Roya Khatiblou

Yeah, that they've invested so much is not the only reason they're shoving this bad technology down our throats. Why do you think they invested so much? Our only power is withholding our labour, so they eliminate the need for our labour✨

I actually want to listen to music because I can now feel things 🙃

That incredible sensation each spring when the sun comes out and you realise how depressed you've been 🌞

White text on blue sky above a palace in Madrid: European Writers Salon, Annual Salon 2026, Madrid, 25-27 September

Ticket for our Annual Salon in Madrid are on sale now!

If you’ve joined us before, you’ll know: European Writers salon is unlike any literary event you’ve been to. It isn't a conference. It's a weekend of creativity, surprise and community.

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Last few tickets left for our Berlin salon 27 March @lettretage.de including reading spots.

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Shared this with my other Virgo

Also this!

Literally just one woman named Deb who's been there for 15 years and knows everything and can solve all your problems in 5 minutes if you take half a second to compliment the screen saver pic of her Yorkshire terrier

Like, could our politicians please not be a bunch of gullible rubes falling for their dumb friends' app pitches please pretty please?

Almost all of the issues they think they're solving with this dystopian nonsense could be solved by one properly paid woman

Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to wrongly indicate suicidal ideation

Just popping in after months of absence to wonder what good could be done in society if the govt spent all the money they waste on AI nonsense instead on the provable brilliance of human potential

I haven't read any of these!

Black text on a peach background: online course, Writing What Can’t Be Said, a workshop series with Mark Bowles. 21 Jan 2026-22 Apr 2026, *can be taken together or separately. In the bottom right corner, a colour photo of Mark looking way too friendly to write the book he wrote

Join author Mark Bowles for 4 writing workshops tracing how we write what resists language: trauma, rage, madness, silence—and finding form, vitality, or even grace within that tension ⚡

Cream background with black text reading [Calligraphy script] Café Littéraire: [regular script] European Book Club; [calligraphy] with Eleonora Balsano. A photo of the book is in the bottom right corner. It is blue with black art deco-style arches. In gold lettering, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, and in white, László Krasznahorkai. In blue, winner of the international Booker prize. To the left of the photo: Online. 13 January 2026. 6pm GMT/7PM CET

There's still time to read the book for next week's Café Littéraire: European Book Club with @norami.bsky.social

Tickets are free for Supporters and a small fee for the rest🎟️

2025 was a mixed year, but I am so proud of and got so much joy from all we achieved through @saloneurope.bsky.social

Can't imagine life without it and the wonderful friends I've made, especially @norami.bsky.social @royakhatiblou.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social @kplumhoff.bsky.social

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It's official: dates and location for Annual Salon 2026! Plus a roundup of events and opportunities across Europe

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Our November newsletter is out, combining our events listings with our monthly roundup of events and opportunities

With open mics, residencies, grants and competitions, there are so many ways for you to explore your creativity ✨

With opportunities from....

Oh this is definitely one of mine

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

Oh god, my next what??

Please tell me this will be coffee reviews followed by rants about people in cafes

You do not know what you’re messing with when you mess with Chicago

Come to Birmingham! @vocebooks.bsky.social does great readings that pull good crowds

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✨EWS DOUBLE BILLING✨

Writing From Rage: Turning Fury Into Form
with Mark Bowles
26 November 2025
6-7:30pm GMT

&

Pop-up Salon: London with Insurgent Press
26 November 2025
8-10pm GMT

Both at:
The Queens Larder, 1 Queen Square WC1N 3AR

🎟️Tickets together or separate – see below

5yo: Dad, are there two kinds of lying?

My husband: What do you mean?

5yo: Well, there’s the kind of lying where you don’t tell the truth…

My husband, a theologian, ready to explain Augustinian theology to a 5 year old

5yo: And then there’s the kind where you’re lying on your back

On a peach background with black text: Online Course. Exploring Poetic Concepts and Forms: a Poetry Workshop Series with Julie Irigaray. 26 Oct 2025-17 May 2026. Can be taken together or separately. In the bottom right corner, a photo of the author.

✨ONLINE COURSE✨

Following the success of Julie’s Prose Poetry Workshop, we’re delighted to bring you our first longer course:

Exploring Poetic Concepts and Forms: A Poetry Workshop Series

I highly recommend this book and am really looking forward to discussing it next week at book club with @norami.bsky.social

Join us!

In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback? The lowbrow dominates culture and anyone who questions the status quo is dismissed as an elitist killjoy. But with bland algorithmic content on the rise, perhaps we consumers should start taking our a...

At last my time has come

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✨ONLINE COURSE SERIES✨

Exploring Poetic Concepts and Forms: Poetry Workshops With Julie Irigaray

📅 Monthly 26 Oct 2025 - 17 May 2026*

*Can be taken individually

Have you wanted to write poetry but felt held back by lack of formal knowledge? Or already write it but would like better grounding?

A bush with leaves turning in front of a house with faux-Tudor beams across the front

A small bush with small flowers in different shades of peak in front of the brick arch of a terrace house’s entryway

my son’s small soft hand in mine on the walk to school, crisp early-autumn air, the smell of dried leaves fallen from trees🍂

Wrong Kind of One

Listening almost exclusively to this wonderful album and knowing that years from now, the first few bars of any of these songs will transport me directly to these sensations:

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