This RGS, please consider coming to hear from 5 fantastic PGR researchers in health geographies - they'll be offering lightning talks, comments on connections with one another's papers, and then we'll open up for discussion about the creativities of this lively discipline!

You don´t have to be a poet to read, all you need is a poem, a text, a song, a picture. And your heart. Bring your generous, beautiful heart, your empathy, your willingness to help. Contact us here or via the website to participate #WeKeepTelling

My co-editor at Welcome to Thrutopia, Kate Evans, is running a workshop on Writing Thrutopia - in Scarborough on 27 September. Affordably priced and it's by the seaside! Details in the link if you're interested: scarboroughmysteries.com/2025/08/05/w... #amWriting #Thrutopia #WelcomeToThrutopia

After a massively busy August, work has been slow so far this month. If you know anyone who needs a copyeditor or proofreader for climate-related fiction or non-fiction, especially work that's solution-focused and justice-oriented, please point them my way. ☺️https://betterworldwords.com/ #amEditing

Absolutely essential listening/viewing from the increasingly impressive @boldpolitics.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Y'all, THE Kai Ashante Wilson (Sorcerer of the Wildeeps) has a new Patreon teasing forthcoming work and would love some more subscribers!

After a massively busy August, work has been slow so far this month. If you know anyone who needs a copyeditor or proofreader for climate-related fiction or non-fiction, especially work that's solution-focused and justice-oriented, please point them my way. ☺️https://betterworldwords.com/ #amEditing

Wrote about Nazis in the North East, and the slow attritional fight against an upwelling racism and cruelty, for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social. TL;DR: it's pretty bad tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/tyne...

Well it's certainly autumn! And do you know what's autumn-coded, fall-adjacent, September-appropriate? That's right: BOOKS. Here are some of mine. Buy them, if you want.

The world needs climate fiction! So we're hosting #CliFiPit, 9/18 on Bsky. Authors can pitch Cli-Fi in any genre from solarpunk, horror, or romance to fantasy, mystery, dystopian, utopian, etc. #authors #editors and #publishers can find more info at solarpunkmagazine.com/cli-fi-pit. Please share!

"The zero-G fight scene was always going in." I interviewed Matthew Lee, author of We Are the Ululating Tzatziki, about the book, its inspirations and the sheer bloody stubbornness that it takes to finish a novel. matthew-lee-author.com/interview-we...

Worth a read. There are several proposed solutions to overshooting our carbon budget - and they all have massive problems. They're also untested and (almost certainly) going to be more difficult than "JUST STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS, AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE" which we already know how to do.

Stories have always been dangerous. That's why the bad guys are so keen on banning books. Come explore writing as radical, rebellious and dangerous with us at the Writing as Resistance Festival. writershq.co.uk/the-writers-...

Much as I love Penguin Books, I... feel like maybe a copyeditor or proofreader should've been asked to review this page.

The latest offering at Welcome to Thrutopia is @anasalote.bsky.social's brilliant and hilarious "To All My Fans". Check it out below!

Way aye.

Super-happy that my very strange little flash, A Diet of Letters has won second prize in the beautiful Write By the Sea competition. I don't get to go to Ireland as part of a literary festival (that's for the winner), but the prize is a very welcome windfall! writebythesea.ie/writing-comp...

At this point I'm convinced Morgan McSweeney is secretly working for Reform.

The arc and breadth of this in just four paragraphs. Three characters and the absence that unites them. Taut and so human. It will take only minutes to read but leave you with decades of space @mondickson.bsky.social templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

Who's joining me for this?

Have you ever felt unsafe or uncomfortable on a bus? We’re supporting a new survey called Your Voice Matters that invites women and girls to share their experiences – anonymously – to help make bus transport safer for everyone. 👉 Take the short survey: shorturl.at/d4ck5

A Paradise Built in Hell is such an important book, showing up our mistaken, dystopian narratives about how people react in crisis, versus the reality of what (most) people do when the worst happens.

Wrote this in 2010: "The widely told initial version of Hurricane Katrina was a lie and a slander, based on rumors and racism, and it’s been falling apart steadily ever since. For the past two years an antithetical version has been overtaking it...."

Part two of our August story, The Púca’s Share, is up at Welcome to Thrutopia. Read it here! open.substack.com/pub/thrutopi...

Part two of our August story, The Púca’s Share, is up at Welcome to Thrutopia. Read it here! open.substack.com/pub/thrutopi...

One week till deadline for the #flashfiction #competition about moments of epiphany where attitudes/behaviours change for the greener – see www.greenstories.org.uk/flash-fictio... £1000 ($1200) worth of prizes. We'd like to see more entries in transport and food categories. #writers #writinggroups

Complicity everywhere, maybe this is why they wanted to make protestors "terrorists"

I was a teenager when I last I finished a book and turned right back to page 1 - but I'm doing it now. What a book! Massive thanks to the lovely @podcastonmars.bsky.social for keeping the podcast episodes up so I have company on my journey, even 6+ years later! 😆 #RedMars #KSR #MaroonedOnMars

As a thank you to the hundreds of you that have emptied our stock of some of our new titles, we're having a summer sale next week. Ease the end of the holidays with a book or 3, including all the items in our shop! Just add the code SUMMER25 at checkout in our webstore! share.google/texj2hWdD1ih...

Reminder that all of these books - and all Haymarket Books - are 40% off until August 22nd. Browse the full list here, and let us know any recommendations of your own! www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/527-ab...

How do we Outgrow the death cult of #Modernity – opening the doors to a future we’d be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn? accidentalgods.life/co-evolving- #Accidentalgods #Podcast with Tim Logan #OutgrowingModernity - Vanessa Andreotti's new #book OUT NOW! #BooksofBlueSky

Working on an all-consuming #proofreading project at the moment and absolutely loving it. I love being the person who notices a missed comma in a footnote, or that breaking a word at that particular point makes it harder for the reader to understand. #AmEditing

The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher. Seminal part of my childhood!

What is solarpunk? I really enjoyed this inclusive essay on the various shades of solarpunk: www.solarpunkstories.com/blog/what-is...

JRR Tolkien: exciting news everyone! there's a new lord of the rings movie! Tolkien: finally, it's going to answer that big question on everyone's minds Tolkien: what was gollum doing? King: Poe: Barker: Lovecraft: Koontz: Tolkien: everyone's always asking me, what was gollum doing?

Thing I'm noticing: It's so much easier to come here and promote stuff by other people than it is to promote myself/my own work. Proper side-eyeing myself this weekend.

Need a bit of hopeful reading for the weekend? Check out Part 1 of The Púca’s Share by Monica Corish, up on Welcome to Thrutopia now. Part 2 will be posted early next week. thrutopia.substack.com/p/the-pucas-...

Okay, deep breath. I need your help. My friend set this up for me because financial stress is making the whole cancer stress a lot worse. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9gAG... If, like me, you don't have money atm, if you have read and enjoyed any of my books, please can you tell people about them?

Ok friends...if you want more people to know about #solarpunk, I've got a thing you can do: request solarpunk books at the library. This page has details: HOW, WHY, 10 Solarpunk Books Every Library Should Have brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/for-librar... #hopepunk #libraries #ClimateChange

*screaming* "Last year, a New York-based company called NewsGuard released a report finding that there were 1,265 “pink slime” outlets across the nation, more than the number of dwindling daily newspapers."

This month's offering from Welcome to #Thrutopia is a short story by Monica Corish that weaves Irish mythology with positive climate solutions. Part one is up now (click through to read), and part two will be posted this time next week. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/thrutopi...

Given the current far right activity in various parts of the UK, I found this post (on talking to the "but they've got a point" types) a helpful reminder: goodapocalypse.substack.com/p/how-to-tal...

I'm delighted that my piece is hanging in there on the flash fiction shortlist for the lovely Write By the Sea competition! #WriteByTheSea writebythesea.ie/writing-comp...

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

🚨ARCS ARE READY!🚨 UK reviewers & booksellers, drop a wave 🌊 in our comments to request a physical ARC of @rainewilson.bsky.social 's THE SALT ORACLE, a lyrically written, genre-bending, Dark Academia "locked boat" murder mystery! Preorder geni.us/saltorac Netgalley geni.us/SolarisNG

Trados was once a useful program that helped translators work more efficiently. Now it's a massive piece of bloatware trying to be everything to everyone, and is almost impossible to work with. I use various translation software by client request, & they're all fine, intuitive, useful. Not Trados.

Lots of action around the UK today, mostly between 5 and 6 pm. Have a look at the link below. Up here, Durham is at 5.30.

Just want to highlight this post, from the always excellent and meticulous Marisa Kabas.