Gethyn and the Wind Dragon is in the anthology! Read on for great dragon migrations, mythical beast healing and protagonists who are happily untalented in most things- unknowingly brilliant in others! Thank you @uvcompetition.bsky.social for choosing Geth! 🦄🍀🌱 #kidlituk #kidlit #writingforchildren
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Text: Viridine Literary Issue 07 theme: PUBLIC TRANSPORT Submissions open: 1st-31st May Background image: Atmospheric side view of an old train.
☆ The theme for Issue 07 is PUBLIC TRANSPORT ☆
Think the Cat Bus. Snakes on a Plane. Those tubes from Futurama. Abandoned underground stations. 3am airport layovers. The nightmare of taking the night train from Hanoi with non-air-conditioned hard seats (/trauma).
Submissions will open on 1st May.
Thanks to @thetoypress.bsky.social for their #WordOfTheWeek
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Thank you to everyone who trusted us with their work for our celebrations edition. Submissions are now closed and we are in the process of making tough decisions.
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Orange box with black shading and a poem in black letters: above ground the ground is cracked and desert dry or lush with grass green as jealousy or all the other grounds there are – I no longer know them with my feet since gravity stopped working one day of overwhelm – and now I hover with no anchoring with no saying whether I am happier here
Just bloody love #PoemsABout Fridays! Great inspiration with the #Gravity prompt. Thanks as ever to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk
And happy Friday/weekend poets! 💜
As so many of us have said so often for a year now, any predatory man already ignoring laws forbidding assault isn't going to obey a 'bathroom ban'. Making life harder for trans people and many others with restrictions which will be impossible to enforce will do nothing to make any women safer.
Awww, thank you.
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I'm going to be honest, John, that first line reads a whole lot different on the other side of the pond...
Thanks, Rachel!
the pit the pit is not a well so stop thinking about a well instead imagine an endless trench with sides sloping up and up towards a thin slit you look up there and can't quite parse the distance between yourself and the slit or even whether it is large enough to get through if you ever had the courage to begin your climb
There's no defying #Gravity from me this week.
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Responding to news of last two weeks, here is my #PoemsAbout #gravity Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt and @rspb.bsky.social for the fact file! 😊 #poetry #swifts
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I am thrilled that @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social has published three longer pieces of mine on the wonderful @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social They’re all #visions Millennial is urban, Worlds’ Ends concerns places & histories, & The Mark is folkloric. @rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #poetrycommunity
First solo e-zine launched. More in the works. Enjoy 🤗
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First children's book to win the actual Booker Prize, obviously.
Slightly less annoying this week.
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Monsters - by Ian Brownlie Do you believe in monsters? Like that one found in a loch, or the fella wrapped up in bandages giving people such a shock. Do I think there are monsters? I’m not sure that I should, but I’ve heard of a large-footed one lurking deep inside a wood Are you scared of monsters? A dragon’s fire and claws? Or the huge ape climbing buildings; a giant reptile that roars? Should we watch out for monsters? We hear about them lots. There’s a witch I’m sure who likes to boil small children up in pots. Is this world full of monsters? Could zombies line my street? Will I find a beast inside that maze? Make my neck a vampire’s treat? Do you believe in monsters? Could these tales be true? Well, if ever I bump into one, I’ll be certain to warn you!
I've bought my Monsters a ticket to board the excellent Poetry Express...
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Submissions for our celebrations edition close tomorrow - we always love to see all the last minute emails hitting our inbox!
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The website scaryness.com is looking for children's poems on the theme of ‘historical horrors’. Details here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/10/tick...
Bluesky was actually pretty nice to this poem, so I guess you should get the video version too!
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Take part in The Starbeck Orion Spring Festival. 1 day in 25 devoted to 3 of your unpublished poems, short prose, artworks in April's no theme substack anthology. Closing date 24th April. Here are the contribution details:
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Thanks!
Yes, thank you John!
Thanks, Rachel! As they say, always leave them wanting m
visited inside this room the air hangs like heavy strips of fabric and i pace around it unsettled the knock at the door was inevitable was jarring i make a cup of tea i stare at the hardy wooden rectangle i snack on my fingernails another knock at the door then another louder i will answer it and i will see who is there
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