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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch

@yallaalia.bsky.social

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🚀Dancer & Writer. ✨Brit based in Zurich. ⚡️Words in Fractured Lit, X-RAY Literary, LEON Literary, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Your Impossible Voice…Nom BSF & BMF 2025 🎖️Bath Flash Fiction Short List

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 4d

“You belong in a Picasso painting — there, one ear higher than the other, sawhorse for a cheekbone, hatchet marks for lips.”

Wonderful prose poem, The Bad Doctor, from my lovely friend @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social

www.theunjournals.com/unbroken47

Unbroken | Issue 46 | Summer 2025

Prose poems for y'all.

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 4d

Great! Looking forward to it…back in Zurich mid October

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you my dear!

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 7d

So happy to be nominated for my piece “Feeding Time” which I recently had the pleasure of reading in Brussels at the @saloneurope.bsky.social

The Woolf (Official) @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations @yallaalia.bsky.social, @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social, @sabinejaccaud.bsky.social, Sheree Shatsky & Mike Wilson, our nominees for the next @sundresspub.bsky.social #BestoftheNet anthology. Fingers crossed!

#flashfiction #prosepoetry #creativenonfiction

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks so much!

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 13d

So nice to see you all together!

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 20d

It was amazing! You should come to the next salon, next year - but hopefully we meet before then! Since you’re only down the road in winti

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 20d

Well done for getting off the train! It was lovely to meet you, Sarah. 💖

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 20d

Loved your workshop so much. Was just my thing, I lapped it all up!

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 25d

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 26d

Maybe it was a sign! Or a prompt for a new story!😹

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 26d

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 26d

So happy to read at the @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels.

“Feeding Time” pub. @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social

thewoolfx.com/feeding-time...

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 26d

Such a great experience, reading at the opening evening of the @saloneurope.bsky.social

Big thank you for organizing such an inspiring event,

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 26d

Impeccable vibes at #EWSBrussels2025 ✨

Thank you to all our readers, especially to our surprise guest @kitdewaal.com

Kit de Waal about to give a reading, sitting in a chair at a distance with rows of listeners on either side

Crowd listening to a reading with a floor to ceiling window in the background

People chatting in a lounge in mid century style

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 28d

Can’t wait to be there! Can’t wait to meet you too!

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · 29d

Soooo excited!

Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ticket link: www.bossladieszurich.ch/events-1/gir...

Girls left in the woods become archeologists | bossladies

Join us for an interview and book reading with Katerina Zherebtsova, a writer, an interdisciplinary creative professional, and brand marketer, as she talks about her first book of poetry released thi...

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · Sep 8

What truths will unfold as Katerina Zherebtsova reads from her debut poetry collection?

I’m excited to interview Katerina on Tuesday, 23rd Sept, from 18.30 at B2 Hotel Zurich

All proceeds go to @Action4WomenCH

Tickets: Girls left in the woods become archeologists | bossladies

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · Aug 18

Is that you and me? 💖

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Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social · Aug 18

Wonderful, visceral, raw read from @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social

Nicole Brogdon @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social · Aug 18

I have a gritty southern story, “Dead Daddies”, in the lovely new issue of @susurrusmag.bsky.social. Thank you to the editors for such good editorial care. I’d be honored if you’d read my story. Thank you! www.susurrusthemagazine.com/dead-daddies