part of Glisk and Glimmer, and this is such an important theme ❤️

Really excited to be part of the Neurodivergent Zine from the brilliant @coinoppress.bsky.social with my collaboration with Explorer NJ, in which we explore neurodivergence through language and experiences in nature 😊

Lovely to have three poems on the @litfest.bsky.social Poetry Map! 🌍 You can find them in Galway and Cobh, Ireland, and Vienna, Austria 😊 worldintowords.humap.site/map/browse

It was lovely to be invited to perform at Burnage Library 😊 It was a very rainy evening, but inside, we were cosy and inspired. I enjoyed hearing a wide variety of work and meeting some new people ✨

Exciting to receive my copies of The Tree Poets: Flames of Ice from @hedgehogpress.co.uk, which showcases poems by myself, Kay Channon, and Kate Garrett 😊 My set of poems was inspired by my time living in the south of France, and revisiting the sea and the peach blossom has been nice 🌸

Really excited to be travelling to the dark side of the moon with @sidekickbooks.bsky.social in their upcoming anthology! 😊 My poem explores experiences of polycystic ovaries and body image, with self-love running through it ❤️

An honour to be Commended in the @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social Competition for the second year running, this time judged by the brilliant Hannah Lowe ☺️ I enjoyed performing my poem 'Candle people', about the power of body-positive shaped candles, at the Festival, and am happy to be in the anthology ✨

Lovely and a bit surreal to see quite a few books and journals that I'm a part of for sale in the @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social bookshop, including @magmapoetry.bsky.social, Joy//Us from @arachnepress.bsky.social, last year's Verve anthology, and He, She, They, Us from @panmacmillan.bsky.social ☺️🌈

Manchester Poetry Library and Manchester Writing School have been a big part of my life through events, projects, and just spending time in such a welcoming space. So, it is a dream come true to have started a Masters in Creative Writing at @manmetuni.bsky.social, specialising in Poetry ☺️🎉

A lovely day of queer hiking in the Peak District 🌈 #peakdistrict #nature #landscape 🌿

A lovely queer hiking day in the Peak District 🌈 Very cold and foggy, but great to meet so many new people ☺️

Very excited to have a poem accepted by Sligo literary broadsheet The Cormorant ☺️☘️