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So excited to be co-facilitating 'Moving Words', an online writing workshop with a difference! I'll be working alongside the brilliant movement director Sarah Perry of Shapes in Motion. Saturday 31st May, 10 am - 1pm. #writingcommunity shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words...

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The new free Living One webinar series "Seeing the Unseen: Restoration Through Re-Enchantment" from the Kerulos Center for Nonviolence will run weekly for 6 wks between May 9 - Jun 13, 2025. See this short preview video to learn more (more details in text below video)! youtu.be/vLp7zdQBtUE

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Would you like to follow more nature writers or read some nature writing over Easter? You'll find 209 folk to follow on the starter packs & loads of content on #naturewriting feed - just use the hashtag & your posts will be added too. Pls repost 🙏 SP1: go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D# SP2: go.bsky.app/7opWxNV

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This is a wonderful thing for International Haiku Day!

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We gave two concurrent open windows right now, one for Festive Fiction and one for Coming of Age Poetry, they close on April 30th but the next one opens on May 1st, that is for #Haze #CounterculturePoetry Read about it here! thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/04/14/s...

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Grateful to be invited to be part of Ecopoetikon, a Uni of Glos-based project that showcases the work of ecopoets from around the world & is dedicated to offering 'equal voice & representation' to ecopoets from the Global North & Global South. Such a rich resource. ecopoetikon.org/poets/portfo...

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We’re going live with @drlornagibb.bsky.social on April 22 to celebrate "Rare Tongues," her powerful new book about endangered languages around the world. Register to join us: bit.ly/ThatWordChat #ThatWordChat #BookLaunch #AmReading #Linguistics

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First glimpse of thrift along my local stretch of coast. #wildflowers #flowers #plants #signsofspring

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Thanks to all who came to Writing the Wild! Great to work with such an enthusiastic group, with everyone engaging so thoughtfully with the stunning landscape and the climate & nature emergency. Acer met me for a post-workshop walk so he wasn't too miffed at missing the earlier coastal exploration.

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Off to St Davids to Write the Wild! Looking forward to meeting all the participants. I've previously run versions of this workshop in a range of wild weathers including snow (near Fort William) and torrential rain (Conrwall) so today's sun and the gentle breeze feel very benign.

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The forest doesn’t ask for attention. It just keeps growing, quietly and completely. If that kind of patience feels like home, make something from it. Now open for Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Translation, and Art! thedodgemag.com/submissions

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👇 www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

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Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition which now stands at 15,000+! You can #DoTheWriteThing & stop #MetaBookTheives by adding your signature here✒️ authr.uk/sp40

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I encountered quite a few beautiful creatures while doing my Writing the Wild workshop recce earlier this week - and none more stunning than this adder. #writersofbluesky

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Why has @privateeyenews.bsky.social stopped running this ad? It’s factual and a really clever way of getting a lot of information across.

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Solidarity with the Society of Authors and all my fellow writers today. Thousands of us have had our work used by Meta to train AI systems without permission or payment. Grateful to those who were protesting earlier at Meta’s London HQ.

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The Society of Authors has coordinated an open letter that will be sent to Lisa Nandy demanding that Meta be held to account for pirating writers' work for AI training. You can add your name here:

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Gorgeous day for doing a recce for one of my Writing the Wild workshops. #Pembrokeshire #Cymru

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This week’s #PoemsAbout theme is #Thresholds! 🌟 🖋 Write your poem. 📅 Share it Friday for feedback from @alanparry83.bsky.social. Let’s create poems that #TakeRisks & #LeaveScars! #Authentic #EndOnAnImage #LightAndDark

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On #WorldTheatreDay, happy memories of working as a playwright for Something Permanent Theatre Co. So honoured that Two Of Me Now, my poetic drama about Virginia Woolf & Sylvia Plath, was published by Cecil Woolf (Virginia’s nephew) in his literary/academic imprint, the Bloomsbury Heritage Series.

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In The Flow I wrote about the spring that rises a few metres from my house. So close, yet somehow it’s always an adventure to go there. today’s Country Diary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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all of it …

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Like so many other writers, I'm outraged that some of my work, incl Where the Seals Sing, has been stolen by Meta to train AI systems. Here's the Authors Guild template for writers to send a formal letter to Meta, indicating they do not have the right to pirate work & demanding proper compensation.

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I love how this boy always lies close to me as I write, using his bed as a pillow and sleeping half under my chair. #dogsofbluesky #dogsky #writerslife

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Spring equinox walk to 'my' seal bay, the one that features throughout 'Where the Seals Sing'. For the 1st time in 10+ years of watching, recording, writing, I failed to see a single grey seal. But the sun & gorse were out, there were celandines & violets & I heard my 1st chiffchaff of the year.

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More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN WMO - Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Under two weeks to go now until #VARConference2025 , running from 28th-30th March in Manchester . . . sadly I can't make it , but tickets are still available and it looks great ! www.varconference.com

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Please do support your local libraries. We're losing 40 libraries a year. They are such an essential part of our communities. Please, if you can, contact your MP or councillors before its too late. @librariesconnected.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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This Thursday at 1pm Fluellen Theatre Company are taking my Bag For Life play to The Met in Abertillery awenboxoffice.com/whats-on/lun...

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The Writing the Wild workshop, exploring the climate & nature emergency & the local coastal environment, that I'm offering in St Davids in April is part of a series of 4 free Lit in Place workshops supported by Literature Wales, WWF Cymru & EcoDewi. Bookings: [email protected]. #ecopoetry

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Last night's beaming sunset. #pembrokeshire #wales #cymru #sunset

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We are delighted to announce that the competition is now open for the 2025 biennial ASLE-UKI book prizes in three categories: academic monograph, prose creative writing, and poetry. The closing date for nominations is 15 April. Find out more and nominate a title online: asle.org.uk/awards/book-...

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🆕 New episode out now: a spectacular walk to the “Lost Places” of Dartmoor with Cole Stacey. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2b84f1

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The destructive side of adventure tourism is recognised in Anglesey. www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-w... This is what the community @cadwceibwr.bsky.social has been raising concerns for over a decade at Ceibwr an SSSI and SAC Time to put wildlife first in Pembrokeshire too

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we’re going to have to talk sensibly and honestly about the ramifications of this very soon. for literature, for publishing, for the assessment of talent, for the creative writing degree. Anyway - first time I’ve read any AI fiction or poetry and thought: Oh. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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With our latest issue out, we are open for non-fiction submissions once again, both full-length (up to 5000 words) and flash (1250 words), on any subject. Both submission calls close at the end of the month. You can read our guidelines and submit here: hinterlandnonfiction.submittable.com/submit

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So looking forward to sharing my new, commissioned seqeunce of fables-themed poems at the final @rethinkingfable.bsky.social event in May.

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Come & Write the Wild with me in St Davids! On 9th April, I'm running a workshop focusing on the local coastal environment, exploring issues such as biodiversity loss & the climate crisis. Both poets & prose writers welcome. We'll be spending much of the time in the glorious Pembrokeshire outdoors!

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The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, is now on Bluesky. Please sign up for the latest ASLE-UKI news. As always, you can also find us, and join us, on our website at www.asle.org.uk. See you soon!

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The excellent @atlascorpus.bsky.social has pulled together three excellent starter packs of #poets and others from the #poetrycommunity All of them are worth following and reposting. Here’s part 3 👇 #booksky #writingcommunity

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The World Curlew Day competitions are open for entries!

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Poets working in BSL! Did you know you can enter the @forwardprizes.bsky.social for Best Single Poem - performed? Judge Lisa Kelly has written about why she'd love to see your work in BSL limpingchicken.com/2025/03/05/l... Deadline = 16 March Info at forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz...

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For International Women's Day, let's pay homage to the great plant anatomist Katherine Esau. In her long career, she transformed our understanding of plant structure through her research and her very important books. She is my academic grandmother, advisor of my advisor.

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Here’s my Bylines starter pack. This is the full Bylines Network, plus Byline Times and other public good investigative press (Declassified, Desmog, openDemocracy…) Please follow & share. go.bsky.app/RWVEKv

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