Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. A magazine morning. Also pre-parkrun, when I wasn’t quite so knackered. #parkrun #whitleybay

Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Lovely mix of poetry, fiction, children’s fiction and non-fiction - all to take my mind off Fraser‘s extreme photo-bombing. ;-) #parkrun #whitleybay @parkrunandphotos.bsky.social

Post-Rising Sun parkrun. Crazy busy because Whitley, Blyth and town were all cancelled. Tad warm, so the woods were the best place to be. #parkrun

Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Bit hot. Bit busy. Bit meh for me. So it goes. #whitleybay #parkrun @parkrunuk.bsky.social

Delighted to get my contributor’s copy of Mudlarking, this year’s National Flash Fiction Day anthology. The lovely book, excellently edited by Karen Jones and Sharon Telfer, includes my Meet Me Halfway. @natflashfictionday.bsky.social @sharontelfer.bsky.social @karjon.bsky.social

Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Some sort of normal service is resumed after parkruns in Krakow, Berlin and Stuttgart since my last home effort. Setting the finish up in the drizzle was fun and sociable, as volunteering always is. #whitleybay #parkrun

Good to be back on board the Scaryness Express with a couple of historical horrors. Slightly scary poems for bairns and that. Lots of lovely poems from poetry friends on there. The rest of my two and all the others at scaryness.com/historical-h...

Interrail Trip Day -1 (I go tomorrow). Ideal opportunity to read all the back issues of NME I’ve been saving from 1979, 1980 and 1981. It looks as though this means there’ll be no space for any clothes in my rucksack, but sod it. Adrian Thrills writing about Haircut 100 is more important. #NME

Lovely Bank Holiday treat from the pens and imaginations of @reenamakwana.bsky.social and @margauxvlln.bsky.social . Final image is one of Reena’s fantastic illustrations from our @theemmapress.bsky.social book. Great to see more of her food-themed work.

Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Relaxing with bath and books. Refuelling with coffee and daughter’s rhubarb, orange and ginger cake. #hardlife #parkrun #whitleybay

Over the next three days Brian Moses’s blog will feature “People Who Help Us” poems for younger children. My not altogether obvious one is in the first batch with some lovely poetry friends. brian-moses.blogspot.com?m=1

Last day to enter. You know you want to. You’ve still got over twelve hours to go. Get cracking!

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

FlashFlood is open! We’d love to receive your subs 😊 Flashes up to 300 words, pre 2023 prev published considered, reserved spots for debut writers. You have until 23:59 on 25 April: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. A cold one. A windy one. A grey and lovely one. #parkrun #whitleybay

More stories behind the poems. Children’s poets reveal their inspirations. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... @rhiannonoliver.bsky.social @stefankarlsson.bsky.social @kathrynbeevor.bsky.social @nealzetterpoet.bsky.social @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social

Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel

THE STORIES BEHIND THE POEMS - PART 2 (Copyright for each poem remains with their creators) Tea with a guest Set up a table as large as a ...

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@candlestickpress.bsky.social publish beautiful things. Here is another, and they even let a poem of mine appear in its pages. Order from their website.

Post-Whitley Bay parkrun bathtime reading. Grey and damp at the coast before, during and after. Dreich is the word, as Frankie Valli nearly sang. #parkrun #WhitleyBay

Great to arrive home to this treat from @rhiannonoliver.bsky.social @chrisriddell.bsky.social and @fireflypress.bsky.social . Perfect weekend reading!

Delighted to get post from Australia. A poem in Orbit, illustrated by Ross Morgan. A double-page spread - maybe I should start writing more longer poems! #kidlit #poetryforchildren

Post-Windy Nook parkrun. Bit hilly for me. Whitley Bay cancelled for the Easter fair. I screamed because I wanted to go faster, but it didn’t work. #parkrun #windynook

Delighted to be back on @paragraphplanet.bsky.social , the home for stories of exactly 75 words. www.paragraphplanet.com #flashfiction #microfiction

@thetoypress.bsky.social Word of the Week is POOTLE.

Very chuffed to have been chosen as a winner for this @poetrysociety.org.uk members’ competition. Very chuffed to have made Clare Pollard snort-laugh. Whole thing and other winners and some Poetry News that isn’t about me me me at poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-bo...

Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Cold and windy, but job done, and lots of good reading in store. #whitleybay #parkrun @parkrunuk.bsky.social

@thetoypress.bsky.social Word of the Week is MONSTER.

Not necessarily what I expect to hear on Gardeners’ World. #bbc #gardenersworld

Post-Whitley Bay parkrun parkwalker duties. New role for me. Walking, smiling and chatting in the sunshine. Yuk. #WhitleyBay #parkrun

Silky - @thetoypress.bsky.social Word of the Week.

Delighted to make the cut for the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social 2026 Anthology. Thanks to Editors @sharontelfer.bsky.social and @karjon.bsky.social www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/16/national-flash-fiction-day-2026-anthology-line-up/

National Flash Fiction Day 2026 Anthology Line Up

After reading scads of brilliant stories on the theme of BRIDGES, editors Karen Jones and Sharon Telfer have finalised their selections for the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day anthology and for the…

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Beautiful sunny morning in #WhitleyBay for parkrun pacer duties, then back for obligatory bath time books. #parkrun 29:55 for 30 mins pacing:acceptable.

Delighted to be back on a Dirigible Balloon flight. Lots of good stuff on there, and all for free. Thanks to editor Jonathan Humble.https://dirigibleballoon.org