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Delighted to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Goblin Shark', published in @thebraag.bsky.social 🦈
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Delighted to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Goblin Shark', published in @thebraag.bsky.social 🦈
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Truly a dream publication!! 'Penelope Escapes the Platypusary' is now up at @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🌊
www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...
www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...
Penelope Escapes the Platypusary by Bex Hainsworth
Bronx Zoo, 1957Your disappearance was not unforeseen.Dragged across continents, far fromthe vast and unbroken heat of home,you found yourself in imitationmud and pool, encircled by foreignroars and sc...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Truly a dream publication!! 'Penelope Escapes the Platypusary' is now up at @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🌊
www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...
www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...
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"Cunning chimera, desperate for loneliness,
you stacked eucalyptus. Webbed paws
slapped dirt into an expectant mound."
My poem 'Penelope Escapes the Platypusary' is now up at the wonderful @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🌊
anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...
you stacked eucalyptus. Webbed paws
slapped dirt into an expectant mound."
My poem 'Penelope Escapes the Platypusary' is now up at the wonderful @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🌊
anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"Cunning chimera, desperate for loneliness,
you stacked eucalyptus. Webbed paws
slapped dirt into an expectant mound."
My poem 'Penelope Escapes the Platypusary' is now up at the wonderful @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🌊
anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...
you stacked eucalyptus. Webbed paws
slapped dirt into an expectant mound."
My poem 'Penelope Escapes the Platypusary' is now up at the wonderful @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🌊
anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...
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Very honoured that my story Collateral has received a Pushcart Nomination. Thank you! Best of luck to all the nominees.
You can read Collateral here - revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s...
You can read Collateral here - revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s...
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Very honoured that my story Collateral has received a Pushcart Nomination. Thank you! Best of luck to all the nominees.
You can read Collateral here - revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s...
You can read Collateral here - revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s...
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A very very happy 5th birthday to Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel.
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A very very happy 5th birthday to Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel.
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
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Further to previous posts re- one of the Works in Progress. I keep finding bits that are ok. I just need to join them up better. A different kind of "joined-up writing", that.
Other books are available. tinyurl.com/bdfwjprf
Other books are available. tinyurl.com/bdfwjprf
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Further to previous posts re- one of the Works in Progress. I keep finding bits that are ok. I just need to join them up better. A different kind of "joined-up writing", that.
Other books are available. tinyurl.com/bdfwjprf
Other books are available. tinyurl.com/bdfwjprf
airyfairy’s brain has gone AWOL.
Will she find it again?!
Find out by reading the unfolding drama at:
www.abctales.com/story/airyfa...
It is today’s Pick of the Day
Please share if you can.
Will she find it again?!
Find out by reading the unfolding drama at:
www.abctales.com/story/airyfa...
It is today’s Pick of the Day
Please share if you can.
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
airyfairy’s brain has gone AWOL.
Will she find it again?!
Find out by reading the unfolding drama at:
www.abctales.com/story/airyfa...
It is today’s Pick of the Day
Please share if you can.
Will she find it again?!
Find out by reading the unfolding drama at:
www.abctales.com/story/airyfa...
It is today’s Pick of the Day
Please share if you can.
#POD today is Soulfire77's ongoing Sci Fi piece that grips from part one. The Harvest Floor (Ch.Three) is plausible & convincing, with echoes of Soylent Green, Do give it a try and share if you like it too fellow ABCTalers.
www.abctales.com/.../harvest-...
Pt 1 & 2 www.abctales.com/user/soulfir...
www.abctales.com/.../harvest-...
Pt 1 & 2 www.abctales.com/user/soulfir...
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
#POD today is Soulfire77's ongoing Sci Fi piece that grips from part one. The Harvest Floor (Ch.Three) is plausible & convincing, with echoes of Soylent Green, Do give it a try and share if you like it too fellow ABCTalers.
www.abctales.com/.../harvest-...
Pt 1 & 2 www.abctales.com/user/soulfir...
www.abctales.com/.../harvest-...
Pt 1 & 2 www.abctales.com/user/soulfir...
An uproarious fanfare for the common man. This is our marvellous Sunday pick. Enjoy!
www.abctales.com/story/g-m-ba...
www.abctales.com/story/g-m-ba...
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
An uproarious fanfare for the common man. This is our marvellous Sunday pick. Enjoy!
www.abctales.com/story/g-m-ba...
www.abctales.com/story/g-m-ba...
Well done to 'Ivan the OK-ish' on all 5 parts of The Ride. Nicely written, despite ending up with one of the last things anyone might imagine happening in the Mersey Tunnel. abctales.com/story/ivan-ok-… (but do start at Part 1, obviously!).
