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Rachel Webster Dawson
@racheldawsonwrites.bsky.social
Welsh arty dyke. Wrote 'Neon Roses'. Comms @ Common/Wealth Theatre. Trustee @ Seren Books. Mentor @ Literature Wales. Writer & teacher (&Mam!) other places too. Email [email protected].
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Newport locals, I'm running a couple of workshops with The Place on LGBTQ+ literature this month...no no pre-reading necessary, just come along and talk Queer stories!

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Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literature
Discover LGBTQ+ literature throughout the decades.
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September 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Thank you EVERYONE who has purchased a book or shared our meme – we have now raised just under one hundred pounds!

Our fundraising sale closes on May 31st, but you can still buy any Salt title at 20% off the RRP. Simply use discount code TheBigSaltSale in the checkout. #BookSky #Publishing
May 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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It’s @serenbooks.bsky.social bank holiday half price sale until Wednesday 28 May. You can buy The Zoo Father, The Huntress, The Treekeeper’s Tale from my Seren titles for half price with code may25 on checkout, that’s only a fiver for The Zoo Father!

www.serenbooks.com/book/the-zoo...
The Zoo Father - Seren
Shortlisted for the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize, this unique collection centres on a daughter’s fraught relationship with her dying father, a man whose legacy to her was violence and abandonment. Rich in th...
www.serenbooks.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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We're delighted to be a finalist for Small Press of the Year alongside our Welsh colleagues! #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards
Congratulations to our Small Press of the Year Finalists: Wales 🤩

Seren Books, Parthian, Riley Publications, Firefly Press, Lucent Dreaming, Broken Sleep Books and Graffeg! #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards
February 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Thank you so much to Mair, Alisha from Glitter Cymru, Richard from Leathermen Cymru and moderator, @racheldawsonwrites.bsky.social, for taking part in our first oral histories event, 'Tales of This City'! It was informative, heartwarming and lovely and thank you everyone who took part and attended!
Thank you @queeremporium.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of the Tales of This City panel for LGBTQ+ History Month tonight. It was an honour to talk about what I was getting up to in Cardiff in the early aughts. And thank you also for helping to me to remember who I am!
February 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Day 12 of LGBTQ+ blogs/articles you may have missed. John Gibson and Penry Williams: queer Welsh artists in Rome #LGBTQhistorymonth artuk.org/discover/sto...
John Gibson and Penry Williams: queer Welsh artists in Rome | Art UK
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.
artuk.org
February 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Booksellers, writers, publishers, teachers, anyone in the world of books and education... please sign this open letter about what Israeli soldiers did at the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Educational Bookshop open letter
We are outraged at the raid by Israeli forces on the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem and the arrests of Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna. Selling books is not a crime. The Israeli forces have chosen to attack...
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February 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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This month’s film of the month is an excerpt from BBC Northern Ireland programme Ulster in Focus: The Loughsiders in which the poet Seamus Heaney explores an ancient and mysterious stone statue on Boa Island 🌿❤️ 🗿

stoneclub.rocks/film-club
February 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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I wrote a book about why fascists hate queer & trans people and our art, and why we will always survive them (because art): A NAZI WORD FOR A NAZI THING

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A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing
by So Mayer An essay on art, bodies and fascism In an era where identity politics is being weaponised against the very people it has sought to make visible, how can we reclaim complexity? In 1937 the ...
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January 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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BEYOND / TU HWNT✨

We're proud to share a short film we co-produced with @lucentdreaming.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of the brand new anthology by Deaf and Disabled writers!

🎬Ffion Pritchard

Watch the film and get your copy!

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January 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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We are looking for two Deaf/disabled or Neurodivergent change makers ‘Provocateurs’ to amplify access  within their matched venue and to give access issues a place at the table and to provoke and challenge usual ways of working.  https://www.takingflighttheatre.org.uk/venue-provocateurs/
January 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Still got some spaces on a free ANGRY WRITING workshop that I'm doing with Common/Wealth Theatre (where I also work...)

I'm hoping that it will let people get some stuff off their chests!

12:20 - 2:30 on Thursday 13th Feb, at Llanrumney Hall.

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January 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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The Greene Door project from @greeneandheaton.bsky.social is accepting applications for underrepresented unagented writers - deadline 21 March. This is how I got connected with my agent! greeneheaton.co.uk/the-greene-d...
Greene Door
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January 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Not sure if I have anything to pitch to it, but if u write first-person in particular, a friend recommends AFM, a new magazine by Feeld (yep the dating app):

feeld.co/magazine/pla...
January 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Very excited to be featured in the first edition of Folding Rock magazine!
January 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I've never been more grateful for books. No reels, no hot takes, no algorithm, no AI claptrap, no rules changing while I read. Just paper and the author's words.
January 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hello! Dipping my toe in - mainly so I can tell work what it's like!
January 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM