Jeda Pearl
@jedapearl.bsky.social
🖌️ Poetry • SFF • Fiction • Art • https://linktr.ee/JedaPearl • ⚡ Disabled • Fibromyalgia 🥄 💫 Collaboration •Community • 🏴🇯🇲
Are you taking part in the Edinburgh Festivals this year? Want to create a solidarity statement, raise awareness, or make a call to action but unsure how to go about it? We've made a support pack to help! Download here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wmEC...
6 days left and we are 70% funded—toss a coin, spread the word, help us reach the finish line!
khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 3mo agoOur Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...
11 days left to listen to Poetry Please on BBC Sounds - Roger McGough with guest Dean Atta's selection! So honoured to have Inheritance Reverb included! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Poetry Please - Dean Atta - BBC Sounds
Author and poet Dean Atta curates a selection of poetry chosen by listeners.
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🧵Please share! @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social is hiring! - Co-Director (31 May) - Digital & Social Media Assistant (24 May) Both freelance, Scotland-based, remote with some travel. Highly encourage Black & PoC applicants + Co-Director Q&A: 26 May 👉🏽 scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/were-hiring-...
Looking forward to Speculative Disability Futures on Wed 20 May, 4pm at @womenslibrary.bsky.social with Rivers Solomon and Jenni Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen... (free) www.disabilityfutures.uk/events/specu...
A Conversation with Rivers Solomon and Jenni Juulia Wallinheimo- Heimonen on Speculative Disability Futures — Doing Disability Futures
This Doing Disability Futures event will feature a reading and art performance, plus reflections and conversation, with speculative fiction writer Rivers Solomon and artist Jenni Juulia Wallinheimo-He...
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New from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on environmental justice in war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "Akka" by @gayathrik.bsky.social, a story about the forces and choices that alter bodies and forms, and how the inside can reflect what's outside: reckoning.press/akka/
"Students are paying through the nose to live in poor quality developments that take up space where we could be building long-term social housing" For our Politics and Community issue, we look at Purpose Built Student Accommodation looming over Scottish cities
Building Up, Pushing Out: Purpose Built Student Accommodation in Scotland - The Skinny
Vacant land? No problem – there’s an unaffordable and exploitative solution to that. We look at the impact of Purpose Built Student Accommodation on Scotland's cities.
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Latest comic on an economy that has become hostile to humanity.
Voting in the Scottish election on 7th May? 🤔 View your candidates & their policies: whocanivotefor.co.uk Compare manifestos: scotvote26.org Fact-checker: fullfact.org/scottish-ele...
Scottish Parliament Election 2026 — Policy Comparison & Manifesto Tracker
All six party manifestos compared side by side — 13 policy areas, independent IFS fiscal analysis. Scottish Parliament election, 7 May 2026.
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Do you live in the UK? Are you registered to vote in next month's elections? If not, you'd better get a move on, as tomorrow is the last day you can register. Fortunately, it's easy to do online. www.gov.uk/register-to-... 🗳️
Register to vote
Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.
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Kaleidotrope is now open to fiction and poetry submissions.
a sign that says sorry we 're closed hangs on a glass door
Alt: a sign that says sorry we're open hangs on a glass door
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Selected for Best of Independent Scottish Audio! Grief Offerings podcast by me, @emilixbeatriz.bsky.social & Etzali Hernández. Chat from us + poems by Andrés N Ordorica, Nat Raha, @jedapearl.bsky.social. Sound: Claude Nouk. Free! Transcripts at link. www.tinyurl.com/GriefOfferings
Made in Scotland: Grief Offerings: (End of) Life Wishes by Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland and Etzali Hernández
"Grief Offerings: (End of) Life Wishes" is a series of conversations and reflections by Emilia Beatriz, Sandra Alland and Etzali Hernández. They share ways they want to care, mourn, live and resis...
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Soon, Juana Adcock and I will be sharing our new multilingual collaborative poem at this event... Our Many-Voiced Country Saturday 14 March 2026 11.30am - 12:30pm StAnza International Poetry Festival Byre Theatre, St Andrews // livestreamed Tickets: byretheatre.com/shows/stanza...
StAnza 26: Our Many-Voiced Country
11.30 – 12.30 | Byre: Auditorium | £20/£15/£10/£5 Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay, brings together poets working across the country’s many languages in this event shaped by exchange and response. Fea...
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Nice wee In This City, Where it Rains review: "...It's a horror show over there. If I had to do a comparison, I'd say that Lyndsey Croal's novella felt a bit like Crimson Peak meets Silent Hill." If those are your jam, check it out! 👀 ✨ talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/03/tota...
Total Skull: February, 2026
Things that delighted me in February, 2026: T. D. Cloud, Ossuary In T. D. Cloud's Ossuary , a group of government "Curse Breakers" venture i...
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The Museum of Scotland using small children in size comparison info panels is absolutely sending me.
📣New Blog Post 📣: Stories about our dead, and what they say about us, in our latest guest blog post by Natasha Soto. Read the full post here: https://scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/the-month-of-carrying-the-dead/
📣New Blog Post 📣: Jasmeen Kanwal is not her ancestors, she's goth punk! Read all about her exploration of ancestry here: https://scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/connecting-with-my-ancestors-the-living-not-the-dead/
Crawling out from my social hibernation cave coz I'm so stoked Anthony is giving our keynote! 😍 + looking forward to gathering with writers, readers & friends. Open to everyone + open mic + refreshments by Gaujira + we have travel & carer bursaries for Black people & people of colour. Tickets 👇🏽
Scottish BPOC Writers Network@scotbpocwriters.bsky.social · 7mo agoJoin us for this in-person keynote and open mic + reception! Our Developing your Craft programme will culminate in an in-person Keynote on 27 February, 7-9pm by the award-winning author Anthony Capildeo. This session is open to everyone! scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/developing-y...
🎄 Last orders 16 December (UK)! Gift yourself or loved ones... ☃️ North Bridge: Where We Travelled - colour anthology, Edinburgh writers, fiction, memoir, SFF, poetry, script & a game! £10 🌉 🧑🏽🎄 Time Cleaves Itself - debut poetry collection £10.99 🌌 💝 jedapearl.com/shop or your local indie bookshop
I'm soooo looking forward to reading @rainewilson.bsky.social new book! 👀
Solaris Books@solarisbooks.bsky.social · 9mo agoDelighted to see @rainewilson.bsky.social 's THE SALT ORACLE in @theguardian.com 's round up of the best SciFi, Fantasy & Horror! “A weird, rich and ultimately rewarding journey.” Buy https://geni.us/saltorac And grab the other standalone novel in this wider universe https://geni.us/weallghostsPB
“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”
AI "Companion Bots" Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.
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Don't miss the first session of Metaphors for a Black Future on 8th December! Writing with and the Practice of Permission with Foluke Taylor by & for Black writers. Book your spot now: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/metaphors-fo...
Metaphors for a Black Future: Loose Ends: Explorations in Diasporic Writing Craft - 8 December & 13 December - Scottish BPOC Writers Network
Metaphors for a Black Future 2025, curated by Martha Adonai Williams.
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Please share. 💞 I collated a big list of links & resources including finding loved ones, and updating it regularly - I need more for Cuba & Haiti: linktr.ee/caribbeansol... #HurricaneMelissa (400-mile wide record-breaking cat 5) caused devastation, especially across western Jamaica
caribbeansolidarity | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
Send resources, news & verified relief fund links to caribbeansolidarityscot [at] gmail.com
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Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors! Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
What a joy to be amongst all these clever people last night launching #NorthBridge Where We Traveled last night. Huge thanks to @jedapearl.bsky.social for all her creativity, thoughtfulness and hard work bringing this project together. It only remains to say- buy the book! payhip.com/b/BxUCD
Hurricane Melissa wreaked havoc in my birth nation of Jamaica. Reported: "The University of Miami with the US NOAA measured wind speeds from start to finish across Jamaica with the weather aircraft named Kermit. The maximum wind gust speeds were 252mph and maximum sustained winds were 185 mph..."
Programme at Iridescence! Want to be on a panel, run a workshop, or give a talk? Fill in the form and submit your ideas. We are excited to build an awesome programme with you! eastercon2026.org/programme
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...
