Julia
@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social
Something for the Gothically-inclined… pleased to have a dark little hybrid piece in the ‘Spectral & Strange’ bonus issue of @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social edited by @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social 🖤
Our Winter 2025 bonus issue, Spectral & Strange, is out now!
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December 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Something for the Gothically-inclined… pleased to have a dark little hybrid piece in the ‘Spectral & Strange’ bonus issue of @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social edited by @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social 🖤
100% this @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social 😍👇
She’ll tell you to wear your best dress for casual. She’ll tell you too much. She’ll cry. But isn’t that why we need poetry?
She’s messy and drinks too much coffee. She’s always in socks and thinking of apricots.
Portrait in Mustard @serenbooks.bsky.social.
She’s messy and drinks too much coffee. She’s always in socks and thinking of apricots.
Portrait in Mustard @serenbooks.bsky.social.
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
100% this @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social 😍👇
A captivating @serenbooks.bsky.social launch tonight of @notjustdancing.bsky.social’s innovative, multilayered & lyrical collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ (alongside fantastic readings from @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn). 😍
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A captivating @serenbooks.bsky.social launch tonight of @notjustdancing.bsky.social’s innovative, multilayered & lyrical collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ (alongside fantastic readings from @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn). 😍
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤
Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !
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Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !
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November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤
Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !
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Truly inspiring poetry tonight courtesy of the @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social brilliant ‘four pamphleteers’ - @maxwallis.bsky.social, @thewordtinker.bsky.social, @glynedwards.bsky.social & @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Truly inspiring poetry tonight courtesy of the @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social brilliant ‘four pamphleteers’ - @maxwallis.bsky.social, @thewordtinker.bsky.social, @glynedwards.bsky.social & @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤
Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤
Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !
Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
Delighted to feature in the new issue of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social alongside such fabulous poets, writers & artists! 🤩 Many thanks to editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social & @rebunting.bsky.social 🙌
It’s here! Issue 4 is live today, featuring work from Sean Cho A, Sarah Mills, Allison Blevins, Jill Kitchen, Anthony Frame, Will Musgrove, Charles Jensen, Susan Barry-Schulz, Julia Biggs, Sheila Squillante, and Vishaal! #poetry #prose #visualart #literaryjournal #asterales
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October 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Delighted to feature in the new issue of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social alongside such fabulous poets, writers & artists! 🤩 Many thanks to editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social & @rebunting.bsky.social 🙌
Thrilled to have 2 collage pieces (unapologetically indebted to Angela Carter) featured in the latest issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social devoted to ‘The Urge’! Huge thanks to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for curating this celebration of feminine appetites & desires. 🤩
🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨
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Appetite! Impulse! Desire!
🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️
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Appetite! Impulse! Desire!
🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thrilled to have 2 collage pieces (unapologetically indebted to Angela Carter) featured in the latest issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social devoted to ‘The Urge’! Huge thanks to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for curating this celebration of feminine appetites & desires. 🤩
Thrilled & honoured to learn @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social & congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Thrilled & honoured to learn @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social & congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳
Intimate autumn reading courtesy of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 😍
October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Intimate autumn reading courtesy of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 😍
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For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:
On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.
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On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.
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On Bookmarks and Other Ruins
<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t
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October 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:
On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.
draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...
On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.
