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

UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
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Weekend reading courtesy of @salopress.bsky.social with the latest poetry pamphlets from @corinnaboard.bsky.social (Mædwe) & @poppycockburn.bsky.social (Confetti) 🤩🤩
Front covers of poetry pamphlets by Corinna Board (beige coloured background with a botanical green grass seed drawing) and Poppy Cockburn (beige coloured background with abstract, looping eye design, pink flower and blue speckled motif).
February 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social
All the hype surrounding the forthcoming Wuthering Heights film leaving you cold? Dive into @poetclare.bsky.social’s brilliant series of prose poems about Emily Brontë in ‘Lives of the Female Poets’ instead! @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 😍
Front cover of Clare Pollard’s ‘Lives of the Female Poets’, featuring a framed portrait of Henrietta Maria Hill by Angelica Kauffman in a social media post format.
February 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social
Honoured to have a collage piece included in the latest hope-filled, light-spilling issue of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social. Many thanks to EIC James Diaz 🤩
antiheroinchic.bsky.social Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 12d
Friends, it's been a while, but here we are with another beautiful, heart-rending issue. My gratitude runs deep to all of you for filling this space with your brilliant and hopeful voices. The light is so hard to find, but I think you'll find some of it here.

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February 1, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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'as the curtain rises
the movements are hard
the line is clipped
the champagne flat'

A devastatingly beautiful 'psychological adagio' from the fouetté-turning mind of @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 👏🏻

'DANCING sees you through' 🖤

#magicalrealism #angelacarter #collage
chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · Jul 1
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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January 21, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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Congratulations to the brilliant @madelinepotter.bsky.social on the publication of ‘Theological Monsters’… this erudite text promises all manner of Gothic delights! 😈🖤👇
madelinepotter.bsky.social Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · Jan 15
Eeeek so excited! My monograph, ‘Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic’ is out with University of Wales Press!

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Theological Monsters | UWP
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January 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Delighted to have an object poem included in the latest issue of Volupté Journal exploring the decadent fairy tale as it relates to the work of Renée Vivien 👇

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View of Charming
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January 13, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Very excited for these gorgeous-looking @salopress.bsky.social chapbooks by the fabulous @corinnaboard.bsky.social @poppycockburn.bsky.social & Anna Brook 😍😍😍👇
salopress.bsky.social Salò Press @salopress.bsky.social · Jan 10
Kicking off the new year with THREE new poetry chapbooks 🤩

All the details at salopress.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:33 PM
chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social
Starting the New Year in the company of @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social’s compelling novel in verse ‘Filly’ from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🤩
Front cover of Filly by Rosamund Taylor, with pink lettering against a black & white replicated photograph of fingers gently pulling at the corner of a closed eye.
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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2026…
Black and white photograph of a note reading ‘Resolutions for the New Year: no lying, no biting’ (as captured by the artist Sophie Calle). Front cover of Sophie Calle’s ‘True Stories’ featuring a black & white photograph of Calle sitting on a grave stone in a Parisian cemetery.
January 1, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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a favorite from "Nets," Jen Bervin's erasure of Shakespeare sonnets
so solemn and so rare, you, who had to hope
December 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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wunderkammertales.bsky.social
“From morn
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.”

(Milton)

🎨 Gustave Doré

#bookwormsat
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Klaxon! www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art - Exhibition at V&A South Kensington · V&A
This exhibition traces the history, impact and continuing influence of one of the 20th century’s most innovative fashion creatives, Elsa Schiaparelli.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k!

Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects.

This #Spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Something for the Gothically-inclined… pleased to have a dark little hybrid piece in the ‘Spectral & Strange’ bonus issue of @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social edited by @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social 🖤
mugwortmagazine.bsky.social Mugwort Magazine @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · Dec 6
Our Winter 2025 bonus issue, Spectral & Strange, is out now!

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December 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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100% this @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social 😍👇
wendycaitlin.bsky.social Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · Dec 2
She’ll tell you to wear your best dress for casual. She’ll tell you too much. She’ll cry. But isn’t that why we need poetry?

She’s messy and drinks too much coffee. She’s always in socks and thinking of apricots.

Portrait in Mustard @serenbooks.bsky.social.
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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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). 😍
Black and white blurred motion photographic front cover of Deryn Rees-Jones’s poetry collection ‘Hôtel Amour’.
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !

Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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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 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
Front covers in varying shades of orange, pink, grey, white and black of 4 poetry pamphlets: Rue Collinge’s ‘How to train your Dragon’, Glyn Edwards’s ‘How to Make a Paper Grenade’, Katrina Naomi’s ‘dance as if’ and Max Wallis’s ‘Well Done, You Didn’t Die’
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤

Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !

Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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 🙌
asteralesjournal.bsky.social Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social · Oct 20
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
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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. 🤩
the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · Oct 15
🚨e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE!🚨

💯% Free to read, download & share! buff.ly/RViXupP

Appetite! Impulse! Desire!

🖤 Featuring @angelaarnold777.bsky.social, Jihoo Bae, Annika Bey, ⬇️
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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
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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
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Treating myself this National Poetry Day by preordering @anniebrechin.bsky.social’s new collection 💋
October 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM