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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 21h

Dreamed the BBC was producing an adaptation of @clpolk.com's Witchmark with Jonathan Bailey, and I woke up SO convinced it was real. Time to manifest *real* hard. 🤞

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

angelas-newsletter-ed5d53.beehiiv.com/p/autumn-ris... "...In the first days after my dad died, I sat in that living room, surrounded by boxes and old photographs...and suddenly all I could hear was that clock ticking. A substitute heartbeat for a home that would lie empty and still..."

angelas-newsletter-ed5d53.beehiiv.com

Autumn rises like a tide

Content Warning: Grief, death of a parent

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Moon Eyed Fox @moon-eyed-fox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Somehow, you’ve ended up with a few spots of salt lichen, despite being a day’s travel from the coast. Fortunately, you spotted its glow and caught it early, and you set aside as much as you can in corked jars. You’ll make the trip in a few days, and set it free above the high-tide line.

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Moon Eyed Fox @moon-eyed-fox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A mirror breaks at midnight--a sure sign that some ghost has been mischief-ing about--and when you puzzle the shards back together, each piece shows a slightly different version of your face. In your reflections, you see all the lives you might have lived, all the paths you didn't take.

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Moon Eyed Fox @moon-eyed-fox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It takes a full afternoon to harvest enough seed fluff from the thistle field, and another three days to spin it with longer flax fibres, but at last you have a single skein of thistle thread. You tie it round your wrists, throat and waist--protection against the ravenous stories of the Yewfolk.

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Moon Eyed Fox @moon-eyed-fox.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In the narrow cobbled alley there is a wooden crate, a door with peeling blue paint, and a green glass jar that glows faintly in the shadows. A rhyme may help you; a question certainly will not. The stones whisper impatiently, and you must choose which curiosity to open.

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Moon Eyed Fox @moon-eyed-fox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The shop is all honeyed wood and sun-soaked brick, with trailing vines of wisteria hanging over the front door. You’ve travelled two days to search its wall-to-wall shelves of thin glass vials, silently hoping that somewhere among the bottled salt spray and wind shards, you’ll find what you need.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Helen Ahpornsiri, an artist who creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flora and foliage #WomensAr

Four images, a heron, a fox, a mouse and a toad, all created with a collage of tiny leaves snd flowers against a white background

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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

thistles that have thussled

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Claudie @clh2oars.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

the questions on this made me want to throw up, UGH. Thank god for free boxes and "Other" to go off on them

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Snuffling nose. Wagging tail. A haze of tawny fur as your eyes blur with tears. "How...?" Gideon rubs the back of his neck sheepishly. "We pooled the last of our hoards and talked to the Red Wizard. Turns out, longevity spells aren't all that difficult for dogs." He grins. "Welcome home."

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Editing my sapphic fantasy. Needed just the right colour for the sickly yellow-green of nausea, but I can't use chartreuse, because I *know* I'm not the only one whose brain insists it's a brilliant pinky-purple. #editingproblems #writing

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Moon Eyed Fox @moon-eyed-fox.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

You're grateful it's raining, and use the drum of it on the roof as a subtle rhythm to the song you build under your breath. You lose yourself in it, startling when thunder cracks close overhead. A woman across the aisle grins and throws you a wink as delicate sparks fizz at the ends of her hair.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

The library being "the last real third space" isn't a reason to keep adding new responsibilities to the library; it is a reason to create more third spaces.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Absolutely howling at the Vatican doing a "I'm sorry did I fucking stutter" to the US ambassador to the Vatican to make it unambiguously clear that he's both 1) wrong and 2) not in Rome's good graces for casually blaspheming about the Pope while being wrong

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I hadn't appreciated what C.L. Nolan meant by being able to know a feral church by its 'enfolding sense of green communion' until I entered one. Now I get it. Step into a feral church and there's a palpable sense of something profoundly old, profoundly untamed dwelling within. – #MattAdams, 1982

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As we walk through the dark wildwood of the Kingdom of Kent, the light increases until you face our southern boundary. A ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED year old ditch marking the historic border between the Kingdom of Kent & the South Saxons (or Sussex as they call themselves now 🙄)

A view of Sussex fields from our woodland in Kent

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I’m ten pages into Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell and I’m already obsessed with this writing. “It lasted a moment, a heartbeat, the length of one bite into a hard apple…” “A tremble moved up her arms—a leaf shiver, a horse twitching its coat, there and gone.” I want to eat this book 👀

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Like many authors awaiting their first chance to write acknowledgements, I mentally draft mine from time to time, and right there at the top of the list is eternal gratitude to my husband, who lovingly brings me actual meals while I'm being a distressed little revision goblin.

