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Chrissy Williams

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Poet & Comic Book Writer | GOLDEN RAGE from Image Comics ("Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls”) | BEAR & LOW from Bloodaxe Books | PERVERSE magazine editor | https://open.substack.com/pub/chrissywilliams

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I Wrote a Cake and I Liked It When I worked at the Poetry Library, one of my side-hustles was a magazine where we printed poems onto food, read them at a live event, then ate them...

Some thoughts about edible poems and respect for authors here: chrissywilliams.substack.com/p/i-wrote-a-...

06.03.2026 11:33 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

06.03.2026 08:53 👍 1329 🔁 775 💬 11 📌 118
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An Evening of Masterclass Storytelling: Image Comics Graphic Novel Legends at Waterstones | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening of Masterclass Storytelling: Image Comics Graphic Novel Legends at Watersto...

I'm part of this Image Comics Masterclass in Storytelling event on Monday night at TCR Waterstones if you're around! www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

05.03.2026 13:20 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Please come to an awesome PERVERSE poetry reading with Annie Katchinska, Crispin Best, Edward Doegar, Joe Carrick-Varty, L. Kiew, Michelle Penn, Natalie Shaw and Phoebe Gilmore on Weds 18th March | Basement @The Betsey Trotwood (EC1R 3BL) | from 7pm | free

25.02.2026 12:10 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

22.02.2026 22:24 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 3

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

22.02.2026 16:47 👍 4067 🔁 1315 💬 37 📌 0

“Reviewed my band so hard the drummer’s legs fell off” is still so stupidly glorious

20.02.2026 22:19 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

It's up it's up! Put all my heart and sweat blood and tears into this book, please support it!

19.02.2026 12:33 👍 33 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
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Ah shit! We let pedophiles decide our beauty standards. Post the release of the harrowing Epstein files, and the powerful men in media and fashion, considered possible accomplices, it feels fair to say this with more gusto!

If you read one thing today this is a tonic to the onslaught.
Thanks Jameela Jamil

jameelajamil.substack.com/p/ah-shit-we...

18.02.2026 10:58 👍 41 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1

❤️❤️

17.02.2026 15:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much for sharing ❤️❤️

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58 hours left in our Kickstarter for Oracles by @zebko.bsky.social!
We're targeting 200 backers, so we need 25 more!
It's a beautiful, poetic and moving book - one of the most perfect we've made.
If you can back it or spread the word that would be very helpful!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

11.02.2026 11:20 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 5
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10.02.2026 05:51 👍 8124 🔁 3102 💬 21 📌 38
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

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PONK is also a word in In The Night Garden - a noise the Pinky-Ponk makes when it crashes into a tree. You are right. It is a very enticing word. I stuffed it into a poem once.

04.02.2026 22:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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greenlit.com/project/unfo... Well - this is scary stuff, but what's the BEST than can happen? Every little helps towards our budget for a two-week rehearsal and workshop leading up to a London industry sharing for www.unfoldingthemusical.com xx Your shares and comments keep this alive. Thank you!🎇

03.02.2026 13:46 👍 37 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 14
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All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk — and we know why A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now

'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

28.01.2026 07:18 👍 3117 🔁 2202 💬 61 📌 144
Cover A for SYTI#1 by me featuring vampire detective Corsica Smith feeding on a blonde woman

Cover A for SYTI#1 by me featuring vampire detective Corsica Smith feeding on a blonde woman

Today's the day!

The KS for SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1 from me, @zoewithasword.bsky.social, @jpjordan.bsky.social, @longtalljodie.com, @cerealpancake.bsky.social
is live! Vampires, lesbians, detectives, lesbian vampire detectives! What more could you possibly want?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

20.01.2026 17:59 👍 113 🔁 42 💬 3 📌 9
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I had a good day yesterday. Baby red room at the BFI, Moonwalkers at the Light Room, catching up with so many people at the TS Eliot prizegiving, and some solid weird writing on the train. All good things.

20.01.2026 10:33 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Comic Book Yeti’s 4th Annual Yeti Awards with special guests David “DB” Andry and James B. Emmett. It’s a Yeti holding a trophy.

Comic Book Yeti’s 4th Annual Yeti Awards with special guests David “DB” Andry and James B. Emmett. It’s a Yeti holding a trophy.

It’s here! The 4th Annual Yeti Awards. @jimmygaspero.bsky.social is joined by @dbandry.bsky.social & @jamesbemmett.bsky.social to cover CBY’s favorite comics and creators of 2025. Special shoutout to @mmatelonek.bsky.social who named her favorites as well. Listen 👇🏽 or wherever you get your podcasts

16.01.2026 14:17 👍 63 🔁 40 💬 5 📌 14

Awww thank you! ❤️❤️

19.01.2026 14:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Is this how the world will be / and not just how it is?” From Karen Solie’s Wellwater.

16.01.2026 11:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you make poetry comics, published or self-published, this is worth applying to!

27.11.2025 16:10 👍 10 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

Radioshoulders knees and toes

10.01.2026 23:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Slightly diminish a band.

Wet Foot

10.01.2026 13:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1

Aw - thank you for reading and sharing!

09.01.2026 14:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A comic titled "I know the way out" in wavy block capitals, in white on a starry sky which fades from deep blue through aqua to fluorescent pink behind silhouetted skyline of tall, dense pine trees. "Chrissy Williams & Tom Humberstone" is written in pink.

Next to it are a small pin badge of the same pines silhouetted on a dusky-blue sky, and a bookmark showing a human figure facing away from view, a glowing white silhouette with branching pink lines like roots or perhaps nerves radiating all over their body from the base of their neck. They stand in a pine woodland in shades of blue and black.

A comic titled "I know the way out" in wavy block capitals, in white on a starry sky which fades from deep blue through aqua to fluorescent pink behind silhouetted skyline of tall, dense pine trees. "Chrissy Williams & Tom Humberstone" is written in pink. Next to it are a small pin badge of the same pines silhouetted on a dusky-blue sky, and a bookmark showing a human figure facing away from view, a glowing white silhouette with branching pink lines like roots or perhaps nerves radiating all over their body from the base of their neck. They stand in a pine woodland in shades of blue and black.

Just got my hands on this beautiful poetry comic by @chrissywilliams.bsky.social and @tomhumberstone.com. It's wonderfully written and illustrated and it's an artifact that cries out to be treasured and studied thanks to the way the art engages with it's printing process.

08.01.2026 21:57 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2025 – Events in Gaza Make Their Presence Felt in Another Eclectic Set of BF Nominations – Broken Frontier The Broken Frontier Awards 2025 are here and you get to play a part in deciding who the winners are for the last twelve months.

Get voting, pals!

Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2025 – Events in Gaza Make Their Presence Felt in Another Eclectic Set of BF Nominations. #BFAwards25

www.brokenfrontier.com/introducing-...

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