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Issue 8 Issue 8 features portals, aliens, and metamorphoses. These stories and poems are about growing up, growing apart, and growing together. As much as our characters wish they could stay locked in their f...

Issue 8 has stepped through the portals! Our summer issue is always special because it's powered by a birthday wish, BUT this issue is EXTRA POWERFUL because it's powered by TWO BIRTHDAYS.

You should subscribe (or buy online!) -- can't let a birthday wish down 🎂

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A writer attuned to a fracturing world—To Avenge a Dead Glacier - Books Ireland To Avenge A Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan is a sensitive exploration of human psychology.

'Perhaps we are indeed too late, he seems to say—but look closely, listen carefully to what remains.'

Maya Kulukundis reviews To Avenge a Dead Glacier, by Shane Tivenan @lilliputpress.bsky.social
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Queuing this up now. Loved and Missed was such a beautiful, heartbreaking, funny novel.

📣 Calling all parents and guardians!

Would your teenager benefit from a GCSE Creative Writing Programme this summer?

We are thinking:
🗓️ 4 sessions
📅 2 days a week for 2 weeks
✍️ Designed to support GCSE English

👍💬 Like or comment if you think they would be interested or if you have any questions.

Writing the Occult: Cryptids and Creatures The latest run of Writing the Occult gathers together a range of speakers to explore the world of cryptids and creatures in your fiction.

This November, WRITING THE OCCULT will be presenting its end of year event with a look at CREATURES AND CRYPTIDS! Expect talks, interviews, workshops and more on the day... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writ...

Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

"I came to feel that large language models like ChatGPT are intellectual Soylent Green." Can confirm. As a writer, AI is the most corrosive and dangerous technology I've ever encountered.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Friends: I won!

I hold an MA in Doc Photography & Photojournalism (2021.)

Now pursuing #writing MFA in Creative Nonfiction (2026-at least am writing on #photography. 😅)

Embargo's lifted. Ecstatic to announce I recently won a #SSHRC CGS-M scholarship to fund research toward completion of my book!

Pope Leo XIV renews his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV renewed his call on Sunday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, asking the international community to respect international laws and the obligation to protect civilians.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV renewed his call on Sunday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, asking the international community to respect international laws and the obligation to protect civilians.

New book review from @joeannhart.bsky.social:

Little Great Island by Kate Woodworth

#booksky #books #bookreview

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July Q&A with Michael Whelan Michael answers your question on cancer, cars, contortionists and more!

In the July Q&A, I answer your questions on cancer, cars, contortionists and more!

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Painting of Viking longship on choppy sea, don’t know where it’s from sadly.

‘Bitter breast-cares have I abided,
Known on my keel many a care’s hold,
And dire sea-surge, and there I oft spent
Narrow nightwatch nigh the ship’s head
While she tossed close to cliffs.’ ~ From Pound’s rendering of The Seafarer for #BookWormSat

*me and my #book project (strangling my Imposter Syndrome and surrounded by my ideas and doubts)

[Image courtesy of Early Roman #IronAge folk who crafted the Gundestrup Cauldron, unearthed in 1891 and preserved at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.] #AmWriting

Writing this makes me realise how many opportunities there are if you know about them.

Funded residencies! Grants! Submission opportunities!

Make sure you check it out. I want to do it all....

Nicole Flattery · Priests are human too: John Broderick’s ‘Pilgrimage’ Anyone who grew up​ in a small Irish town knows what it feels like to live under surveillance. Tech autocrats have...

‘At its best, the novel’s simmering moods and atmosphere of squandered potential and sexual deception recall Tennessee Williams. Julia stalks around like Maggie in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”.’

Nicole Flattery on John Broderick’s novels of Irish life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Dear perimenopausal & menopausal Writerheads,
I'm so chatty this morning, but now...to work. The words won’t write themselves (though wouldn’t that be nice?).

What are you diving into today?

#5amwritersclub #booksky #writersky #authorsky #perimenopause #femalerage #menopause

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

WGBH building in Boston today

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief I wasn’t in a great place when I had the idea for my debut novel, Send Flowers. I was consigned to bed with an autoimmune disease and surrounded by neglected houseplants—each dropped leaf seemed a …

Emily Buchanan rethinks climate grief through the lens of magical realism.

To say the very effing least... (remember kids: censorship is a tool of fascism.) #ReadBannedBooks

Written by Saleh, a 17-year-old poet from Gaza, ‘When the Sea became a Wall’ is the first in a series of letterpress prints facilitated by writers Alice Oswald, Zaffar Kunial, Max Porter & @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social‬ www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/06/when...

Rowe Irvin’s ‘Life Cycle of a Moth’ was our Book of the Month for June. As part of a wider folk revival that is wonderfully queer and femme, the book finds in place and tradition what is transgressive, transformative and liberatory, writes Abi Andrews www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/07/life...

'Rather than despairing in the loss, Haggith flips it, again and again, death and life on repeat.'

Mandy Haggith’s ‘The Lost Elms’ (@wildfirebooks.bsky.social) defies us not to fall in love with elm trees, writes Kirsteen Bell www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/07/the-...

Did you know there are nearly 140 centres of PEN International around the world?

PEN Canada is one of two centres in Canada, the other being PEN Québec.

Each centre is made up of writers, readers, and defenders of free expression, totalling 40,000 members across the globe.

go.bsky.app/MhL7yQC

New York Times: 27 ENTERTAINERS FACE RED INQUIRY; House Hearing Here to Hunt Leftists on Stage, Screen, TV and Radio Next Week House Un-American Unit Calls 27 Entertainers to Inquiry Here By C. P. Trussellspecial To the New York Times. Aug. 11, 1955 WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 Twenty-seven figures in the entertainment field have been called to appear next week before a House Un-American Activities Subcommittee in New York. The inquiry is designed to determine whether Communist propaganda has penetrated to American audiences seeking relaxation and not Red ideologies. In preparation for its investigation, starting Monday morning at the United States...

Oh, nothing, just going back to the template to see how the next phase might go.

Q&A with Becky Aikman about her new book, SPITFIRES.
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@beckyaikman.bsky.social

I say it a lot but literary publishers like @hubcitypress.bsky.social are our last line of defense against a corporate monoculture of ideas. By nature, local public radio stations value + understand these books better bc they know their community and what it values.

The destruction of public radio is truly an existential threat to books and book culture. I can't say it enough.

Love the idea of this and cannot wait for it to materialize in my hands...

As well as having a new book out today, we have the launch event for The Art of Murder by Anne Woodward this Saturday in Beverley! It's free to attend, and we will see you there!

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Thanks to @mollytwomey.bsky.social and for this lovely comment about @rachaelboast.bsky.social's new anthology Versus Versus, and to @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social for sharing it.