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Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Proud book mama stylee! 😁🥹 Three sleeps to launch! Come and meet our amazing contributors on Saturday, and hear poems, real-life and invented stories, a script and a game.

🎫 www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...

A photo of Jeda holding 4 copies of the book, North Bridge: Where We Travelled. She is smiling and wearing a patterned jumper and headband. Her hair is tied up. The book has an illustration of the bridge on it.

October 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

👋🏽 I'm your host for the evening. My poem 'Bridge Parts' is three verses o Scots, and 'The Overlap' beats it's percussion across four pages, so there may only be time to read one.

I'm so proud of each contributor - their works have built a very cool, unique book! Join us! bit.ly/NBWWT25

🧵END

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Jeda, who wears a cotton top, and is standing in front of a sea-green wall. She's smiling and her curly hair cascades over her shoulders. Jeda Pearl is a Scottish Jamaican writer and arts programmer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work was shortlisted by RSL Jerwood Poetry Award 2024 & Sky Arts RSL Award 2022, and longlisted by BSFA 2024 & Women Poets’ Prize 2022. Her poems and stories appear in art installations and several anthologies, and her debut poetry collection, Time Cleaves Itself, is published by Peepal Tree Press. @JedaPearl Website: jedapearl.com

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Writer and bookseller, Zain Rishi's poem 'Crossings' takes your hand and leaps from breathtaking image to image.

Keep an eye out for his debut pamphlet, Noon, forthcoming with The Emma Press in February 2026. In the meantime, find him on www.instagram.com/zain.rishi/

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Zain, who is wearing glasses, one earring and a t-shirt. He has short, thick hair and a stubbly-beard. He's in front of an orange wall, smiling. Zain Rishi is a writer and bookseller from Birmingham. He won the 27th annual Ware Poets Prize and placed third in the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize. His debut pamphlet, Noon, is forthcoming with The Emma Press in February 2026. Instagram: @zain.rishi

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Sonny's stirring memoir 'Homeless on the Bridges' will move you in various ways... possibly to question your own biases, and ultimately towards respect.

You can book a walking tour with Sonny on invisible-cities.org

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Sonny, who is wearing a lightweight jacket. He has short-cropped hair and stubble. He is looking to the side, standing on the North Bridge, with a foggy Edinburgh Old Town in the background. Sonny is a proud team member at Invisible Cities. He enjoys giving walking tours of his city, Edinburgh, that show sides of the capital that will amaze you! Sonny writes about his life experiences, including homelessness, and is working on his memoir. Website: invisible-cities.org Photo: Alicia Bruce

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Sandy Bennett-Haber nearish-future intriguing 'Three' comprises: a newspaper article of how bus drivers won the heart of the city, a heritage resort Ambassador study guide, and an Ambassador's diary entry...

Find Sandy on here @sandybennett-haber.bsky.social or sandybennetthaber.com

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre.
Photo of Sandy, who is wearing a beret over shoulder-length hair, a winter coat and check-patterned scarf. She has a slight smile and is standing in front of a cathedral.
Sandy Bennett-Haber is an Edinburgh based Australian writer, mother and wild swimmer. She is currently writing a speculative fiction novel. Sandy is a founder member of the Women Writers Network and has previously been selected for the Creative Scotland Our Voices program and longlisted for the Primadonna Prize.

BlueSky: @sandybennett-haber.bsky.social Instagram: @sandybennetthaber

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Rachel Gorry's contemporary short story, 'The In-Between' follows the existential thoughts of a person meandering their way across North Bridge in the early hours.

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Rachel, who wears a winter faux-fur-collared coat, with a floral broach. She has a slight smile, and her long wavy hair falls over her shoulders. There are evening city lights in the background. Rachel Gorry is a keen writer of short stories. Currently living in Glasgow, she is developing her debut novel. As well as writing, Rachel is a lover of anime, video-gaming and music-making. Photo: Andy Catlin

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Nazaret Ranea's poem 'Under Construction' moves across three verses, across trembling, being held, making home.

