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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 1h

❛ When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing. Jean Cocteau, who died #OTD in 1963.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Giving the weekend the green light! 💚 Here's 'Go Player' from Issue 44, by oil painter Jeffrey Chong Wang, who relocated from China to Canada in 1999 – his work reflects the history of Western oil painting techniques, with contemporary themes in Eastern culture. #MothArchives

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Congratulations to Anne Carson, who has just won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In celebration, here's her poem 'New Rule'. 🥂

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Moth Poetry Prize is open to anyone over 16, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. There is no line limit. The entry fee is €17 per poem. Visit our website for more details and guidelines. Closing 31 December. themothmagazine.com/directory/mo...

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Breaking news! ⚡️ The Moth Poetry Prize 2026 is now OPEN for entries. We're absolutely thrilled to announce that our judge for this year is the incredible Pulitzer prize-winning poet Diane Seuss. ✨️ 1st Prize €6,000 ✨️ 3 runner-up prizes of €1,000 ✨️ 8 commended prizes of €250

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This week's Moth Studios Challenge is to paint / draw a screw or a bolt. The work must be completed within two hours and submitted to The Moth Studios (by private message on FB). The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck! Painting by Vicki Kocher Paret

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

❛ I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves. Anne Sexton, who died #OTD in 1974.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hello October! 👋 As ever, we'd love to see the poems that remind you most of the month in the comments. We'll start with a classic from Linda Pastan...

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Moth Nature Writing Prize is now closed for entries! A big thank you to everyone who has entered this year's prize. Winners will be announced in December – make sure you are subscribed to our newsletter to receive updates on your entry. 🍂

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Final chance to enter this year's Moth Nature Writing Prize! Closing TODAY - midnight, your time, wherever you are. Don't miss out. There's up to €1000 up for grabs. themothmagazine.com/directory/mo... 🌱🌱🌱

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

❛ If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. Carson McCullers, who died #OTD in 1967.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week's Moth Studios Challenge theme is astrology. The work must be completed within two hours and submitted to The Moth Studios (by private message on FB). The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck! 🎨 Peter Doig

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

❛ A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. Edgar Degas, who died #OTD in 1917.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just four days left to enter The Moth Nature Writing Prize! ✨️ 1st prize €1,000 and a week at The Moth Retreat ✨️ 2nd prize €500 ✨️ 3rd prize €250 Open worldwide to anyone over 16. Visit our website for more details... Closing 30 September. themothmagazine.com/directory/mo...

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

❛The guy who lived across the river was a shark-catcher. He knew that I really loved them... thought it would be a treat to take me out to pull up the sharks and hit them on the head. A real insight into an artist's early work, from our interview with Evie Wyld. 🦈❤️‍🔥

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

❛ Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life. Eavan Boland, born #OTD in 1944.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Apologies for the delay! This week's Moth Studios Challenge is to paint / draw a bathroom. The work must be completed within two hours and submitted to The Moth Studios (by private message on FB). The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck! Painting by Yana Sagan

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

‘The Moth magazine is a thing of beauty’ Caoilinn Hughes 💫 'It manages to have gravitas and coolness simultaneously’ National Poetry Library 💫 'It’s beautiful. I always want to frame it ’ Fiona Benson 💫 Back issues from just €5, including P&P... www.themothmagazine.com/moth-shop

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

❛ All good things come to an end and the same goes for all bad things. Poet, novelist and illustrator Stevie Smith, born #OTD in 1902.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not long left to enter this year's Moth Nature Writing Prize... THE PRIZES 1st prize €1,000 and a week at The Moth Retreat 2nd prize €500 3rd prize €250 Closing 30 September. 🦇 themothmagazine.com/directory/mo...

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

❛ I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow. Gwen John, who died #OTD in 1939.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Words by Claire-Louise Bennett and art by Tom Joe McCaffrey, both from Issue 11. 🦉 #MothArchives

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

❛ I can’t imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author’s business to write, not talk. Agatha Christie, born #OTD in 1890.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This week's Moth Studios Challenge is to paint / draw a composition which incudes a sign. The work must be completed within two hours and submitted to The Moth Studios (by private message on FB). The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck! Painting by Craigie Harper

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Crows, night terrors, Joelle Taylor’s early dreams of rockstardom, Jessie Greengrass on nuclear bunkers full of Margaret Thatcher mannequins and prize-winning poetry selected by Warsan Shire. All in a single issue of The Moth. All in the archives! 🐦‍⬛ themothmagazine.com/moth-shop

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

❛ He's made it past the painful, awkward stage / and now he's really swimming, heading bobbing / for apples... 'The fish I would like to meet' by Catherine Ayres, originally from Issue 19. #MothArchives 🪼

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

❛ Poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Mary Oliver, born #OTD in 1935.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This could still be you! Entries to this year's Moth Nature Writing Prize is still open for entries – and we want to hear from everyone about their relationship to the natural world. Closing 30 September, so don't wait long. themothmagazine.com/directory/mo...

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This week's Moth Studios Challenge is to paint / draw three objects on a shelf. The work must be completed within two hours and submitted to The Moth Studios (by private message on FB). The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck! Painting by Sarah Spackman

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

❛ I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond. Grandma Moses, who was born #OTD in 1860.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sunday scaries? 🚬 Amanda Doran's 'Ghost the Smoking Cat' (Issue 44) #MothArchives

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

❛ I meet people who are full-time writers and I can’t figure out how they do it. How can you pay your rent like? Seriously. 'Like an Ordinary Life', our interview with writer Donal Ryan, from Issue 16. #MothArchives

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

❛ My mind is not prepared for winter yet. / I'm stuck on things like eating late outside, / soft tealights, insects caught in wax, half-set...🕯️ From Issue 24, a poem for the end of summer.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

‘Sean Borodale is without doubt the most exciting new poet I have read since Alice Oswald’ Carol Ann Duffy Only four weeks left to enter this year's Moth Nature Writing Prize - judged by Sean Borodale! ✨1st prize: €1,000 + a week at The Moth Retreat✨ themothmagazine.com/directory/mo...

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

❛I invent everything in my painting. And I stylize whatever it was that I saw or felt. Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral, born #OTD in 1886.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A window onto the world from #MothArchives – 'And There Were Fields of Dandelions' by Fiona Cawley, from Issue 45.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

❛ I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. Thom Gunn, born #OTD in 1929.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

❛ Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned? Happy birthday to former Moth Short Story Prize judge, Ali Smith, born #OTD in 1962.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

❛ What actually made me a writer was being on the dole, doing shit jobs, just wandering around in despair, wanting to be an artist in some sense and just feeling like my twenties were ticking away and that it wasn’t going to happen... An interview with Sara Baume, Issue 24.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

❛ I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money. Dorothy Parker, born #OTD in 1893.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That Friday feeling... 'Pug' by Isobel Brigham, from Issue 15 #MothArchives 💚

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Still working on your Moth Nature Writing Prize entry? Here's some inspiration – Anna Selby's prize-winning poem from 2024, as chosen by Cal Flyn. This year's prize closes on 30 September. Don't miss out! themothmagazine.com/directory/mo...

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Winning Writers @winningwriters.com · 11/08/2026

Deadline: Sep 30: The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2026 sponsored by @themothmagazine.bsky.social. Submit unpublished prose or poetry exploring the natural world to win €1,000. Fee: €16 | themothmagazine.com/directory/about…

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Do you have a favourite painting that reminds you of August? Here's a beautiful piece by Danish artist Anna Ancher, who was born #OTD in 1859.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

❛ As somebody who desperately wants to communicate my inner world to other people, the poem just seemed like the most useful little machine. From our interview with poet Victoria Kennefick (Issue 50).

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

❛ My dog circulates the room / with his tail like one of the inadequate ceiling fans / in that package Spanish hotel A poem for sleepy Sundays, 'All Hands Belong' by Beth Booth - from Issue 37 #MothArchives 🐕

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

American painter Zoey Frank's 'Blueberries', from Issue 36 #MothArchives🫐

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Good luck to anyone trying to catch the solar eclipse today! 🌞 Painting by Howard Russell Butler

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

❛ Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express. Mavis Gallant, born #OTD in 1922.

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Awarded annually to unpublished pieces of prose or poetry, The Moth Nature Writing Prize celebrates work which best combines exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writers’ relationship with the natural world. Closing 30 September. t.co/iVMwxZTHWK

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