Roses are red Violets are cloying Don't plagiarise writers It's fucking annoying x
Natalie Ann Holborow
@natholborow.bsky.social
Author of 'Little Universe' and 'Small' | Content Marketing Manager at Synergy Learning | Runner | T1D | 'Wild Running' out September 2025 📚🏃♀️
A blog post about editing poems that features some of my very worst drafts from the depths of my Google Drive and why I now cringe at them, enjoy. Includes some tips and exercises if you're currently stuck creatively. ❤ natalieholborow.com/2025/12/28/e...
Editing Poems: Emphasising Clarity Over Complexity
Is your poem “too simple” or just honest? This personal essay explores the fear of writing plainly, the pressure to sound poetic, and why simple poems often cut the deepest. With examples from Lang…
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Not a Christmas poem, but a here's a poem with a little sprinkle of hope. ✨️🌿
Psychic abilities would be cool, not to predict my fate but to work out where the fuck Evri have put my parcels x
Chatting about Wild Running, nature, creativity and my love for North Gower in this episode of BBC Country Focus 💚🌿 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Country Focus - Food and Community Across Wales - BBC Sounds
Exploring food, trail running and community spirit across Wales.
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Like running? Like writing? There's a monthly newsletter for that (yes, I've finally got off my arse and started one). Subscribe here to get route recommendations, writing prompts, horrid playlists and post-run recipes. open.substack.com/pub/natholbo...
No one: Writers working on their next manuscript: "wow okay that's loads, time for a break now"
Like running? Like books? Around Cardiff this evening? Wild Running is launching on 18th September at Bookspace Cardiff! Tickets available here if you do plan on joining: www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/products/wil...
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Join us for an evening in conversation with Natalie Ann Holborow about her new book Wild Running. When: 17/9/25 18:30 start (doors 18:10) Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There wil...
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Don’t forget you can pre-order ‘Wild Running’ on our website or in your local bookshop www.serenbooks.com/book/wild-ru...
Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social · 11mo agoA little extract of Wild Running in The Independent this morning, exploring Pen Y Fan and focusing on women's safety in running 🏃♀️ @serenbooks.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/life-style/w...
Writers: "I hope someone reads my writing!" Also writers: "oh god no, people are reading my writing, please stop that, it's making me panic and want to live in a hole"
A little extract of Wild Running in The Independent this morning, exploring Pen Y Fan and focusing on women's safety in running 🏃♀️ @serenbooks.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/life-style/w...
Wild running gives me freedom, but I’m always looking over my shoulder
In this abridged extract from award-winning poet and writer Natalie Holborow’s new book ‘Wild Running’, she follows a trail around the Brecon Beacons in South Wales while reflecting on women’s safety
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This is such a welcome, life-affirming & diverse edition of BBCRadio4 The Verb. Top form delivery from @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @lenniesaurus.bsky.social, Alex Wharton, @natholborow.bsky.social & Ian McMillan www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, The Adverb at the Hay Festival 2025
Ian McMillan presents poets in performance for The Verb's performance wing, The Adverb.
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For the last couple of weeks, @natholborow.bsky.social & I have been in a poetry frenzy working on poems representing the Major Arcana & the zodiac signs... Really pleased with how they've turned out 🖊✨ Here's Cancer & Scorpio ♋️♍️ #Cancer #Scorpio #Zodiac #Horoscope #Astrology #Poetry
It's all feeling very real now! Luckily I've got a new poetry project with @natholborow.bsky.social to throw myself into while I worry about the launch of Witsh 👌🏼😂 #Writing #witchcraft #wales #historicalfiction
*plots novel* *starts writing* Characters: hahaha no lol x
This has been a dream to work on and a nice break to write about history, creativity and falling down hills on my backside in beautiful South Wales. Out September 15th! Pre-order here: www.serenbooks.com/book/wild-ru... #running #writing #trailrunning
Seren Books@serenbooks.bsky.social · last yr.Coming soon: @natholborow.bsky.social encourages you to get out and explore South Wales in trainers in her new book ‘Wild Running’, publishing 15 September. Available to pre-order now www.serenbooks.com/book/wild-ru...
