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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · 2d

Join us on 25 October, 5.30pm, at the Charteris Centre to celebrate the launch of the anthology North Bridge: Where We Travelled!
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...

Poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game!

Graphic with diagonal rays of colour, the book North Bridge: Where We Travelled.
Text: Book Launch!
poetry / fiction / SFF / memoir / script / game
25 October
5.30pm - 7pm
Charteris Centre
St Ninian's Hall
138-140 Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR
Tickets: bit.ly/NBWWT25

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Sonia Spookyman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 3d

If you'd like to help, I'd appreciate the support: ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee

Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

ko-fi.com

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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · Sep 3

For my Black & PoC writers - just a couple of spaces left in our SBWN poetry group online, starting tomorrow lunchtime - with the spectacular @hannahlavery.bsky.social ❤️

Bursaries available, donations gratefully accepted: www.tickettailor.com/events/scott...

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Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social · Aug 29

Join our Q&A with @scottishbooktrust where they'll share some top tips and answer your questions about applying for the New Writers Award! scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/qa-applying-...

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · Aug 18

If you get approached by this person or group, please forward it to my actual email, so I can forward it to my lawyer. I want to find whoever's doing this! Then we'll just have us a little talk.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.

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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · Aug 14

Chatting wi Lisa Williams & Shani Akilah tomorrow...

Celebrating Andrea Levy (Small Island, The Long Song)
Fri 15 August, 12:00 – 13:00
Venue B @edbookfest
Access: Captioned, wheelchair accessible, quiet room
Tickets: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Text: Celebrating Andrea Levy, 15 August, 12:00, EdBookFest
Portrait photos of three women of Caribbean heritage, all smiling.
Underneath are their books:
For Such A Time As This by Shani Akilah
Time Cleaves Itself by Jeda Pearl
The Big Book of UK History by Lisa Willams

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · Aug 13

Great to be part of Season 1 of Writing Worlds, repping Scottish folklore at Cymera Fest, and alongside such a stellar line up! ✨️📚👇

Alternative Stories @storiesalt.bsky.social · Aug 10

We're now deep into season 1 of our Writing Worlds Podcast which features chats with prominent writers about their approach to #worldbuilding.

You can join me and @emilyinkpen.bsky.social fortnightly for new episodes and catch up with our previous shows here pod.link/1812994751

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Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social · Aug 14

Just signed this - keep reposting, everyone!

E.M. Faulds / Beth @bethkesh.bsky.social · Aug 12

Don't forget this. Cis women, where are ya? Get signing.
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

We’ve reached 40,000 help us get to 50,000!

This momentum is extraordinary - but we're not stopping here!.. We need your help to get us to get to 50,000 signatures! Download our poster here and display it on work notice boards, in local cafes, ...

www.change.org

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · Aug 14

Reminder about my very first ANNAH, INFINITE event, pls do sign up and let’s try to take down whatever colonial structures of disbelief we can.

No disability justice without a free Palestine. And do support the wonderful work of @workshops4gaza.bsky.social, translator-run. Lead yr own wshop!

Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · Jul 10

All proceeds from ANNAH, INFINITE: BURNING COLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES OF DISBELIEF @workshops4gaza.bsky.social will go twrds Crips for eSIMS for Gaza, disabled-run ❤️‍🔥

Wed Sept 3
Pls sign up at workshops4gaza.com/workshops

@pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social

Against a white background with red border, an illustration of two grey cupped hands holding a red flame. Image text says: WORKSHOPS FOR GAZA | KHAIRANI BAROKKA | ANNAH, INFINITE: BURNING COLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES OF DISBELIEF | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 6-7.30pm EST.

Pink book cover saying ‘Annah, Infinite’ and text saying ‘This workshop will be a guided discussion about this speculative nonfiction book’s ideas, disability justice, and the ways each reader can take these concepts and apply them to everyday resistance.

Graphic of the two cupped hands repeats, with text saying ‘All donations from this workshop will go to Crips for eSIMS for Gaza, a collective of disabled people around the world who are raising funds to get as many eSims as we can into Gaza.

Register at www.workshops4gaza.com/workshops | Link in bio!

