Louise Kenward
@louisekenward.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
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MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
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Louise Kenward
@louisekenward.bsky.social
· Nov 16
MOVING MOUNTAINS: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability launches in paperback on 6th March 2025!
You can preorder now from the usual places & do ask your local bookshop/library for a copy too. Available as an ebook/hardback now.
📚💚 #NatureWriting #Disability
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You can preorder now from the usual places & do ask your local bookshop/library for a copy too. Available as an ebook/hardback now.
📚💚 #NatureWriting #Disability
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We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate:
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November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate:
ko-fi.com/brokensleepb...
ko-fi.com/brokensleepb...
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Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Applications invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships, 2026-27 - RHS
Applications are now invited for the Royal Historical Society’s Centenary PhD Fellowships to support postgraduate historians to complete a doctorate. Two Fellowships, of six months each, are offered f...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
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TONIGHT at Manchester Poetry Library & ONLINE.
Celebrating Jean Sprackland's new book, Night Vision.
Celebrating Jean Sprackland's new book, Night Vision.
We're very excited for the book launch of Jean Sprackland's new book, Night Vision, this week at Manchester Poetry Library.
Online and in-person tickets.
#BookSky #NightSky #Darkness
www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Online and in-person tickets.
#BookSky #NightSky #Darkness
www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Night Vision: Book Launch with Karen Solie and Jean Sprackland, 20 Nov 2025
Reading, Manchester Poetry Library
www.mmu.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
TONIGHT at Manchester Poetry Library & ONLINE.
Celebrating Jean Sprackland's new book, Night Vision.
Celebrating Jean Sprackland's new book, Night Vision.
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(UK) Recording of Westminster Hall debate: "Government support for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis" (i.e. in the Houses of Parliament)
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This 4:30pm debate was led by Tessa Munt MP @tessamunt.bsky.social
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PwME #MEcfs #CFS
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This 4:30pm debate was led by Tessa Munt MP @tessamunt.bsky.social
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PwME #MEcfs #CFS
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
(UK) Recording of Westminster Hall debate: "Government support for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis" (i.e. in the Houses of Parliament)
www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
This 4:30pm debate was led by Tessa Munt MP @tessamunt.bsky.social
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PwME #MEcfs #CFS
www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
This 4:30pm debate was led by Tessa Munt MP @tessamunt.bsky.social
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PwME #MEcfs #CFS
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
—Lucille Clifton
—Lucille Clifton
September 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
—Lucille Clifton
—Lucille Clifton
Another great article from the brilliant work of @catherinehale.bsky.social & Chronic Illness Inclusion - paper from Catherine, Ana Bê & Anna Ruddock.
#DisabilitySky International Journal of Disability & Social Justice.
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#DisabilitySky International Journal of Disability & Social Justice.
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Introducing “Energy Limiting Conditions”: The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment Concept
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d1540804e129">The terms “energy limiting condition” (ELC) and “energy impairment”locate the embodied
e...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Another great article from the brilliant work of @catherinehale.bsky.social & Chronic Illness Inclusion - paper from Catherine, Ana Bê & Anna Ruddock.
#DisabilitySky International Journal of Disability & Social Justice.
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
#DisabilitySky International Journal of Disability & Social Justice.
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
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lithub.com/remembering-.... read this achingly beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social I keep thinking, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was irreplaceable but she nurtured a whole-ass huge forest (or series of forests). No one can replace her, except for all of us doing the work she nurtured in us.
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
lithub.com/remembering-.... read this achingly beautiful piece by @thrasherxy.bsky.social I keep thinking, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social was irreplaceable but she nurtured a whole-ass huge forest (or series of forests). No one can replace her, except for all of us doing the work she nurtured in us.
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We're very excited for the book launch of Jean Sprackland's new book, Night Vision, this week at Manchester Poetry Library.
Online and in-person tickets.
#BookSky #NightSky #Darkness
www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Online and in-person tickets.
#BookSky #NightSky #Darkness
www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Night Vision: Book Launch with Karen Solie and Jean Sprackland, 20 Nov 2025
Reading, Manchester Poetry Library
www.mmu.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We're very excited for the book launch of Jean Sprackland's new book, Night Vision, this week at Manchester Poetry Library.
Online and in-person tickets.
#BookSky #NightSky #Darkness
www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Online and in-person tickets.
#BookSky #NightSky #Darkness
www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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We are searching for that special person to take over the prestige role of Sussex Bird Report editor!🖊️
Have you or anyone you know got the time to help us?
Current editor Mark Mallalieu wrote a short piece about the role here; www.sos.org.uk/archives/6643
Please read and share 🙏
Have you or anyone you know got the time to help us?
Current editor Mark Mallalieu wrote a short piece about the role here; www.sos.org.uk/archives/6643
Please read and share 🙏
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We are searching for that special person to take over the prestige role of Sussex Bird Report editor!🖊️
Have you or anyone you know got the time to help us?
Current editor Mark Mallalieu wrote a short piece about the role here; www.sos.org.uk/archives/6643
Please read and share 🙏
Have you or anyone you know got the time to help us?
Current editor Mark Mallalieu wrote a short piece about the role here; www.sos.org.uk/archives/6643
Please read and share 🙏
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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When we talk about disability ancestors, we’re not talking about some distant, abstract lineage. We’re talking about people who fought, organized, wrote, dreamed, and survived alongside us. People who left us tools, strategies, jokes, tenderness, and a politic were responsible for carrying forward.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
When we talk about disability ancestors, we’re not talking about some distant, abstract lineage. We’re talking about people who fought, organized, wrote, dreamed, and survived alongside us. People who left us tools, strategies, jokes, tenderness, and a politic were responsible for carrying forward.
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Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
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Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Disability Visibility - Latest
Get the latest on Disability Visibility from Teen Vogue. Find articles, slideshows and more.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Waking up to this news and utterly lost for words.
Alice was amazing and will leave such a hole in the world. With love to all her friends and family. Such a legacy she has left for us xx
Alice was amazing and will leave such a hole in the world. With love to all her friends and family. Such a legacy she has left for us xx
🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Waking up to this news and utterly lost for words.
Alice was amazing and will leave such a hole in the world. With love to all her friends and family. Such a legacy she has left for us xx
Alice was amazing and will leave such a hole in the world. With love to all her friends and family. Such a legacy she has left for us xx
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Only a few days left to enter the 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize.
Enter your poems for a chance to have your pamphlet published by Smith|Doorstop! 📚
Deadline 16 November 2025
Enter on our website - poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/
Enter your poems for a chance to have your pamphlet published by Smith|Doorstop! 📚
Deadline 16 November 2025
Enter on our website - poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Only a few days left to enter the 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize.
Enter your poems for a chance to have your pamphlet published by Smith|Doorstop! 📚
Deadline 16 November 2025
Enter on our website - poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/
Enter your poems for a chance to have your pamphlet published by Smith|Doorstop! 📚
Deadline 16 November 2025
Enter on our website - poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/
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Online poetry reading tomorrow evening UK time from the Wordsworth Trust - @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social hosting Josie Giles. Next month is Sarah Howe! I keep missing these but they're such great events. Do share and come along! www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
'Go to the poets': Harry Josephine Giles
Curated and hosted by poet Kim Moore, our online contemporary poetry reading series continues throughout 2025.
We will be listening to what poets...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Online poetry reading tomorrow evening UK time from the Wordsworth Trust - @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social hosting Josie Giles. Next month is Sarah Howe! I keep missing these but they're such great events. Do share and come along! www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
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Just caught up with Polly’s tawny owls — her radio-perfect voice & gorgeous owl accompaniment. 🦉
Owl alert! You can listen back to my little snippet on #TawnyOwls now. Thanks agains so much to Sophie Anton for asking me to do this and to being so flexible so we could get it recorded easily and accessibly for me, and to Caz Graham for coming to do the recording.
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Tweet of the Day - Polly Atkin on the Tawny Owl - BBC Sounds
For writer Polly Atkin the nighttime calls of tawny owls mean company and community.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Just caught up with Polly’s tawny owls — her radio-perfect voice & gorgeous owl accompaniment. 🦉
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#PoemsAbout #Desire starts Friday. Write toward the want. The mouth, the mirror, the hunger that hums. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Sign up for prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#PoemsAbout #Desire starts Friday. Write toward the want. The mouth, the mirror, the hunger that hums. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Sign up for prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
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🧵
Contested and neglected: Social and medical marginalization in severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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"Severe ME/CFS patients face deep social, medical, and structural exclusion."
#SevereME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
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Contested and neglected: Social and medical marginalization in severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Severe ME/CFS patients face deep social, medical, and structural exclusion."
#SevereME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
1/
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🧵
Contested and neglected: Social and medical marginalization in severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Severe ME/CFS patients face deep social, medical, and structural exclusion."
#SevereME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
1/
Contested and neglected: Social and medical marginalization in severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Severe ME/CFS patients face deep social, medical, and structural exclusion."
#SevereME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
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Alton Melvar M Dapanas speaks to @mailbykite.bsky.social on how her latest book ANNAH, INFINITE reshapes speculative nonfiction, and disputes the racial, gendered, and ableist biases of fraught literary and artistic spaces.
Read now: buff.ly/YrKYEPD
Read now: buff.ly/YrKYEPD
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Alton Melvar M Dapanas speaks to @mailbykite.bsky.social on how her latest book ANNAH, INFINITE reshapes speculative nonfiction, and disputes the racial, gendered, and ableist biases of fraught literary and artistic spaces.
Read now: buff.ly/YrKYEPD
Read now: buff.ly/YrKYEPD
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The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story.
A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.
For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.
For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
May 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story.
A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.
For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.
For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infini...
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Following last month's first even in Jean Sprackland's curated series for Night Vision, Jean is launching her book with an event at Manchester Poetry Library next week.
In-person and link to online tickets below:
#BookSky #AcademicSky #Poetry
www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
In-person and link to online tickets below:
#BookSky #AcademicSky #Poetry
www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
Night Vision: Book Launch with Karen Solie and Jean Sprackland (ONLINE TICKET), 20 Nov 2025
Reading, Manchester Poetry Library
www.mmu.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Following last month's first even in Jean Sprackland's curated series for Night Vision, Jean is launching her book with an event at Manchester Poetry Library next week.
In-person and link to online tickets below:
#BookSky #AcademicSky #Poetry
www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
In-person and link to online tickets below:
#BookSky #AcademicSky #Poetry
www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
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If you’re a #disabled, #ChronicallyIll or #neurodivergent #author you need an access form to make it easier to navigate the #publishing industry.
Sign up to the virtual @societyofauthors.bsky.social panel on what they are and how they work.
bit.ly/48Bmxxb
Sign up to the virtual @societyofauthors.bsky.social panel on what they are and how they work.
bit.ly/48Bmxxb
Industry Insider - Understanding access forms and riders - Tools for disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent authors - The Society of Authors
To celebrate the launch of the SoA’s Access Form template, ADCI is hosting a panel discussion on what an Access Form is and how it can help authors, agents, publishers, event organisers, and anyone el...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If you’re a #disabled, #ChronicallyIll or #neurodivergent #author you need an access form to make it easier to navigate the #publishing industry.
Sign up to the virtual @societyofauthors.bsky.social panel on what they are and how they work.
bit.ly/48Bmxxb
Sign up to the virtual @societyofauthors.bsky.social panel on what they are and how they work.
bit.ly/48Bmxxb
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Jean Sprackland reflects on the view from her kitchen window, and the life the valley has seen before her in this series of The Essay for @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social - ahead of her new book Night Vision being launched at Manchester Poetry Library later this month.
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The Essay - Empty Spaces - Jean Sprackland - Foxes' Castle, Somerset - BBC Sounds
Jean Sprackland finds love, loss, and nature’s return in a Somerset ruin.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Jean Sprackland reflects on the view from her kitchen window, and the life the valley has seen before her in this series of The Essay for @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social - ahead of her new book Night Vision being launched at Manchester Poetry Library later this month.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...