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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · 3d

‘Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone…

SUBDIVISIONS

confirm or be cast out’

John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · 4d

#Shelfie Selfie in Black & White

John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · 26d

A new meditation for you - recorded in a live setting so a bit chatty but is very supportive in helping to@support your mental and emotional health and bring you insight in your life @insighttimer

Love to you this day
John

Please Share With Those You Feel Might Benefit From This Practice

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Sep 9

‘For me literature has always been my country, and the flag of my soul is the only one I’m prepared to stand for.

’https://johnsiddique.substack.com/p/on-writing-an-impossible-piece

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Aug 23

An incredible day in the recording studio producing Tahmina Ali and Connor Allen for a new audio series I’ve been blessed to exec produce with Ishy Din for writersmosaic / royalliteraryfund - launching soon

Can’t wait you all to hear this series - it’s very special indeed.

#fujifilmx100vi

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Only Way Out is Though

#fujifilmx100vi #photograhy

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Aug 7

Woke at five and wrote for hours on a piece that is rewriting my entire existence as an author. Whether the piece when done - and I’ve got a long time frame - is releasable or not… it’s like a new author’s heart is being born out of my old one and it’s fire.

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Aug 5

Six Images From A Peace Garden

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Six Images From A Peace Garden

The idea of peace gardens have long held a place in my heart and thoughts, and I’ve often considered that if I had the means I would create a series of peace gardens around the world for the benefit o...

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Aug 4

This Sept 🙏🏽

John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jul 11

Non celeb author publishes children’s book

Have actually been here with my kids’ book - not a word if a lie here #priateeye #books

John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jul 8

you are invited to
The best lil' ole pointing to the truth of self on the internet

well we're okay - what is best?

we turn up

we're for real

we're not living a social media life of meme

and we like people...

Obviously not for everybody and we never try to be.

John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jul 5

Early morning - listening to the birds outside in tbe rain and allowing room to hear my own soul and life again after a week down the literary mines of book voices. #photography #fujifilm100vi

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jul 1

Preps for #globalcrimequeens @writersmosaic.bsky.social
Saima Mir
Nadine Mathieson
Kia Abdullah at the mighty #bradfordlitfest this coming Sunday

You’d better be there or they’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse haha

John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jun 30

True practice is never a rejection of or an addition to who we are - it is the illumination of ourselves with the light and love that is throughout.

John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jun 30

Handwritten dedication of the closing verse we use at the end of all our practices - sent to us by a beloved student dedicated to living with awareness in their own sweet human life.

#meditation #awakening #love

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jun 29

Arrival @bradfordlitfest greenroom.
Coffee & literary considerations

Thank you for this blessed treasure of a life
Thank you each and every reader

John

#books

Eagled eyed readers will spot a very very rare copy of The Devil’s Lunchbox

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WritersMosaic @writersmosaic.bsky.social · Jun 26

A must-read, @johnsiddique.bsky.social in @thebookseller.com 👇🏽

John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jun 26

Yours truly in the bookseller
Talking on how The Royal Literary Fund & @writersmosaic.bsky.social and my work in the north is developing a better landscape for authors and readers.

www.thebookseller.com/comment/faci...

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jun 26

Yours truly in the bookseller
Talking on how The Royal Literary Fund & @writersmosaic.bsky.social and my work in the north is developing a better landscape for authors and readers.

www.thebookseller.com/comment/faci...

Reposted by John Siddique

Bradford Literature Festival @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social · Jun 24

In this event, we will discuss how counterterrorism laws and surveillance reshaped civil liberties, the impact on British Muslim identity.

📅 - Sunday 29 June
🏛️ - Bradford Live

Book your tickets here: 🔗
www.bradfordlitfest....
#SevenSeven #BradfordLitFest

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jun 21

A glorious sunlit morning and the postman brings the summer issue of The Author magazine. Where yours truly discusses both the beautiful & yet oftentimes difficult aspects of the writer’s life, and we gently suggest a meditation practice that can really support our creative and ordinary lives.

John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jun 20

The best way to increase your practice is to dedicate your turning up in life for the truest illumination and benefit of all beings

This card is available as a free download for Open Space Members and will be more generally available soon.

#meditation

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jun 18

Dear Ones - Date Change - Apologies
Due to an unforseeable clash of dates we are going to have to move this month's meditation and Satsang to a day earlier. We hope you still can join us in this circle of sanity, peace and awareness - especially with the world in such current turmoil.

John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jun 18

Love it when the postman knocks and it’s a book I really really want to read for an event I’m putting together.

#malcolmx #books

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Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social · Jun 16

Are there any journals that re-publish poems that were lost to now-defunct journals?

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John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social · Jun 16

My latest review is of the #johnlennon & #yokoono documentary One to One. An insightful look at the Ono-Lennon’s move to New York in search of a cause and to try to find Yoko’s daughter from her 1st marriage

Read It At WritersMosaic

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