Dilys Wyndham Thomas
@dilyswt.bsky.social
British-Belgian writer and poet.
Words in Chestnut Review, Mslexia, New Flash Fiction Review, Shooter, X-R-A-Y, etc.
Was assistant poetry editor at Passengers Journal.
Almost always accompanied by two very clingy cats. (Haarlem, Netherlands)
Words in Chestnut Review, Mslexia, New Flash Fiction Review, Shooter, X-R-A-Y, etc.
Was assistant poetry editor at Passengers Journal.
Almost always accompanied by two very clingy cats. (Haarlem, Netherlands)
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I'm so grateful that my golden shovel, “Titan[ic),” appears in issue 107 of @mslexia.bsky.social. It's an elegy to the victims of the Titanic and Titan, and I hope reads as a tribute to lives lost at sea. I also found out that today marks forty years since the wreck of the Titanic was discovered.
I'll be reading at Published! Online alongside nine other writers from Women Who Submit, including writer friends from the WWS Europe chapter, Barbara Diggs (@bdiggswrites.bsky.social) and Augustine Blaisdell. Use the QR code below for info and tickets. Hope to see you there.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I'll be reading at Published! Online alongside nine other writers from Women Who Submit, including writer friends from the WWS Europe chapter, Barbara Diggs (@bdiggswrites.bsky.social) and Augustine Blaisdell. Use the QR code below for info and tickets. Hope to see you there.
Thank you to @xraylitmag.bsky.social for giving "Bellybutton Baby" such a great home! I was told not to start a story with a dream sequence, so naturally, the contrarian in me had to give it a go. "Bellybutton" was also a winner of the Summer 2025 City Writes competition (@citystgeorges.bsky.social)
today we have a story by Dilys Wyndham Thomas @dilyswt.bsky.social !
it’s about a woman traveling, spending nights with different men while haunted by a recurring nightmare of a lost baby. great sentences, a great mood -- read this wonderful story !!
xraylitmag.com/bellybutton-...
it’s about a woman traveling, spending nights with different men while haunted by a recurring nightmare of a lost baby. great sentences, a great mood -- read this wonderful story !!
xraylitmag.com/bellybutton-...
BELLYBUTTON BABY by Dilys Wyndham Thomas
I have this recurring nightmare in which I swim through amniotic fluid. Poppies litter the fluid, and a baby is lost somewhere amongst all the falling flowers, out of reach, beyond my thrashing hands....
xraylitmag.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Thank you to @xraylitmag.bsky.social for giving "Bellybutton Baby" such a great home! I was told not to start a story with a dream sequence, so naturally, the contrarian in me had to give it a go. "Bellybutton" was also a winner of the Summer 2025 City Writes competition (@citystgeorges.bsky.social)
Thank you @chestnutreview.bsky.social for publishing my poem "a museum of waxwings." I am told all poets have a poem about birds, and this is mine. It's also a poem for my mother, who has dementia. Working with @michaelimossan.bsky.social on edits was a joy. chestnutreview.com/dilys-wyndha...
October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thank you @chestnutreview.bsky.social for publishing my poem "a museum of waxwings." I am told all poets have a poem about birds, and this is mine. It's also a poem for my mother, who has dementia. Working with @michaelimossan.bsky.social on edits was a joy. chestnutreview.com/dilys-wyndha...
Thank you @mlmcguinness.bsky.social for sharing this poem. You are all kinds of wonderful.
"and dove hides in the freezer
still awaiting resurrection"
Read "A Museum of Waxwings" by @dilyswt.bsky.social in @chestnutreview.bsky.social
chestnutreview.com/dilys-wyndha...
still awaiting resurrection"
Read "A Museum of Waxwings" by @dilyswt.bsky.social in @chestnutreview.bsky.social
chestnutreview.com/dilys-wyndha...
Dilys Wyndham Thomas, A Museum of Waxwings – Chestnut Review
I am told all poets have at least one poem about birds, and this is mine. However, it is first and foremost a poem for my mother, who has dementia. She loved autofiction, so I like to think she would have appreciated its honesty.
chestnutreview.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Thank you @mlmcguinness.bsky.social for sharing this poem. You are all kinds of wonderful.
Reposted by Dilys Wyndham Thomas
Little poems to start the day at the @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels 😊
This was such a fun, nourishing session. Thank you @dilyswt.bsky.social 🙏
This was such a fun, nourishing session. Thank you @dilyswt.bsky.social 🙏
September 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Little poems to start the day at the @saloneurope.bsky.social in Brussels 😊
This was such a fun, nourishing session. Thank you @dilyswt.bsky.social 🙏
This was such a fun, nourishing session. Thank you @dilyswt.bsky.social 🙏
Reposted by Dilys Wyndham Thomas
Someone needs to start a literary prize for short story collections. It seems really odd to me that we don’t have one in Ireland or the UK. Before everyone shouts about the Edgehill Prize, it doesn’t seem to be happening this year.
July 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Someone needs to start a literary prize for short story collections. It seems really odd to me that we don’t have one in Ireland or the UK. Before everyone shouts about the Edgehill Prize, it doesn’t seem to be happening this year.
I'm so grateful that my golden shovel, “Titan[ic),” appears in issue 107 of @mslexia.bsky.social. It's an elegy to the victims of the Titanic and Titan, and I hope reads as a tribute to lives lost at sea. I also found out that today marks forty years since the wreck of the Titanic was discovered.
September 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I'm so grateful that my golden shovel, “Titan[ic),” appears in issue 107 of @mslexia.bsky.social. It's an elegy to the victims of the Titanic and Titan, and I hope reads as a tribute to lives lost at sea. I also found out that today marks forty years since the wreck of the Titanic was discovered.
A huge thank you to the team over @chestnutreview.bsky.social for making my Monday brighter, and accepting one of my poems for their upcoming Autumn Issue. The poem is a favourite of mine, so I'm beyond grateful and excited! I'll share more once the issue comes out in October.
July 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A huge thank you to the team over @chestnutreview.bsky.social for making my Monday brighter, and accepting one of my poems for their upcoming Autumn Issue. The poem is a favourite of mine, so I'm beyond grateful and excited! I'll share more once the issue comes out in October.
Reposted by Dilys Wyndham Thomas
Too many amazing presenters to name, but we've got great sessions from @kitdewaal.com @desperatelit.bsky.social @dilyswt.bsky.social @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social @kiklodge.bsky.social @mlmcguinness.bsky.social @norami.bsky.social @markabowles.bsky.social & so many more.
Our latest newsletter is out, featuring our big Annual Salon Programme reveal!✨
Check out the speakers, panels, workshops and events we have booked over the 3-day event
PLUS a day of eating, touring and otherwise flaneuring around Brussels🧇
There are still 9 places left—join us!
Check out the speakers, panels, workshops and events we have booked over the 3-day event
PLUS a day of eating, touring and otherwise flaneuring around Brussels🧇
There are still 9 places left—join us!
Take a peek inside our Annual Salon Programme
See what's happening in Brussels and around Europe...
europeanwriterssalon.substack.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Too many amazing presenters to name, but we've got great sessions from @kitdewaal.com @desperatelit.bsky.social @dilyswt.bsky.social @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social @kiklodge.bsky.social @mlmcguinness.bsky.social @norami.bsky.social @markabowles.bsky.social & so many more.
I've been selected to read a new story @citystgeorgesucu.bsky.social's City Writes Summer Reading tonight. It's online. It's free. There will be some amazing writers there. Join us. blogs.city.ac.uk/cityshortcou...
City Writes – City St George's Short Courses
blogs.city.ac.uk
July 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I've been selected to read a new story @citystgeorgesucu.bsky.social's City Writes Summer Reading tonight. It's online. It's free. There will be some amazing writers there. Join us. blogs.city.ac.uk/cityshortcou...
There really is something in the drinking water in Haarlem. For centuries, writers, poets, painters and sculptors have gathered here. I keep bumping into the most generous, creative people. Here's a sketch of me writing in Haarlem library gifted to me this weekend by the painter Walter van Dieren.
June 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
There really is something in the drinking water in Haarlem. For centuries, writers, poets, painters and sculptors have gathered here. I keep bumping into the most generous, creative people. Here's a sketch of me writing in Haarlem library gifted to me this weekend by the painter Walter van Dieren.
I found out that I'll be running a haiga workshop at @saloneurope.bsky.social's annual conference this September. I'm so grateful! Haiku photography and haiga reignited my creative spark during the pandemic, and I'm hoping this fun morning workshop will help others find (even more) creative joy.
June 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I found out that I'll be running a haiga workshop at @saloneurope.bsky.social's annual conference this September. I'm so grateful! Haiku photography and haiga reignited my creative spark during the pandemic, and I'm hoping this fun morning workshop will help others find (even more) creative joy.
@wildroofjournal.bsky.social being one of the most supportive journals out there! Thank you.
Every other week, we shout out writers & their recent lit mag publications: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...
@deroneckert.bsky.social @jenkabat.bsky.social @dilyswt.bsky.social @adroitjournal.bsky.social @toughpoetsreview.bsky.social
@deroneckert.bsky.social @jenkabat.bsky.social @dilyswt.bsky.social @adroitjournal.bsky.social @toughpoetsreview.bsky.social
Saturday Shout-Out ~ May 31, 2025
Share your recently published work with the WRJ community
wildroofjournal.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
@wildroofjournal.bsky.social being one of the most supportive journals out there! Thank you.
Thank you to everyone @nffr.bsky.social for publishing "A Self-Portrait of Someone Else" in their Summer issue, alongside my audio. Full disclosure, the NFFR editors suggested I shorten the ending, and I think the piece is so much stronger thanks to their input. newflashfiction.com/self-portrai...
June 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Thank you to everyone @nffr.bsky.social for publishing "A Self-Portrait of Someone Else" in their Summer issue, alongside my audio. Full disclosure, the NFFR editors suggested I shorten the ending, and I think the piece is so much stronger thanks to their input. newflashfiction.com/self-portrai...
Syd Shaw and I are publishing ekphrastic poems written in response to art by Andreea Ceplischi in the latest issue of Beyond Words. We only realised last week. The three of us worked together at Passengers Journal, so today feels like an unexpected reunion. www.beyondwordsmag.com/online-store...
May 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Syd Shaw and I are publishing ekphrastic poems written in response to art by Andreea Ceplischi in the latest issue of Beyond Words. We only realised last week. The three of us worked together at Passengers Journal, so today feels like an unexpected reunion. www.beyondwordsmag.com/online-store...
Reposted by Dilys Wyndham Thomas
Once more with feeling and a dollop of frustration … Taking our work without permission or payment is theft.
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British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’
Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fields
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Once more with feeling and a dollop of frustration … Taking our work without permission or payment is theft.
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thttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/british-novelists-criticise-government-over-ai-theft#img-1
Reposted by Dilys Wyndham Thomas
It's been a minute since we sent these out to Wainscott, NY, but if you're snowed in today, warm yourself by the light of our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominees! (2/2)
rustandmoth.com/work/4094/
rustandmoth.com/work/cabbage...
rustandmoth.com/work/paper-b...
rustandmoth.com/work/4094/
rustandmoth.com/work/cabbage...
rustandmoth.com/work/paper-b...
January 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It's been a minute since we sent these out to Wainscott, NY, but if you're snowed in today, warm yourself by the light of our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominees! (2/2)
rustandmoth.com/work/4094/
rustandmoth.com/work/cabbage...
rustandmoth.com/work/paper-b...
rustandmoth.com/work/4094/
rustandmoth.com/work/cabbage...
rustandmoth.com/work/paper-b...
Reposted by Dilys Wyndham Thomas
It's been a minute since we sent these out to Wainscott, NY, but if you're snowed in today, warm yourself by the light of our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominees! (1/2)
rustandmoth.com/work/elegy-3/
rustandmoth.com/work/pomegra...
rustandmoth.com/work/meditat...
rustandmoth.com/work/elegy-3/
rustandmoth.com/work/pomegra...
rustandmoth.com/work/meditat...
January 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It's been a minute since we sent these out to Wainscott, NY, but if you're snowed in today, warm yourself by the light of our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominees! (1/2)
rustandmoth.com/work/elegy-3/
rustandmoth.com/work/pomegra...
rustandmoth.com/work/meditat...
rustandmoth.com/work/elegy-3/
rustandmoth.com/work/pomegra...
rustandmoth.com/work/meditat...
Reposted by Dilys Wyndham Thomas
A few more places left for our Berlin salon 27 March.
Please don't feel you need to know people to come. We will create opportunities to hang out together and explore. We're a friendly bunch.
🇩🇪🧡🇩🇪
Prices from €0!
Please don't feel you need to know people to come. We will create opportunities to hang out together and explore. We're a friendly bunch.
🇩🇪🧡🇩🇪
Prices from €0!
January 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A few more places left for our Berlin salon 27 March.
Please don't feel you need to know people to come. We will create opportunities to hang out together and explore. We're a friendly bunch.
🇩🇪🧡🇩🇪
Prices from €0!
Please don't feel you need to know people to come. We will create opportunities to hang out together and explore. We're a friendly bunch.
🇩🇪🧡🇩🇪
Prices from €0!
Thank you so much to the editors at @rustandmoth.bsky.social , not only for publishing "Elegy" in their 2024 spring issue, but also for nominating it for a 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social. I'm deeply touched and honoured, and I'll be crossing my fingers and toes for all the nominated poets.
January 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Thank you so much to the editors at @rustandmoth.bsky.social , not only for publishing "Elegy" in their 2024 spring issue, but also for nominating it for a 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social. I'm deeply touched and honoured, and I'll be crossing my fingers and toes for all the nominated poets.
The very last issue of Passengers Journal is here! Thank you to all the poets, writers, editors, readers and voice artists who have made the past 5 years so special, and happiest of pub days!
www.passengersjournal.com/volume-5-iss...
www.passengersjournal.com/volume-5-iss...
Volume 5, Issue 4 — Passengers Journal
www.passengersjournal.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:57 PM
The very last issue of Passengers Journal is here! Thank you to all the poets, writers, editors, readers and voice artists who have made the past 5 years so special, and happiest of pub days!
www.passengersjournal.com/volume-5-iss...
www.passengersjournal.com/volume-5-iss...
Any writers, poets, journal and lit folk out there? I've had this account for a while, but recent events mean I want to hang out here rather than other platforms, but I miss the lovely creative bubble I had going on. I follow back. I try my best to be supportive.
November 29, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Any writers, poets, journal and lit folk out there? I've had this account for a while, but recent events mean I want to hang out here rather than other platforms, but I miss the lovely creative bubble I had going on. I follow back. I try my best to be supportive.
Reposted by Dilys Wyndham Thomas
Bluesky gets the cover a day early! Tune in tomorrow (2/1) for the unveiling of our Spring 2024 issue.
January 31, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Bluesky gets the cover a day early! Tune in tomorrow (2/1) for the unveiling of our Spring 2024 issue.