🥂 19 days until... 🎃 I Smell Toast: An International Halloween Anthology of Poetry, Flash Fiction & Art is released! 👉 36 contributors from around the world. One rather unusual anthology. Are you ready❔ #ISmellToast #Halloween #Poetry #FlashFiction #writing @jenthorne.bsky.social

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Sarah Robinson@sarahdesigns.bsky.social · 3d ago

Here's a little seasonal linocut for you today 🍂 #handmade #shopsmall #UKGiftAM sarahrobinsondesigns.etsy.com/listing/4306...

Brilliantly creative thread here, how many of these folk also enjoy #GirlsOwnAdvice one wonders.

Lego Lost At Sea@legolostatsea.bsky.social · 4d ago

Among the old plastic washing up from the seabed this week was this fragment - does anyone know what these letters might once have said? Google lens suggests bar of soap (definitely not), bread tag, masonic token, belt dressing (?). We wondered if it might be some sort of badge or nameplate?

Its feeding frenzy time! Up to 15 Minke Whales have been around the Isle of May of recent plus thousands of seabirds as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

And fourthly, and finally, a reminder re @annestgwilym.bsky.social latest and fourth collection of poetry which is beautiful and inspiring. I will add a link below for purchasing this, highly recommended.

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matty@mattio.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Lovers of blue 💙 should also indulge in @minxmarple.bsky.social’s cerulean-soaked ‘Cyanometer for my Heart’: www.atmosphericquarterly.com/isabella-str...

isabella streffen — atmospheric quarterly

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Rijksmuseum@rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 6d ago

What is more precious to you than gold? 💙 For centuries, the deepest blues were made from ground lapis lazuli. This extraordinary pigment was once so rare and valuable that it was worth even more than gold. ✨ 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection

If @salenacasha.bsky.social's flash fiction in our last issue left you with a loss for words, "She Tells Herself that Somewhere, Someone Else Will Build It Anyway" @vestalreview.bsky.social just might leave you speechless. www.vestalreview.net/she-tells-he...

She Tells Herself that Somewhere, Someone Else Will Build It Anyway — Vestal Review

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ICYMI we're open for #submissions of contemporary #microfiction #flashfiction and #shortstories #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking forward to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

https://fictivedream.com/submission-guidelines/

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We are in Print! www.frazzledlit.com/p/life-as-ma... @kerrybyrne.bsky.social @jmcm.bsky.social @neilhegarty.bsky.social @lozzawriting.bsky.social

LIFE AS MASK - get it now in PAPERBACK!

This is what we’ve all been waiting for!

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Building a little @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social library here, their books are just so beautiful 😍

PERVERSE 10B is out today! This week features five poems by Suzannah V. Evans, Anna Mindel Crawford, Suzanna Fitzpatrick, Sue Vickerman and Linda Black, on boats, swords, caves and despair. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-10b

Have done very well out of the recent @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 40% off sale with these and Golden Crumbs by Mary Ruefle still to arrive... 📚 🥳

The first poem in PERVERSE 10B is 'NAMES OF BOATS' by Suzannah V. Evans. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-10b

#DreamAWildBreeze 12 pictures left to complete our collection of excellent illustrations from our brilliant artists; exactly three-quarters of the way there before we can move onto the next stage in the production of our third anthology ... THANK YOU ARTISTS !!! #PoetryForChildren #KeepMeBreathing

We're shouting out a story on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ✨ Contributor @writesloud.bsky.social's “Four French Cats & a Monster” was published in trampset. Find it here 💕 buff.ly/NnS0ZwF

Watching Kitchen Best Bites and the Hairy Bikers went to the Pont du Gard et Nimes, which reminded me of an absolute carnage of a school trip which 'bravely' (!) mixed fifth yrs & second yrs... with wine on the table at dinner it went about as much as you'd expect.

Life as Mask from @frazzledlit.bsky.social available here, now, today 🥳 🥳🥳 > www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HLMR4HB...

Gibson Mill at Hebden Bridge, west Yorkshire, photo by landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.

Throughout October, @markantonyowen.com will be assisted and supported by @victoriaspires.bsky.social as they pick their favourite 'after' and #ekphrastic poems from those sent in. Don't miss your chance to appear in @afterpoetry.co.uk in 2027. Polish that poem and go to afterpoetry.com/submit.

With thanks to the editors of Anthropocene, Ice Floe Press, The Dark Horse, The London Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review, who previously published some of the poems included in #Palomines

gbclarkson.bsky.social@gbclarkson.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've just spotted that this is available!! 😲👙👙 A few sample poems--& outrageously kind blurbs from @lukekennard.bsky.social & @billherbert.bsky.social--on the link below... Thanks to Rob Mackenzie & the Blurbers! 🎶🎸 Buy multiple copies here NOW to make them smile --😊 bluediode.co.uk/product-page...

Tomorrow is the last day of our sale.

Fitzcarraldo Editions@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 4w ago

🔵 ANNIVERSARY SALE: 40 PER CENT OFF 🔵 To celebrate twelve years since we published our first book, we are running a sale with 40 per cent off across our site 🎈 Use the code 2026ANNIVERSARY at checkout. The sale ends at 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September. fitzcarraldoeditions.com/shop/?utm_so...

The first poem in PERVERSE 10A is 'Girl on a White Horse (1933)' by Meredith MacLeod Davidson @mairmacleod.bsky.social. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-10a

If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...

Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre

Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...

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The wonderful @mwoodrowwriter.bsky.social wrote an insightful review of Holly Pester's collection, Cafes, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social, and you can read it now over on our #Substack: thewingedmoon.substack.com/p/made-of-pu... #PoetryCommunity #PoetryReview

‘Made of Public’ Cafes by Holly Pester

reviewed by Milly Woodrow

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Really glad to be on BBC Sounds this eve & Sat talking to Jake Peach about my new book with @parlyareepress.bsky.social . I enjoyed the thoughtful questions. Thank you to Rob Jelly, Jake Peach & BBC Upload for supporting my creative work this year. I appreciate it. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I’m thrilled and grateful to be shortlisted for The PEN Heaney Prize. Thanks to the judges, @englishpen.bsky.social, and above all @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for publishing the book 💙🤍

English PEN@englishpen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Together with @irishpen.bsky.social & the Estate of Seamus Heaney, we’re delighted to announce the PEN Heaney Prize 2026 shortlist. The winner will be announced on 1 December at a ceremony held at the Howard Assembly Room, Leeds. Find out more & book now ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

@madeleinewrite.bsky.social expertly braids history & art with a moving story in "The Execution of Lady Jane Grey." This took me down an amazing history rabbit hole. That's what great writing (and art) does to you, I guess. Read Madeleine's piece here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Calling all poets! Dust Poetry will be open next month (1st-31st October) for submissions and our theme will be WINTER ❄️❄️❄️ We’re looking forward to reading your interpretations of this theme!

This poem for my mother has been nominated for Best of the Net by the extraordinarily generous @leiabutler.bsky.social of @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social. I am so grateful to Leia for all her support - and to all who have responded to this poem along the way 🫶 www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026...

Lares and Penates by John Adlam — Full House Literary

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