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Writer of pantomimes, poetry, and flash fiction. Loves PG Tips, haiku, and challenging perceptions about β€˜women of a certain age!’ 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Thank you!

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Couldn’t be more chuffed to receive my contributor’s copy of @poetrywales.bsky.social
and see my name under β€˜new Welsh poets’

#poetry #welshmythology

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Hibernating because of the cold temps? Why not make a cuppa, fill a hot water bottle and settle down for a really good read?! Delighted with this issue- some outstanding flash by older writers. Check it out #litmag #womenofacertainage

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Thank you!

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Happy to be back in @waleshaiku.bsky.social winter issue. Thanks to the editors, Joe
Woodhouse and C.X. Turner. #haiku
Read the issue here:

waleshaikujournal.com/winter2025

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Spillwords - A Place for Readers and Writers, where Words Matter Spillwords - A place to spill thoughts through words. Literary press where one can read, submit and gain a door to the world through writing.

Thrilled to be featured in @spillwords.bsky.social Blast from
the Past’ feature this month. You can also find this story in my short story collection Suffer/Rage from Dark Myth Publications #shortstory

www.amazon.com/Suffer-Rage-...

spillwords.com/alarm/

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First Haiku Dialogue publication from the prompt- movement in stillness. Thank you to Guest Editor Vidya Shankar
#haiku

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Delighted to be back itching and a scratching in Five Fleas. Thank you to flea keeper, Robin Jacobson for publishing my ku #haiku #poetryasprotest

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Thank you!

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wind shivers
the shriveled sycamore leaves
of my hands…

17.01.2026 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

First flash publication of the year for me. Huge thanks to editor, Ian Rushton, not just for publishing my story but for finding the perfect photo to illustrate it! #flashfiction #cymru #pontypool #halfandhalf

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Thank you!

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Thank you!

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A graphic containing images of people (on the phone, holding hands, lifting faces to the sun, cannonballing into a lake) surrounding the words: "Coming soon. Only Human: a senryu journal."

A graphic containing images of people (on the phone, holding hands, lifting faces to the sun, cannonballing into a lake) surrounding the words: "Coming soon. Only Human: a senryu journal."

Only Human is a new journal of English-language senryu that explores what it means to be human.

Submissions open February 1, and our inaugural issue will be released in April. In the meantime, visit our website to check out our guidelines and meet the editors at www.onlyhumansenryu.com.

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Had a lovely morning reading folk ku’s issue 6- trees Thanks to editor Jodie Hawthorne for including my ku
#haiku #trees

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Thank you!

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New Year, new notebook, first entry a haiku published in tsuri-dōrō. Thank you to editor Tony Pupello
#haiku

01.01.2026 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I keep a notebook of #haiku that have made an impression on me so I can nominate one for the #Touchstone you can nominate 2, one of your own and one other. 3 of my picks have already been nominated so in the end I went with
one from Femku Mag. I love this #senryu

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NVN Tuesday: FLOOD TIDES by Adele Evershed

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Last poem of 2025 published today in New Verse Press from a story about shoes washing up on a beach near where I grew up. Thanks to editor James Penha #poetry #poetryasprotest

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Adele Evershed: β€œloopy” loopybefore clocksthere were stone circles,listing like a groupof middle-aged womengathered for a girls’ night outβ€”a way to grasp timewhen everything was a mystery,a place to gather,walk in circles…

Boxing Day poem. Grateful to As It Ought To Be Magazine and editor, Chase Dimock, for publishing my poem, β€˜loopy’. I particularly love the art work posted with each poem!
Hope you are all having a fabulous holiday season #poetry

asitoughttobemagazine.com/adele-eversh...

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Poetry: December 2025 R. A. Allen: β€œBluing” James Benger: β€œpep talk” Bonnie Demerjian: β€œA Lesson Not Taught in Supermarket School” Adele Evershed: β€œloopy” Hedy Habra: β€œWhatever Remains of What We Once Knew So Well?” Mad…

Our December Poetry Edition is live, featuring new work by R. A. Allen, James Benger, Bonnie Demerjian, Adele Evershed, Hedy Habra, Madison Woodle, and Robin Wright.

asitoughttobemagazine.com/2025/12/24/p...

#poetry

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Thank you!

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An #Advent of #haiku
Day 24
Today 3 ku published in Frogpond.
I have throughly enjoyed reaching into my 2025 personal archive. Many thanks to everyone who has published, read, commented on my haiku this year.
FYI-β€˜an old olive tree’ is my fav I wrote in 2025
Happy Holidays!

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An #Advent of #haiku
Day 23
Another from my new collection, Pressed Between Palms.

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holiday yarns
a thin white thread on my wrist
slowly greying

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An #Advent of #haiku
Day 22
from Pressed Between Palms., available from today on Amazon. Thanks to editor and publisher Jerome Burgland. Also my gratitude to CX Turner and @haikutec for contributing a blurb
First published by Heterodux Haiku-and nominated for a #Touchstone

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An #Advent of #haiku
Day 21
Today a new haiku from #dailyhaikuprompt - solstice

solstice eve
not just the days
getting shorter…

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An #Advent of #haiku
Day 20
I had another ku lined up for today but then after the #EpsteinFiles need I’m sharing one published in Five Fleas blog. Many thanks to editor, Robin Beach Jacobson

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We're excited to share the amazing lineup for our cat-themed Pop-Up Issue. This 20-story issue will go live on January 2nd 🦝
It's a fabulous mix of feline flash and we can't wait to shove it through your digital catflapsπŸ’œ
1/3

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so so happy to be part of this amazing line up for Trash Cat Lit's cat-themed issue! thank you @therelphian.bsky.social for including my work, can't wait to read all of these cat stories :)

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An #Advent of #haiku
Day 19
First published in Cold Moon Journal. Thank you to editors, Timothy Daly and Oana Cercel

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