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annadavidson.bsky.social
Writing, editing, publishing. My debut poetry collection is out now. https://linktr.ee/akdavidson
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Slush pilers, angry women and bewildered men, this one’s for you.

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Two brilliant writers in conversation 🤩. So many gems here about how publishing (really) works in 2025 and just how exciting & empowering indie literary fiction is. @michelehowarth.com I want a badge with my website QR code on it now!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I am very new on here so basically no posts yet ( apart from my brilliant cat) but it’s been a lovely week being one of the winners of the #poetrylondonpresents features with @poetrylondon.bsky.social huge thanks to the brilliant @niallpoetry.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Writing prize for carers who write. Entries close 1st March

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Great interview

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I’ll be in Brighton on 15 March - really looking forward to this.

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The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025 Please share :) www.writingtheheroine.com

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Friendship poems: recommendations, anyone? (I love writing about friendship as it helped see me through illness - also love to read about it)

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Catching a smuggler in Ladybird Land The Customs Officer (1972) Artist: John Berry

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

February's newsletter. Valentine's Day poem within. open.substack.com/pub/theright...

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Self-publishing for Beginners, this Thursday. Last day today to sign up if you want to send a question in advance for the recording. Otherwise, come along (online) and there will be time for questions at the end. Thursday, 6pm–8pm GMT bluepencilagency.com/product/self...

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Register now for the CIEP webinar, Exploring the Ethics of AI in Editing, with Amy Frushour Kelly on 25 February, 2-3pm GMT. Open to CIEP members and non-members. Learn more and sign up: 👉 tinyurl.com/4zexb438 #CIEP #ProfessionalDevelopment #CIEPWebinar #EditingProfessionals

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Here's the Starter Pack for KoFi and Substack based authors go.bsky.app/9Gk2J3c

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

OK next Starter Pack idea. Authors/poets/wordwranglers who use Ko-Fi or Substack to express yourselves to the world link me to your Ko-Fi/Substack and I'll include you in this Starter Pack

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Love this

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Wonder if GCSE music qualifies me for this?! Intriguing.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Such an interesting day today at the @inpressbooks.bsky.social festival of publishing. Independent publishers, booksellers & freelance publishing professionals collaborating and sharing their passion for their work - what’s not to like! Loads of useful takeaways across all areas of the business.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

amzn.eu/d/j2jm4J5 Thank you for all the new follows! I'm an editor, writer and publisher. I've worked at Faber, DK & elsewhere & am now freelance. Between 2020/21 and 2023 I had Long Covid which led me to start writing poetry. I published my debut collection in June. The reaction has been 🤯❤️‍🩹🫶

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." (Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night.)

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Closes 31 Jan…

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If you want to see Bluesky add editing and bookmarking posts. Give this a RT. Maybe they will hear us!

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