Surprised, very pleasantly, to have a poem in the next issue of The Pomegranate, written in response to a Van Gogh painting and accompanied by its image.
A beautifully designed magazine, btw: website at thepomegranatelondon.com where Issue 10 will be available shortly.
Join Geoff Andrews to explore Labour's hidden history and radicalisms through the ideas of its leading thinkers.
www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev...
#politics #labourparty #history
Two wonderful poets - join them in-person or watch from home on livestream, 25 April. Tickets on sale now.
Submit your writing about Milton Keynes for the Raising Voices Project
Writers of Bucks, Beds and Northants! You have 7 days to submit #poems/#shortstories/#creativenonfiction that could be performed at our April Festival! Submit a piece about a specific place in #MiltonKeynes by 30 March: www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...
#submissionsopen
Writer/broadcaster Jonn Elledge takes a witty, surprising look at world history through its borders, and stories they tell about political identities and human folly.
www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev...
#border #geopolitics #jonnelledge @ouliterature.bsky.social
Creative Writing tutor Toby Litt offers advice, ideas, and tricks for writing better dialogue with greater ease and confidence.
www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev...
#writingworkshop #writingdialogue
notebook and pen on table lit by candle
Join us on Sat 28 March for Earth Hour: Writing by Candlelight.
We'll meet at 8pm GMT on Zoom for readings & inspiration before lighting candles & switching off for Earth Hour 8.30-9.30pm GMT.
email poetsfortheplanet@gmail.com with the subject: Earth Hour & we'll send you the link the day before
www.instagram.com/reel/DWECeIU...
Borsook’s book, Cyberselfish, nailed the solipsism and amorality of Silicon Valley nearly 30 years ago: far too few people read it.
@davewakely.bsky.social and those who aren't on Bsky, but are just as keen on queer resistance
Kate Foley
Gwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys
Joshua Linney
Alyson Hallett
Mwelwa Chilekwa
Robert Hamberger
Rowan Carteret
Jane Aldous
Donna Nì Conor
Teddy Mills
Abhi
Abu Leila
Arun Jeetoo
Carmina Masoliver
Honoured to have a poem in Issue 18 of 14poems - available from them at www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/issue-18 for those who support small presses.
Thanks to editors Troy Cabida and Helen Bowell, and to Sean Hewiit, Richard Scott, Derek Jarman and Jeanette Winterson for inadvertent inspiration.
A poem in the new edition of Caduceus Journal, with thanks to the poetry editor, Dawn Gorman @dawnpoet.bsky.social
caduceus.info
Tomorrow night (Tues 9th) in-person or online: a fascinating new website launches, with live readings of 12 excellent pieces of original writing about our city
Tickets (free): www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoiceslaunch
Honoured to be shortlisted for this forthcoming anthology - please support @arachnepress.bsky.social through their crowdfunder if you are able (and spreading the word is also a fine form of generosity)
Join @mklitfest.bsky.social online on Wed eve for 5 superb poets: Zoe Brooks, Anna Saunders, Julia Webb, Leo Boix and Lesley Sharpe. www.mklitfest.org/poetryspotli...
#poetry #poets #poetryreading
@julwe1.bsky.social @lesleysharpe.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social
Delighted and more than a little honoured to be reading in such talented company at 3pm on westwiltsradio.com today (and available on the Play Again pages from early next week).
"There should be a recipe. How to Make
a Perfect Day at Home..."
In collaboration with @mklitfest.bsky.social in August we held an online masterclass – Digging in the Dirt: adventures in ecopoetry with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social , @betarish.bsky.social , @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/the-magic-of... 1 /3
Something to do with sovereignty, perchance?
Delighted to be reading tonight for @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social fundraiser event - all welcome!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Delighted to have a poem, As if, on Poem Alone. Thx editor Colin Dardis (@purelypoetry.bsky.social_, and @annasaund.bsky.social (Cheltenham Poetry Festival) and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social, whose workshops helped mould my imagination into finer shape.
poemalone.blogspot.com/2025/08/dave...
Join local author Will Burns for a place-based creative workshop providing a framework for new writing with Milton Keynes and its environs at its heart.
www.mklitfest.org/cityofstories
@troubledstriker.bsky.social
#WillBurns
#writingworkshop
#shortstories
Last call for tickets for an exclusive, free creative writing workshop with @grindrod.bsky.social, looking at how to write non-fiction about places, locations, and modern cities. Thurs 7 Aug, 6pm
Last few tickets: www.mklitfest.org/writingthecity
#writingworkshop #CreativeNonfiction #miltonkeynes
Free event with Helen Bowell will help you write poems mining memory, history and place to paint pictures of MK. Places limited: please pre-book.
www.mklitfest.org/poetryaboutp...
#helenbowell
#writingworkshop
#poetry
#miltonkeynes
Duly noted. And the third part of his political studies trilogy is out at the end of August. I'd say 'Enjoy!', but it's not quite the verb, is it?
All stories take place somewhere. Belfast-born fiction writer Paul McVeigh and Coventry-born poet Cathy Galvin invite you to disrupt your usual writing practice and look again at the familiar landscape of home.
www.mklitfest.org/lookagain
@cathygalvin.bsky.social
@wordfactoryuk.bsky.social
A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project
www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...
@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@betarish.bsky.social
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
We're always going to recommend reading, of course, so why not try a few minutes perusing our Spring Festival Programme. Starts next week: 4 days, 18 events, and packed with books, words, writers and ideas!
www.mklitfest.org/downloads
#bookfest #books #miltonkeynes
Like #YAfantasy? #hungergames? Anna February joins us next Sat with the claustrophobic world of her new novel The Hive.
Before then, she talks to @caztricks.bsky.social on Stony Sunrise @stonyradiouk.bsky.social Mon 7am
mklitfest.org/anna-february
#miltonkeynes #books @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social
