Anna Polonyi
@annapolonyi.bsky.social
Writer. Educator. Lapsed poet. Former reporter. Resolutely human.
#NAWEconf25 #inspiringwriting Delighted to discover this cool story dice (with Canva template and prompts!) developed by @europeana.bsky.social yesterday thanks @nawewriters.bsky.social conference www.europeana.eu/en/stories/s...
Six ways to play with Europeana story dice - Download, cut out and fold, roll and be inspired!
Use Europeana story dice to develop your storytelling and creative idea generation
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November 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
#NAWEconf25 #inspiringwriting Delighted to discover this cool story dice (with Canva template and prompts!) developed by @europeana.bsky.social yesterday thanks @nawewriters.bsky.social conference www.europeana.eu/en/stories/s...
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I've just spent the last four days interviewing my mother about our family history for a new novel project. She turned up with a slim Ziploc bag of photos that - some more randomly than others - survived the many, many moves. The oldest is from 1922. Can you spot it? #amwriting
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I've just spent the last four days interviewing my mother about our family history for a new novel project. She turned up with a slim Ziploc bag of photos that - some more randomly than others - survived the many, many moves. The oldest is from 1922. Can you spot it? #amwriting
Excited to be speaking at NAWE this year about using bad metaphors & corny love poems in the classroom. (Yes, yes). And if that's not your jam, there are 80 (!) other sessions to choose from.
Teach or facilitate creative writing? Get the answer to this & more of your burning questions at Inspiring Writing, this year’s NAWE Online Conference. 7 & 8 November 2025. 80 sessions. 90 contributors. All sessions recorded. Book bit.ly/3qesnem #NAWEConf25 #InspiringWriting
October 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Excited to be speaking at NAWE this year about using bad metaphors & corny love poems in the classroom. (Yes, yes). And if that's not your jam, there are 80 (!) other sessions to choose from.
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Looking to explore #CulturalHeritage collections & get creative? Join the Europeana Writers’ Room! Use Europeana’s collections as prompts, try fun exercises, and share in a friendly, no-pressure space.
📅 5 November
✍ All levels welcome
🍂 Write around the theme of 'cozy comfort' ☕
🔗 bit.ly/4mtqVC9
📅 5 November
✍ All levels welcome
🍂 Write around the theme of 'cozy comfort' ☕
🔗 bit.ly/4mtqVC9
Europeana Writers’ Room - monthly creative writing workshops | Europeana PRO
Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for an hour dedicated to writing and creativity. We’ll use collections available on Europeana.eu to inspire you,…
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October 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Looking to explore #CulturalHeritage collections & get creative? Join the Europeana Writers’ Room! Use Europeana’s collections as prompts, try fun exercises, and share in a friendly, no-pressure space.
📅 5 November
✍ All levels welcome
🍂 Write around the theme of 'cozy comfort' ☕
🔗 bit.ly/4mtqVC9
📅 5 November
✍ All levels welcome
🍂 Write around the theme of 'cozy comfort' ☕
🔗 bit.ly/4mtqVC9
For all ye prose writers secretly afraid of / bewildered by poetry, this course is made for you.
Make friends with the villanelle, ghazal, or pantoum. (They are good friends to have). Sign-up is flexible - you can pick & choose which sessions to attend.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
Make friends with the villanelle, ghazal, or pantoum. (They are good friends to have). Sign-up is flexible - you can pick & choose which sessions to attend.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
October 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
For all ye prose writers secretly afraid of / bewildered by poetry, this course is made for you.
Make friends with the villanelle, ghazal, or pantoum. (They are good friends to have). Sign-up is flexible - you can pick & choose which sessions to attend.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
Make friends with the villanelle, ghazal, or pantoum. (They are good friends to have). Sign-up is flexible - you can pick & choose which sessions to attend.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...
"[Sales] track is like credit: it might be better to have none at all." Such an insighful piece by @tajjaisen.bsky.social in @thewalrus.ca - helped me wrap my head around our literary culture's obsession with debuts. thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
thewalrus.ca
October 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"[Sales] track is like credit: it might be better to have none at all." Such an insighful piece by @tajjaisen.bsky.social in @thewalrus.ca - helped me wrap my head around our literary culture's obsession with debuts. thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
Loved discovering Dial-a-Poem, a 1968 phone art project by the poet John Giorno, thx to @moma.bsky.social & this piece in @parisreview.bsky.social: shorturl.at/3RchH dial-a-poem.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Loved discovering Dial-a-Poem, a 1968 phone art project by the poet John Giorno, thx to @moma.bsky.social & this piece in @parisreview.bsky.social: shorturl.at/3RchH dial-a-poem.org
Applications for the Solitude Fellowship (Germany) are now open and run until mid-November. "Aimed at artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners from around the world...no longer at the very beginning of their careers, but not yet firmly established." www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowshi...
Solitude Fellowship
www.akademie-solitude.de
October 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Applications for the Solitude Fellowship (Germany) are now open and run until mid-November. "Aimed at artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners from around the world...no longer at the very beginning of their careers, but not yet firmly established." www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowshi...
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To find out more about @fondationme.bsky.social (Foundation for Remembrance of Slavery), its mission and how it is giving young people the keys to understanding history and combatting prejudice, read our interview with Director Aïssata Seck ➡️ bit.ly/4qamZbV
Foundation for Remembrance of Slavery brings national memory into dialogue with global history | Europeana PRO
We talk to Aïssata Seck, Director of the Foundation for Remembrance of Slavery, about the organisation’s mission and how it is giving young people the keys…
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October 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
To find out more about @fondationme.bsky.social (Foundation for Remembrance of Slavery), its mission and how it is giving young people the keys to understanding history and combatting prejudice, read our interview with Director Aïssata Seck ➡️ bit.ly/4qamZbV
"As a Serious Reader, the fervent love of a page-turner felt like it could set me apart as intellectually lazy." Delighted by this essay, which I relate to big time. Follow your bliss is now my ruthless reading motto. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/in-d...
In Defence of Easy Reading
Sam Van Zweden: For a long time, I felt like the books I consumed needed to be worthy. Seeking pleasure instead has reminded me why I fell in love with words in the first place.
www.killyourdarlings.com.au
October 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
"As a Serious Reader, the fervent love of a page-turner felt like it could set me apart as intellectually lazy." Delighted by this essay, which I relate to big time. Follow your bliss is now my ruthless reading motto. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/in-d...
Wish I could go to the @genevawriters.bsky.social conference! Registrations now open for Nov. 14 - Nov. 16. Special shout-out to historical fiction writer Janet Skeslian Charles, who'll be holding a workshop on Setting the Tone: Taking Your Novel to the Next Level. genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...
GWG Conference 2025
genevawriters.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Wish I could go to the @genevawriters.bsky.social conference! Registrations now open for Nov. 14 - Nov. 16. Special shout-out to historical fiction writer Janet Skeslian Charles, who'll be holding a workshop on Setting the Tone: Taking Your Novel to the Next Level. genevawriters.org/gwg-conferen...
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This week @contingent-mag.bsky.social announced a #cfp for our December series, A Time of Monsters.
If you have a monster pitch, please send it our way. Thanks to a Kitchings Family Foundation grant, every essay will be $300.
#skystorians #monsters
contingentmagazine.org/cfp-a-time-o...
If you have a monster pitch, please send it our way. Thanks to a Kitchings Family Foundation grant, every essay will be $300.
#skystorians #monsters
contingentmagazine.org/cfp-a-time-o...
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This week @contingent-mag.bsky.social announced a #cfp for our December series, A Time of Monsters.
If you have a monster pitch, please send it our way. Thanks to a Kitchings Family Foundation grant, every essay will be $300.
#skystorians #monsters
contingentmagazine.org/cfp-a-time-o...
If you have a monster pitch, please send it our way. Thanks to a Kitchings Family Foundation grant, every essay will be $300.
#skystorians #monsters
contingentmagazine.org/cfp-a-time-o...
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The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.
I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.
The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open.
Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk
Please share :)
I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.
The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open.
Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk
Please share :)
October 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.
I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.
The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open.
Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk
Please share :)
I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.
The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open.
Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk
Please share :)
For writers of flash, you still have until Oct. 12 to submit! short-edition.com/en/contest/p... #MoneyChronicles I love these little story dispensers; you can find them in train stations all over France, and so many more places, including (funnily enough) the university library in Iowa City!
Home - Principal - 2025
Home - Principal - 2025. Write a short story and take part in the Principal - 2025 prize to share your taste for writing
short-edition.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For writers of flash, you still have until Oct. 12 to submit! short-edition.com/en/contest/p... #MoneyChronicles I love these little story dispensers; you can find them in train stations all over France, and so many more places, including (funnily enough) the university library in Iowa City!
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Looking to explore #CulturalHeritage or make space for creativity?
💡 Join the Europeana Writers’ Room! Use Europeana’s collections as prompts, try fun exercises and share in a friendly space.
📅 First Wed of every month, next session 1 Oct
✍ All levels welcome
🔗 bit.ly/4mtqVC9
💡 Join the Europeana Writers’ Room! Use Europeana’s collections as prompts, try fun exercises and share in a friendly space.
📅 First Wed of every month, next session 1 Oct
✍ All levels welcome
🔗 bit.ly/4mtqVC9
Europeana Writers’ Room - monthly creative writing workshops | Europeana PRO
Join us on the first Wednesday of each month for an hour dedicated to writing and creativity. We’ll use collections available on Europeana.eu to inspire you,…
https://bit.ly/4mtqVC9"
September 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Looking to explore #CulturalHeritage or make space for creativity?
💡 Join the Europeana Writers’ Room! Use Europeana’s collections as prompts, try fun exercises and share in a friendly space.
📅 First Wed of every month, next session 1 Oct
✍ All levels welcome
🔗 bit.ly/4mtqVC9
💡 Join the Europeana Writers’ Room! Use Europeana’s collections as prompts, try fun exercises and share in a friendly space.
📅 First Wed of every month, next session 1 Oct
✍ All levels welcome
🔗 bit.ly/4mtqVC9
Shout out to Afabwaje Kurian's debut novel BEFORE THE MANGO RIPENS which has been named finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards for Black writers of fiction. people.com/2025-zora-aw... After witnessing her revision journey, it's such a joy to see this book getting the recognition it deserves!
2025 Zora Awards Finalists Are Here — See the Full List (Exclusive)
The Zora Awards have announced their 2025 finalists. Hosted by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, the award honors Black writers across fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
people.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Shout out to Afabwaje Kurian's debut novel BEFORE THE MANGO RIPENS which has been named finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards for Black writers of fiction. people.com/2025-zora-aw... After witnessing her revision journey, it's such a joy to see this book getting the recognition it deserves!
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3 days. 3 salons. 5 hosts. 25 readers. 100 attendees. intimate moments and communal ones, laughter and tears, favorites new and old. @saloneurope.bsky.social, see you next year in Madrid, Sept 25-27, to do it all again.
September 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
3 days. 3 salons. 5 hosts. 25 readers. 100 attendees. intimate moments and communal ones, laughter and tears, favorites new and old. @saloneurope.bsky.social, see you next year in Madrid, Sept 25-27, to do it all again.