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Aug 13

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Screenshot of the first two questions in the survey - there's only six to answer.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

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Chris Kindred @chriskindred.com · Aug 13

Realis and her Thousand Moons

A painting of the planet Realis, surrounded by many moons hanging in space.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · Feb 26

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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beccadagoo @silly.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'm so tired of this shit. The Sentinelese don't talk to us because in 1880, Britain kidnapped six of their people, got them sick, then sent back the four survivors. Then they exterminated the nearby Ongan population. They're not animals, and they do not see us as aliens

Do the Sentinelese Live in the Zoo Hypothesis?
John Michael Godier
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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · Aug 14

After the excitable crowds of the summer festival season, getting out of the city and into the undergrowth of Paxton to untangle & reweave SFF-infused words is just what we need 🧙🏽‍♀️🕸️🍃

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jul 30

Weaving the Uncanny
writing workshop with Jeda Pearl
29 Aug, Berwick-upon-Tweed – £20

Join Scottish Jamaican writer @jedapearl.bsky.social to explore Paxton House’s history & links to the Caribbean, & create writing braided with folklore & supernatural elements
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weaving-th...

Weaving the Uncanny writing workshop with Jeda Pearl

Join Scottish Jamaican poet and fiction author Jeda Pearl to create pieces of writing braided with folklore and supernatural elements.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎉🎂Happy Book Birthday to @mkhardywrites.com 's Scottish, sapphic, gothic THE NEEDFIRE where a bride arrives at her new home to find it oozing with atmosphere and crackling with tension.

In the Highlands, the roots of the past run deep, and even the earth is angry...

geni.us/needfire

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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · Jul 31

Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish.

Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each.

Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · Jul 30

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a dying star’s display in new mesmerising details 🤩

Thanks to Webb astronomers can learn more about the life cycle of stars ⭐️

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪

Colourful mostly red image of near-infrared light from a glowing cloud with a distorted, asymmetrical shape, illuminated from within by a bright central star. The asymmetrical shape resembles paint splattered on the ground. In the centre of this image, a light blue glow casts over areas of dark pockets that appear dark blue and are traced with orange material. It has a clumpy appearance. The shells become a deeper red with distance from the centre. The shells appear as lobes that push gas toward the equatorial plane, forming a disc. The background of the image is black and speckled with tiny bright stars and distant galaxies.

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · Jul 29

Please read & share the scholarship story of Gazan poet Haia,

❗️and how you can take one action now to help her and the other scholars trapped in Gaza by UK govt red tape ❗️

When Out-Spoken Press held a MAP fundraiser back in October 2023, we featured the poetry of Haia Mohammed, a young poet in Gaza who had recently sent us some of her work.
Over the course of the unfolding genocide we stayed in touch. She even joined us in the Poetry Room amid all the devastation and upheaval she was experiencing just to work on her craft.

Over the course of the year Haia continued to write on what she was experiencing.
In March 2025, she messaged me saying she was unsure if she would survive the genocide and wanted her poems to defy borders, hold witness and act in service of her people being brutally silenced.

We published her pamphlet, The Age of Olive Trees, in May with all proceeds going directly to her and her family. At the same time, Goldsmiths University in London opened their Palestinian Scholarships programme, offering four Palestinians full scholarships to pursue their studies at the university.
Haia messaged to say she wanted to apply for the scholarship, to come to London and write poetry that held at its centre a testimony to the violent oppression and the endurance of the Palestinian people.

Haia prepared her application under relentless bombardment, mass killings, starvation, and illness. Out-Spoken Press, together with a small committed team to whom I'm forever indebted, supported her with the tools to finish her submission.
The pamphlet received critical acclaim in The Guardian and has continued to win the hearts of readers from all over the world in the space of a few months.

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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · Jul 26

This looks sooooo good!!! 🥹

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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · Jul 22

Have you joined our community writing space for Black & PoC writers on Discord yet...? 💻✨

Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social · Jul 8

Calling all Scottish BPOC writers: Join us on Discord for another write-in:

📅29th July 12:30pm – 1:00pm
📅1st August 12:30pm – 1:00pm

Sign up & learn more here: scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/community-di...

Community Discord Write-ins – 29th July & 1st August 2025

Join us for another round of Discord write-ins!

scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · Jul 22

🤔Are corals animals, plants, or rocks?⁠
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Surprise—they’re animals! Those hard reef structures are actually colonies of tiny, soft-bodied organisms. They host symbiotic algae that keep them fed and give them their distinctive color. 🪸🐠⁠

👉🏽Learn more: go.whoi.edu/Coral-sp

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Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · Jul 22

Please share! Closing 25 July at 10am... The amazing Project X is seeking 2 Co-Directors who identify as Black and/or of Black descent. They're looking for an Operations Lead and a Community & Development Lead - full info:
www.projectxplatform.co.uk/opportunities

Opportunities — Project X

www.projectxplatform.co.uk

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · Jul 22

Look what arrived while I was away @wcorklitfest.bsky.social! My edited ‘10 poems from the Lake District for @candlestickpress.bsky.social!

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