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Well done to 'Ivan the OK-ish' on all 5 parts of The Ride. Nicely written, despite ending up with one of the last things anyone might imagine happening in the Mersey Tunnel. abctales.com/story/ivan-ok-… (but do start at Part 1, obviously!).
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Interrogation and adoption feature in this week's The Further Chronicles... episode:
www.abctales.com/story/philwh...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Interrogation and adoption feature in this week's The Further Chronicles... episode:
www.abctales.com/story/philwh...
@abctales.bsky.social
www.abctales.com/story/philwh...
@abctales.bsky.social
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Enrich your winter reading with @racheldeering.bsky.social’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Enrich your winter reading with @racheldeering.bsky.social’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Advertisers says you have to see a product 20 times before a consumer will consider buying it.
Well, here you go.
Saltburn.
renardpress.com/books/saltbu...
Well, here you go.
Saltburn.
renardpress.com/books/saltbu...
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Advertisers says you have to see a product 20 times before a consumer will consider buying it.
Well, here you go.
Saltburn.
renardpress.com/books/saltbu...
Well, here you go.
Saltburn.
renardpress.com/books/saltbu...
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A little reminder that you could buy my collection, In the Shadow of Gods. 👇
Enrich your winter reading with @racheldeering.bsky.social’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A little reminder that you could buy my collection, In the Shadow of Gods. 👇
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Delighted to receive this honour. From The Martlet, my satirical novel about the struggles of a small-town newspaper.
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Delighted to receive this honour. From The Martlet, my satirical novel about the struggles of a small-town newspaper.
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A wonderful poem here from Turlough, Dolly Blue Monday. It’s our Pick of the Day. Do read and share.
www.abctales.com/story/turlou...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A wonderful poem here from Turlough, Dolly Blue Monday. It’s our Pick of the Day. Do read and share.
www.abctales.com/story/turlou...
www.abctales.com/story/turlou...
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Huge thank you to Victoria for this beautiful review of Circulaire 💛☕️
Latest review is up on my Substack, These Expectant Rooms.
Today featuring Circulaire by @poetbex.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
Thanks for reading! x
Today featuring Circulaire by @poetbex.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...
Thanks for reading! x
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Huge thank you to Victoria for this beautiful review of Circulaire 💛☕️
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And it’s here! And it’s a beauty.
Renard Press’s Five Year Anthology.
Very proud for Saltburn to appear in here.
200 copies only. All proceeds to BookBanks.
@renardpress.com
renardpress.com/books/renard...
Renard Press’s Five Year Anthology.
Very proud for Saltburn to appear in here.
200 copies only. All proceeds to BookBanks.
@renardpress.com
renardpress.com/books/renard...
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
And it’s here! And it’s a beauty.
Renard Press’s Five Year Anthology.
Very proud for Saltburn to appear in here.
200 copies only. All proceeds to BookBanks.
@renardpress.com
renardpress.com/books/renard...
Renard Press’s Five Year Anthology.
Very proud for Saltburn to appear in here.
200 copies only. All proceeds to BookBanks.
@renardpress.com
renardpress.com/books/renard...
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And while Black Friday Week might be starting over on Amazon I’ll be celebrating #BlueWednesday week where you can buy my books full price from brilliant indie publishers.
@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
@renardpress.com
Support #IndiePublishing
@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
@renardpress.com
Support #IndiePublishing
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
And while Black Friday Week might be starting over on Amazon I’ll be celebrating #BlueWednesday week where you can buy my books full price from brilliant indie publishers.
@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
@renardpress.com
Support #IndiePublishing
@beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social
@renardpress.com
Support #IndiePublishing
Today’s Pick of the Day is Makis’s excellent Why We Bother.
A story about voting and looking out for potential orange idiots.
www.abctales.com/story/makis/...
A story about voting and looking out for potential orange idiots.
www.abctales.com/story/makis/...
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Today’s Pick of the Day is Makis’s excellent Why We Bother.
A story about voting and looking out for potential orange idiots.
www.abctales.com/story/makis/...
A story about voting and looking out for potential orange idiots.
www.abctales.com/story/makis/...
The World is Closed. A powerful response to this week's Inspiration Point by Jane Hyphen:
It’s not safe to swim here
The water is toxic
And the sea is tangled
With everything you ever wanted
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It’s not safe to swim here
The water is toxic
And the sea is tangled
With everything you ever wanted
www.abctales.com/story/jane-h...
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The World is Closed. A powerful response to this week's Inspiration Point by Jane Hyphen:
It’s not safe to swim here
The water is toxic
And the sea is tangled
With everything you ever wanted
www.abctales.com/story/jane-h...
It’s not safe to swim here
The water is toxic
And the sea is tangled
With everything you ever wanted
www.abctales.com/story/jane-h...