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Thread. It is a great honour to announce the shortlist for the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers POETRY CATEGORY Mistletoe. Sam Garvan Diagnosis. Elizabeth Loudon Sinkhole. Charlotte Ansell I Love Him (like salt and water). Emma Wilson The Shop at the End of a Wave. Ia Kozoboli. thecuraeprize.uk

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Overdone it like a rookie. This beautiful book is keeping me company on an enforced bed day: Time for Magic, with Jamie Reid’s artwork and the eightfold wheel of the year described luminously as ever by Philip Carr Gomm. Excellent anarchic stuff.

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Please sign this, if you've got a moment. It might seem like a token gesture but it's important to make our voices heard. Trans people should be able to determine their own gender and live their lives in peace. petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

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The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

With the absolutely offensive guff coming out of the UK govt today, I just want to say that, as a cis-gender middle aged woman, if you are trans and you identify as a woman, in my eyes, you are a woman.

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My hobby is having a lovely time with other people and then spending two days afterwards running over everything I said and how awful I am

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Starting the Osterbrot while slightly tipsy is a good omen for the year ahead right?

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Ok, I’m finally going in… @jamesbluecat.bsky.social @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Peak me: being disappointed I didn’t get an interview for a job, then realising I never actually applied for it

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Well this place wins the prize for best bookshop name

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‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women

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Hey @theguardian.com please can we stop calling this a ‘free speech’ issue… that’s just pandering to the alt-right Christian nonsense. It’s misogynistic harassment and calling it anything else is self defeating www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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REVIEWERS WE ARE SENDING PROOFS OUT TODAY FOR @horatioclare.bsky.social's compassionate and important book. Who would like one? www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l... #BookSky

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

Oooh how do I get my hands on an early copy of jay griffths new book??

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

It’s only embezzlement if it’s from the Embézzle region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling corruption.

submitted 42 days ago • 104 comments

Such a horrible thing to happen to a wonderful bookshop. Please support @littletollerbooks.bsky.social by following them - on here and on Instagram, if you have an account. And do share the word around. Thank you 😊🙏

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

@darshna.bsky.social whoa, your unreported world for @channel4news.bsky.social on the far right feminists in France has me speechless. Incredible reporting and journalism 🙌

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

The deadline for this call for papers from Scholars of the Stone @manmetuni.bsky.social is Friday, 28th March.

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Finished reading and immediately emailed my local vineyard to volunteer for the harvest this summer. Poetic, practical musings from a year in a regenerative French vineyard, by Peter Hahn, coming next month from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social felinecharpentier.com/book-review-...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

In a major writing slump. The worst one in years. Can’t get a word out. The downside is I’m horrible to be around. The upside is I have built three raised beds, fixed everything that needed fixing, sowed seeds, sorted out the shed, stockpiled food for the apocalypse and started baking bread again…

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

That time of year in the veg box calendar… just defrosted what I thought was chicken stock to make parsnip soup with all the bloody parsnips. Only to discover I’d defrosted… parsnip soup

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Started this yesterday and loving it so far from @littletollerbooks.bsky.social - only trouble is it’s making me question all my life choices. Why oh why did I not become a winegrower in France?? There’s still time right? Proper review incoming, hardback due out 9th April 🍇 🍷

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Really excited to be collaborating with @dadafest.bsky.social Join this online round table with 5 brilliant artists on March 17th: using creative workshops to imagine better futures of care with & for people with energy limiting conditions @livuninews.bsky.social www.dadafest.co.uk/event/ignite...

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On this #WorldBookDay we're celebrating the paperback publication day for MOVING MOUNTAINS: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability, edited by PGR @louisekenward.bsky.social - Congratulations! What book are you celebrating/reading that explores #PlaceWriting today?

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

I just told Speaker Hoyle to keep Trump out of Parliament - will you do the same? actionstorm.org/petitions/du... #DumpTrump

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

My lovely dad, who worked for peace his entire life, and at 81 has Alzheimer’s and wasn’t well enough to attend the ceremony, just won the SPD Olof Palme Peace Prize in Hamburg. I’m so sad he missed it, and so relieved he isn’t aware of how the world has changed in the last few weeks

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

WRITING WORLD. May I have a trad published writer, agent, publisher or some other entirely gorgeous member of our industry to mentor an older #Curae writer? Over 60, but PAH, you've only just begun. We need to ask for 1-2 hours of your time over the next year. Step forward; don't suggest someone

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

So proud to be a part of this wonderful book, out in paperback in a few weeks!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

When you find those rare books that seem like they were written with you in mind…

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

The other half just given his (albeit slightly drunk) permission for me to go fight for the resistance, should one emerge.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 79 days ago • 2479 comments

Who do I know on here who could tell me more about self-pub? If your ms doesn’t fit into a neat bracket is it still worth it? #writingcommunity

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

@un-manuscripts.bsky.social the thrill of reading these unsolicited manuscripts and hoping yours isn’t among them

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Genuinely starting to think I might have written my best book just in time for the apocalypse to hit and there be no one to read or care. Would be very on brand for me tbh

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

submitted 83 days ago • 772 comments

If it wasn’t for Amandaland I’m not sure I would have stayed sane the last few weeks

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 86 days ago • 533 comments

If you were a masters supervisor marking a final creative writing piece, which was all about nineties ravers and enchanted sleepy castles and the fallacy of binary thinking, would the title presented as a magic eye image annoy the hell out of you or ensure you awarded an instant distinction?

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I offer Maxi-love‘s extravagant fluffy paws on this #caturday as solace for the state of the world

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

This guy gets my valentine today

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