Elizabeth Kemball🖋️🌛
@lizziekemball.bsky.social
♊ 28 | She/Her | South Wales
☕ From the Potteries.
🎓 Cardiff Uni MA | Warwick BA
🖋️ Writing a fantasy horror novel very slowly. Occasional poet.
📙 Bookstagram: devouring.words
☕ From the Potteries.
🎓 Cardiff Uni MA | Warwick BA
🖋️ Writing a fantasy horror novel very slowly. Occasional poet.
📙 Bookstagram: devouring.words
I submitted poetry to two journals for the first time in over a year and a half. Slowly, surely, getting back to the good things.
October 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I submitted poetry to two journals for the first time in over a year and a half. Slowly, surely, getting back to the good things.
Autumn is definitely my season. 🖤
I am still here, I am still writing. My health hasn't been great & life's been a lot this year. But, I'm hoping to start writing & submitting poetry again. It feels like the right time.
I am still here, I am still writing. My health hasn't been great & life's been a lot this year. But, I'm hoping to start writing & submitting poetry again. It feels like the right time.
September 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Autumn is definitely my season. 🖤
I am still here, I am still writing. My health hasn't been great & life's been a lot this year. But, I'm hoping to start writing & submitting poetry again. It feels like the right time.
I am still here, I am still writing. My health hasn't been great & life's been a lot this year. But, I'm hoping to start writing & submitting poetry again. It feels like the right time.
There is sun. There are flowers. Reminding myself that sometimes that has to be enough. 🌞
March 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
There is sun. There are flowers. Reminding myself that sometimes that has to be enough. 🌞
This is Merlin.
He's my little desk buddy, trying to help me get back into writing the last 5th of my novel. 🤍
He's my little desk buddy, trying to help me get back into writing the last 5th of my novel. 🤍
January 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is Merlin.
He's my little desk buddy, trying to help me get back into writing the last 5th of my novel. 🤍
He's my little desk buddy, trying to help me get back into writing the last 5th of my novel. 🤍
My top 15 books of 2024! 🖤
1. Drift - Caryl Lewis
2. Trespasses - Louise Kennedy
3. An Academy for Liars - Alexis Henderson
4. Starling House - Alix E Harrow
5. Orbital - Samantha Harvey
6. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
7. Foster - Claire Keegan
8. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
1. Drift - Caryl Lewis
2. Trespasses - Louise Kennedy
3. An Academy for Liars - Alexis Henderson
4. Starling House - Alix E Harrow
5. Orbital - Samantha Harvey
6. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
7. Foster - Claire Keegan
8. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
January 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My top 15 books of 2024! 🖤
1. Drift - Caryl Lewis
2. Trespasses - Louise Kennedy
3. An Academy for Liars - Alexis Henderson
4. Starling House - Alix E Harrow
5. Orbital - Samantha Harvey
6. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
7. Foster - Claire Keegan
8. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
1. Drift - Caryl Lewis
2. Trespasses - Louise Kennedy
3. An Academy for Liars - Alexis Henderson
4. Starling House - Alix E Harrow
5. Orbital - Samantha Harvey
6. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
7. Foster - Claire Keegan
8. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
I hope all who celebrate have had a lovely Christmas, from me & the perfect Yorkshire puddings I made. ❤️
December 28, 2024 at 4:17 PM
I hope all who celebrate have had a lovely Christmas, from me & the perfect Yorkshire puddings I made. ❤️
I just watched 'That Christmas'. Cried. It was fabulous and I would recommend watching (and also would recommend having a lovely hot chocolate with it). 🎄❤️
December 8, 2024 at 9:40 PM
I just watched 'That Christmas'. Cried. It was fabulous and I would recommend watching (and also would recommend having a lovely hot chocolate with it). 🎄❤️
The house is starting to feel festive. The tree gets pride of place in my reading corner. 🎄
December 1, 2024 at 4:06 PM
The house is starting to feel festive. The tree gets pride of place in my reading corner. 🎄
Are there any accounts/ feeds on here that exclusively share (free) poetry/ short fiction submission calls? 😇📚🖋️
November 30, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Are there any accounts/ feeds on here that exclusively share (free) poetry/ short fiction submission calls? 😇📚🖋️
Reposted by Elizabeth Kemball🖋️🌛
Reminder that your favorite local indie bookstores make a lot of their yearly income during the holiday season.
Go shop local today. ❤️
Go shop local today. ❤️
November 29, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Reminder that your favorite local indie bookstores make a lot of their yearly income during the holiday season.
Go shop local today. ❤️
Go shop local today. ❤️
Readers, I am looking for rather specific book recommendations.
I'm looking for books where characters let a magic entity into themselves or work through them. But not an evil possession. Examples I've liked are Black Water Sister, and Vespertine.
Ideally published in the last few years. 🖤
I'm looking for books where characters let a magic entity into themselves or work through them. But not an evil possession. Examples I've liked are Black Water Sister, and Vespertine.
Ideally published in the last few years. 🖤
November 28, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Readers, I am looking for rather specific book recommendations.
I'm looking for books where characters let a magic entity into themselves or work through them. But not an evil possession. Examples I've liked are Black Water Sister, and Vespertine.
Ideally published in the last few years. 🖤
I'm looking for books where characters let a magic entity into themselves or work through them. But not an evil possession. Examples I've liked are Black Water Sister, and Vespertine.
Ideally published in the last few years. 🖤
The writer pacing on my shoulder, their hair a fidgetted mess, says, "just get the words down! Scribble them, type them, any words will do!"
The writer in the oodie, lounging on my shoulder says, "light the candle, set the ambience, rewrite that scene for the 7th time. End of the book, who's she?"
The writer in the oodie, lounging on my shoulder says, "light the candle, set the ambience, rewrite that scene for the 7th time. End of the book, who's she?"
November 28, 2024 at 8:02 PM
The writer pacing on my shoulder, their hair a fidgetted mess, says, "just get the words down! Scribble them, type them, any words will do!"
The writer in the oodie, lounging on my shoulder says, "light the candle, set the ambience, rewrite that scene for the 7th time. End of the book, who's she?"
The writer in the oodie, lounging on my shoulder says, "light the candle, set the ambience, rewrite that scene for the 7th time. End of the book, who's she?"
Reposted by Elizabeth Kemball🖋️🌛
In order to write a book, you have to write a book.
November 24, 2024 at 3:19 PM
In order to write a book, you have to write a book.
A little poem, finding it's way here from the bad place (X).
November 24, 2024 at 8:49 AM
A little poem, finding it's way here from the bad place (X).
I made more bread. 🍞
November 17, 2024 at 4:02 PM
I made more bread. 🍞
I stopped using X regularly over a year ago & felt like I lost a lot of the writing, poetry & book community that I'd grown to be a part of on there - like anything I did post was shouting into the void. It's nice to see so many familiar faces on here actually interacting with one another again. 🥰
November 16, 2024 at 9:24 PM
I stopped using X regularly over a year ago & felt like I lost a lot of the writing, poetry & book community that I'd grown to be a part of on there - like anything I did post was shouting into the void. It's nice to see so many familiar faces on here actually interacting with one another again. 🥰
Today's bake was these colourful cookies. 🍪
November 16, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Today's bake was these colourful cookies. 🍪
Moments from this week. Ready for a restful weekend.
November 15, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Moments from this week. Ready for a restful weekend.
Reposted by Elizabeth Kemball🖋️🌛
This one today I think.
November 15, 2024 at 8:11 AM
This one today I think.
+ everything about StoryGraph is better & more user friendly!! 🥰
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
November 15, 2024 at 8:05 AM
+ everything about StoryGraph is better & more user friendly!! 🥰
Once upon a time I wrote poems, and they sounded like this. 🖤
November 13, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Once upon a time I wrote poems, and they sounded like this. 🖤
Reposted by Elizabeth Kemball🖋️🌛
Sorry but all the fables and fairy tales I read as a kid led me to believe people would be learning WAY more lessons than they actually do
November 13, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Sorry but all the fables and fairy tales I read as a kid led me to believe people would be learning WAY more lessons than they actually do
Important life update: I made bread for the first time this weekend and it was blooming gorgeous! 🖤💜
November 12, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Important life update: I made bread for the first time this weekend and it was blooming gorgeous! 🖤💜