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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · Mar 31

It’s probably about time I mentioned I’m now represented by Salma Begum at @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social 🌸

Salma’s bone-deep understanding of my book plus years of editorial experience make her a dream agent for me.

I’m so looking forward to working with her to bring this book into the world✨

Tree full of cherry blossoms with the words Some news in cursive script

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20h

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 15h

Oh god, my next what??

Becky F @editrixbecks.bsky.social · 1d

The horror!!!
(Of bad grammar)

A white car with the front end painted red and red handprints all over the body. On the passenger side red paint reads "Your next"

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 19h

Please tell me this will be coffee reviews followed by rants about people in cafes

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 19h

You do not know what you’re messing with when you mess with Chicago

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 1d

Come to Birmingham! @vocebooks.bsky.social does great readings that pull good crowds

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 3d

✨EWS DOUBLE BILLING✨

Writing From Rage: Turning Fury Into Form
with Mark Bowles
26 November 2025
6-7:30pm GMT

&

Pop-up Salon: London with Insurgent Press
26 November 2025
8-10pm GMT

Both at:
The Queens Larder, 1 Queen Square WC1N 3AR

🎟️Tickets together or separate – see below

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 4d

5yo: Dad, are there two kinds of lying?

My husband: What do you mean?

5yo: Well, there’s the kind of lying where you don’t tell the truth…

My husband, a theologian, ready to explain Augustinian theology to a 5 year old

5yo: And then there’s the kind where you’re lying on your back

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 9d

✨ONLINE COURSE✨

Following the success of Julie’s Prose Poetry Workshop, we’re delighted to bring you our first longer course:

Exploring Poetic Concepts and Forms: A Poetry Workshop Series

On a peach background with black text: Online Course. Exploring Poetic Concepts and Forms: a Poetry Workshop Series with Julie Irigaray. 26 Oct 2025-17 May 2026. Can be taken together or separately. In the bottom right corner, a photo of the author.

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 10d

I highly recommend this book and am really looking forward to discussing it next week at book club with @norami.bsky.social

Join us!

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 10d

Cream background with black text reading [Calligraphy script] Café Littéraire: [regular script] European Book Club; [calligraphy] with Eleonora Balsano. A photo of the book is in the bottom right corner. It shows a woman’s face with greenish tint on black background. An orange circle covers one eye. Title, down the left side: I who have never known men. Author: Jacqueline Harpman. To the left of the photo: Online. 7 October. 7PM GMT+1

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 11d

At last my time has come

In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?

The lowbrow dominates culture and anyone who questions the status quo is dismissed as an elitist killjoy. But with bland algorithmic content on the rise, perhaps we consumers should start taking our a...

www.theguardian.com

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 14d

✨ONLINE COURSE SERIES✨

Exploring Poetic Concepts and Forms: Poetry Workshops With Julie Irigaray

📅 Monthly 26 Oct 2025 - 17 May 2026*

*Can be taken individually

Have you wanted to write poetry but felt held back by lack of formal knowledge? Or already write it but would like better grounding?

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 17d

my son’s small soft hand in mine on the walk to school, crisp early-autumn air, the smell of dried leaves fallen from trees🍂

A bush with leaves turning in front of a house with faux-Tudor beams across the front

A small bush with small flowers in different shades of peak in front of the brick arch of a terrace house’s entryway

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 17d

Listening almost exclusively to this wonderful album and knowing that years from now, the first few bars of any of these songs will transport me directly to these sensations:

Wrong Kind of One

open.spotify.com

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 18d

Last chance to buy tickets!

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 24d

Did you meet @grahammort.bsky.social at #EWSBrussels2025 and think, ‘Hey this guy is ace I wish he was teaching a class’?

Well then you’re in luck!

Graham’s class will help you dive deep into your character’s minds with close third POV.

Still a few spots left!

Who’s Speaking to Us and How? Prose Writing Workshop with Graham Mort

Come join us for a fun and informative online session to take a fresh look at Point of View (POV) in prose writing.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 18d

ICYMI, our newsletter of opportunities for writers across Europe came out over the weekend, featuring:
@thewhitepube.bsky.social
@artscouncilengland.bsky.social
@mslexia.bsky.social
@theberlinreview.bsky.social
@fahmidangroup.bsky.social
@icwa.org
@womensprize.bsky.social

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 20d

Autumn weather is the perfect opportunity to cosy up in your home and write that novel you've been dreaming of all summer🍃

To help you get there, our Opportunities Newsletter just landed—chock-full of residencies, contests, grants & everything else you need to meet, learn and be inspired💫

Autumn Opportunities for Writers in Europe

Festivals, retreats, contests, online and in-person—come get inspired!

open.substack.com

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 18d

It was! At The Plough, just round the corner from your in-laws

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 21d

Following the success of Julie Irigaray's Prose Poetry Workshop, we’re delighted to bring you her new online course, The Body in Poetry

📅 Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:00 - 20:00 BST

Whether it is changing, (un)tamed, or suffering, the body plays a greater role in our lives than we want to admit...

Julie wearing a red coat, leaning against a railing in a modern building

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 22d

Thankfully I have not had time to grow a beard

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 22d

In a cafe listening to this woman with her laptop setup take a zoom call like it’s her living room and thinking of @markabowles.bsky.social and All My Precious Madness (@galleybeggars.bsky.social)

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 25d

Calling an official EWS meeting to discuss future karaoke plans

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 25d

No! You should’ve come back out. Going out on the lash with writers is a top feature of events like these!

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 25d

The perils of going to bed!

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 25d

Top 5 moments of #EWSBrussels2025

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 25d

EWS after hours featuring Brian Kelly from Insurgent Press, who heroically led our psychogeography tour this morning 🎤

#EWSBrussels2025

Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 26d

Absolutely dreamy evening. Thank @deborahzafer.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social @kplumhoff.bsky.social @norami.bsky.social for making it happen ❤️❤️❤️

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 26d

What a wonderful reading and discussion of our weekend’s theme, Rooted/Unrooted at Full Circle in Brussels

Thank you so much to our guests, @kitdewaal.com, Balsam Karam and Philippe Marczewski, for their generous, insightful answers and beautiful readings.

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 29d

As I await departure to London Euston, I can’t help but remember the time when on a business trip, juggling texts home and dinner plans, I accidentally texted my boss that I loved and missed him

Bringing exactly this chaotic energy to @saloneurope.bsky.social, see you guys soon!