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Virginia Lawrence

@ginyal.bsky.social

Trying to write in the gaps between being an engineer Based between Bristol and Cambridge, UK

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HAD calls are always so fun bc I am forced to pick between all my mutant children and, in doing so, learn something about myself

03.03.2025 15:12 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Our inaugural issue includes an incredible lineup of contributors! Coming January 29! 🖤✨

22.01.2025 17:49 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 4
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TMR5 has been out a week & you've not read yet? Well, here's some snippets to convince you 🫨💚

19.12.2024 15:22 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much!

12.12.2024 07:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Mersey Review 5 — The Mersey Review The Mersey Review 5 (Winter 2024)

The Mersey Review 5 is here! Delivered, signed for, clearly tampered with by the postal service 🫨

We've got 16 brand new pieces & mini-interview for you! Check emmmm ouuuuuttttt 🐷💚

www.themerseyreview.com/issues/5

11.12.2024 10:06 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 3
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Four Thought — The Mersey Review 'Four Thought' by Virginia Lawrence

Very excited to share my first published piece in @themerseyreview.bsky.social issue 5! And yes, it’s four poems, let me know if you find them!
I feel so honoured to have my stuff next to so many other incredible pieces so go check out the whole issue 🖤

www.themerseyreview.com/issues/5/fou...

11.12.2024 11:24 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
An illustrated version of Paige Lewis’s poem: On the train, a man snatches my book, reads

An illustrated version of Paige Lewis’s poem: On the train, a man snatches my book, reads

All week this Paige Lewis poem has been 132 of the 133 thoughts bumping around my skull so I have illustrated/doodled on it and now it’s all 133 of them

03.12.2024 22:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Genuinely adored these! Especially the first, I think the ghosts that hang out in my room could use a similar pep talk

03.12.2024 21:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tomorrow A Cardinal Alights On My Shoulder | Meredith MacLeod Davidson — BROKEN ANTLER

Felt compelled to share this piece from the latest @brokenantlermag.bsky.social issue: Tomorrow a Cardinal Alights on My Shoulder, Meredith MacLeod Davidson

www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-five-p...

02.12.2024 00:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

an üpdate

21.11.2024 16:03 — 👍 3711    🔁 763    💬 90    📌 169

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

18.11.2024 14:40 — 👍 27651    🔁 4060    💬 479    📌 599

Feels like a suitable first post to say AHH FIRST POETRY ACCEPTANCE. UR GIRL IS GETTING PUBLISHED!!!

19.11.2024 20:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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