Study of a Plant with Red-Purple Flowers (which she labelled: 'Sebestena Africana purprurea ulmi folio. Elegantissimo flore' Maria Moninckx Done #otd 14 Oct 1695 (Met Museum)

Card from the autumn "suit" of the Astronomia playing card deck, 1829. Featuring 3 other seasonal suits the pack was used to play two games — Conjunction and Combination — which were trumps-based, similar to Whist. More images of the cards here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #autumn

"How do I write a poem about resilience— how many times will I be asked to write a poem, a song, a prayer, a sermon, a land acknowledgment, an obituary— about resilience?" —Danielle Emerson alocasia.org/2025/08/15/d...

Danielle Emerson :: “For the common sunflowers along the Upper Fruitland, NM ditch” – ALOCASIA

a journal of queer plant-based writing

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Loved doing this recently, looking forward to more opportunities to #commonplace

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As we tunnel into autumn, time to take stock. We have held two lovely workshops this year and talked to over 30 keen commonplacers, which has given us confidence in this method of marshalling fragments of paper in fragments of time. @katecaoimhearthur.bsky.social @lizajthompson.bsky.social

Most recently, we ran a workshop with participants at the @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History annual conference. Here are some of the results. Thanks @emmajmca.bsky.social, @alexjioannou.bsky.social and others for sharing your work.

As we tunnel into autumn, time to take stock. We have held two lovely workshops this year and talked to over 30 keen commonplacers, which has given us confidence in this method of marshalling fragments of paper in fragments of time. @katecaoimhearthur.bsky.social @lizajthompson.bsky.social

"Commonplacing" at Queen's University Belfast with @leoniehannan.bsky.social. Allowing for more connections and reflection during the the Public Histories Annual Conference! @commonplaces.bsky.social

A plan for knocking your sprawling manuscript into shape - @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social & @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/s... #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writingtips #memoir #storytelling #skywriters

Worth the Climb: Self-Editing Secrets That Actually Work

By Allison K Williams Perhaps you’re staring at your manuscript, thinking, This is either brilliant or a dumpster fire, and I genuinely cannot tell which. Congratulations! You’ve reached the sacred…

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We are delighted to announce the shortlisted authors for The Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI) Prize, sponsored by Arts Council England, ALCS, Professional Writing Academy and Drusilla Harvey Memorial Fund 🧵

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Join Our Independent Press Directory - The Broken Spine

At The Broken Spine, collaboration and community have always been at the heart of what we do. We believe in uplifting fellow independent presses, writers, and

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@imaginebelfast.bsky.social event 'Making Meaning through the Miscellaneous' with @lizajthompson.bsky.social and @leoniehannan.bsky.social is starting in just a few minutes @crescentarts.bsky.social... Can't wait to meet our participants! #ImagineBelfast

Getting prepared for our @imaginebelfast.bsky.social workshop this Sunday at the Crescent Arts with @leoniehannan.bsky.social and @lizajthompson.bsky.social (imaginebelfast.com/event/making...) - get ready for basic books and big ideas! #ImagineBelfast

Making Meaning through the Miscellaneous - Imagine! Belfast

Join us and create your own commonplace book using a selection of textual and visual materials and ephemera.

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In celebration of International Women's Day, Imagine! is proud to feature events that highlight women's voices and experiences. Join us from 24-30 March to celebrate and support women's contributions to society. Explore the full festival lineup: IMAGINEBELFAST.COM #ImagineBelfast #IWD2025

Inua Ellams will be appearing as part of this year's Imagine Festival with his solo show Search Party, at the Crescent Arts Centre on Friday 28 March. Don't miss out! Get your tickets at imaginebelfast.com/event/inua-e...

Inua Ellams: Search Party - Imagine! Belfast

Award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams brings an audience inspired poetry event to Imagine!

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Tardis Central@tardiscentral.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 BREAKING - New #DoctorWho Season 2 Writers Confirmed! 🔷 Juno Dawson 🔷 Inua Ellams 🔷 Pete McTighe 🔷 Sharma Angel-Walfall #DrWho

‘Having a linguistic superpower on the doorstep helped to form a uniquely English set of linguistic neuroses, but over the last century the situation has reversed.’ @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on the influence of French on medieval English: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

John Gallagher · What a spalage! Mis languages est bons

With contemporary English including more than eighty thousand terms of French origin, Georges Clemenceau might have had...

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Look at what has landed in Belfast - the wait is almost over! This week, we unveil the programme for our 2025 edition - 7 days and over 120 events to help you make sense of a crazy world. #ImagineBelfast

‘It’s in the technology of writing that we’ve preserved our boldest, most original thought, our best jokes and most generous comfort. To fail to do everything we can to help children hear that song is a cruelty.’ Katherine Rundell on children’s literature www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?

Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

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Hello Bluesky! 📢The Imagine Festival is BACK! 🎉 Get ready for a week of talks, inspiring performances, and thought-provoking discussions from 24-30 March. Follow us here for the latest updates on our 2025 events. Let's imagine a better future, together! #ImagineBelfast #Imagine25

So, today went well - many small, simply constructed booklets were produced. Next time we'll be hearing from @lizajthompson.bsky.social about different ways of understanding this fragmentary form.

the ideas – so jagged & hard to make out, fall – until it’s just voices, two voices, you’d think you cld see them so sharp is their muttering, so eager their articulation of right of wrong ‘The Falling’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘The Falling’

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Getting ready to practice our commonplace book-making skills ahead of our #ImagineBelfast festival workshop @ Crescent Arts at the end of March. Check out the programme: imaginebelfast.com/about-the-fe...

We’re prepping our next exhibition about Cornish gardens & gardening - ‘What will summer bring?’. Includes items from the collections, like work by artists inspired by gardens, stories of plant hunters & designs from an early landscape gardener! Opens 25 January! kresenkernow.org/event/what-w...

‘Locke’s show arrives at a cultural moment very different from 1985 or 2011. Where Paolozzi and Perry celebrated magic and the mystical, Locke seeks to demystify.’ Esther Chadwick on a response to empire at the British Museum: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Esther Chadwick · At the British Museum: ‘what have we here?’

Hew Locke asks us to consider imperial power as a grim yet alluring excess of the symbolic, not just as the exercise of...

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Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth. Carved in wood, painted. Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC 📷 @romtoronto.bsky.social 🏺

Love stitch repairs in manuscripts. This is one of ours from the 1560s, although not nearly as impressive as @uoyborthwick.bsky.social

Borthwick Institute for Archives@uoyborthwick.bsky.social · 2y ago

You might have to be handy with a needle and thread in medieval England for more than just your clothing. These three pieces of 14th century parchment were neatly stitched together to form a long roll and we're fortunate that the stitches have survived in such good condition to the present day!

When I say I remember nothing I mean what being nothing is: within density, without form. My mind has de-scripted what happened. I was forced off the road. It is unwritten down. ‘Outside the Work’, a poem by Lavinia Greenlaw: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Lavinia Greenlaw · Poem: ‘Outside the Work’

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Just like its subject, the Morgan Library's exhibition on Belle da Costa Greene is fascinating, beautiful, and complexly tinted with both pain and hope. Highly recommend! www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/...

Our story of the week is Cold Weather Protocol, by Erin Striff. @erinstriff.bsky.social forgelitmag.com/2024/12/16/c...

Cold Weather Protocol - The Forge Literary Magazine

Cold Weather Protocol, a short fiction by Erin Striff

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#UCDAdventCalendar2024 Theme: manuscript, text, typography 16. UCD Special Collections A dazzling cover page from an edition of 'A Celtic Christmas' (1902).