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Jacky Taylor
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Seaside living writer & creative type, published in numerous anthologies. Reader & co-editor of @theforge.bsky.social literary magazine. Loves arts, landscape, books & crafts.
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Reminder: Applications are open for the 2026–27 @malorieblackman.bsky.social Scholarships for Unheard Voices. This is your chance to receive up to £1,000 towards City Lit writing courses. Applications close 8 Feb 2026. @citylitwriting.bsky.social

Apply now: www.citylit.ac.uk/malorie-blac...
January 6, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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Japanese artist Narumi Takada's 2021 textile piece, "Stepping on Fresh Snow" with snow created using punch needle and straight/satin stitches for the boot and paw prints #Womensart
Textile artwork showing what realistically resembles a boot print in snow surrounded by a dog's paw prints
January 8, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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theforge.bsky.social
Our story of the week is Harlequins Upon Our Doorsteps by Mizuki Yamamoto.
Harlequins Upon Our Doorsteps - The Forge Literary Magazine
Harlequins Upon Our Doorsteps, a short fiction by Mizuki Yamamoto
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January 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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If you’ve got an itch to develop your creative practice across page, stage and screen - then we have a brand new MA programme that might just interest you. Come & learn with my colleagues & I in beautiful York! Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...
MA Creative Writing
Hone the craft of writing for and about the page, stage, and screen in a historic and forward-thinking city.
www.york.ac.uk
January 4, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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sarahstarrmurphy.bsky.social
We are all so proud to have published these brilliant stories and are cheering them on!!
theforge.bsky.social The Forge Literary Magazine @theforge.bsky.social · 6d
Our 2025 Pushcart Nominations! Best of luck to all of these brilliant authors!
Graphic that reads: Forge Literary Magazine 2025 Pushcart Nominations: Fiction: Beyond Guernica - R.A. Morean Dust Bridges - Garima Chhikara On Backsliding - Victoria Chen Nonfiction: The Word for Rain - Sandra Carlson Khalil Qurbani Eid - Rhahd Abir What Remains - Nancy Huggett
January 2, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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loadofolbobbins.bsky.social
Final #ArtAdventCalendar of 2025 and also final @birdwhisperers.bsky.social, definitely want to do more next year. This is a brand new bird illustration for you all, the European Crested Tit....

#BirdArt #SciArt #Procreate #Illustration #BirdWhisperer #Art
An original digital illustration by Loadofolbobbins of a European Crested Tit perched on thin snowy branches. It's a very delicate small bird with rich brown wings and buff creamy chest feathers with orange tones. A small stripey crest of feathers in black and white are atop it's head and lead to a small but sharply pointed beak. It's face is a whitish grey with small dark beady eye that has a a line of dark feathers either side of it that curve away and back under, almost like someone's drawn on it with pen. There is another line of dark feathers that wrap around the base of it's head. The background of the illustration is white with faint grey blue inky washes. There's a real sense of the cold snowy weather.
December 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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This classy grandma moth is Eleanor 💖
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#fiberart #softsculpture #moth #butterfly #grandmacore
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Day 27 of #ArtAdventCalendar and here's a yellow-headed blackbird for you all...

#BirdArt #SciArt #Illustration #Procreate
An original digital illustration of a Yellow Headed Blackbird perched on the top of a reed by Loadofolbobbins. Its colouring is predominately black with a bright yellow headband black grey beak. This bird has its head tilted up and beak opened wide as if it’s singing loudly. The sunlight is shining brightly off its left side feathers creating a flint of light greys creating a shining effect on its feathers. Its black tail feathers are spread wide like a fan. The background is an array of blue inky splash marks.
December 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Silent Night' by contemporary UK printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
Print featuring a house with warm light coming from the windows on a snowy hillside at night under a starry sky
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Day nineteen of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Tonight, I’m sharing a collection of raven stones.
Five stones, all painted with ravens on them.
December 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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When 97% is 'no clear consensus', and 52% is 'the will of the people', it's time to face facts that Governments do what Governments want to do regardless of what their people actually want.
December 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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📢 One of our NION Women collective responds to the exclusion of trans women from Labour's Women’s Conference.

Read our latest blog: notinourname.org.uk/trans-women-excluded-labour-womens-conference/
Trans Women No Longer Welcome at Labour Women's Conference We say 'Not In Our Name'
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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theforge.bsky.social
Our story of the week is Vacancies by SK Stringer.
Vacancies - The Forge Literary Magazine
Vacancies, a short fiction by SK Stringer
forgelitmag.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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ronanhession.bsky.social
As a writer who started writing in my forties and who is published by a small but mighty indie press, I wasn't sure how I'd get on in the book world, but from day one libraries have been a great support, just like they were a great support to me all my life as a reader.

Please support your library.
ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 24d
Since we started in 2006 libraries have given our authors the space and support to talk about their stories and have promoted everything we are trying to do.

Please support your local library.

@leedslibraries.bsky.social
@mcrlitfest.bsky.social
@manclibraries.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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I hope you allow me as I know this isnt a photo of something Christmasy, but much needed over the festive period. Please share as it may help someone in the UK. A selection of phone numbers for different associations who can support / listen
#WeekXforXmas
#AlphabetChallenge
#CharityPhoneLines
Helpfull UK telephone numbers if needed over the Christmas period ( and all year long )
December 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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kerriedoodles.bsky.social
Day ten (!) of #ArtAdventCalendar - December is zooming by.

Here’s a painted stone from a few years ago with one of my all time favourite birds - a nightjar.
A warm-grey stone with a portrait of a nightjar painted on it. Behind the nightjar is a full moon. A sprig of foliage reaches in from the left-hand-side. Around the edge of the stone are some other names for the nightjar, such as: evechur, gobble rach and Jenny spinner.
December 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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loadofolbobbins.bsky.social
Day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar and we're looking to more local birds (to me at least)..the lovely sparrows. We had a colony of about 40 in our garden until our neighbour's building work scared them away 🙁 This is an illustration I did for a tea towel design.

#BirdArt #SciArt #Procreate #Illustration
A close up photo of an organic cotton tea towel designed by Loadofolbobbins. It shows an illustration of a male sparrow perched on a branch of Forsythia covered with bright yellow blossoms. Underneath the branch is a female sparrow flying with wings stretched out. The background is a bright turquoise inky wash against white.
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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For today's #ArtAdventCalendar, here's another of my favorite drawings from the year, a black and white warbler based on a photo from @gettoknownature.bsky.social

I appreciate all the nature photographers I follow. They remind us of the wonderful things in the world 💜
Semi-realistic drawing of a black and white warbler, a small bird with short tail, dark eyes, and alternating black and white stripes on its body and wings. It is perched on a black branch amid fanciful white leaves against a dull green background.
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Day nine of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Tonight I am sharing this miniature mallard duck I made out of clay.
A tiny female mallard duck made out of clay and intricately painted. She is held between my thumb and forefinger.
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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5 shelves completed on my #MosaicCrochet bookshelf throw... it's getting quite big now... and keeps me really warm and cosy as I work on it... it's still really fun to work on... and makes me feel like I'm a dot matrix printer in slow motion... 🧶
5 shelf crochet bookcase with green books on a navy background, and pale blue shelves. The books are stacked in different ways and there are plants, ornaments and bookends on some of the shelves. There are loose ends at the end of each row, they will be enclosed in a double layer border, avoiding the need to sew them in.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Day seven of #ArtAdventCalendar.

Already a week in! I briefly tried paper cutting a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Here’s one of the scenes I cut out.
Paper cut art. Cut out of black paper is a scene of two storks displaying to each other from their nest on the top of a chimney. My hand holds the paper cut up against an off-white background.
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh artist and landscape painter #womensart
Painting of a field in snow with a lone bare tree to the right and a single house jn the background under a grey winter sky
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Have to boost this stunner and share with the #ArtAdventCalendar feed!
callyconwayprints.bsky.social CallyConwayPrints @callyconwayprints.bsky.social · Dec 6
Prints from my commission in the summer. A gothic window and tarot inspired design. Made for a brilliant musician who was a pleasure to work with.
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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"It will not be possible to halt the spread of. A new pandemic virus and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so."

Isn't that the main function of a health system? To attempt to prevent people dying? This was surely influenced by the RFK-style lobbying.
elhopkins.bsky.social Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · Dec 5
Document from NHS England which basically says when there is another Pandemic we can’t be bothered to protect you, it’s too costly. We are on our own folks. H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social
15 July, 2024 Date last updated: 15 July, 2024 • Print or save to PDF Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response https://www.england.nhs.uk/long:read/framework-for-managing-the-response-to-pandemic-diseases/ Framework for managing the response to pandemic diseases Although previous arrangements focused on an influenza pandemic, as highlighted in the @ National Risk Register 2023: "any new pathogen transmitted by the respiratory route is likely to share characteristics with influenza in that it can spread rapidly via close proximity, can travel rapidly and there are few easy immediate countermeasures. It has therefore been a planning assumption that a plan for pandemic influenza would have considerable overlap with a plan for other diseases easily transmitted by the respiratory route". These reflect a reasonable worst-case scenario (RWCS) regarding impact to healthcare and wider services and the following generic assumptions should continue to aid planning: • it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so • the impact and nature of a virus cannot be known until it has emerged and affected a significant number of people, this means that impact predictions are an assumption as opposed to a forecast; the actual
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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There's just 2 days left to bid on an array of stunning art, books, mentoring sessions and experiences all in aid of the people of Sudan! Definitely lots of #ArtAdventCalendar worthy pieces there.... #Creatives4Sudan

app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

#ArtSky #BookSky #CraftSky #Art
A montage of some of the items you can bid for at the Creatives 4 Sudan auction. Raising life-saving funds for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher. Top left is a close up of part of a triptych by Alaskan artist Anna Huöng called The Salmon Run, beautiful expressive line work and subtle colours show fish swimming together across the paper. Beneath this is an image of a sterling silver handcrafted necklace by Sara Strebler of a Aglais Io Butterfly. At the bottom are images of three books Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, One Day by David Nicholls and The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton, all of which have been signed.
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM