Nikola Yurtsaba (Nicole Yurcaba)

Hutsulka, the 2025 Silent River Poetry Prize Finalist by Nicole Yurcaba is now open for pre-order at: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu...

During the pre-sale period, River Paw Press is offering Hutsulka at a special price of $16.00, with free shipping within the United States. @nyurtsaba.bsky.social

Friends,

My chapbook HUTSULKA is available for pre-orders: riverpawpress.com/index.php/hu.... I hope you'll consider pre-ordering, as it really does help me. These are intimate poems I composed during the first year of the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian Refugees Contributed Eight Times More to Poland’s GDP Than They Received in Aid Over four years of Russia’s full-scale war, Ukrainian refugees contributed 328.6 billion zlotys to Poland’s GDP. This amount is eight times higher than the

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Refugees Contributed Eight Times More to Poland’s GDP Than They Received in Aid

~7 million Ukrainians have fled abroad. 🇩🇪Germany hosts the largest number of Ukrainian refugees today (1.25M), 🇵🇱Poland (969K), 🇨🇿Czechia (393K)

Read more 👀
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My chapbook HUTSULKA--consisting of poems about the war in Ukraine--was a finalist in the 2025 River Paw Press Silent River Poetry contest. It is now available for preorder!

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Thank you for sticking with me in this new chapter. Your belief in my work gives me the strength to keep creating! 🙏🫂

oh are you contemplating death

well i wrote a poem about a really good orange

oh do you love someone a whole lot

here is a whale

My poem "I Carry the Grief for My Homeland in My Wallet Behind a Photo of My Dead Lover" appears at The Honest Ulsterman. It's a poem I penned during the 2025 The John Hewitt International Summer School: humag.co/article/3335...

This is what one of Ukraine’s thermal power plants looks like inside after a russian attack.

This is how russia wants “peace” — deliberately targeting energy infrastructure during freezing temperatures, leaving people to freeze.

It is #ToonieTuesday!
𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱: “𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆”⁉️

This week, we’re supporting “Nobody” a detachment within GUR, operating behind enemy lines.

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#NAFO #Ukraine

Gongs, goldfinches and Olympic gold; sea monsters, stone music and stars of the silver screen with John O'Donnell Zoe Devlin Val O'Donnell Niall McArdle Catherine Foley #RonnieDelany #MaggieSmith #Jaws #Deise @RTERadio1 Listen in/listen back! Sun 2 March 📻 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

‘The Two of Hearts’ by Niall McArdle — Banshee Press The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck. ‘She has her heart in her throat,’ my mother always said. It…

"The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck ... I was always aware when people stared at it."

From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕

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Reframing Ukraine: A review of Olga Khomenko’s The Faraway Sky of Kyiv: Ukrainians in the War Writing has become a powerful weapon for Ukrainians contending with Russia’s ongoing invasion. This is particularly clear with regards to Olga Khomenko’s new work, which forges novel connections betwe...

My review of Olga Khomenko's The Faraway Sky of Kyiv has published at @neweasterneurope.eu! Read it here: neweasterneurope.eu/2026/01/27/r...

First Flush—New books for February - Books Ireland See all the new books coming your way this February in First Flush, Books Ireland's database.

📗January is nearly over—see which new books are coming out in February in our fully searchable database First Flush!📗
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Amid a humanitarian disaster fueled by russian strikes on critical infrastructure, Ukrainians are fighting to protect stray animals from the freezing winter. From makeshift shelters and fleece blankets to shops and cafes opening their doors, people are doing

BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award - Submissions open for 2026 BBC National Short Story Awards with Cambridge University Find out how to enter this year's competition.

Submissions are now open for 2026 BBC National Short Story Awards with Cambridge University. Deadline Monday 16th March. The BBC National Short Story Award is open to published writers who are British citizens and/or resident in the UK
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Foxglovewise Explores the Natural Rituals of Loss Mlinko’s poems are meditative spaces where loss, grief, acceptance, and the natural world collide.

"A poetry collection for old souls grappling with the modern world’s demands and trappings. Simultaneously, its verses are quiet, meditative spaces where loss, grief, acceptance, and the natural world collide."

@nyurtsaba.bsky.social reviews FOXGLOVEWISE by Ange Mlinko. @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Let's bring the storm fellas! Every Toonie makes a difference, let's go!
See our post below⤵️ for info

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Letters of the Alphabet Go to War by Lesyk Panasiuk Trans. Katie Farris & Ilya Kaminsky. Sarabande Books. 2026. 89 pages.

My review of Lesyk Panasiuk's LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET GO TO WAR has published at @worldlittoday.bsky.social! worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/january... @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

Tonight in Kyiv, it’s −13°C. Some parts of the city have been without electricity for more than 60 hours after russian attacks.

She Was No Poor Dame - Pittsburgh Review of Books Dame Alice Kyteler, the first recorded person in Ireland accused of witchcraft, lived a rather anti-establishment life. In Molly Aitken’s stunning novel

“Molly Aitken offers the literary world a beautifully written, fascinating novel about one of Ireland’s—and perhaps history’s—most extraordinary women: Alice Kyteler.” — Nicole Yurcaba @nyurtsaba.bsky.social

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Grateful to the @wirobooks.bsky.social and @nyurtsaba.bsky.social for such a thoughtful, generous review of IF THE OWL CALLS.

Read the full review: buff.ly/tfKuPn9

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Archie reminds when we collect 100 jars of the Retumbo gunpowder ($80 per jar), we will give some of them to Viacheslav Kovalskyi!

The sooner we take the next steps in the Mega-collection for gunpowder and scopes - the sooner we will help Viacheslav Kovalskyi with everything he has long dreamed of!

The cover of The Tigress, by Walter Serner. It's a cubist-style painting of a woman in dark grey tones

Read @nyurtsaba.bsky.social's review of Walter Serner's The Tigress (pub. @twistedspoon.bsky.social) in Issue 33!

... What Serner provides in these characters is a brief examination of how an individual changes, reveals, or keeps hidden their masks ...

www.thetemzreview.com/yurcaba-sern...

Have Your Eyes | Nicole Yurcaba Nicole Yurcaba (Нікола Юрцаба) is a Ukrainian American of Hutsul/Lemko origin. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Atlanta Review, Seneca Review, New Eastern Europe, Euromaida...

It's here! Today, my chapbook HAVE YOUR EYES published, thanks to Dancing Girl Press! I hope you'll buy a copy!

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Three of my poems published at Last Syllable. I hope you'll take a moment to read and share: lastsyllablelit.com/the-washing-....

I'm so very honored that my chapbook HUTSULKA has been selected as a finalist in the 2025 Silent River Poetry contest! This is a very emotional collection--one that navigates the grief of war in one's homeland.

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If the Owl Calls: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

A murder in Norway reveals anti-Sami prejudice. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/i... @wtawpress.bsky.social @sharonw.bsky.social @nyurtsaba.bsky.social #booksky

Yurcaba Serner 33 Reviewed by Nicole Yurcaba

My review of a new translation of Walter Serner's fantastic and controversial novel THE TIGRESS has published at @thetemzreview.bsky.social!

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