the Boys are Alright...taking our country back open.substack.com/pub/theboysa...

The Boys Are Alright...How it Began and How you can Contribute... open.substack.com/pub/theboysa...

A short Q&A with Urban Pigs fave Tabitha Bast – she talks about her recent short story, XYZ, and what’s on her writing radar for 2026. urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/02/19/i... #indiepublishing #shortstories @tabithabast.bsky.social

We're open for subs for the second edition of our charity anthology of stories with the the theme of 'hunger'. All profits go to FIND - Families in Need. Check the link for details urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/02/14/s... #writingcommunity #shortstories

What we all need to see is a red squirrel in a power pose. You're welcome.

Always chuffed to be up on the lovely @urbanpigspress.bsky.social

2pm today in Leeds, 1 pm in London, demos everywhere for the feminist ecological democratic project of Rojava under attack

Mark Burrow is heading up our latest short story call out and the topic is 'Revolt' -- click here for the deets and get submitting urbanpigspress.co.uk/2026/01/03/s... #writingcommunity

new blog post out...https://theboysarealright.substack.com/p/the-boys-are-alrightdespite-the-world on my Mum joining Reform and my son leaving home, the personal and the political.

I have found a home for my story "The Anchoress of York"; a tale based on the real life Isobel German who was in a tiny cell for 28 years. bebarbar.com/2025/09/26/t...

The Boys Are Alright...On Migrant Men open.substack.com/pub/theboysa...

published again with @urbanpigspress.bsky.social . No prizes for recognising people, places or events! urbanpigspress.co.uk/2025/07/10/t...

"Four Tins" available free on @seizethepress.bsky.social - read it here... www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/f...

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

weird writers quirk: my weakest area seems to be the peri-ending, the second to last paragraph is a rush job, bit faffy, half hearted, then I come all out blazing for the final lines. give me tips or examples of great near-finishes!

come write with me! writershq.co.uk/bradford-wri...

Get *your* lovely butt down to your next one day procrastination-busting writing retreat. Running every month in a whole bunch of locations: ✅ Chichester - NEW! 🎉 ✅ Birmingham ✅ Bradford - NEW! 🎉 ✅ Brighton ✅ Edinburgh ✅ Leeds - NEW! 🎉 ✅ Online writershq.co.uk/events

I am very excited to be hosting these monthly from 4th May. Spread amongst yr writer friends, all writingy types welcome! writershq.co.uk/whq-event/br...

Announcing the shortlist for the 2025 Bournemouth Writing Prize. These wonderful writers will be featured in the anthology on sale in April. Two overall winners announced next week. CONGRATS TO ALL & THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED! We are already working on the 10th Anniversary BW Prize for 2026!

So much admiration for the courage and tenacity of these women, and really looking forward to this series on ITV.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

good bit of civil disobedience there!

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

i've had an avalanche of writing rejections this short year so far BUT last few days I've had 3 successes that have filled me with joy. The joy of the tiny win keeps us swinging in the arena.

We're running a FREE community workshop 🔥 Writing Through The Apocalypse: How to keep writing, prepare for the future, and stop yourself from losing your goddamn mind 🗓️ Thursday 27 February ⏰ 7pm GMT writershq.co.uk/event/writin...

Artist Opportunity Alert! 🎨 We’re looking to commission three artists to join the BD: Walls project and create vibrant, new murals at three different locations: Ravenscliffe Housing Estate Buttershaw Britannia Gardens (Girlington) bradford2025.co.uk/opportunity/...

Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for Underrepresented Writers is officially open! ✍️⁠ It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟⁠ The theme this year is 'Wild'. ⁠ Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V ⁠ #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #diversevoices

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

i seem to mostly follow library accounts. which is fine but recommend me some of that other stuff i like: nature, politics, art and lies

It's that time of year when only recipes made with crisps will do, that's when I reach for my 1961 copy of 'Cooking With Crisps'. Everything tastes better with crisps.

To nobody's surprise. This is a legacy of Tories leaning on the judiciary, but Starmer clearly has no intention of reversing it as we wants to look hard for Daily Mail types who won't vote for him anway. Regardless of how you feel about eg. JSO, this reduces the freedoms of all and needs resisting.

Poison Ivy, radical conservationist.

*Squid Game theme music*

Following raids at eight addresses including the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, counter-terrorism police have arrested six members of the Kurdish community in London connected to alleged support for the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Your regular reminder that you can look up how much public subsidy each farmer gets annually here. cap-payments.defra.gov.uk/SearchResult... For example in 2023 Jeremy Clarkson got £83,000 and in 2022 he got £133,000. Nice work if you can get it. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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