TOMORROW! (magical) Laura Theis @lauratheis.bsky.social will be the featured poet for the Drafting Table Sunday session. Join us at OPL from 1 β 3pm for another wonderful, interactive workshop.
Email opldraftingtable@gmail.com with any queries. See you there!
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So proud of my wonderful publisher @theemmapress.bsky.social !!β¨
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Very excited for this!!
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A photo of a yellow cake, already sliced, iced with an illustration of a girl with a jug held up to the moon, a detail from ElΔ«na BrasliΕa's cover for "Moon Juice" by Kate Wakeling.
'We started with themed anthologies and sourced poems through an open call because Iβm always trying to push against cliques.'
A new blog by Emma, up on the Children's Poetry Summit website! 'How I Started Publishing Poetry for Children': buff.ly/k2N0P3u
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Write About Walking In The Dark Showcase
Write About Walking In The Dark Showcase event introduces new writing from 11 shortlisted authors of the walk Β· listen Β· create annual writing competition and includes readings of their poetry and pro...
Really looking forward to this showcase event on Sunday November 30th for all the shortlisted authors in @walklistencreate.orgβs Walking in the Dark competition (supporting the great Women Walking, the City, at Night campaign). Tickets available in the link below
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky
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Hoooray! Me too!!
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Today at 5pm we'll be celebrating this beautiful little anthology of stories and poems about Walking in the Dark
And if you can't make today's online reading, you can also listen to an audio version of the poem performed by the actress Mel Sutton here: write.walklistencreate.org/.../moonligh...
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Minimal dark teal cover with clean white typography; large title βBroken Sleep Books 2025β at the top left; a smaller line reads βEdited by: Aaron Kent & Stuart McPhersonβ; publisher credit βBroken Sleep Booksβ sits subtly at the bottom left.
The Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025 gathers standout, risk-taking writing from every publication of the year, spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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A Broken Sleep review special now live on my blog
@alecfinlay.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @alkinsel.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social #poetry
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Thank you so much for reviewing Introduction To Cloud Care...
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Poetry For Giving 2025 β Books For Keeps
Very grateful to Books For Keeps for recommending my book in this lovely review: booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/poet...
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Long list of our #Walking #InTheDark competition announced - terrific poems and stories beautifully penned - read them here wlc.zone/ark
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thank you so much and congratulations everyone!
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πFine work from among others:
@alicestainer.bsky.social @jenratcliffe.bsky.social @elizafevwrites.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @eleanorholmes.bsky.social @sarahraybould.bsky.social
@walklistencreate.orgβs comp supports a great cause, Women walking, the City, at Night
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I was so honoured to be the runner-up!
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Hooray hooray I'm so glad!!
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Thank you so much!
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Ohhh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social this is amazing!! So happy to spot my book in this lovely pile!!
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This window is one of the coolest things that ever happened to me I love it so much!! Thank you!!!
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@victoriaspires.bsky.social thank you so much for this kind review of my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social book Introduction To Cloud Care βοΈ
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New review up on my Substack of the brilliant Rhian Elizabeth & @lauratheis.bsky.social π₯³
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
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Excited to see my review of @lauratheis.bsky.social & Rhian Elizabeth's books (published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social) in Dave's excellent digest π
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Kids Book Launch & Workshop: Poems from a Witch's Pocket with Laura Theis (Ages 8-14) - Caper
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The Oxford Book Launch for 'Poems from a Witchβs Pocket' at the magical Caper Bookshop has sneakily snuck up on us, it's only one week from now, on Sunday the 26th of October at 2pm... Tickets here: square.link/u/bTrnfFun
#poetsonbluesky
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Thank you Fiona Benson for including my poem in the beautiful Winchester Prize anthology The Lantern Room among so many favourite new poems...
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Thank you so much for my 'BEST OF THE NET' nomination and huge congratulations to all fellow nominees...
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www.instagram.com/p/DPIpSTuj6nB/
A huge thank you to the wonderful Anna BΕasiak for translating my poem 'My Sister Dreams She Is A Garden' into Polish...
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Ohh I can't believe the day is here - join us tonight! β¨
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Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
Poet, market researcher, husband, father, knobhead.
Book called Collecting The Data out via Red Squirrel Press or me. The "Aldi Stanley Tucci".
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Poet laureate of railroad tracks and greasy spoons.
Writer-in-residence and poetry editor @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
martyshambles.com
Brummie Poet ππ
26 / Edinburgh (mostly)
NOON out now with the Emma Press
https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/noon/
Etsy shop: selling original illustrated posters, wall art and t-shirts. Link to check out my shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NLundyM
Other Links:
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@lundy_nyc
(Pictures that are not my own were sourced from: Pexels)
Physicist, Research group leader, light-matter interaction, solar cells, renewable energy, feminism, poetry, gardening, crafts, she/her
Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @iquitcigs.bsky.social @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
Previously @eliot_north on Twitter/X. ND mum-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. Living in Valencian Country, working as NHS GP Weston-super-mare.
Commended NPC & Hippocrates, Pushcart Nom, Bridport Shortlisted
Pubs below π
https://linktr.ee/eleanorholmes
Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion, obvs.) Writer: Gone Lawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk tinywrenlit Mslexia MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFic FlashFlood
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Speculatingβ¦
β¦in fiction and non, eco hopeful. Likes: compost, air, salvage. Dislikes: AI slop, shouting.
Writer in residence walklistencreate.org 25/6
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Boating birder, travelling poet, loves a good brew β Host of #DailyNature
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In The Dark LL 25
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walk Β· listen Β· create (WLC) is the home of walking artists and artist walkers. We are a home for walking writers too!
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Poetry: 100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc
Poems on BBC
Charles Causley, Walking at Night & two Bridport Prize shortlists
Magna Carta Comp (3rd)
Best of the Net Nominee
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
Indie Publisher of historical fiction, championing authors and stories based in Northern England and Scotland. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Weβre an award winning theatre company, based in Oxford. Most of our work is site specific, and we gather audiences in unusual spaces and places. We also run a thriving education department and youth theatre. Find us at www.creationtheatre.co.uk
Poet | Editor | Copywriter
Debut poetry collection out with Corsair (Little, Brown Book Group) ππΆ Featured in The Guardian, Financial Times & Sunday Times Style.
βa book of watersheds - love, death and riversβ - Linda France
πBristol/Bath, UK
Flash fiction writer in π¨π¦ | Highly Commended Bridport Prize and Finalist for New Millennium Writings 2025 | Stories in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Writersβ Hour, The Hooletβs Nook, and elsewhere.
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