How does it feel to watch someone disappear when they are right there? THE ARGONAUT’S SON 👨‍👦‍👦Found family 🌈 LGBTQ ❤️F2L 💔HEA free zone #Q #A #HF #HR #RF #QuestPit

Our history is littered with men who over-reached... THE ARGONAUT’S SON A retelling of Sophocles' Ajax #FirstLine #Q #A #HF #HR #RF #QuestPit

BOY PARTS x OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA Selene is a curator hollowed by grief for a vanished artist. Her devotion rots into obsession, blurring the line between archivist and art, self and subject until she becomes something stranger: a ghost in the living. #questpit #LF #H #Q

When one man’s dream of family and brotherhood collides with another’s quest for honour, can their bond survive the trauma of war? THE SONG OF ACHILLES x QUEENS OF THEMISCYRA x THE WOMEN 👨‍👦‍👦Found family 🌈 LGBTQ ❤️F2L 💔HEA free zone #Q #A #HF #HR #RF #QuestPit

You can find the full list of our shortlisted and long-listed writers for our 2025 competition here! Congratulations to all of these wonderful writers! cheshirenovelprize.com/writing-tips...

“The international community cannot stay silent on the genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people...the absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity.” But the report has not brought the response she expected, nor hoped for. Inaction, she says, still rules. share.google/fBcD8HItXBay...

The last #QuestPit of the year starts tomorrow! See the rules at questpit.carrd.co! #WriteSky #WriterSky #Writers #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #LitAgents #WritingCommunity

#WIPPIT is coming up on November 23rd! Follow @wippit.bsky.social for more information! #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting #WriteSky

Hello #WritingCommunity! I'm interested in starting a pitch event with the hashtag #MuslimPit dedicated to uplifting the voices of Muslim writers who are at any stage with their manuscripts. As an #amquerying writer myself, I am passionate about expressing my religious identity through my work!

Considering it is just an elaborate game of Wink Murder, my 7-11 year old Brownies are doing a far better job than the #celebrity #traitors

Well, blow me down with a teeny-tiny feather!

I beg your pardon, sorry, what now?? This is vile and insidious. Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation | Manchester | The Guardian share.google/hzAkqNtPQFhq...

"Not paying for a product you exploit to sell your product is theft; not paying for labour you employ is slavery. If your business model is theft and slavery, you’re not an industry. You’re a pirate" share.google/3n52eBpQQ6v7...

It's a grim world out there when even charities are facing violence and abuse. Charity staff shouldn’t face this abhorrent abuse | Charities | The Guardian share.google/ya3nYZWjz5ex...

Talking monsters in Dundee in a week or so 👹 Why not pop by and say hello 👋

Really looking forward to this. @livunihss.bsky.social @wirralarchaeology.bsky.social interested?

From granting Birkenhead Park UNESCO World Heritage Status to discovering New Brighton’s secret World War II munitions factory, this upcoming @heritageinstitute.bsky.social event on local heritage initiatives looks fascinating. Come along on 21 Oct.

After a warm reception at Dorchester, I've been invited to give my Women of the Roman Arena talk again. This time I'm headed to the Grovesnor Museum in Chester. If anyone is nearby on the 15th of January, I'd love to see you there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-of-t...

My new novel, THE WANDERING QUEEN, is one of the chosen titles in the Waterstones 25% off preorder sale. Preorder using code OCTOBER25 between now and Friday, and get a juicy 25% off! #WPreorder THE WANDERING QUEEN is a Dido retelling, out in February 2026

❤️ BBC News - Domestic abuse survivor hopes his story 'helps men' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In addition to CBS covering it as linked by another poster, AP News is also covering it.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY* We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual. More info 🐐 www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

🛑 UNCONSCIONABLE! This #Gaza #GENOCIDE rages on. STOP THE STARVATION TACTIC! DEMAND immediate, unconditional CEASEFIRE NOW. Systematically starved despite talks. Tufts' Alex de Waal: "It is a choice that Israel has, whether to feed the people or whether to starve them."

25 years with my old man today. 🥰 Not sure where QUARTER OF A CENTURY has gone, but feeling grateful he stuck with me!

"Many Americans support foreign aid for health programs but overestimate how much the US spent on foreign aid" tinyurl.com/mr3ya7as Tragedy is the loss of this 1% = the loss of vital equipment, critical infrastructure, security personnel etc making other countries' combined efforts less effective

School Reading List Children’s Book of the Month. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/new-book-rel... #kidlit The School Reading List compiles this list of recommended books monthly. This children's and YA books of the month list highlights new releases and ed...

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Tony Harrison RIP I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades. Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.

Women: screwed by the moon AND by the sun! Scientists find direct link between solar storms and heart attacks - Earth.com share.google/BQ0gWQKPqYKX...

First ever Charity Commission Sector Risk Assessment www.gov.uk/government/n...

It’s out in the world now, hopefully not getting lost on the way to its new home - in your hands. YOU ARE ODYSSEUS is finally ending its journey from idea to book. Illustration of Odysseus from the Title page of the paperback edition.

My #shortstory, “The Eye of the Beholder”, which retells the story of Polyphemus from The Odyssey, is on @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social! You can read the first page here! Click the link to see the rest! suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue10 #writer #writesky #greekmyth #mythology #writingcommunity #writers

In Welsh folklore, the Black Wyrm of the Barrow was a huge serpent who lived in a labyrinthine barrow. As a barrow is a pagan tomb, some scholars assume the Wyrm was inspired by a pagan god. It was slain by Peredur (Sir Percival), one of King Arthur's most Christian warriors. #WyrdWednesday

Minister encourages civil servants to volunteer in NHS share.google/6cMXtXOkXRd4...

In or near Mancs? THIS SATURDAY: the return of Northern Publishers Book fair! Free! Mancs central library, 27 Sept 11-3.30pm. This time: chat with agents! Founded & organised by amazing Bella of @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social!

From where? The foothills of Skafell Pike?? The great Pennine plantations?? Honestly, smdh!

Ew, ew, ew!! As if! 🤢 🌱

There's a giveaway running over on Goodreads for advance copies of my new novel, THE WANDERING QUEEN! If you're based in the US you can enter for a chance to win 1 of 10 copies. Open until 29th September. Good luck! 🤞 www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 SCOTLAND FRIENDS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I am coming to Glasgow & Edinburgh in October for folkloric fun 🧚🏻‍♀️ Message me for ticket links 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It’s been claimed police estimated three million people attended the “Unite the Kingdom” event at the weekend. This isn’t correct—the actual Met Police estimate is far lower.

I wish the media would report on TR with his real name, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. TR is a dog whistle drawn from ww1 heroism and English folklore and I'm not comfortable with either being attached that bile spitting hate-monger.

✨ We are SO delighted to release our guide to National 5 Classical Studies. ✨ It's completely free (unless you'd like to make a donation) and is the first Classics textbook written for the Scottish education system in two generations! ✊⚡ www.workingclassicists.com/national-5-c...

I finished writing this tonight. It’s a textbook for National 5 Classical Studies, the first of its kind. I’m not sure but I think the last Scotland-specific Classics textbook for schools came out in 1983. Anyway, it’s 220 pages long and will be available for free/donation from tomorrow.

We've been busy with this for a while but it's very close to launch 👀

Parents should be a hell of a lot more concerned about having to explain an ongoing genocide to their kids than having to explain that trans people exist.

Managed to drop toothpaste down my Homer t-shirt. Doh!

Tomato plant making a very bold statement today. 🌱 🍅 #AllotmentSky #GYOSky