Dihya Tamaghza

Special Issue 0 Lunar Sea Literary are proud to present their Inaugural Issue Number 0 for Winter of 2025/2026. This was a themed issue created surrounding the following excerpt from Frida Kahlo’s Journal: “…

Our Winter Issue is Live!

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illustration of a dear accompanied by blood-red text reading: search the doe on roadsides winding vestigial flesh a wounding fall witness the torrent of crimson gather at her hooves life’s lashes l i n g e r only guilt fills the silence with its dull thud

Driving home from a Nova Twins gig late at night in the fog and seeing flashes of deer-signs & roadkill makes for some strange dreams... 🦌🍂🌗

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#poetry #deer #naturepoetry #litmag #scottishcreatives #art #writing

We have decided to offer FREE FEEDBACK & EDITS to writers under 25 years of age submitting to us in October, February, and July! Simply make a note in your submission if you would like to opt in.

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Lunar Sea Literary Exploring the vastness and diversity of human voice from the Moon to the deepest seas.

We have officially opened for General Submissions! Simply email us at: lunarsealiterary@gmail.com. Read our first post below to get a feel for what we are after. Always free 🌙

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Just launched an online literary magazine that I've been working on this past year. Eager to read what everybody has to send us! We are accepting fiction, poetry, CNF, and artwork. #literarymag #openforsubmission #fiction #poetry #writersofbluesky #artmagazine
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The Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2025 is now open!

One story. 1,000 words. One shot at glory.

This year, we’re going big: one annual competition to celebrate the best in flash fiction.

Enter now! 👉 oxfordflashfictionprize.com

#FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #OxfordFlashFictionPrize

Marginalia literary circle is a new free book club for UK-based LGBT, POC, and disabled peoples. This is a cover image featuring a unicorn wearing pink sunglasses.

New book club just dropped! If you live in the UK and identify as LGBT+, POC, or disabled and want to discuss the greatest literature has to offer with your peers, then bop into our Discord to join our free book club! 🏰
discord.gg/WpPYY55B #bookclub #lgbtbooks #pocbooks #disabledbooks

Casually waking up in the middle of the night remembering that great crested newts smell like pea shoots or roasted nuts and nobody knows why...

#herpetofauna #biology #evolution #insomnia #herpetology #newts #greatcrestednewts

As an autistic person... WTF?

Is Oxygen Produced in the Deep Sea? The year 2013 was characterised by the Zombie Apocalypse Hoax, a third North Korean nuclear test, the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion, the start of Pope Francis’ reign, the largest tornado ever record…

What is 'Dark Oxygen' and why is NASA interested in it?

#deeepsea #sciencecommunication #biology #chemistry #geoscience

Do you want a synopsis? 🫠😭

She's already repeatedly begged for cuddles and scratches, snuggled up on my legs of her own volition. Absolute doll. Wasn't expecting her to take to us so quickly and naturally.

She's so precious 🥹

This week's reading 💙📚
One for leisure, one for research for my next write.

#books #witches #history #literature #bookreview #literaryprize #booksky #readingsky

Getting a cat for a trial period to make sure she'd be happy in our living space and with our lifestyle. Trying really hard to contain my excitement 🥹 hoping it goes well. Any advice on making a cat comfortable in a new space and with new people?
#pets #catadvice #catsofbluesky #vet #furryfriends

The stereotype of what I get gifted for my birthday as a writer...

#writerscommunity #writers #typewriter #antiques

Woah!

Vintage photograph of a potato field. Was stranded on the side of the road for eight hours (entire night) and starting looking around for pests or disease at 4am. Even in dire situations, the need to be a biologist persists 🫡🌱🥔 #STEM #biologist #fieldwork #artphotography #vintagephotography #potato

Would love to be added, thanks.

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

I'm now physically at my worst but finally have a diagnosis. An obvious one I'd suspected for a while. Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTs) is sometimes mild and people can cope by increasing fluid and salt intake but sometimes there are uncommon symptoms that can make it difficult 4/5

The weakness got worse, migraines were appearing weekly and soon became a reliably daily occurrence. Nausea followed and some days were really bad. Some days I can't lift my head. But some days I was okay, it was tolerable and I thought I'd be OK. I pushed myself too hard and it cost me a PhD. 3/5

I was a junior athlete, playing on my local handball team and running dozens of miles a week without breaking a sweat. Slowly, I noticed I was getting light-headed and started fainting after running. It took a decade before I got a diagnosis which is horrific in itself when you're getting weaker 2/5

During some of the ok days, I've been able to sit and do research, write, try to figure out a sort of routine even though every day is unpredictable. I have managed to write a 1st novel draft & finally submitted an MSc dissertation. Here's to the future, and finding stability in myself. 5/5 #POTs

Not sure there's enough talk about going from able-bodied to disabled out the blue. Like it's not as shocking when it happens to people doing dangerous jobs because the risk is known but the fact of the matter is, you can wake up one day and be ill and that's not talked about enough. 1/5
#disabled

You were suggested to me by Bluesky if that helps.

Sadly almost every phd in my area of interest seems to expect it even though they're not meant to discriminate against disabled people. I have not been finding this to be true at all. Also got discouraged from doing certain areas of research because of diving reqs.

I'm not sure if I've been added yet. Just submitted my MSc on deep sea coral genomics and I'm searching for that dream PhD.