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80 hours and 27 balls of yarn later= This handmade sweater. It costs $0 to retweet and help reach my target audience. thank you 🫶

Light is abundant in Lesley Curwen's 'Valentia Light', offering both protection from and disguising the dangers of an anticipated storm. Watch it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/lesley-curwen-… #FilmPoem #InkSweatAndTears

Submissions close tomorrow. Poetry publishers (in particular) don't miss out. Pamphlets, anthologies, self published all welcome!

Andrea Small's 'Night Out' puts into language the inertia of a freeze response experienced by a girl under threat during a night out. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/andrea-small-2/ #InkSweatandTears #FeaturedPoem #BirdPoem

Paula R. Hilton's 'Eating Apple Pie with Louisa May Alcott' is a comedy of desire and memory. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/paula-r-hilton/ #InkSweatAndTears #Poetry #LouisaMayAlcott

Rhonda Melanson's 'Holy Ground' meditates on gardening, particularly the more spiritual fruits of labour and earth. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/rhonda-melanso… #InkSweatandTears #Gardening #NatureWriting

Kobe Bryant revealed that greatness is just doing the same “boring” thing longer than everyone else:

Jena Woodhouse's 'The Kelpie' uses myth and memory to make sense of present-day suffering and illness. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jena-woodhouse… #ChronicIllness #Poetry #InkSweatandTears

Ibrar Sami's 'Return' explores the theme of resurgence in both its destructive and constructive iterations. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/ibrar-sami #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #FeaturedPoem

'Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process' Huge Congrats to @TadhgCarey whose poem 'Pivotal' is the IS&T #PickoftheMonth for Oct 2025. To revisit the poem & for more voters' comments go to inksweatandtears.co.uk/october-2025-p… #InkSweatandTears

Whatupdoe Detroit!!! I finally made a Youtube video about my trip to the 313!!! It's premiering soon so hopefully see you in the chat!!! Please.. like and subscribe!!! See you in the chat! It's my first time really posting on Youtube so I'm nervous 🤣 youtu.be/wefxBMIAaV4?si…

Hedy Hume's 'Manchester Piccadilly -> Wolverhampton' laments over a moment of alienation on public transport. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/hedy-hume/ #FeaturedPoem #InkSweatandTears #TrainPoetry

Jo Bardsley's micro-fiction 'A letter C' is a tale of deception and revenge which builds slowly. inksweatandtears.co.uk/jo-bardsley/ #Microfiction #InkSweatandTears #ShortStory

What 79 hours of crocheting looks like 😮‍💨

This is your annual reminder that the only one who decides when you're done submitting to a magazine is YOU 🫵 Never give up. Never surrender. Submit to these lit mags here: chillsubs.com/lists/one-pe... #writing #writingcommunity #litmags

This Saturday, I'll be leading an online poetry writing workshop, where we'll read together and write together. This is through Scotland's Push the Boat Out Festival. 9am PT/12pm ET. pushtheboatout.org/events/poetry-…

Matthew F. Amati's 'Hands Said To Head' is a hilarious personification of different body parts as they try to attribute blame to each other. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/matthew-f-amat… #Poetry #Humour #InkSweatandTears

Meg Pokrass's 'Cat Swarm' is a meditation on the way we regard the ageing population, rife with playful feline imagery. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/40966-2/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Cats

This hurts. 'A Cry' from Mariam Saidan, a response to female singing as a ‘forbidden act' (Article 638 of the Islamic Penal Code). Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/mariam-saidan-… #InkSweatandTears #Poetry

Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/Ep1in3e #writingcommunity