Buy @nazaretranea.bsky.social debut collection Nettles: www.drunkmusepress.com/shop/p/nettl...
Zines & more on her website: nazaretranea.com

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Nazaret, who wears a long-sleeved jumper over a shirt, and a large ring. She has a hand under her chin and head titled to the side. Her long straight hair flows over one shoulder and she's smiling. Nazaret Ranea is a poet from Málaga, Spain, based in Edinburgh. Named one of Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makars, her debut collection Nettles (Drunk Muse Press, 2025) explores themes of migration, nature, and work. She has performed on BBC Radio Scotland and at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, and StAnza, where she was 2025 Poet in Residence. IG: @nazareterreese Website: nazaretranea.com

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Librarian, poet, and writer Lesa Ng, created 'Nothing Voids', a speculative-horror poetic-prose piece that beautifully and creepily bridges from poetry into the prose section of the book...

Connect with Lesa on www.instagram.com/mrmacwolfy/ or here @lesalionheart.bsky.social

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Lesa, who wears a sparkly jumper and is standing in front of a textured wall with a slight smile. Her long, pink, wavy hair is in a side-parting and cascades over her shoulders. Lesa Ng is an Edinburgh based Glaswegian, librarian, poet, and writer. Her work is published in the Responders of Colour Annual (2022) and Covert Literary Magazine (2024). She appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2022 and 2023 and at Book Fringe: the ALT Edition in 2024. Instagram: @mrmacwolfy

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Leilani Taneus-Miller's lyrical script 'Bridge Wedding' is set in 1824, where Mabel encounters visions and hauntings, intermingled with her griefs, amongst New Town conversation snippets of the unnamed Master and Mistress.

Connect with Leilani: www.instagram.com/leilani_tane...

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Leilani, who wears a headwrap, floaty cotton top and beads. She's looking into the distance, standing in front of coastal rock formations. Loose curls of her afro hair float in the breeze. Leilani Taneus-Miller is a Haitian-American writer based in Edinburgh. An Alexander Dixon Scholar at University of Glasgow’s creative writing programme, her work has appeared in public campaigns, bookshops and anthologies. She is drawn to research and programming on: the art of migration communities, regeneration of Afro-Caribbean archives, and narrative voice in diasporic literature and theatre. Instagram: @leilani_taneusmiller Photo: Rod Penn

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

The narrator of Elspeth Wilson's temporal poem, 'I could be walking' traverses North Bridge across different ages and life experiences.

Discover @elspethwrites.bsky.social books, including These Mortal Bodies which you can pre-order: www.elspethwilson.co.uk

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Elspeth, who wears a square-neck summer top. She is standing in dappled sunlight, with greenery in the background, and is partly-turned to the side, looking back to the camera and smiling. Elspeth Wilson is a writer interested in exploring the limitations and possibilities of the body. Her pamphlet, Too Hot to Sleep, is published by Written Off Publishing. Her debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, is forthcoming with Simon and Schuster in 2025. She can often be found in the sea. Instagram: @elspethwrites Website: elspethwilson.co.uk

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Poet and writer Catherine Wilson Garry opens our anthology with a perceptive poem that captures & conveys so much, called 'A bird's eye view from North Bridge' 🐦

Find Catherine on cwilsongarry.co.uk

Buy her pamphlet (then get it signed at our launch): stewedrhubarb.org/product/anot...

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of Catherine, who is wearing glasses, and a shirt over a polo neck, and large hoop earrings. She has chin-length hair with a fringe, and is smiling towards a window where light comes in. Catherine Wilson Garry is a poet and writer. Her debut poetry pamphlet Another Word for Home is Blackbird was published by Stewed Rhubarb Press. She has been highly commended by the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2024 and the Bridport Poetry Prize. Instagram: @CWilsonPoet Website: CWilsonGarry.co.uk

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Creative technologist, game designer, producer and writer, ABS @abs.ventures created a genre-psychogeographical game (that we printed full colour), titled 'Fir Fae-Eyes Only'!! 🧚🏽🧌🦦 Get a wee taste & maybe a hint* or two at the launch!

Find ABS on www.abs.ventures and www.morefunwith.games

Event graphic with event text and author bio. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre. Photo of ABS, who is wearing an open-collar shirt with pockets over a t-shirt. He has a full beard and is smiling. There's greenery in the background. ABS is a creative technologist, game designer, producer and writer. He is an interdisciplinary collaborator in live events, immersive experiences, game development and genre fiction/psychogeography/TTRPGs. He enjoys engaging with people/places and history/culture – accessibly and sustainably. He is Board Secretary of Cymera festival, and the founder of the Edinburgh based morefunwith.games. More on abs.ventures. BlueSky: abs.ventures Instagram: @_a_b_5_

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

25 October, 5.30pm, Charteris Centre
North Bridge: Where We Travelled Book Launch
We'll have poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game from local authors! Plus 🍵🍰🍪
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...
Meet our amazing readers... 🧵

Event graphic with event text and author photo thumbnails. North Bridge: Where We Travelled book Launch. 25 Oct 2025, 5.30pm - 7pm, Charteris Centre. Poetry / fiction / SFF / memoir / script / game

October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Join us on 25 October, 5.30pm, at the Charteris Centre to celebrate the launch of the anthology North Bridge: Where We Travelled!
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap...

Poetry, fiction, SFF, memoir, script & a game!

Graphic with diagonal rays of colour, the book North Bridge: Where We Travelled.
Text: Book Launch!
poetry / fiction / SFF / memoir / script / game
25 October
5.30pm - 7pm
Charteris Centre
St Ninian's Hall
138-140 Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR
Tickets: bit.ly/NBWWT25

October 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Chatting wi Lisa Williams & Shani Akilah tomorrow...

Celebrating Andrea Levy (Small Island, The Long Song)
Fri 15 August, 12:00 – 13:00
Venue B @edbookfest
Access: Captioned, wheelchair accessible, quiet room
Tickets: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Text: Celebrating Andrea Levy, 15 August, 12:00, EdBookFest
Portrait photos of three women of Caribbean heritage, all smiling.
Underneath are their books:
For Such A Time As This by Shani Akilah
Time Cleaves Itself by Jeda Pearl
The Big Book of UK History by Lisa Willams

August 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Edinburgh peeps - if you're heading to the Edinburgh College of Art degree show, look out for my daughter's horror-comedy film, Eye Contact, in the animation exhibition! On now until 6th June. 👀👀👀

A poster with an illustration of two large eyes peering out from a scribble-dark background over a spotlight. In the spotlight is a person on their knees, leaning backwards and away from the big eyes, shielding their face and body with their hands. Text says: Eye Contact. A short film by Carmen Thomson. Music and sound by Manuele Manieri.

May 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Yes you DO want an anthology of SFF, memoir, historical & contemporary fiction, poetry, script & a game all inspired by the North Bridge in Edinburgh!
Pre-orders close Monday 2nd of June for this very limited edition print-run. 📚🌉 jedapearl.com/north-bridge...

Brown hand holding a book above flowery blanket. The book has an illustration of a stone and iron bridge, title: North Bridge: Where We Travelled, edited by Jeda Pearl

May 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

💖Pre-order by 2nd June for our limited first print run in colour! £10 payhip.com/b/BxUCD

Innovative multi-genre anthology of speculative, historical & contemporary fiction, poetry in Scots & English, memoir, a script and a game from 22 local Edinburgh writers, inspired by the iconic North Bridge.

ID: Image of paperback book, North Bridge: Where We Travelled, edited by Jeda Pearl. The cover has an illustration of one of the stone piers and archways of the bridge. Text: Pre-order limited first run by 2nd June! 22 Edinburgh Writers. Fiction, memoir, poetry, a script & a game inspired by North Bridge - past, present, future and alternate realities. PayHip.com/JedaPearl

May 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Cover reveal! Coming soon - a multi-genre anthology inspired by Edinburgh's North Bridge from 22 local writers! We have historical, sci-fi, fantasy, contemporary, and memoir... with experimental forms, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, a script and a game! jedapearl.com/north-bridge...

Image of a paperback book and an e-reader with the cover of the book North Bridge: Where We Travelled, Edited by Jeda Pearl. The cover has an illustration of one of the stone piers and archways of the North Bridge in Edinburgh.

March 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Please share! Join us Monday 17 March, 6:30pm to meet @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social team and for our first Town Hall!

Access includes BSL interpretation, captions & transcript, recording, comfort breaks, data and childcare/carer bursaries.

Book free tickets: buytickets.at/scottishbpoc...

March 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

FFS. 🎤
Here come tech bro thiefs who believe their own hype
Attempting to saturate the market with expensive sh*te
Only costs you $5k - no vanity in sight
They'll destroy our planet while you sleep tight

Keep "bestseller" sales figures on the down low
On the down low
Hush
On the down low

Screenshot of Bookseller article. Photo of 4 white or white-passing men, the founders of AI vanity publisher Spines, wearing black t-shirts and grinning. Title reads "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025".

Screenshot if comments:
TR Guest:
"If authors are paying for this, then it's vanity publishing. Also, the picture with the story looks exactly like the output of an AI prompt: 'Show me four tech bros who know nothing about books and writing but want to make money'."

Rebecca McFarland
"At some point, what the creative industries need is the equivalent of a 'Fair Trade/Organic' quality control mark which denotes that the work has been produced by a human at every level, not AI"

November 26, 2024 at 12:09 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

This time next week! Friday 22 Nov at Push the Boat Out

Resting as Artists
11:15 am
Dance Base, Studio 3
Free, ticketed

Disrupting the Narrative
8:30 pm
Scottish Storytelling Centre
£15 /£12 /or £5 with festival pass
BSL interpreted
Free live-stream, captions

jedapearl.com/push-the-boa...

Text with event details as in caption.
Top right photos of five people of colour clockwise: Hannah with hair tied back and wearing glasses, smiling and looking into distance, wooden fence blurry in background, Alycia with hair flowing in the wind, standing in front of a bush with lots of star flowers, Shasta with hair in sleek side-parting, smiling, Niall wearing pink baseball cap and top, with mirror, lamp and paintings in background; Jeda with long curly hair, smiling, in front of teal wall.
Middle left photos of three people, clockwise: Jeda again same photo but can see top of patterned dress, Alan with arms crossed, wears grey jacket, standing in front of wall with shadows of plants; Elspeth with long straight brown hair, wears pink shirt, is smiling, thick greenery in background.
Bottom of image has Push The Boat Out branding with swirly lines and circular shapes.

November 15, 2024 at 2:51 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Please share! Under-represented Edinburgh writers, a few spaces left in my FREE workshops at The Crannie and Southside Community Centre!
Join us here: forms.gle/pUDTn2cDutGX...

I've also uploaded a slightly mortifying video with all the project info on my website🫣😅 jedapearl.com/bridging-time/

Square image. Header image of North Bridge with title, Bridging Time. Text reads: FREE creative writing workshops inspired by the North Bridge.
All contributors paid £80 for their published work in a book.
Afternoon sessions
3:15pm - 4:45pm Wed 27th Nov, Wed 4th Dec, Wed 11th Dec
@ The Crannie
9 Cranston Street, EH8 8BE

Evening sessions
6pm - 7:30pm
Wed 27th Nov, Wed 11th Dec, Mon 16th Dec
@ Southside Community Centre
117 Nicolson Street, EH8 9ER

Limited bursaries remaining!
Child/care £30 per workshop
Travel in the Lothians

Booking essential: jedapearl.com/bridging-time

November 11, 2024 at 2:18 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Please share! Welcome to Bridging Time, a local Edinburgh project: 3 x free writing workshops 27 Nov - 16 Dec (two groups) + book contributors paid £80. Access includes wheelchair accessible venues, bursaries, safer spaces... Register by 8 Nov - full info: jedapearl.com/bridging-time

Poster Header image of North Bridge with title, Bridging Time. Text reads:
FREE creative writing workshops for people who live or work near the North Bridge. All contributors paid for their published work in a book.

North Bridge Team & Balfour Beatty Workers
3:15pm - 4:45pm
Wed 27th Nov, Wed 4th Dec, Wed 11th Dec
@ The Crannie
9 Cranston Street, EH8 8BE

Local Residents & Workers
6pm - 7:30pm
Wed 27th Nov, Wed 11th Dec, Mon 16th Dec
@ Southside Community Centre
117 Nicolson Street, EH8 9ER

Priority for working class people, people who have experience of poverty or homelessness, Black people, people of colour, disabled people, members of the LGBTQ+ community, or otherwise marginalised by society.

Booking essential: jedapearl.com/bridging-time

November 1, 2024 at 4:24 PM

Jeda Pearl

@jedapearl.bsky.social

Monday April 29th is the deadline for registering for the Society of Authors EGM. More info via Fossil Free Books on Instagram and Twitter.

April 26, 2024 at 7:06 PM

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