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odysseus couldn't have done all that stuff if he had a job
October 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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An after work treat...

American painter Zoey Frank's 'Blueberries', from Issue 36 #MothArchives 🫐
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Booker Prize longlist 2025: ‘alive with great characters and narrative surprises’ says chair of judges Roddy Doyle www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
July 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Very grateful to have placed second in this competition - a nice confidence boost for sure!
Our first year hosting the I Am Writing Literary/Upmarket Fiction proved to be a huge success. Agent @livmaidment.bsky.social had a REALLY difficult time choosing from such beautiful entries. Thank you for everything, Liv. And well done to these talented wordsmiths

#LiteraryFiction #UpmarketFiction
July 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Portrait of a Lady #artbots #klimt
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28579
June 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Ida E. Fischer, Florida Bark, 1951 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134552
April 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I stitched a little house I would quite like to live inside
April 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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We hope you're taking care of yourself and resting with your favorite read. If you need something new, we still have our APRIL ISSUE💕 buff.ly/kgc4UlM
April 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
but worlds are made of hello and goodbye:
glad sorry or both
(big little and all)

e.e. cummings
April 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Oo we can't wait to host the 2025 Northern Publishers' Fair Sat 26th of April!!

Join readers and writers alike at this free event celebrating independent publishing. Peruse books from 15 publishers across genres incl literary fiction, genre fiction, YA and children's, poetry and memoir.
LINK BELOW
April 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Dark faces pale against that rosy flame,
The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came.

Tennyson & The Lotus Eaters - painted by Barbara Neustadt
April 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Words! be
sick as I am sick, swoon,
roll back your eyes, a pool,

and I’ll stare down
at my wounded beauty
which at best is only a talent
for poetry.

Frank O'Hara - Mayakovsky
April 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Every weekday this entire month, you can call the FSG Poetry Hotline and hear an FSG author read a poem, right into your personal ear.
Celebrate National Poetry Month with FSG’s Dial-A-Poem.
The American Academy of Poets launched National Poetry Month in 1996. Since then, April has been synonymous in some circles with verse. Even before that, the dawn of spring has felt poetic. Eliot c…
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April 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM