Katherine Stansfield

Im just not sure I know how to do a prime ministerial crisis which doesn’t revolve around vaguely ominous reports about the number of letters being sent to Graham Brady

Grasshoppers Are Older than Dinosaurs Novel Extract from 'The Rewilding' by Donna M. Cameron

More thrutopian fiction on BENDING THE ARC today!

So pleased to be sharing an extract from Donna M. Cameron's novel THE REWILDING.

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Death Doulas for Modernity Review: writer and academic Sophie Bouchaillard inspects Vanessa Machado de Oliveira's books 'Hospicing Modernity' and 'Outgrowing Modernity' to see how Modernity is faring.

On BENDING THE ARC today we've got our reviewing hat on to consider two titles by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira:

'What if Modernity is a construct and not a given? What if Modernity is flawed, based on false assumptions, and is, well, dying?'

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We Are Resilience: A Thrutopian Approach to Flooding Hybrid piece: JBA Consulting, who specialise in flood risk and water management, and poet, Sophie Kirtley, explain their unusual collaboration and the inspiration for her poem, ‘We Are Resilience’.

Today on BENDING THE ARC we feature a fascinating collaboration between a poet & a consultancy who specialise in flood risk & water management.

What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of climate catastrophe?

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A gentle reminder that if you sign up for my online course 'What Can A Short Story Do?' by 30th Nov you get a 10% Early Bird discount! 🦜 #ShortStory #BookSky #WritingWorkshop

Writing for Wellbeing – South Asian Stories. Guided creative writing workshops for South Asian people, exploring wellness and mental health.

We’re happy to announce three workshops in partnership with @durreshahwar.bsky.social: Writing for Wellbeing – South Asian Stories.

Each one is a ‘standalone’ workshop, and you can register for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/writing-f...

How To… Manifest the Future Writing a manifesto poem by Katherine Stansfield

New poem by yours truly on BENDING THE ARC today, about manifesting the future, along with some reflection on just what is this whole thrutopian writing thing anyway, & a prompt so you can have a go yourselves

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Fireflies Short story by Megan Mills

Finding community when you're not into communes.

Megan Mills' triumph of a thrutopian short story is today's post in BENDING THE ARC.

bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/fireflies

What if Poem by Elizabeth Lewis Williams

I love love love this poem on BENDING THE ARC today, by Elizabeth Lewis Williams:

'What if I fly to Mars / and find its surface red, hear in wind and long-gone rain / some echoes of my living blood.'

bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/what-if

Finding Hope in A Climate of Truth Feature: Mike Berners-Lee in conversation with Ilse Pedler about his new book A Climate of Truth

‘Narrative is really important, we don’t talk enough about the world that we could have.’

And that's what we're all about at BENDING THE ARC! In today's post, co-editor Ilse Pedler talks to Mike Berners-Lee about finding hope.

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PALESTINE - 1 📚🗝️
Stories from the Eve of the Nakba

Ed. Basma Ghalayini

📕 Publishing Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

How can literature respond to a genocide? Palestine - 1 attempts to answer this question by first rejecting the lie that history began in Oct '23.

Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven close at midnight on Thursday 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between. www.tolkajournal.org/submit

Valleys by @jonpountney1.bsky.social is an absolutely beautiful book, I'm very glad indeed to have a copy of the 1st edition. Publishers, get on it!

We're very fortunate to have your words on our digital pages, Alison - thank you!

Seeds of Change in a Future Wales Novel extract from After the Clearances by Alison Layland

BENDING THE ARC & @ecow0rrier.bsky.social aka Alison Layland take us to north Wales in 2056. This novel extract accompanied by a reflection from my fellow co-editor Laura Baggaley on what makes it thrutopian: great practical insights for novelists bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/seeds-of-c...

More Than a Mohawk: Why Thrutopian Punks Don’t Just Burn It Down Feature by Rachel Pryor

Day 3 of the new issue of BENDING THE ARC, a thrutopian magazine, & we're talking punks with Rachel Pryor:

'Rage wasn’t wrong. It just wasn’t enough.'

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Grove of Titans Poem by Nia Solomon

we learnt about natural resources today / her tiny hand encased in mine like a rare seed / of starfruit

Day 2 of BENDING THE ARC magazine features a glorious thrutopoem by Nia Solomon!

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We've been to the future & you'll love it! Bending The Arc 2 skips out to play on Sustainability Day

Edition 2 of BENDING THE ARC is go!
I'm very proud of this issue's contents, the list of which you can read in this opening post. A smorgasbord of fiction, poems, non-fiction & hybrid pieces which imagine hopeful futures & the paths to reach them. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Chair of Advisory Board (voluntary) at @uniwalespress.bsky.social
For a term of 3-5 years.
Salary: n/a (voluntary).
Location: Cardiff.
Closing date: 14 November 2025.
For more details visit bit.ly/2Zt85SE

AVAILABLE NOW: Some say the world will end in fire or flood. 15 short stories from some of the best crime fiction writers today, including @richienarvaez.bsky.social. Guest-edited by Anthony winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4nOVXoK

A graphic that reads 'we've been to the future, oct 29 - nov 15, a thrutopia magazine'.

** DRUMROLL **

Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.

Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

I have been admiring these specs & wanting to be cool enough to wear them!

Submissions for Tolka Issue Eleven are now open until 6 November. We publish all kinds of non-fiction – essays, memoir, reportage, autofiction and the things that fall in between.
Full submission guidelines here www.tolkajournal.org/submit

*Vacancy - Chair of Advisory Board (Voluntary)*

UWP is seeking to appoint a new Chair to the Advisory Board, responsible for ensuring the Board functions effectively in supporting our mission, vision and strategic objectives.

For more information, visit: www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...

A screenshot where the top half of the screen has white writing on a green background, and it says When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide - Zoom Writing Workshop Mon 20 Oct 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST Online, Zoom. Underneath is a picture of different coloured brightly lit lines, and the text: "Physics is philled with galaxies of inspiration for writers of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and hybrids, from delicious terms like 'charmed quark', 'gluon', 'boojum', 'superstring' and the 'luminiferous aether' to mysterious and magical concepts such as 'dark' energy', 'parallel universes' and 'quantum gravity". Writers have been using fairy tales as inspiration for centuries, borrowing characters, structures and general fairytaleishness. What might result from the collision of these two universes? Let's experiment, creating physics fairy tales, naming our own subatomic particles, and inviting Snow White, Goldilocks and all the dwarves into the lab!" On the right it says: When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide - Zoom Writing Workshop Mon 20 Oct 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST Online, Zoom.

Do you have "Fear of Physics"? Let me cure you at my Zoom writing workshop, When Physics & Fairy Tales Collide, Mon Oct 20 7-9pm UK! We'll play with weird & wonderful physics words, celebrate female physicists and invent particles! Pay-what-you-can available: app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

There's a TV version of the same ad which is much clearer. Odd to just transpose it between such different media.

2025 Waltham Forest Poetry Competition: WEATHER / WHETHER Enter the Waltham Forest Poetry Competition

Got a poem about Weather (and/or its soundalike Whether)?
The Waltham Forest Poetry Competition, judged by the fabulous Lorraine Mariner invites you to send poems on the theme of WEATHER/WHETHER.
Hurry though. Closing date is MONDAY 20 OCTOBER.
www.bit.ly/wfpoetrycomp

Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Masterclass: Infinite Ways in to Writing Poems | Tackling big subjects with wonder | Arvon For the third year running, with all new prompts and exercises, Arvon favourite Caroline Bird returns for our final Masterclass of the year, which promises to be a bolt of creativity to kick-start som...

Are you free on the evening of December 16th? 🎄 Join me for this masterclass all about finding multiple (infinite?) ways in to the same subject matter. We’ll write a ridiculous amount of poems in 2 hours…with brand new exercises ⁦‪‬⁩
www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Introducing The Log Books, an intimate history of LGBTQ+ life over four decades, discovered in a stash of forgotten, handwritten notes.

'Bursting with humanity and real life on every page.' Dan Snow

Out January 2026: linktr.ee/TheLogBooks
Photo credits: Switchboard Archive, Bishopsgate Institute