We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate: ko-fi.com/brokensleepb...

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72 Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

TONIGHT at Manchester Poetry Library & ONLINE. Celebrating Jean Sprackland's new book, Night Vision.

(UK) Recording of Westminster Hall debate: "Government support for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis" (i.e. in the Houses of Parliament) www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/... This 4:30pm debate was led by Tessa Munt MP @tessamunt.bsky.social #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PwME #MEcfs #CFS

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. —Lucille Clifton

Another great article from the brilliant work of @catherinehale.bsky.social & Chronic Illness Inclusion - paper from Catherine, Ana Bê & Anna Ruddock. #DisabilitySky International Journal of Disability & Social Justice. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

lithub.com/remembering-.... read this achingly beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social I keep thinking, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was irreplaceable but she nurtured a whole-ass huge forest (or series of forests). No one can replace her, except for all of us doing the work she nurtured in us.

We're very excited for the book launch of Jean Sprackland's new book, Night Vision, this week at Manchester Poetry Library. Online and in-person tickets. #BookSky #NightSky #Darkness www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We are searching for that special person to take over the prestige role of Sussex Bird Report editor!🖊️ Have you or anyone you know got the time to help us? Current editor Mark Mallalieu wrote a short piece about the role here; www.sos.org.uk/archives/6643 Please read and share 🙏

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

When we talk about disability ancestors, we’re not talking about some distant, abstract lineage. We’re talking about people who fought, organized, wrote, dreamed, and survived alongside us. People who left us tools, strategies, jokes, tenderness, and a politic were responsible for carrying forward.

Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:

web.archive.org/web/20241122... Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.

Waking up to this news and utterly lost for words. Alice was amazing and will leave such a hole in the world. With love to all her friends and family. Such a legacy she has left for us xx

Only a few days left to enter the 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize. Enter your poems for a chance to have your pamphlet published by Smith|Doorstop! 📚 Deadline 16 November 2025 Enter on our website - poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/

Online poetry reading tomorrow evening UK time from the Wordsworth Trust - @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social hosting Josie Giles. Next month is Sarah Howe! I keep missing these but they're such great events. Do share and come along! www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Just caught up with Polly’s tawny owls — her radio-perfect voice & gorgeous owl accompaniment. 🦉

#PoemsAbout #Desire starts Friday. Write toward the want. The mouth, the mirror, the hunger that hums. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Sign up for prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A#PoemsAbout

🧵 Contested and neglected: Social and medical marginalization in severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Severe ME/CFS patients face deep social, medical, and structural exclusion." #SevereME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME 1/

Alton Melvar M Dapanas speaks to @mailbykite.bsky.social on how her latest book ANNAH, INFINITE reshapes speculative nonfiction, and disputes the racial, gendered, and ableist biases of fraught literary and artistic spaces. Read now: buff.ly/YrKYEPD

The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story. A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US. For reviews/i’views/events: [email protected] www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...

Following last month's first even in Jean Sprackland's curated series for Night Vision, Jean is launching her book with an event at Manchester Poetry Library next week. In-person and link to online tickets below: #BookSky #AcademicSky #Poetry www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...

If you’re a #disabled, #ChronicallyIll or #neurodivergent #author you need an access form to make it easier to navigate the #publishing industry. Sign up to the virtual @societyofauthors.bsky.social panel on what they are and how they work. bit.ly/48Bmxxb

Jean Sprackland reflects on the view from her kitchen window, and the life the valley has seen before her in this series of The Essay for @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social - ahead of her new book Night Vision being launched at Manchester Poetry Library later this month. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply. Link below. Please share :)

Coming up this week at Manchester Poetry Library, #poetry help/clinic/drop-in with @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social - have you booked your place? @dcahf-met.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social

Next week sees the launch of Jean Sprackland's new book Night Vision @jonathancape.bsky.social at Manchester Poetry Library. Jean will be in conversation with Karen Solie - with tickets available for online and in-person attendance. #Poetry #BookSky @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social

