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#WritingCommunity reposts book publication news, great reviews, literary nominations & awards, and new work in journals, magazines & anthologies. Founded & curated by Rod Mannix. Also see: @rodmannix.bsky.social https://LiteraryRetweet.com
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Writing Community @writingcommunity.bsky.social · Oct 12
#WritingCommunity reposts book publication news, great reviews, literary readings & book signings, nominations & awards, and new work in magazines, journals & anthologies.
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Sandra Cox @scoxauthor.bsky.social · 6h
There’s a new sheriff in El Dorado—and someone’s crossed the wrong line. When a man from Keeper’s past threatens the family he’s built, the badge becomes a formality. He’ll get them back, no matter what side of the law he has to ride.
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#KU, #OldWestHistorical
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Cormac Culkeen @cormacculkeen.bsky.social · 7h
Tired but buzzing. I won second prize in the Frances Browne Poetry Competition 2025 for my poem, Meteor. I'm a happy chappie!
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 8h
don't forget, 2026 above/ground press subscriptions now available! and with canada post opening up again, let's get some further chapbook orders happening!
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above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available!
The race to the half-century continues! And with more than FOURTEEN HUNDRED TITLES produced to date over nearly thirty-two years, there’s be...
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Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social · 7h
Proud my #poem "Casting About for Images of Comfort, I Remember" appears in the latest issue of Eclectica Magazine! Read it here, let me know what you think: www.eclectica.org/v29n4/harris...
📖 #poetry 📝 #booksky 💙📚 #writing #publishing @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
Casting About for Images of Comfort, I Remember—Colleen S. Harris—Eclectica Magazine v29n4
Poetry by Colleen S. Harris, Eclectica Magazine v29n4
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G.G. Collins 📚🐈‍⬛🐎🫖🩰🧘🏻‍♀️🗼🔮🕯️🪄 @ggcollins.bsky.social · 7h
#Finalist, New Mexico Book #Awards.
It's the season of the #witch. Are you ready?
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Author Martha Perez @marthaperezbook.bsky.social · 7h
Twisted: Dark stories that will make you sleep with your lights on. Nova is dark and as twisted as they come. She can’t help who she’s become. The wild is what raised her. Her Supernatural capabilities make her someone the forest should fear. www.amazon.com/Twisted-Sinf...
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Alan Orloff @alanorloff.bsky.social · 7h
TODAY! Hey, SoCal friends, have some fun at Book Carnival! Eight contributors to HOLLYWOOD KILLS, all in one place, discussing their stories! I hear their dance number is spectacular!
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Edward McKeown @edwriter.bsky.social · 10h
And on Halloween itself 10/31 you can get Knight in Charlotte for free. Enjoy the adventures of Jeremy Leclerc as he protects us from things that go bump in the night.
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Edward McKeown @edwriter.bsky.social · 10h
In honor of Halloween we have two specials coming up for readers. The Sha'daa Apocalypse will be a free download 10/17-19 get your introduction to this chilling series for free!
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Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites.bsky.social · 10h
Your best friend swears she didn't stage her own death, yet she doesn't have any answers.

And the she takes you hostage claiming your darkest secret is a clue to it all.

Would you trust her?

COMING DECEMBER 6TH!
#BookRelease #AmReading
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Mercedes Rochelle @authorrochelle.bsky.social · 10h
Harold Godwineson muses on his misfortunes in FATAL RIVALRY, Available on #KU or #audiobook. Universal link: buff.ly/3qRnJ8T
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A. A. Rubin @thesurrealari.bsky.social · 10h
#NYCC Announcement: Into That Darkness Peering, written by me and illustrated by Marika Brousianou is coming to @globalcomix.com on October 15th.

#read our , #EdgarAllanPoe inspired #gothic #horror collection on the platform just in time for #spookyseason. It’s the perfect #book for #halloween.
A black rectangle with a book cover on it. Into That Darkness Peering, by A. A. Rubin and Marika Brousianou. Text on the box has the title and “on global comix October 15.
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Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social · 10h
I played the Telephone game, where artists of all types pass work onto each other and create new work based on the work received. My poem(s) responded to paintings by Jessica Snow. It was a cool process. You can view the whole project in an interactive journal/anthology, here telephonegame.art
Homepage of the telephone art project featuring an eye surrounded by a circle with seven moon like objects Looking Up Into The Winter Stars At The Edge of the Atlantic There You Are What stars weave their light with darkness? A circle of trust Between absence Between emptiness A weather of static— How small must one’s heart become To survive what passes? To slip between infinity’s trap I love you I love you not Winking in darkness What noise reaches us from afar? You are loved — you are loved You are loved for what you are Between absence and emptiness To survive? A weather of trust A circle of dust A heart between light and dark As if all that came before was wind A voice from another room cries out In the dark In the emptiness A warm longing A light Long passed from age –As if emptiness were so easy to dismiss How we touched without touching? Voices From afar arriving home through our voice –Together—we opened a door You are loved you are loved You are loved for what you are 1 Can be read as two poems or as one poem, a contrapuntal
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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 10h
Is very exciting to see my fellow PhDers and their brilliant research here. Take a look at the gallery and see what we have been up to! Including my maquette as poetic form @dcahf-met.bsky.social @centreplacewriting.bsky.social
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 3d
Congratulations to all those shortlisted in this year's Images of Research - including PGRs @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social & @louisekenward.bsky.social and staff researchers.
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Take a look at the images on the link below and vote for your favourite:
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Images of Research: 2025 entries
View the images in the online gallery
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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 9h
Less than a month away!!!!

Listen to live Lit and raise funds for @translifeline.org.

Register now at:
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Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. November 8, 2025 Featuring: Todd Dillard Brian Spears Matthew E. Henry James McConachie David J. Bauman Jonathan Everitt https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
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Kent Priore @kentpriore.bsky.social · 8h
Hello, Poughkeepsie!

Time to set up.
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Freya Pickard @freyapickard.bsky.social · 9h
#Freereads #Fantasy #ScienceFiction

at mybookcave.com/g/escape-int...

Closes 31st October 2025

#bookcave #PleaseShare
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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 9h
Good news on the writing front: my short story "The Carousel" won Andromeda Magazine's short story contest for fantasy. I realize it's not like winning the Nebula, but it helps keep the imposter syndrome at bay

#SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic 🪐📚
#SFF
#SFFWriting/Writers 🔱
#writingcommunity
#cozyfantasy
an award certificate
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Vanita Shukla Hork @vanitahork.bsky.social · 9h
How does a #teenager start writing profound #poetry at the age of 13 and publish it 40 years later?

Exactly 2 years ago, 11 October 2023, I did an #interview with author David Applegate to tell my #story ♥️

#YouTube #BooksWorthReading #indie #authorsky

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An Interview with Vanita Shukla Hork
YouTube video by Future Fantasy Empire
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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 8h
The schedule for the Louisiana Book Fest is up! louisianabookfestival.org/featured-aut... I'm excited to be on a short story panel for SECRET KEEPERS, but even more excited to be moderating a panel on memoir -- look at these amazing books and their writers! ⬇️👀
The 2025 Book Fest is Saturday, November 2. 10 a.m. I moderate Memoirs at the Crossroads of Violence and Voice with Jordan LaHaye Fontenot, Bernice L. McFadden and Lauren Rhoades. 2:15 I'm on a panel called Short Stories of the Modern Soul with Daren Dean and Jennifer Anne Moses. A.E. Rooks moderating
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Sean McNulty @thispersona.bsky.social · 19h
Delighted to be picked! From The Martlet, my satirical novel about the struggles of a small-town newspaper.
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Christopher Joyce - Author @chrisjauthor.bsky.social · 17h
- FREE for a limited time...
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Kelli Short Borges @kelliborges2.bsky.social · 16h
So honored to read last night at FBOMB with this very talented group! Thank you @francinewitte.bsky.social ! ❤️🙏
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FBOMB Global Flash Reading-October 10, 2025
YouTube video by Francine Witte
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Hugh W. Roberts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏳️‍🌈 🎃 @hughsviewsandnews.com · 15h
Story Chat Digest: "Mastering the Art of Flash Fiction" by Hugh W. Roberts alwayswrite.blog/2025/09/09/s...
#writingcommunity #writing #writingtips
Story Chat Digest: “Mastering the Art of Flash Fiction” by Hugh W. Roberts
Are you up for a writing challenge? Read on for more details. When I started blogging in 2014, I had no idea what Flash Fiction was. Just as I was about to throw in the towel with my blog, I stumbl…
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Marcia Clayton @marciaclayton.bsky.social · 15h
💙📚💙 #booksky When Annie's father dies, her mother is left with 7 hungry mouths to feed. Annie, 15, is determined to keep her family from the workhouse. Will she succeed? What lengths will she go to? A gripping Victorian family saga.
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#Victorian #womensfiction
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