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I'm competing in the I Am Loud poetry slam tomorrow night at the Lemon Tree - please come along and cheer me on! It starts at 7pm and tickets start at £5.50 (if you want to pay more you can!) I'd love to see you ❤️ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/lou...

Aberdeen! Friday! This is going to be electric. Tickets: www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/lou...

I Am Loud CIC@iamloudpro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Aberdeen, our next Slam Heat is this Friday! Join us at the Lemon Tree on March 27 from 7 pm to watch a selection of Aberdeen's best poets compete for the title of Slam Champion, qualify for the Grand Slam Final and compete for the top prize in UK slam poetry. Tickets available at iamloud.co/slam

Very happy to celebrate two books on the Jhalak Prose Prize longlist today! Congratulations to Brian Chikwava & Katie Goh, whose respective novel Shamiso & hybrid memoir Foreign Fruit are longlisted!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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Is there any comfort in finding out every person that you thought was a wrong un is indeed a very, very wrong un? No, not really.

new Mitski album appearing on the hilltop like Gandalf on Shadowfax, but for lesbians going insane during fascist collapse

yeup, it's a dog eat dog world out there... not much for the rest of us to do, so mostly we bet on the dogs. is it a great world? of course not, it's covered in wild dogs fighting and eating each other across a landscape smeared with viscera and shit. but hell, i know i'd miss it if i ever left

Torry residents face losing St Fittick's Park to an Energy Transition Zone and they're fighting back. A Play for Torry uses words from people who've watched industry reshape their neighbourhood for decades. Read why this fight turned into performance. ⭕ Now on POST

Torry Residents Take the Stage With Their Own Story

The new theatre show grew out of the fight over St Fittick’s Park.

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I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

Skint, baw ragged, poackets ful eh ma fingers, cannae afford tae burn toast an it’s November. Christmas is close… —William Letford, “This is it” Published in DIRT, @carcanet.bsky.social 2016 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410200...

Aberdeen producer Vagrant Real Estate releases Neither Collar Nor Crown on St Andrew's Day, bringing 25 Scottish artists across genres and generations together. Read our full piece on the ambitious album dropping this weekend. ⭕ New on POST postabdn.com/vagrant-real...

It's the anniversary of Section 28's demise. By me: "Section 28 was largely a creation of the right-wing press, and many of the people, publications and proprietors who contributed to the anti-gay panic back then are at the forefront of the anti-trans panic today."

We’re going to need a bigger little treat

Excited about the return of Aye Write Book Festival to Glasgow & delighted to be taking part in Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall - Glasgow Life share.google/lBEUQpOp8y1Q...

Who Will Be Remembered Here - Queer Spaces in Scotland: Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh, Lewis Hetherington with Carrie Marshall - Glasgow Life

Aye Write 2025 presents Women Who Dared - From the Infamous to the Forgotten: Jo Shaw, Dr Chisomo Kalinga, Dr Ioulia Kolovou, Margot McCuaig

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Remember the veil between the dead and the living is at its thinnest tonight so it’s your perfect opportunity to call Cilla Black a cunt.

This is a wonderful book that’s full of surprises, a real inhale-in-one-go collection (I’m not just saying this because I’m hosting three of the brilliant contributors at Aye Write next weekend. That’s just a bonus). Powerful, resonant, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.

Writer pals! just a wee reminder to join ALCS if you haven't already, and to make sure they have details of your print publications by the end of november - 30/11 is the cut-off for the next royalty payments in March. www.alcs.co.uk

Proud book mama stylee! 😁🥹 Three sleeps to launch! Come and meet our amazing contributors on Saturday, and hear poems, real-life and invented stories, a script and a game. 🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...

Bring your vuvuzelas! Aberdeen welcomes refugees, not racism! Stand up to racist bullies with music, colourful banners and messages of hope. All welcome. Saturday 25 October, 4pm, Patio Hotel, 213 Links Road, AB24 5EF (also called Doubletree Hotel, off Beach Blvd).

Glasgow people! I am running a second Queer Sex and Kink-themed writing workshop at Burning House Books in November! ⛓️💦 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1841349789...

Writing Queer Sex and Kink

Explore the queer possibilities of sex and kink in writing

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picture of a drill that says THIS IS NOT A DRILL! NEW MAGRITTE EXHIBIT OPENING!

Which type of gay are you? Lady Marmalade, Cell Block Tango or Read U Wrote U?

It really is such a treat when I get to take part in very cool bookish events with very cool bookish people 💜

Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@carriem.co.uk · 11mo ago

Another bit of Aye Write! excitement: I'll be chatting with Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh and Lewis Hetherington on Saturday 8 November about Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland. www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/who-...

All the plants I have half-grown by Linden K McMahon (Stewed Rhubarb, 2024) From the inevitable anxiety of ecological crisis, the ecopoems in All the plants I have half-grown follow the strange, uncomfortable, glorious, glittering threads that link us to our ecologies, …

If you're looking for a good deed to do today, maybe spare some pennies here if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/my-fathers...

Donate to My Father's Fight Against Stage 4 Cancer, organized by Sonali Misra

Hi, my name is Sonali, a resident of the UK, and I'm fundraising for my father's… Sonali Misra needs your support for My Father's Fight Against Stage 4 Cancer

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Publicity shot for a stage production of 'The Wizard of Oz', 1902. Arthur Hill as the Lion and Anna Laughlin as Dorothy

I've put together a pack of ghostly, biological, ecological & geological grain textures for use in any art/design projects you might have. 25 files, 300dpi, free for download via Dropbox - if you find them useful, show your appreciation via Ko-fi! www.ryanvance.co.uk/resources

Big & joyous news: Mae Diansangu's Bloodsongs has been longlisted for the Poetry Debut prize in the Saltires, Scotland’s National Book Awards! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎉 Congratulations, Mae! 👏 @vavapoetry.bsky.social We're so happy to see this incredible book continuing to get the recognition it deserves! 🥹 🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