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Gave myself permission to be a poet; Love books, mountains and tea; working at the intersection of process documentation and qualitative research in India
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And these are incredible @toddedillard.bsky.social

FlashFlood: 'On Family Movie Nights We Watch The Video of My Father’s Colonoscopy' by Sumitra Singam #nffd2025

“to feel their muscles burn with the knowledge that they are the heroes of their own story” Color, sea, and character condensed into a single glorious sentence by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in #nffd2025

As evening turns to night

Very tragic news about the plane crash in Ahmedabad. Our thoughts are with everyone affected.

Send in your light to @expositionreview.bsky.social!!

A cartoon by Elisabeth McNair. #NewYorkerCartoons www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...

two years ago today I encountered this all-timer of marquee placement at the movie theater:

On this #InternationalDayOfPlay, we celebrate the joy, imagination, and learning that play brings into a child’s life. Our Toy Library & dedicated Play Curriculum ensure that children not only read, but also explore, build, create, and grow. Because play is not a break from learning, it is learning.

"In this breathtaking, expansive poetry collection, @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social explores identity, spirituality, motherhood, and nature. This book opens in creation, unflinchingly faces the dangers and wonders of our world, and ends looking into a future bursting with possibilities."

To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought. -James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963. #everynightapoem #ofsorts

I am trying to build a list of poetry presses in the uk who might have a focus on older writers (over 60) and who are open to submissions! This is for a brilliant, fresh-voiced mentee I’m working with. Any suggestions very welcome! #poetry

Hey #flashfiction #flashlit writers, what are some good FLASH venues that publish genre works (sci fi, horror, romance, fantasy, etc.)?

There's a new indie bookshop opening in Kochi this weekend! And they're carrying Blaft books! Go check it out!

This is beautiful @bsherm36.bsky.social. Thanks for sharing @mattkendrick.bsky.social

Thank you, Georgia 0’Keeffe

Anti-Caste Speculative Fiction! 33 short stories and comics! Anti-Caste Speculative Tote Bags! Anti-Caste Sticker Set by Priyanka Paul! www.blaft.com/collections/... www.blaft.com/collections/... www.blaft.com/products/ant...

Happy Monday! We're open for subs until July 3. Send us your tiny beauties! Time's a-wastin'! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

My #LiftToTheSKy is for @victoriachang.bsky.social for so many of her poems and particularly this and the heart and the heft of it.

free submission open throughout june www.anthropocenepoetry.org/submissions

It was lovely to share and hear @kimsrogers.bsky.social @charlotteham504.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie from our Grieving Hope anthology ed @dianegotauthor.bsky.social from @emergejournal.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who joined in! Words are magic. Words can heal.

This weekend in book mail: Grieving Hope, edited by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social and featuring @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Janet Murie, @charlotteham504.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social & @kimsrogers.bsky.social

Get a beautiful book, with a slightly misprinted cover, for just $6, including shipping, a sticker, and a bookmark. Best deal in town.

I’m not anti-tech. I’m pro-‘using tech in service of humanity & not the other way around’.

Who fancies a #writing challenge? Write a story in just 75 words - exactly 75 words - for the chance to be published on Paragraph Planet’s home page. One has been featured every day since 2008. Http://www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php #writingcommunity Pls RT to other #writers

The Misprints & Mangled sale is back! Get a randomly selected Stanchion book or magazine issue for just $6 with free shipping, a sticker, and a bookmark! Read all about it and order now while supplies last! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

next submission call in ~48 hours! Tuesday, June 10, 10 am ET! looking for SQUARE blocks of text. what that means, vaguely: ~280-290 words, no linebreaks, no paragraph breaks. what that means, specifically: 20 lines of text w/ HAD formatting: havehashad.com/pages/wysiwyg

“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.It is a moral illumination.” Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review, 1985.

Poems about love, loss, or life? We want them all. Submit to our unthemed #SelectedPoetry anthology. Free entry and a spot in our contributor directory. @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social @vespertine4.bsky.social shorturl.at/W8jbo #SubmissionWindow

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS #WritingCommunity #WritersLift #AmWriting #PoetryCommunity #Artwork #FlashFiction #Painting #Photography #Sculpture #DIgitalArt #Illustration #LitMag #LiteraryJournal #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Mystery #LiteraryFiction #5amWritersClub #MoonLiGetaway

Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate!

✨️ The Winged Moon is open for submissions to our Biophilia call. Please take a read of the tiles below to get a good idea of what we're looking for. We're seeking bold, experimental writing and art that interrogates the shared landscape (literal and metaphorical) between self and nature 🌿✨️

Untitled Rainbow, 2006 by Australian Aboriginal artist, Gloria Mills Petyarre #WomensArt

Join us for our launch: Sat at 2 p.m. ET. Link in comments. Joining me will be @charlotteham504.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social @ronita.bsky.social and Janet Murie. Five chapbooks nested within the covers of one volume. Big gratitude to editor @dianegotauthor & publisher @elj_editions_ltd.

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Resharing. This is June 7. Glad to be a part of the Grieving Hope anthology with @kimsrogers.bsky.social @charlotteham504.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social and Janet Murie. Edited by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social from @emergejournal.bsky.social

A gift.

Come join us on the 5th July 09:00-10:30 BST to play around with original premises, original characters, original juxtapositions, & original voices. Should get you thinking in some new directions & give you lots of story seedlings to work on after: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/courses-work...