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Author Jane Dunn
@janedunnbooks.bsky.social
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Once a happy biographer, now a happy fiction writer, but who knows what's next?
Loves whippets, ancient houses, trees & Avebury
https://www.boldwoodbooks.com/contributor/jane-dunn/
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Author Jane Dunn @janedunnbooks.bsky.social · 2d
Check it out 😀

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Paddy Heron 🇺🇦 on X: "@JaneDunnAuthor Hi Jane Thank you for supporting @BBCCiN again this year. Below is a link to your lot on Children in Read 2025 Can you share it across all your socials to your friends, fans, and followers? ♥️ https://t.co/k43BlMrjQe https://t.co/FsecPvED8S" / X
@JaneDunnAuthor Hi Jane Thank you for supporting @BBCCiN again this year. Below is a link to your lot on Children in Read 2025 Can you share it across all your socials to your friends, fans, and followers? ♥️ https://t.co/k43BlMrjQe https://t.co/FsecPvED8S
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gnomebadhi.bsky.social
Apparently, the American dream is to not pay taxes.

That being said, Americans that work and pay taxes are sacrificing their dreams for people that can already afford theirs ten times over.

#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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gnomebadhi.bsky.social
#Americans,
Here's the basics I've put together on how you can take part in a national general strike.
#noICE #yeswecan
You can start tomorrow or next year. Anytime before our demands are met.
#protests #antifa
Thank you for your attention to this matter. 😉

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ALT: a man holding a microphone with the words we 've done this before
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October 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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kateinkharkiv.bsky.social
President of the European Council António Costa announced that the EU has reached an agreement to provide €90 billion in funding for Ukraine for 2026–2027‼️‼️‼️
December 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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nowsentient.bsky.social
I asked if anyone would like to read a love poem, as I’m sick to death with the horror news continually.
A few folks said yes so here it is, hope it’s worthy.
August 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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helenlaycock.bsky.social
It’s an absolute honour to have a dark #spokenword #video poem chosen by @rfredekenter.bsky.social and @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social for its December New Works feature.

#poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity

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SINKING BELOW THE WATERLINE – A Video Poem by Helen Laycock
SINKING BELOW THE WATERLINE The moon tugs at the hem of my dress                       …
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December 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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helenlaycock.bsky.social
This poem was inspired by the true story of Tahlequah, an Orca mother, who carried her dead baby for 17 days, for thousands of miles... evidence that animals do experience #grief.

Shared today for #twentyforecopoetry
Published in 'ELEMENTAL'.

#poetry #Orca

#Blueskypoets #poetsofBlueky #SkyPoets
AN OCEAN OF ORCA TEARS by Helen Laycock Tahlequah corkscrews, throwing her belly to the light, showing the sky her feat through the wobble of water; she has made flesh and fin in the time the earth has rolled around the sun. Like water from a whip, she spins out the little life – Tali – tail first, a dark fizz of celebration exploding like her silent joy. Parallel shadows, they are carbon copies, paper and ink, swimming with magnetic hearts, noses softly drilling the beginning of miles. Thirty sleek minutes of nourishment, mimic, brushing, no rush, eye to eye, knowing love before the stopped breath. The tsunami of grief. Death. The calf is limp, bent over her mother’s beak like a wilted stalk, brined, dying, tail a broken arrowhead skimming the waves. Tahlequah adorns herself with a Tali headdress, hour upon hour, straining to keep it afloat, as though it is made of flowers the water will brown. For a thousand miles, death squats on her face, replaces the horizon, the rise and fall of seventeen suns, the spill of the milky moon, night after night after night. The carcass rots as she carries it aloft, bearing it like a saved gift. She dives when it slides and sinks, scoops the corpse like a haul of silver, lifts it to the sun, maybe in prayer, maybe to warm its blood. She follows the pod, eyes pleading as though a healer will emerge, and they tip the body from whale to whale, feeling the grief, sharing the load, until she sheds the load. She does not turn as it slips away, submerges in her wake. Waves swill the blemish of death from her skin; it braids the tide of a far land, but she bears the cliff fall of its weight. Feels the density of emptiness, pressing, pressing, though she is now wholly indiscernible from the rest. From 'ELEMENTAL'
November 20, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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rodrhimes.bsky.social
Michael has lived among mortals for over 600 years. Now, the main suspect in a cluster of serial killings he is fighting for his life as past and present collide.

The link:
👇👇👇
www.amazon.com/dp/B00GLCERBY/

#BookSky
#BookPost
#HorrorSky
#ReadingSky
📚💙 📮📚 🩸📚

The cover (No AI):
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December 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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rodrhimes.bsky.social
OMG! The Amazon link sizes correctly now!

