Jeda Pearl

❤️‍🩹 Black history walking tour fundraiser by Lisa Williams: blackhistoryscotland.com

❤️‍🩹 UK group of Black-led organisations fundraiser: www.gofundme.com/f/CaribbeanH...

More here: linktr.ee/caribbeansol...

❤️‍🩹 Edinburgh drop-off
MON-FRI 10am-6pm
The Corstorphine Nursery, EH12 7UN

Items needed:
Canned food, basic non-perishable foods (rice etc)
Toiletries, bottled water, batteries
Baby food, nappies /diapers
Bed linen

❤️‍🩹 Scottish fundraiser for buying items needed: www.gofundme.com/f/help-jamai...

Thankfully my family are ok because they happen to live near Kingston and although the hurricane covered the 147-mile wide island, the east was not as badly affected.

Please send any links, fundraisers etc my way, especially Scottish ones & local Caribbean grassroots.

Our climate crisis disproportionately affects the Global South and is making adverse weather events like hurricanes so much worse. The Caribbean sea was much warmer, making Melissa stronger. People are still unaccounted for, vegetation completely denuded, trees & uprooted, buildings destroyed.

Please share. 💞 I collated a big list of links & resources including finding loved ones, and updating it regularly - I need more for Cuba & Haiti: linktr.ee/caribbeansol...

#HurricaneMelissa (400-mile wide record-breaking cat 5) caused devastation, especially across western Jamaica

Fiction Submissions Open Indigenous Authors

Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors!

Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal:
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What a joy to be amongst all these clever people last night launching #NorthBridge Where We Traveled last night. Huge thanks to @jedapearl.bsky.social for all her creativity, thoughtfulness and hard work bringing this project together. It only remains to say- buy the book! payhip.com/b/BxUCD

Hurricane Melissa wreaked havoc in my birth nation of Jamaica. Reported: "The University of Miami with the US NOAA measured wind speeds from start to finish across Jamaica with the weather aircraft named Kermit. The maximum wind gust speeds were 252mph and maximum sustained winds were 185 mph..."

Watercolour artwork of a bright red and orange phoenix rising against a soft blue sky background. Large white text across the image reads “Programme”. In the bottom right corner, smaller white text says “Iridescence” and “eastercon2026.org”

Programme at Iridescence!

Want to be on a panel, run a workshop, or give a talk? Fill in the form and submit your ideas.

We are excited to build an awesome programme with you!

eastercon2026.org/programme

A photo of Jeda holding 4 copies of the book, North Bridge: Where We Travelled. She is smiling and wearing a patterned jumper and headband. Her hair is tied up. The book has an illustration of the bridge on it.

Proud book mama stylee! 😁🥹 Three sleeps to launch! Come and meet our amazing contributors on Saturday, and hear poems, real-life and invented stories, a script and a game.

🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...

Scottish Treasuries Audiobook Bundle Listen along to stories of dark dragons, ghostly pipers, rude goblins and sly wizards as you discover the legends that dwell within the ancient castles of Scotland in A Treasury of Scottish Castle Leg...

The beautiful Scottish Treasuries collections by #TheresaBreslin are now available in #audio individually or as a bundle from Voxblock! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚

🧚‍♂️ Folk and Fairy Tales
🐉 Mythical Creatures
🏰 Castle Legends

Thanks to our partner
@florisbooks.bsky.social

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Our AGM week 2025 is dedicated to Author Care.

With discussions around transparency, support and inclusion, communication and self-care, we ask how authors and publishing professionals can work better together and how authors can find support if needed.

Cutting support to the motability scheme for disabled people, while we continue to fund Prince Andrew's residences & "lifestyle", should *radicalise anyone* 👑🚫🤬

#CharlesTheLast #TaxTheRich #WealthTaxNow

Perfect for the early morning larks you know... 🌄

Hey bluesky - who are your favourite trans horror and fantasy writers?

Bonus points for recent novels or shorts.

I have some in mind but my titles may be a little old now

Delighted to see this hard work come to fruition. This will be such an empowering tool for so many people across the industry 🤩

FIYAH No 36 Gods and Monsters Cover art by Odera Igbokwe

We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰
fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

Digital painted original art by CL Hellisen featuring a hand reaching up, bleeding, with moths gathered around the hand. in the background is the outline of roots reaching out

✨ I commissioned the talented @clhellisen.bsky.social to do some promo art for In This City, Where it Rains, and I was so blown away by the perfect gothic weird moths delight they created!! Feast your eyes!! ITCWIR is out Feb 3rd from @lunapress.bsky.social! Pre-orders: linktr.ee/lyndseycroal 🖤✨

RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

New Writing Scotland Submission Manager New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...

