AdLibby
@adlibby.bsky.social
Writer of pantomimes, poetry, and flash fiction. Loves PG Tips, haiku, and challenging perceptions about ‘women of a certain age!’ 🏴
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@adlibby.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Here is the cover of my debut poetry chapbook. If you can help a starving artist you can order it from finishinglinepress.com/product/turbul…#poetrycommunityty#booksforsalele
Delighted to have 2 haiku in the Autumn Issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social
Many thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse and @loverpoetic.bsky.social #haiku
#poetryasprotest
Many thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse and @loverpoetic.bsky.social #haiku
#poetryasprotest
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Delighted to have 2 haiku in the Autumn Issue of @waleshaiku.bsky.social
Many thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse and @loverpoetic.bsky.social #haiku
#poetryasprotest
Many thanks to editors Joe Woodhouse and @loverpoetic.bsky.social #haiku
#poetryasprotest
Woke up to this fabulous news this morning. Huge thanks to editor, Icarus Grey, and lots of luck to my fellow nominees 🤞🏻
#poetry #pushcartprize
#poetry #pushcartprize
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Woke up to this fabulous news this morning. Huge thanks to editor, Icarus Grey, and lots of luck to my fellow nominees 🤞🏻
#poetry #pushcartprize
#poetry #pushcartprize
Delighted to have my poem included in this Ekphrastic issue of Wee Sparrow Poetry Press #poetry #ekphrastic
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November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Delighted to have my poem included in this Ekphrastic issue of Wee Sparrow Poetry Press #poetry #ekphrastic
open.substack.com/pub/theweespar…
open.substack.com/pub/theweespar…
November 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Very proud to be a co-editor of this publication that shines a spot light on older writers! It’s our one year anniversary and this issue is full of 🔥flash and 😍short stories. #flash #shortstories #litmag
It's here! thin-skin.com
Welcome to Issue 5 - our 1st anniversary issue! - Thin Skin
Well, who'd have thought we would make it this far. And what a journey. Thin Skin was born after an impulsive tweet in December 2023, and within months we had five editors, ten readers and hundreds of...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Very proud to be a co-editor of this publication that shines a spot light on older writers! It’s our one year anniversary and this issue is full of 🔥flash and 😍short stories. #flash #shortstories #litmag
I have known about this for a while and it’s been hard to keep it under wraps! I have a poem in the forthcoming issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social magazine
Couldn’t be more chuffed.
#poetry #cymru
Here is the link to preorder poetrywales.co.uk/product/wint...
Couldn’t be more chuffed.
#poetry #cymru
Here is the link to preorder poetrywales.co.uk/product/wint...
Pre-Order: Winter 2025 | Home & Resilience - Poetry Wales
Exploring home and resilience, this issue features Ling Di Long / Mufambi, a Wales–Zimbabwe collaboration uniting poets across continents. Includes new work by Zoë Skoulding, Menna Elfyn and Carol Rum...
poetrywales.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I have known about this for a while and it’s been hard to keep it under wraps! I have a poem in the forthcoming issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social magazine
Couldn’t be more chuffed.
#poetry #cymru
Here is the link to preorder poetrywales.co.uk/product/wint...
Couldn’t be more chuffed.
#poetry #cymru
Here is the link to preorder poetrywales.co.uk/product/wint...
Very happy to make the Haiku Dialogue long list from the prompt-Loving you with all of my tunes. Thank you to guest editor, @Deborah Karl-Brandt
#thepogues #haiku
#thepogues #haiku
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Very happy to make the Haiku Dialogue long list from the prompt-Loving you with all of my tunes. Thank you to guest editor, @Deborah Karl-Brandt
#thepogues #haiku
#thepogues #haiku
A bit late in posting my thanks to Sanjeev Sethi the special editor for @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
for publishing my poem. The whole edition is fabulous!
#poetry #WritingCommunity
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/ficti...
for publishing my poem. The whole edition is fabulous!
#poetry #WritingCommunity
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/ficti...
October 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A bit late in posting my thanks to Sanjeev Sethi the special editor for @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
for publishing my poem. The whole edition is fabulous!
#poetry #WritingCommunity
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/ficti...
for publishing my poem. The whole edition is fabulous!
#poetry #WritingCommunity
thehooghlyreview.com/issues/ficti...
Delighted to be nominated for the Touchstone Awards by Haiku Girl Summer. Huge thanks to editor, @teatimehaiku.bsky.social for nominating this haiku #haiku #touchstoneawards
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Delighted to be nominated for the Touchstone Awards by Haiku Girl Summer. Huge thanks to editor, @teatimehaiku.bsky.social for nominating this haiku #haiku #touchstoneawards
October 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
For #nationalpoetryday one of my first published poems from the short lived bee house journal. I still like it and I can’t say that about all my early stuff 🤷🏻♀️ #change #poem
www.beehousejournal.com/winter-2021-...
www.beehousejournal.com/winter-2021-...
October 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
For #nationalpoetryday one of my first published poems from the short lived bee house journal. I still like it and I can’t say that about all my early stuff 🤷🏻♀️ #change #poem
www.beehousejournal.com/winter-2021-...
www.beehousejournal.com/winter-2021-...
organic eggs—
contemplating the cost
of IVF
#senryu
From @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social
#prompt03 eggs
#PJJournal
#WritingCommunity
contemplating the cost
of IVF
#senryu
From @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social
#prompt03 eggs
#PJJournal
#WritingCommunity
October 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
organic eggs—
contemplating the cost
of IVF
#senryu
From @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social
#prompt03 eggs
#PJJournal
#WritingCommunity
contemplating the cost
of IVF
#senryu
From @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social
#prompt03 eggs
#PJJournal
#WritingCommunity
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Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #eggs (with or without the word in your senryu)
What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...
Tag: #PJJournal
#prompt 03
#WritingCommunity
What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...
Tag: #PJJournal
#prompt 03
#WritingCommunity
a raccoon is peeking out of a pot of eggs on a table .
ALT: a raccoon is peeking out of a pot of eggs on a table .
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October 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Welcome to PJ's prompt feature! We invite you to write senryu concerning: #eggs (with or without the word in your senryu)
What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...
Tag: #PJJournal
#prompt 03
#WritingCommunity
What is senryu? It’s similar to haiku, but centered on humans
Find more here: www.hsa-haiku.org/hsa-definiti...
Tag: #PJJournal
#prompt 03
#WritingCommunity
Very excited to have 2 of my poems in Faith, a new anthology from @paddlerpress.bsky.social
poetry #whatdoesfaithmean #faith #writing
poetry #whatdoesfaithmean #faith #writing
October 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Very excited to have 2 of my poems in Faith, a new anthology from @paddlerpress.bsky.social
poetry #whatdoesfaithmean #faith #writing
poetry #whatdoesfaithmean #faith #writing
Grateful to be a finalist in The Brew Poetry Awards 2025 with my poem ‘crumbling…’
Thank you to everyone who clicked the link to my poem you catapulted the poem on to the ‘Community Favorites’ as well.
You can read it on the website but this is how it should be formatted #poetry
Thank you to everyone who clicked the link to my poem you catapulted the poem on to the ‘Community Favorites’ as well.
You can read it on the website but this is how it should be formatted #poetry
September 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Grateful to be a finalist in The Brew Poetry Awards 2025 with my poem ‘crumbling…’
Thank you to everyone who clicked the link to my poem you catapulted the poem on to the ‘Community Favorites’ as well.
You can read it on the website but this is how it should be formatted #poetry
Thank you to everyone who clicked the link to my poem you catapulted the poem on to the ‘Community Favorites’ as well.
You can read it on the website but this is how it should be formatted #poetry
It’s publication day!! A History of Hand Thrown Walls is released into an unsuspecting world. A huge thank you to @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social
and the other women who have made up The Year of Womxn 2025 such a fabulous experience. #newbook
patch.com/connecticut/...
and the other women who have made up The Year of Womxn 2025 such a fabulous experience. #newbook
patch.com/connecticut/...
Wilton Writer’s New Book Brings Local History to Life
One of your neighbors posted in Neighbor News. Click through to read what they have to say. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)
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September 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It’s publication day!! A History of Hand Thrown Walls is released into an unsuspecting world. A huge thank you to @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social
and the other women who have made up The Year of Womxn 2025 such a fabulous experience. #newbook
patch.com/connecticut/...
and the other women who have made up The Year of Womxn 2025 such a fabulous experience. #newbook
patch.com/connecticut/...
#haiku by Adele Evershed (IG @ad_libby ) | Adele is a Welsh writer who swapped the valleys for the American East Coast. She has published 3 poetry collections and 3 novellas. #poetry #micropoetry #equinox #summer #autumn #frog #wales #usa #poetrylovers
September 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Love @trashcatlit.bsky.social
commitment to promoting their writers. I lived in Singapore where this flash is set so chuffed it made it in to the pop up.
#SINGAPORE #flashfiction #WomensWorlds
commitment to promoting their writers. I lived in Singapore where this flash is set so chuffed it made it in to the pop up.
#SINGAPORE #flashfiction #WomensWorlds
2nd spotlight is from @adlibby.bsky.social
We love Adele's hermit flash and this historical piece is gorgeous. Beautiful language crashing into facts. Sadness blurring with joy.
From prompts: During the First Day of..., Childhood Sweetheart, Fracture.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/singapura-se...
We love Adele's hermit flash and this historical piece is gorgeous. Beautiful language crashing into facts. Sadness blurring with joy.
From prompts: During the First Day of..., Childhood Sweetheart, Fracture.
Read here: trashcatlit.com/singapura-se...
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Love @trashcatlit.bsky.social
commitment to promoting their writers. I lived in Singapore where this flash is set so chuffed it made it in to the pop up.
#SINGAPORE #flashfiction #WomensWorlds
commitment to promoting their writers. I lived in Singapore where this flash is set so chuffed it made it in to the pop up.
#SINGAPORE #flashfiction #WomensWorlds
If there are any local CT peeps on here I’m doing a little thing @ New Canaan Library next Sunday (21st ) from 3 pm to 4. I’d love to see you there- it’s free but please register.
Here is the link #booklaunch #writerlife
www.newcanaanlibrary.org/event/hold-a...
Here is the link #booklaunch #writerlife
www.newcanaanlibrary.org/event/hold-a...
Author Talk with local poet Adele Evershed | New Canaan Library
New Canaan Library is pleased to celebrate poet and essayist Adele Evershed, a long-time attendee of the Library’s writing classes, as she shares her newest book, A History of Hand-Thrown Walls.
www.newcanaanlibrary.org
September 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If there are any local CT peeps on here I’m doing a little thing @ New Canaan Library next Sunday (21st ) from 3 pm to 4. I’d love to see you there- it’s free but please register.
Here is the link #booklaunch #writerlife
www.newcanaanlibrary.org/event/hold-a...
Here is the link #booklaunch #writerlife
www.newcanaanlibrary.org/event/hold-a...
I usually only post poetry or haiku but I love this so I thought I’d share #flagsisit
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
Classic Welsh response to flags appears on bridge and people are loving it
"I've been feeling so downhearted but this is glorious"
www.walesonline.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I usually only post poetry or haiku but I love this so I thought I’d share #flagsisit
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/a-his...
Today is #NationalBuyaBookDay so I’m just going to leave this here…
Today is #NationalBuyaBookDay so I’m just going to leave this here…
A History of Hand Thrown Walls by Adele Evershed — Unsolicited Press
A HISTORY OF HANDTHROWN WALLS by Adele Evershed is a captivating novella-in-flash, blending interconnected flash fiction pieces with the timeless presence of hand-built walls scattered across Connect...
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September 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Today is #NationalBuyaBookDay so I’m just going to leave this here…
Today is #NationalBuyaBookDay so I’m just going to leave this here…
Feeling all the itches! Happy to be back in Five Fleas. Thank you flea keeper Roberta Beach Jacobson for including these #poetryasprotest #EpsteinFiles #RefugeesWelcome
September 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Feeling all the itches! Happy to be back in Five Fleas. Thank you flea keeper Roberta Beach Jacobson for including these #poetryasprotest #EpsteinFiles #RefugeesWelcome
Day 5 of my cover reveal. A History of Hand Thrown Walls will be published by Unsolicited Press on September 23rd. If you would like to win a copy repost and I will enter you into a raffle once the book is published #booksforsale #IndieAuthors
www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/a-his...
www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/a-his...
A History of Hand Thrown Walls by Adele Evershed — Unsolicited Press
A HISTORY OF HANDTHROWN WALLS by Adele Evershed is a captivating novella-in-flash, blending interconnected flash fiction pieces with the timeless presence of hand-built walls scattered across Connecticut. Each story stands alone with its own beginning, middle, and end, yet together they weave a nar
www.unsolicitedpress.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Day 5 of my cover reveal. A History of Hand Thrown Walls will be published by Unsolicited Press on September 23rd. If you would like to win a copy repost and I will enter you into a raffle once the book is published #booksforsale #IndieAuthors
www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/a-his...
www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/a-his...