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Graphic with two books in background, one called Flash Fiction, the other Prose Poetry, with white text superimposed over them that reads: Prose poem or flash fiction? What's the Difference? An online workshop exploring the joy of these very short forms. Victoria MacKenzie

Details about my latest free workshop for paid Substack subscribers is now live!
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...

Please come to an awesome PERVERSE poetry reading with Annie Katchinska, Crispin Best, Edward Doegar, Joe Carrick-Varty, L. Kiew, Michelle Penn, Natalie Shaw and Phoebe Gilmore on Weds 18th March | Basement @The Betsey Trotwood (EC1R 3BL) | from 7pm | free

Looking forward to reading at this on the 28th ✨️

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

You're welcome ✨️

Prosery: Assessment Salvador Dali, “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War),” 1936. Philadelphia Museum of Art Assessment During those years, we measured time in fragments of surviva…

I'm hosting dVerse today. Here's the flash fiction piece I wrote for my prompt.

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Franco-Irish Literary Festival 2026 19-22 March 2026 at Alliance Française Dublin

Marie NDiaye, Rinny Gremaud, and Paul Murray will hold a panel discussion on 'Family', moderated by Síofra Pierse – 21st March 2026 at 3pm, The French Library, Alliance Française Dublin
www.francoirishliteraryfestival.com/2026/event12...

Looks & sounds delicious 😋

"Wednesday. Exhausted with hauling myself around the upper air in cloud masquerade, I decided on Wednesday to sit at my desk, use the telephone and do an interview. I interviewed pebbles and small rocks."

- Anne Carson

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New post 📰

Poets are in the News Again – @dharmabam.bsky.social on why that’s never good

Read the post: buff.ly/bnPJmNX

#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

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Reminder! We’re open for subs all of March!

Congratulations, Di! 👏👏👏

Pinch me! The dream of having a poem in @mslexia.bsky.social has come true. Thanks so much to Linda France for selecting my Sherwood Forest poem ‘Sciryuda’ for her Poetry Challenge on forests, oceans and biodiversity. I’m beyond delighted.

Girl Swooning by Imogen Wade

Horror by Imogen Wade

I am reading 'Girl Swooning' by Imogen Wade.
It's beautiful! ✨
Highly accomplished, intelligent writing of huge depth and sensitivity. Congratulations to her on a stunning collection of poetry.
@imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social
#HighlyRecommended
#NewReleases
#Poetry
#PoetryCollections
#MustRead

'Emily Bronte was good with verbs: writhe, drag, crash, grund, struggle, yield, recoil'... Reviews of the film of 'Wuthering Heights' drew me back to @poetclare.bsky.social's fiercely compassionate poem in which Emily is a child, shut out by a window,like the ghost in that most terrible of dreams...

7 Darkly Surreal Irish Books to Read This St. Patrick's Day - Electric Literature These Irish authors use wry humor to navigate desperate times

These Irish authors use wry humor to navigate dark times.

Sophie Lewis reads from Hélène Cixous' ANGST (Silver Press, 2026) A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive…

Sophie Lewis reads from Hélène Cixous' ANGST (Silver Press, 2026), in which a woman replays her abandonment by both her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god, and by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. buff.ly/43gboRI

The resource draws on workshops Dom and Ryan ran in a Manchester school. It was created in partnership with @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social & nationaltrust.org.uk for the 'Pond Beats' project, part of the National Trust Freshwater Renaissance programme funded by the Government’s Species Survival Fund

Graphic showing a watery blue background with illustrations of pondweed and pond skaters. Text in green reads 'Pond Beats: Poetry Pond Dipping. New Key Stage 2 learning resource by poet Dom Conlon, sound artist Ryan Woods & illustrator Sophie Anson. Download for free at bit.ly/PondBeats2.' At the bottom, the logo of The Poetry Society.

New Key Stage 2 learning resource on poetry, ponds & biodiversity! Download for free bit.ly/PondBeats2

Created by @domconlon.bsky.social sound artist Ryan Woods & illustrator Sophie Anson, the resource includes original poems by Dom, pond listening exercises & creative writing activities.

Making the Poem Spring Programme 2026 continues with readings and interview with Patrick Chapman.

📆21st March
🕢2:00pm
📌Westside Library, Galway
🎫 Free

🔗More details www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/mak...

Our Spring 2026 issue is here! New work from Jhumpa Lahiri, Jorie Graham, Aria Aber, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more.

Read it here: yalereview.org/issues/sprin...

New writing by Latronico.

“Ireland is the natural ally of all countries engaged in anti-colonial battles...”

~ Askold Melnyczuk, in his foreword to our ‘War in Europe’ issue:
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#Ireland #StPatricksDay @irishpen.bsky.social @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social

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You asked, we delivered! Not only are submissions for both the journal and miCRo OPEN, but we've transitioned to Submittable! We can't wait to read what you send our way!

Congratulations, Catherine! 👏👏👏

‘Waves’, from my debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’.

Available to order now from @theemmapress.bsky.social

You're welcome! ✨️😊

Congratulations to all Wave Twenty Five poets! 👏👏👏

You're welcome, Rachel! ✨️

I’m so excited about this brand new zoom workshop I’m running this Thurs inspired by women that history ignored. Come join us, still free and pay-what-you-can places left - and if you cant join live, all ticketholders get a link to the recording afterwards! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...