I just listened to this great interview. I didn't get a chance to meet @foxesandroses.bsky.social in Seattle and so it was great to hear her here. I'll have to see if I can view any of her panels from the Seattle Worldcon when I get the time.

"Jardine doesn’t just tell a story- she immerses the reader in it. The hum of sewing machines seems audible, the dust of the mills tangible...readers will keep on turning pages because you need to know and because Jardine makes you care." #WomensFiction #victorian #scotland mybook.to/TTsss

⭐ The Poetry Society Annual Lecture/ Liverpool University Allott Lecture 2025 ⭐ Burlesque Picaresque in the Rural Midwest: My Education in Poetry with Diane Seuss More info below...

September's newsletter is live 🦝 We've got subs, Trash Family stuffs from @cbigs.bsky.social @matgost.bsky.social @meproctor.bsky.social & @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, three quick reads from Genrepunk Award nominees and some autumnal ekphrastic writing prompts 🧡 trashcatlit.com/2025/09/22/h...

Check out the first print anthology from Trash Cat Lit, fresh from the press! You'll find all kinds of shiny things inside, including my story, Discarded Treasure.

Inspiration will find you if you step through the portal. Try out the prompts in my latest Substack post, inspired by a walk through Brighton. open.substack.com/pub/iridesce...

Here's the message of the day.

Perhaps you could use a support sandwich...

A fascinating discussion with Megan Nolan and Tamta Melashvili: Redefining Writing About Love at the Tbilisi International Literature Festival 🧵

Diving deeper into this collection, feeling the tug of strong emotions. How the cinema pulls Lata from a blustery day to places saturated with memory in Dusk Over Atlantic Wharf and the narrator's observations in the title story as spices bring a cold street to life. @susmitab.bsky.social

Does anyone else find that Zoom gets slower every time you use it? That it opens too slowly, the keyboard lags, and it randomly boots you out?

"In public discourse I try to put new words that haven't been said around me and different words... In a matter of minutes the debate is completely polarized... So my idea idea as a writer is to observe this and see if there is space to widen the dynamic." Paolo Giordano, Pen Against Silence panel

‎"We need new answers; we can't just use the old ones and this is really difficult. There's a need for quick statements and positions and if you don't have them, you're part of the silence and the power mechanisms and I feel this is not the right way..." Deniz Utlu, panel Pen Against Silence

Whoop whoop! Coming soon: #NinoHaratischwili 's #TheLackOfLight, tr. Charlotte Collins & Ruth Martin. HarperVia: "This immersive, character-driven epic is one to get lost in, especially for fans of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, Isabel Allende, and stories that centre female friendship."

📚 We're launching a review section on film, music, literature, and more! First up: Leo Vardiashvili’s debut novel, a compelling tale of homecoming, guilt, and loss, set against the surreal backdrop of a mass zoo escape in Tbilisi. oc-media.org/review-hard-...

Some magic in the world is real... Including iridescent rainbow snakes. Photo courtesy of FreePik.

Meet us in Paris, writer friends!

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

‎Georgian Literature in the 2010s: "The biggest number of novels in Georgian history were written exactly in this period. Lots if poetry and an unimaginable number of new novels" - Paata Shamugia ‎"I would call it the golden era of our literature." Toresa Mossy (right, holding the microphone)

Peru Saizprez unfurled a multicoloured scroll of poems that he read from in Spanish in a performance for the Tbilisi International Literature Festival.

Zofia Bałdyga reading poetry in Czech at the Tbilisi International Literature Festival

Nominations for the @bsfa.bsky.social is open for members! My main thing this year is my dark SF novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle, which is eligible for Best Shorter Fiction. If you're a member and need a copy to read, let me know in the DMs. darkmattermagazine.shop/products/dis...

Great poetry and contemporary dance performance at the International Tbilisi Literature Festival last night! Today looking forward to a talk on Georgian literature and hearing from Irish author Megan Nolan.

Enjoying a talk with Sjón discussing his book The Blue Fox, in conversation with Archil Kikodze. ‎"It is the weakest in our society who put humanity to the test." -Sjón

If we can’t read Bram Stoker's Dracula together whilst enjoying a vintage bottle of Château Margaux paired with dark chocolate tiramisu in front of a crackling fire in a Victorian mansion during a full moon on a cool October night with the sound of wolves in the distance, then what’s the point?

🌑Our Kickstarter is live!🌑 Every pledge helps this book come to life & gives a small publisher traction to keep championing emerging authors. Backers are investing in haunting stories & a thriving future for spec fiction! Join us www.kickstarter.com/projects/all... #SmallPress #DarkFantasy #Horror

Ivars Steinbergs reading poetry in Latvian in the courtyard of the Goethe Institute, Tbilisi

Attending a panel called "Bad Times for Poetry" The Purpose of literature in times of crisis with with Sjon (Iceland), Lyudmyla Diadchenko (Ukraine), Ivars Šteinbergs (Latvia), and Dariusz Sośnicki (Poland). Great perspectives to consider...

And the whole weekend is packed with events! tbilisilitfest.ge/event-types/...

Listening to a range of international poets at the opening night of the Tbilisi Literature Festival.

The Tbilisi Literature Festival has just started to tonight! Check out the events on this weekend tbilisilitfest.ge/festival/#pr...

Tonight I was testing out this gorgeous present that my partner picked surprised me with...

‎"The water writhes in the moonlight, like a black snake, twisting." Came across a vivid story from Cole Beauchamp that you can read here! @nomad-sw18.bsky.social ‎https://trampset.org/the-things-shauna-never-knows-the-things-she-does-f6e136f0d911

Finished off three flash fictions today that I began during workshops from the @flashficfestuk.bsky.social, and came up with fun titles that I hope I can share soon!

Amused by this mural and wanted to share it. 😀

Read here how Patty has stood up for all of us.

The kiss 🌟 (the original colours, because I ended up liking them more than the other version)

Virtual reading one week from today! Me and @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social. It's free, and you don’t have to change out of your house slippers or brush your hair or anything. That’s 10pm for us East Coasters. See ya there!

Raccoon pool party! So this is what they get up to at midnight... Our raccoon allies at Trash Cat Lit should know about this. @trashcatlit.bsky.social

A powerful, explosive tale!

It's officially fundraising time over at @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social, and we're doing things a little differently this year. Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it. gofund.me/ca0c2b7d

There’s a special poetry award in the Hugo Awards this year, and three of the finalist poets also have work in Worlds of Possibility —Poetry! Behold: a thread of poem excerpts! 1/8

A beautiful story on the power of kindness from Ian Li. Check it out! @ianli.bsky.social

"When she went out, it seemed like there was always someone walking a dragon or three, some big, some small, and in a veritable upturned crayon box of hues, weaving and chirruping and snuffling." - Yarn as Warm as a Dragon's Breath by Amanda Saville @translunartl.bsky.social

Just bought a copy of the latest issue, with spellbinding autumn cover art!

My poem "Let Us Dream" was included in the Seattle WorldCon souvenir book - which makes me ridiculously happy! Thanks to the @seattlein2025.org publication folks, and @smallwondersmag.com for publishing the poem originally! And thanks to @taracampbell.bsky.social for mailing me a copy! ❤️

Delighted to be taking part in the Dublin Book Festival as part of this one day event looking at class and belonging on 6th November. I'm taking part in an event at 7pm with Lisa Harding and Elaine Feeney, hosted by Derek Hand. Details 👇 Do come! dublinbookfestival.com/event/class-...

❀༻ Book of the Day ༺❀ •´¸.•*´¨)✯ ¸.•*¨) ✮ ( ¸.•´✶ The Queen and the Countess By Anne O'Brien *´¨✫) maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... #HistoricalFiction #BooksWorthReading #bookoftheday @anneobrienauthor.bsky.social

I just backed @3lobedmag.com on Kickstarter and you should too! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Where do you find peace? 1. quiet cluttered bookstore 2. mossy misty forest 3. in bed, in the bath, & beyond 4. floating in space