TOMORROW! (magical) Laura Theis @lauratheis.bsky.social will be the featured poet for the Drafting Table Sunday session. Join us at OPL from 1 β 3pm for another wonderful, interactive workshop.
Email opldraftingtable@gmail.com with any queries. See you there!
So proud of my wonderful publisher @theemmapress.bsky.social !!β¨
Very excited for this!!
Here are our favourite moments of 2025!
James ~ Launching Rachel Spence's Daughter of the Sun!
Georgia ~ PARABLES, FABLES, NIGHTMARES winning the Edge Hill Debut prize!
Emma ~ Please Don't Read the Footnotes Please nominated for the Carnegie Medal!
Ella ~ Creating an interactive Instagram post!
A huge thank you to Children's Books Ireland for this lovely review of my @theemmapress.bsky.social book...
childrensbooksireland.ie/our-recommen...
A photo of a yellow cake, already sliced, iced with an illustration of a girl with a jug held up to the moon, a detail from ElΔ«na BrasliΕa's cover for "Moon Juice" by Kate Wakeling.
'We started with themed anthologies and sourced poems through an open call because Iβm always trying to push against cliques.'
A new blog by Emma, up on the Children's Poetry Summit website! 'How I Started Publishing Poetry for Children': buff.ly/k2N0P3u
Really looking forward to this showcase event on Sunday November 30th for all the shortlisted authors in @walklistencreate.orgβs Walking in the Dark competition (supporting the great Women Walking, the City, at Night campaign). Tickets available in the link below
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky
Hoooray! Me too!!
And here is the link to the Showcase Reading at 5pm today! us02web.zoom.us/j/8413553675...
Today at 5pm we'll be celebrating this beautiful little anthology of stories and poems about Walking in the Dark
And if you can't make today's online reading, you can also listen to an audio version of the poem performed by the actress Mel Sutton here: write.walklistencreate.org/.../moonligh...
Minimal dark teal cover with clean white typography; large title βBroken Sleep Books 2025β at the top left; a smaller line reads βEdited by: Aaron Kent & Stuart McPhersonβ; publisher credit βBroken Sleep Booksβ sits subtly at the bottom left.
The Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025 gathers standout, risk-taking writing from every publication of the year, spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction.
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A Broken Sleep review special now live on my blog
@alecfinlay.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @alkinsel.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social #poetry
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Thank you so much for reviewing Introduction To Cloud Care...
Very grateful to Books For Keeps for recommending my book in this lovely review: booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/poet...
Long list of our #Walking #InTheDark competition announced - terrific poems and stories beautifully penned - read them here wlc.zone/ark
thank you so much and congratulations everyone!
πFine work from among others:
@alicestainer.bsky.social @jenratcliffe.bsky.social @elizafevwrites.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @eleanorholmes.bsky.social @sarahraybould.bsky.social
@walklistencreate.orgβs comp supports a great cause, Women walking, the City, at Night
I was so honoured to be the runner-up!
Hooray hooray I'm so glad!!
Thank you so much!
Ohhh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social this is amazing!! So happy to spot my book in this lovely pile!!
This window is one of the coolest things that ever happened to me I love it so much!! Thank you!!!
@victoriaspires.bsky.social thank you so much for this kind review of my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social book Introduction To Cloud Care βοΈ
New review up on my Substack of the brilliant Rhian Elizabeth & @lauratheis.bsky.social π₯³
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
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Excited to see my review of @lauratheis.bsky.social & Rhian Elizabeth's books (published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social) in Dave's excellent digest π
The Oxford Book Launch for 'Poems from a Witchβs Pocket' at the magical Caper Bookshop has sneakily snuck up on us, it's only one week from now, on Sunday the 26th of October at 2pm... Tickets here: square.link/u/bTrnfFun
#poetsonbluesky
Thank you Fiona Benson for including my poem in the beautiful Winchester Prize anthology The Lantern Room among so many favourite new poems...
Thank you so much for my 'BEST OF THE NET' nomination and huge congratulations to all fellow nominees...
www.instagram.com/p/DPIpSTuj6nB/
A huge thank you to the wonderful Anna BΕasiak for translating my poem 'My Sister Dreams She Is A Garden' into Polish...
Ohh I can't believe the day is here - join us tonight! β¨
