Laura Strickland
@l-strickland.bsky.social
Poet, carer and freelance HR consultant from Yorkshire. Published in The North, Butcher’s Dog, Strix,The Frogmore Papers, Northern Gravy, Propel and others. Longlisted National Poetry Competition 2023 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
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July 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Honoured to judge the National Poetry Competition again. As an ex-winner, I know how life-changing it is to find your work validated by experts; as a former judge, I know it's a real privilege to read work people put the best of themselves into making. Take a punt and good luck.
June 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Honoured to judge the National Poetry Competition again. As an ex-winner, I know how life-changing it is to find your work validated by experts; as a former judge, I know it's a real privilege to read work people put the best of themselves into making. Take a punt and good luck.
It’s Learning Disability Week 2025 and yesterday I read some poems at St James’ Hospital, Leeds. Met lovely nurses who make me hopeful for care offered to people with additional needs. Here’s one of the poems, published in Butcher’s Dog last year xxx
June 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
It’s Learning Disability Week 2025 and yesterday I read some poems at St James’ Hospital, Leeds. Met lovely nurses who make me hopeful for care offered to people with additional needs. Here’s one of the poems, published in Butcher’s Dog last year xxx
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This is the first time I’ve used a power point to talk about my nature-landscape memoir, The Ghost Lake. I’m praying to the gods of technology that all goes well with it.
Come along to Filey lit fest today, the evron centre 1.30 to see me fly or fail! It’s just £5.00 and you can pay on the door.
Come along to Filey lit fest today, the evron centre 1.30 to see me fly or fail! It’s just £5.00 and you can pay on the door.
May 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This is the first time I’ve used a power point to talk about my nature-landscape memoir, The Ghost Lake. I’m praying to the gods of technology that all goes well with it.
Come along to Filey lit fest today, the evron centre 1.30 to see me fly or fail! It’s just £5.00 and you can pay on the door.
Come along to Filey lit fest today, the evron centre 1.30 to see me fly or fail! It’s just £5.00 and you can pay on the door.
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My Etsy shop's now open for small & large limited ed'n fine art signed mounted prints & frameable greetings cards of my botanical collections.
I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them:
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I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
May 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My Etsy shop's now open for small & large limited ed'n fine art signed mounted prints & frameable greetings cards of my botanical collections.
I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Poem published in @atriumpoetry.bsky.social today. Here’s an early draft next to the final published poem. Thanks so much @atriumpoetry.bsky.social @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social what you do for poets is appreciated xxx
May 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Poem published in @atriumpoetry.bsky.social today. Here’s an early draft next to the final published poem. Thanks so much @atriumpoetry.bsky.social @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social what you do for poets is appreciated xxx
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If you can help, please do. #curae is not publicly funded - it’s me and a very small volunteer team. We’re up to £820 on the bursary fund for our three eventual winners. Unpaid care is intersectional with financial hardship & many challenges. Let’s do this.
Today I launch a fundraiser to support the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers who are also writers or would like to be. Anything you can add to the pot will go directly towards bursary funds for our three winners (announced 1st June).
gofund.me/1d8c6564
All in, we can transform lives here x
gofund.me/1d8c6564
All in, we can transform lives here x
Donate to Dr Anna Vaught: Curae Writing Bursaries for unpaid carers, organised by Anna Vaught
Hello everyone,
I am Anna (aka Dr Anna Vaught - and you may kno… Anna Vaught needs your support for Dr Anna Vaught: Curae Writing Bursaries for unpaid carers
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April 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
If you can help, please do. #curae is not publicly funded - it’s me and a very small volunteer team. We’re up to £820 on the bursary fund for our three eventual winners. Unpaid care is intersectional with financial hardship & many challenges. Let’s do this.
Photo of my notebook at Arvon just after @carolinebirduk.bsky.social gave us the prompt. I’m pleased to see the neighbour collecting budgie feathers survived through to the final poem! @atriumpoetry.bsky.social @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Photo of my notebook at Arvon just after @carolinebirduk.bsky.social gave us the prompt. I’m pleased to see the neighbour collecting budgie feathers survived through to the final poem! @atriumpoetry.bsky.social @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social
In 2023 at Arvon, @carolinebirduk.bsky.social read James Tate’s ‘I left my couch in Tatamagouche’. The prompt was to write about attempting to do something ridiculous. My poem in Atrium today is the result. Thank you Caroline! Thank you @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social
On Collecting Every Whisker Lost by Every Cat in the World – Laura Strickland @l-strickland.bsky.social
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On Collecting Every Whisker Lost by Every Cat in the World – Laura Strickland
On Collecting Every Whisker Lost by Every Cat in the World .. .. Laura Strickland is a carer from Yorkshire. Her work has appeared in The North, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Dreamcatcher, Northern Gravy, …
atriumpoetry.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In 2023 at Arvon, @carolinebirduk.bsky.social read James Tate’s ‘I left my couch in Tatamagouche’. The prompt was to write about attempting to do something ridiculous. My poem in Atrium today is the result. Thank you Caroline! Thank you @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social
Thank you so much @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social for publishing my poem today. It means the absolute world to me 💖💖💖
On Collecting Every Whisker Lost by Every Cat in the World – Laura Strickland @l-strickland.bsky.social
atriumpoetry.com/2025/04/04/o...
atriumpoetry.com/2025/04/04/o...
On Collecting Every Whisker Lost by Every Cat in the World – Laura Strickland
On Collecting Every Whisker Lost by Every Cat in the World .. .. Laura Strickland is a carer from Yorkshire. Her work has appeared in The North, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Dreamcatcher, Northern Gravy, …
atriumpoetry.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Thank you so much @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social for publishing my poem today. It means the absolute world to me 💖💖💖
That feeling when you finally make progress with a poem that has been bothering you for months! 😇💖
April 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
That feeling when you finally make progress with a poem that has been bothering you for months! 😇💖
My poem, PIP, was published in The Frogmore Papers (2023). Solidarity to everyone who is worried about the changes 💖
March 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My poem, PIP, was published in The Frogmore Papers (2023). Solidarity to everyone who is worried about the changes 💖
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Words To Live By Number 202
March 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Words To Live By Number 202
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Loving the submissions so far - there’s still plenty of time to submit.
Procrastinators relax - the deadline is midnight, 1st April.
Check our website for Submissions guidelines and how to submit - link in bio or below🍀
Procrastinators relax - the deadline is midnight, 1st April.
Check our website for Submissions guidelines and how to submit - link in bio or below🍀
March 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Loving the submissions so far - there’s still plenty of time to submit.
Procrastinators relax - the deadline is midnight, 1st April.
Check our website for Submissions guidelines and how to submit - link in bio or below🍀
Procrastinators relax - the deadline is midnight, 1st April.
Check our website for Submissions guidelines and how to submit - link in bio or below🍀
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'Submissions for Issue 27 of The Manchester Review are now open. The submission window will be open from 24th Feb to 24th March 2025.
Please take a look at the submission guidelines on our website before you submit.
Please take a look at the submission guidelines on our website before you submit.
February 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
'Submissions for Issue 27 of The Manchester Review are now open. The submission window will be open from 24th Feb to 24th March 2025.
Please take a look at the submission guidelines on our website before you submit.
Please take a look at the submission guidelines on our website before you submit.
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SUBMISSIONS for our next issue (unthemed, out in June) will OPEN 1st - 31st of March.
We can’t wait to read your poems! 🤩
Please note that poems sent before March will not be read.
Thank you! ✨
We can’t wait to read your poems! 🤩
Please note that poems sent before March will not be read.
Thank you! ✨
February 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
SUBMISSIONS for our next issue (unthemed, out in June) will OPEN 1st - 31st of March.
We can’t wait to read your poems! 🤩
Please note that poems sent before March will not be read.
Thank you! ✨
We can’t wait to read your poems! 🤩
Please note that poems sent before March will not be read.
Thank you! ✨
What makes a great prose poem?
February 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
What makes a great prose poem?
It was a leaning against a beech tree kind of day today X🌳
February 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It was a leaning against a beech tree kind of day today X🌳
OMG why is writing a poem so hard?! I’ve changed the word ‘golden’ to ‘gold’ and back again a million times! Also, no one is forcing to write poetry so I can only blame myself! 😫🫨💖😆
February 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
OMG why is writing a poem so hard?! I’ve changed the word ‘golden’ to ‘gold’ and back again a million times! Also, no one is forcing to write poetry so I can only blame myself! 😫🫨💖😆
Plus Billie, Malika, Alex, Alan, Kate and Ewan from Arvon 💖💖💖
February 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Plus Billie, Malika, Alex, Alan, Kate and Ewan from Arvon 💖💖💖
Feeling nostalgic for Lumb Bank on Sylvia Plath’s anniversary @arvonfoundation.bsky.social I was there in 2023 for a life changing residential and met friends for life
@deborahfinding.bsky.social @estelleprice.bsky.social @imogenforster.bsky.social @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @chadpie.bsky.social
@deborahfinding.bsky.social @estelleprice.bsky.social @imogenforster.bsky.social @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @chadpie.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Feeling nostalgic for Lumb Bank on Sylvia Plath’s anniversary @arvonfoundation.bsky.social I was there in 2023 for a life changing residential and met friends for life
@deborahfinding.bsky.social @estelleprice.bsky.social @imogenforster.bsky.social @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @chadpie.bsky.social
@deborahfinding.bsky.social @estelleprice.bsky.social @imogenforster.bsky.social @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @chadpie.bsky.social
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I know I've posted a lot about @propelmagazine.bsky.social issue 13, but bear with me...
I'm so chuffed to be among the work on show here.
Poems like Axe Edge, by @danielnixonpoet.bsky.social (I hope I've tagged the right account). Listen while you read.
www.propelmagazine.co.uk/daniel-nixon...
I'm so chuffed to be among the work on show here.
Poems like Axe Edge, by @danielnixonpoet.bsky.social (I hope I've tagged the right account). Listen while you read.
www.propelmagazine.co.uk/daniel-nixon...
Daniel Nixon, Axe Edge — Propel Magazine
www.propelmagazine.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I know I've posted a lot about @propelmagazine.bsky.social issue 13, but bear with me...
I'm so chuffed to be among the work on show here.
Poems like Axe Edge, by @danielnixonpoet.bsky.social (I hope I've tagged the right account). Listen while you read.
www.propelmagazine.co.uk/daniel-nixon...
I'm so chuffed to be among the work on show here.
Poems like Axe Edge, by @danielnixonpoet.bsky.social (I hope I've tagged the right account). Listen while you read.
www.propelmagazine.co.uk/daniel-nixon...
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RISE UP! With Antony Dunn, Lisa Coates and Nathan Walker 🎉 26/02, nowhere better to be on a Wednesday in February (or any other Wednesday)
February 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
RISE UP! With Antony Dunn, Lisa Coates and Nathan Walker 🎉 26/02, nowhere better to be on a Wednesday in February (or any other Wednesday)