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Really looking forward to this!

Guess who has been addicted to reading this Gorgeous book ever since it arrived? And I'm so happy that a poem of mine has found a home here! Huge thanks to Bi+ Poets @helen_bowell fourteenpoems for creating this!

Do you want the chance to hear the commissions they wrote as part of their residency? Come on down to our event celebrating our ILF Apprentice Poets in Residence past and present this Saturday!

Less than two weeks left to enter the #NationalPoetryCompetition! Deadline: 31st October Judges: Jane Draycott, Will Harris and Clare Pollard First Prize: £5,000 Enter here: bit.ly/2023-NPC

I am so excited about this!! The book looks so beautiful and I absolutely love the idea of an anthology designed to stay with a child as they grow up. LEEDS 2023 British Library

Slightly fuzzy photos to celebrate being involved with Ilkley Literature Festival this year 😍 Have absolutely loved getting chance to share my work, run a workshop and drop into all the wonderful events! Hope to return sometime (I still need to explore the moors properly!)

I had the most exciting post! My commission 'Leila's Blanket' in Northern Dreaming - an anthology by 18 writers, created by 이동섭 and British Library for children born in Leeds in 2023. Copies are available for free from Leeds Libraries/Children's Centres across the city.

The audio book version of Northern Dreaming is up on Spotify now, with stories and poems for children age 0-18! open.spotify.com/episode/5rQu44…

Announcing the next Bi+ Lines gig - in York! We'll celebrate the world's first bi+ poetry anthology at The Portal Bookshop on 17 Feb with award-winning Yorkshire-born contributors Freya Bantiff and Ruth Yates, plus YOU at our bi+ open mic. Tickets start at £0: bit.ly/bi-lines-york

Join The Typo King FRSL / FRSA Freya Bantiff and Fathima Zahra. Amp up your words! Book here crowdcast.io/c/bridportpriz…. See you there. #Poetry #Writing #Creativewriting

Delighted to see this poem of mine find its place in the world with Black Nore Review - check it out if you get chance!

I have a poem in here! Lovely to see everyone else's work too.

I have some #poems in The North! These are two of them, which are also a sneak peak at my pamphlet 'All Appears Ordinary' before it comes out later this year :) Brilliant to see them in print.

Rory Waterman & Hive New Poets Prize Winners Off the Shelf Festival of Words Sun 20 Oct😍The Hive network has nurtured many fine young poets including 8 winners of the International New Poets Prize The Poetry Business for writers aged 17-24 Join us for a very special reading✍️♥️ hivesouthyorkshire.com/rory-waterman-…

!! My first poetry book is here! I was so excited for these to arrive the other day. Copies can be bought from The Poetry Business or via Amazon. I don't have the space to thank everyone who needs thanking here but I am extremely grateful to everyone who has helped along the way 🥰

We love seeing the winning National Poetry Competition poems going on to be published. Congratulations on the pamphlet Freya Bantiff - which contains the wonderful ‘God the Whale’ a 2022 comp winner. poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/god-the-…

Join us Wentworth Woodhouse Sat 26 Oct for Off the Shelf Festival of Words launch of this stunning anthology of writing inspired by South Yorkshire’s most renowned aristocratic dynasty Ft. Ian McMillan Helen Mort & many Hive writers inc @BethRSD Luke Worthy Freya Bantiff✍️📚🎤♥️hivesouthyorkshire.com/camellia.html

Launch day tomorrow for this incredible anthology of fiction & poetry inspired by the families, gardens & histories of Wentworth Woodhouse Off the Shelf Festival of Words We can’t wait! Sold out but books are available soon! 🤗📚hivesouthyorkshire.com/camellia.html

Can't wait!