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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 7d

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

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Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · 25d

After a beautiful (hot and thirsty!) London summer, here's my latest piece for @davehillonlondon.bsky.social / On London
about the history of London's drinking fountains and how they're being restored. Thanks to
@holtoflondon.bsky.social
for help in my research www.onlondon.co.uk/elin-morgan-...

Elin Morgan: Reviving London's historic drinking fountains

With the ownership of water again an issue for concerned debate, there is much to be learned from the pioneers of public provision

www.onlondon.co.uk

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Kelsey Lagunas @kelseyelagunas.bsky.social · 25d

Oh I’m so down! Baby yellow warbler says hip hip hurray (feed me)!!! #birds

A white grey and most importantly yellow, yellow warbler begs for food. The parent is on the left partially obscured by leaves.

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Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · Jun 18

I wrote a bit for @davehillonlondon.bsky.social about when Gandhi and Charlie Chaplin met in Canning Town, East London in 1931 onlondon.co.uk/elin-morgan-... #filmhistory @newhamheritage.bsky.social

Elin Morgan: When two little men met in Canning Town

A pocket park in Newham, close to a polluted major road, commemorates a famous conversation between Mahatma Gandhi and Charles Chaplin

onlondon.co.uk

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Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · Mar 29

If you're free this evening do go check this out. Something truly different. Very much enjoyed it last night

the Space Theatre @thespacetheatre.bsky.social · Mar 25

This week - Oscar Edelstein

A UK Premiere as we welcome the great Argentine Composer and Pianist Oscar Edelstein in the new concert “Bitácoras”, Oscar plays “un-classic” piano with vocals and video made by multimedia artist Deborah Claire Procter.

28th - 30th March
space.org.uk/event/in-con...

In Concert: Oscar Edelstein - The Space

space.org.uk

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Mar 26

Aaron Boehmer traces a history of underground presses and political dissent in America.

A Brief History of America’s Campaign Against Dissident Newsmaking

In an early issue of The Rag, there was a warning: “Gentle Thursday Is Coming.” Only it wasn’t so much a warning as it was an invitation, first appearing in a one-inch section of the paper and then…

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Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · Mar 22

Looking forward to finally meeting you in person!

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Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · Mar 19

I wrote for On London about the starring role my corner of East London played in cinema history, now mostly forgotten. Thanks to @davehillonlondon.bsky.social for edits!

Elin Morgan: 'Combing out' Walthamstow's filmmaking past

Not many traces of it remain, but London E17 was a force to be reckoned with in the early days of silent movies

www.onlondon.co.uk

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Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · Feb 5

This has the potential to be really interesting...

Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon

"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

www.salon.com

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Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · Jan 28

Well this is exciting...

Soho Theatre @sohotheatre.bsky.social · Jan 28

What can we say, a diva takes her time – first shows just announced for #SohoTheatreWalhamstow

https://buff.ly/42ONLxx

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Jan 27

Number crunching: Ticketmaster’s donation to Music Venues Trust v compensation package of Ticketmaster CEO Michael Rapino

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Mickey Onions @mickeyonions.bsky.social · Jan 20

2-3-4… Tom’s putting it in now (one for the Popbitch heads).
Enjoyable Farsian/Howsian jaunt around Baker’s Soho.

The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · Jan 20

Here's a tribute from @charlotteivers.bsky.social, in which she retreads the Fourth Doctor's steps in Soho

www.the-fence.com/bakers-dozen/

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Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · Jan 13

Not a broccoli shortage! 😱

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 13

UK faces broccoli and cauliflower shortage this spring

Growers blame weather challenges in UK and Europe, which Met Office says will become more frequent with climate breakdown Broccoli, cauliflower and other brassicas may be in short supply this spring as the mild autumn and winter has caused the crops to…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jan 7

“After all, what is a ghost or an eidolon but an enormous psychic need made externally visible?” @legroff.bsky.social on the nuances of A Room of One’s Own.

Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of A Room of One’s Own

Of all the eidolons that Virginia Woolf conjured up off the page and into the world, perhaps her most insistent is that of Shakespeare’s sister. How alive she is, this Judith Shakespeare, who in re…

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Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · Jan 7

My current favourite place to write is the cafe at my local library. Coffee and tea is cheap and good and throughout the day, all life is here...

Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · Dec 9

So it seems that if if you're the one person staying in London for Christmas this year, what you'll mostly be doing is feeding cats...Three so far!

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Elin Morgan @nilebackwards.bsky.social · Nov 25

Sounds like a writing technique I'd like to try...

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Nov 24

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

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