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J L Hall (she/her/they)
@jlhallwriter.bsky.social
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Writer, fashion academic. Features, fiction, non-fiction, poetry. Words at: BBC, The Author, The Bookseller, The Mechanics Institute Review, Prototype, 24 Stories, etc.
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mayacpopa.bsky.social
Chen Chen is an exceptional poet. This Saturday, he will be teaching a class on identifying and wielding the sources that most inspire and guide us as writers. Join us!!!

www.mayacpopa.com/onlineclasse...
February 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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samrasnake.bsky.social
“I need to write from one end of the page to the other, a wide spread like the ocean between Miami and Africa. I wonder if I am a good person. Sometimes the tree outside my window is alive and busy with poems. Sometimes it simply stands in awe of the light that pours down...”
Maureen Seaton
#poetry
“I need to write from one end of the page to the other, a wide spread like the ocean between Miami and Africa. I wonder if I am a good person. Sometimes the tree outside my window is alive and busy with poems. Sometimes it simply stands in awe of the light that pours down...” Maureen Seaton #poetry
February 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
Can’t believe someone’s taken my IP and turned it into a business
Cartoon: man in bath eating a sausage. Caption: My German translations are going from bath to sausage. Photo of food kiosk called ‘The Bath Sausage’.
December 25, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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bookwormvaught.bsky.social
So here’s a post I wrote a couple of years back; it was popular and I stand by it. *WARNING* that it contains some friendly but colourful
swearing because that’s how I roll. annavaughtwrites.com/2023/12/12/t... It’s all about ridiculous expectations and kicking them out the door. Big love ❤️ #JoinIn
THINGS I AM BANNING THIS CHRISTMAS
Here are some things I have banned this Christmas, just for you, my exhausted darlings
annavaughtwrites.com
December 25, 2024 at 1:17 PM
jlhallwriter.bsky.social
All I wanted for Christmas was an episode of domestic abuse, female terror porn, and femicide! Thanks, BBC and Mark Gatiss! Perfect end to 2024! #womanofstone #endvaw
December 25, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
I’ve taken a vowel of slence.
November 22, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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harrogatefestivals.bsky.social
Hello from Harrogate International Festivals! Obligatory first post on Bluesky – please RT to let people know that we are here. Looking forward to finding friends and building networks!
Picture of the team at 2024 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival - Photo Credit to Richard Maude
November 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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damianbarr.bsky.social
Had a handful of homophobic/transphobic messages here today because I’ve created a Starter Pack supporting LGBTQIA+ writers.

Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be.

go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W
November 14, 2024 at 10:41 AM
jlhallwriter.bsky.social
Can't decide if I love Hoolihan or Angelica more. Possibly Hoolihan and her Rupert the Bear trousers #badsisters
November 16, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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k8lister.bsky.social
Is there anyway to just skip menopause and go straight to wearing a straw boater hat while solving murder mysteries around quaint English villages?
January 9, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
The concept of AI has long been accompanied by the idea that humanity is not enough, and needs to be perfected. Perhaps it's time for us all to reject the concept of perfection, to celebrate our shared and flawed humanity, and instead of building facsimiles, just try to be the best humans we can be.
December 17, 2023 at 11:38 AM
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November 4, 2023 at 8:06 PM
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louisekenward.bsky.social
"This is the book I wanted to read. To find solace and community and rage and compassion. I wanted to see representation of vulnerability and the complexity of grief and loss and alternative ways of connecting with the world around me when I had lost touch with the human world.."
..continue reading:
November 4, 2023 at 6:06 PM
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typejunky.bsky.social
Hello darkness my old friend, why you here at 4pm.
November 4, 2023 at 6:17 PM
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pollyrowena.bsky.social
So looking forward to this! in just under a month -
louisekenward.bsky.social Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · Oct 31
Looking forward to discussing writing, bodies & nature with
@pollyrowena.bsky.social for a double bill of MOVING MOUNTAINS and SOME OF US JUST FALL with
HMSA!

Free to members & nominal fee to guests (membership is great value if you are a bendy #zebra)

Book here
hypermobility.org/event-detail...
book cover of Moving Mountains. An indigo background to text and images in multi colours of greens, orange, yellow and red. Objects on the cover include a feather, pebble, reships, snow flakes, leaves and rain drops. book cover of Polly Atkin's Some Of Us Just Fall - text in black over multi coloured pinks, blues and yellows of an abstract figure surrounded by greens.
October 31, 2023 at 8:32 PM
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kymdeyn.bsky.social
Decided to start sharing some of my favourite poems on here. So, here's GirlGod by Melissa Bernal Austin, published in Longleaf Review.

Full poem here: longleafreview.com/girlgod-by-m...

"My favourite iteration og God is 12-year-old GirlGod—"
My favorite iteration of God is 12-year-old GirlGod — God of watermelon bubblegum and Dr. Pepper LipSmackers. Of hologram stickers and locked diaries. GirlGod of 1994. A God who never says anything mean about your bedroom when She comes over to spend the night. She can keep the secret about your brother’s sadness and you can cry and cry and She won’t be bored or make you feel like you have to say you’re sorry for it. She smiles while running Her chipped, glitter polish fingers over the smooth spines of your books. Stands politely near the bed, uncertain about sitting until you say, You can sit there if you want, and 12-year-old GirlGod sits, relieved. She does my eyeliner like Hers, a little too thick, with a black pencil pocketed from the Walgreens on the corner. She leans in so close, I smell Her
October 15, 2023 at 2:55 PM
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barbarabyar.bsky.social
Am beyond honoured to have my story PEACE PROCESS shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year 2023. This is the most prestigious literary awards in Ireland and I am so so thrilled.
The winner is decided by public vote so once voting opens, I hope I'll have your support!
October 19, 2023 at 5:35 PM
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kymdeyn.bsky.social
⭐⭐ GIVEAWAY ⭐⭐

Hi folks, I'm giving away a copy of my two poetry pamphlets, Primers and Dionysia. They're mostly about myth, magic and grief, Alexander the Great and the Green Children of Woolpit.

To enter:
+ Follow me
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I'll choose the winner at random next Friday! (I'll ship worldwide).
A photograph of two books on a brown background. One is bright pink and called Primers Vol. 6 by Kym Deyn, Estelle Price and Fathima Zahra, the other is Dionysia by Kym Deyn and has a white background with a neon and navy Greek Vase on the cover If we tell her the truth she’ll split us clean in two if she catches us with our lying faces on—best not to think of it. Instead let's tell her a story: he lives reigns conquers fucks whatever paints his eyebrows on in the morning, drinks coffee with the Sultan, lies drunk in the gutter. A man like that dead? Not likely, sister! He stepped out for a cigarette. He’d write, but the ink runs in seawater like blood. He’s busy, Alexandria via Teesside via The Kingdom of Heaven, lunch with a giant spider and the Queen of the Amazons. Besides, stamps are expensive. He has to miss you, irreplaceable sister. Another child can be made, another wife or lover procured. He’ll never have another Thessalonike. Not with your shark’s smile, your faint whiff of kippers. Of course, no brother of yours could ever grow back. Was it you? Who told him how to do it? Myth-sister, seamaid, When did Alexander learn the trick? When was death undone?
October 13, 2023 at 9:44 AM
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staytruecreate.bsky.social
RIP Louise Gluck. Her work explored deep themes of trauma and grief. Her archive is available to read on The Paris Review.

www.theparisreview.org/authors/2618...
Louise Glück
Stories, poems, essays, and interviews from The Paris Review by Louise Glück
www.theparisreview.org
October 13, 2023 at 9:43 PM
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nickycurly.bsky.social
Louise Gluck has passed. 💔 Her poetry meant so much, to me, to everyone. It helped keep me sober in those dark early days. What a loss.
October 13, 2023 at 9:47 PM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
The most accurate mug you could ever own but you could never wash it.
A coffee cup that says THE FUTURE IS but a sticker has cut off the rest, reading "reduced for quick sale $2"
October 7, 2023 at 10:11 PM
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kitdewaal.com
Words To Live By Number 6
(Ooof)
October 5, 2023 at 8:07 PM