Maria Cohut
@encyclopaediac.bsky.social
Writer exploring bluer pastures. Blogs at encyclopaediavanitatum.org . Writing Instagram https://instagram.com/mariac_phd . Spatter Pattern, my poetry pamphlet against gender violence, is out from back room poetry https://backroompoetry.co.uk/spatter-patte
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Maria Cohut
@encyclopaediac.bsky.social
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Writer of Words. Haver of Opinions. "Spatter Pattern" poetry pamphlet out now.
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Since I've left the X blue bird for all intents and purposes, I'd like to try and (re)create a lovely little community over here. Time to reintroduce myself: I'm a writer and independent researcher based in Brighton. Love typewriters, invertebrates, old cemeteries. Linktree: linktr.ee/mariacohut
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📢BBC reports 41% of Ukrainians in Britain lost job opportunities, while 26% faced tenancy issues due to visa uncertainty.
💬 “I can’t sleep at night… I don’t know where we will go.” – Mila, a mother denied a tenancy.
At Settled, we help Ukrainians secure their rights.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4kdscks3
💬 “I can’t sleep at night… I don’t know where we will go.” – Mila, a mother denied a tenancy.
At Settled, we help Ukrainians secure their rights.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4kdscks3
March 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📢BBC reports 41% of Ukrainians in Britain lost job opportunities, while 26% faced tenancy issues due to visa uncertainty.
💬 “I can’t sleep at night… I don’t know where we will go.” – Mila, a mother denied a tenancy.
At Settled, we help Ukrainians secure their rights.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4kdscks3
💬 “I can’t sleep at night… I don’t know where we will go.” – Mila, a mother denied a tenancy.
At Settled, we help Ukrainians secure their rights.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4kdscks3
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We're aware that some of our members have found that their work has been used without consent in LibGen, a pirated books database Meta has used to train AI
We've put together advice for those affected + you can also find out about our campaigning work 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/libgen-datab...
We've put together advice for those affected + you can also find out about our campaigning work 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/libgen-datab...
LibGen database – advice for authors - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain
We have become aware that some of our members have found that their work has been used without their consent in LibGen, a pirated books database that Meta has used to …
writersguild.org.uk
March 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We're aware that some of our members have found that their work has been used without consent in LibGen, a pirated books database Meta has used to train AI
We've put together advice for those affected + you can also find out about our campaigning work 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/libgen-datab...
We've put together advice for those affected + you can also find out about our campaigning work 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/libgen-datab...
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This a reminder that we have a call for papers for this year's Romancing the Gothic conference and we're interested in people working on
Short, Weird, Ghostly and Fantastic fiction
to mark an MR James anniversary!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/...
Short, Weird, Ghostly and Fantastic fiction
to mark an MR James anniversary!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
March 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This a reminder that we have a call for papers for this year's Romancing the Gothic conference and we're interested in people working on
Short, Weird, Ghostly and Fantastic fiction
to mark an MR James anniversary!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/...
Short, Weird, Ghostly and Fantastic fiction
to mark an MR James anniversary!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/...
Thank you, @othersidelitmag ❤️ I won't lie, it was really hard to try and summarise my relationship with writing in just a few words, but I did my best.
Why do *you* write? #writingbeyondborders #writer #migrantwriters
Why do *you* write? #writingbeyondborders #writer #migrantwriters
Why We Write—To find strength in fragility & embrace vulnerability.
For Maria Cohut (@encyclopaediac.bsky.social), writing is an act of resilience & hope. Her piece One Last Journey is in the other side of hope (Vol. 4.1).
Why do you write? Submit your story ⬇️
othersideofhope.com/submissions-en…
For Maria Cohut (@encyclopaediac.bsky.social), writing is an act of resilience & hope. Her piece One Last Journey is in the other side of hope (Vol. 4.1).
Why do you write? Submit your story ⬇️
othersideofhope.com/submissions-en…
March 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thank you, @othersidelitmag ❤️ I won't lie, it was really hard to try and summarise my relationship with writing in just a few words, but I did my best.
