Still time to sign up for this delight - a poem for your email inbox every morning of advent, and it supports Medicines Sans Frontieres.
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Itβs that time of year when I reflect on the past yearβs words and think ahead to the coming year and which three words will guide and inspire me β¦
#threewordmantra
#threewordsfor2026
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The Good Old Days
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Pity the poor children
of today, with their calendars
stuffed with chocolates,
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never to know the thrill
of opening a small cardboard door
and discovering behind it
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a picture of a bell.
Brian Bilston
This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
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This is a wonderful space for small and powerful poetry and fiction - submissions closing so be quick!
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What a glorious sky full of geese πͺΏπ
28.11.2025 20:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Looks gorgeous!
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I wish I had known...
by Philippa Ramsden that you donβt need to understand trigonometry and algorithms to get by in life that pillowcases and cotton trousers do not need to be ironed if the breeze is strong that...
Todayβs highlight: βI wish I had knownβ¦β by @feistybluegecko.bsky.social, featured in our September issue. A gentle, evocative poem that lingers.
Read it here: www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...
#shortpoetry #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofbsky #poetryisnotdead #poetrythatlingers π¦π«ππ΄
24.11.2025 20:35 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Thanks for bringing a highlight to my day ππ¦ππΌπ΄
24.11.2025 22:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Gorgeous light, looks like rainbow weather too π
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Iβm delighted to be in the wee hoolet community π π¦
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That's wonderful, congratulations!
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Oh my!! π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ€Έπ»π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ€Έπ»π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ€Έπ»π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
18.11.2025 22:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
What a wonderful afternoon, cosy and sharing #poetry and #words on and in #friendship at Dunbar Library as part of #BookWeekScotland
18.11.2025 20:43 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A poster advertising Book Week Scotland with the slogan 'friendship woven through words'. The dates are 17β23 November.
Book Week Scotland is friendship woven through words. β€π
Whatever you are doing to celebrate, from going along to one of hundreds of events to reading a brilliant book at home, we wish you a happy Book Week Scotland! ππ₯³
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Submissions
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Quick reminder: Authors may submit once per calendar month during open rounds. However, if your October #submission was accepted, we ask that you please wait until the next reading period before submitting again. Deadline: November 30
www.thehooletsnook.com/submissions....
βοΈπ« π© #microfiction #poetry
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Oh itβs a fine morning for a writing workshop with @tyneeskwriters.bsky.social on writing in Scots
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Call for Consultations - Scottish BPOC Writers Network
Help us build justice-focused, greener futures in Edinburgh!
π¨Closing soon π¨: Calling all BPOC residents of Edinburgh! Have your say in helping us build creative programming that builds justice-focused and greener futures in Edinburgh! Deadline: 16 November. Find out more: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/call-for-con...
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Category: Mystic & Magic
by Andrea Tillmanns Donβt worry, my dear: The herbs in my garden are harmless, old and tame is the raven on my shoulder, the words in my books sing of no evil. And when we go dancing in the...
Our Mystic & Magic section is waiting for more stories and poems. (Psst: I have a soft spot for mermaids. π§ββοΈπ«π¬)
Dive in for a bit of inspiration:
www.thehooletsnook.com/stories--poe...
#microfiction #poetry #magic #speculativefiction #writersofbsky #fantasy #shortfiction #fantasyhaiku #submissions
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Submissions
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Havenβt submitted yet? Youβve still got time! Our current reading period ends November 30. Full guidelines here:
www.thehooletsnook.com/submissions....
#microfiction #shortfiction #shortpoetry #haiku #submissions #writersofbsky #poetsofbsky #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #dribbles #drabbles βοΈπ¦π©
03.11.2025 16:09 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
Are you interested in writing in Scots? Weβre holding a workshop on 15 November- details in the original post.
Sign up still open!
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Wow, thatβs brilliant, Louise!! Very very well done, I look forward to reading your story β¨π€Έπ»β¨
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Sign up for our writing in Scots workshop, 15 November 2025 - Tyne & Esk Writers
Find out about our βDinnae be feart!β workshop, who will be running it, when and where it will be, and how to sign up. What [β¦]
"Dinnae be feart!" - Tyne & Esk Writers Workshop
Are you interested in writing in Scots but not sure where to start? Come and have fun building your confidence in writing, and speaking Scots
Free to Tyne & Esk members, Β£5 for non members.
Details here - tyneandeskwriters.org.uk/sign-up-for-...
28.10.2025 11:32 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Me too! Though this one came from an ekphrastic session. We are so fortunate to have such encouraging and nurturing spaces to grow new poems!
23.10.2025 15:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Aw thank you so much, Louise. This one started in a workshop similar to todayβs.
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Hereβs something to look forward to in the New Year β¨
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It's fantastic news! And I love the connections we make through the poetry world, supporting and encouraging each other as we bump into poetry pals all across the ether π
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Wonderful news, huge congratulations to you and I look forward to reading your words π
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Naturalist, ecologist, writer.
βHow pleasant it would be each day to think, Today I have done something that will render future generations more happy." Richard Jefferies, 1883.
Location: east Northamptonshire, UK.
Londonβs Leading Poetry Magazine. Autumn 2023 Issue 106 OUT NOW.
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Lines and images from the in-between.
I write from the threshold β
for those who listen inward,
who move through silence,
who seek what remains.
Newsletter:
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Website:
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Disabled Southern poet. Ace. Research in Violence Studies, Space & Place, Women's Studies. Master's from Johns Hopkins. 1st gen grad / Nontraditional student. Concerns: light pollution, surveillance, ecology, totalitarianism. https://www.tilley.earth/
East Lothian writer.
Fiction, essays, and the spaces between the two.
Published in Scotlandβs Stories: Adventure (Book Week Scotland 2023) and Hope (Book Week Scotland 2024)
Talker. Reader. Writer. Mother. Quaker. π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ
She/her
Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com
Scottish β’ Hebridean β’ Gael β’ IT Support π» β’ Theology Student βοΈ
Gladly reposting publication news, literary shortlist/longlist/nominations, awards, acceptances by journals & magazines and great reviews.
Also see: @rodmannix.bsky.social
@writingcommunity.bsky.social
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Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
Chair of London's Fire Committee.
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I created this to change my focus when I need it. There is so much hate in this world and the news seem to get worse every day... but there's a lot of good things going on, too.
We fight, we stand together, we win!
This is my healing space.
Welsh poet and writer in exile on Tyneside. Poems in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere including Broken Spineβs Coffeehouse podcast. Stories in Gwasg Honno anthologies
Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.
she/her
https://www.jennygaitskell.com/
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Editors: @tejaswineerc.bsky.social & @ankitrajojha.bsky.social β’ Murals Editor: @fbereaud.bsky.social β’ Contributors from 63 countries β’ https://linktr.ee/thehooghlyreview
Poetry & field notes
New poems Wednesdays
Bipolar 1, Scottish nutrition adviser for mental health organisations, published poet, author of Nutrition And Fitness Guide For Good Mental Health.
Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales
Bridport shortlist. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floeβ¦.
Architect | Editor | Tutor
https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
Read Issue 7! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
Jumbler of letters, baker, sometimes in two minds, and always in one of two locations, SW France and the West of Ireland.
Ex of X.
