Jodie Duffy

Writing & Poetry Competitions, Submission & Opportunities in August 2025 — WORDBOX Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or ...

Mid-August submission deadlines alert! 44 literary journals, competitions, publishers and residencies all with deadlines by 1 Sept, 14 of which are closing over the next week. Don't miss out! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

How to be hopeful: Alice Oswald’s poem Mist The poet on the startling wonders of the natural world

Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Competition time! Our latest competition is on the theme of Turning Points judged by Rebecca Watts. All info available on our website.

#poetrycompetition #poetry

Body-swap – Lesley Curwen Body-swap . . Lesley Curwen is a poet and broadcaster from Plymouth. She won the Molecules Unlimited Poetry Prize and was a finalist in Wales Poetry Award. Her pamphlet ‘Rescue Lines’ i…

Body-swap – Lesley Curwen @elcurwen.bsky.social

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Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.

She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”

With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @julwe1.bsky.social
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A Teasmade Museum, for it is International Tea Day. Teasmade.uk

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'Nurse at a Bus Stop' by Simon Armitage
www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

It’s so good!

Ooh love this!

Cover of 52 ways of looking at a poem by Ruth Padel

This was a great find in the Oxfam bookshop this week

In light of yesterday's guilty verdict for the two men who felled the magnificent old tree at Sycamore Gap, I'm re-sharing my poem, 'Sycamore's Prayer', published by the wonderful @atriumpoetry.bsky.social. 🌳💔🪾

Lies I've Told My 3 Year Old Recently Trees talk to each other at night. All fish are named either Lorna or Jack. Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose. Tiny bears live in drain pipes. If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky. The moon and the sun had a fight a long time ago. Everyone knows at least one secret language. When nobody is looking, I can fly. We are all held together by invisible threads. Books get lonely too. Sadness can be eaten. I will always be there. - Raul Gutierrez

The ending on this, a gut punch.

Unsolicited writing advice: no.2167
That thing you always wanted to do. That novel, that poem, that piece of art. Start it now. Don't wait. Make time. Give yourself permission to start. It will never be easier than it is now: maybe harder, but never easier.

Heading to Bristol for @lyrafest.com this afternoon 😊 Looking forward to the Women Poets Network open mic and @pascalepetit.bsky.social Fran Lock & @concordmoose.bsky.social

Birdsong There is a bird who sings to me, each morning from the old lime tree. I wonder what he’s trying to say? Stop fucking up. It’s not too late. It’s such a happy, joyous sound! Little bird who chirps so loud And brightens up my day with song. Stop standing there. You’ve not got long. I wish I could translate your words, my faithful, a cappella bird, who sits upon the lime tree bough. And still you wait. You must act now. All’s quiet in the tree today. I think perhaps he’s moved away. There’s silence these days everywhere, the ghost of birdsong in the air.

Here’s a poem for Earth Day. It’s called ‘Birdsong’.

Submissions are open for VERVE’s Poem of the Month
This month’s (optional) theme: everything is weird & that’s ok

£100 prize
£3 per poem / £5 for 3
Max 3 poems
No AI. Just YOU.

Closes 20th April.
Submit now: [insert link]

#Poetry #PoetsOfBluesky #CallForSubmissions #PoemoftheMonth #VERVE

Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇

We Can Make an Impact. Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

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Monochrome photograph featuring a large sculpture of a spider towering over a figure on a riverside paved area

Louise Bourgeois, Maman
#Mother, 2009 #WomensArt

Propel Issue Fifteen May 2025 Edited by Sanah Ahsan Submissions open to 31 March 2025

Submissions are OPEN until 31 March for Propel 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan

>> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit/32293...

Monochrome photograph of a whire woman with long hair wearing a suit sitting sideways on the arm of an armchair

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun"
- Katharine Hepburn
#WomensArt

Congratulations! Beautiful poem

There’s a reason we revisit this beauty by Tess Gallagher:

brokensleepbooks.com/coursesandworkshops Broken Sleep Books 2025 Poetry Course Featuring: Fran Lock, Aaron Kent, Hannah Copley, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Stuart McPherson, Jessica Mookherjee, James Byrne, JLM Morton Applications close March 7th, 2025 Cost: £499 (2 bursary spaces available)

We are running our poetry course for the second time! Each week, attendees will participate in online workshops led by a different Broken Sleep Books authors, covering various aspects of creating a poetry manuscript.

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Issue Thirteen is NOW LIVE!

Edited by Helen Mort, Issue 13 marks our return after the hiatus around the Anthology launch and we're psyched to be back.

With thanks to Helen and all our contributors – we hope you enjoy reading:

propelmagazine.co.uk/thirteen

Polish up your poems to enter our annual comp - judged by the wonderful Kit Fan. You’ve got until the 31st and we can’t wait to read them! More info via our bio.

Winter-themed border of blue snowflakes on a pale grey background. Text reads: Publishing Your Work | Poetry & Writing Calls for Submissions January 2025: Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies.

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

beneath candy floss clouds trees topped with sherbet frost our breath turns to icing sugar by Jodie Duffy

A little poem on the Paper Swans poetry advent calendar on Insta today 🩷❄️