As a glimpse into what you can expect from Night Vision, Jean Sprackland's new non-fiction book, take a look at her recent piece in @theobserveruk.bsky.social #BookSky

really looking forward to this, I will be in conversation with @drbevans.bsky.social @livunigeog.bsky.social so please do come and join us @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social on Tuesday November 4th if you can (NB: no Beatles will be in attendance but I may invoke Yoko Ono. IYKYK) #TheFeministArtOfWalking

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

"30 years since the Disability Discrimination Act, now what?" Join our annual conference looking at the last 3 decades of disability activism and how it can inform tackling current challenges. 📅November 26th ⏰5 - 6:30pm 💻Online via Zoom Register now! www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

A surprise bonus from COVID-19 vaccines: bolstering cancer treatment | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Well I never. First time I've been into a bookshop to sign Land Beneath the Waves and found all four of the anthologies I'm in, there too! #booksky #naturewriting @summersdalebooks.bsky.social

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to TREESCAPES project for coming joint first in the @manmetuni.bsky.social Festival of Research Awards for Research Collaboration! Led by @katepahl.bsky.social & run by @drdavidcooper.bsky.social Caitlin Nunn & Khawla Badwan & with many more. #Collaborative #Research #Treescapes

'mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer.' @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com 'COVID-19 mRNA vaccine acts like a siren and activates the immune system throughout the body - programming a response to kill the cancer.' www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Industry Insider – Understanding Access Forms and Riders – Tools for Disabled, Chronically Ill and Neurodivergent Authors with me, @pollyrowena.bsky.social @portyliterary.bsky.social Hannah Knowles and Ama Badu. 13th November 14:00 - 15:00 GMT bit.ly/48Bmxxb #SoAatHome #disability #publishing 🧵

What a wonderful event to launch Jean Sprackland's series of curated events last night - readings & conversation with Andrew Hurley & Jacob Polley on literal & metaphorical darkness in literature. If you missed it, a recording is available on this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPv...

Are you a @societyofauthors.bsky.social member? Remember to vote in the management committee elections! Follow me as I go to post my ballot voting for Jen Calleja, Mohamed Tonsy & Matt Abbott.

All of Jean Sprackland's events at Manchester Poetry Library are ONLINE & in person! Book here for this week's launch, 1st/3 in Jean's curated series - Andrew Hurley & Jacob Polley in conversation #Manchester @dcahf-met.bsky.social @manchesterreview.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/night-visi...

Went to see the Images of Research exhibition @dcahf-met.bsky.social @louisekenward.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @centreplacewriting.bsky.social 🩷

Thrilled to be invited to run this course again with the wonderful @mailbykite.bsky.social for @arvonfoundation.bsky.social Looking for support/time/space/encouragement/nurturing/nourishment for your writing? This might be the one for you. #PlaceWriting #DisabilitySky www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

My submission Bird Skull got shortlisted for Images of Research!

Absolutely thrilled to be working with Louise again, tx Louise and Arvon. This class is a true joy to teach. Writing the Body: Embodied Place Writing, 2026 #CripLit

Thrilled to be invited to run this course again with the wonderful @mailbykite.bsky.social for @arvonfoundation.bsky.social Looking for support/time/space/encouragement/nurturing/nourishment for your writing? This might be the one for you. #PlaceWriting #DisabilitySky www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Help shape the future of the health & care workforce. We’re calling for evidence to inform our response to the govt’s 10-Year Workforce Plan, highlighting prevention, digital innovation & community-based care. BPS members submit by 20 Oct '25: forms.office.com/e/cgD7YkVv5e...

Are you the legal or beneficial copyright owner of a book included in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement? www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

🚸 Massive study in The Lancet of nearly half a million children & young people. ⏫ Increased risk of multisystem complications incl. POTS, kidney injury, arrthyhmias & myocarditis 👉 This is why Violet was furious @loosewomen @kayeadams 🖇️ tinyurl.com/45x4633e