Michael has lived among mortals for over 600 years. Now, the main suspect in a cluster of serial killings he is fighting for his life as past and present collide.

www.amazon.com/Taking-Life-...

#BookSky 📚💙
#BookPost📮📚
#horror🩸📚 ⚡️📚
#writerslift
Taking Life
A serial killer is stalking the patients in a San Francisco hospital. Michael, the centuries old immortal son of a Welsh goddess, is the prime suspect. While working on her masters thesis, a young wom...
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July 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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jan-steckel.bsky.social
Thank you to @marieclecrivain.bsky.social , editor of Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women's Arts and Writing Journal, for nominating my poem "Kol Nidre" for a Pushcart Prize! alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2025/12/mond...
Monday, December 1, 2025: Al-Khemia Poetica Pushcart Prize Nominees
This year’s Al-Khemia Poetica Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Press Nominees are: Lorraine Caputo "An Andean Dawn" (poem) Ann Huang’s "A...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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jan-steckel.bsky.social
Not using Uber until they announce that the antisemitic driver has been removed from their platform. I don't care what views any driver holds privately: kicking a woman onto a city street after midnight for being Jewish ought to be unacceptable to any ride-share service.
jmdc88.bsky.social JM 📎🟦🪬🎗️🥯🥡🥠🦀 @jmdc88.bsky.social · 13d
🧵 via @jewsfightback

🚨 SHE WAS KICKED OUT OF UBER FOR BEING JEWISH. 🚨

Miriam Mattova, a Jewish model and former Miss Slovakia, was tossed out of an Uber in the middle of the night in Toronto after she mentioned Israel on FaceTime.

1/3
Pro-Israel advocate and Canadian-Slovakian model Miriam Mattova poses with her grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. Photo by Anna Koniaeva
December 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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contemprainn.bsky.social
Timelapse of Orion, Sirius, Mars, and the Pleiades over West Oahu, Hawaii. #NightSky #Space 🌟 #MondayVibes
December 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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magedah.bsky.social
#YellowThu #EastCoastKin #DailyNature
A yellow, partially decayed leaf with a patch of exposed veins against a pale blue sky
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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kitchenraptorj.bsky.social
Wanted to add that I post what I want to post, and I'm not here to cater to anybody. I'm here to be kind to myself and others the best I can. If at any point you're not vibing with me, hit the bricks and block. Please always take care of yourself first ladies, gents and enbys💙
kitchenraptorj.bsky.social 𓂀 𓆗Jay𓆗𓂀 @kitchenraptorj.bsky.social · Oct 18
Since I moved from X last year, I've been very careful of how I curate my space. While I appreciate the recent follows, I may not return the favor. With my life and disabilities, I am picky about who and what I give my energy to. That being said, I appreciate y'all, and I love ya 💙🫂 have fun!
October 19, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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Question for the NZ bsky hivemind - Museums & Heritage-Studies postgrad quals, are they worth it?
December 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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niamhvh-l.bsky.social
Some big news which I'm excited to share - I've been selected as one of the recipients of the 2025 @nzsa.bsky.social mentorship programme! 📚💌 With the support of an established author, I'll be spending the rest of the year finishing a children's fantasy-fiction novel!

authors.org.nz/event/nzsa-m...
A screenshot of a webpage. At the top of the page there is an author-photo of a woman in her mid-20s facing toward the camera; she has thick, shoulder-length dark brown hair, is wearing round horn-rimmed glasses and a fitted black long-sleeve top. She is seated in front of a bookshelf to the left, and a window to the right, with her hands loosely crossed at the wrist resting over her knee. Beneath the photo is a center-aligned heading in black text reading "Niamh Hollis-Locke", and an extended author bio below. The bio reads as follows: "Niamh Hollis-Locke is a poet, writer, and chronic hobby-acquirer. Born in the UK but now based in Te Whanganui-a-tara, Niamh holds a BA in English Literature and History, a BA(Hons) (First Class) in English Literature with a thesis on Tolkien’s Monsters, and a Master’s degree in Creative Writing (thesis on ecofiction & Cormac McCarthy’s The Road). Her work has been published widely within Aotearoa, as well as Australia and the UK, and can be found in places like Starling, Rat World, Minarets, Takahē, and The Spinoff. In 2023 she was shortlisted for the Ginkgo Prize Best Landscape Poem award, and between 2023 and 2024 she was the guest-editor of Minarets (Compound Press). She has appeared at the Verb Wellington Writers’ Festival, Late Night Poetry Hour (Ōtautahi), the Yellow Lamp Poetry Series (Tāmaki Makaurau), and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery (Pōneke), but is much more comfortable at home by herself with a cup of tea and a book than she is on a stage.  While Niamh’s published works are primarily poetry and non-fiction, prose fiction is her first real love. With the generous support of this mentorship Niamh hopes to complete a children’s fantasy-fiction novel, with a view towards publication hopefully in the near-future" A screenshot of a webpage (from the NZ Society of Authors website). At the top of the page there is a sage-green banner bearing the text "NZSA Mentees Announced!" Above the text, superimposed over the green banner, there are 13 individual images of different writers - the images are cropped in to circles, and are arranged in two lines across the top of the banner. All of these author photos are the same size circle, one. all equidistant from oneanother. Below the banner there is a body-paragraph of text which lists the names of the mentorship recipients (mentees), and the cities they live in. The body-paragraph reads as follows: "The 2025 mentees are emerging writers with unique voices and we congratulate: Kirstie Baker-Slater (Whangaparāoa), Julie Biuso (Waiheke Island), Sheryn Dean (Tīrau), Nicola Dennis, (Ōtepoti | Dunedin), Emma Harris, (Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland), Niamh Hollis-Locke, (Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington), Chris Maoate (Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington), Michelle Mearns (Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland), Marlon Moala-Knox (Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington), Felicity Monk (Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland), Melanie Newfield (Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington), Jessica Thornley (Whāingaroa | Raglan), and Stephen Williams (Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington)."
March 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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carmellapoetry.bsky.social
If-mas ⭐
This anthology is going to be BRILLIANT!
Proud to have two 'ifs' within...
Thank you to Jack Caradoc for setting the bar higher with this new fresh standard for Christmas poetry.
@dreich.bsky.social
#Ifmas
#ComingSoon
#JackCaradoc
#TheCandymansTrumpet
#quirky
#unique
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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carmellapoetry.bsky.social
Excited to reveal that PRE-ORDERS for 🌜'THE LIMINAL LIGHT OF THE NIGHT'🌛 are OPEN! 💙 Special thank you to MARK DAVIDSON @hedgehogpress.co.uk for everything...🤍 & to MIRJANA MIRIC, Creator of @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social & Dr TANJA GOLDBERG PhD 💙 for their time and for their thoughtful reviews...🫶🏻
hedgehogpress.co.uk Hedgehog Poetry Press @hedgehogpress.co.uk · Dec 23
PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN: “The Liminal Light of the Night” – Carmella de Keyser

Well, what can I say, apart from
OMG this is a wee stunner from @carmellapoetry and
that you can ONLY buy
Signed
First Run
First Edition
copies
direct from the lady herself...

PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN: “The Liminal Light of the Night” – Carmella de Keyser
Well, I am more than rather chuffed to be able to announce that Pre-Orders Are Open for Carmella de Keyser’s astonishingly fine debut collection, featuring artwork from Vanya Milanova and som…
buff.ly
December 23, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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shaktibhakti.bsky.social
Second Chance

A door left ajar invites me back:
not to erase the past,
but to learn its weight.
Offering myself mercy,
I start a revolution.
The soft promise of tomorrow
opening my heart.

#micropoetry
July 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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oyoguhito.bsky.social
breezy
the last leaf the last leaf

wait! wait!

oyoguhito
#haiku
haikueye.blogspot.com
haiku eye
as eyes seize it
haikueye.blogspot.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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oyoguhito.bsky.social
wet day
sea’s there
i say
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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evecastle.bsky.social
tanka weekly #poetry challenge

December 18, 2025

this week’s prompt:

boot

write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
Tanka Society of America
Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tank...
www.tankasocietyofamerica.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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ianbadcoe.itch.io
#Google #Maps has become slightly more awkward to route plan with in the last couple of weeks...
A map of the UK absolutely swamped in location markers...
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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ianbadcoe.itch.io
New intro now I am retired...

Looking to get into some #Indie #GameDev now I have time. Want to write the games I wanted to write all along: #Roguelike #Roguelite #ProceduralContent ...

Also available to help other people with projects/personal development... Commercial or unpaid, drop me a
March 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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seanjbates.bsky.social
Who's coming to town?
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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seanjbates.bsky.social
these episodes are my comfort watch

Deep Local - Episode 3 youtu.be/guhSuWn0vYE by @rattysnake.bsky.social

#writingcommunity #cinepoem #poemsky #winterarc #cozy #cozycore #winter #poetry #5amwritersclub #chores #joepera
Deep Local | Ep. 3: Chores
YouTube video by Deep Local
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December 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM