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"Closing the door he found hidden in the corner an oval mirror hung low as for a child. Someone had covered it carelessly with a torn pillowcase and through the frayed rent Quail saw glass like a leaden sky. He smelled rain." #writers #writing #writesky #writingcommunity #writinglife #wip

Everything on my website is for sale. They are all originals. Name your price.

“This is not the Mayor.” He tries disguising his voice by pinching his nose. “This is a constituent who is sick of those private school deer walking into traffic like they own the place. Anyone out there in radioland been searching for a connection?” www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting... #flash #micro

Cold morning, 15 degrees at sunup, and a #miniature #drawing I made last year for P. #charcoal & #graphite #pencil #stippling #art #artsky #blackandwhiteart #bnwart #blackandwhitedrawing #traditionalart #pencilart #pointilism #moon #fullmoon #moonart #tree #solitary #quiet #reflective #meditation

“And somewhere around you begins that lifted road lighted by sunset, offered again and again, laced where the sky lives: Someday your road.” William Stafford #poetry #writer

K and Luv from Blade Runner 2049. Micron pen. #bladerunner #bladerunner2049 #ryangosling #sylviahoeks #portraits #movies #illustration #sketch #drawing #art #fanart #traditionalart #pen #ink

Vestige. a brush test morphing into a full sketch. painted while listening to: lan Hawgood - Celia Ashen

"There is nothing meaningful about failing to sleep ..." Distorted and Iridescent — @timdemay.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/04/08/d...

New fiction in this gorgeous issue— cold-signal.com/a-ways-off-a...

#BlueSkyArtShow #Silhouette #blackandwhite #photography #windingroad #storm #landscape #landscapephotography

FIELD TOO LARGE? Encourage form to offer detail, too open.substack.com/pub/markreep... #writing #fiction #descriptivewriting #description #letformlead

Two celebrations today. Firstly, this new bookling from John F Deane & the artist Tony Martin is out now! Red Gate is beautiful and you can read a few pages or pick up a copy on our website. guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry. Secondly, this is our 100th title. Guillemot Press is a hundred books old today.

"A click, and light bloomed from a gooseneck lamp on a nightstand too low to read by. The woman pulled a paintspattered dropcloth from a single bed, a beige duvet. Upstairs he had thought her eyes green but in this light they looked gray." #descriptivewriting #pleasingparagraphs #writingfiction #WIP

"A lady on the sidewalk waves at me like she’s missed her bus." Two captivating, virtuoso flashes from Mathieu Parsy, new in April #fiction | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/math... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

“In our society, old men are not considered to be wise, but, rather, eccentric, opinionated, sloppy, foolish, stubborn, weak, confused, etc. … In another society, it is different. He is an old man, they say, ask him.” Lydia Davis #writer

“Both our novels interrogate the juxtaposition or paradox of being on the road with somebody”: A Conversation between Vijay Khurana (@vijaykhurana.bsky.social) and Madeleine Watts (@madeleinewatts.bsky.social) minorliteratures.com/2025/04/01/b...

My thanks to the buyer of this print, THE NIGHTINGALE'S GARDEN, at my FAA shop: fineartamerica.com/featured/the... #stippled #charcoal & #graphite #pencil #drawing #art #stone #stonework #architecture #fantasyart #fantasyarchitecture #ruins #reflections #tree #drawingtrees #drawtrees #treeart #bnw

LIGHT AT THE WORLD'S EDGE #stippled #graphite #pencil #drawing #BlueSkyArtShow #arch #art #artsky #lighthouse #bnwdrawing #bnwart #bnwartist #blackandwhiteart #blackandwhiteartist

No nightmare, but versions of this for as long as I can remember, or matters A recurring dream: Trying, failing to gather my things, say goodbye #dreams #meaning #recurringdream #dreamstudies #blackandwhitephoto #bnwphotography #art #bnwartist #bnwphotographer #artsky #photosky #stilllife

Doing much better now I've moved Following on to Only Posts, thanks everyone who suggested it. Seeing so many people I thought I'd lost.

But sometimes hope lands on the palm of my hand when all I'm asking is has the rain stopped

THE LISTENER #stippled #graphite & #charcoal #pencil #drawing on acid-free Bristol Board, 6" x 8 1/2". Unmatted, unframed $465 #freeshipping in continental US, message with any questions #artsky #art #traditionalart #originalart #artforsale

“Writing is a way of creating order out of chaos, of taking charge of one's own story, being the sovereign of the self by pushing back against received knowledge and guarding the sanctity of the dwelling place of the imagination, that place of first permission.” Natasha Trethewey #poetry #writer

Trees & Light

From today's local paper...

AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB 290: I talk with writer, astrologer and teacher RONNIE PONTIAC about why we all need to find our spiritual paths in this time of destruction (+ why I don’t trust astrologers) 🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/5jMy...

“Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.” Jack Spicer #poetry #writer

I can’t recommend highly enough Howie Good’s collection of prose poems, Akimbo (Sacred Parasite). You will cry and laugh with him. His work should be better known. Available directly from the publisher in a handsomely produced limited edition. @carrieetter.bsky.social @sacredparasite.bsky.social

We're having to move distributors by the end of March. Don't ask, but corporates being corporate. It is going to cost a bit and a half. If you are able to help cushion the blow. You can buy some excellent books here: www.bluemoosebooks.com Thank you.

Granite Moai in the Jizera Mountains.

“Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke #5amwritersclub #writesky

#GordonWhite on co-creation with disappointment: 'What choices do I have in the direction of beauty, given the limitations before me of this moment?" podcast.runesoup.com/amor-fatty #beautyway

Hawk Mountain media/promo shoot from 2022 in Dublin + a bunch of editions of my book.

Holy shit this is legitimately incredible

@mjohnharrison.bsky.social's 'Settling the World' now available in Spanish via the fine people at Interzona 👽 But #WhoWoreItBetter 🤔 From the winner of the '20 Goldsmiths Prize. NOM'D Best Single-Author Collection at the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social '20 📘 UK Ed. commapress.co.uk/books/settli...

They send missiles at night, we go to read and buy books in the afternoon. Unbreakable. In the bookstore. Kyiv. March 7.

We've finished spotlighting our new issue! You can read the whole thing here badlilies.uk/issue-twenty

"I met a man today who insisted I knew him. I was embarrassed, but I did not. He knew many things about me" @cuylermeade.bsky.social's "Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces" trampset.org/margaret-mul...

GRACE #stippled #charcoal & #graphite #pencil #drawing, 2006. Original sold, prints available: fineartamerica.com/featured/gra... #art #artsky #blackandwhiteart #blackandwhitedrawing #spiritualart #grace #hope #meditation #quiet