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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 5h

‘Long Stem.’ #Painting by Fred Calleri #art

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Nought so vile that on the earth doth live, but to the earth some special good doth give.” ~ Shakespeare, ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ #Painting by Peder Severin Krøyer (1883).

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Essay writers, creative nonfiction people, my @saloneurope.bsky.social 3-part course, The Personal Essay: From Pitch To Publication, is almost sold out. Perfect if you want to discover essays, try out a book idea, hone your practice. Last few places available but hurry, hurry! Can't wait to see you.

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is fascinating by @davidcollard.bsky.social on first published stories. Some were rewritten many times, others have gone missing. The opening line of M. John Harrison’s Marina, and discovering Ford Maddox Ford’s close analysis of the opening of a D H Lawrence are my favourite moments.

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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking forward to the chats with Louise Hegarty and moderator Laura Casssidy at Cork International Short Story Festival on 15th October, SO, about to dive into Louise's latest collection in anticipation of said chats 👁 @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

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SandeeOster @sandeeoster.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New study finds that laser scans of a temple wall at Kition, Cyprus reveal 23 hidden ship carvings, one on a block added ~150 years after the rest, suggesting people kept carving ships for ~300 years, through the Bronze Age collapse archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/a-fl... #Archaeology #Science

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A Fleet Hiding in Plain Sight: Laser Scans Find 23 New Ships on a Cypriot Temple Wall — Archaeology Teahouse

New high-resolution laser scanning at Kition Kathari, Cyprus, reveals 23 previously unrecorded ship graffiti and indicates the carvings accumulated continuously from Late Cypriot IIIA into the Cypro-G...

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hoshi-wajo standing wooden statue. 11th century, Japan. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction

Carved from a single block of timber, a monk standing in solemn monastic robes reveals a miraculous inner metamorphosis through a deep vertical cleft down the center of his head and face. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction, and his left hand, holding a slender ritual water vase (suibin), the figure exudes a quiet, poised presence. The aged surface of the sculpture is etched with deep vertical wood grain, tool marks, and age-worn fissures that catch dramatic, directional light, capturing the physical tension between the outer human countenance and the divine radiance hidden within.
Dating to 11th-century Heian-period Japan, this extraordinary wooden sculpture depicts Hōshō Wajō (the Chinese monk Baozhi, 418–514 CE), a renowned Buddhist master of the Southern Liang Dynasty celebrated for his eccentric wisdom and miraculous deeds. According to Japanese Buddhist folklore recorded in collections such as the Konjaku Monogatarishū, when Emperor Wu of Liang sent court painters to capture the monk's portrait, Baozhi used his fingers to rend open the skin of his face, revealing the Eleven-Headed Guanyin (Jūichimen Kannon) beneath to demonstrate that true Buddhahood cannot be captured by superficial physical likeness. Sculpted in the ichiboku-zukuri (single-block wood carving) technique, this work represents a pinnacle of Japanese religious monozukuri (artisanal mastery), translating a literary legend of spiritual transfiguration into a startling, physical masterpiece of sacred art.

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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm excited to be taking part in the Cork International Short Story Festival, in among all these legends! My event is in Cork Arts Theatre, on Thursday 15th October, 19:30 pm @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Say—here are about 78 literary journals opening for submissions in October. Some are open now or will close soon in September or October. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well, friends.

Paris Review
Electric Literature
Quarterly West
Writers Space Africa
Reading Into Culture
Hoot Review
Petrichor
Encyclopedia Prismatica
128 Lit
Diamond Gazette
Brick
WayWords
The Gilded Weathervane
Shadowplay
Fiction
Amsterdam Review
Poet Lore
Room
Oakwood
Southern Quill
45th Paralelle
Apotheca Journal
MicroLit
Weird Lit
Gravity Of The Thing
Nimrod
Superpresent
Ink In Thirds
Beloit Poetry
Unbound Ink
New World Writing
Folio
Plume
The Shore
Banshee
Tractor Beam
SmokeLong Quarterly
Rome Review
Patrika Aranyak
Gyroscope Review
Letters
Forge
Two Hawks Quarterly
Seaside Gothic
The Rumpus
Westchester Review
Thieving Magpie
Kitchen Table Quarterly
Salamander
New Feathers Anthology
Shift
Portland Review
Barcelona Review
The Razor
Clockhouse
Tahoma Literary Review
Clackamas Literary
Gooseberry Pie
The Drift
Wigleaf
Craft
Pithead Chapel
Doric Literary
Reed Magazine
Harpur Palate
Trace Fossils Review
Ninth Letter
Black Fox
Redivider
The Meadow
Puerto Del Sol
Lolwe
Split Lip
Beaver Magazine
Lunch Ticket
Saw Palm
Bat City Review
Crab Creek Review

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📣 POETRY ALOUD 2026 | Entries now open To celebrate the joy of speaking and listening to poetry, the National Library of Ireland and @poetryireland.bsky.social, in partnership with @ucc.ie, are delighted to announce the POETRY ALOUD Poetry Speaking Competition 2026 for post-primary school students.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Heydon owns 245 acres of land in Kildare and Laois, estimated to be worth between €2.2 and 4.5 million." Big industrial ag has Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in its pocket, producing an ongoing catastrophe for Irish nature, less wealthy farmers, and the taxpayer. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Minister for Agriculture has largest farmlands among TDs and Senators

Irish Times investigation finds FG TD has largest landholding among Oireachtas members and is among highest EU Cap fund recipients

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hibernation Morris Graves, 1954

Expressionism
Sumi ink on paper

grey with circular centre, an abstract mink curled within

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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark humus to which the body will one day return, they become a spell against despair and a consecration of all that is alive.”

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Roots and the Meaning of Life

They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark humus to which t…

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

inventor of the knife: "It is a triangle for cleaving food." onlooker: "In twain?" inventor of the knife: (chuckling) "twain is the very lowest setting."

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal" James Joyce speaking to his friend the writer and painter Arthur Power in the 1920s #BookwormSat

✍🏻 'Conversations with James Joyce' (Lilliput Press)
🎨 Marjorie FitzGibbon's 1990 statue of James Joyce, located just off O'Connell Street in Dublin city

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

‘Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey’ (1927-1989)... #Painting by Wondeuk Cho.

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You can get it here: culturesack.bandcamp.com/album/words-...

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Words in Order, by Gerald Murnane

8 track album

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Doors Into the Dark is a fascinating day of weird fiction at the Seamus Heaney Centre 26/9 @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social that ends with an evening of new strange & speculative writing, hosted by @theactualemma.bsky.social & Niall McKenna inc a new story of mine. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/doors-into...

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Doors Into the Dark: A Day of Weird Fiction

Join us to explore Science-Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Myth and the Weird with the makers of fiction, film, comics and games.

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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dublin Book Festival is one of the best and brightest literary festivals on the island—and it's celebrating TWENTY YEARS this year! 🥳👏🍾 The 2026 programme has just been released, so you can snap up your tickets here🔥: dublinbookfestival.com/explore-the-... @dublinbookfest.bsky.social #dbf26

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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🤠 Looking forward to this event at the Dublin Book Festival, where I'll be chatting with John O'Donnell and Niall McMonagle about the Short Story form #dbf26 @lilliputpress.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-ar...

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The Art of the Short Story - Dublin Book Festival

Hear authors Niamh Mac Cabe and John O'Donnell discussing their short story collections at Dublin Book Festival 2026

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Radiophrenia @radiophrenia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At 11am this morning it’s Tasmanian radio art duo Sisters Akousmatica with "Whips of sorrow". Sisters Akousmatica have been expanding radio projects to explore the radical possibilities of transmission since 2015 within collective and feminist radio practices.

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Painting by Mary Bishop c.midC20th, created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, where she was compelled to live for several decades. Much of her work explores distress, traumatic childhood experiences & dehumanising treatment within the psychiatric system which held power over her

A painting of two pink horses, face to to face, their heads intersecting with each other in an arc. Their rolling green eyes and open mouths give an atmosphere of torment or distress as they seem to rear up, melding into one another against a white background

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“It’s raining outside” suggests it could rain inside, and I love that.

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Я @gertiewentworth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Banquet 2022 • Maiko Kitagawa

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ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Web submissions are open for historical fiction. 14th-20th September, 1,000 words or fewer. The usual guidelines apply and can be found here: ellipsis-zine.com/submit

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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Around 2004, at about 94 AU from the Sun, it crossed the termination shock and entered the heliosheath.

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

of swans and myths of transformation and enlightenment- good night, have beautiful dreams ph. m.von roth

Photograph

Paled white green swan on night black background

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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICYMI we're open for #submissions of contemporary #microfiction #MicroMonday #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking forward to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

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https://fictivedream.com/submission-guidelines/

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And there are things that are hard to talk about—you'll rub off their marvelous pollen at the touch of a word. Nabokov, Letters to Véra, 1923

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Richard Meier's last collection, After the Miracle, was published shortly before his death. Many of the poems (such as this one) were written with the knowledge that time was short. It's an exceptional book, full of life, and I recommend you grab a copy asap! happenstancepress.com/index.php/co...

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C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Manchester! I will soon be leading a @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social Reading Round at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social looking at works related to the collection of Enriqueta Rylands. Come along, it's free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-ro...

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Reading Round at The John Rylands Library

A time for stories, poems, and community in the historic John Rylands Library.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

autumn is fast approaching which means it's time for pannage: the ancient commoner's right of taking your pigs to the forest to feast on fallen acorns, chestnuts, and beechmast

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"If I'm not a genius, I'm done for." -- Honoré de Balzac (letter to his sister, Laure, 1819.)

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Ghost with a Sword" (also widely known as "The Snow Woman" or "Spirit of a Female Samurai"). It is a famous color woodblock print created circa 1922–1923 by the pioneering Japanese artist Uemura Shōen (1875–1949).

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Harry Wilkin$ @hs-wilkins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE SECRETS DISPLAYED ON ROADSIGNS

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

A lovely furry bench in the village of Manaton, on Dartmoor.

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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

‘Undine Rising from the Waters.’ #Sculpture by Chauncey Bradley Ives⁣ (1880) #art

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Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I learned a new word, "retronym", I love this concept. We had cameras, then we had digital cameras, and the retronym is "film cameras", a distinction that didn't have to exist until digital cameras came along. (See also: watch --> wristwatch --> retronym: pocket watch.)

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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favourite film sound boring without giving away the title: One man's rug is mistaken for another man's rug.

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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Rico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

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