#poetsofbluesky #promptcombo #poemsabout Hope you don't mind a polite shout-out for this zoom event happening soon! Would love to see many of you there to hear these fantastic poets. DM me for zoom link x

Please share this notice far and wide--we're keen to reach global majority poets in particular! @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social @romalynante3.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/foxa...

🚨 Poets, brace yourselves. 👀 Nearly 20 indie lit platforms are locked in: reviews, features, interviews, podcasts — all ready to amplify your voice. 💥 No fees. No gatekeepers. Just real visibility. This is my brainchild. It’s almost here. #PromoteIndieLit #PIL #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky

My debut novella #PeelingApples is out now with @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social A tender, unflinching bildungsroman tracing boyhood, loss, and becoming— Order your copy: amzn.eu/d/angSgVq I’d love to hear what it stirs in you.

The 2025-26 Wasafiri Essay Prize is open for submissions until 30 June, 2025. If you're an early career researcher (including PhD) in the field of international contemporary literature, submit your paper to us and tick the box for Essay Prize consideration to automatically enter: buff.ly/SHEn1JT

For people who might have been missed and/or who have missed out.

This is such a beautiful issue! Humbled to be included-have a read.x

I’m here for the dog pics, if I’m being completely honest! And the flowers!

Abridged 0 - 106: Umbra Sumus Submission Call. On the dark horizon...

Truly humbled by this review. Huge thanks to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for going out of his way to release a special #TheBookBag to honour #PeelingApples Check it out, why don't you? @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social

CALLING ALL #AGENTS In this thread are three packs of GREAT WRITERS who are looking for representation. Check them out and you won’t be disappointed. Everyone else, please repost to help these brilliant people if you can. PACK ONE (full). Thank you! #amquerying #querying #writingcommunity #booksky

Hey lovely poet friends of BlueSky. Thought I’d share a reading with you from a poem in the Building Bridges Anthology by @renardpress.bsky.social . There’s a Remembrance anthology coming out with them soon and submissions are open. Check out their website for deets.

if you do two things this weekend, make those things buying the newest books from 2 Extraordinary writers! Dark Nocturnes from @mydangblog.bsky.social and Peeling Apples from @alanparry83.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2d59fn79 tinyurl.com/ycxu3dkr

Congratulations @alanparry83.bsky.social Buy it here: amzn.eu/d/5rP18jO

I can’t get over how lucky I am with my poet friends! So chuffed to be included in this list, Victoria. You are a truly brilliant poet and I can’t wait for what’s coming up from you!

I’m so excited that I just have to share everywhere. Apologies if you’ve already seen these. I’ve recently started my film camera journey after seeing the Camera I bought for my daughter gathering dust. Just had the film developed. It was true black and white film and it a c41 one.

Esp if you have any expertise or guidance on German residents evacuating family members from G*za 🙏

Pretty revolutionary!

DISRUPTION! Come and join me for an online workshop on Weds 2nd April (7-9pm GMT) where we’ll explore disruptive and experimental texts that queer poetic form, and which protest, subvert or reject societal norms. Link in my bio and here: www.beyondformcreativewriting.org/current-workshops

Blood moon three ways from August 2020.

Beaming with pride as I hold up my contributor copy of the Spring issue of Wasifiri. Read it here: www.wasafiri.org

Apologies if the initial post was unclear; this competition is open to ALL persons who identify as female or non binary. There is an ADDITIONAL category for emerging poets over 40 who have yet to publish a pamphlet or collection. Any questions please email us 🍀 [email protected]

🟡 Join us to celebrate the publication of Almost, with Tenderness by @mayacaspari.bsky.social, with @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social & hosted by editor @aanaxagorou.bsky.social 🟡 Burley Fisher Books (@burleyfisher.bsky.social) 🟡 6.30pm Thursday 3 April Free to attend; register here: buff.ly/qA9lMmJ

The perfect time for this poem. I see, feel and hear it now.

SUBMISSIONS for our next issue (unthemed, out in June) will OPEN 1st - 31st of March. We can’t wait to read your poems! 🤩 Please note that poems sent before March will not be read. Thank you! ✨

📢 We have had one place open up on our sold out online workshop with @pascalepetit.bsky.social this Saturday 22 Feb, 1-4pm UK. If you missed out and would like to take this up please email 📧press[at]outspokenldn[dot]com

Absolutely agree! The wonder we see as children!

They’re not lying when they say, give your work some distance before going in and editing it. These poems were good. Some were great but now, some have hit a new level entirely! #poetry

Submissions are open for our next anthology, the theme is GRIEF. Please read the guidelines carefully. We are looking forward to reading your work! Photo by Karly Santiago via Unsplash. #Poetry #Anthology #Grief #Submissions sidhe-press.eu/submissions/

Today marks the the first anniversary of my Baba’s death and I can honestly say, spending the day with Ma, my brother and my Dida was the best thing for my emotional health. So lucky we still have each other.

Here is another wonderful starter pack of #Querying Authors from @the-alex-hidalgo.bsky.social Please repost and share widely to help these writers publicise their excellent work #writingcommunity #booksky #amquerying

We who are about to judge the 2025 International Booker Prize salute you!

Please share :)

Definitely joyous!! 💛

Lovely evening last night at the launch of @thewingedmoon.bsky.social 'Hinterland' edition, and wonderful to see so many poetry friends. Edition now available online and in print. Many thanks to @bornonadarkmoon.bsky.social for curating such a beautiful issue, and for including my nature poem ♥️💚

Who’s up for a non-fiction food related pitch? Book length deliciousness!

I do love this image. 💛

Delighted to have poetry in this Spring issue of Wasifiri. 💙 Thank you to @sanagoyal.bsky.social and @durreshahwar.bsky.social

Oh my goodness, “the brief garnish of gold..” @ninaparmenter.bsky.social

🔔Call for Submissions🔔 Poetry Ireland Review Issue 145, edited by Victoria Kennefick. We welcome unsolicited submissions of poems, proposals for articles and interviews, from Ireland and abroad, in Irish or English. Learn More: www.poetryireland.ie/writers/subm... Deadline: 28 February 2025

Forgot to share my favourite sight over the weekend. I think that’s Venus with the moon…🌙✨

I really am very lucky with my supervisors. I was starting to feel lost and unsure and then I had that meeting. Feeling excited again! #phdlife #poetry

Issue Thirteen is NOW LIVE! Edited by Helen Mort, Issue 13 marks our return after the hiatus around the Anthology launch and we're psyched to be back. With thanks to Helen and all our contributors – we hope you enjoy reading: propelmagazine.co.uk/thirteen

Is PhD research just oscillating between loving and hating your work and then deciding to change direction completely? Asking for a friend. 🤷‍♀️ #phdlife #research #postcolonialism

That's it. Far and away the best thing I've done on here, a #StarterPack now completely full of great #writers looking for #agents Now let it do its work. Please share widely and help these fine people, all worth a follow, to get known and represented. Agents, it's over to you... #writingcommunity

Note to anyone who needs it today: A man who believes that a cleric's plea for compassion is "hate speech" has no business invoking God, or claiming to be a believer in anything but himself.

My daughter deleted Insta from my phone, forcing me to work. She doesn’t know I can still pop over to Bluesky to procrastinate as well!

The lovely Dust: