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— Leila Chatti

My free weekly newsletter is sent out Sunday morning (UK time). Subscribe at the link below to get it delivered direct to your inbox 🌊 betweentwoseas.substack.com/about Tomorrow: a piece on killer whales and finding magic. #WritingCommunity

On whales and wonder and hope. betweentwoseas.substack.com/p/klaxon-for-t… #WritingCommunity

What a dream to be in this season's issue of Mslexia ✨, writing about my time living with monkeys. This is my favourite writing magazine and I am buzzing to have my words published inside these pages! (Also what a gorgeous cover!!)

Congratulations to Rebecca Hooper rebecca hooper - recent TTT host. Rebecca was nominated for a The Pushcart Prize some time ago by The Bough. Terrific poem from ‘In Flight’ edited by marcelle newbold poems 🖊️ 💎 blackboughpoetry.com/award-nominati…

it's such an honour to have my poem 'the gannets' nominated for a BOTN award! thank you everyone for all your kind comments, and thank you so much Matt for the nomination 💙🪶

This beautiful poem “Postdiluvian” by Emma Bolden Emma Bolden in Verse Daily (@versedaily.bsky.social) – originally published in Asheville Poetry Review ❤️ #twentyforecopoetry @twentyecopoetry #ecopoetry #ecopoem #WritingCommunity

my latest substack essay on dreams, grief, light and ashes open.substack.com/pub/betweentwo… #WritingCommunity

"the simmer dim creates an otherworldliness, an unanchoring of self and space and place. Time begins to unpeel itself until it feels both fleeting and endless" You can read my latest substack post here - open.substack.com/pub/betweentwo…

hi! you can find my latest substack post, on attention as an act of protest, below 👇 betweentwoseas.substack.com/p/one-thousand…

lil poem out in poet lore <3

a new substack essay on the ocean, the tricks it can play on our minds and the strange things it gifts us - open.substack.com/pub/betweentwo…

my latest newsletter explores joy, bioluminescence, our ridiculous human brains and the price we pay to feel as deeply as we do - betweentwoseas.substack.com/p/if-the-price… #WritingCommunity

storm ashley hit the orkney islands last week - here are a few notes from the storm: betweentwoseas.substack.com/p/storm-gifts #WritingCommunity

on the northernmost shore of the northernmost orkney isle, there is a stone wall with shelves built into it, and on those shelves rests around fifty animal bones. whale, dolphin, sheep, bird. I don't know why this exists, or how long it's been here, or who gathers these bones.

I once believed that the Israeli government's slaughter of civilians was indiscriminate. I was completely wrong. It is deliberate, massive and plainly genocidal.

Last week I had the incredible experience of watching a pod of killer whales hunt seals. I wrote about it here - open.substack.com/pub/betweentwo… #writingcommunity #nature #killerwhales #naturelovers