found this lil' fragment in the elephant graveyard of my abandon drafts and I kind of love it?

Listening to a lot of Hans Zimmer after the By Candlelight concert, will have to revisit some of the films too 🕯️

Poems out this month with @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social & @dustpoetry.bsky.social & an acceptance just in from another favourite for publication in Feb, all while on residency in Sweden - that shooting star I saw on my way to the airport is working flat out! #skara trip

Went to the Vokalensemble at #Skara Cathedral tonight, they were playing Abide With Me on the church bells, amazing start and then the voices for The Road Home were spine tingling.

Went to the Hans Zimmer by Candlelight at Jacy'z, a quartet playing his film music, was superb, they allowed photos but they don't do it justice at all, it was absolutely packed by the time it started. Finished up with Pirates of the Carribbean 🏴‍☠️ ( #Skara trip)

Forgot to post the pics! #Skara adventure... The Gothenburg leg!

In Gothenburg for the Gathering of the Fellowship AIR Vastra Gotalands. Lovely to meet everyone and see a bit of the city! It's been great but now I'm glad to be going back to adventures in #Skara and some calm, Gothenburg is a fab city and it's been a lot of sensory overload.

@nalsa.bsky.social great article here -

As evening falls in #Skara

What a magical place #Skara Bibliotek, the Old Library - printed above the door, Book Adventure

Model map of #Skara zoom in, a very cool way to navigate!

Exchanged a book for a pass! #Skara

It's issue day! A huge thank you to all the contributors for your amazing work ✨ The art on our cover was created by Kathy Bruce. This issue is wonderful and I hope you enjoy checking it out: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue2-2025

Happy Publication Day @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social delighted to have a poem with you the day before I'm off on an adventure to start my residency at Skara Bibliotek! 🇸🇪https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2025-online-pieces/phaeton-by-sarah-wallis

Joe Pickard - Maryam Seyf - @paulwritespoems.bsky.social - Ilias Tsagas - Veronica Tucker - @rachelturney.bsky.social - @wordweave.bsky.social - @lizwilsondavies.bsky.social - Ella B. Winters - Julie Wong - @cynthiayatchman.bsky.social

Happy Hallowe'en! 🎃

"Because I actually feel that complaints of “no money, no hope” in our industry may be damaging to our ability to grow a sustainable future for our career as a writer; our career as a bookseller, or as a publishing house." open.substack.com/pub/flyonthe...

Excited to share that the incredible @susiecampbell.bsky.social is featured in the latest @resurgencetrust.bsky.social - pick up a copy to find out more about ‘waste poetics’ and collaborating with Charlie the dog🩷

“All efforts were futile. We were merely spectators to the ways of nature.” @jeffwilser.bsky.social chronicles the dramatic and dangerous twists of a 2008 whaling research expedition.

Submit!

Illuminated page from the MacRegol or Rushworth Gospels. Dating to the early 9th century, it was written and illuminated by Mac Regol, Abbot of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. Now part of the collections at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxfordshire. 📷 My own. #ManuscriptMonday

Up early for trip to hospital and the ground mist & sunshine is making it a beautiful autumn morning 🌄

Today from 3pm on your preferred podcast platform, listen to episode 2, season 10 of Eat the Storms the poetry podcast, with @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social @drbafc.bsky.social & Ben Simmons 🎉🎉

Apples apples everywhere... 'apply it be a bumper crop this year apparently 🍎🍏🍎

🎃 & 🍏 time of year 🙀 where is this year going?! Two weeks and I will be in Sweden for November 🇸🇪 📚 🎩

Gates are open! Accepting submissions for our TOYS Issue. Send us your poems, stories, and essays about toys, or that play with form, plot, characters, or the reader. Deadline: Nov 15 Submit here: ironhorse.submittable.com

The fourth poem in PERVERSE 9A is 'very nice' by Annie Baker. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9a

My poem, The Physics of Grief, An Abstract”, just published in the recent issue of MockingHeart Review: mockingheartreview.com/volume-10-is... #poetry

Soooo ... I just happen to have a load of Hallowe'en poems kicking about: Spooky Spells over on the Dirigible Balloon. Here's the first >>> dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Old-Spo... Thanks to Em Humble for the Spooky Sal picture x #SpookySpells #Halloween #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon 😮🎈

...toyed with the fragile forms of bear, elk & bird.. check out Amber Bears in the Danish Tuck Shop @iambapoet.com www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-sara...

The poetry podcast is back! Season 10! With @suefinch.bsky.social @citizen-chris.bsky.social Beth Brooke & Giles Watson Listen on most olatforms including #Spotify #podbeancom & #ApplePodcasts (link below) podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/e... Guest details here eatthestorms.com/2025/10/12/e...

Many thanks to Boats Against the Current & ed McKenna Deen for publishing Of Lighthouses and Dock Lights - a Gatsby poem in the centenary year! boatsagainstthecurrent.org/poetry/of-li...

Ok you all took Sunday off — but it’s Monday now, so let’s see some subs! Poetry, CNF, Fiction, and Visual Art on theme #INTEGRITY

**PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES ANNOUNCED** Please join @iambapoet.com in congratulating Theresa Donnelly, Kerry Trautman, Rishika Williams, @jahshabby.bsky.social, @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @johnglenday.bsky.social on their nominations for the next edition of the @pushcartprize.bsky.social.

Nothing ever absolutely has to happen Matt Rasmussen, ‘Chekhov’s Gun’

✨Happy National Poetry Day!✨ We’re working our way through submissions for the next issue, which is out next month. In the meantime, you can read every single issue of Dust for free here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk

Some lovely news! ❤️❤️❤️

An acceptance from Boats Against the Current to celebrate National Poetry Day & as I can't share that one just yet here is Fire Eater's Cough @frazzledlit.bsky.social which they have kindly nominated for BOTN 🙏 www.frazzledlit.com/p/poetry-by-...

Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations: Paul Short, Laundry Day Amy L. King, Fade Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone? Ryan O’Neill, LDR Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room Antonia Kearton, Sanico Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨

We open on Wednesday 1st October for free submissions in, Prose, CNF and Flash Fiction. So what are we looking for? Laura @lozzawriting.bsky.social riffs a little on just that in relation to Poetry in this post below. Take a look! www.frazzledlit.com/p/hurt-us-a-...

Went to a brilliant drawing workshop this morning, hosted at the local library Lots of people popping in and out too, good to see.

Congratulations to all nominees & thank you @frazzledlit.bsky.social - must go re-visit these pieces!

Obsessions with Bears and Sea potatoes...

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!! The Emma Press is delighted to announce the acquisition of AARDVARK DAY by former Zoologist Victoria Gatehouse ⭐ 🌷 Publishing May 2026 ☀️ Illustrated by Kate Lucy Foster 🌿 Read the full announcement on our website 🌿 buff.ly/xTeh5qk

Where do poems come from? That's a question I've been asked recently so I've tracked back the last ten I wrote that I thought might be any good and this is what I found x3 came from re-edits of past work that I didn’t think were up to much, but are now much better...

A couple of welcome acceptances just came in from on the hop subs, the editors are working late tonight! 👀 📚

POETS. DO. NOT. MISS. THIS!! Audition SOON for a chance to appear in @iambapoet.com in either 2026 or 2027. Everything you need to know to join some of poetry's most celebrated names is on the Audition page. Fewer than 40 spaces available now. You'll need to be quick! iambapoet.com/audition

I wrote 'Breathe through my roots', the first poem I read for @iambapoet.com, shortly before giving birth to our daughter. We had just moved house and I was surrounded by boxes, some of which remain unpacked to this day – unlike the thoughts, memories, and historical facts this poem unpacks.

Some Swedish news to share - next stop Skara Bibliotek! This is part of the UNESCO World Cities of Literature Residency program, delighted be one of the writers representing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚 🎩 📚 skara.se/upplevaochgo...

On the Dirigible Balloon dirigibleballoon.org you'll find a cornucopia of wonderful poems imagining the future. They're free, they're safe, they'll take you to fantastical places, they'll make you smile, they'll make you think ... what are you waiting for? #PoetryForChildren #ImagineTheFuture