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Si Mack

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I write a bit, read a bit, teach a bit, and library a bit. Writer in residence at The Outsiders Project https://gotbeaf.co.uk/beaf/our-work/outsiders-project/

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Home: The Outsiders Project 2025 Anthology: Amazon.co.uk: University, Bournemouth: 9798285995401: Books Buy Home: The Outsiders Project 2025 Anthology by University, Bournemouth (ISBN: 9798285995401) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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The Outsiders Project (where I'm writer in residence) working with Bournemouth University have just published an anthology. Stunning work even if I do say so myself ...

15.08.2025 12:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wonderful... and not just because I've got a story in it!

23.07.2025 09:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This was interesting ...

17.07.2025 10:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can't say it told me 'everything' I wanted to know, but it was interesting

17.07.2025 10:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Paranoid Baked Potato

15.07.2025 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you, Alan.

31.05.2025 19:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent. Greatly enjoyed. Thanks.

31.05.2025 15:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love the refrain

30.05.2025 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A prose poem for #PoemsAbout #defeat

30.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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What to do, what to do, oh ... fun things

17.02.2025 13:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As democracy collapses around our ears I’m not advocating a retreat into illusion, in spite of what this poem might suggest. Hugely grateful to @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social for publishing the first of my Chekhov poems in their Feb/March edition

thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

06.02.2025 14:09 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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From 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', published 1979. Plus ca change.

27.01.2025 08:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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On the smell of banana fritters for breakfast in London towards the end of WW2 - from Gravity's Rainbow - this line brought me great joy...

23.12.2024 14:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Been pondering my 'rule' that one can't end a poem on a simile. It still holds for me, but there must be many wonderful poems that do?

10.12.2024 22:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#litmags #writer #writingcommunity

go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

17.11.2024 03:56 — 👍 899    🔁 478    💬 70    📌 32

Si must be more careful with his choice of friends in the playground

20.11.2024 15:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Yellow notepad and pen on a blue background. Text above reads 'POETRY PAMPHLET SUBMISSIONS OPEN!' Text below reads '1st October - 30th November brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

Yellow notepad and pen on a blue background. Text above reads 'POETRY PAMPHLET SUBMISSIONS OPEN!' Text below reads '1st October - 30th November brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

SUBMISSIONS CALL:

We are open for submissions of poetry pamphlets (up to 40 pages).

Email: Include a short biography, brief synopsis, & poetic influences.

Subject Line: Poetry pamphlet Submission - [Name], [Title]

Full details & guidelines: brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

16.11.2024 18:58 — 👍 139    🔁 85    💬 4    📌 1

Hi, Simon. Very interested in the links here. I'm the writer in residence at The Outsiders Project in Bournemouth, and would like to be added to the list if possible. Many thanks.

16.11.2024 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's probably a few of these now. But, in case it's useful, here's a list of #flashfiction lit mags & comps. etc

bsky.app/profile/did:...

13.11.2024 18:57 — 👍 34    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0

Hi! Checking in and sharing a list of flash fiction writers on here
bsky.app/starter-pack...

08.11.2024 11:54 — 👍 92    🔁 31    💬 31    📌 4
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Hi, all. Looking forward to being part of the community. I write little things like this ...

16.11.2024 11:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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