The Katrina Collins Poetry Prize, judged by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad closes at midnight! atomicbohemian.com/katrina-collin…

Delighted to share that I will be one of the judges, alongside superstars Bernardine Evaristo and Sophie Elmhirst, for this exciting new unpublished writing prize with Nero Book Awards. Open now for entries in fiction, children's fiction and non-fiction. Full details below!

Mary Shelley winning at footnotes 🌝

Kickstarting this account with a call for papers!! Welcoming abstracts for a conference I’m organising with Sara O’Brien and Max Shirley on all things poetry and process. Submission window is 10 Sept for critical and practice-based papers. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/28…

I’ve set up a mini exhibition of visual poetry in my office ahead of the start of term 🧡

Brought this little guy home from the RSPCA yesterday. He was abandoned in a basket in a park. He’s shy but curious, thin but eating well. I’m in love 🥰

🚨 Submissions are OPEN 🚨 for Issue 06 of the AI Literary Review! Send your work to AI Literary Review at Gmail dot com before September 21 - looking forward to seeing what you come up with! ✨🤖💌✨

Delighted to discuss Rosie May Jones’ National Trust & Surrey Hills Arts residency at Leith Hill Place in the latest Resurgence and Ecologist. Check out her multivocal poem, ‘Along the Old Way’ in the September/October issue 🍃

This week, interrupting our typical weekly Featured Writing schedule as we’re incredibly announce Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s latest collection will be forthcoming from Osmosis Press this October 2025! This collection is a consideration of and a writing through what it (1/6)

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Some great submissions in so far - keep them coming!!

My Author Copies have arrived. My book is out on September 30th🔥 thank you, Routledge Books and thank you to my readers and friends ❤️

I’m hosting a guest session on making woven poems as part of this gorgeous full-day intensive at RuptureXIBIT with Anna Johnson on Saturday 25th Oct - do come along if you’d like a gentle yet focused day writing & making 🖤 eventbrite.co.uk/e/rupturexibit…

Brighton 💙

Today I donated some cool novels & short story collections to Brunel University of London Library’s Reading for Pleasure scheme, & made up a load of zines for the Creative Writing Society to give away at the Freshers Fair tomorrow 📚🖤

It was lovely welcoming the new Creative Writing BA students today Brunel University of London & giving them copies of Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie for our Nero Book Awards Big Read 💗

Summer’s over and autumn’s here… so its time to think about winter. The submission window for the final issue of 2025 is now open! Send in your short, minimal and concrete poems by 31st October ❄️🌀

MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 is now open for entries in both categories: The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines Deadline 31 January 2026 This year's judge is Rishi Dastidar Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊 Good luck! magmapoetry.com/competition/

Are you a worker in the creative, cultural or heritage space? I will be running a one hour lunchtime webinar (live & interactive) on reconnecting with JOY that I'd love for you to attend. It's rooted in Restorative Care Practice training. And, it's free❤️ literaryconsultancy.co.uk/event/reconnec…