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Zakia Carpenter-Hall @zcarpenterhall.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Join me, @zoebrigley.bsky.social, Tangie Mitchell and Kandace Siobhan Walker on 21st of September at 3pm London Time. Register here: course.veevart-apps.com/emilydickins...

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Great & wide-ranging review of The Strongbox, alongside Gboyega Odubanjo and Jen Campbell, by @zoebrigley.bsky.social & now online @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m so grateful for the review & so pleased when The Strongbox reaches a reader. @carcanet.bsky.social magmapoetry.com/wp-content/u...

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Hi London friends, I will be reading at the @poetrylondon.bsky.social summer launch this Thursday - come along and say hi! I'll be reading at few poems from New Arcana so you'll get a little sneak preview 🔮☀️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

We are now open for general submissions. Submit translations of poems from any language into English. Deadline: 15 August 2025. modernpoetryintranslation.submittable.com/submit/10070...

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Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This has been a dream to work on and a nice break to write about history, creativity and falling down hills on my backside in beautiful South Wales. Out September 15th! Pre-order here: www.serenbooks.com/book/wild-ru... #running #writing #trailrunning

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

We’re delighted to see Abeer Ameer on the shortlist for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social Best Single Poem – Written! 🎉 Her poem ‘At Least’ was first published by @modronmagazine.bsky.social.

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Forward Prizes for Poetry @forwardprizes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🎤 ANNOUNCING: Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025 @southbankcentre.bsky.social 📅 Sun 26 Oct | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Southbank Centre 20 poets. 4 prizes. 1 unforgettable night of poetry! Tickets 🎟️: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/for... #ForwardPrizes #PoetryLive

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

If you live near Cardiff, pop along to this event. It will be gorgeous. Book your tickets via @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social 🩷

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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Battery Rocks is 1 year old. Thanks to my publisher @serenbooks.bsky.social & to @societyofauthors.bsky.social for the Arthur Welton Award & Gorsedh Kernow for Holyer an Gof Poetry award & to all bookshops/festivals/readers & The Guardian/BBC R4 for featuring it www.serenbooks.com/book/battery...

Smiling woman in a 50s sun dress with a yellow cocktail to match the cover of her poetry book 'Battery Rocks'

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘(i)’ by Deryn Rees-Jones, the first in a sequence of sonnets from her new collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/07/frid.... @notjustdancing.bsky.social

Photo of Paris looking across the city towards the Eiffel Tower in the distance.

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🎉 We’ve got the names... but you’ll have to wait! 🎨✍️ The commended poets and artists for the Women of Ohio Competition have been chosen — and yes, the poets, artists, and I all know who they are. But you won’t find out until Saturday July 12th at the Columbus Book Festival 👀

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Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Bit late posting about this but was so happy to have a new poem published in the latest issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social – a special edition feat 60 new Welsh poets to celebrate the magazine’s 60th anniversary. Diolch to @zoebrigley.bsky.social for choosing it and here’s to the next 60 years of PW!

A hand holds up the Spring 2025 issue of Poetry Wales magazine against a backdrop of lush green foliage. The magazine cover is green and black, featuring the headline ‘60 New Welsh Poets for 60 Years of Poetry Wales: from Abeer Ameer to Zillah Bowes.’ The bottom half of the cover is a collage of past Poetry Wales covers, showcasing a variety of designs, colours and styles over the years.

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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Delighted to have 2 vispo in the new nature edition of @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social alongside fiction & poetry from the likes of @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social, @zoebrigley.bsky.social & more! Thanks to eds @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social inkfishmag.com/natural-habi...

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'Natural Habitat' by Julia Biggs

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🎉 Calling All Ohio Artists & Poets! FINAL DAYS - deadline 4th June Weds 🖌️✍️ Open to all genders 📍 Open to Ohio-based poets and visual artists only 💸 FREE to enter 🏆 $200 top prize 🔗 Submit: womenofohio.com #WomenOfOhio #ArtAndPoetry #FreeToEnter #OhioCreatives #CelebrateWomen #CallForSubmissions

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

🎨 Art Competition Open — Deadline: June 4, 2025 🎉 Ohio Artists — Show Us Your Vision! Now accepting submissions of powerful, original visual art that celebrates the lives, legacies, and contributions of women from Columbus and across Ohio, famous or hidden figures who have impacted you.