"AN ABSOLUTE RIOT OF A BOOK" In between award ceremonies for her poetry & fiction, and writing a non-fiction book about running, the awesome @natholborow.bsky.social has taken the time to read BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS and then wrote about it. Buy it now. Punkdust.com and all good bookshops #poetry
Wales Book of the Year stuff. I look like I'm doing a Squid Game trial and am being forced to read for my life, but I do like poems honest x If you want to support Little Universe, you can vote for it here: nation.cymru/culture/vote...
Today's poetry research Google searches: 1) "Do seals sweat" 2) "Where does Pingu live" 3) "What is the root meaning of the word 'absurd'" 4) "Can a bee fancy a wasp"
Thrilled to be shortlisted for the Rhys Davies Short Story Comp! Hoping this one’s a step up from my first story, where a mermaid invited me to tea, I said “Mam says it’s too late,” and she swam off. That was it (still my tidiest ending). Thanks to the judges and congrats to all! ❤️
A response to recent blog posts from fellow poets @zoebrigley.bsky.social & @natholborow.bsky.social reflecting on the uncanny feeling of reading reviews of your own book & the freelance writer life post-PhD createdtoread.com/back-to-the-...
Back to the Book Blog: Teaching, Readings and ReviewsBack to the Book Blog: Teaching, Readings and Reviews
I used to love writing blog posts and book reviews, and then I became a PhD student. From 2019 to 2024 I buried myself waist-deep in research while juggling a career as a freelance poet, creative writ...
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"Holborow is a craft master. She knows when to pause and allow the poems to breathe." Thanks to Eric Ngalle and @nation.cymru for this review of Little Universe by @natholborow.bsky.social nation.cymru/culture/book...
Book review: Little Universe by Natalie Ann Holborow
We continue our reviews of books shortlisted for this year’s Wales Book of the Year award. Little Universe is one of 12 English language books shortlisted for the 2025 Wales Book of the Year. You can ...
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'Few writers compel you to pause and reflect, take a deep breath, and declare, “This is simply magical.” Natalie Ann Holborow is one of them.' I'm in a weird mood today so this review of Little Universe made me cry a little (in a good way). nation.cymru/culture/book...
Book review: Little Universe by Natalie Ann Holborow
We continue our reviews of books shortlisted for this year’s Wales Book of the Year award. Little Universe is one of 12 English language books shortlisted for the 2025 Wales Book of the Year. You can ...
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A blog post about writing, ghosts and memories. Mainly came about from those random, inconvenient times when you think deeply about things while cleaning the sink. It has nothing to do with Scooby Doo sorry x natalieholborow.com/2025/06/22/e...
Exploring the Ghosts of Memory in Writing
As writers, how are we haunted by memory and how does it show up in our writing (even when we don’t expect it to)? Find out in this blog post.
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10 years since I sent my first submission. Here's what I've learned in that time (and what I'm still learning). natalieholborow.com/2025/06/17/t... #writing
Ten Years of Writing Lessons (And Why I’m Still at My Desk)
10 years of writing lessons and what I’m still learning. I hope this helps you on your writing journey, too.
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Wales Book of the Year stuff. I look like I'm doing a Squid Game trial and am being forced to read for my life, but I do like poems honest x If you want to support Little Universe, you can vote for it here: nation.cymru/culture/vote...
BBC weather app is just like: "there will be weather today"
What does publishing your first novel feel like, and how do you get it ready to go? 🖋️ (Hint: it's never actually ready.) mariellisdunning.cymru/2025/06/10/w... 🖤 #Writer #WritingSky #Witchcraft #HistoricFiction
WITSH: Getting the first novel over the finish line
What does publishing your first novel feel like, and how do you get it ready to go?
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