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Peter Devonald
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Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
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pdevonald.bsky.social
Merry Christmas from Heaton Moor and London!

So thankful for all your friendship throughout the year

And reallyappreciate all the wonderful editors, publishers and readers

Hope you all have a fantastic Chrstismas and a wonderful 2026 xxx

Thanks to Pete Adamson for the amazing Heaton Moor images
December 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Thank you for all your friendship and inspiration - so much talent here, so honoured to be a part of it. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a great year ahead xxx
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
pdevonald.bsky.social
So delighted to have eight poems in the wonderful #ifmas - available now @dreich.bsky.social and there is a fantastic paperback edition

Huge thanks to Jack - subscribe free email jackcaradoctct@gmail.com and write subscribe please.

Merry Christmas/ ifmas to each and every one of you! xxx
December 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Thrilled to receive an early Christmas present from @englishjournaloup.bsky.social with a review of The Process of Poetry 🙏 academic.oup.com/english/arti... The book would make a fabulous Christmas gift! Please share! @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
#Christmaspresent #poetry
The Process of Poetry from First Draft to Final Poem: Curated Interviews with Award- Winning Poets. Edited by Rosanne McGlone The Art of Revising Poetry: 21 US Poets on their Drafts, Craft and Process...
As the creative writing workshop continues to flourish in both educational and recreational settings, it is a truth more generally acknowledged that poetry
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December 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Delighted to have two poems published in The Dirigible Balloon - alongside wonderful poets such as @carmellapoetry.bsky.social @carlburkitt.bsky.social @johndredge.bsky.social and so many more!

Huge thanks to Jonathan Humble

>>> dirigibleballoon.org
🙂👍
#poetryforchildren #poetry
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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shinepoetry.bsky.social
SHINE is now on @chillsubs.bsky.social
Check it out: www.chillsubs.com/magazine/shi...

#shinepoetry
#submissions are OPEN
#poetrycommunity
#internationalcommunity
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December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Coming very very soon - delighted to be part of this wonderful anthology with the great and good. Huge thanks to Jack Caradoc

Subscribers to @dreich.bsky.social Trumpet will get a PDF - to subscribe free of charge email Jack at
jackcaradoctct@gmail.com and write subscribe please.

Merry #ifmas!
December 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
It means a great deal to me to be in one of my dream publications, the wonderful @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social

www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/gatew...?

Huge thanks to Leia, JP Seabright, Kinneson and everyone involved

#poetry #poetrycommunity
Gateway To Another Life by Peter Devonald — Full House Literary
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December 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Something for the weekend - to start to get you in the festive mood!

Huge thanks to all the poets and the wonderful Post Community News GM

#poetry #poetrycommunity
December 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Huge Congratulations to the Winners and Special Mentions for our Autumn 2025 Whispering Wisdom Poetry Competition.

It has been a great honour to be one of the two judges - and we look forward to future competitions in the new year -

www.whisperingwisdom.co.uk/general-4

#poetry #poetrycomp
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
A huge thank you to @carmellapoetry.bsky.social and @harlowstanza.bsky.social for reading my poem Scapegoat at the wonderful @HarlowStanza. Really means a lot to me. Huge thanks to all the poets involved @poetrysociety.org.uk

Theme was #scapegoats with readings of Robert Graves and Sylvia Plath
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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The Princess Bride (1987)
December 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Rites & Trials: Coming of Age Poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk is doing marvellously well

- congratulations to @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk ‪@louisepoetical.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
@johnadlam.bsky.social

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December 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Delighted to be amongst the shortlisted poetry entries for the 2025 International Literary Prize, which are now published on the Hammond House website

www.hammondhouse.org.uk/literary-pri...

Winners will be announced in December. Judges' Choices and Editors' Choices in January.

