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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Off to read at Third Table with @poetryschool.bsky.social MA students past and present. Vibing gothic. Poet necklace from Wear and Resist; I'm not affiliated, I just love them, and every piece sold supports women's charities #persisterhood #hexthepatriarchy

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#TheDeeperRead is 40! Featuring "Verbal reasoning test" from @kmngriffiths.bsky.social's Mindset Mindrise from @ninearchespress.bsky.social, paired with my poem "Black Friday" from ionosphere III:1 @ampliconpress.bsky.social . Free to read & subscribe: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Less than 2 weeks to go! I’m delighted to be judging this year’s Waltham Forest Poetry Competition on the theme of “Music”. Categories for adults, young writers & funny poems. Closes midnight UK time, Mon 19 October. Full details here: pctothepowerof2.wordpress.com/enter/. @paulmcgrane.bsky.social

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So happy to be back in @perversemag.bsky.social mag, thanks @chrissywilliams.bsky.social! Thanks too to my swordfighting teacher Gabor Antali. Fantastic poems from @suzannahevans.bsky.social Anna Mindel Crawford Sue Vickerman and Linda Black too. perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-1...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#TheDeeperRead 39 features "Food: a relationship" by Nafeesa Hamid from her @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social collection Besharam, paired with my poem "Penguin", from The Alchemy Spoon 16. Free to read and subscribe: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy #NationalPoetryDay! I feel poetry is the closest thing we have to telepathy, and we need it more than ever. Delighted to be shortlisted for this year's Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year. I'll be reading tonight on Zoom in excellent company - 7pm, all welcome: us05web.zoom.us/j/8681424660...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delighted to be Highly Commended by John Challis in the Yeovil Literary Prize. Congrats all! I wrote 2 Antarctic poems this sweltering summer; "The British Antarctic Survey is a Menopause Friendly Employer" is out soon in @magmapoetry.bsky.social 96. www.yeovilprize.co.uk/P2026_Result...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was #BiVisibilityDay on Weds 23 Sept. This is why it's important, and why it's important for everyone to have the right to take up their own space. Poem from The Aftershock Review pocket aftershock DIRTY LAUNDRY, ed. Gerry Potter and @maxwallis.bsky.social www.aftershockreview.com/product-page...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#TheDeeperRead 38 features "When You Brother Dies You Want" by @cloudscholar.bsky.social from his @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet Cathedral, twinned with "Endgame XX" from my Red Squirrel Press collection Crippled. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thrilled my poem "The dunnock has no need of social media" is Editor's Pick in @consilience.bsky.social issue 26 "Birds". Thanks Sam Illingworth, and great working with Rachel David. www.consilience-journal.com/issue-26-the... I get the irony, back to looking for birds out of the train window now.

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#TheDeeperRead 37 features "Load" from Caroline Davies' Elements of Water from @greenbottlepress.bsky.social , twinned with my poem "Flood" from The Bournemouth Journal 2. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m delighted to be judging this year’s Waltham Forest Poetry Competition on the theme of “Music”. There are categories for adults, young writers and for funny poems. It closes at midnight UK time on Monday 19 October. Full details here: pctothepowerof2.wordpress.com/enter/

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Off to read at Third Table with other @poetryschool.bsky.social MA students and staff past and present including @merylpugh.bsky.social Glyn Maxwell @tessafoley.bsky.social. FAFO pendant by the fabulous Sarah Day of Wear and Resist, who donates to women's charities for every piece. #persisterhood

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very excited to be on such a great shortlist for the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2026, thanks to judges Luigi Marchini, Lucy Crispin and Gillian Laker. I'll be reading at the online awards evening on 1 October, free to attend: us05web.zoom.us/j/8681424660...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#TheDeeperRead 35 features @tamsinhopkins.bsky.social's Live Canon pamphlet Once We Get Past Poker Night, twinned with a poem I wrote for Glyn Maxwell whilst on the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA which was shortlisted for Verve's Poem of the Month. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Delighted to be on the shortlist for this year's Yeovil Literary Prize, thanks John Challis! Fingers crossed. Full list here: www.yeovilprize.co.uk/P2026_Result...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#TheDeeperRead 34 is here: @patrickcotterpoet.bsky.social's "Crow, My Friend" from his Dedalus Press collection Quality Control at the Miracle Factory, twinned with my poem "A cat and a crow face off" from Spelt magazine ed. @wendypratt.bsky.social: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#TheDeeperRead 34 drops Fri: @patrickcotterpoet.bsky.social's "Crow, My Friend" from his Dedalus Press collection Quality Control at the Miracle Factory, twinned with my poem "A cat and a crow face off" from Spelt magazine ed. @wendypratt.bsky.social: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#TheDeeperRead 33 is here, featuring "tentacles" from Gillie Robic's I Think I Could Be Wrong from @livecanon.bsky.social, paired with my poem "Ocean" from Daughters of Violence issue 2. Free to read and subscribe: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm thrilled - I started The Deeper Read this Jan and have posted every week. It’s a delight to explore the contemporary poetry scene and geek out about how poems tick and the random associations they set off in my ADHD brain. Kinda chic how talented you all are ;) substack.com/@suzannafitz...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#TheDeeperRead 32 is out, featuring "Household Gods" from @burnedthumb.bsky.social's Comrades of Dark Night from Red Squirrel Press, twinned with my poem “Vulnerability” from London Grip New Poetry #60, Summer 2026, edited by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thrilled to have a poem in @magmapoetry.bsky.social 96: Antarctica (not the current issue pictured, which is also a banger!). Huge thanks to @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social Elizabeth Lewis Williams & Branwell Roberts for choosing "The British Antarctic Survey is a Menopause Friendly Employer".

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#TheDeeperRead 31 features “My Heart in a Glass Case” from Lauren Thomas' Tiny Glories @greenbottlepress.bsky.social & my poem "Playdough Heart", from Obsessed with Pipework 102. Lauren's other pamphlet, Lavender Hill, is with @thebraag.bsky.social. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#TheDeeperRead 31 drops Fri & features “My Heart in a Glass Case” by Lauren Thomas from Tiny Glories @greenbottlepress.bsky.social & my poem "Playdough Heart", first in Obsessed with Pipework 102. Lauren's other pamphlet, Lavender Hill, is with @thebraag.bsky.social. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#TheDeeperRead 30 features Ellen McAteer's My Deep and Gorgeous Thirst from @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social paired with my poem "Travel Light" from Finished Creatures issue 9. Free to read and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/suzannaf...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Lovely review of my show #ficklepuck at @midlandsfringe.bsky.social. Thanks Anne Ryan-Thomas, @pandemonialists.bsky.social & @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. Now to think where else I can take it, do comment if you have any ideas! Photo: Erica Longfellow. www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/reviews2026/...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#TheDeeperRead has somehow got to 30 and drops tomorrow! Featuring Ellen McAteer's My Deep and Gorgeous Thirst from @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social paired with my poem "Travel Light" from Finished Creatures issue 9. Free to read and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/suzannaf...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Thanks Sally Long for this generous review of my collection Crippled in Allegro Poetry: www.allegropoetry.org/p/reviews.ht... Copies available from www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page... or DM me to buy a signed one.

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

TODAY! Fickle Puck, Sat 25 July, 5.45pm, The Pack (Perfect Ale, Cask and Keg), 25-26 Queen Square, Mander Centre, WV1 1TQ. Wolverhampton, are you ready? 😘 @pandemonialists.bsky.social @midlandsfringe.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Tomorrow! #ficklepuck at @midlandsfringe.bsky.social funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Saturday 25 July 2026 5.45pm, The Pack (Perfect Ale, Cask and Keg), 25-26 Queen Square, Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TQ. Just turn up, pay-as-you-feel www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My poetry burlesque fantasia Fickle Puck is at @midlandsfringe.bsky.social THIS WEEKEND! Thanks @tessafoley.bsky.social for the pic. Saturday 25 July 2026 5.45pm, The Pack, 25-26 Queen Square, Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TQ. Turn up, pay-as-you-feel www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My poetry burlesque fantasia Fickle Puck is coming to the Midlands Fringe. Come and see me! Saturday 25 July 2026 5.45pm, The Pack (Perfect Ale, Cask and Keg), 25-26 Queen Square, Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TQ. Turn up, pay-as-you-feel www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#TheDeeperRead 28 features Wayne Holloway-Smith's RABBITBOX from Simon & Schuster twinned with my poem "Gretel" from my Red Squirrel Press collection Crippled. Quite a bibliography on this one, including Joelle Taylor, Glyn Maxwell & Emily Dickinson. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Coming to @midlandsfringe.bsky.social Photo by @tessafoley.bsky.social. My house is ankle-deep in sequins and tassels. Come and see me! Sat 25 July, 5.45pm, The Pack, 25-26 Queen Square, Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TQ. Turn up, pay-as-you-feel www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#TheDeeperRead 27 features "How to verb a sore heart" from @betarish.bsky.social's @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak, twinned with my poem "How to Preserve a Heart", first published in The Waxed Lemon issue 7. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Honoured to have a poem selected for the @verpoets.bsky.social 2026 competition anthology, huge thanks to judge @nessalampert.bsky.social Thanks too #NHS - I should say this was a few years ago, and luckily everything was fine. verpoets.wixsite.com/verpoets/com...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Tomorrow night! Doors 6.30pm for a 7pm start, upstairs at the Cheshire Cheese, 5 Little Essex Street, London, WC2R 3LD. Free. A run-through for my @midlandsfringe.bsky.social show, Sat 25 July, 5.45pm, The Pack, 25-26 Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TQ. www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Reading my response to Poppy Whatmore's piece in the @hyphastudios.bsky.social Bridging the Gap exhibition, co-curated by Poppy with Paul Carey-Kent and Hermione Allsopp. Thanks @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social for organising the readings! And to Katherine Cleave for the photo and her own amazing poems.

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Performing my poem in response to Julian Wild's work at @hyphastudios.bsky.social's Bridging the Gap on Saturday. Thanks to curators Hermione Allsopp Poppy Whatmore Paul Carey-Kent, to @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social for organising the readings, & to Katherine Cleave for the photo and her own poems.

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A delight to read my poem in response to Hermione Allsopp's work at @hyphastudios.bsky.social's Bridging the Gap event this weekend - thanks Hermione for the photo and for co-curating the event with Poppy Whatmore and Paul Carey-Kent and thanks @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social for organising us poets!

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Reading with @glynmaxwell & @poetryschool.bsky.social MA fam. 7pm, The Cheshire Cheese, 5 Little Essex St, WC2R 3LD, FREE. Enjoy part of my Fickle Puck poetry burlesque show, coming to @midlandsfringe.bsky.social 6pm, Sat 25 July, The Pack, Wolverhampton: www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju....

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just got my copy of "Stitching A Net To Hold Joy", from Verve, featuring my poem "to regret nothing you have to know what you've missed": www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page... It came out of the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA & responds to a brilliant @eveellis14.bsky.social poem.

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thrilled to be a part of the @midlandsfringe.bsky.social 2026, thanks @pandemonialists.bsky.social & @artscouncilengland.bsky.social! Join me for poetry/burlesque romp #FicklePuck on Sat 25 July, 5.45pm at The Pack, 25-26 Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TQ. www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/days/25thjul...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

#TheDeeperRead 25 is here, featuring P. A. Erskine's "This Business of Size", paired with my poem "Punting Through Ice" from @poetrysociety.org.uk Poetry News Autumn 2025, inspired by a photograph by Erica Longfellow: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#TheDeeperRead 25 drops Fri, featuring P. A. Erskine's "This Business of Size", paired with my poem "Punting Through Ice", from @poetrysociety.org.uk Poetry News Autumn 2025, inspired by a photograph by Erica Longfellow. Please like and subscribe, it's free! substack.com/@suzannafitz...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Delighted to have a poem in @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Southword 50 - huge thanks to Patrick Cotter for commending it in this year's Editor's Poetry Award: munsterlit.ie/southword-ed.... It came from a Silly Games workshop with Glyn Maxwell while I was doing the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA.

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#TheDeeperRead 24 is out now, featuring "Barn Owl" from The Illustrated Woman by @helenmort.bsky.social from Chatto & Windus, paired with an owl poem of my own which was Highly Commended by Jane Draycott in the 2025 Edward Thomas Poetry Competition. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

#TheDeeperRead 24 drops tomorrow, featuring "Barn Owl" from The Illustrated Woman by @helenmort.bsky.social from Chatto & Windus, paired with an owl poem of my own which was Highly Commended by Jane Draycott in the 2025 Edward Thomas Poetry Competition. Please like and subscribe, it's free!

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#TheDeeperRead 23 is up now, featuring @zoebrooks.bsky.social's Something In Nothing from Indigo Dreams. Been a gothic week; I've also enjoyed a Poetry Business workshop with @helenmort.bsky.social, whose book Stepmother is out in July from Chatto. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#TheDeeperRead 23 drops tomorrow! Bit down to the wire this week but a great poem from @zoebrooks.bsky.social's eerie, prescient new collection Something In Nothing from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Please like and subscribe, it's free: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com

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