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Penny Sharman

@blossoms21.bsky.social
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I’m a poet and photographer inspired by landscapes, shortlisted for Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the year 2023 winner of The Charles Causley International Poetry Prize 2025, shortlisted for The Wigtown Poetry Competition 2025 pennysharman.co.uk

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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 6h
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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My first prize winning poem for the Charles Causley Poetry Comp 2025 Complaints about pigeons and the loss of goldfinches I get rid of the pigeons, the hoard on these rooftops, feather & shit of t...
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A little light in the darkness Remembrance 9/11
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A small light in the darkness Remembrance 9/11
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Arriving
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
www.paragraphplanet.com
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Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Local
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My poem in Southword 50
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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There’s going to be an eclipse on 12th August and if we are lucky here in the UK we might see it, experience light leaving and returning, hear the silencing of bird life for a few moments, connect wit...
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Penny Sharman (@dreamawhile)
There’s going to be an eclipse on 12th August and if we are lucky here in the UK we might see it, experience light leaving and returning, hear the silencing of bird life for a few moments, connect wit...
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue Wave Maine, 1926 #WomensArt
Painting featuring a white wave in a blue sea
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
My poem in Southword 50
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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
My #poetry submissions shout out today is for Obsessed With Pipework magazine. Eclectic, wise, fresh, and usually a reasonably quick response from @catbloke.bsky.social and @blossoms21.bsky.social obsessedwithpipeworkblog.wordpress.com
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Obsessed with Pipework
quarterly of new poetry with strangeness & charm
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A new App for writers
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Beginnings
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Wow! an acceptance from Aftershock for issue three Thank you Max Wallis
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Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“The Bitches” by Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #amwriting
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Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Deer Hill Reservoir Meltham
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Wow! an acceptance from Aftershock for issue three Thank you Max Wallis
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Just realised it’s almost a year since my last post so here’s a few shots from February a small child hooking the moon and pulling down moonlight for the Earth photos of sunlight through an evergr...
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Make your own video with Grok Imagine
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Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“1966” by Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com #writingcommunity #flashfiction #amwriting
paragraphplanet.com
Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Make your own video with Grok Imagine
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Make your own video with Grok Imagine
Video generated by Grok.
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
www.paragraphplanet.com/index.php?fb... My poem up today
paragraphplanet.com
Creative writing website for authors and readers. 75 words, changing daily. Submit your paragraph today.
A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
My publisher has let me down🥲🥲🥲🥲 pretty devastated
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
My publisher has let me down🥲🥲🥲🥲 pretty devastated
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
@seansterva2.bsky.social
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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Happy 92nd Birthday, Tom Baker! You're 'my Doctor' always. #TomBaker
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
munsterlit.ie/southword-ed... Lucky to make the commended list
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Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Result – Munster Literature Centre
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
A Girl Raking - 1881 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Mist over hills before snowfall
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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Solstice Babe!
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The running of the deer
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Penny Sharman (@dreamawhile)
Things I have filched When I was young it was snow, before it melts, before a carrot became a nose, before the coal gave sight to the snowman. Before the melt and slush was left on the garden path. ...
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Is it a number, is it a chocolate, no it's a poem!!!
the advent of Advent
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Hedgehog Poetry Press @hedgehogpress.co.uk · 01/12/2025
LAUNCH DAY: “Poems for TAYLOR SWIFT & Other Unicorns” – Various Artists I am so verily chuffed to say Happy Book Birth Day to all of the fine poets who have their work featured in our tales of teenage obsession, Poems for TAYLOR SWIFT & Other Unicorns ... which hits the shelves and doormats this…
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LAUNCH DAY: “Poems for TAYLOR SWIFT & Other Unicorns” – Various Artists
I am so verily chuffed to say Happy Book Birth Day to all of the fine poets who have their work featured in our tales of teenage obsession, Poems for TAYLOR SWIFT & Other Unicorns ... which hits the shelves and doormats this very day. Click Here to find out more
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