I keep meaning to go out to Holme Fen to see that post. One day.
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Writer of Flash, short stories and the occasional zine; lapsed photographer but thinking of getting the camera out again any day now…
I keep meaning to go out to Holme Fen to see that post. One day.
12.10.2025 07:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0doomscroll break
08.10.2025 07:13 — 👍 2663 🔁 1063 💬 32 📌 105This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"
Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.
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To ensure great fortune forever*, grab the #zine for £4 at bit.ly/magpieszine
*Please see the disclaimer from lawyers representing Doctor James Crowe
A young child in a bright yellow party dress with large satin bow opens the door to greet two young friends smartly dressed in their woollen coats
Party clothes, (1960)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
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Get yours for FREE when you buy a copy of our new #zine, Magpies: Sorrow or Joy?, at colossive.com
NEW LAUNCH! Magpies: Sorrow or Joy? sees all your questions answered by celebrated folklorist corvidologists Professor Margaret Pye and Doctor James Crowe.
Grab the #zine - including a FREE Lucky Feather™, endorsed by Professor Pye - for £4 at bit.ly/magpieszine (or just head to colossive.com).
Set your alarms for whatever time we roll out of bed tomorrow morning, folks.
There's a brand new #zine on its way...
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It's a Lucky Feather™, endorsed by world-renowned folklorist corvidologist Professor Margaret Pye.
We'll be giving these good luck charms* away for FREE with our upcoming #zine, Magpies: Sorrow or Joy, which we'll be launching later this week...
Join us at Cambridge Writers on Tuesday 2 Sept for an evening with local author Maud Blair.
Her powerful memoir In Between reflects on a life across continents, cultures & generations — from childhood in Rhodesia to a career in UK education.
Details: www.cambridgewriters.org?p=3629
NETFLIX recommends for criminal investigation films, including Glass Onion and Naked Gun...
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28.08.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We’re making the leap! @womenwritersnet.bsky.social is officially migrating from Twitter/X to Bluesky on 1 September. We’re glad to start afresh in a space that feels better aligned with our mission to promote and support women writers. Glad to be here – and hope to see more of you soon!
18.08.2025 07:01 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1Pssst... @vjs411.bsky.social and I (Jane) have begun work on a new #zine, which may - but probably won't - include one or both of these pictures.
Still, I thought you'd like to see the kind of stuff that's been turning up during our hours and hours of painstaking research...
Watch this space! 🪶
Crime Writers - Cambridge University Press is giving away free access to the following, which includes a section on writing crime fiction, for the next two weeks: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
29.07.2025 18:25 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0James Blatch and Cara Clare at Cambridge Writers, Tuesday week!
www.cambridgewriters.org?p=3643
Time to waste an evening with Tom Lehrer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
27.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Places I could, theoretically, have got to in the four hours it took to get from King’s Cross to Cambridge today:
10.07.2025 21:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cambridge Writers Summer Social takes place this Saturday. Confirm your attendance with Harry by Friday. There will be food/drink, a cabaret, and the Steve Hammond Fantasy Fiction prize-giving! See email for details.
01.07.2025 10:29 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We had a full-house for Holly’s visit to Cambridge Writers last October. Looking forward to this!
30.06.2025 06:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Last night was more than a little overwhelming - thank you so much to everyone who played a part in it ❤️
(Huge apologies to everyone I didn’t get chance to talk to or thank personally)
And obviously it couldn’t have happened without
@goshcomics.bsky.social Will, Tom and Greg are the best! 🙏🏻
CARTOGRAPHERS ASSEMBLE! Colossive love and thanks to everyone who joined us for last night's #ColossiveCartographies 5th Birthday Bash/Sauna @goshcomics.bsky.social - including all the creators pictured, who've contributed to the series so far.
You're all marvellous. Here's to the next five years!
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14.06.2025 10:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My flash has been published as part of National Flash Fiction day! Read it here.
14.06.2025 09:45 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0FlashFlood starts at just after midnight BST. Watch this space!
13.06.2025 19:48 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to seeing my flash, Thursday the Twelfth, in the flood for @natflashfictionday.bsky.social at 10:40 a.m. (BST) on 14 June 2025!
12.06.2025 03:59 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 050th anniversary of Cambridge Poetry Festival. The Cambridge Poetry Festival was founded in 1975 by Richard Berengarten, originally running for ten years. It will return in 2026, headed by a new team. To mark its 50th anniversary, we wanted to highlight some of the poetry events and readings taking place in Cambridge this summer – including a special anniversary reading of work by poets who performed at the original run of festivals from 1975 to 1985.
The #Cambridge #Poetry Festival returns in 2026. This year it's the 50th anniversary of the original 1975 festival, so under the CPF branding, we're helping to promote a whole load of Cambridge-based poetry events over the summer.
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Congratulations to Alice, Victoria and Jane - 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Cambridge Writers Flash Fiction competition. And thanks to Quintin for reading so beautifully.
03.06.2025 19:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Even if you’re out of the country, you can be at Cambridge Writers meetings, by joining on Zoom:
03.06.2025 18:44 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Last chance to submit your Steve Hammond Fantasy Fiction stories. Get your entry to the Chair by midnight tonight! www.cambridgewriters.org?page_id=2509
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