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What makes Gothic modern? 💀 Psychological dread 🕯 Isolation in a connected world 💔 Love that bruises If your poem whispers these, submit. #PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

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We are a small independent and traditional press located in Clapham. We’re London-based and the majority of our books are about Britain. But our memoirs and travelogues take you around the world. So do many of our thrillers. Black Tea by Stephen Morris has been shortlisted for the Christopher Bland…

no matter how many times the little voice tells me to stop I'm always surprised when the crash comes and my ridiculous nervous system brings everything to a halt...

Realised I hadn't typed up all my poems from 1999 - fuck me I was in a bad way!

Autumn morning School run. Traffic Lights glowing. Wednesday 21st of September 2005

Just found a poem from 2005 I'd not typed up. Pretty miserable too.

got these for a quid!

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Interwar Council Housing in Lancaster: ‘Wait till I show my husband this house, it’s lovely’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/interwar-c...

off to Guisboro with my Mam today

My research is now on display at MMU’s Images of Research competition alongside fellow PhDers @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @louisekenward.bsky.social and many more. You can vote online for your favourite.

Your chance to own a genuine Bob Ross, if you've got a few tens of thousands lying around: apnews.com/article/bob-...

@bigbeardybooks.bsky.social Withered Hill good so far.

Sail with the Argo on an epic quest (and a love story steeped in vengeance) in No Friend to This House, out now: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/nata...

@bigbeardybooks.bsky.social Not actually reading anything at the moment, but going through my 2008 diary because I hadn't copied down the books I read that year. It make for interesting, if pretty boring at times, reading.

Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Open til 8pm. Furloughed folks get 10% off.

I'm also trying to remember all the books I read pre-2000 that I have no written record for...

New talk on the Winter Garden on 18th of Oct at Teesside Archives

The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) urgent appealing to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app. The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books. Anyone willing to donate should contact [email protected].

I've kept a record of every book I've finished since 2000 & am copying up the years I've not typed up and added to the list. So many books and so little memory of most of them!

well, guess who's got his 1st phone consultation with the ADHD people next week??

managed to get new shows & checked they're waterproof! and to top it all the Russets are back in the veg shop!!

Only twenty quid to go!

bought shoes cos others had holes in sole, wore them for 3rd time today to find out they're not waterproof - I assumed they were cos they're walking shoes - so now I have to return them and won't get refund for 2-3 weeks, which means I'm going to have to borrow £ to buy shoes in the mean time

ko-fi.com/pamorbid81551 If anyone can help...

Hey all, as part of our #generalstrike100 mapping project, we are trying to find the location of the old Arrol-Johnstone car factory in Dumfries, Scotland. Can anyone help us find where it was exactly?

New goal across on Ko-Fi ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbo...

themiddlesbroughhistoryproject.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/w... remembered the password for my blog!!!

892 posts on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog ranging from art manifesto to tarot readings, and hitting book reviews, recipes, photography, and more on the way All this without a single advert though I do have affiliate links If you want to support Ko-Fi is the only way ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbo...

exhibition of Middlesbrough Winter Garden materials at Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough. Opening 27th Sept, 10-4pm. Runs til mid-November

Dad, lips tight as he says goodbye to his two boys on Dinsdale Station, turns and waves half way up the exit ramp, only to find himself already forgotten as the boys bend their heads over a phone screen, his wave falling dead. Sunday 19th of May 2019

@simplevisions.bsky.social Next Saturday morning 10-12 there's an official opening of the Winter Garden exhibition in Dorman Museum. Not only see lots of previously unseen photos, but meet the Historian! Not that that should put you off! There may be tea and coffee laid on...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ_Y... found bluray of this in charity a few years back & finally got around to watching it today - like trippy man!

Poets, the time is NOW ... and through till Sept 27th, when the window for auditions (submissions) for (to) @iambapoet.com closes. I'm looking to fill a whole eight waves worth of the journal across 2026/27 – so don't be shy! Go to the Audition page, and give me your best. iambapoet.com/audition

Sage have very kindly made this interview free to read until the end of October. Link is below ⬇️

A history / science Q: Isaac Newton is said to have believed that all his discoveries had been known to the 'ancients' (Pythagoras, Euclid etc.). I'd like to find that quote. It is NOT the 'standing on the shoulders of giants' that I'm thinking of, nor the boy playing on the seashore. Anyone plz?

Saturday 04/10/2026 10:30-12:00 Wirral Poetry Festival hosts Afonydd poets Sian Northey, Siôn Aled Owen, & Robbie Burton at Bebington Library, Civic Way Bebington Wirral CH63 7PN free, no booking required

Prefer paperback over eBook? The paperback version of 'Those Alien Skies' is now available on Amazon. USA www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRG7VK6P AU www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FRG7VK6P UK www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FRG7VK6P CA www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FRG7VK6P #ScienceFiction #mustread #readers #bookworms #TBR #ian1

VERY excited to say that I've put up the first of next year's Romancing the Gothic talks and we're diving into the history of GAY GOTHIC PULP with Justin Tate! Check it out! Online, March 21st 2026, 4pm and 9pm GMT 4 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1715374694... 9 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1715525245...