On view for our College Open Day on Sunday 15th September 12 noon until 5pm, free entry, no need to book. #OpenHouseFestival #HODs #museyeum

“involves digging up the dead women in my family  / shaking their hollow bones till the wedding rings come off / peering into the dirty skulls / kissing the noseless smiling faces” Today’s poem is Naming myself as a poet by Madeleine Read it here: dustpoetry.co.uk/post/naming-my…

Hey ye friends & residents of the good ship BRIGHTON & HOVE - am reading in yr fair city 24 Sep - please come down and say hello! "The most welcoming, diverse, and exciting poetry night anywhere, ever!" - John Davies "Pighog rocks!" - Annie Freud eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-w…

Calling all poets! 🖊️ We are running a competition! Whether your style is raw, lyrical, or experimental, we want to read your work. Don't miss the opportunity—find out more and enter today here: brokensleepbooks.com/broken-sleep-b… #PoetryComp #CallForSubmissions #PoetryCommunity #AmWriting

Tickets are going FAST for our reading with WENDY COPE and two NTU Creative Writing Students (Julie Gardner and Sarah Smith) on 12 November. FREE if you're an NTU student or staff member, until they're gone... fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/wendy-c…

Precious and Impossible: Selected Poems. Sept 26 2004. Cover art 'Afro Lunar Lovers' by Chris Ofili.

We have FOUR bursaries available for our upcoming Self Editing courses, next cohorts starting in October. x2 100% bursaries x2 50% bursaries, because there's that tricky 'I could technically afford it, but...' thing & it's real FICTION and NON FICTION literaryconsultancy.co.uk/2024/06/self-e…

We're delighted to announce the Lincolnshire Folk Tales & Folklores of Place symposium at NTU School of Arts and Humanities on 11/4/25. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31/1/25. Free to register; some travel bursaries available. Please share. Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/symposium/

Come work with our brilliant UofG CreativeWriting team here at University of Glasgow in UofG Critical Studies, as a Lecturer in Creative Writing (full-time, open-ended). jobs.ac.uk/job/DJT402/lec…

Decided to open for queries early. Get those queries in! Check out genres and submit here: QueryManager.com/ErinNiumata #MSWL

Birmingham’s libraries are amazing and when we come together we make our voices heard. Brum Library Zine in the news! 👀 Head to Birmingham Loves Libraries to add your voice to the campaign ❤️‍🔥 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Poetry Film Club is on Tuesday 24th Sept 7pm at The Lightship, Bathhurst Basin, Bristol. All are welcome! You don’t need to know anything about poetry film to attend. This month features work by digital artist Martin Reiser and local poet Beccy Golding. hdfst.uk/e114824

Starting to think & dream about how we're going to top this year's PaisleyBookFest with another edition in April 2025! Scottish writers, publishers, agents, DM me with your programme suggestions! RTs/SHARES WELCOME!

English teachers! 👀 x

OUT NOW! Brum Library Zine. 35 Birmingham writers championing 35 Birmingham libraries. I’ve had the honour of art directing Brum Library Zine - a zine dedicated to saving Birmingham’s public libraries from the threat of closure. FREE and available in all Birmingham libraries

In yellow ochre sunrise two herons—clean, innocent —rise and escape The final poem from Issue 12 is Early at the head of the lake by Daniel Nixon. Read it here: dustpoetry.co.uk/post/early-at-…

Annual Lancaster Environment Centre #LECKenya 3rd year #BSc tropical ecology & #conservation starting with various excursions & activities around Lake #Naivasha

Congrats JLM Morton

Can't wait to watch this on telly later tonight! I'm chairing 'An Evening with Jackie Kay' on Fri 11th Oct, 6-7 p.m. Durham Book Festival. Got a burning question about 'May Day', Jackie's fabulous new poetry collection? Let me know your Q's and I'll pick some favourites to ask!

I'm running this workshop on Wednesday 2nd October 11-12.30 - it would be lovely to see you there.