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In this episode of The Writing Life podcast, writer, poetry programmer, and NCW Academy mentor Julia Bird shares her insights into developing your creative practice.

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For anyone just joining us, here's a roundup of our values, community and plans✨

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We've got a few starter packs you might find useful.

Here's 150 writers from Europe or in Europe or dreaming of Europe. You can follow them all with one click

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Joni is so very special to me and I thought this would make me sad. But it’s magnificent. That line: “Well, something’s lost but something’s gained in living every day.”

What a thing, to have written a song like this in your 20s and be singing it onstage in your 80s. youtu.be/7QUW-zR4W9s?...

Lesser Celandine (Ficaria Verna), Ariege, France. First sighting of this bright signal of spring.

Finally making the switch from X to Bluesky. I was reluctant to say goodbye to followers: even though I’ve not been that active I was an early twitter adopter and had a certain nostalgia for those days. But it’s become a rotten environment, led as such from the top, and who needs that?