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Today is 7 years on the job as Director of Literary Arts at @banffcentre.bsky.social . Since 2018 we've built 40+ residency programs for over 900 writers with equitable scholarship rates, topical residencies, international faculty & studio space for writers: www.banffcentre.ca/literary-arts
October 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Once the soul leaves the body, he will not fly to the monstrous shrine where all the war dead went & continue to go, but to that farm by the river where white shy herons glide in the quiet sky.

Read IMAGINARY DEATH by Mariko Nagai, published #OpenAccess & FREE to download:

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September 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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My new novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, is published TODAY. The hardback may not be out in the UK yet - it's listed for the end of October here - but the ebook is certainly available now. Here are some links but please feel free to buy wherever you can find it: amzn.to/3IOGJRw
The Heist of Hollow London
The Heist of Hollow London eBook : Robson, Eddie: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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September 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...
British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press
At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...
uolpress.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"This goes nowhere you'd expect, but incisively gets under the skin of the times we live in. Humorous, horrifying, compelling." -- Adam Paxman
www.erratumpress.com/last-days-of... @stevehanson.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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I loved this book - it's proper gorgeous.
You’ve done the homework on the maps
but never trained that diligence within
and these waves’ mesmeric persistence
becomes your ultimatum. Time to think.

'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com

A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey

Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
August 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Latest cfp - special (autumn 2026) issue of Foundation on pulp sf. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
August 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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An audio documentary about Colin Ward which tells the story of anarchy in the UK through his life and work, and an alternative history of the 20th century seen from an anarchist perspective. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/cl...
August 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
August 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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URGENT: The Israeli government has announced a complete invasion of the Gaza Strip, and last night the IDF murdered five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza including its most prominent reporter Anas Al Sharif.

No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW. action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...
URGENT: No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW.
The Israeli government has announced a complete invasion of the Gaza Strip, and last night the IDF murdered five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza including its most prominent reporter, Anas al-Sharif. We are
action.eko.org
August 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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download free PDFs of my books FRACTAL ECONOMIES (derekbeaulieu.ca/wp-content/u...), FLATLAND (writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors...), CHAINS (derekbeaulieu.ca/wp-content/u...), and HOW TO WRITE (derekbeaulieu.ca/wp-content/u...)
August 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The Queen of Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms just once a year at night and only for a few hours.
July 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Now streaming on BBC sounds in case anyone else needs their midwinter fix www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Dark Is Rising - 1. Midwinter Eve - BBC Sounds
This night will be bad. Tomorrow will be beyond all imagining
www.bbc.co.uk
December 14, 2024 at 6:40 AM
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MOREAU’S DOCTORED BODIES, cover to cover, one page per day.

Day 94: page 92
December 11, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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First up, THE VENUS ATMOSPHERE: COLLAGE POEMS by Emma Filtness. mixam.co.uk/print-on-dem...
December 10, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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MOREAU’S DOCTORED BODIES, cover to cover, one page per day.

Day 90: page 88
December 7, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Definitely, Ice Floe is always interested in experimental/hybrid work, EIC @rfredekenter.bsky.social has a beautiful eye & passion for it - all the best @taniahershman.bsky.social - & Janis, thank you for the shout!
November 24, 2024 at 7:22 AM
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MOREAU’S DOCTORED BODIES, cover to cover, one page per day.

(Paperback available here: mixam.co.uk/print-on-dem...)

Day 1: outer front cover

(Very long thread)
September 9, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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So little is exciting these days. But THIS... well this is very exciting.
September 15, 2023 at 9:06 PM