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🎉 Calling All Ohio Artists & Poets! Are you inspired by the strength, creativity, and impact of Ohio’s women? Enter the Women of Ohio competition and help celebrate their stories through visual art or poetry! To enter, you need to...

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

🎨 Calling All Ohio Visual Artists! The Women of Ohio Art Competition invites you to honor Ohio's remarkable women through your artwork. Whether you're a painter, sculptor, or digital artist, this is your chance. Submit your masterpiece: womenofohio.com. Free to enter-$200 prize-Open to all genders

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Just a reminder that until 28th May, you can get 50% off many books at Seren Books serenbooks.com

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

✍️ Ohio Poets, Your Voice Matters! The Women of Ohio Poetry Competition seeks powerful poems that pay tribute to the influential women of Columbus and Ohio. 📝 Submit your poem: womenofohio.com DEADLINE: June 4th. Free to enter. $200 prize. Open to all genders. #WomenOfOhio #PoetryCall #OhioPoet

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

DORIS DAY: Need inspiration for the Women of Ohio art and poetry competition? Here are some thoughts on Ohio woman, Doris Day. Remember, you can enter the Women of Ohio competition. 🖌️Submit a poem or artwork inspired by an Ohio woman womenofohio.com

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

🎉 Calling Artists & Poets Across Ohio! Are you inspired by the strength, and impact of Ohio’s women? Here's a chance to celebrate them through your visual art or poetry!🖌️🎤 The Women of Ohio competition is now accepting submissions in both categories — with cash prizes until June 4

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

💰 Win $200 While Celebrating Ohio's Trailblazing Women! Open to Ohio writers and artists of all genders. 🔗 Submit your work today: womenofohio.com Supported by Greater Columbus Arts Council #WomenOfOhio #ArtCompetition #PoetryCompetition #CelebrateWomen

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Moving article for @modronmagazine.bsky.social by Rachel Carney who explains how, in 2020, struggling with health issues and loneliness due to social distancing, she discovered a secluded spot in Cathays Cemetery that became her sanctuary. modronmagazine.com/2025/05/11/p...

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

They are here 🩷 available @salopress.bsky.social. Check out this wonderful independent press, you can find some of my favourite women poets there as well, including @zoebrigley.bsky.social, Charley Barnes, and the breathtaking debut by @karanchambers.bsky.social.

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I am grateful to @magmapoetry.bsky.social & @zoebrigley.bsky.social (thanks to @carcanet.bsky.social for alerting me) for the review of The Strongbox: 'Dugdale is certainly performing very subtle and subversive work, writing about violence with an awareness of the flawed nature of storytelling.'

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Supporting independent poetry publishers makes poetry the coolest person at the indie disco.

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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A short film I wrote, filmed by Nathan Roach (Coal Poet Media), 'The Dunes', exploring the perspective of a runaway kid finding sanctuary in a desolate duneland on the Welsh coast. Huge thanks to Nathan for the beautiful images of #Kenfig #poetry #wales www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkB...

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Earth Day 2025: The Dunes, A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

EARTH DAY SPECIAL 2025 TODAY Tuesday 22nd April MODRON FEATURING REBECCA GOSS, MAGGIE HARRIS, HANAN ISSA, JOSHUA JONES, ÖZGE LENA, JONAKIRA RAY, THRUTOPIA POETS & CJ WAGSTAFF modronmagazine.com

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

For our series of poets and writers on the environment, Julie Runacres discusses her poetry's relationship with herbalism, women, and nature, addressing societal perceptions of women and ecology. Read more at modronmagazine.com @modronmagazine.bsky.social

“The idea of the female and the earth is so rooted in myth and tradition that I was conscious of shaping something much more fragmented than I would normally, in the knowledge that it was likely to cohere as part of a collective memory.”

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Coming this Tuesday, an Earth Day Special on 22nd April, feat. essays/poems/reviews by/of Rebecca Goss, Maggie Harris, Hanan Issa, Joshua Jones, Özge Lena, Jonah Ray, Thrutopia Poets & CJ Wagstaff at modronmagazine.com

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

For "Plots & Plants" at @modronmagazine.bsky.social. John Freeman shares a favorite walk in the Vale of Glamorgan, detailing landscape changes due to recent weather. How might a nearby wildfire raise concerns about climate change's impact on local environments? modronmagazine.com/.../plots-pl...

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

And here she is, my poem about domestification and our connection with nature, in the 60th Anniversary edition @poetrywales.bsky.social Spring 2025. Many thanks to @zoebrigley.bsky.social and editors for including me. ‘Featuring sixty new Welsh poets chosen by Editor Zoë Brigley as ‘poets to watch’.

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that girls are a gift from nature / tamed until made to forget ourselves / repetition, rite, rules // The northerly-wind was livid that day / trees aggressed twigs and leaves shattered to the ground // chairs spewed across over-manicured lawns where insects once drank ate fandangoed // the window at the end of the corridor torn-wide from its resting
place / liberated the house to breathe // all those papers tornadoed out / lined the street for hopscotch and scribbles // the kitchen my Gods
the kitchen it glistened / every surface shone with the pressure wash of rain // the deluge of waterfalling teacups and cake-forks burst-open the
doors // boats from that tornado-paper could not did not resist the tumult / made shape for the sea // after miles of gutter-fun the slop the splurge of corralling tide / banked corners drowned hydrangeas / racing and laughing at the momentum of outpouring it gently gently returned us to the sea // we waved / with nails-bitten / a wild and
delirious goodbye.

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Poetry Wales Spring 2025 60th anniversary edition. Cover with selection of covers over the last 60 editions.

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

@modronmagazine.bsky.social Lesley Curwen discusses her writing process, particularly in relation to nature and ocean pollution. Her poem "Night on the Yealm" captures a quiet moment on a sailing trip, highlighting immersion in nature. Read on at modronmagazine.com/2025/04/06/t...

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annasaund.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

'As a sailor, I have often felt the fierce power of tides. ' This is as coruscating as the sea in summer - a beautiful poem and unpicking of it by @elcurwen.bsky.social and a conversation with the wonderful @zoebrigley.bsky.social

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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Last day for our submission period today (Friday April 4th 2025) see poetrywales.co.uk

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Alison Binney @alisonbinney.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Here’s my poem ‘Chalk’ in celebration of my Mum, who died in 2004, and her chalk tin, which helps me feel connected to her. It’s from my forthcoming @serenbooks.bsky.social collection, ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’: www.serenbooks.com/book/the-opp...

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

On 10th April, join us at The Riverfront in Newport for a joint event celebrating ‘Cling Film‘ by Bethany Handley & ‘Beyond / Tu Hwnt’ a bilingual anthology of Welsh Deaf & Disabled writers published by @lucentdreaming.bsky.social. Please RSVP to let us know you’re coming forms.gle/AFzAAHb8phLg...

Seren Books and Lucent Dreaming invite you to a joint event celebrating Cling Film and Beyond / Tu Hwnt. 6pm Thursday 10th April. The Riverfront, Kingsway, Newport, NP20 1HG. With readings from Bethany Handley and contributors to Beyond / Tu Hwnt. RSVP for free to let us know you're coming.

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Kaja Brown (she/they) @kajaamybrown.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It's been a real honour being Disability Arts Cymru's Artist of the Month ❤️✨️ Artist of the Month is a feature where DAC put the spotlight on the work of their members. It's such a wonderful initiative and I'm grateful to be part of it ❤️

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Bloodaxe poets Gwyneth Lewis and Pascale Petit (@pascalepetit.bsky.social) will be reading from and discussing their new collections at a very special event at Cambridge Literary Festival on Thurs 24 April. More details and booking here: www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/gwyne...

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Gwyneth Lewis & Pascale Petit | Two Poets, One Story comes to Cambridge Literary Festival - make sure to get your tickets!

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