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Julia
@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social
Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian

UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
A captivating @serenbooks.bsky.social launch tonight of @notjustdancing.bsky.social’s innovative, multilayered & lyrical collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ (alongside fantastic readings from @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn). 😍
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Truly inspiring poetry tonight courtesy of the @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social brilliant ‘four pamphleteers’ - @maxwallis.bsky.social, @thewordtinker.bsky.social, @glynedwards.bsky.social & @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Delighted to feature in the new issue of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social alongside such fabulous poets, writers & artists! 🤩 Many thanks to editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social & @rebunting.bsky.social 🙌
It’s here! Issue 4 is live today, featuring work from Sean Cho A, Sarah Mills, Allison Blevins, Jill Kitchen, Anthony Frame, Will Musgrove, Charles Jensen, Susan Barry-Schulz, Julia Biggs, Sheila Squillante, and Vishaal! #poetry #prose #visualart #literaryjournal #asterales

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October 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thrilled to have 2 collage pieces (unapologetically indebted to Angela Carter) featured in the latest issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social devoted to ‘The Urge’! Huge thanks to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for curating this celebration of feminine appetites & desires. 🤩
🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨

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Appetite! Impulse! Desire!

🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thrilled & honoured to learn @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social & congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Intimate autumn reading courtesy of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 😍
October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

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On Bookmarks and Other Ruins
<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t
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October 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Treating myself this National Poetry Day by preordering @anniebrechin.bsky.social’s new collection 💋
October 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Just been reading this by @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social . I had it saved as a tab on my phone but it had got lost amongst many tabs. I'm glad to have found it again. It's really clever ❤️
Pirouetting its way into the world today, my micro-chapbook ‘ROLES’ (a series of ballet-themed collage poems) is out with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 🩰 You can read this surreal assortment of pliés for free here:

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ROLES — Ghost City Press
ROLES by Julia Biggs Published July 1, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 12 Pages
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September 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Surprised but delighted to be Best of the Net nominated by @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for my dark foray into female appetites & desires! Huge thanks to EIC @audreytcarroll.bsky.social & congratulations to my fellow nominees! 🥳
September 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
*Blushes wildly*…. if you have not yet discovered the rather marvellous @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social & his starter packs for members of the poetry community then now is the moment! 🥰
August 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Kicking off the weekend in style with a @salopress.bsky.social poets showcase hosted by @moette.bsky.social 🤩! Fabulously experimental work mining female experience from @karanchambers.bsky.social, Laia Sales Merino, @wendycaitlin.bsky.social, @galiamelon.bsky.social & @victoriaspires.bsky.social 👏🏻
July 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Pirouetting its way into the world today, my micro-chapbook ‘ROLES’ (a series of ballet-themed collage poems) is out with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 🩰 You can read this surreal assortment of pliés for free here:

ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
ROLES — Ghost City Press
ROLES by Julia Biggs Published July 1, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 12 Pages
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July 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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ROLES by Julia Biggs (@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
ROLES — Ghost City Press
ROLES by Julia Biggs Published July 1, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 12 Pages
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July 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Looking forward to this @rialtopoetry.bsky.social event 👇
Come and join us and @helenmort.bsky.social for our Nature & Place Poetry reading.

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June 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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'night-blooming/ moonlit/ leaves like silk/ sprawling in irresistible soft abandon'
Read vispo sequence 'Natural Habitat ' by Julia Biggs in our Nature Edition:
'Natural Habitat' by Julia Biggs
Vispo
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June 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Delighted to be part of Bristol-based publisher Strange Region’s ‘Vocal Inhabitants’ anthology, which is now on sale! Full of experimental writing & visual art (plus a weird little collage piece by yours truly) do support this lovely indie offering!

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Vocal Inhabitants PRE-ORDER
An anthology of new, experimental writing and visual art.
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June 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Looking forward to diving into ‘sea pictures’ by the marvellous @maryfrancesness.bsky.social from Penteract Press & discovering hidden magic in the confluence of stone, Melville & Coleridge 🌊
June 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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If you do one thing in London this weekend please go see the UK’s AIDS Quilt in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall.
June 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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

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'Natural Habitat' by Julia Biggs
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June 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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💧 Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 9, LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette, tr. Kate Briggs, with an introduction by Eimear McBride, publishes today 💧

‘Living literature, for me, in France today – it’s Hélène Bessette.’
— Marguerite Duras

Order a copy here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/lili-i...
June 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM