Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This book originated during lockdown. Isolation was getting to me, unable to connect with anyone. Liza Wolff-Francis and I wrote ‘sky they yearned to call mine’ during national poetry month. It’s available through Unsolicited Press. #WaitingCommunity#Poetry #UnsolicitedPress #LizaWolff-Francis.  110
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyBrenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026One of my favorite fall things is the first Apple crisp of the season. This fall , in 71 days, also brings my new collection poetry collaboration with Liza Wolff-Francis ‘sky the year to call mine available from Unsolicited Press. Yahoo!!!! 101
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026One of my favorite fall things is the first Apple crisp of the season. This fall , in 71 days, also brings my new collection poetry collaboration with Liza Wolff-Francis ‘sky the year to call mine available from Unsolicited Press. Yahoo!!!! 101
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026open.substack.com/pub/srstewar... Smart, timely words. Why do writers have to constantly give away so many of their precious resources? respond in the comments below. #UnsolicitedPress #SummerStewart #Writers #WritingCommunity #Poetry! #Books #Creativeopen.substack.comField Notes from the Small Press Swamp: What “Community” Actually CostsLiterary community is a beautiful phrase until someone has to stack the chairs, answer the emails, update the flyer, and pretend the microphone is not actively auditioning for a nervous breakdown. 060
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026www.instagram.com/p/DaN8nUVxH6y/instagram.comLiza Wolff Francis on Instagram: "So excited to get to hang out with my co-author Brenda Beardsley. Our book “sky they yearn to call mine” is coming out in November through Unsolicited Press. We’ve be...1 likes, 0 comments - lizawolfffrancis on June 30, 2026: "So excited to get to hang out with my co-author Brenda Beardsley. Our book “sky they yearn to call mine” is coming out in November through Uns... 010
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026open.substack.com/pub/unsolici... Check out these wonderful books currently available at #Unsolicited Press. I’ve already read over half of these books and they all deliver unexpected, ballsy, a little weird stories/memoir/poems/pick a genre that won’t disappoint.open.substack.comThe Books Readers Won’t Leave AloneOur Top 19 Bestsellers of 2026 So Far 010
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyBrenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 13/06/2026www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/sky-t... Unbelievably excited to share the link for pre-orders for this collaborative book with my friend Liza Wolf-Francis to be published by #UnsolicitedPress.#LizaWolf-Francis. Check it out!unsolicitedpress.comSKY THEY YEARNED TO CALL MINE — Unsolicited Presssky they yearned to call mine is a collaborative poetry collection by Brenda Beardsley and Liza Wolff-Francis, written as an exchange that reshapes grief in real time. Moving between the personal a... 041
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 13/06/2026www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/sky-t... Unbelievably excited to share the link for pre-orders for this collaborative book with my friend Liza Wolf-Francis to be published by #UnsolicitedPress.#LizaWolf-Francis. Check it out!unsolicitedpress.comSKY THEY YEARNED TO CALL MINE — Unsolicited Presssky they yearned to call mine is a collaborative poetry collection by Brenda Beardsley and Liza Wolff-Francis, written as an exchange that reshapes grief in real time. Moving between the personal a... 041
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Loved my visit to Northshire bookstore in Manchester, Vermont. I highly recommend going there!#GreatBookstores #Literature #Writing #Poets #NorthshireBookstore 020
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 24/05/2026www.instagram.com/reel/DYupbZb... Had a great time at Bookstock last weekend—-instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 000
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 23/05/2026www.instagram.com/reel/DYiPFmv...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 100
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 19/05/2026open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...open.substack.comPromise by Franz Wright 020
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Just finished Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I’m stunned by the beauty, craftsmanship literary skill and scope of this epic novel. It is necessary reading for every American. What did you think? #Reading #WritingCommunity #BarbaraKingsolver #DemonCopperhead #LiteraryFiction #Writers. 040
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 30/03/2026New ekphrastic work up today at the fabulous journal The Prose Poem. Many thanks to the wonderful editors! Yes, the artwork is mine too. #TheProsePoem#Poetry #Writing #WritingCommunity theprosepoem.com/here-is-wher...theprosepoem.comHere is Where You Don’t Belong – The Prose Poem 010
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026These poems are stunning, achingly, sad, and brimming with urgency. Who else has read this and would love to discuss? #Poetry #WritingCommunity #MosabAbuToha#Writers #ReadersOfPoetry 130
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 20/03/2026open.substack.com/pub/unsolici... Wise words on the logistics of publishing and the very real writer fatigue that we all experience but rarely articulate. #Writing #WritingCommunity #Poets #UnsolicitedPress.open.substack.comThe Invisible Labor of Being a WriterThe Work After the Work — Issue 10 020
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 19/03/2026open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem... #poetry#WritingCommunity#Writers #FelicitySheehy#OnlyPoems In a chaotic world, I appreciate the stillness of these lines.open.substack.comMarch by Felicity Sheehy"The trout will not answer you, any more than the cardinal" 030
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 15/03/2026open.substack.com/pub/srstewar... This is brilliant. #WritingCommunity #Poetry #PoetryCommunity#UnsolicitedPress #women and writingopen.substack.comEmotional Labor Is an Editorial SkillThe Credibility Gap, Part II 020
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026How’s your writing going this week? #writing #Writers #writing community #Poets #Creativity 441
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Reading the amazing Larry Levis and his poem “Train.” Look at that gorgeous gorgeous third stanza #Poetry! #WritingCommunity #Writers #Readers. 180
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 03/03/2026How many books will you read during National Reading Month?? 120
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Love the visual representation of this poem. #Poetry #Writers #RaymondAntrobus #WritingCommunity.youtube.comRaymond Antrobus BSL poem, 'Dynamic Disks'YouTube video by Raymond Antrobus 050
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 12/02/2026open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...open.substack.comUndocumented Sonnet: Advance Parole by José Felipe Ozuna"They are letting/not letting me return to Mexico" 000
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/02/2026Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons 324355
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026substack.com/@junot/note/...substack.comJunot Díaz (@junot)Every day I watch the terror grow and every day I have to work, run errands, do chores — how to describe that contradiction, and how to survive it. Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in... 000
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Loving ‘the strange wondrous works of Eleanor Eleanor’ by Kathryn Cowles, the winner of the Fence modern poet series award. This is an unforgettable collection that I can’t seem to stop talking about! #Fence #KathrynCowles#Literary #WritingCommunity #Poetry #UnsolicitedPress #Writers#SmallPress 172
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 22/01/2026So many books, so little time! What’s on your reading pile??? respond in the comments!#WritingCommunity #Writers #Books #Poetry #Fiction #Readers #UnsolicitedPress #Fence#Memoir 370
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 19/01/2026www.instagram.com/reel/DTnwdo9...instagram.comMonica Danús on Instagram: "Please like and share ANYTHING coming out of Minnesota right now. Thank you for all your support❤️"248K likes, 15K comments - the.monicadanus on January 17, 2026: "Please like and share ANYTHING coming out of Minnesota right now. Thank you for all your support❤️". 021
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 11/01/2026How do you cultivate creativity? One thing I commit to is lots of reading, a book a week if possible. What do you do? Please share in the comments! These are two great books I’ve read since the start of the year. #poetry#writing #writers#LaurenRussell#MeriwetherClarke#UnsolicitedPress#literary 010
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 02/01/2026youtu.be/kNuBvdoWw94youtu.beThe 2026 Unsolicited Press AuthorsYouTube video by Unsolicited Press 020
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyIndependent Publishers Guild @independentpublishersguild.com · 09/04/2025Fantastic to see that all six shortlisted books for the Booker Prize are published by independent publishers! 🙌 www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-p...thebookseller.comIndie publishers enjoy full sweep of 2025 International Booker shortlist for first time everIndependent publishers have swept the board for the shortlist of the £50,000 International Booker Prize for the first time, with women dominating three quarters of the nominations. Books from Fitzcarr... 092
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 06/04/2025open.substack.com/pub/chopwood...open.substack.comExtra! Extra! April 6 👏🏼👏🏼What a week!! 010
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyMAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Map of protests in the US 🇺🇸 321286305
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Outstanding debut novel by Raki Kopernik! Well done! #unsolicitedpress#Authors #Writers #Fiction #WritingCommunity #RakiKopernik 030
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025open.substack.com/pub/unsolici...open.substack.com🔥 FOUR BOOKS. FOUR WOMXN. ONE POWERHOUSE MONTH. 🔥This year, Unsolicited Press is celebrating THE YEAR OF WOMXN, publishing an incredible lineup of books exclusively by womxn writers—and April is bringing FOUR stunning new releases that will blow you... 000
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyBen Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com · 01/04/2025Thank you Senator Cory Booker. This guy truly cares about the people he represents. 740585977245
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyMalaika R. Simmons @malaikarsimmons.bsky.social · 02/04/2025🎨✍🏾🖤 Today’s edition of 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆: “I may be afraid, my voice may shake, but I’m going to speak up more.” - Cory Booker 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙪𝙥 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚. 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚. 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚. 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚. #resist #amwriting #writingcommunity 0113
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyPoets & Writers @pw.org · 28/03/2025“[D]iversity can and should be about more than just plopping different faces into stories that are 100 percent Western in spirit.” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, author @henrylienauthor.bsky.social recommends writers embrace diverse storytelling styles and structures. at.pw.org/CCLien3 051
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyBrenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Delighted to be in this beautiful poetry anthology from Tupelo press — The Last Milkweed. Beautiful poetry, poetry in this collection, highlighted by photographs by Jeffrey Levine. #Poetry #Writers #WritingCommunity #Poets #TupeloPress #Literature #Writing. 141
Brenda Beardsley @brendapoet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Delighted to be in this beautiful poetry anthology from Tupelo press — The Last Milkweed. Beautiful poetry, poetry in this collection, highlighted by photographs by Jeffrey Levine. #Poetry #Writers #WritingCommunity #Poets #TupeloPress #Literature #Writing. 141
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyUnsolicited Press @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social · 11/03/20252025 Year of Womxn Ebook Subscription — Unsolicited Press www.unsolicitedpress.com/ebooks/p/202... #ebooksunsolicitedpress.com2025 Year of Womxn Ebook Subscription — Unsolicited PressCelebrate the power of womxn in literature with our 2025 Ebook Subscription! Each month, receive every ebook we publish that month —delivering a dynamic collection of stories, poetry, and thought-p... 132
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyFaith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Be brave Creatives! Keep doing what you do ... (thanks, @sketchesbyBoze, Owl! at the Library, and Madeleine, of course!) 🥰 #writingcommunity #booksky #writesky #kidlit 053
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyHeather Jeanne Denyer @heatherjdenyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I'm fucked. And so are many, many others. This is why, even if the universities are not all shut down, I will become homeless. 101
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyWWF UK @wwf.org.uk · 21/02/2025Pause for a moment of calm brought to you by the ocean. #DailyDoseOfNature 16992153
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/02/2025Donald Trump’s embrace of America’s adversary and rejection of its ally has been so swift and complete that even top Kremlin officials are astonished.newyorker.comDonald Trump’s Putinization of AmericaIt’s not just in foreign policy that the President is turning Russia’s way. 69652233
Reposted by Brenda BeardsleyThe Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025🚨CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...statnews.comCDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public healthMembers of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired 1010358
