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YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social

I want answers, but there are only the wild geese
Calling, high in the almost-dark, bearing south,
And me, stopped short, clutching a bag of groceries
On the doorstep of my not-quite home…

—Susan Mansfield, “Bearing South”
from THE ROOFTOP BUSKER (ASL, 2015)
#poetry #poem #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

Calling Scottish #writers!

Apply for the 2026 Scottish Writing Fellowship at the @universityofotago.bsky.social’s Centre for Irish & Scottish Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand, from 1 Aug–30 Sept 2026. Includes flights, accommodation & stipend. Deadline 31 Oct!
#writing
www.otago.ac.nz/ciss

Swamp People - Longreads Finding refuge and resilience in America’s most reviled landscapes.

"They don’t confront us like mountains, comfort us like oceans, or envelop us like forests; they don’t seem to want to have anything to do with us at all. Swamps hide. Swamps demur."

longreads.com/2025/10/02/t...

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery Help Salt Publish Brilliant New Books in 2026 For twenty-… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

Help Salt take its publishing to the next level!

Gaza: Books on Solidarity, Resistance, and Hope Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.

Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani

Quick Tip: What are your characters’ motivations? One of the major problems with early drafts of stories is that the characters’ motivations haven’t yet been fully worked out. Can you identify you characters’ goals and the reasons they want to att…

#writingtip #writingtips #bravewrite #amwriting #writingcommunity

A Trans Rom-Com That Navigates the Very Gendered Dynamics of a Wedding - Electric Literature “Best Wedding” author Rose Dommu on telling the kind of story that can only exist if the main character is trans

Rose Dommu on being trans at straight weddings, the possibilities of transition, and the necessity of intimacy and community for queer people.

buff.ly/YMoTneH

Sharing because vaccinations save lives. #ScienceIsReal

Book*hug Press is proud to be part of the Certified Canadian Publisher program, newly launched by @cdnpublishers.bsky.social. 🍁📖
Look for the seal when you buy books and you'll:

📖Support Canadian jobs
🏆Champion Canadian talent
🏘Strengthen communities
💰Boost our economy
🍁Preserve Canadian stories

YouTube video by Junction Reads Junction Reads with Catherine Bush, Caitlin Galway and Catherine Bush

Missed the event last night with Michelle Winters, @catebush.bsky.social & Caitlin Galway?

Thanks to @gooselane.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social for the books!

and TYPE Books Junction, Cayley Brightside & @rollwithheather.bsky.social

youtu.be/AdGtf8ncp28

Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists. Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2025 National Book Award…

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature for the 2025 National Book Awards.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’ A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

I’m pleased to say you can now pre-order my next book, ‘Fairies: A History’ (out in February 2026) from
@politybooks.bsky.social. Thank you to Jeremy Harte, Simon Young, Jo Hickey-Hall and Owen Davies for such generous endorsements! 🌿📚 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

passive voice far too often actively used by MSM these days...

Palaeontology in Public Edited by Dr. Chris Manias, "Palaeontology in Public" features a collection case studies, each published as a chapter, by a remarkable assembly of noteworthy authors in the field. It's as informative ...

Since its beginnings, the discoveries of palaeontology have captured and fired the public's imagination, and the public's enthusiasm for it has had an effect upon the field itself. Learn more in "Palaeontology in Public" (@uclpress.bsky.social). #Booksly

www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/10/pala...

In late 2023, thousands filed into a packed Toronto theatre to wait for a legend: the one and only Jane Goodall would be taking the stage. Author and biological anthropologist @keriannmcgoogan.bsky.social celebrates her first inspiration in primatology: thewalrus.ca/jane-goodall/

“Writing the Natural World: A 21st Century Reboot” with Christopher Brown $59 for Members $119 for Non-Members For any writer in any genre, nature is a presence in the narrative, whether as the central focus or ambient background. Writing the natural world presents a tre…

On November 5, I'll be teaching an online class for @writersleaguetexas.bsky.social on nature writing in the 21st century—as both genre in its own right and essential element for writers in any genre. It should be a lot of fun: writersleague.org/calendar/wri...

Cover of A Natural History of Empty Lots

My new book A Natural History of Empty Lots is released today. I hope you like it—it distills 20 years of exploring the edgelands, working on rewilding projects, and trying to understand what such places teach us about our lives, history and future: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”

Jane Goodall

A bookshop and READERY! In #Truro, #NovaScotia

Quacking fantastic. 🦆

Remember kids:

censorship is a tool of fascism.

#ReadBannedBooks

Behold!! Our children’s section has been transformed into a true crime section! And Mike!

Well, good morning to YOU, @splitlippress.com.
#Booksky #Nonfiction #CreativeNonfiction

I ❤️ this thread! #Booksky

OKAY FOLKS FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKED FOR IT*
MY THREAD OF LATIN-AMERICAN HORROR IN TRANSLATION FOR THE PERFECT BOOK FOR THE OVERLAP OF HISPANIC HISTORY & SPOOKY MONTHS

*nobody asked but I KNOW WHAT YOU SECRETLY WANT 1/

The most recommended book on the podcast (by far!) is The Death of Us by Abigail Dean - have you read it?

It's October and that means time for @liverpooluni.bsky.social Literary Festival and @livirishfest.bsky.social (and pumpkins🎃)
We are delighted to be contributing events to both festivals, see 🧵👇 for more details of all our October events or check out www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studie...

Our next flash fiction is "Reflections at Dusk" by Pakiso Mthembu. Mirrors can show us what we want to see. Sometimes, they show us what we don't want to see...

Read more by following the link below!

www.timberghostpress.com/blog/reflect...

Hydrology Paper (Book) of the Day @princetonupress.bsky.social on rivers in the context of processes, history and human experiences: landscapes, water, and the importance of geology; the geography of drainage patterns and places; and a memoir related to how research affects the lives of researchers.