Pip Rowson
@piprowson.bsky.social
Freelance writer, copyeditor, and proofreader for the arts and creative industries. Poet focused on the natural world. Winchester, UK.
piprowson.co.uk
piprowson.co.uk
My latest weekly column. This one's about understanding old handwriting:
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If in doubt, it's a W
Geeking out about old handwriting
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December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My latest weekly column. This one's about understanding old handwriting:
open.substack.com/pub/piprowso...
open.substack.com/pub/piprowso...
Want to read about what I saw at the cinema, have a nosy at some vintage postcards, and find a source of animal-friendly idioms? Well then, my latest weekly column is for you. open.substack.com/pub/piprowso...
The myth of 'motivation first', a mini film review, and three postcards
Plus, a bird-friendly idiom
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October 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Want to read about what I saw at the cinema, have a nosy at some vintage postcards, and find a source of animal-friendly idioms? Well then, my latest weekly column is for you. open.substack.com/pub/piprowso...
My column this week is about why mistakes don’t need to mean the end of the world … they may even lead to better audience engagement. (Having said that, I have also included a bonus tip on how to avoid them!)
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Why errors and typos aren't always a bad thing
Even when 'set in stone' on a large information board
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September 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
My column this week is about why mistakes don’t need to mean the end of the world … they may even lead to better audience engagement. (Having said that, I have also included a bonus tip on how to avoid them!)
open.substack.com/pub/piprowso...
open.substack.com/pub/piprowso...
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Hot MERL Summer
June 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Hot MERL Summer
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🌈 Happy Pride Month! Exclusive to Poetry Society members, we have an exciting new book giveaway with Stephanie Burt's Super Gay Poems as the prize.
We have three copies to give away to three randomly selected members who email [email protected] by Monday 16 June with the (...)
We have three copies to give away to three randomly selected members who email [email protected] by Monday 16 June with the (...)
June 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🌈 Happy Pride Month! Exclusive to Poetry Society members, we have an exciting new book giveaway with Stephanie Burt's Super Gay Poems as the prize.
We have three copies to give away to three randomly selected members who email [email protected] by Monday 16 June with the (...)
We have three copies to give away to three randomly selected members who email [email protected] by Monday 16 June with the (...)
This looks great, from @tanyagold.bsky.social
This year's business coaching scholarship is open for applications through June 20!
If you're an editor from a background, culture, or community historically underrepresented in publishing, I hope you'll apply.
More details ⬇
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#AmEditing #Edibuddies #WritingCommunity
If you're an editor from a background, culture, or community historically underrepresented in publishing, I hope you'll apply.
More details ⬇
tanyagold.com/coaching-for...
#AmEditing #Edibuddies #WritingCommunity
June 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This looks great, from @tanyagold.bsky.social
A circle with some rocks in it is right up my street when it comes to art. And this one's all the better for being unfinished
John Robert Cozens, A Milton Subject, Unfinished, #artbots #tate
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129814
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1129814
June 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
A circle with some rocks in it is right up my street when it comes to art. And this one's all the better for being unfinished
Reposted by Pip Rowson
Splitpixel’s Lauren James is navigating the changing landscape on trans rights in the UK as best as she can – and the arts are as safe a haven as can be found anywhere.
Repeated attacks on trans rights are exhausting - Arts Professional
Splitpixel’s Lauren James is navigating the changing landscape on trans rights in the UK as best as she can – and the arts are as safe a haven as can be found anywhere.
buff.ly
June 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Splitpixel’s Lauren James is navigating the changing landscape on trans rights in the UK as best as she can – and the arts are as safe a haven as can be found anywhere.
Bog talk – what a great title and topic for a project. Love a bog
This #WorldPeatlandsDay we're sharing a new free learning resource all about poetry & peatland, created for our Bog Talk project.
🌿 designed for upper KS2 learners (but full of fun ideas for all!)
🌿 written by @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
🌿 illustrated by Louise Crosby
🔗 bit.ly/BogsTalking
🌿 designed for upper KS2 learners (but full of fun ideas for all!)
🌿 written by @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
🌿 illustrated by Louise Crosby
🔗 bit.ly/BogsTalking
June 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Bog talk – what a great title and topic for a project. Love a bog
Today’s car-boot-sale haul. I especially love the double quote marks for Submarine “Alliance” (now discovered it’s the vessel name, but it would work well as a secret society), and I wonder how the Townswomen felt about having a Chairman.
April 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today’s car-boot-sale haul. I especially love the double quote marks for Submarine “Alliance” (now discovered it’s the vessel name, but it would work well as a secret society), and I wonder how the Townswomen felt about having a Chairman.
This week’s writing celebrates inanimate objects jumping into the spring spotlight: piprowson.substack.com/p/shiny-shin...
April 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This week’s writing celebrates inanimate objects jumping into the spring spotlight: piprowson.substack.com/p/shiny-shin...
I think we can all agree that this is the best one pound fifty that anyone’s ever spent. Yesterday’s finds from the car boot sale.
Image description: Two vintage books/pamphlets: A history of the postmarking of mail in Great Britain 1661–1939 and How to read Hieroglyphes (50p)
Image description: Two vintage books/pamphlets: A history of the postmarking of mail in Great Britain 1661–1939 and How to read Hieroglyphes (50p)
March 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I think we can all agree that this is the best one pound fifty that anyone’s ever spent. Yesterday’s finds from the car boot sale.
Image description: Two vintage books/pamphlets: A history of the postmarking of mail in Great Britain 1661–1939 and How to read Hieroglyphes (50p)
Image description: Two vintage books/pamphlets: A history of the postmarking of mail in Great Britain 1661–1939 and How to read Hieroglyphes (50p)
My latest writing has been buzzing around my brain for a year now. Read at piprowson.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
My latest writing has been buzzing around my brain for a year now. Read at piprowson.substack.com
Reposted by Pip Rowson
A giggle in these scary times…
This is an old favourite ‘I’m so glad that wasn’t me’ typo, and it’s doing the rounds again among editors. So, share the laughter.
(Keep reading past the first couple of examples – the joy is at the end.)
planetmut.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-...
#edibuddies
This is an old favourite ‘I’m so glad that wasn’t me’ typo, and it’s doing the rounds again among editors. So, share the laughter.
(Keep reading past the first couple of examples – the joy is at the end.)
planetmut.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-...
#edibuddies
The jubremony at the library
Tremony at remony at the library, the greatest printing error ever.
planetmut.blogspot.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A giggle in these scary times…
This is an old favourite ‘I’m so glad that wasn’t me’ typo, and it’s doing the rounds again among editors. So, share the laughter.
(Keep reading past the first couple of examples – the joy is at the end.)
planetmut.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-...
#edibuddies
This is an old favourite ‘I’m so glad that wasn’t me’ typo, and it’s doing the rounds again among editors. So, share the laughter.
(Keep reading past the first couple of examples – the joy is at the end.)
planetmut.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-...
#edibuddies
This week’s diary: open.substack.com/pub/piprowso...
Noticing nature
Through the eyes of children
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January 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This week’s diary: open.substack.com/pub/piprowso...