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Mum. Writer. Journalist The Guardian, The Australian, SMH, Salon.com Amazon no. 1. The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. Feisty Females Medieval short stories https://rosanna-mcglone.sumupstore.com/products

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · Nov 21

This new thing seems to be panning out okay, doesn’t it? Here’s a 🧵 about me. I’m a journalist and have recently interviewed some fabulous poets on redrafting for the Australian sequel to The Process of Poetry @[email protected] & I on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Front Row - Movie stars Adam Driver and Bill Nighy, author AL Kennedy, and the Process of Poetry - BBC Sounds

Adam Driver in Ferrari, Radio Drama with Bill Nighy and AL Kennedy, the Process of Poetry

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 2h

I had an email from a lovely member of our writing community today. She was highly apologetic at having to pull out of something because of health issues. Some things are far more important than ✍️. Let's take care of each other.

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 5h

It's a yes from me, James. What an evocative piece of writing.

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 7h

I hope that's not a laugh of recognition, Lorelei.

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 7h

I love that my mishap is so inspirational 😃

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 8h

And the 'odd for early October' 🤣 I've got to work. Anyone else?

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 8h

I particularly like the 'Geoffrey ( or someone you dislike)' line 😃

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 8h

Touche

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 8h

Not one that shows me in a good light! 🤣

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 8h

So who else has gone from being cock- a- hoop about passing their MOT with minor expenditure, to running over their own wheelie bin in the space of a week?😅#Thankfullyitsplastic

a blue car is driving down a wet street next to a white van .

Alt: a blue car is driving down a wet street next to a white van .

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 10h

Love it!

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 11h

Good luck, Mike. Some interesting info on the novella market in the comments here. Please contribute, if you know of any other potential publishers for this fairly niche form? 🙏 #novellas #publishers

Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social · 1d

If thirty thousand words makes a novella, then I seem to have written one. Never thought to submit, until a writer I admire asked to read it and said I should. Is there a home for a 30K novella in this world?

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 12h

Heartwarming start to my day with a v unexpected email from someone who stocks Feisty Females suggesting that I enter it for a local award! 😊 🙏 😊 Please share rosanna-mcglone.sumupstore.com/product/feis...

Feisty Females

Feisty Females tells the stories of some of Lincolnshire's most fascinating medieval women including Nicholaa de la Haye, Alice de Lacy and Gwenllian, the last Princess of Wales. Praise for Feist...

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 1d

Do you work at a small U.S. liberal arts college or at a university with 5,000 or fewer undergrads? If so, check out Rare Book School’s 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀!

Application deadline: 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

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A vertically oriented graphic shows a photo of a smiling woman in glasses and a blue RBS apron with her hands lifted high as she claps in celebration. A blue bar extending horizontally below her reads, in white text, “The M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography & Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources.” This is flanked by white text against black reading: “Apply Now! Learn more about this and other RBS funding opportunities at rarebookschool.org.” The right third of the graphic has black and red text against a white background, reading, “A two-year program for faculty, librarians & curators at U.S. liberal arts colleges & small universities. Equips instructors with bibliographically informed teaching methods using original historical sources. Includes two Rare Book School courses, an annual stipend for travel & housing & matching funds for book-historical projects at fellows’ home institutions. Application Deadline: 7 December 2025.”

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

My pleasure! I think we all gain from the members of the Bluesky community with whom we choose to interact.

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations, Paul. How exciting is this? 🎊

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

I hope it involves pavlova?

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LawrieBhoy 🍀 @lawriebhoy.bsky.social · 1d

Carol malone. “Migrants should speak english”.

Zack Polanski. “ I agree, we should give them some help to learn the language and help them integrate”.

Malone. “ NO. NO. NO. WHY SHOULD WE HELP THEM LEARN ENGLISH AND INTEGRATE!!!!!!!!”

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I did delve into some grim details in my research. 😲

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

I feel that, when health permits, a road trip to visit all of your poems would be the way to go, Peter. Congratulations on your latest success and what a marvellous place to have your work displayed 🎊

Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to have work in the group show ‘SEASONS’ at The Addenbrooke’s Gallery/ Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ 11 October 2025 – 31 January 2026 .

Huge thanks to Monica Perez Vega and the Small Works Gallery

www.cambridgedrawingsociety.org/.../seasons....
smallworksartgallery.com/.../seasons-...

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

Where were you when I was writing Feisty Females, Nicola? 🤣

Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, where are we at with research on medieval midwives? Session next week on women's bodies, medicine, childbirth and whatnot.

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

May I just say I know considerably more odd poets than this 😂
Do go, I misread it as 'poetry and pavlova' which was an added draw!

Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com · 1d

It's less than a fortnight until Poetry and Palaver 3 (The madness of Poetry and Palaver). If you can make it by plane, train, automobile, e-bike, or shanks's pony, do come along.

A seated King George III, with Mike O'Brien peeping over his arm, with a snail, a fish a giraffe a pair of spectacles and the sixty odd flower publicising an event in Mexborough, Town of Culture.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 2d

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds exciting, Paul? Well done you!

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

My last smattering of Sunday mistiness... Have a good day all, wherever in the world you are #StaplefordWoods #Landscapephotography #photosky #photography #nature

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for a really interesting thread, Cassidy. (Ironically, on there being few threads in the past. )

Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 2d

I think a lot of people don't quite grasp how little documentation of a legal identity anyone had before, like, the 1930s. No social security number, no green card, no driver's license. This made you reliant on your social network; OTOH nobody could force you to write your name a certain way.