Farewell

On Thursday night, my little book of poetry and short stories was published by The Braag | Press & Journal in Newcastle. It was exciting and emotional. A massive thank you to my editor Kym Deyn 🔮.

The Fairy Procession by Errol Le Cain (1941-1989)

It’s funny how the government aren’t willing to put any money behind the ME Delivery Plan considering how desperate they are to cut the welfare bill and get chronically ill people into work. They just can’t put two and two together. #PwME

'It’s a two-tier system where you can either afford to do an unpaid internship and have a career in the arts or you can’t.' theguardian.com/culture/2025/f…

Please help me bring poetry into disrepute: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-little-r…

Who for a story? Who for a tale? Thank you Reactor Magazine for revealing the stunning cover for my debut novella, AUDITION FOR THE FOX! Arrives 9/16 from Tachyon Publications, illustrated/designed by @hyperbolictelly, get a closer look & exclusive excerpt below!🦊💜 reactormag.com/ccover-reveal-…

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Finding twt increasingly gross these days! I've been at 🟦 for ages Kym Deyn 🔮.bsky.social 💙

1 in 5 employers won't hire a disabled person. We are twice as likely to be unemployed and have to apply for 60% more jobs. There are only 23 truly remote jobs in ‘Disability Confident’ organisations in the whole of the UK. Cutting PIP won’t get more disabled people in work.

Slam of the North brings together the best performance poets from five northern universities to compete over one exciting evening! For 1 night only, we are bringing together the best performance poets from 5 northern universities to compete in a spectacular celebration of poetry!

im so tired of AI. restaurants have AI ads on billboards and my little cousins show me AI memes on tiktok and my friend treats chat gpt like her bestie and every trend on twitter is related to AI im so fucking tired of AI how can no one else see how bleak life has become

William Stafford

I get yelled at for saying this but children enjoy being challenged and it's good for them to read books that are a bit difficult. In my experience, adults are the ones trying to keep them from classics while the kids are aching to read Dracula, Jane Austen and Jane Eyre.

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Black Cat by Maya Fidawi

The Government has today announced it is keeping the existing copyright exhaustion regime, after previous suggestions that would have been catastrophic for UK authors. Thank you to everyone who joined the Save Our Books campaign back in 2021 💪 alcs.co.uk/news/success-f…

PRIMERS returns. We're thrilled to announce that the selecting editor for our biannual mentoring and publication scheme is poet Laurie Bolger Now in it's eight edition, the ever-popular and unique Primers search begins today. Find out more here: ninearchespress.com/primers