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Treating myself this National Poetry Day by preordering @anniebrechin.bsky.social’s new collection 💋
Preorders open, baby!!! www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
How to Make Love by Annie Brechin | Blue Diode Publishin
Published on 30 September 2025ISBN: 978-1-915108-34-076 pages “You said our love language is doing things for each other.But mine’s dirtier, down in the soil…” Annie Brechin’s How to Make Love is no i...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Treating myself this National Poetry Day by preordering @anniebrechin.bsky.social’s new collection 💋
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Just been reading this by @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social . I had it saved as a tab on my phone but it had got lost amongst many tabs. I'm glad to have found it again. It's really clever ❤️
Pirouetting its way into the world today, my micro-chapbook ‘ROLES’ (a series of ballet-themed collage poems) is out with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 🩰 You can read this surreal assortment of pliés for free here:
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ROLES — Ghost City Press
ROLES by Julia Biggs Published July 1, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 12 Pages
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September 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Just been reading this by @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social . I had it saved as a tab on my phone but it had got lost amongst many tabs. I'm glad to have found it again. It's really clever ❤️
Surprised but delighted to be Best of the Net nominated by @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for my dark foray into female appetites & desires! Huge thanks to EIC @audreytcarroll.bsky.social & congratulations to my fellow nominees! 🥳
Best of the Net Nominee
"Feast" by Julia Biggs (@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social)
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"Feast" by Julia Biggs (@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social)
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September 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Surprised but delighted to be Best of the Net nominated by @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for my dark foray into female appetites & desires! Huge thanks to EIC @audreytcarroll.bsky.social & congratulations to my fellow nominees! 🥳
*Blushes wildly*…. if you have not yet discovered the rather marvellous @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social & his starter packs for members of the poetry community then now is the moment! 🥰
A #lifttothesky goes to @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social poet and supporter of people in the #poetrycommunity
August 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
*Blushes wildly*…. if you have not yet discovered the rather marvellous @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social & his starter packs for members of the poetry community then now is the moment! 🥰
Kicking off the weekend in style with a @salopress.bsky.social poets showcase hosted by @moette.bsky.social 🤩! Fabulously experimental work mining female experience from @karanchambers.bsky.social, Laia Sales Merino, @wendycaitlin.bsky.social, @galiamelon.bsky.social & @victoriaspires.bsky.social 👏🏻
July 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Kicking off the weekend in style with a @salopress.bsky.social poets showcase hosted by @moette.bsky.social 🤩! Fabulously experimental work mining female experience from @karanchambers.bsky.social, Laia Sales Merino, @wendycaitlin.bsky.social, @galiamelon.bsky.social & @victoriaspires.bsky.social 👏🏻
Pirouetting its way into the world today, my micro-chapbook ‘ROLES’ (a series of ballet-themed collage poems) is out with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 🩰 You can read this surreal assortment of pliés for free here:
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
ROLES — Ghost City Press
ROLES by Julia Biggs Published July 1, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 12 Pages
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July 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Pirouetting its way into the world today, my micro-chapbook ‘ROLES’ (a series of ballet-themed collage poems) is out with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 🩰 You can read this surreal assortment of pliés for free here:
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
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ROLES by Julia Biggs (@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
ROLES — Ghost City Press
ROLES by Julia Biggs Published July 1, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 12 Pages
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July 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
ROLES by Julia Biggs (@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Looking forward to this @rialtopoetry.bsky.social event 👇
Come and join us and @helenmort.bsky.social for our Nature & Place Poetry reading.
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June 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Looking forward to this @rialtopoetry.bsky.social event 👇
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'night-blooming/ moonlit/ leaves like silk/ sprawling in irresistible soft abandon'
Read vispo sequence 'Natural Habitat ' by Julia Biggs in our Nature Edition:
Read vispo sequence 'Natural Habitat ' by Julia Biggs in our Nature Edition:
'Natural Habitat' by Julia Biggs
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June 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
'night-blooming/ moonlit/ leaves like silk/ sprawling in irresistible soft abandon'
Read vispo sequence 'Natural Habitat ' by Julia Biggs in our Nature Edition:
Read vispo sequence 'Natural Habitat ' by Julia Biggs in our Nature Edition:
Delighted to be part of Bristol-based publisher Strange Region’s ‘Vocal Inhabitants’ anthology, which is now on sale! Full of experimental writing & visual art (plus a weird little collage piece by yours truly) do support this lovely indie offering!
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Vocal Inhabitants PRE-ORDER
An anthology of new, experimental writing and visual art.
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June 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Delighted to be part of Bristol-based publisher Strange Region’s ‘Vocal Inhabitants’ anthology, which is now on sale! Full of experimental writing & visual art (plus a weird little collage piece by yours truly) do support this lovely indie offering!
strangeregion.bigcartel.com/product/voca...
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Looking forward to diving into ‘sea pictures’ by the marvellous @maryfrancesness.bsky.social from Penteract Press & discovering hidden magic in the confluence of stone, Melville & Coleridge 🌊
June 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Looking forward to diving into ‘sea pictures’ by the marvellous @maryfrancesness.bsky.social from Penteract Press & discovering hidden magic in the confluence of stone, Melville & Coleridge 🌊
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If you do one thing in London this weekend please go see the UK’s AIDS Quilt in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall.
June 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you do one thing in London this weekend please go see the UK’s AIDS Quilt in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall.