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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈
@taniahershman.bsky.social
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Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️‍🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 13d
It's publication day for FUEL ebook—with 75 prizewinning flash fictions plus TWELVE bonus flash stories not in the print book! It's a great read *and* all profits go to UK fuel poverty charities. The print book raised over £4k; winter is coming, help us raise more: www.fuelflash.net/product/fuel...
The cover of the FUEL ebook, with a large photo of a yellow petrol pump, below which are the words FUEL: An Anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, edited by Tania Hershman. There is a banner across the top right hand corner which says "Ebook with 12 Bonus Prize-Winning Stories!"
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 9h
Might I highly recommend the Quiet Posters feed here on BlueSky with posts from those who don't raise their voices much? It's my source of serenity, art, poetry and more, it's what I love about social media. Yes, my other feeds include Cats! *and* Cat Pics, what of it??
A screenshot of my Quiet Posters feed, with this text: ‪The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret‬ ‪@oldoptheatre.bsky.social‬ · 3m ⚰️ ☠️ This Thursday, Dr Cat Byers will be bringing 'Death & The City' to the Old Operating Theatre. Discover the histories of crime, corruption and illegal cadaver trading in Gilded Age New York. 🔗 Tickets available now: oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/... @heymorguegirl #OldOpTheatre ‪Thomas S Brown‬ ‪@tomsbrown.bsky.social‬ · 9m I am going to have such a large whiskey when we pass the Tories! I'd better keep it handy at this rate! ‪CarolineJMolloy‬ ‪@carolinejmolloy.bsky.social‬ · 18m 110,000 🤩 ‪Adam Horovitz‬ ‪@adamhorovitz.bsky.social‬ · 7m Better get it in soon at this rate. Definitely would warrant a particularly good whisky too… ‪Bill Herbert‬ ‪@billherbert.bsky.social‬ · 28m Like that noted admirer of carpets, Walter Wall, we are terribly keen on floor coverings, us. We are therefore delighted by how well Elena Brake’s poem about her home town, Axminster, fits into the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/e... Elena Brake: Where They Make Carpets My town is a carpeted town paths underlaid, edges trimmed rolls of royal fabric spin over looms, spill repeated patterns weave bridges over rivers tuck tunnels under carriageways in and under out a…
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Astra Papachristodoulou @heyastranaut.bsky.social · 11h
The copies of our newspaper are here! What a beautiful thing! Order the first issue of The Visual Poetry Times now via @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social - it’s small but packed with visual poetry fun ❤️ I’m now off to post the contributors’ copies. www.thepoetrykiosk.com
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 10h
This looks wonderful, off to order it!
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 2d
Do you have "Fear of Physics"? Let me cure you at my Zoom writing workshop, When Physics & Fairy Tales Collide, Mon Oct 20 7-9pm UK! We'll play with weird & wonderful physics words, celebrate female physicists and invent particles! Pay-what-you-can available: app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
A screenshot where the top half of the screen has white writing on a green background, and it says When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide - Zoom Writing Workshop Mon 20 Oct 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST Online, Zoom. Underneath is a picture of different coloured brightly lit lines, and the text: "Physics is philled with galaxies of inspiration for writers of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and hybrids, from delicious terms like 'charmed quark', 'gluon', 'boojum', 'superstring' and the 'luminiferous aether' to mysterious and magical concepts such as 'dark' energy', 'parallel universes' and 'quantum gravity". Writers have been using fairy tales as inspiration for centuries, borrowing characters, structures and general fairytaleishness. What might result from the collision of these two universes? Let's experiment, creating physics fairy tales, naming our own subatomic particles, and inviting Snow White, Goldilocks and all the dwarves into the lab!" On the right it says: When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide - Zoom Writing Workshop Mon 20 Oct 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST Online, Zoom.
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 10h
Love this (I have a weakness for pieces with bullet points), by @corinnaboard.bsky.social, in the new issue of @perversemag.bsky.social! #cacti

"I visit the cacti in the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew. I stay there for a long time and stand very still. The air around me prickles."
Screen shot of this piece from Perverse poetry mag: Corinna Board Cacti A saguaro cactus can live for over 150 years and reach heights of up to 60 feet. In a scene from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the Man With No Name is standing next to a saguaro cactus, smoking a cigarillo. I am always drawn to the bad guy. This is why I need thorns. A human body is 60% water. A cactus is 90% water. When Diego Rivera painted Landscape with Cacti (1931), he anthropomorphised the cacti. One of them appears to have breasts. My French ex gave me a cactus. I gave it to a co-worker for her birthday, and she pretended to be grateful. In 1967, Jacques Dutronc sang dans leurs coeurs, il y a des cactus on live TV. I visit the cacti in the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew. I stay there for a long time and stand very still. The air around me prickles. I am convinced I was a cactus in a previous life. Once every 100 years, I flower.
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 1d
Happy @adalovelaceday.bsky.social! Just planning my When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide Zoom writing workshop for next Mon, including a celebration of Maria Goeppert Mayer - the 2nd woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics - & her shell theory of the nucleus! app.tickettailor.com/events/tania... 🧪
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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 1d
Ada Lovelace Day has begun! As midnight arrives on Kiritimati Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, our global celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths begins! Join us in celebrating by posting about your fave women in STEM #ALD25!
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 2d
Do you have "Fear of Physics"? Let me cure you at my Zoom writing workshop, When Physics & Fairy Tales Collide, Mon Oct 20 7-9pm UK! We'll play with weird & wonderful physics words, celebrate female physicists and invent particles! Pay-what-you-can available: app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
A screenshot where the top half of the screen has white writing on a green background, and it says When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide - Zoom Writing Workshop Mon 20 Oct 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST Online, Zoom. Underneath is a picture of different coloured brightly lit lines, and the text: "Physics is philled with galaxies of inspiration for writers of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and hybrids, from delicious terms like 'charmed quark', 'gluon', 'boojum', 'superstring' and the 'luminiferous aether' to mysterious and magical concepts such as 'dark' energy', 'parallel universes' and 'quantum gravity". Writers have been using fairy tales as inspiration for centuries, borrowing characters, structures and general fairytaleishness. What might result from the collision of these two universes? Let's experiment, creating physics fairy tales, naming our own subatomic particles, and inviting Snow White, Goldilocks and all the dwarves into the lab!" On the right it says: When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide - Zoom Writing Workshop Mon 20 Oct 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST Online, Zoom.
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 5d
In my latest Highly Irregular newsletter I talk about what's happened since I started offering unlimited free & pay-what-you-can places on my own Zoom writing workshops in January. It's not what I - and maybe you - might have expected, in the best way! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...
Highly Irregular Newsletter #34 Oct 2025
FUEL ebook, physics collides with fairy tales, warm up your writing muscle, and more cheering and celebration, and musings on the gift economy
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Stella Duffy @stellduffy.bsky.social · 4d
Workshop 6pm Monday 27th Oct (recording also available) in #postmenopause as a time of creative possibility. An existential, psychotherapeutic and creative look at #menopause as turning point, opening towards our vital third act. All welcome.
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How to Reframe the Transition to Postmenopause as a Creative Turning Point
What if we looked beyond colonial Euro-North American ideas of ageing to learn from other cultures? And what creative possibilities might open for us if we perceived the transition to postmenopause an...
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 5d
In my latest Highly Irregular newsletter I talk about what's happened since I started offering unlimited free & pay-what-you-can places on my own Zoom writing workshops in January. It's not what I - and maybe you - might have expected, in the best way! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...
Highly Irregular Newsletter #34 Oct 2025
FUEL ebook, physics collides with fairy tales, warm up your writing muscle, and more cheering and celebration, and musings on the gift economy
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 5d
Wow, that's quite the synchronicity! Mine is a real rabbit, belonging to the MC's neices and nephews. Should we take this as a sign?
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 5d
I'm quite intrigued. I'm 150 pages in and hadn't thought this was that kind of book, but I'm open to everything...
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 5d
When you wake up with the idea for the next scene of your novel and it involves one of your (human) main characters talking to a rabbit. (Yes, I have just begun writing the scene. No, the rabbit hasn't spoken. Yet.)
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 7d
I added a new section, The Palace of Cheering & Celebration, to my newsletter to celebrate good news I've been told about any piece of writing that's come out of one of my workshops or Unbox Your Words monthly prompts! If you've been on one of my workshops, send me your news, let us celebrate you 🥳
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 9d
In my Newsletter I talk about the FUEL ebook, 2 new Zoom workshops, do more cheering in the Palace of Cheering & Celebration, and muse about the gift economy, The Commons & the “counter-intuitive” mystery of free workshop tickets in Permission Corner! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...
A photograph of the front cover of the FUEL anthology ebook, with a banner across the top right hand corner saying "Ebook with 12 bonus prize-winning stories", a picture of a yellow petrol pump, and below the words "FUEL" in large font. Overlaid in white font is the text "HIghly Irregular Newsletter #34 Oct 2025: FUEL ebook, physics collides with fairy tales, warm up your writing muscle, and more cheering and celebration, and musings on the gift economy" and below the web link taniahershman.substack.com.
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 14d
"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?"
The Dawn of Everything, @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
This is a quote from The Dawn of Everything by David Graber and David Wengrow: "We are projects of collective self-creation. What if we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?"
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Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social · 9d
Next up, tomorrow night I'm facilitating this free, online event on art and grief for the @goodgrieffest.bsky.social : www.goodgrieffest.com/events/lette... . Come join us, and please share!
Letters to Forever: Using Art to Express and Share Grief [Online panel] - Good Grief
Why do we turn to creativity when we are bereaved? And how can art help us connect to the people we have lost and express how we feel? In a panel discussion for everyone interested in the relationship...
www.goodgrieffest.com
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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 10d
Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
Background image shows an open notebook and pen on a wooden table. The text reads: Publishing Your Work - October 2025, Poetry & Writing Submissions - Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies. www.thisiswordbox.com
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 9d
In my Newsletter I talk about the FUEL ebook, 2 new Zoom workshops, do more cheering in the Palace of Cheering & Celebration, and muse about the gift economy, The Commons & the “counter-intuitive” mystery of free workshop tickets in Permission Corner! taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...
A photograph of the front cover of the FUEL anthology ebook, with a banner across the top right hand corner saying "Ebook with 12 bonus prize-winning stories", a picture of a yellow petrol pump, and below the words "FUEL" in large font. Overlaid in white font is the text "HIghly Irregular Newsletter #34 Oct 2025: FUEL ebook, physics collides with fairy tales, warm up your writing muscle, and more cheering and celebration, and musings on the gift economy" and below the web link taniahershman.substack.com.
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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 12d
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist
The £10,000 award, whose judges include Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan, recognises ‘mould-breaking’ fiction
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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 11d
*Drum roll* Announcing our #GoldenBookmark competition. WIN BOOKS FOR LIFE and support independent bookshops! bit.ly/GoldenBookma...
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 13d
We've just had our first sale! "How wonderful! I’ve been waiting for the ebook!" they said. So delighted to hear that 😊
#FlashFiction #FuelPoverty #CharityAnthology ⛽
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 13d
It's publication day for FUEL ebook—with 75 prizewinning flash fictions plus TWELVE bonus flash stories not in the print book! It's a great read *and* all profits go to UK fuel poverty charities. The print book raised over £4k; winter is coming, help us raise more: www.fuelflash.net/product/fuel...
The cover of the FUEL ebook, with a large photo of a yellow petrol pump, below which are the words FUEL: An Anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, edited by Tania Hershman. There is a banner across the top right hand corner which says "Ebook with 12 Bonus Prize-Winning Stories!"
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Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 3
Look what just arrived! Hugely looking forward to reading this beautiful book by @taniahershman.bsky.social and pub'd by @guillemotpress.bsky.social
The cover of the book titled "it's time, a chronomemoir" by Tania hershman and published by Guillemot Press
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Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social · 12d
I’m SUPREMELY proud to be in this anthology of award-winning flash stories - which is also raising money for people facing fuel poverty this winter. The sheer calibre of the writers I’m with is humbling. So if you want to read the best of flash fiction (and me) buy this jam-packed bargain of a book.
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 13d
It's publication day for FUEL ebook—with 75 prizewinning flash fictions plus TWELVE bonus flash stories not in the print book! It's a great read *and* all profits go to UK fuel poverty charities. The print book raised over £4k; winter is coming, help us raise more: www.fuelflash.net/product/fuel...
The cover of the FUEL ebook, with a large photo of a yellow petrol pump, below which are the words FUEL: An Anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, edited by Tania Hershman. There is a banner across the top right hand corner which says "Ebook with 12 Bonus Prize-Winning Stories!"
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 12d
So delighted to have your wonderful story in there, Jaime!
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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 13d
It's publication day for FUEL ebook—with 75 prizewinning flash fictions plus TWELVE bonus flash stories not in the print book! It's a great read *and* all profits go to UK fuel poverty charities. The print book raised over £4k; winter is coming, help us raise more: www.fuelflash.net/product/fuel...
The cover of the FUEL ebook, with a large photo of a yellow petrol pump, below which are the words FUEL: An Anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, edited by Tania Hershman. There is a banner across the top right hand corner which says "Ebook with 12 Bonus Prize-Winning Stories!"
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