Why do *you* write? #writingbeyondborders #writer #migrantwriters
Why do *you* write? #writingbeyondborders #writer #migrantwriters
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🪡 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀. We would be delighted to publish reviews of these books in @asiancha.bsky.social this year. If any of these titles intrigue you and you would like to explore them further, please email t@asiancha.com to discuss. We look forward to hearing from you!
March 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🪡 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀. We would be delighted to publish reviews of these books in @asiancha.bsky.social this year. If any of these titles intrigue you and you would like to explore them further, please email t@asiancha.com to discuss. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Why We Write—To process, reflect & make sense of the world.
For Temitayo Olofinlua, writing was a way to express emotions. Now, her piece Cat-a-stro-phe! is in the other side of hope (Vol. 4.1).
Why do you write? Submit your story ⬇️
othersideofhope.com/submissions-...
#WhyWeWrite #RefugeeVoices
For Temitayo Olofinlua, writing was a way to express emotions. Now, her piece Cat-a-stro-phe! is in the other side of hope (Vol. 4.1).
Why do you write? Submit your story ⬇️
othersideofhope.com/submissions-...
#WhyWeWrite #RefugeeVoices
March 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Why We Write—To process, reflect & make sense of the world.
For Temitayo Olofinlua, writing was a way to express emotions. Now, her piece Cat-a-stro-phe! is in the other side of hope (Vol. 4.1).
Why do you write? Submit your story ⬇️
othersideofhope.com/submissions-...
#WhyWeWrite #RefugeeVoices
For Temitayo Olofinlua, writing was a way to express emotions. Now, her piece Cat-a-stro-phe! is in the other side of hope (Vol. 4.1).
Why do you write? Submit your story ⬇️
othersideofhope.com/submissions-...
#WhyWeWrite #RefugeeVoices
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If you have witnessed/experienced an immigration raid since July 2024, please get in touch via policy@migrantsrights.org.uk, 07534 488696 (Whatsapp/Signal) or buff.ly/0LChXnx (fill in our reporting tool)
Please get in touch by 28 March.
#Raids #ImmigrationRaids #Asylum #Migration
Please get in touch by 28 March.
#Raids #ImmigrationRaids #Asylum #Migration
March 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you have witnessed/experienced an immigration raid since July 2024, please get in touch via policy@migrantsrights.org.uk, 07534 488696 (Whatsapp/Signal) or buff.ly/0LChXnx (fill in our reporting tool)
Please get in touch by 28 March.
#Raids #ImmigrationRaids #Asylum #Migration
Please get in touch by 28 March.
#Raids #ImmigrationRaids #Asylum #Migration
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These days, in many places, many things can’t be said directly. Can we say them in poetry?
@asiancha.bsky.social continues to accept submissions of poems for our ongoing series “Write to Power”.We welcome Asia-focused poems—original or newly translated into English. chajournal.blog/2021/09/28/write
@asiancha.bsky.social continues to accept submissions of poems for our ongoing series “Write to Power”.We welcome Asia-focused poems—original or newly translated into English. chajournal.blog/2021/09/28/write
March 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
These days, in many places, many things can’t be said directly. Can we say them in poetry?
@asiancha.bsky.social continues to accept submissions of poems for our ongoing series “Write to Power”.We welcome Asia-focused poems—original or newly translated into English. chajournal.blog/2021/09/28/write
@asiancha.bsky.social continues to accept submissions of poems for our ongoing series “Write to Power”.We welcome Asia-focused poems—original or newly translated into English. chajournal.blog/2021/09/28/write
Spot on, with the caveat that any attempt to challenge the narrative coming from the person being thus targeted usually results in repercussions. That is why privileged peers should speak out and advocate more but perhaps that's too much to hope for.
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/dive...
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/dive...
The Psychology of Forced Gratitude
Minorities in leadership—women, neurodivergent individuals, Indigenous peoples, immigrants—are often met with an unspoken expectation: You should be grateful just to be here.
www.psychologytoday.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Spot on, with the caveat that any attempt to challenge the narrative coming from the person being thus targeted usually results in repercussions. That is why privileged peers should speak out and advocate more but perhaps that's too much to hope for.
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/dive...
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/dive...
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GIVEAWAY ALERT! Attention all schools and libraries! For World Book Week I have five (yes 5!) signed copies of Rebel Skies to giveaway including bookmarks!
To enter, please like and comment.
Open to all schools and libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Ends midnight 10th March
To enter, please like and comment.
Open to all schools and libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Ends midnight 10th March
March 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
GIVEAWAY ALERT! Attention all schools and libraries! For World Book Week I have five (yes 5!) signed copies of Rebel Skies to giveaway including bookmarks!
To enter, please like and comment.
Open to all schools and libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Ends midnight 10th March
To enter, please like and comment.
Open to all schools and libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Ends midnight 10th March
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Just in case you missed it, here’s the CFP for the terrific CFP on Alice in Wonderland which, if it’s anything like the previous volume on Through the Looking Glass, will be amazing. Do get in touch.
For inquiries email: wonderlandbook2025@gmail.com
For inquiries email: wonderlandbook2025@gmail.com
March 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Just in case you missed it, here’s the CFP for the terrific CFP on Alice in Wonderland which, if it’s anything like the previous volume on Through the Looking Glass, will be amazing. Do get in touch.
For inquiries email: wonderlandbook2025@gmail.com
For inquiries email: wonderlandbook2025@gmail.com
Found this today in the local @amnestyuk.bsky.social bookshop, and I had to get it. How many decades so you think it'll take me to get anywhere close to figuring it out? 🥲
#puzzle #mysterybook #cainsjawbone #experimentalwriting
#puzzle #mysterybook #cainsjawbone #experimentalwriting
March 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Found this today in the local @amnestyuk.bsky.social bookshop, and I had to get it. How many decades so you think it'll take me to get anywhere close to figuring it out? 🥲
#puzzle #mysterybook #cainsjawbone #experimentalwriting
#puzzle #mysterybook #cainsjawbone #experimentalwriting
Resharing an older blog post because this is not the time for mindless gratitude. The world is on fire, it has been for a long time, and that fire is expanding. Be loud and lean into your anger. Do not self-silence, there are too many of those that would silence us anyway.
Attitude of angry-tude
How do you feel today? How do you really feel? To be honest, I’m not feeling that great. In fact, every day I feel myself getting angrier, more heartbroken, more disappointed. How could I not…
encyclopaediavanitatum.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Resharing an older blog post because this is not the time for mindless gratitude. The world is on fire, it has been for a long time, and that fire is expanding. Be loud and lean into your anger. Do not self-silence, there are too many of those that would silence us anyway.
Wow. This poem had me undone. 💔
"She spent hours by the roadside, pulling weeds, waiting
for a car that wouldn’t bring him back. I think she
wanted a new boy to bury, something fresh to grieve."
"She spent hours by the roadside, pulling weeds, waiting
for a car that wouldn’t bring him back. I think she
wanted a new boy to bury, something fresh to grieve."
New #poetry from ziqr peehu: "Every Grave Starts as a Hole".
Every Grave Starts as a Hole | Rust & Moth
Somewhere in Northern MP, on a street where the pavement sweats like skin, my brother is gone. & my mother is drunk again. She kneels by the garden & plants the same dead things over & over. A matchstick,...
buff.ly
February 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Wow. This poem had me undone. 💔
"She spent hours by the roadside, pulling weeds, waiting
for a car that wouldn’t bring him back. I think she
wanted a new boy to bury, something fresh to grieve."
"She spent hours by the roadside, pulling weeds, waiting
for a car that wouldn’t bring him back. I think she
wanted a new boy to bury, something fresh to grieve."
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Today marks the anniversary of the abolition of Roma slavery on territories of present-day Romania. It’s an overlooked aspect of history.
I consider this in my book, The Roma: A Travelling History, which I’m very glad to say will be out in May.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/456889...
I consider this in my book, The Roma: A Travelling History, which I’m very glad to say will be out in May.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/456889...
The Roma
The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history and what it means to be Romani in Europe today. It is a history that is not widel...
www.penguin.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Today marks the anniversary of the abolition of Roma slavery on territories of present-day Romania. It’s an overlooked aspect of history.
I consider this in my book, The Roma: A Travelling History, which I’m very glad to say will be out in May.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/456889...
I consider this in my book, The Roma: A Travelling History, which I’m very glad to say will be out in May.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/456889...
Hey @theguardian.com, if you want to report on #Romania and #Moldova, you may also like to get the presidents right. Getting them mixed up on national media is a sign of, oh, I don't know, huge disrespect? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
February 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Hey @theguardian.com, if you want to report on #Romania and #Moldova, you may also like to get the presidents right. Getting them mixed up on national media is a sign of, oh, I don't know, huge disrespect? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Word.
An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...
An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities
The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged
inews.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Word.
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🚨BREAKING: From today people who entered the UK by irregular routes will "normally be refused" citizenship, regardless of how many years they've built their lives, raised families & called this country home.
A heartless attack on people seeking safety.
rb.gy/gt8hf7
A heartless attack on people seeking safety.
rb.gy/gt8hf7
February 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🚨BREAKING: From today people who entered the UK by irregular routes will "normally be refused" citizenship, regardless of how many years they've built their lives, raised families & called this country home.
A heartless attack on people seeking safety.
rb.gy/gt8hf7
A heartless attack on people seeking safety.
rb.gy/gt8hf7
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All about Hong Kong! We'd love to publish reviews of these titles in @asiancha.bsky.social . If you'd like to read and review any of these titles, please send an email to me (t@asiancha.com) for more discussion. More information about these books: www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...
February 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
All about Hong Kong! We'd love to publish reviews of these titles in @asiancha.bsky.social . If you'd like to read and review any of these titles, please send an email to me (t@asiancha.com) for more discussion. More information about these books: www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...
Absolutely, that is a fantastic anthology!
Esp since it's indie pubs month, can i also suggest this, the first UK anthology of spec fiction by Black writers, published by the amazing @peepaltreepress.bsky.social 🙏✊️
www.peepaltreepress.com/books/glimpse
www.peepaltreepress.com/books/glimpse
February 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Absolutely, that is a fantastic anthology!
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I've just finished reading all the poems & translations submitted by the original deadline (31 January 2025). I'd like to extend the submission window until 15 February. Perhaps those who are meant to see this (small) announcement will,& they will send us their work? www.facebook.com/100064077820...
February 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I've just finished reading all the poems & translations submitted by the original deadline (31 January 2025). I'd like to extend the submission window until 15 February. Perhaps those who are meant to see this (small) announcement will,& they will send us their work? www.facebook.com/100064077820...
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The Creative Future Writers’ Award is the only free to enter national poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction competition for all underrepresented writers.
The optional theme is ‘Wild’.
Fifteen winners (5 winners in each category).
Please share :)
The optional theme is ‘Wild’.
Fifteen winners (5 winners in each category).
Please share :)
Our Annual Writers' Award is open for entries! - Creative Future
We’re excited to announce our 2024 Writers’ Award Competition is officially open for entries!
www.creativefuture.org.uk
February 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Creative Future Writers’ Award is the only free to enter national poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction competition for all underrepresented writers.
The optional theme is ‘Wild’.
Fifteen winners (5 winners in each category).
Please share :)
The optional theme is ‘Wild’.
Fifteen winners (5 winners in each category).
Please share :)
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Hella important work being made here. Make contact below!
as 2SLGBTQIA+ creatives in horror, our voices are being actively stifled by our government and society. this is our opportunity to document the times accordingly with our art.
salon sinister debuts this summer. send your unpublished short stories, poetry, art, or op-eds.
salonsinister.com
salon sinister debuts this summer. send your unpublished short stories, poetry, art, or op-eds.
salonsinister.com
SALON SINISTER
Salon sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2Slgbtqia+ experience through horror.
salonsinister.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hella important work being made here. Make contact below!
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Woooooooo ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻
archive.org/details/2025...
February 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Woooooooo ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky
Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky