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Ahhhh! Automatic Noodle is one of Kobo's best science fiction books of the year!! I'm so proud of these humble, noodle-making robots. www.kobo.com/us/en/p/best...

Nine years ago, I got up and read a poem in public for the first time, and I can remember it vividly.

I'd never have thought that I'd end up running a poetry society.

No matter what we achieve, we must always remember offer support to others starting out.

#poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky

praise poem for these girls i was who rake the floor with want clawing wood with blunt nails asking for rest in bold italicised underlined, cursing subsequent void vomiting false diagnoses in each day, a new house of panic a prayer…

Beautiful to have a new poem in the PRECARIOUS Issue of Cordite Poetry Review: cordite.org.au/poetry/preca...

Tx to Editor Andy Jackson. From his editorial: ‘The poems needed to themselves be teetering, staggering, bedridden or exposed.’ #CripLit

I did an accessibility course today at work re digital content, and was reminded that alt text replaces the image, & is not description—& wow. More of that.

Not “this is x poem” but the poem text.

Not “a painting” but what the viewer sees.

Not “a graph of x” but what information is communicated.

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🚨GIVEAWAY time!🚨

To celebrate #nationalillustrationday @caspargeon.bsky.social / @tomtoner.bsky.social has 1 author-illustrated copy of THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN to giveaway.

Open to entrants anywhere in the world. Like, repost, follow & drop a 🌠 in the comments to enter. Ends 23:59 GMT 1st Dec 25.

Cover of Twenty Days of Turin, with text in white showing foreword by Jeff VanderMeer, author Giorgio De Maria, Translated by Ramon Glazov centered down the middle over black and white art Satan Sowing the Tare by Felicien Victor Joseph Rops, a Belgian artist of the late 1800s. Description of the novel: In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what’s shared can never be unshared. An allegory inspired by the grisly neo-fascist campaigns of its day, The Twenty Days of Turin has enjoyed a fervent cult following in Italy for forty years. Now, in a fretful new age of "lone-wolf" terrorism fueled by social media, we can find uncanny resonances in Giorgio De Maria’s vision of mass fear: a mute, palpitating dread that seeps into every moment of daily existence. With its stunning anticipation of the Internet―and the apocalyptic repercussions of oversharing―this bleak, prescient story is more disturbingly pertinent than ever.

Happy Holidays! Every day until Christmas, I'll use this thread to rec a book to help you with your gift list. Let's start with THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN by Giorgio De Maria, translated by Ramon Glazov, and republished with a foreword by moi. Buy from your fav indie. (Alt text = more detail.) 1/?

"Your project to promote 'gender ideology' unfortunately does not align with our priorities." —NEA Notice of Termination

Sarabande is exceedingly proud to be misaligned with this administration's vision for the arts. We refuse to become demoralized, soft-pedal our values, or sell out our authors for federal funding. We know you share our values and determination. Help us bridge the gap left by the NEA with a recurring monthly donation or gift of any size.

When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.

Unleash Lit | Substack Our mission as a holistic arts organization is to support storytellers. We bring the joy of creativity to a diverse and inclusive audience of artists, writers, and readers through workshops, publicati...

I am so excited - the first personal essay/CNF piece I've written in more than 10 years was just picked up by Unleash Lit (www.unleashlit.com). "Corkscrew Willow Women" will come out in January!
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Dear friends, I’m writing with some difficult news. We recently applied for long-term revenue funding through the Books Council of Wales, support that would have secured stability for Broken Sleep Books for the next five years and helped us continue publishing the ambitious, risk-taking, inclusive work we believe in so deeply. Unfortunately, we were not successful. It’s disappointing, of course. We put forward a strong application, had a positive interview, and genuinely believed our publishing programme where we champion low socio-economic status authors, working-class authors, and marginalised authors, while widening access to the arts and degentrifying the arts, reflected the cultural values Wales should be proud to support. Clearly, our idea of cultural value doesn’t fully match the Books Council’s. Sometimes decisions go another way. What hasn’t changed is our commitment.

Broken Sleep Books will carry on publishing with the same determination, ambition, and care that has always sustained us, just with fewer resources and a much harder road ahead. If you value what we do, there are meaningful ways you can help us weather this moment: 📚 Buy a book, or a few Every purchase directly supports the press. Browse the catalogue here: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/books 🎁 Consider our books as gifts With the holidays approaching, this makes a real difference. 💬 Spread the word Tell a friend, share our books online, recommend us to a bookshop, or forward this newsletter. ❤️ Make a donation (if you’re able) Some readers have asked how they can help directly. If you’d like to support our work with a small donation, we’ve set up a simple option here: https://ko-fi.com/brokensleepbooks

(Please only give if you’re in a position to do so, we know times are hard for many.) Broken Sleep has always been a community effort, powered by readers, writers, booksellers, and supporters who believe in literature that takes risks and makes space for voices that don’t always find a home elsewhere. Thank you, sincerely, for sticking with us. Your support means everything, especially right now.

We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate:

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This Joyful Interlude, a poetry collection by Lawrence Moore, illustration by Jane Cornwell.

Really enjoyed tonight's zoom launch of This Joyful Interlude! ❤
Thank you everyone who came along, you were very supportive and I loved all your performances too - so many highlights!

#poetry #poetrycommunity

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Our online issues will always remain free BUT...

for all you who prefer physical media, you can now purchase a modified PRINT COPY of Issue 6: yarn on Amazon: buff.ly/Wq6Up6n

"Modified" bc it wasn't originally formatted for print---margins & fonts are a bit different.

Book: MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY by Mary Ruefle

I am in love again.

The Art of Surfacing, our e-book featuring work from the 14 emerging poets of this year's Introductions / Céadlínte series is now available to purchase!

Purchase via www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G29TSB5R/

Artwork provided by Julie O'Gorman. 🌊

I do not entertain the idea that there is anyone better at photographs and Alt-text right now - on any platform - than the magnificent Tom Cox.

The man can frame a picture perfectly and, boy, can he crack you up with a deft line to accompany it.

Also, buy his books. From Blackwells. #booksky

You will be able to read an excerpt from my debut poetry collection New Famous Phrases in The @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Books Anthology 2025. A great way to sample the exciting writing the press published this year & to see what kind of thing they like if you are thinking of submitting work.

Proud to have my poetry included in the Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025, which gathers together standout, risk-taking writing from the award-winning independent press.

Support vibrant, compelling contemporary literature and discover your new favourite writers now!

three copies of white door on patterned upholstery fabric. cover image shows detail of Alternative Reality by Alan Sirulnikoff, photographer: logs floating on dark water and a white door among them.

front and backside of bookmark on same surface. Front shows detail of book cover, centering the door among logs. title isn't shown. Backside has a poem from the book printed on it plus attributions: Horizons Traditions I keep take hold in this soil slowly— home grows fainter still until distant slopes briefly make me forget where I am, re-etch longing.

yours truly (white woman, shoulder-length dark-blondish hair, glasses, dark green sweater, scarf with green and gray leafmotif) smiling into camera holding the book in front of her, white bookshelves along white walls in the background.

My debut collection WHITE DOOR is out!!! 💃✨💃
Thank you Carbonation Press & @gregbem.bsky.social!
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🖤SATURDAY #Giveaway for e(i7🖤

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Interact w this post thru the weekend to help boost our contributors & we'll send you FREE STICKERS!

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The Big Idea: Theodora Goss Reality is both objective and subjective, but what if reality could be fundamentally changed just by enough people thinking about it really hard? Author Theodora Goss is here today not only to pres…

I'm very happy and honored to be on @scalzi.com's The Big Idea, talking about the big idea behind Letters from an Imaginary Country. Here's the link! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/13/t...

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Anyone know a poet Judy Smith - possibly English poet? Judy is a contributor for our Christmas edition but lost her email and bio!

HEY! MY FIRST TWO BOOKS ARE ON SALE!

Poetry #37 May '25 Please REGISTER & VOTE ​in all of your local, state, and ​federal elections;    click here    for  more ​information.​

Proud my #poem "Nel Mezzo Del Cammin Di Nostra Vita," originally in @soflopojo.bsky.social, will be in the Sligo Creek anthology Bearing Witness: Poetry for Troubled Times. Original at www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/poetry-37-ma...
#booksky 💙📚 #poetry @blueskypoetry.bsky.social #criplib

A compilation of book covers: THE GOBLIN EMPEROR by Katherine Addison WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson PHOENIX EXTRAVAGANT by Yoon Ha Lee UNDER FORTUNATE STARS and AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Ren Hutchings THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS and RAKESFALL by Vajra Chandrasekera THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by Simon Jimenez METAL FROM HEAVEN by August Clarke THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DIAZ by Isabel Canas THE GANYMENDA by R. T. Ester THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed THE MISHEARD WOLRD by Aliya Whiteley SKYWARD INN by Aliya Whiteley THE NEEDFIRE by MK Hardy

Did you know that it's #singlesday?

The perfect opportunity to remind you of a superb selection of Solaris Standalones across fantasy, scifi, horror & spec fic!

From award-winners to modern classics, out of this world highjinks to creeping terror, you can find your perfect partner in our books!

Big News!

Congratulations!

Brilliant Book Bag open mic tonight, warmly hosted by @paulwritespoems.bsky.social. Please do another one in the new year, Paul! 😁

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

ICYMI, I’ve got a poetry collection coming out next year, and I am PUMPED!