Jon weighs in on TDS, the show vs. the syndrome.

Dada Deux: A Joycean Cabaret - Bloomsday Festival Kick off The Bloomsday Festival celebrations at The James Joyce Centre on Thursday, 11th June at 8.30pm with a Joyce-themed cabaret of readings, performance, music and natter, hosted by author David C...

I'm delighted to be hosting 'Dada Deux,' the opening event of the 2026 Bloomsday Festival at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin, with guests David Bremner, Suzanne Savage, Rónán Hession and Gerry Fialka. Thursday 11th June at 8:30pm. www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/dada-d...

Calls for Prompted Stories 2026 WITH GUEST CONTRIBUTOR AND READER, MAIREAD FAGAN SPRING SUBMISSION CALL – NOW OPEN!!Submission link opens 19th April 2026 at 12pm (BST) AUTUMN SUBMISSION CALL – 1st AUGUST We are doubli…

THE BIN IS OPEN!
You can submit your prompted stories between now and 8pm on the 23rd April (BST).

Scroll down this page for the link:
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We're excited to read what the prompts delivered 🦝

✂️ Weekend #Giveaway for e(i 8: #Collage✂️

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Interact w/ this post thru the weekend to help boost our contributors & we'll send you #FREE STICKERS as a thanks!

#poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poetrycommunity #litmag #indielit

Still available...free #design #fonts #typography

Monotype poster. Grey font examples on black background.

Monotype poster. Neon-colored digital cylinders generated by font type on black background.

Monotype poster. HOW & WHY: MONO-TYPE

Monotype poster. Random letters (like a ransom note) saying MONOTYPE: PENCIL TO PIXEL

Hello fellow #font #typeface lovers! I have four like new great posters from Monotype (did a project with them at Turner). These are FREE to anyone in the continental US who wants them. All I ask is shipping. DM me if interested.

Available for preorder now! Edinburgh University Press will publish The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts (May 2026), inspired by the 2022 conference by @rodgeglass.bsky.social & @sorchadallas.bsky.social - a fresh look at Gray’s literary & visual world.

Two days left to get applications in! We close the form on Sunday, 11.59pm.

Text: De Quincey's chief fault at least is one that under other circumstances becomes his chief virtue. He suffers from the gift of seeing everything a size too large, and of reproducing his vision in words which are also a size too large, unless indeed, they are applied as, happily, is so often the case, to emotions which cannot be magnified. But when the nature of his narrative compels him to state certain ordinary facts they become gigantically ridiculous, like boots seen in an elongated mirror; when he laughs you see a pre-historic monster on its hind legs. And it is one of the

Woolf, on De Quincey.

He was on holiday in Tunisia when his publisher gave him the catastrophic news: "In spite of everything, they have given you the Nobel Prize". He went into hiding in the desert.

Horror comics of yesterday 😨💬💥🩸☠️

#comicsky #horrorsky

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I recently had to make a 3hr round trip, to a *mobile* scan unit, parked in a Disabled carpark outside a hospital.

Man doing yoga inside the Live Aid exhibition

📚 The National Library of Ireland is currently running a busy programme of free online + onsite events and exhibitions you can visit in person.

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The title card for BERLIN EXPRESS, which I believe is showing a photo of post-war Paris with the title on top of it.

Watched the extraordinary Berlin Express this weekend.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur in 1948, this film noir is about a cadre of train passengers – representatives of the post-WW2 American, British and Russian “zones” of Berlin – who are thrown together to save a fellow traveler and peace activist.

Open submissions April 8-May 8 for "Nabokov's Suspension" - guest edited by Jehanne Bell

Translations that digest their own tongues. Expressions of the ephemeral creatures that blip in and out of existence when language is toggled. Threads that weave disparate voices together. We are looking for flash fiction about the things that fall away, transform, and negotiate new bodies as the words that create either their home or their prison shapeshift around them. Our usual submission guidelines apply. We define Flash Fiction as anything under 1000 words. No AI ever. We mean it.

Tomorrow April 8 we open for our next Guest Editor issue...

NABOKOV'S SUSPENSION
Edited by Jehanne Bell
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We are looking for flash fiction about the things that fall away, transform, and negotiate new bodies as the words that create either their home or their prison shapeshift around them.

Suitcase Stories Tragic Carpet's Suitcase Stories

Currently touring Suitcase Stories - Little worlds small enough to fit into a suitcase: stories.tragiccarpet.com 🧳

purple background with jellyfish and the message OPEN CALL FOR MULTIGENRE MANUSCRIPTS, reading period April 1 through June 1, submit at splitlippress.submittable.com

We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social!

Link for full details + to submit: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! Send us your whorls, incantations—our editors can’t wait! 🌀🐚✨

Submission guidelines on our site: www.theshorepoetry.org

A blurred, desaturated hand reaching upward toward a large, dark reddish circular shape resembling a sun or void, set against a muted blue background. Overlaid text reads: “Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry,” “Yawp,” “What do you scream into the void?”, and “Submissions open April 01 – May 31.” At the bottom, it lists “Poems | Music | Art.”

Submissions are open for the next themed issue: Yawp.

What do you scream into the void? What refuses to echo back?

Send us the work that won’t stay quiet.

🗓️ April 1 – May 31

www.audilocus.com/theme

We just paid 112,111 writers their share of £34,137,132 💸

Get answers on your most pressing questions about our latest distribution: www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-distribution-q...

#BookSky #WritingWednesday

#Ranger Mag just dropped yet *another* double issue (#14 and #15)! As usual, it's jam packed with the best experimental #poetry, #art and #music of the international avant-garde. Check it out!
www.rangermagazine.net/issue14
www.rangermagazine.net/issue15

#FF It’s World Theatre Day! To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications beginning with “T”!
@tacobellquarterly.org
@templeinacity.bsky.social
@the-engine-idling.bsky.social
@theallredline.bsky.social
@theamazine.bsky.social
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image from a Jean Luc Godard film: Godard is about to watch footage on a projection screen but it is blank: you see from behind, just his silhouette, arms raised, saying "A vast white surface, like Mallarmé's blank page"

vast white surface

Susan Abbott
American artist,
b 1951
Walking Up from the River, n.d.
oil on linen panel
24 × 24 inches

#Americanart

✂️e(i 8: Collage is live!✂️

Our #spotlight is on Andrew Gardner's @boston-gardner.bsky.social "Staring At The Ceiling Fan."

Check out their work at buff.ly/E6d26Y2!

Sourced from poetry in Issues 1-7: buff.ly/KYc0o5s.

"The birds dangling with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths,/...
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"—(Jesus – Christ.–) —Re-lax, lads. … / … —It’s (just) a box. ‘v cereal"

Check out Literary Freestyler Award Winner Mark Bolsover's @mdbolsover.bsky.social "he *changes*" here: buff.ly/SRVpNg2.

Pubbed by Ranger @rangermagazine.bsky.social & nominated by an Anonymous reader.

Historian Alfred McCoy says Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz carries echoes of the Suez Crisis of 1956, when Egypt blocked the canal. He says that crisis marked the end of the British empire, and Trump's "ill-advised" war could similarly mark the end of U.S. hegemony.

“hey there sweet cowboy/the peachy dusk has finally fallen// and somewhere none too far off/someone has started/a fire”

Thrilled that tomorrow’s pub day for irl, a project i absolutely loved writing, my jar of fireflies.

Pick up a copy!
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This week over 100,000 ALCS members will receive their share of £34m. Let's celebrate the value of human creativity, something that isn't going anywhere 💡📖🌳