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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some sketchbook pages. Looking at eyes.

Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Had a great time at the launch of issue 8 of The Marello last night. Campfire stories were shared at the Martello Tower. I had a poem 'Féth Fiada -The Mist in Our Eyes' included in thiss issue and it was a great reason to come up for the evening. #litmag #poem #poetry

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just opened my copy of Voice & Verse, Issue 88, which invluded two poems of mine, 'Canthus' and 'OCT Scan'. 🤍🥚☁️ All things are real, even their absense is in itself a physical object. #poetry #poem #litmag

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Honored to have a bona fide two page spread in Issue 4 of Abyss. A really vibrant and moody production from our own Irish soil. #art #artwork #litmag #literarymagazine

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just opened my copy of 'For Those Who Despair' published by Sunday Mornings At The River, whoch includes my poem 'Warp and Weft'. #poem #poetry

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I have a review in in the latest issue of the Exacting Clam @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social about Wendy Walkers's 'Sexual Stealing'. You can squint at this photo or grab a copy, whatever surf's your turf. #litmag #bookreview

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We need to stop the expansion of the fascist entity known as Linkedin

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

So happy to have my poem 'Relic' included in the lastest issue of Abridged! @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social , gorgeous issue with incredible art. #poetry #poem #litmag

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Just opened my copy of Eascair Volume 3! I was lucky enough to have a piece included. 'Coral' is a tapestry msde from Irish wool, woven and photographed by me. #textileart #weaving #litmag #literarymagazine

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

'Dance of the Malcontents' will be making a glorious appearance to an adoring public. Can't wait to see everyone on show at the exhibition opening at Lido Stores Gallery in Margate . #art #artwork #exhibition

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I'm delighted to share my poem 'Streetlight', which has been published in the 'All The World's A Page' anthology by Quillkeepers Press . #poem #poetry

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Some pics of my work in the 'The Sea Around Us' exhibition at The Waterford Gallery of Art . Amazing to be included amonst so many amazing photographers😄🐬🌌🌊 #photography #exhibition

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Delighted to share my copy of Voice and Verse Issue 85. I was lucky enough to have two poems, 'Fumigation' and 'Ludeonarrative Dissonance' in published in this issue as part of the 'Reparations' special feature. 🌼🌌❄️ #poetry

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Metachrosis Magazine (Subs open from 12 Dec - 01 Mar) @metachrosismag.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Submissions are open for issue 6 of Metachrosis Magazine. We are accepting submissions through Duosuma and Curatorspace, with all information and links available via metachrosislitmag.com/submission-g... . #opencall #subsopen #litmag #artmag #opencall

Submissions are open!
Metachrosis Issue 6
5th Dec - 28th Feb

We'll be accepting submissions of all forms of art and writing.
Send in your work via Duosuma and Curatorspace.
Check out our submission guidelines on our website!
Below is a black and white image of a beetle.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"An elder is someone who is older than olive trees" is about asking why does the Israeli state harm olive trees, and reflecting on how I came to loathe state borders as someone who grew up in Lebanon to a Palestinian grandfather -- plus my love of trains. www.hauntologies.net/p/an-elder-i...

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An elder is someone who is older than olive trees

Or: what breaks me

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm back for this week's #poemsabout #static with @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk . I decided to explire static as a loss of connection and isolation from a system required to function. I love working with okd tech so it was nice to explore the entrophy of operating systems. #poetry

System collapse
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Spackled pixels hum the chorus, changing notes
‘til they hit the same key. Holes, punched in short formation,
guide the swarm. Ripples in a dead river. Churning silt.
Lights don’t blink like we do, they STOP. Beginning
the next sequence. Unless flesh breaks the circuit,
controlling the supernova with practiced ease.
In some distant dark, a motor hums - glowing pale
against empty states. The error screen holding out
as rust severs the tendons.

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Sketchbook pages, looking at soil composition, skin grafts, and Aztec history. #sketchbook

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Metachrosis Magazine (Subs open from 12 Dec - 01 Mar) @metachrosismag.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Submissions are officially open for issue 6 of Metachrosis Magazine. We are accepting submissions through Duosuma and Curatorspace, with all information and links available via metachrosislitmag.com/submission-g... . #opencall #subsopen #litmag #artmag

Submissions Open!
Metachrosis Issue 6
15th Dec - 28th Feb

We'll be accepting all forms of art and writing

Send in work via Duosuma and Curatorspace.

Check out our submission guidelines on our website!

Beneath is an image of a cherub riding a chariot driven by peacocks; the cherub is whipping them (to no effect)

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Just opened my copy of @thebelfastreview.bsky.social issue 5, featuring my poem 'Goths'. 🖤 #poem #poetry #litmag

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Just cracked open my first published short story 'Offering' in 'Soot & Boots: An Anthology of Festive Fiction' published by The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk. The story is an exploration of pagan tradition and the bonds between outsiders. Can't wait yo read the rest. ❄️☁️🌌🌙 #shortstory #writing

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Amazed to be included. I csn't wait to read the full issue. 😄🌼

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Taking things apart. May become relevant later. #sketchbook #sketch

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Metachrosis Magazine (Subs open from 12 Dec - 01 Mar) @metachrosismag.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

2 more weeks to go! Enough time to crack open a sketchbook and drink a frozen margarita. As per ususal, all submission guidelines and digital copies of Metachrosis can be found on our website via the link in our bio. Get weird with it. #opencall #litmag #literarymagazine #artmag #artsmagazine

Submissions open in 2 weeks!
Metachrosis Issue 6
15th Dec - 28th Feb
We'll be accepting submissions of all forms of art and writing.
Send in your work via duosoma and Curatorspace.
Check out our submission guidelines on our website.
Metachrosis Magazine

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My first published short story is in this anthology! Couldn't ask for a better debut. ❄️😄🌿

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Metachrosis Magazine (Subs open from 12 Dec - 01 Mar) @metachrosismag.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We'll be opening for submissions of all forms of art and writing from 15th December 2025 - 28th February 2026. We'll be open for submissions via Duosoma and Curatorspace. Our submission guidelines and previous issue are on our website. 🐌🌌🌞 metachrosislitmag.com #litmag #literarymagazine #opencall

Submissions Open from 15th December / Metachrosis Issue 6 / We'll be accepting all forms of art and writing / send in your work vis Duosoma and Curatorspace / Check out our submission guidelines on our website! Metachrosis Magazine

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Desire with @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk I'm focusing on the details of desire and the moments in time that etch themselves into our memory #poem #poetry

Fresh Cotton Bedding
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Sallow permutations hold steady against the bloom;
discrepancies eroded under cover of cheap lumens.

Wrists snap at the tendons, contorted collars - distend
at the first hint of a door handle pushed to its limit.

The lock holds firm, new trainers cross the carpet -
Stumbling up the corridor, looking for the right room.

Turning back, i see one of your earrings about to tumble
through the pillowcases. Cartilage diamonds set in gold.

Sliding the back into place, chromatic flecks dance across
your temple. Bleeding into the space between freckles.

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A poem about slugs! I was lucky enough to publish my poem 'They're Eaten By Everything' in the latest issue of The Healing Muse by SUNY Upstate Medical University. #Poem #Poetry #litmag #literarymagazine

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Just opened my copy of Sunday Mornings at the River 2026 poetry diary. I've been lucku enough to hail November 2026 with my poem 'Roadside'. #poetry #poem

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation? Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

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The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I'm delighted to be included in this issue 😄🌼✌️, can't wait to read the full lineup. 🌌

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

For this weeks #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I wanted to focua on the locks themselves. The complex mechanisms and feats of engineering that are taken for granted.

Deadbolt
Ellen Harrold

Grease the filigree with fresh marrow.
Stop-gap mechanisms need the movement
to push and click thrpugh metal intestines.
The process ingrained in the architecture, now
rotting under termite tracks. Stainless steel
melts in the furnace, rusts in the scrap heap.
Churned out by thw thousand, chieftans and kings
would gaze in awe at our ikea doorhandles.

