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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the gutter.

Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.

Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025

Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

INSTEAD OF DEPRESSION try calling it hibernation. Imagine the darkness is a cave in which you will be nurtured by doing absolutely nothing. Hibernating animals don't even dream. It's okay if you can't imagine spring. Sleep through the alarm of the world. Name your hopelessness a quiet hollow, a place you go to heal, a den you dug, Sweetheart, instead of a grave. Andrea Gibson

Feeling this very much today. Via poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram.

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Very pleased to share the news that @writerscentre.bsky.social has been awarded Place of Sanctuary status in recognition of our dedication to supporting individuals fleeing violence and persecution. Full story: buff.ly/42RhC8x

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Shortlisted authors: Anna Reckin Bradley Taylor Catherine Redford Ellie Barrett Katie Beswick Maryann Ifeanacho Milena Williamson Monica De Bhailís Phillip Robert Rachel Lewis Rosemarie Corlett Sarah Kwong Suyin du Bois Victoria Gatehouse Zain Rishi

⭐ Announcing the Longlisted & Shortlisted Proposals from our August 2024 Call for Submissions ⭐

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Five Things Friday: issue 11 A short story prize, a Scandinavian sailing adventure, and more!

Writers looking for opportunities! Last week's Five Things Friday is now available to free subscribers! 👀

Opps from @cbcreative.bsky.social @britisharts.bsky.social @writersandartists.bsky.social & more!
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I have been working on translating Karoline's collection for years, so it is so lovely to receive this recognition. I hope this will help take this collection one step closer to publication on English so you can all enjoy it as much as I do ❤️

"The judges praised her translation for effortlessly producing 'the original narrator's delicate, understated balance of gripping physical images and a dialogue with the surrounding nature, with a child's quiet, gentle acceptance of facing a power that she is trying to learn to understand: pain."

Thank you so much to the American-Scandinavian Foundation for awarding me the 2024 Nadia Christensen Prize! This prize is for an outstanding literary translation from a Nordic language into English, and I was awarded it for my translation of Karoline Brændjord's 'Jeg vil våkne til verden'.

The Plough Prize - 2025 International Poetry Competition Now in its twenty second year, the Plough Poetry Prize is an international open competition for poems in English up to 40 lines on any subject. The competition this ye...

I’m judging the Plough Poetry Prize this year, deadline 28 March, first prize is £1,000. Send us your best poems!

www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...

Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize Since its inception fifteen years ago, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize has awarded some of the most exciting new voices in life writing, poetry…

The Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize opens now, closes in June. The prize supports writers who have not published book-length works, no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri

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One person close to OpenAI said that distillation was a common practice in the industry and highlighted that the company offers developers a way to do this using its own platform, but said: “The issue is when you are doing it to create your own model for your own purposes.” DeepSeek did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Oh I'm sorry, are you crying? Are you crying because your plagiarism machine that made stuff by copying everybody's stuff was used to train another machine that made stuff by copying stuff? Are you going to cry? Cowards, losers, pathetic

Got to love #Leith 💚✌️

Q: Who'd have predicted that an underfunded HE system where unis could overrecruit domestic students on fees fixed for decade - and was thus reliant on international visitors - would have been skewered by a combination xenophobic policies, inflation, and excessive building projects?

A: EVERYONE.

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How depressing. Was contacted about a possible book translation last year. Today they got back in touch to ask if, instead of translating the book, I'd be interested in editing the machine translation.
I am SO BORED of talking about AI. It's BORING. Give me work and cash!!!!!!

Truth!

We’re mourning the loss of the wonderful Michael Longley, who has died in Belfast aged 85. A Vice President of The Poetry Society, we were proud to publish him in our magazine The Poetry Review throughout his long career. Sharing below a 2014 poem which celebrated his long marriage to Edna Longley.

Michael Longley - Where Poems Come From A film profile of Belfast poet Michael Longley, offering insights into his work, friendships, working process, the places that have inspired him and his relationship with the natural world.

The great Michael Longely has died. We have lost a poet of immense stature. This recent BBC doc will give you a flavour of how he made made words sing: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Online launch – MPT Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on Catalan Join us online to celebrate the latest issue of MPT. With Editor Janani Ambikapathy and guests Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo.

Join us next week for the lunchtime* launch of MPT 'Your Language Anticipating Mine: Focus on #Catalan'

Tickets are free / pay what you can, and we're joined by contributors Marialena Carr & Ronald Puppo.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...

(*UK lunch time, 1-2pm)

Shout out to all poets, writers, artists, activists, if you'd like us to boost your new books, music, art, fundraisers & community projects for 2025 please add to this thread, we're just making a list for our 1st show of the year & will share @roaring20sradio.bsky.social #sohoradio thank you

StAnza 2025
St Andrews & online, 14–16 March 2025

Tickets for StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, are on sale from today – presenting poetry in all its forms & many languages, & featuring poets from Scotland, the UK & around the world
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Winter-themed border of blue snowflakes on a pale grey background. Text reads: Publishing Your Work | Poetry & Writing Calls for Submissions January 2025: Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies.

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Submissions to the next issue of our anthology, PROTOTYPE 7, are now open until 1 February.

The anthology is a space for new work, open to all, free from formal guidelines or restrictions. We welcome poetry, prose, visual work & experiments in between.

prototypepublishing.co.uk/submissions/