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deborahzafer.bsky.social
Reading, writing, poems, rabbits 🐇 ✡️ Mostly writing short fiction. Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social www.deborahzafer.com
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Kiev, Ukraine: April 1980 Dilip Chitre - www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe... 🇺🇦 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 #smallpoemsunday

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For #smallpoemsunday My favourite poem about having a small child and those years that go so quickly (in retrospect).

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GIVEAWAY! To celebrate passing 2000 followers here on BSky, I'm giving away a SIGNED COPY of my short story collection, THE WOODEN HILL. Follow, like, and Repost to enter. I'll choose a winner at random. Closes 1st March 2025. Thank-You! #Giveaway #ShortStories #SignedBook

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🖼️ Pui Lan Cockman

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What's nicer than a 2nd hand bookstore? The way it smells. The piles of treasures waiting to be found. The eccentric owner.

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Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

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This is probably my only reading of the year, so if you want to hear me read from my new project, or just have a fun evening, then Get Booked! 👇

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Good morning, friends. We've got 10 spaces left at our online salon on 8 April. 🎤 Hear beautiful words ⁉️ Take part in a very serious quiz 🏘 Join our friendly community of writers Hosted by the one and only @kiklodge.bsky.social Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...

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Which book sold 27,000 copies in 30 mins? Which was "a pure pig to write"? Who started planning how to spend the money - then didn't win? Who deemed his own books "pompously moralistic"? What judge called the prize "crooked nonsense"? My look back at @thebookerprizes.bsky.social in the 1990s:

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Besides, who knows what to do with love? Alex Dimitrov

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This book is just so good

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Friends, due to a delightful level of demand, we’ll be opening up regular priced tickets on Monday✨ There are still a few days to scoop up the remaining tickets at the early bird rate! Thank you to everyone who’s bought tickets so far—we are going to have such a blast in Brussels! 💥

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Oh, but it was so nice to spend an evening in the past.

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King of the castle 🐇

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Just over a year ago the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, died in prison in Russia. We wrote and demoed this song in the last few days and dedicate it to his memory and his cause. Neil and Chris x #PetText #navalny #freerussia #slavaukraini

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New short story course, starts March 24th for 6 weeks. Follow link to see successful alumni stories.

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Today on my blog, a new post on lonely women in literature highlighting thirteen favourite books. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/l...

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Not us eating your child's treasured memories...

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new Annie Ernaux coming in October in the US from Seven Stories Press and September in the UK from Fitzcarraldo Editions!

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Save the date: OUR LIBRARIES: 7 March, Tate Britain (Library), London, 2-5pm. I’ll be talking about my library and its operations with other Ma Bibliothèque authors.

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On the Roof of Paris by Marc Chagall

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Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!

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I think this is my favourite poem about what it feels like to be a parent of a small child. I think of it a lot now those years have passed.

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