Delighted to have won the Arundel Poetry Festival competition this year, with a poem about my female ancestry ❤️👵🏻inspired by a family photo featuring four generations. Huge thanks! #poetry #history #genealogy #amwriting

Help young Gazan writer Lama to relocate and pursue her studies My name is Lama, I am 24 years old. In September 2023, I got my degree in English Literature and Translation from the Islamic University of Gaza. Since then, my family has had to leave Gaza City, I no...

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Happy publication day to Catherine Redford and her brilliant collection THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME!!💖

Join us at the online launch tomorrow at 7pm ~ get your tickets here: buff.ly/BALW9FZ

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SARAH DOYLE: PRAYERS AND SPELLS Two images: Irené,1862. John Everett Millais and Joseph Swain (BMAG) (woman kneeling at window) The Ligeia Siren [The Sea-Spell] – Sketch of a Girl playing a Musical Instrument,1887. Gabriel Dante Rossetti (BMAG) (woman playing stringed musical instrument)

Guest-tutoring an online creative writing class tomorrow with this sparkler of a workshop adapted from my five-week email course. Can't wait to see what prayers are offered and spells cast… 🙏✨⚡️

Secondary school teachers are kind of gods to me.

Issue 23, featuring cover art by Dea Toivonen and 9 wonderful new love poems, is out now!

Find it on our website - link in bio.

Winner, The Sonnet Challenge on Young Poets Network After seventy laps I slide out of a pool full of face-down metaphor. From '25-metre sonnet' by Saskia Carter

We're thrilled to announce the winners of the Sonnet Challenge on Young Poets Network!

We challenged young poets worldwide to tackle one of the oldest forms of poetry out there: the sonnet. Head to ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk to read (and listen to!) the winners, including Saskia's '25-metre sonnet.'

Our thanks to Nov authors Andrew Plattner @laurabesley.bsky.social Lou Gallo @olgapoet.bsky.social Gitanjali Kolanad @grahammort.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social C. Christine Fair @karenc.bsky.social @postpran.bsky.social @sightlined.bsky.social fictivedream.com/2025/11/

So pleased you enjoyed this gem, James, and thank you for reading @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @olgapoet.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday

This is superb, Olga! 👏

Thanks! ☺️

Thank you!

Thank you so much x

My Monday had been brightened by this! Thank you to @fictivedream.bsky.social #fkashfiction #microfiction #amwriting @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Thank you so much! X

"How did we ever sleep with just a tender sliver of cloth between our warm sweet breathing and the jaws on the other side?" Hidden Leopard by Olga Dermott-Bond @olgapoet.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/11/10/m...

Thank you! ☺️

‘We barter with the dark / to borrow an hour’ @ninearchespress.bsky.social would recommend this stunning collection by Gregory Leadbetter that takes me to a beautiful liminal space 🍁🍂🪾🍁🍂 #poetry #time #autumn

Sharing some poetic inspiration for this year’s National poetry competition 📚

Delighted to be taking part in the twin cities poetry night! 💚#poetry #ireland #coventry #community @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Exceptional collection by Natalie Whittaker -The Point Is You Are Alive 💚@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

Heartfelt thanks to @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social for choosing a gorgeous array of Nine Arches poets to fill the pages of these beautiful anthologies, with poems by @isobeldixon.bsky.social @olgapoet.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @tomsastry.bsky.social & others 🧡

A delight to be guest poet at Ver poets last Friday, with Sue Wallace - Shaddad, reading from my collection Frieze, along with many new poems! @ninearchespress.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity #reading

Loong forward to sharing these with my students! Xx

@bathflashaward.bsky.social ☀️

www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2025/06/june... I haven’t written flash fiction for a while so really lovely to be on such a prestigious long list! #flashfiction #competition #amwriting

A bit is seasonal cheer… thanks to the wonderful @candlestickpress.bsky.social !

Floating on air today, after being part of the Strokestown Festival and winning the International poetry competition judged by Jane Clarke! Congratulations to all shortlisted poets and thanks to organisers! 💚☘️ #poetry #Ireland #writingcommunity #competition

Thank you!!

So pleased to be part of the launch of this beautiful anthology! X this evening