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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 1d

Today for #LiftToTheSky we should give a boost to our lovely wee indie presses who are often run by solo enthusiasts wanting to give a voice to lesser known poets. They put in a lot of hard graft to curate anthologies, run social media accounts and workshops and support poets in untold ways. 1/2

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 1d

2/2 so shout out to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social of @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com @iambapoet.com & After These guys are the definition of dedicated and supportive and work long hours for little reward. There are others too #poetryheros

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 2d

Submissions are now OPEN for new poems until midnight on Sunday 19th October.

atriumpoetry.com/submission-g...

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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations

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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations and good luck to her. Lovely voice.

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Michelle Cozens @measureofcalm.bsky.social · 2d

“So, if you are too
tired to speak,
sit next to me
because I,
too,
am fluent in
silence.”
- R. Arnold
#imageandverse #eastcoastkin #birds

Two great egrets stand in a salt marsh, facing right. In the foreground and along the left side of image are marsh grasses, which have turned a golden brown color.

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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 2d

Nerve to Write is open for fiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash fiction, full-length stories, and more!

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone have any good examples of polyphonic flash fiction / short stories (from several voices / perspectives) or flash that uses head-hopping / shifting perspective (like my piece in the link below)? Your own or others. Pieces that are freely available online. Thanks in advance!

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 2d

Francis Ford Coppola remembers Diane Keaton.

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Lara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 3d

Cillian Murphy reading Yeats’s “When You Are Old”

❤️ 🇮🇪 📖 #poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #WBYeats #CillianMurphy #PoetrySky

YouTube: youtu.be/qRBgbUhc9TE?...

"When You Are Old" by W. B. Yeats (read by Cillian Murphy)

YouTube video by Zsuzsanna Uhlik

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Sloe @sloe.bsky.social · 2d

Artists! People who draw specifically! I have a question: what websites/sources do you use for reference pictures? After refern sadly shut down I'm getting frustrated with pinterest (since it's still flooded with slop).
#art #drawing #referencepics #artbaby #artadvice

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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to exploring this beautiful book of Hindi poetry translated in English from Red River. And saw some familiar names among the translators including @saudaminideo.bsky.social. Congratulations to all involved.

Book cover with flower detail in golden yellow against dark turquoise colour; text: 40 Poets, 26 Translators, 200 Poems
The Red River Book of 21st Century Hindi Poetry Perennial, selected and edited by Sourav Roy and Tuhin Bhowal

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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 3d

This is beautiful.

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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 4d

"A boy sits on the low wall by the primary school watching the road for a yellow Citroën that doesn’t come. His teacher should have noticed he is out here all by himself..."

Love this gem from @mattkendrick.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

twenty-two — Tiny Molecules

www.tinymolecules.com

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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 4d

Things Become Other Things – a gorgeous meditation on walking, forgiveness, and belonging, lensed through the mountains of Japan www.themarginalian.org/2025/08/09/t...

Things Become Other Things: Walking, Forgiveness, and Belonging in the Mountains of Japan

Steps are events, experiments, miniature rebellions against gravity and chance. With each step, we fall and then we catch ourselves, we choose to go one way and not another. The foot falls and worl…

www.themarginalian.org

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 4d

“If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.”
– Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave

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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 6: Nostalgia now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 13d

Subs are open!!

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 4d

Almost midnight in Kyiv.
Calm.
We have power, water.
Drops of rain gently sing a lullaby
to those who didn’t sleep last night.

Please, don’t take for granted
the quiet treasures you have –
power, water, windows, a roof.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 4d

Hey hey hey!

We're accepting chapbook submissions during the entire month of October.

Submissions are always FEE-FREE so polish up those manuscripts and send them in!

www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

a woman is singing into a microphone with the words let 's go written below her

Alt: Tori Amos singing into a microphone with the words let 's go written below her

media.tenor.com

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely thrilled to find myself on the shortlist of @renardpress.com’s Interwoven Poetry competition.

Really looking forward to getting the anthology and reading the other poems on the list - please do support their crowdfunder if you can!

renardpress.com/interwoven-a...

Interwoven Anthology – Poetry Competition – Renard Press

Interwoven: Poetry Celebrating Connectedness Following the success of the New Beginnings project in 2021, the Spectrum project in 2022, the Kinship project in 2023 and Building Bridges in 2024, the In...

renardpress.com

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Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations

Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social · 5d

Beautiful

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 6d

Submit to gooseberry-pie.com

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 6d

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine

Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

thebrokenspine.co.uk

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