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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I’m delighted too! Such an honour to be amongst such great writers!!

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Whisper It’ by @emilycotterill.bsky.social from her collection ‘Significant Wow’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/02/frid...

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Carolyne Larrington @profcarolyne.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Exciting news! A free-to-attend summer school in September in Oxford on fantasy with publishers, authors and experts, generously sponsored by Bloomsbury. All the details here: fantasyliteratureschool.web.ox.ac.uk/home

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Oxford–Bloomsbury Fantasy Summer School 2025

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Could you do a quietish place with an Alexa playing/ some wifi headphones to tune into whatever you’re playing? You’d need wipes for in between users, but could be lovely with beanbags / crafts while people listen. Have a blackboard saying what’s playing when all dat… Just my thoughts! Good luck!

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

So delighted to be in amongst such amazing writers in the new. Thank you @poetrywales.bsky.social

List of 60 names of the writers and reviewers included in the magazine.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 17/02/2025

Take this week-long Digital Detox to unplug on a fully catered retreat led by a certified yoga practitioner and find space to disconnect from the online and reconnect with your writing in a tranquil, supportive, and safe environment. Please share :)

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Digital Detox Retreat: Reconnect with yourself and your writing - Canolfan Ysgrifennu Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre

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Jellybooks Ltd @jellybooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

new from @lucentdreaming.bsky.social ming 'Beyond/Tu Hwnt' Anthology of Welsh Deaf and Disabled Writers 📖 sample to peek inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

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Sample of "Beyond/Tu Hwnt"

Peek inside this book and discover another great read.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 08/02/2025

The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025 Please share :) www.writingtheheroine.com

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 08/02/2025

The Open University/Institute of English Studies are delivering a series of 3 Seminars on Creative Writing and Neurodivergence Tue 18 Feb 2025 to Tue 4 Mar 2025. The seminars are free, but booking is essential. Details in the link. Please share :)

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Contemporary Cultures of Writing

This seminar series looks at the ways in which neurodivergence intersects with creative writing, providing an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and teachers to explore linkages, disconnects ...

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 06/02/2025

The beautiful London Library offers emerging writers one year’s free membership including masterclasses, networking opportunities, peer support, access to all the Library’s resources and publication in an anthology. Details below. Please share :) www.londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-...

Picture of the interior of the London Library, with steps, many bookcases and a glass balustrade

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Just seen this- hope it went well xx

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

@carolehailey.bsky.social shared the best phrase: write like a dog: edit like a cat. I thought this was amazing. You aren’t mauling, you’re making your work precise, balancing it on top of a fence with no chance of falling. And that turned out as a poem. Well, well.

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Beginning to research Welsh standing stones, and stone circles for a collaboration project with some fantastic artists. Makes my brain very excited!

Four large monolithic stones, with another on top. Blue sky. On grass.

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is the loveliest of books. Welsh and English versions of each story, and gorgeous, bright, inviting illustrations. Great for schools!

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A classic, this. I wonder which is your most shared poem.

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Jeremy Dixon @jeremydixonpoet.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Two weeks left to enter your poems to the @poetrywales.bsky.social Award 2025. Worldwide submissions are open until 17 February 2025. poetrywales.co.uk/award/?fbcli...

Two weeks left to submit to Poetry Wales Award.

Send your unpublished poems that delight in language and the sounds words make, that surprise, that dance, that need no explanation, that do the work, that rage, that protest conformity, that refuse cliche, that contradict, that entice, that inspire, that rock, that can’t be trusted, that console, that meet the deadline, that do what other poems don’t, that embrace creative truth.

Worldwide submissions are open until 17 February 2025.

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Good luck with the festival. If you need any advice- a few of us started this festival: www.these3streams.uk feel free to get in touch if I can be helpful!

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Love a kids’ workshops when the facilitator hands out a worksheet to the grown-ups too.

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

@brokenspinearts.bsky.social lift to the sky is @marcellenewbold.bsky.social - great poet and also supportive of the poetry community.

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

In person tickets for @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social are now live. Thanks to @annasaund.bsky.social & team for organising another great programme. I'm on Sat 17th May with Barry Hollow and Shakquille. Tickets for all events here:https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoetryfestival?eventref=May25

Cheltenham Poetry Festival poster, 7-17 May 2025 'venues throughout town'. Theme - 'science'. Image is of a sparking lightbulb

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Reading lots of pitches @mslexia.bsky.social YA/ children’s agent event, and I’ve learnt loads! Will be redrafting mine as a result.. and changing the title of the book. I didn’t realise what I’d be drawn to. Great event. Good luck everyone for tomorrow when the agents come looking.

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I like the space to be creative- always love a workshop- and my children too.

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Matt Lynch @matt-lynch.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

To reflect changes to AQA GCSE English Lang P2 for 2026 onwards, here’s a folder of 10 specimen papers. Help yourself and please re-post to reach a wider audience. Thanks 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/egpxh...

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Writing for pleasure for KS3: write about your favourite thing and bring it to life with sounds- alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, rhythm. Write something you couldn’t have written last year.

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Thanks Rachel. It’s a new show. Last month’s covers: why go to open mic nights, getting started with writing and Dylan Thomas’s Child’s Christmas in Wales. player.autopod.xyz/752436

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

First Draft- the radio show for writers is tonight at 7pm GMT on Bro Radio. Writing for well-being with Taylor Edmonds, writing long fiction with Dr Alan Bilton and loads of poetry tips from Matthew MC Smith. Enjoy!! www.broradio.fm

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Writers: still time to listen to First Draft with some great writing tips: player.autopod.xyz/752436

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Thanks for this! I’d be grateful if you could include me in there.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A new #StarterPack of writers, well worth following, who are also seeking an agent. If you want to be included, then like, share, follow, ask in the chat, and I'll include you. And to writers/readers in general, please share so we can include more fine talents here #booksky #writing #writers #agents

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Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Year 7: writing for pleasure: Choose a painting, write a story first inspired by the painting and then write a poem inspired by both story and artwork. Can you use enjambment like Alex Wharton does in ‘Quiet Things’?

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