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Vicky MacKenzie
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Writer, cat lady, John Ruskin obsessive, wrote a novel about medieval mystics. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
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And as always a thousand thank yous to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social who wrote this astounding and thoughtful review of my book when it first came out, and sent it out into the world with a bang! ๐Ÿ˜
www.theguardian.com/books/2023/j...
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie review โ€“ a pocket epic
This electrifying debut compares the spiritual adventures of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich
www.theguardian.com
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New guest post ๐Ÿ“ฐ

Glacier โ€“ Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem

Read the full post: buff.ly/VdmjNVJ

#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A 6 year old told me this joke a few years ago but adorably she forgot the punch line and said "Punch her in the face." ๐Ÿ˜‚
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is awkward - no one has bid for a signed copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... yet. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
Go on, you can get a personalised present for someone AND help raise money for such an important cause! ๐Ÿ™
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarรกn na hร‰ireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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This auction is now LIVE! Funds go to Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. I've donated a signed pb copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... and I'm happy to dedicate it if you're buying it as a present!
app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Just 6 days left to sign up for my 8 week online short story course and get the early bird discount: ยฃ225 instead of ยฃ250, which includes detailed feedback on a short story of your own at the end of the course (Jan - Mar 2026). โœ’๏ธ๐Ÿ“š If you're hoping to do more writing next year, come and join us!
Short story writers! I am running my 8-week online course again in 2026: 'What can a short story do?', exploring the possibilities of this wonderful form. We'll read 8 contemporary short stories and use them as a launchpad for our own writing. More details โฌ‡๏ธ
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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mixing cassis with the communion wine and calling it a kirie eleison
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This auction is now LIVE! Funds go to Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. I've donated a signed pb copy of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN... and I'm happy to dedicate it if you're buying it as a present!
app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #keepeyesonsudan
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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โ€œIโ€™m not a serious thinker. Iโ€™m a writer: thatโ€™s very different. I think a writerโ€™s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.โ€
- Benjamรญn Labatut
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Very pleased for you! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ“š
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Rural literature knows that silence is never empty. It holds wind through grass, a screen door slamming, the creak of a barn settling into dusk. Writers like Willa Cather and Kent Haruf turn quiet into a whole language. #BookWormSat

Art: OutdoorPainter
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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A tiny bit of shameless self-promotion because the gifting season is creeping up on us. If youโ€™re after something delicious, handcrafted, and ethical, my chocolate boxes, bars, and treats make really lovely gifts. Treat yourself, treat someone else, or both, I wonโ€™t judge! Reshares appreciated! ๐Ÿซโœจ
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Congratulations to @seanluskauthor.bsky.social on winning Fiction Book of the Year at this year's #SaltireBookAwards! ๐Ÿฅณโœ’๏ธ๐Ÿ˜
Huge congratulations to Sean Lusk for winning the fiction prize at the Saltire Awards last night for his excellent A Woman of Opinion! #SaltireBookAwards #SeanLusk #AWomanOfOpinion #booksellerreccs #bookrecommendations #booksbooksbooks #booksky
November 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.

This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Poet Garry MacKenzie (my husband!) has written a guest post for North Sea Poets. โ„๏ธโœ’๏ธ๐Ÿ“š His poem GLACIER is available as an e-pub from @windandbones.com
open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Glacier
NSP guest post! Garry MacKenzie writes on his new long poem ...
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
That is so kind of you, Valeria - thank you! ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿƒ
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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It's world philosophy day and my biography of French philosopher Henri Bergson is RIGHT THERE!

In my book you will find out about Bergson's philosophy of durรฉe, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, and why he caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway!

linktr.ee/eherring
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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My latest essay in @poetrybrum.bsky.social on nightingales in poetry and life and learning Russian. With disconnected footnotes on interpreting in Russian for Ukrainian refugees.
May 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Write what you know or write what you don't? On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast Caroline Clark tells us she's certain of one thing โ€“ she's making it up

Catch it at www.fictionable.world/podcasts/car...

#books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thank you! ๐Ÿ’š
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Good Morning!

Weโ€™ve got wonderful news for you!

Absolutely delighted that Horatio Clareโ€™s We Came by Sea has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwrds. Itโ€™s a very impressive shortlist.

The paperback is now at the printers and is available for pre order!

@horatioclare.bsky.social
#BookSky
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
That's so good to hear! It's called EACH LEAF, EACH CURVE OF STEM and will be pub by Bloomsbury, hopefully early 2027 โœ’๏ธ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿƒ
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Signed up! I'm working on a novel about St Francis so this is great timing. Even if there's not much Francis specific content, I'm really looking forward to thinking about representations of saints in art more generally...
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM