Many thanks to @fsgbooks.bsky.social s for the review copies. This summer is a summer of planes, trains, automobiles, ferries, bikes in Ireland, Greece, Northern Ireland. Looking forward to traveling with these books, literally and figuratively!

Over 30 people were killed by Russian strikes in a little more than a day. No reaction, no coverage, not even condemnation. Nothing. If people were blown to bits anywhere else in Europe, there would be gigantic coverage, outrage, and help. But not in Ukraine.

My review of Yevhen Lyr's THE FLOOD now appears at @worldlittoday.bsky.social: worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/may/flo.... Please continue supporting Ukrainian literature. Read this important contribution to the Ukrainian literary canon. @ukrainer.bsky.social

Thanks to @neweasterneurope.eu for publishing my review of Andriy Lyubka's WAR FROM THE REAR, published by Academic Studies Press: neweasterneurope.eu/2026/04/24/c...

Thanks to @neweasterneurope.eu for publishing my review of Andriy Lyubka's WAR FROM THE REAR, published by Academic Studies Press: neweasterneurope.eu/2026/04/24/c...

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

Today, Easter is being celebrated in Ukraine. It is one of the most beloved holidays🇺🇦 📹 feel. ukr/Instagram

That was the shortest ceasefire ever.

"There’s something about a trash bin piled high with cardboard boxes and discarded IT cables that makes you contemplate your mortality." Full of color, imagery & wit, two new #poems from the splendid @nyurtsaba.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/poetry/nicol... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of Nadia Ragbar's The Pugilist and the Sailor (pub. Invisible) in Issue 34! ...At times, the chapters seem more like a clear, well-taken photograph than a series of words on the page... www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-ragb...

Friends, Pre-orders for HUTSULKA, my poetry chapbook of feminist odes about the war in Ukraine, close soon: riverpawpress.com/hutsulka/. Please consider ordering a copy! It would mean the world to me! Nikola

Mystical Russian expats untangle dark family secrets in 1920s Paris. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @berkleypub.bsky.social @nyurtsaba.bsky.social #booksky

I'm cringing with embarrassment that an American president wrote this. Absolutely cringing.

Why does Trump want to increase the defense budget by almost 50%? Because he sees it as a payoff to the guys who will help him establish his dictatorship of convenience.

Whatever scream you can't get out, I urge you to read this collection. I am changed in its pages. Thank you, @nyurtsaba.bsky.social for your art and for sharing it. #BookSky My review at: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Many thanks to @epoquepress.bsky.social for publishing three of my poems. These poems were written during/after I attended the John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh, Northern Ireland: www.epoquepress.com/ezine-ritual...

My poem "Under a Sky that Never Cared Less," a poem I wrote while attending the John Hewitt International Summer School, has been published at Litmosphere: litmosphere.charlottelit.org/issues/2026s...

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Dear friends, Pre-orders for HUTSULKA close in mid-April. Please consider ordering a copy before then. These feminist odes about the war in Ukraine are a unique contribution to the ever-growing canon of Ukrainian / Ukrainian diaspora literature. riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu...

"Its philosophical takes on small-town dynamics combine with all the best components of horror writing to create a genre-bending page turner." @nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews NOWHERE by Allison Gunn, now in paperback! @atriabooks.bsky.social

Depressing.

It’s #ToonieTuesday 🌬️𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀🌬️ Today we’re supporting @doko-dochky.bsky.social to equip the medics of 𝗦𝗕𝗨 “𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮” with portable ventilators...🧵⤵️1/3 🎯$9,000 - Donate €£$2 screenshot in replies & repost 🅿️🅿️ [email protected] (Put Toonie in comment) 🫙 send.monobank.ua/jar/7iau62hHu9

Excited to get this new chapbook by @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, with whom I share Lemko heritage on one side of my family.

But when you work and, most importantly, believe in yourself, that’s when things start to happen. And I’m truly grateful to you for believing in me and supporting my work. www.etsy.com/shop/HappyJe...

Dear friends, My chapbook HUTSULKA is still available for preorder. HUTSULKA is a series of feminist odes--rooted in Ukrainian traditions & folklore, current events, etc.--about the war in Ukraine. Preorder from @riverpawpress.bsky.social: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu...

New in Ukrainian literature: Serhiy Zhadan's ARABESQUES; Daniel Moysaenko's OVERTAKELESSNESS; MY CUT-OPEN PALM: UKRAINIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, trans. by Oleksandr Frazé-Frazénko

New in Ukrainian literature: Serhiy Zhadan's ARABESQUES; Daniel Moysaenko's OVERTAKELESSNESS; MY CUT-OPEN PALM: UKRAINIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION, trans. by Oleksandr Frazé-Frazénko

Friends, My chapbook HUTSULKA, a series of feminist odes about the war in Ukraine, is still available for preorder from! I hope you'll purchase a copy: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu.... Please continue to stand with Ukraine and support Ukrainian/Ukrainian diaspora literature!

Thank you to @neweasterneurope.eu for publishing my review of @dim0kq.bsky.social's book ORDINARY GUY AT WAR: neweasterneurope.eu/2026/03/17/i.... Please read this important book!

Friends, My chapbook HUTSULKA, a series of feminist odes about the war in Ukraine, is still available for preorder from! I hope you'll purchase a copy: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu.... Please continue to stand with Ukraine and support Ukrainian/Ukrainian diaspora literature!

Hutsulka, the 2025 Silent River Poetry Prize Finalist by Nicole Yurcaba is now open for pre-order at: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu... During the pre-sale period, River Paw Press is offering Hutsulka at a special price of $16.00, with free shipping within the United States. @nyurtsaba.bsky.social

Friends, My chapbook HUTSULKA is available for pre-orders: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu.... I hope you'll consider pre-ordering, as it really does help me. These are intimate poems I composed during the first year of the war in Ukraine.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Refugees Contributed Eight Times More to Poland’s GDP Than They Received in Aid ~7 million Ukrainians have fled abroad. 🇩🇪Germany hosts the largest number of Ukrainian refugees today (1.25M), 🇵🇱Poland (969K), 🇨🇿Czechia (393K) Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/ukrainian-re...

My chapbook HUTSULKA--consisting of poems about the war in Ukraine--was a finalist in the 2025 River Paw Press Silent River Poetry contest. It is now available for preorder! riverpawpress.com/index.php/ta...

How to place an order now: ✨️Choose jewelry in my posts or on Instagram. ✨️Write to me in private messages.📩 ✨️Payment via PayPal. Worldwide shipping with a track number.🇺🇦 Thank you for sticking with me in this new chapter. Your belief in my work gives me the strength to keep creating! 🙏🫂

oh are you contemplating death well i wrote a poem about a really good orange oh do you love someone a whole lot here is a whale

My poem "I Carry the Grief for My Homeland in My Wallet Behind a Photo of My Dead Lover" appears at The Honest Ulsterman. It's a poem I penned during the 2025 The John Hewitt International Summer School: humag.co/article/3335...

This is what one of Ukraine’s thermal power plants looks like inside after a russian attack. This is how russia wants “peace” — deliberately targeting energy infrastructure during freezing temperatures, leaving people to freeze.

It is #ToonieTuesday! 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱: “𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆”⁉️ This week, we’re supporting “Nobody” a detachment within GUR, operating behind enemy lines. Donate €2 £2 $2 📬 screenshot in replies & repost 🅿️🅿️ [email protected] (put Toonie in comment) 🏦 send.monobank.ua/jar/4rEv3MAgFq 🧵⤵️1/2 #NAFO #Ukraine

Gongs, goldfinches and Olympic gold; sea monsters, stone music and stars of the silver screen with John O'Donnell Zoe Devlin Val O'Donnell Niall McArdle Catherine Foley #RonnieDelany #MaggieSmith #Jaws #Deise @RTERadio1 Listen in/listen back! Sun 2 March 📻 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

"The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck ... I was always aware when people stared at it." From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕 bansheepress.org/read/the-two...

My review of Olga Khomenko's The Faraway Sky of Kyiv has published at @neweasterneurope.eu! Read it here: neweasterneurope.eu/2026/01/27/r...

📗January is nearly over—see which new books are coming out in February in our fully searchable database First Flush!📗 @theobrienpress.bsky.social @mercierpress.bsky.social @charleenhurtubise.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/first-flush-...

Amid a humanitarian disaster fueled by russian strikes on critical infrastructure, Ukrainians are fighting to protect stray animals from the freezing winter. From makeshift shelters and fleece blankets to shops and cafes opening their doors, people are doing

Submissions are now open for 2026 BBC National Short Story Awards with Cambridge University. Deadline Monday 16th March. The BBC National Short Story Award is open to published writers who are British citizens and/or resident in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

"A poetry collection for old souls grappling with the modern world’s demands and trappings. Simultaneously, its verses are quiet, meditative spaces where loss, grief, acceptance, and the natural world collide." @nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews FOXGLOVEWISE by Ange Mlinko. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Let's bring the storm fellas! Every Toonie makes a difference, let's go! See our post below⤵️ for info #ToonieTuesday #NAFO #Ukraine #donatetoukraine #FNDRUA #StandWithUkraine

My review of Lesyk Panasiuk's LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET GO TO WAR has published at @worldlittoday.bsky.social! worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january... @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

Tonight in Kyiv, it’s −13°C. Some parts of the city have been without electricity for more than 60 hours after russian attacks.