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Gayle J. Greenlea
@gjgreenlea.bsky.social
American-Australian poet, novelist, muso, counselor for survivors of sexual & gender violence. Black Bough Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, Ice Floe Press, SAR, Kalonopia, Headline Poetry & Press, Rebelle, Wombwell Rainbow. #BLM #LGBTQIA #Climate #Disability
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The submission window is now open to 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲, and 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬.

Guidelines are on the site.

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November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Epstein’s victims are now adults who have courageously stood up for themselves & others…Some seek answers. All seek justice. Many are bewildered about why no one came to their aid. They’ve spent decades speaking truth to a public more occupied w/ celebrity & wealth than the protection of children.
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Trump is now hinting he may commute Ghislaine Maxwell’s trafficking conviction.

Meanwhile, Virginia Giuffre’s new 60 Minutes Australia interview is one of the most important things you can watch right now.
Trump is now hinting he may commute Ghislaine Maxwell’s trafficking conviction, while she continues to receive unusually privileged treatment in a so-called low-security facility. Meanwhile, Virginia ...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Trump Tries to Cover Up His Epstein Scandal With Wildly Corrupt Bullying

A Trump adviser tells Zeteo the Epstein scandal “really fucking pisses him off.” It’s only getting worse for the president, writes @swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social.

Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
Trump Tries to Cover Up His Epstein Scandal With Wildly Corrupt Bullying
A Trump adviser tells Zeteo the Epstein scandal “really fucking pisses him off.” It’s only getting worse for the president.
zeteo.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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"Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found"

Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found
You can search and review the emails here. Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.
zeteo.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Megyn Kelly’s assertion that the sexual abuse of 15-year-old girls is somehow more acceptable than the abuse of eight-year-old girls is perverse and patently false. Sexual abuse is NEVER okay. It is the worst betrayal of trust imaginable; a crime of misogyny and unmitigated abuse of power.
Megyn Kelly is Wrong
November 15, 2025
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November 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Note from my notebook (2017).
September 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Enid, the surprising and eccentric owner of the brilliant Sound Records in Stroud, UK, has an encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz, soul, funk, ocean fish and wool.
October 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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End of month, but just the start. Thanks to everyone who's made this launch matter.
@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness
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September 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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This Friday’s theme: #Mannequin. Frozen glamour. Object over voice. Write about being posed, silenced, moulded. Ideas: window displays, shop floor ghosts, plastic skin. Use Alt Text. Always tag #PoemsAbout so we can find and share your work.
September 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry
Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026
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October 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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One of the most quietly powerful presses out there, @epistemiclit.bsky.social, has been spotlighted for #IndieLitMagGala 2025.

Big thanks to Jennifer (@einetogi.bsky.social) for the heartfelt nomination—this one hit us deep.

Read the full feature here:
thebrokenspine.co.uk...

#SmallPressLove
#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: Epistemic Literary - The Broken Spine
This isn’t a competition. It’s a celebration.
thebrokenspine.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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You don’t need a headshot.
You don’t need a filter.
You just need a voice.
#NotJustPretty
🗓 Oct 4 | 8pm GMT
🎟 Free to attend. Donations welcomed.
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@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
#WednesdayWIPs
#NotJustPretty: A Manifesto for Women Who Refuse to Be Flattened - The Broken Spine
Their Breasts Aren’t Perky Enough
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October 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#NeverAgain is quite a recent expression, one that would have made any monarch or ploughboy laugh out loud in perhaps more honest times.
For #PoemsAbout
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Showing my age for #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain

Huge thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for this wonderful prompt every week that keep us pushing words around.
(Alt Text on the image) #poetlife #poetrycommunity #PoemAltText #poetsofbluesky #poetrymatters #poetryforall
September 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Happy Friday all. Here's a wee stream.of consciousness prose poem thingy for today's #poemsabout #neveragain for @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk it's meant to be breathless and fast. The lack of punctuation isn't a mistake. I'll check in later and read the others! Sorry it's so small
September 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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#PoemsAbout #NeverAgain
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
I will post either a reel or a link in the comments, in which I will say I don’t want to disparage or discount anyone’s service but I don’t like being in a society in which only those who wear uniforms and carry guns can be heroic.
September 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Hullo @alanparrywriter.co.uk and to #poemsabout #neveragain

Found this tricky, so it’s not quite fully on topic. Apologies.
September 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Hello, Poets. It’s good to join you on an important theme: #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain. Many thanks to @hool415.bsky.social for the invitation, and to @alanparry83.bsky.social and @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for hosting.
September 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Tomorrow is #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain
Dig deep. Write with precision.
This one demands more than feeling—it needs truth.
Tag your post + tag:
@alanparry83.bsky.social
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Then Read. Repost. Reply.
Prompts arrive Saturday: shorturl.at/oEXAM
September 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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"Voices... sometimes."
Still echoing down the canals of Birmingham.
@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness
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September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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By predicting the Nazi playbook used by MAGA-Russia to mythologize Kirk, it minimizes the utility of turning him into a martyr.

Knowing history can deflate the potency of their moves and allow pro-democracy factions to regain control of the narrative, ie truth.
September 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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I have really come around to the idea that art - all kinds - including street action, writing, music, satire, painting, music is more important now than it has been in awhile, but we have, sadly, allowed too much withering and it’s taking a long time to find its feet.
September 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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"We’re witnessing, in real-time, a profound consolidation of power & collusion among political & tech elites... wherein the tools and technologies that this industry has built... can now be deployed in service of an authoritarian regime" — @katie-drummond.bsky.social www.status.news/p/wired-kati...
WIRED for the Moment
In a conversation with Status, WIRED’s Katie Drummond argues that Silicon Valley is no longer just innovating new technology—it’s actively shaping American democracy.
www.status.news
August 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM