Suzanna Fitzpatrick

Sign the petition: Strip Boris Johnson of his annual former PM allowance 23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today:

23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today: 38d.gs/clhk

Sign the petition: Strip Boris Johnson of his annual former PM allowance 23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today:

23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today: 38d.gs/clhk

I was privileged to be asked to be a beta reader for this course. It's seriously good - not surprising, given it's led by @juliamarybird.bsky.social and delivered by the @writerscentre.bsky.social. Online and very accessible. Go book! nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/courses/the-...

This has cheered a challenging week :)

Huge thanks to Black Iris Poetry, Sarah Gibbons and Lauren Thomas
for printing this - check out their new series #poetryofbreakingnews #poetryofinstagram lots of fellow @poetryschool.bsky.social MA colleagues there too. Open for submissions until 28 Nov.

Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage” Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...

Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Please add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities. secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/170649/... @hopenothate.org.uk

Fantastic night for the Oxford launch of 'Crippled'. Huge thanks to @kebleoxford.bsky.social
for giving us the use of a wonderful space, and especially to Sarah Gibbons for her scintillating reading. @tessafoley.bsky.social we missed you, get well soon! www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...

Off to the Oxford launch of 'Crippled' at @kebleoxford.bsky.social.
TODAY, 5.45pm, the Crisp Hollamby Lecture Theatre, H B Allen Centre, OX2 6NN.
FREE, just turn up, books for sale, cash or card.
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Tomorrow! at @kebleoxford.bsky.social FREE, no need to book.
Fri 14 Nov, 5.45pm
The Crisp Hollamby Lecture Theatre
H B Allen Centre
25 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Books for sale (cash/card)
with @tessafoley.bsky.social and Sarah Gibbons
www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page/crippled-suzanna-fitzpatrick

Going over markers' comments from my final @poetryschool.bsky.social MA portfolio for editing purposes, and AI only effing asks me if I want a summary. No. I wrote it. I lived it, in some cases I suffered it, and I wrote it. Don't even try to AI-splain me to myself. You can't handle the drama.

Hold Fujitsu to account for Post Office scandal £41 million! That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. And that's on top of another whopping £65m the Government paid the scandal ...

£41 million. That’s how much more the Post Office has just agreed to pay Fujitsu to keep using the faulty Horizon IT system. It's a slap in the face to all those wrongfully convicted Post Office staff. Please sign and share, thanks:
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As it's Remembrance Day, here's a poem from my collection 'Crippled', out now from Red Squirrel Press. Its for my paternal grandfather, who was killed in action aged 22 when my dad was only a few months old.
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What a night. I cried, I raged, I saw others and I felt seen. Thank you Joelle Taylor for understanding that femme is also a norm-busting performance - what will hopefully be my second collection features a sequence on high femme as a deflection of the patriarchal gaze and burlesque as subversion.

Off to the launch of #Maryville by Joelle Taylor from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
and vibing ever so slightly queer 😘

Next Friday, alumna @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social will be launching her poetry book 'Crippled' at the Crisp Hollamby Lecture Theatre, HBAC, featuring guest readers @tessafoley.bsky.social and Sarah Gibbons.

📅 5:45pm, Friday 14th
🎟️ Free for all to attend

More info below ↓

The Oxford launch of 'Crippled' is next Fri 14 Nov, 5.45pm in the Crisp Hollamby Lecture Theatre, H B Allen Centre. Excited to be reading with @tessafoley.bsky.social & Sarah Gibbons. FREE, no booking needed. Books for sale, cash or card. Huge thanks to @kebleoxford.bsky.social for the space!

'Crippled' is 4 months old and has reached a second print run! So there are plenty of copies if you haven't yet got one 😘 www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...
or DM me for a signed copy. Lovely review here, thanks to @gregfreemanpoet.bsky.social: www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...

If you’re working full-time and still can’t afford basic food and rent, something is severely wrong.

Image of Beef Rendang. Text: I learned the hard way, having wiped my eyes while trying my best to impress your mum Mat Riches©

In Mat Riches' 'Beef Rendang', nostalgia evoked by the sensory decadence of a curry meets the present day joy shared between a parent and their child. @matriches.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/mat-riches/

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry

Poet & translator @georgeszirtes.bsky.social is a nominee for the inaugural City of Literature Award. The winner will be chosen by residents of Eastern England & announced at a ceremony @writerscentre.bsky.social on 12 Feb. Vote by 12 Dec. #eastanglianbookawards
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I'm reading and MCing for this on 26 November, readers will include Sarah Gibbons and Glyn Maxwell. Free, no need to book. Books for sale, cash or card. The @poetryschool.bsky.social MA crew possess such a density of talent they're practically a neutron star - come and feel the force!

Hi! I'm so excited to read your work :)

For more guidelines check out inksweatandtears.co.uk/submissions/ or follow the link in our bio to the submissions page:
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-SA

#prose #poetry #onlinezine #creativewriting #inksweatandtears #poetrydaily #poetrylovers #poetrygram

Feeling very grown-up: now I have a full collection out, I get to be a full Member of @societyofauthors.bsky.social. Joining them was one of the best things I've done for myself as a writer: they fight tirelessly for writers' rights. Highly recommended. societyofauthors.org

The face of a poet who found out this week she passed her @poetryschool.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social
MA in Writing Poetry with a clean sweep of Distinctions and a Distinction overall. Huge thanks to my tutors & to all my amazing cohort. Roll on Graduation in December!

Delighted to be shortlisted for Verve's Oct Poem of the Month on the theme of 'ghosted'. True story about a workshop with Glyn Maxwell - I had COVID and he kindly arranged for me to join a @poetryschool.bsky.social MA seminar remotely, but there were mic issues.
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2025 Prize Anthology Poems longlisted for the Live Canon 2025 International Poetry Competition<br>If you pre-order here now, the book will be sent out in the third week of October.&nbsp;<br><br>To see the full list of lon...

Delighted to have a poem longlisted in the @livecanon.bsky.social 2025 comp and in the anthology: www.livecanon.co.uk/store/produc...
So many great poems, huge congrats to winner Lauren Thomas &great to see many @poetryschool.bsky.social MA grads on the list too!
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Delighted to be shortlisted for this year's @bridportprize.bsky.social with a poem which came out of the @poetryschool.bsky.social / @newcastleuni.bsky.social MA summer school last year, and huge congratulations to the winners. Full list here:
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Fantastic Third Table reading at The Devereux last night with Sarah Gibbons Glyn Maxwell Katherine Cleave and poets from 8 different @poetryschool.bsky.social MA cohorts. Next event is 7pm Weds 26 Nov at The Cheshire Cheese, 5 Little Essex Street, London, WC2R 3LD www.cheshirecheese.pub

Fellow @poetryschool.bsky.social MA student Charlotte Dormandy for @inksweatandtears.co.uk on the @poetrysociety.org.uk #nationalpoetryday theme of 'Play', selected by @cloudscholar.bsky.social. The best short poems Every nook in this opens into big questions. inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...

Thanks @cloudscholar.bsky.social for selecting this for @inksweatandtears.co.uk on the @poetrysociety.org.uk #nationalpoetryday theme of 'Play'. Also up today is my @poetryschool.bsky.social MA colleague Charlotte Dormandy, will share her poem shortly.
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