Hannah Floyd
@word3floyd.bsky.social
Writes poetry, flash, speculative fiction. Works in a special school. Bakes stuff.
Didn't know that there may have been a pre-Christian belief in a "chthonic otherworld"... this book "Twilight of the Godlings" a fascinating cauldron of information @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Didn't know that there may have been a pre-Christian belief in a "chthonic otherworld"... this book "Twilight of the Godlings" a fascinating cauldron of information @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Like Defying Gravity: Me chatting to Gail Schwartz, editor of Hotch Potch Literature and Art, about leaps of faith: substack.com/@hotchpotchl...
Like Defying Gravity
Hannah Floyd and the Inherited Leap of Uprooting
substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Like Defying Gravity: Me chatting to Gail Schwartz, editor of Hotch Potch Literature and Art, about leaps of faith: substack.com/@hotchpotchl...
Reposted by Hannah Floyd
God had the book of life open at PLEASURE and was holding the pages down in one hand because of the wind from the door.
For I made their flesh as a sieve
wrote God at the top of the page and then listed in order:
Alcohol
Blood
Gratitude
Memory
Semen
Song
Tears
Time.
For I made their flesh as a sieve
wrote God at the top of the page and then listed in order:
Alcohol
Blood
Gratitude
Memory
Semen
Song
Tears
Time.
January 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
God had the book of life open at PLEASURE and was holding the pages down in one hand because of the wind from the door.
For I made their flesh as a sieve
wrote God at the top of the page and then listed in order:
Alcohol
Blood
Gratitude
Memory
Semen
Song
Tears
Time.
For I made their flesh as a sieve
wrote God at the top of the page and then listed in order:
Alcohol
Blood
Gratitude
Memory
Semen
Song
Tears
Time.
Reposted by Hannah Floyd
“There’s always a next right thing to do.”
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“There’s always a next right thing to do.”
The stories are great but y'all need to see those storytelling artworks. No paywall.
Jam-packed issue with stories based on the artwork of Lorraine Roy. #shortstory #litmag #indieauthor
October 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The stories are great but y'all need to see those storytelling artworks. No paywall.
Reading @victoriachang.bsky.social in the small hours, soaking it up. Maybe if I soak it up I could write like this. Poems that make you say "oh my god". & tell such truthful lies. "I have cut eight lines off this poem for no/ other reason except that they were lies. Perhaps all lines/ are lies."
October 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Reading @victoriachang.bsky.social in the small hours, soaking it up. Maybe if I soak it up I could write like this. Poems that make you say "oh my god". & tell such truthful lies. "I have cut eight lines off this poem for no/ other reason except that they were lies. Perhaps all lines/ are lies."
Reading (for the second time) @victoriachang.bsky.social 's "With My Back to the World". I love the way these poems inhabit the artworks they describe. But I also love the moments of distance: "I realized that I needed to/ return on a day when I too could rope off my sadness."
October 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reading (for the second time) @victoriachang.bsky.social 's "With My Back to the World". I love the way these poems inhabit the artworks they describe. But I also love the moments of distance: "I realized that I needed to/ return on a day when I too could rope off my sadness."
Unbelievably, I have had a second drabble published in:
www.hotchpotchliteratureandart.com.
This time last year, I didn't know what a drabble was. Apparently, a drabble is a very short fiction, 100 words or so. Like a dribble. Hopefully not drivel.
www.hotchpotchliteratureandart.com.
This time last year, I didn't know what a drabble was. Apparently, a drabble is a very short fiction, 100 words or so. Like a dribble. Hopefully not drivel.
Hotch Potch Literature & Art
Volume 4, Issue 2
www.hotchpotchliteratureandart.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Unbelievably, I have had a second drabble published in:
www.hotchpotchliteratureandart.com.
This time last year, I didn't know what a drabble was. Apparently, a drabble is a very short fiction, 100 words or so. Like a dribble. Hopefully not drivel.
www.hotchpotchliteratureandart.com.
This time last year, I didn't know what a drabble was. Apparently, a drabble is a very short fiction, 100 words or so. Like a dribble. Hopefully not drivel.
Current read: Monster by @dzifabenson.bsky.social . It's phenomenal. It's like attending a stunning multimedia exhibition - but it's a poetry book.
October 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Current read: Monster by @dzifabenson.bsky.social . It's phenomenal. It's like attending a stunning multimedia exhibition - but it's a poetry book.
Pleased (and relieved) that one of the many poems I wrote based on the Epic of Gilgamesh has been published!! So excited to be in the first issue of Glasgow-based SEXTET magazine in conjunction with @sixfootgallery.bsky.social :
sextet.co.uk/hannah-floyd
sextet.co.uk/hannah-floyd
Hannah Floyd – SEXTET
sextet.co.uk
October 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Pleased (and relieved) that one of the many poems I wrote based on the Epic of Gilgamesh has been published!! So excited to be in the first issue of Glasgow-based SEXTET magazine in conjunction with @sixfootgallery.bsky.social :
sextet.co.uk/hannah-floyd
sextet.co.uk/hannah-floyd
It's not even October yet and somehow my class have eaten all 5 of my whiteboard markers. 👍 Special ed.
October 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
It's not even October yet and somehow my class have eaten all 5 of my whiteboard markers. 👍 Special ed.