#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit

October is halfway over! Have you submitted anything for the BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR OF THE YEAR?

It's October, which I think is officially the best month to start reading Dark Crescent...omens, superstitions, hauntings, monsters, all from Scottish folklore - here's a wee sneak peak at what you'll find...👀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤✨ linktr.ee/lyndseycroal @lunapress.bsky.social

Great thread. October is breast cancer awareness month here in the UK. Get into the habit of checking your breasts regularly - you know your body best. Finding a change and facing BC is terrifying, but dealing with it means more time: you'll want more time.

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As Cymera Festival continues to mature, we are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals to bring new ideas and knowledge to our board.

Experience in running or programming a book festival is not needed: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/join-the-board

Just wondering quite how many hours... weeks... months... I'm going to lose to world-building this one long story in particular...? 🤔 The drawings have also begun 😅 #AmWorldBuilding

CONSIDER THIS THE SIGN YOU NEEDED! LAST CALL for The Novel Surgery! Online! Starts Sunday Oct 26.

🔥DON’T FORGET THE FREEBIE - for 1 great novelist short on funds.

🔥Deadline’s Today: Oct 20th, midnight (in your country).
🎁Email for application form - leoneross@mac.com

🔥Friends, please repost.

An omen of spirits dance across the sky. A lonely woman befriends a sea witch as the world ends. The last whale in the world travels north in search of hope. A grandmother seeks revenge on the sea monster that took her family. DARK CRESCENT is a collection of seasonal tales inspired by Scottish folklore, landscape, superstitions, and omens. In this book, readers will find reinterpretations of common folklore creatures and phenomenon, like the Kelpie, Selkie, and Will-o’-the-Wisps, as well as lesser known, such as the Sea Mither, Ceasg, Marool, Sluagh, Ghillie Dhu, Nuckelavee, Baobhan Sith, and The Frittening, all with dark and strange lore around them. Join Lyndsey in this read-along of the first story in the collection, "Dark Crescent". Order the book here: https://www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page/dark-crescent Also available in all stores and usual online platforms (Paperback and ebook). Authors' Readings: Dark Crescent - Lyndsey Croal

Looking for a sneak peek of Dark Crescent? Here's a wee reading, capturing the dark autumnal opening vibes ✨️🖤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌊 @lunapress.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=7fq6...

The Nightward Sturgeon, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte awards finalist R.S.A. Garcia’s scifantasy debut novel—the first in a duology—in which Caribbean mythology meets The Wit...

1 year ago, I published the book that brought me through grief & my cancer journey.

THE NIGHTWARD is a mashup of science, West Indian culture & mythologies, the fantasy books I grew up with & more.

Thank you to everyone who bought, read & recommended it. 1/4

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Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Jeda, who wears a cotton top, and is standing in front of a sea-green wall. She's smiling and her curly hair cascades over her shoulders. Jeda Pearl is a Scottish Jamaican writer and arts programmer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work was shortlisted by RSL Jerwood Poetry Award 2024 & Sky Arts RSL Award 2022, and longlisted by BSFA 2024 & Women Poets’ Prize 2022. Her poems and stories appear in art installations and several anthologies, and her debut poetry collection, Time Cleaves Itself, is published by Peepal Tree Press. @JedaPearl Website: jedapearl.com

👋🏽 I'm your host for the evening. My poem 'Bridge Parts' is three verses o Scots, and 'The Overlap' beats it's percussion across four pages, so there may only be time to read one.

I'm so proud of each contributor - their works have built a very cool, unique book! Join us! bit.ly/NBWWT25

🧵END

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Zain, who is wearing glasses, one earring and a t-shirt. He has short, thick hair and a stubbly-beard. He's in front of an orange wall, smiling. Zain Rishi is a writer and bookseller from Birmingham. He won the 27th annual Ware Poets Prize and placed third in the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize. His debut pamphlet, Noon, is forthcoming with The Emma Press in February 2026. Instagram: @zain.rishi

Writer and bookseller, Zain Rishi's poem 'Crossings' takes your hand and leaps from breathtaking image to image.

Keep an eye out for his debut pamphlet, Noon, forthcoming with The Emma Press in February 2026. In the meantime, find him on www.instagram.com/zain.rishi/