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

SO EXCITED to be back in JMWW with this hopeful flash fiction!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hazel MacNab, contemporary UK printmaker based in Cornwall #Womensart

Print featuring a greenish clear calm shallow area of sea with dappled light from the sun and with a rocky outcrop to the top right

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Today I learned these poison dart frogs—that can kill a human in seconds—are *only* dangerous if they feed on toxic mites and ants. If they're pampered frogs eating a curated diet of fruit flies, they're totally harmless, and thus you don't need to panic when they start hopping toward your feet.

A poison dart frog with robin’s-egg-blue speckled legs, and a black-yellowish-blue body, posing daintily in a sitting position on a rock.

A gold and black poison frog sitting atop a leaf.

The gold and black poison dart frog pressed up against a stone, seen through a screen of variegated leaves.

Two poison dart frogs with their backs to the camera, while sitting on a log and a stone.

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Hey 42, glad you’re here. ❤️ Thinking this year I might learn that “ultimate answer.” 😉

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Today I've been thinking about Shakespearean insults. One of my favourites is "His wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard." "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat" is also great 🐐 And "You have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness" is oddly beautiful 🥶 #GloriousWords

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Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A lovely @lindyryanwrites cover blurb! "Lush, haunting, and drenched in fairy-tale dread, Fitcher’s Bird is folk horror at its finest. Slatter weaves trauma, sisterhood, and folklore into something both deeply human and deliciously monstrous—proving yet again that she is a mistress of the genre." 💙

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Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Thank you Pip Williams for your gift of time and words. I’m so grateful. Salt City Runaway is out TOMORROW! Unless you’re doing @smokelong.bsky.social they have the e-book now!!

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"Okay, explain it again, but this time like you're talking to a person who is usually daydreaming about tiny magic people living in moss-villages and who is hanging onto reality by the thinnest of threads."

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This meme alone would have me hooked if I wasn’t already 😂

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I’ve been reading @amalelmohtar.com’s Seasons of Glass and Iron gradually over the last few weeks, rereading some pieces, saving others, and “Wing” is so beautiful, it’s like a dart shot with exquisite accuracy into the centre of my heart.

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley. I hated it with a passion, and have flat out refused to read any of his other books.

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

How did you get a picture of my husband and me?

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

“Teeny tiny stories with teeth” There couldn’t be a more effective pitch for me. Preordered!

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I read this before getting out of bed and it’s going to stay on my skin all day 💔 it’s beautiful and it hurts

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Remember. If screaming into the Void is sapping too much energy, you can always have a quiet conversation with a chasm, or mumble into a puddle.

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Moon Eyed Fox @moon-eyed-fox.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

First, lemon balm and lavender for the bees. Their scents linger in the hidden corners of the garden with swirls of green and blue, colour filling the air like sun through stained glass. You try poppies next, and swathes of brilliant orange streak toward the sky. Apples blossom softly pink, radiant.

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Drove myself into the ground over the last month to finish the draft of my sapphic fantasy, and was quietly judged the entire time that my lap was occupied by my computer instead of cat.

A photo of half a computer screen, with ominous cat ears lurking above the screen like Batman lurking in the night.

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Abandoned pot left alone to see what seeds it caught, and this year it has lavender sprouts, mint, a strawberry and a half dozen types of moss 😍

A dog’s breakfast of volunteer plants in a blue pot. Mint, strawberry, lavender and moss.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Anyone else want something new and fucking fantastic to read this week? Get anything you want from the Stanchion archives for free. For a limited time.

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Readers, I finished the draft. *collapses*

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Writing the last emotional chapter of my angsty sapphic romantasy while my youngest battles with felted salmon and an eagle stuffie. If motherhood has taught me anything about myself, it’s the depths of my sheer stubborn perseverance.

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Moon Eyed Fox @moon-eyed-fox.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Far beyond the trodden roads, beyond even the narrow trails cut into the mountainside by the shaggy-haired goats, is a long and narrow field of wildflowers that follows the curve of the slope, where lightning crackles among the blooms, patient as a spider in its web.

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

So, turns out sewing in an egg shape is harder than I expected 😅 but I got a pile of these! Perfect size for mini boxes of smarties!

Pink fabric eggs pinned and ready to sew.

Five pink fabric eggs with pockets, ready to be stuffed with chocolate for Easter.

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Angela M Cowan @angelamcowan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Time to test my sewing skills: can I cut and sew a dozen fabric Easter eggs in the next hour before I have to pick up my kids from school?

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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Don't trust the little elves on April Fools' Day who say they want to mend your shoes.

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