Excited to have another drabble coming out in the next issue of
@hotchpotchliterary.bsky.social! A sneak preview of the cool genre-bending artworks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=enDU...
@hotchpotchliterary.bsky.social! A sneak preview of the cool genre-bending artworks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=enDU...
Coming Soon! HP 4.2 - A New Issue!
YouTube video by Hotch Potch Literature and Art
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September 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Excited to have another drabble coming out in the next issue of
@hotchpotchliterary.bsky.social! A sneak preview of the cool genre-bending artworks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=enDU...
@hotchpotchliterary.bsky.social! A sneak preview of the cool genre-bending artworks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=enDU...
Amazing 😍 night out at @cambridgejunction.bsky.social seeing @jayahadadream.bsky.social and Lowkey (Kareem Dennis). Words are not just for nerds!! Restoring faith in humanity.
September 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Amazing 😍 night out at @cambridgejunction.bsky.social seeing @jayahadadream.bsky.social and Lowkey (Kareem Dennis). Words are not just for nerds!! Restoring faith in humanity.
Day 7: Prelude to Bruise by @theferocity.bsky.social . "The dress is an oil slick. The dress/ ruins everything." Sexy, slick lines and commitment to personal story, all of it gay, all so hot I don't get a dull moment to figure out the pitch perfect techniques.
August 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Day 7: Prelude to Bruise by @theferocity.bsky.social . "The dress is an oil slick. The dress/ ruins everything." Sexy, slick lines and commitment to personal story, all of it gay, all so hot I don't get a dull moment to figure out the pitch perfect techniques.
Day 6: When God Is a Traveller by Arundhati Subramaniam. After yesterday's tough reading this book was refreshingly lightweight. No bad thing - there was even some humour. My favourite poem was "Bhakti": the suggestion was to put God in a hip flask to "keep it illicit".
August 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Day 6: When God Is a Traveller by Arundhati Subramaniam. After yesterday's tough reading this book was refreshingly lightweight. No bad thing - there was even some humour. My favourite poem was "Bhakti": the suggestion was to put God in a hip flask to "keep it illicit".
Day 5: Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun. It's solid and powerful. Each is a travel poem but it's not "travel": it's exile. He grieves for home, and for the dead, killed by colonialism. "your language is extinct, /a dead thing wandering at the boundary of darkness; you must/ hold it and shout".
August 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Day 5: Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun. It's solid and powerful. Each is a travel poem but it's not "travel": it's exile. He grieves for home, and for the dead, killed by colonialism. "your language is extinct, /a dead thing wandering at the boundary of darkness; you must/ hold it and shout".
Day 4: "Blade By Blade" by @danushalameris.bsky.social. These poems show a bright, painful love of life, and each tells a story: "Many things are inherited./ Whole histories, for example - and the long paths walked in the heat, /in the dead of night -away from them."
August 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Day 4: "Blade By Blade" by @danushalameris.bsky.social. These poems show a bright, painful love of life, and each tells a story: "Many things are inherited./ Whole histories, for example - and the long paths walked in the heat, /in the dead of night -away from them."
I didn't realise this was a book of essays till I unwrapped it. But I devoured this book. It explores the lives of several West Coast US poets and digs up gold. for me it lit up the question not of "how good" a poem is but why write poetry? How to live & practice? And how to use poetry for change?
August 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I didn't realise this was a book of essays till I unwrapped it. But I devoured this book. It explores the lives of several West Coast US poets and digs up gold. for me it lit up the question not of "how good" a poem is but why write poetry? How to live & practice? And how to use poetry for change?
The End of Everything and Everything that Came After That by Nick Lantz. My favourite poem ended up being the first poem "Ruin". It takes huge strides between continents, stanzas, ideas. "Everyone// has a burning building inside them. (Maybe / just a dollhouse /smoking from its dormers."
August 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The End of Everything and Everything that Came After That by Nick Lantz. My favourite poem ended up being the first poem "Ruin". It takes huge strides between continents, stanzas, ideas. "Everyone// has a burning building inside them. (Maybe / just a dollhouse /smoking from its dormers."
Gephyromania by TC Tolbert was a great way to kick off the challenge. Muscular, fun and passionate. Plays with grammar and preconceptions: "Because letting you go/is a trip to the mailbox. And to think of you/ near is to prepare a picnic by slitting the paper bag..."
August 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Gephyromania by TC Tolbert was a great way to kick off the challenge. Muscular, fun and passionate. Plays with grammar and preconceptions: "Because letting you go/is a trip to the mailbox. And to think of you/ near is to prepare a picnic by slitting the paper bag..."
A friend recommended this:
It's an encouragement to read poetry in book format. I've ordered a few books off their list, or at least the ones I could find on this side of the pond anyway, and the rest of August is looking good!
www.thesealeychallenge.com
It's an encouragement to read poetry in book format. I've ordered a few books off their list, or at least the ones I could find on this side of the pond anyway, and the rest of August is looking good!
www.thesealeychallenge.com
the sealey challenge
www.thesealeychallenge.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
A friend recommended this:
It's an encouragement to read poetry in book format. I've ordered a few books off their list, or at least the ones I could find on this side of the pond anyway, and the rest of August is looking good!
www.thesealeychallenge.com
It's an encouragement to read poetry in book format. I've ordered a few books off their list, or at least the ones I could find on this side of the pond anyway, and the rest of August is looking good!
www.thesealeychallenge.com