some photos of Dhole (Indian wild dogs) for #MammalMonday #FotoMontag #Photography #Nature #Wildlife 🦊 🌿🖌️

Nearly got sandwiched between two rickshaws at full speed cause roundabouts are multiple choice apparently.

Since I got new followers today - here's a compilation of Witchcraft 101 stories on my @patreon.com www.patreon.com/posts/134388... As we count down to #spooky season, you can have my e-book of flash fiction at a discounted rate (till end of October) #SupportMe #WritingCommunity #BSNM

themadridreview.substack.com/p/whats-past... When booky stuff lifts you right back up #authorlife #writerlife #event #signings #karma #noshow

A Personal Anthology is a weekly mailout in which a guest editor (writer, reader, critic, mongoose) picks and introduces a dozen favourite short stories. So if you love short stories and would like to take part, let me know! (DMs open.) In fact, I have an empty slot NEXT WEEK. Carpe Diem!

Two things I saw today: 1) a newly ploughed field dramatically losing its dry topsoil into today's mad wind like a midwest dustbowl. Twisters and everything. Thick dust across the road. 2) heron taking a massive shit in flight like a firefighting aircraft dousing a blaze Scotland. So scenic.

Psithurist: (n.) the sound of leaves rustling or wind blowing through the trees #Writers #WednesdayWord

Esbardu. A lovely Asturian word meaning bear cub. Some 370 brown bears now live in the Cantabrian mountains on a slow but hopefully sure path to recovery. Photo. Fundación Oso Pardo

THE MADRID REVIEW🌍Poems for Palestine. Launches today. @madridlitmag.bsky.social 🕊️Edited by🕊️ JAMES HARTLEY & HAIA MOHAMMED🕊️ Read it - it's moving, defiant & important. 💔 Here below is my poem 'THE SAPLING TESTIMONY' 🤍 Thank you to James Hartley & Haia Mohammed.🙏🏻 themadridreview.com/f/the-madrid...

A new voice on #substack - Haia Mohammed, poet and Gaza resident, survivor, on Anas Al Sharif. Worth a moment of your time. open.substack.com/pub/dearanam... #gaza #anasalsharif #opinion @outspokenpress.bsky.social @weesparrow.bsky.social

There's a few Lone Wolf events coming up in the autumn, starting with this one at @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on 16th September... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lone-wolf-...

Meditative clod staring stones into submission as rain pelts. Sluggish guru of inertia a heavy never taught life's light plop. Deep inside belly fire embers light amber eyes. Unheard echo adult bufo clamber away into gruesome moulds. Fragile toes. Thin lips slimed. Gentleman gut humming my song.

I wrote about the Prespa lakes region in northern Greece for @theguardian.com today. At the crossroads of three countries and my home for the past quarter of a century, it's a place that continues to surprise me with its wild beauty and rich human cultures. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

🛑 Stop grouse shooting 📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice. 🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August 📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park 🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music

So lovely to finally be joining Bluesky with the happy news that my debut poetry collection Nettles is out now! 🌿 To celebrate its launch, signed copies are available here nazaretranea.com/item/nettles/

New research from Pesticide Action Network reveals the extent of pesticide use by UK councils. These are poisons being sprayed in your street, your local park. Pls share. For links to the full report & to find out what you can do, follow the link below www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-fr...

The rough track towards Loch Morar and Oban bothy from Glenpean.

The low road to Glenpean bothy from Loch Morar.

What a pleasure to reread Rimbaud, whose poems are an electrifying symphony of hatred. Such astonishing precocity, as if an aged & worldly misanthrope were given the massive energies of adolescence & the compendious vocab of a lexicographer then vomited forth the most colourful cataracts of loathing

Writers & readers! Our main submissions are Poems to Palestine but you can submit poems & fiction via our Creative Writing Group. Just subscribe to The Madrid Review (it’s free!) and send your work! #WritingCommunity #creativewriting #wip #wips #submissions themadridreview.com/creative-wri...

Time to do it. Issue coedited by 22yr old Gaza poet Haia Mohammed - who had no food OR water today. She wants to read you. #GazaGenocide “Poetry is an act of peace.” - Neruda “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators…” - Shelley #Poetry #Peace #Palestine themadridreview.com/f/subs-open-...

Thrilled by this fabulous review of LIFELINES in the TLS and to be sharing a page with the brilliant @wildtwin.bsky.social! www.the-tls.com/world/travel...

Thrilled to have my story published in @theforge.bsky.social on the longlist amongst so many writers I admire 🥰Congratulations to all on the LL and the Top 50! #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #litmag #shortstory #writing

Invertebrates are awesome! This friend is a Vinegaroon. She is an arachnid and uses the first pair of legs like antennae to sense her environment and large, heavy claws (pedipalps) to snare prey. They can spray a vinegar smelling chemical to deter predators. (Uropygi: Thelyphonida) Portal, AZ

Lovely surprise surprise - just thinking - if this poem had been accepted all those years ago by a lower quality publication say, you wouldn't be celebrating this recent 'higher quality' success? But this is the thing with poetry - some poems just don't leave the larval stage. Some fly.

True artists don't create for approval.” - Picasso, Paris 1907. At 26, he was reinventing art and writing haunting letters to his muse. Read the full story - and his 1907 letter to Fernande Olivier - on the blog. #picasso #paris #cubism #letters #arthistory #art themadridreview.com/f/%E2%80%9Ct...

Absolutely delighted to see that The Financial Times has chosen LIFELINES as one of their best summer reads! www.ft.com/content/c1d5...

Much kudos to this new campaign group - give them a follow! @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/19/r...

Don't forget - if you want to be in on a Teams call with the writer Lisa See on Friday - 11.30am PT, 8.30pm Madrid time, drop us an email. It's free, you can ask questions and it will be written up for Issue 5! #interview #lisasee #chat #joinin #funstuff #freestuff

We're launching a Creative Writing Group - check out the blogpost to see how easy it is to get involved. themadridreview.com/f/the-madrid... #writers #writer #creativewriting #writing #author #publish #publishing

Tonight at @owlbookshop.bsky.social in London's Kentish Town I'll be speaking with the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social to start my book tour for Lifelines! owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...

The vital comfort of being outdoors at dawn — when I actually feel I have time to breathe deeply, space to think clearly. Wrapped in the early light is a precious sliver of quiet & calm, untarnished though fragile, filled with intimations of a slower bygone age.

In the garden, distracted, I watched a honey bee visit buttercups, many small islands of yolky yellow to land on. I'd been thinning beetroot, keeping an eye on a wood pigeon snacking on grass shoots nearby, nodding head repeated. It was the one with a limp, a regular. It was a common unique moment.

Delighted to be taking part in the #Summer Exhibition @TheYardGallery #Leah’sYard #Sheffield.

Walked from home to the source of a river dear to me in childhood. Constable cloud weather, threatening greys, welcoming white, summer blue openings. Found the spring flowing clear and steady over sand, through cress, from a hazel copse on a lane called Poulterwell. Time as no time. Dip a hand.

Important piece by Helena Horton on Lodge Hill and its nightingales, a place that I wrote a chapter about in Irreplaceable because of its significance - together with the idiocy of biodiversity offsetting for such a unique and valuable wildlife site. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very excited to announce now that one of my favourite short stories will be published by @theforge.bsky.social Literary Magazine in September! 🥳

Swift action anyone? Email [email protected] simply saying ‘please mandate swift bricks’ with a subject line: MANDATE SWIFT BRICKS. Please encourage everyone to do this. Will take 30 seconds.

Who’s up for a body-horror love story? If you act fast, you can read it before my husband does. Many thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social & @havehashad.com for giving this cringey cnf a good home.

So, the first major review for LIFELINES is out and I'm overwhelmed by its incredible generosity and sensitivity. With immense thanks to @alexpreston.bsky.social for writing so deeply and thoughtfully about the book in yesterday's Observer. @eandtbooks.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Morning @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Here is Stifled, my #PoemsAbout #glory but possibly not gardening! Happy Friday! #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

The way some bloke walks down this city hill is tantamount to murder, even Yoshino blossom can't beautify his gait. At times I want to follow him, see where he ends up - home, lover's, Trip To Jerusalem pub? A locked-up dog misses its fleas. A child skips past talking her way into a smile.

Today's The Starbeck Orion Issue #9 Showcasing: Alan Parry, Page 24 of 25 Legacy? "Just impact." open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

Sat on a garden stone in hot sun, invited by robin's cool outpouring from the elder's shade. Elder, full tree as it'll be, furrowed bark and elbow branches inspired still, reaching for fresher light. Song born in shadow, releasing the stifled air the breeze can't touch. Chance peek at harmony.

Are you looking for new nature writers to follow? Would you like to be part of a community discussing, celebrating and protecting the natural world? Like and save the #naturewriting feed and add your posts using the hashtag. Please share with other interested folk. Thank you.🙏 #nature #writing

On May 9th I will be in conversation with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social about his new book Is A River Alive? @mcrlitfest.bsky.social manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/rober...

Fans of Rupi Kaur and Pablo Neruda will love Parisa Salahshourian's #healingjourney in this new collection from @ybernia-books.bsky.social #poetry #rupikaur #neruda themadridreview.com/f/the-power-...

Here’s one for @nicwilson.bsky.social. Bird place-name of the day 14: Glydwish (Ssx). OE glida + wisc. ‘Marshy meadowlands where kites are.’ The very first place of #thecuckooslea. linktr.ee/cuckooslea #birdsandplace #naturewriting

Speckled Wood butterfly created out of winter's leaf mould could be the soul of oak foliage the abstract shadows it carries the spots of light constellated when it lands miniature vision common enough to dismiss light as flight the search for sweet release up on breezes the tree enables all.

Excited to have a long story in the current edition of @newletters You can grab a copy at the link below. newletters.org