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I was delighted to grab a copy of The Storms Issue 5 at the in Rathfarnham Castle in Dublin. I have two pieces of art in this issue: 'Caress' and 'Nautilis'. Can't wait to listen to the audio companion to the issue with Eat the Storms podcast #litmag #literarymagazine

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Debra J. Nordyke @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Friday! #PoemsAbout #Blood @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Please note: Content warning for this week's poem. Alludes to sexual child abuse.

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

For this weeks #PoemsAbout #Blood (great hashtag) with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'm focusing on amateur forensics and the traces of stories that get left behind.

$Barbed Oh, there in the fence! Fresh-woven oxygen awash with luminous beads. Caught in the refractions between shallow light and mist ascending the nettled banks. Sunlight speckles across the mattes, interlaces and permeated with hues of tallow . Every strand catches incisors, caking to earthen consistency. Rusted shut and rotting amidst the dew. It’s thickest round a bleary patch of barbed wire. Near covered in curls of fern. Corrugated plastic still shines where the sun hits low, bridging a meagre gap in the treeline. You have to know it’s there.$

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I'm lucky enough to have two art pieces in this issue. Can't wait for the launch on Saturday. 🌼☀️

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

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One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 27/10/2025

The 5th Storm has landed, the printed journal of poetry, prose & visual art featuring 89 star Stormers & cover art by Brian Malachy Quinn is supported by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social @fingal.ie Now available to buy at our online shop eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Just finished up my last shift at the 41st EVA International Biennal of contemporary art. The team were kind enough to share archival documents to all the visitor assistants so I'm pouring over them while hiding from the rain. 😄🌧

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

For this weeks #PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I want to look at social media politics and the lack of political literacy that leads to cult-like worship of political parties. As written by an irish socialist.

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Back on to #PoemsAbout after a brief sabbatical while starting a new job. For #BreakTheMould with @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk . I wanted to discuss the limitations of clinical trials for medical devices and the variety of human experience. #poetry

CLINICAL TRIAL
Ellen Harrold

Rank crescendos haunt the charts, calculated
to within an inch of their life.
The number could still go down:
Petty tributaries dispensed among the investors.
Flecks of metal ripped from the soil - a new face imported.
Morning silence shattered, cement for the untread soil.

The sun hangs low - you stop for a moment
weave the air to a supple pause - still.
The screen illuminates scant peripherals.
You can see the buttons, not the hand - hesitating at the edge.
Reading the palm of Chronos, rendered finite by prescription.
Punched in, enough accuracy to survive the dawn chorus.

They will one day sell it back. Automated efficiency,
driving guesswork from the process of existence.
It works on paper, rendered pulp.
Soaking up the statistics.
Nevermind, my guess was wrong.
An outlier, rank display of human error.
Best avoided if one wishes to continue the programme

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 07/10/2025

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds. Closing date: October 31st #PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

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Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine

Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Delighted to have three poems in the latest issue of Shearsman. 'Organisation', 'Reporting Live From the Dissection Table', and 'Locomotion' are looking fab amongst so much beautiful writing. #poems #poetry

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

For this weeks #LiftToTheSky with @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk I'm recommending Virgil by Steve Orlando, J.D Faith, Chris Beckett, and Thomas Mauer. A 'queersploitation revenge tale' set in Jamaica. This graphic novel combines tense action, emotiinal nuance and beautiful visuals.

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

For #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain with @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk I looked at the idea that 'never again' can come to late. It never needs to happen again because the deed has been done. What is happening between now and never? In mourning the dead do we look away from the survivors?

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Sometimes this joint really just looks like Linkedin vol. 2

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Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

For #LiftToTheSky with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'm recommending 'Human Costume' by A.E. Stringer. This poetry collection explores the interonnectivity between physical existance and our sense of self. "Eerie marriage of form / and purpose, the empty / pentagon, ill omen"

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