@mdbolsover
#Writer. #amquerying my debut novel. IN FAILURE & IN RUINS—dreams & fragments (Into the Void Press), *1st collection: contra FLUX—moments caught (arrested) whilst in-from movement (Polyversity Press). #BookSky 📚
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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A huge honour and lovely surprise! I'm so grateful to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social and The Book Bag: Poetic Voices for nominating 'Morningfall' for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social 🔥 🙏
And in amazingly talented company too! Congratulations all round 🎉
#poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity
Happy World Book Day! Celebrating Alasdair Gray—novelist, artist and champion of Scottish and Glaswegian identity. Here is his self-portrait aged 16 (1951) writing at his desk, from his illustrated autobiography A Life in Pictures (2010).
Coming soon! The 404 Ink Bursary for small presses and accompanying crowdfunder will launch in mid-March. This will give away at least £3,000 to small presses - we hope to raise more to pay it forward to even more people.
*with thanks to @the-engine-idling.bsky.social, & to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for the fantastic engine(idling prize merch. ...
—feat. Mr BONESY as ‘LITERARY FREESTYLER’. …
#writing #art #WritingCommunity
‘he *changes* (—in the magazine. – (the) cereal box). ( … —after Gaddis,—The Recognitions). … ’
#experimental prose- #poetry, originally published in @rangermagazine.bsky.social, with thanks to EIC, @davidabishop.bsky.social
www.rangermagazine.net/issue13
#writing #art #WritingCommunity
*it’s an honour to have my #experimental prose- #poetry piece, ‘he *changes*,’ named WINNER of ‘LITERARY FREESTYLER’ @ the @the-engine-idling.bsky.social DASHBOARD AWARDS 2026.
—SWAG arrived today, from #Pittsburgh to #Edinburgh, with thanks to EIC, @dehm000.bsky.social. ...
#WritingCommunity
Our Literary Freestyler Award has finally arrived across the Atlantic & into the hands of @mdbolsover.bsky.social (& Mr. BONESY)!
Congratulations Mark! You deserve recognition for your stellar poem! We hope that you enjoy the bits of swag we've sent. We're celebrating w you from afar!
Cheers!
#poetrycommunity, check out the bonkers (in a good way) literary gymnastics in @mdbolsover.bsky.social's poem "he *changes*" pubbed by @rangermagazine.bsky.social: www.rangermagazine.net/bolsover_iss...!
A Literary Freestyler if there ever was 1! Mark's operating on a totally different plane!
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*with thanks to @the-engine-idling.bsky.social, & to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for the fantastic engine(idling prize merch. ...
—feat. Mr BONESY as ‘LITERARY FREESTYLER’. …
#writing #art #WritingCommunity
‘he *changes* (—in the magazine. – (the) cereal box). ( … —after Gaddis,—The Recognitions). … ’
#experimental prose- #poetry, originally published in @rangermagazine.bsky.social, with thanks to EIC, @davidabishop.bsky.social
www.rangermagazine.net/issue13
#writing #art #WritingCommunity
*it’s an honour to have my #experimental prose- #poetry piece, ‘he *changes*,’ named WINNER of ‘LITERARY FREESTYLER’ @ the @the-engine-idling.bsky.social DASHBOARD AWARDS 2026.
—SWAG arrived today, from #Pittsburgh to #Edinburgh, with thanks to EIC, @dehm000.bsky.social. ...
#WritingCommunity
“Look aloft!” cried Starbuck. “The St. Elmo’s Lights !”
All the yard-arms were tipped with a pallid fire; and [...] each of the three tall masts was silently burning in that sulphurous air, like three gigantic wax tapers before an altar.
H. Melville, Moby Dick
Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Blue Slide by Walter Dexel - Oil on glass - 65×50 cm (1926)
This one's for the early birds! We're accepting submissions for Issue 33 of the #SFWPJournal until 4/16! All accepted submissions will be published on our website May 2026.
Please review our complete guidelines prior to submitting right here: buff.ly/YjL13Jo
A giant serpent coils around a stone circle and worshippers turning to stone; in the centre a beam of light shoots.down from the sky.
🎨 Les Matthews, painting for the series ‘Children of the Stones’ (1977) #StandingStoneSunday
Barcelona’s Sagrada Família reaches full height with the completion of Gaudi’s central Tower of Jesus Christ. trib.al/gGmZ5FG
* @jenbitespeople.bsky.social. ...
Melancholia series (Melankólia sorozat)
Péter Menasági, steel, colored acrylic resin, sintered aluminum, water, 2025
menasagipeter.wixsite.com/menasagipete...
#art #sculpture
NEW #poetry on Cartridge Lit today! Check out "cruis’n world," a #poem by Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social).
cartridgelit.com/2026/02/26/c...
Line Drawing/Grid/Text(ile), Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper
Good Afternoon✨
Hans Erni ~ The Conquest of Time, 1958
Our Literary Freestyler Winner @mdbolsover.bsky.social's Anonymous Nominator says of his poem "he changes":
"The way he captures the rhythms and patterns of thought is really inventive and fun, and I love the distortion of words to being out different aspects of their meaning. Most of all ...
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“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”
—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002
#GrayDay 💙📚
www.theguardian.com/books/2002/o...
This week Ice Floe Process series begins w/ extraordinary feature from 2 leading contemporary surrealists in collaboration: Chilean/Canadian #poet Beatriz Hausner & influential Dutch surrealist #painter Rik Lina.
Enjoy these evocations of interior alternative worlds
icefloepress.net/2026/02/23/f...
About the art of writing a very personal letter
Subs OPEN!
We're still open for subs until the 28th, so if you've been procrastinating, time to get cracking.