Sssshhh...
December 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2025. Please share & best of luck!
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Writing & Poetry Competitions & Submissions – December 2025 — WORDBOX
Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or ...
www.thisiswordbox.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Delighted to have a very personal poem “In Search of Albion” in the new #Rites&Trials anthology out today. Huge thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Many great pieces by @samszanto.bsky.social @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social and many more

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Rites & Trials: Coming of Age Poetry (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies)
Buy Rites & Trials: Coming of Age Poetry (The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies) by Parry, Alan (ISBN: 9798275738094) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
We’re grateful for every person who has supported this so far. It’s been nearly a year of fundraising, and we’re so close. Let’s end 2025 knowing we made something amazing happen for poets. Help us hit £5,000. 🔗
A Poetry Award That Puts Poets First – And You Can Make It Happen - The Broken Spine
Poets deserve more than empty prestige. They deserve real recognition, real opportunities, and real support. That is why I am launching The Broken Spine
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November 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Delighted our wonderful book - Social Possibilities: Poetic Voices of Hope - is Finalist in the American Writing Awards

Huge thanks to the editors. I have three poems in this great collection: A Beginning, Sanctified, A Liar Who Always Speaks The Truth

#poetry

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November 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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inksweatandtears.co.uk
We are now open for Submissions for our annual '12 Days of' feature. @helenivory.bsky.social will be looking at your poetry and short prose, while Sairah Ahsan wants to see your word & image and filmpoems. More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/submissions/

#InkSweatandTears #TwelveDaysofChristmas #Slanted
Background image of snowflake graphics Right banner: gold and red light reflections. Large snowflake graphic upper right. Text: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS FEATURE * Poetry * Prose * Filmpoems * Word & Image Submit Now
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
pdevonald.bsky.social
Delighted to be runner-up in @bmthwritingfest.bsky.social WRITING ON THE WALL SEASONAL POETRY COMPETITION! with my poem ‘Winter is for Wondering’

Thank you so much to C.W. Blackburn and Peter John Cooper, and congrats to all winners

The display will go up shortly at Bournemouth Library #poetry
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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carmellapoetry.bsky.social
MY NAME IS❗A poem I wrote about otherization, has found a home in the beautiful new issue of DUST POETRY. It forms part of a collection of 30 poems entitled DEAR WORLD... 🌍
Thank you to editors Tara Wheeler & Catherine Redford.✌🏼
#DearWorld
#Projection
#Otherization
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November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
The online launch of RISE OF THE BADGER AND THE GREAT SHRUBBERY can be watched on the Gloucestershire Poetry Society

Delighted to have poetry in this wonderful collection

YouTube Channel: youtu.be/a7AYRkq640M

Hosted by Josephine Lay & Peter Lay of Black Eyes Publishing UK
RISE OF THE BADGER AND THE GREAT SHRUBBERY Online Launch November 2025
YouTube video by The Gloucestershire Poetry Society
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November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
pdevonald.bsky.social
So delighted to be in this wonderful anthology which is out now

Great review here: Thanks to Greg Freeman for posting it and also Tim Fellows for making this wonderful anthology

www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...
Coalface scars: poetry anthology marking strike anniversary looks at mining's past and its aftermath | Write Out Loud
Coalface scars: poetry anthology marking strike anniversary looks at mining's past and its aftermath
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November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate:

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Dear friends, I’m writing with some difficult news. We recently applied for long-term revenue funding through the Books Council of Wales, support that would have secured stability for Broken Sleep Books for the next five years and helped us continue publishing the ambitious, risk-taking, inclusive work we believe in so deeply. Unfortunately, we were not successful. It’s disappointing, of course. We put forward a strong application, had a positive interview, and genuinely believed our publishing programme where we champion low socio-economic status authors, working-class authors, and marginalised authors, while widening access to the arts and degentrifying the arts, reflected the cultural values Wales should be proud to support. Clearly, our idea of cultural value doesn’t fully match the Books Council’s. Sometimes decisions go another way. What hasn’t changed is our commitment. Broken Sleep Books will carry on publishing with the same determination, ambition, and care that has always sustained us, just with fewer resources and a much harder road ahead. If you value what we do, there are meaningful ways you can help us weather this moment: 📚 Buy a book, or a few Every purchase directly supports the press. Browse the catalogue here: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/books 🎁 Consider our books as gifts With the holidays approaching, this makes a real difference. 💬 Spread the word Tell a friend, share our books online, recommend us to a bookshop, or forward this newsletter. ❤️ Make a donation (if you’re able) Some readers have asked how they can help directly. If you’d like to support our work with a small donation, we’ve set up a simple option here: https://ko-fi.com/brokensleepbooks (Please only give if you’re in a position to do so, we know times are hard for many.) Broken Sleep has always been a community effort, powered by readers, writers, booksellers, and supporters who believe in literature that takes risks and makes space for voices that don’t always find a home elsewhere. Thank you, sincerely, for sticking with us. Your support means everything, especially right now.
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM