Polis Loizou 🦊
@polisloizou.bsky.social
Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious • A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) 📚 • East Med to East Mids 🇨🇾🇬🇧 (he/him)
http://linktr.ee/polisloizou
http://linktr.ee/polisloizou
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Fox
Dolphin
Kangaroo
Viper
Monitor lizard
+bonus: multiple stag dos in Blackpool
Fox
Dolphin
Kangaroo
Viper
Monitor lizard
+bonus: multiple stag dos in Blackpool
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Chameleon
Stork
Fox
Porpoise
Hare
Chameleon
Stork
Fox
Porpoise
Hare
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Grass Snake
Deer
Seal
Dolphin
Armadillo
Grass Snake
Deer
Seal
Dolphin
Armadillo
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Fox
Dolphin
Kangaroo
Viper
Monitor lizard
+bonus: multiple stag dos in Blackpool
Fox
Dolphin
Kangaroo
Viper
Monitor lizard
+bonus: multiple stag dos in Blackpool
Back in the Granite City 🤩
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Back in the Granite City 🤩
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London film lovers!
The Regent Street Cinema is doing 50% off a membership until 1st December, making it just *£12.50* for the whole year
For this excellent price, you get:
2 free tickets
25% off tickets
15% off bar
No booking fees
AND
40% off an annual MUBI subscription
RUN, don't walk...
The Regent Street Cinema is doing 50% off a membership until 1st December, making it just *£12.50* for the whole year
For this excellent price, you get:
2 free tickets
25% off tickets
15% off bar
No booking fees
AND
40% off an annual MUBI subscription
RUN, don't walk...
November 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
London film lovers!
The Regent Street Cinema is doing 50% off a membership until 1st December, making it just *£12.50* for the whole year
For this excellent price, you get:
2 free tickets
25% off tickets
15% off bar
No booking fees
AND
40% off an annual MUBI subscription
RUN, don't walk...
The Regent Street Cinema is doing 50% off a membership until 1st December, making it just *£12.50* for the whole year
For this excellent price, you get:
2 free tickets
25% off tickets
15% off bar
No booking fees
AND
40% off an annual MUBI subscription
RUN, don't walk...
Having an out-of-body experience reading about this apparently kind, lovely agent who cares SO MUCH about authors, when my experience of querying them involved a terse response asking if my previous publisher had accepted the manuscript, to which I said no, followed by ghosting.
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Having an out-of-body experience reading about this apparently kind, lovely agent who cares SO MUCH about authors, when my experience of querying them involved a terse response asking if my previous publisher had accepted the manuscript, to which I said no, followed by ghosting.
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This is seriously worrying - do read the whole thread
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This is seriously worrying - do read the whole thread
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November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Your seasonal reminder that if you'd like to hear four ghost story writers reading their scary stories, here we go. It starts with my December horror, "Mrs. Velderkaust's Lease". Other stories by Sean Hogan, David Longhorn and Lynda E. Rucker!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmL...
Dead of Winter
YouTube video by helengrantsays
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Your seasonal reminder that if you'd like to hear four ghost story writers reading their scary stories, here we go. It starts with my December horror, "Mrs. Velderkaust's Lease". Other stories by Sean Hogan, David Longhorn and Lynda E. Rucker!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmL...
I've been going through such a body crisis these past few weeks that I was simply going to throw this away, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. So now I'm purposefully, literally, ingesting a stranger's kindness.
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I've been going through such a body crisis these past few weeks that I was simply going to throw this away, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. So now I'm purposefully, literally, ingesting a stranger's kindness.
Ahem.
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ahem.
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We're hiring! We're looking for a Social Media & Marketing Officer to join our team in the new year.
The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday, 14th December 2025.
More information on the role and application details here: tinyurl.com/iamloudjob
The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday, 14th December 2025.
More information on the role and application details here: tinyurl.com/iamloudjob
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We're hiring! We're looking for a Social Media & Marketing Officer to join our team in the new year.
The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday, 14th December 2025.
More information on the role and application details here: tinyurl.com/iamloudjob
The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday, 14th December 2025.
More information on the role and application details here: tinyurl.com/iamloudjob
It always warms my heart to see my second novel at my mum's house. She did the cover images — the front based on the brief I gave her, combining symbols of Cyprus, religion and Greek nationalism, and the back an existing abstract representation of our motherland.
[Full ramble on Insta]
[Full ramble on Insta]
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It always warms my heart to see my second novel at my mum's house. She did the cover images — the front based on the brief I gave her, combining symbols of Cyprus, religion and Greek nationalism, and the back an existing abstract representation of our motherland.
[Full ramble on Insta]
[Full ramble on Insta]
OK, all I'm getting from this is cringe, but I still prefer it one hundred million times to AI fascist bulldogs ridding the British streets of foreigners or whatever.
Hope is power.
Hope is power.
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
OK, all I'm getting from this is cringe, but I still prefer it one hundred million times to AI fascist bulldogs ridding the British streets of foreigners or whatever.
Hope is power.
Hope is power.
A few hours in London before I board a train to Scotland.
Tour leg 2, here we gooooo
Tour leg 2, here we gooooo
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A few hours in London before I board a train to Scotland.
Tour leg 2, here we gooooo
Tour leg 2, here we gooooo
The Nice Young Man sitting next to me on the coach gave me a free cookie. 🥹
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The Nice Young Man sitting next to me on the coach gave me a free cookie. 🥹
Why fly to a sunny climate for Christmas, when you could board a Flixbus with the heating cranked up to the actual sun?
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Why fly to a sunny climate for Christmas, when you could board a Flixbus with the heating cranked up to the actual sun?
Remaining humble by remembering the time that I — a bisexual, bilingual migrant from an ethnically/racially vague country both European and Asian, where I was often mistaken for a foreigner — entered a writing comp with the theme of "in-betweenness" and didn't even make the longlist.
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Remaining humble by remembering the time that I — a bisexual, bilingual migrant from an ethnically/racially vague country both European and Asian, where I was often mistaken for a foreigner — entered a writing comp with the theme of "in-betweenness" and didn't even make the longlist.
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
It's 2025.
I have a suitcase.
I am thundering like a tidal wave towards the station.
This is surely the least successful form of marketing in history, and yet—
A group of chuggers asks me to stop and chat for a minute.
I have a suitcase.
I am thundering like a tidal wave towards the station.
This is surely the least successful form of marketing in history, and yet—
A group of chuggers asks me to stop and chat for a minute.
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It's 2025.
I have a suitcase.
I am thundering like a tidal wave towards the station.
This is surely the least successful form of marketing in history, and yet—
A group of chuggers asks me to stop and chat for a minute.
I have a suitcase.
I am thundering like a tidal wave towards the station.
This is surely the least successful form of marketing in history, and yet—
A group of chuggers asks me to stop and chat for a minute.
Books* and bakes**
*for me
**for my sister's birthday
*for me
**for my sister's birthday
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Books* and bakes**
*for me
**for my sister's birthday
*for me
**for my sister's birthday
There are few things better than Scene 3 of "The Crucible".
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
There are few things better than Scene 3 of "The Crucible".
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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"I DNF first-person books if I can't relate to the protagonist" is a kind of illiteracy.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"I DNF first-person books if I can't relate to the protagonist" is a kind of illiteracy.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
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The Thelmas are hiring an Executive Director to lead on governance, finance, income generation, and organisational development as we take our work to the next level.
💼 £31,250 (12-month freelance)
🗓 Deadline: 12 Dec 2025
📍 UK-based, flexible
👉 www.thethelmas.co.uk/jobs
💼 £31,250 (12-month freelance)
🗓 Deadline: 12 Dec 2025
📍 UK-based, flexible
👉 www.thethelmas.co.uk/jobs
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The Thelmas are hiring an Executive Director to lead on governance, finance, income generation, and organisational development as we take our work to the next level.
💼 £31,250 (12-month freelance)
🗓 Deadline: 12 Dec 2025
📍 UK-based, flexible
👉 www.thethelmas.co.uk/jobs
💼 £31,250 (12-month freelance)
🗓 Deadline: 12 Dec 2025
📍 UK-based, flexible
👉 www.thethelmas.co.uk/jobs
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Book news! Delighted to share the cover of my next book. Out 10/02/26 @renardpress.com
Read about it here: renardpress.com/books/all-th... It’s a short novel, creeping, unsettling and a book of taboo and that’s for sure. 📚💙
Read about it here: renardpress.com/books/all-th... It’s a short novel, creeping, unsettling and a book of taboo and that’s for sure. 📚💙
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Book news! Delighted to share the cover of my next book. Out 10/02/26 @renardpress.com
Read about it here: renardpress.com/books/all-th... It’s a short novel, creeping, unsettling and a book of taboo and that’s for sure. 📚💙
Read about it here: renardpress.com/books/all-th... It’s a short novel, creeping, unsettling and a book of taboo and that’s for sure. 📚💙
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A very very happy 5th birthday to Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel.
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A very very happy 5th birthday to Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel.
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
🎉🥳🎈🎊🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊🎈🎁🎂
🦩🏩
Thanks to @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social for believing in me, getting it out there, and releasing a brand new edition!
www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...