Jenny Hope
@jennyhope.bsky.social
Writer, poet, presenter, workshop facilitator. Wild Boar forthcoming from V. Press February 2026. YA novel in progress. I like exploring the liminal sense of time and place within nature, and the joy in the here and now.
Quick! Rush to join my patreon this month, where you'll find a golden treasure chest of new autumnal recipes and a creaking, web-wreathed wardrobe rattling with ghost stories! Every tier receives a special card in the post from Old Fox and Wolf! patreon.com/annelouiseav...
Lots of men on this flight complaining they can’t find dinner idk
My copies of Wild Boar arrive tomorrow - in plenty of time for February’s publication date.
Here's a great pic from the day: L-R @mathjones.bsky.social, @jennyhope.bsky.social, Holly, Claire, @catherineredford.bsky.social, Kashala Abrahams, Lesley Ingram, @heatherwastie.bsky.social, Ruth!
Finally got round to detoxing my handbag - I had the grand total of nine pens - but just the one notebook.
youtu.be/D04ayybGW_Y?... windswept is a poetry film by me with Filmmaker Lewis Landini inspired by an exercise by Dance Artist Inari Hulkkonen. It comes from a residency at Wainsgate Chapel. I hope you enjoy it. #poetryfilm #poetry #poetrycommunity
Poetry Film - Wainsgate - Anne Caldwell, Lewis Landini inspired by dancer Inari Hulkkonen
YouTube video by Anne Caldwell
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Telling myself it’s ok to buy a new book ‘because it’s Christmas’ like I won’t be buying a new book ‘because it’s January/nearly Valentine’s Day/the start of spring/5 o’clock somewhere’
Moniack Mhor, a beautiful writers centre in Scotland is running a gothic writing course starting in January, all online. Lots of residential, day and online courses on their website too. Check it out. www.moniackmhor.org.uk Please share
Since we’re talking about how much billionaires suck again, here’s a reminder that your local indie bookstore deserves your business this holiday season. They have gift cards and are happy to mail stuff out. Same goes for @bookshop-org.bsky.social. Buy books. Give books. Support bookstores.
We're pleased to announce details of an Abridged 2025 Online Pamphlet series: Abridged 0 - 112: Don't Talk To Strangers. More news when the time comes.
Best coffee ever - Francini’s in Worcester - just add a little poetry.
I also bought myself a beautiful piece of calligraphy when I got divorced. It was this. It hangs by my front door, like he said.
Kit de Waal@kitdewaal.com · 2y agoEvery year, I buy myself a really nice present, some frippery I’ve wanted but couldn’t justify otherwise. It’s my reward for being me, given with love and gratitude, accepted with humility and thanks. Try it ❤️
Rather than the town square, treat BlueSky like your favourite bar, pub or community. Just like you would avoid or silence snarky, argumentative fascist baiters, avoid them here. Block and don’t engage. Move on to the next cool interesting person. The trolls will eventually leave. Cheers!
Just poking our heads up to remind you that our submission windows for fiction and poetry close tomorrow!
“There’s more water carried along the roads in lorries than runs in our streams.” How has it come to this: that private companies are licensed to abstract water from aquifers below parched regions, then sell it back in bottles to those who live & struggle there? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles
theguardian.com
Such beauty in the detail - this morning’s frost has given the leaves a suffragette hue.
