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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And we're live! re: reading - The OU Literature Podcast is now available. Just search "OU Literature Podcast" on your usual podcast provider. (Please note that some services take longer than others to make episodes available.) We will post a new full-length episode on the first day of each month.

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Prof Siobhan Campbell's essay on Creative Writing with displaced Lebanese women available now on open access. Find it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15... This work was done with AHRC grant AH/V01045X/1 from @ukri.org in partnership with Akkar Network for Development. Full issue: shorturl.at/PFp7K

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Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Loved being involved in this ekphrastic poetry project. Cheers to anyone who rode a Massey Ferguson as a youth!

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today’s author birthday is a big one! This writer authored one of the most famous novels of all, adapted as a film many times, most recently with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. We will reveal the answer later today here – and we'll be making a big announcement! Check in here for more this pm!

A picture of a young female VIctorian novelist with the words, 'Born on the 30th of July 1818'

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Happy birthday Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights! We're delighted to announce the launch our new podcast: Re:reading The OU literature podcast. The podcast goes live on 1st September. Ep 1 is on Brontë's (and Fennell's) Wuthering Heights #OUliteraturepodcast #EmilyBrontë #WutheringHeights

A poster for Wuthering Heights, the 1939 film starring Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier, who are pictured in the image. Accompanying text reads 'Happy birthday Emily Brontë. Born on this day, 1818'

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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Very pleased to see my poem “People ask me why I am terrified of mice” on the Dark Poets Club website following an honourable mention in their “dark humour, bitter irony” challenge. www.darkpoets.club/poetry

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WRITTEN POETRY | Dark Poets Club

Dark Poets Club is a featuring poetry collective for established and emerging writers to submit and get their work featured. Focusses on raw and emotional poets and poetry with an aim to raising menta...

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Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’m back on BBC Upload this Saturday (1 August). Tune in across BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC Radio Humberside or stream live on BBC Sounds from 6pm. I'll be talking to Hannah about the good old VHS tape, and reading from the piece 'Internet killed the video star.’

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A visit today to the Home for Cooperation in the UN Buffer Zone in Nicosia, Cyprus, by the historic Ledra Palace Hotel. Part of the Theatre in Contested Spaces research project, funded by @openarc.bsky.social - arts research centre of @openuniversity.bsky.social #IrelandCyprus26 #theatreresearch

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OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Taking place at the MK Literary Festival, this online event is scheduled for 23 March 👇

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OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

OpenARC is the hub for Arts & Humanities research at The Open University, exploring what it means to be human and contributing to a more informed and culturally literate society. Follow for research insights & events: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/openarc-research-centre 🔗 bsky.app/profile/open...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Ukrainian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay, Electric prisms, 1914 vía #womensart

Cubicle style abstract painting in multicolours with central circular form

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Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

@ouliterature.bsky.social Students welcome to this free event in OU Belfast 5 March!

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maighreadmedbh.bsky.social @maighreadmedbh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Reading & performing from my coming book at this Poetry and Music event, part of the Look North festival in Belfast, on 1st March, 7.30 pm. Also reading will be Susanna Galbraith, whose 'Morsels', was published by Macha @machapress.bsky.social‬ in late 2025. www.tickettailor.com/events/theno...

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Buy tickets – A Night of Music and Poetry: Bossa Nova Blue & Macha Press Poets

A Night of Music and Poetry: Bossa Nova Blue & Macha Press Poets, Sun 1 Mar 2026 - Wind down on a Sunday night with some music and poetry in Seatons of Sailortown! Bossa Nova Blue Meabh Cormacain a...

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

These days our website is looking good! You can find more information about Máighréad Medbh's upcoming poetry collection Dwelling and pre-order too! www.machapress.com/subscription...

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Exciting news from Macha Press! We are opening for submissions for two weeks in April. Read about it here: www.machapress.com/submissions

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Macha Press Submissions — Macha Press

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 31/12/2025

Listen to One Final Storm for 2025 on most podcast platforms including Spotify & Apple. Featuring @mollytwomey.bsky.social Kevin Graham & Zita McGarry & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Happy New Year to you all & May you all Stay Bloody Poetic open.spotify.com/episode/5mG3...

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Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Just out from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 'Essential guide for writers of fiction, poetry, life writing and drama, A Creative Writing Handbook offers expert advice on structuring compelling narratives and cultivating distinctive voices.' @ouliterature.bsky.social Congrats fellow editor-writers!

Bloomsbury publishing's front cover of A Creative Writing Handbook: Developing Dramatic Technique, Individual Style and Voice edited and written by Emma Sweeney, Siobhan Campbell, Heather Richardson et al

Back blurb and partial front cover of A Creative Writing Handbook edited and written by Emma Claire Sweeney, Siobhan Campbell et al.

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Delighted to announce that @ronanhession.bsky.social will be chatting to James Naughtie on the BBC Radio 4 Book Club On January 4th at pm. Marvelmoose! @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Rónán Hession

Rónán Hession takes questions on his debut novel, Leonard and Hungry Paul.

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Poet Siobhan Campbell is now Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing Practice at The Open University. Siobhan's six books of poetry are published in Ireland/UK and the USA by publishers including Templar, Seren, Rack Press and Blackstaff Press. @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Her work in Creative Writing participatory action research continues with her project 'Making Space for NHS Voices' with University Hospitals Tees, where she recently launched The Writers' Nook alongside the arts committee of North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust.

Poet and academic Professor Siobhan Campbell standing at a microphone giving a public address.

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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Very pleased to be in Double Horizon, a bilingual anthology of haiku in English and French. Here's my selection, as translated into French by editor Gilles Fabre.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Global forest loss and degradation is proceeding at 62,500,000 acres a year. Knowing intimately the insane levels of biological richness and beauty in just my own patch of 30 acres, I simply cannot compute the scale of this crime, happening day in, day out. theconversation.com/millions-of-...

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Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?

We are still logging and degrading global forests at terrifying speed. How can we slow this destruction, including in Australia?

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Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

STATE, IN RELATION. My piece - Word Rain - is designed to be read multiple ways. Launching Sunday 14th at TBG+S, and available to buy at Dublin Art Book Fair. 📸: @sonyagildea.bsky.social

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Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

'Contentious Spaces', the debut novel from acclaimed writer Rosaleen McDonagh, is already receiving extraordinary praise Publishing March 2026 🪻All pre-orders come with a complimentary tote bag and postcard 💝 Pre-order now: skeinpress.com/product/cont...

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Writers and artists have a vital role to play in saving the planet! #givepeatachance !

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

More images from Susanna Galbraith's @ulsterpresents.bsky.social launch of her collection MORSELS. At once formally bold and tantalisingly elusive, this debut is available for purchase on our website machapress.com. #ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Places going fast for this one day course @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social

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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2025. Please share & best of luck! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

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Writing & Poetry Competitions & Submissions – December 2025 — WORDBOX

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Scottish Refugee Council @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Because everyone deserves safety. Please donate what you can. 🧡 ow.ly/szZE50XyG4S

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The upcoming third of three curated events by Jean Sprackland to celebrate the launch of her new non-fiction book Night Vision, is on 4th December. In conversation with @danzep.bsky.social & Helen McGhie, to discuss all things night & darkness. Online tickets: www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...

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Night Vision: Dan Richards and Helen McGhie (ONLINE TICKET), 04 Dec 2025

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Back home from @ptbopoetry.bsky.social and want to thank the festival not only for the poetry itself but the company of poets and pals in general. So many lovely people in 24 hrs (followed by a 12 hour recovery sleep). You can watch the Versus Versus @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social event here: #Poetry

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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

35 new courses for 35 years of the Irish Writers Centre. We're delighted to unveil our first batch of new creative writing courses from January 2026 onwards, covering a huge range of interests and for writers at every stage of their journey: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

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Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Very happy to read poems at Visions of an Otherworld, four week curation of Irish Film at the Lexi, London. Continues with Song of the Sea Nov 26th, all welcome. Thanks to Joseph Pidgeon!

Poster for Visions of an Otherworld showing of Clouded Reveries, a short film on poet Doireann Ni Ghríofa who is pictured.

Poster for Otherworld, four weeks of Irish language film at the Lexi Cinema, North London, curated by Joseph Pidgeon

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Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Wonderful reading by Sam Furlong at the Outburst launch of Catflap#5 at BlackBox Belfast. Sam's book Crowd Work @machapress.bsky.social available from Macha Press (why not subscribe!) & bookshops incl No Alibis, Books Upstairs

Photo in low light of poet Sam Furlong about to give a reading from their book 'Crowd Work' at the Outburst launch of Catflap magazine at Black Box Theatre Belfast, 15th Nov. Photo by Eoin Campbell

Cover of the innovative poetry book, Crowd Work, by Sam Furlong - in black and white with the title white out of a black circle.

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Poetry Ireland is recruiting a new Director to lead the Poetry Ireland team. Applications for this role are being managed by CCI Executive Search. For further details visit www.charitycareersrecruitment.ie/vacancy/159

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

In memory of Breda Wall Ryan, whose anniversary is today. Fragmenting…defragmenting… by Breda Wall Ryan poethead.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/f... Raven Mothers was published by @doirepress.bsky.social

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Nessa O’Mahony @nessao.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Listen to the brilliant Liam Carson talk about writing memoir and haiku in a new episode of The Attic Sessions. Hope you enjoy youtu.be/mtd5eUMlcVM?...

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The Attic Sessions #29, with Liam Carson

YouTube video by The Attic Sessions

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perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

PERVERSE 9E is out today! This week features poems by Phoebe Gilmore, Philip Gross, Philip Chijioke Abonyi, Linda Black and Ellie Li. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9e

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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Excited to announce the launch of the Writers’ Nook in Café Wilbers, Tees Restaurant, UHNT, Stockton on Tees, developed with Dr. Siobhan Campbell of @openuniversity.bsky.social and Nurse Consultant Mel McEvoy. Official unveiling on Tuesday 14 October, 3pm. PLEASE SHARE AND COME ALONG!

Press release for the launch of the Writers' Nook at University Hospital North Tees on 14th of October 2025 at 3pm

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routledgelit.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Listen to this wonderful podcast 'Do books have the power to heal us?' to hear more about our exciting new collection 'A Hundred Years of Bibliotherapy' edited by Siobhan Campbell, Sara Haslam, & Edmund G. C. King podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d... www.routledge.com/9781032749297

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Fabulous launch of @eoindevereuxwriter.bsky.social new poetry book ‘Gardening Leave:New and Collected Poems’ (451 Editions) at O’Mahony’s in Limerick Page to page poems in this superb collection vividly describe life in all its persistence and persuasion. #poetry

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