In the 10th year of The Forge Literary Magazine we are excited to announce our Editor's Prize which will be awarded to a piece published in 2026 and voted for by the editors.
Send us your brilliant words!
#LitMag #Submissions #Prize #$500 #LiteraryExcellence #ADecadeofFLM
10 years of Forge! We’re very excited to celebrate this way!!
looking forward to my 10,000th share of PLR on this one
Message to men: you can date/marry way, way above your league if you will just fucking learn to cook and do some laundry, please stop hitting yourself in the face with hammers or "optimising" things and try vacuumcleanermaxxing instead...
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
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Before I shed this coat of many sales pitches, here's one last...I've got a sale, here it is, with birds and stuff innit...
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Thanks for all the shares and sales etc they helped put a smile on this very tired lady's face this weekend! #ArtShop #bsnm
Anyone fancy a wee goldfinch adorning their person? Can you tell I'm starting to get a bit tired now... 😂
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#BirdArt #ArtShop #CuteArt #bsnm
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Another fab artist taking part in Super Seconds Festival this weekend is Amelia F Bown. She's got some original prints and seconds up for grabs! Like this stunning one of Red Kites!
#BirdArt #SciArt #Printmaking #ScreenPrint #ArtShop
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A series of printed ceramic mugs by The Way to Blue. On the mugs are delicate silhouettes of nature scenes in a deep blue. The scenes include birds flying amongst branches, butterflies amongst meadow flowers and grasses and stunning tree branches.
There's nothing worse than having a technical hitch during a big event so I ask you kindly to check out the stunning work of The Way to Blue who had a bit of a clanger yesterday... www.thewaytoblue.co.uk/superseconds #ArtSky #ArtShop #WildlifeArt #Nature
The awesome @abistevensart.bsky.social is also taking part in Super Seconds and I urge one and all to check out all their beautiful bargains!!
Along with the pins I have some Deeds Not Words necklaces with hand painted gold detail that are being retired. There's also some who have black writing instead of gold if you're less of a bling kinda person...
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#ArtShop #ShopSmall
I'm retiring these Suffragette inspired voting enamel pins. First designed back in 2018 to celebrate the anniversary of the first women getting the vote. Hateful people have twisted these colours but for the record the suffragettes are for EVERY WOMAN!
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This is not a drill people, my seconds sale is now live. So if you like birds, nature and beautiful things head this way.... there's also 15% full priced items with code SUPERSECONDS all weekend!
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#UKGiftAM #ArtistSupport #ArtShop #Illustration #bsnm #Art
Woot our group collab project on @backerkit.com is already up to 10 projects!! However, this is very much a more the merrier kind of situation, so if you're looking for your next bit of crowdfunder inspiration, why not join us...
www.backerkit.com/c/collection...
#SciArt #WildlifeArt #BotanicalArt
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... I’m not sure if this is even possible but as somebody somewhere said “you can have clean water and you can have privatised water but you can’t have clean privatised water”.
A grid of four squares. Top left - a pale golden background with a dark golden swirly leafy pattern. On top is a pair of hand embroidered mating Robins. Top right - a mint green background with writing: Online exhibition Exhibitor I'm proud to share that my work will be on show at the AAA online exhibition between 2nd March and 30th March. Logo of Wildwood Trust. Bottom left - mint green background with an oval photo of a hare painting. Written underneath Online exhibition 2026 Web gallery now live! We welcome all online visitors and art sales 2nd - 30th March www.associationofanimalartists.com Bottom right - pale golden background with a dark golden swirly leafy pattern. On top is a pair of hand embroidered mating house sparrows.
Happy World Wildlife Day.
A fitting day to announce that the Association Of Animal Artists online exhibition is now live. I have two artworks included in the show which can be viewed until the end of the month.
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#birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt
1/4 Books by fifteen authors with roots in eight territories have been shortlisted for the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in three categories.
Full details at bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/
Sponsored by One Caribbean Media Limited
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Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
“Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to clean water, has singled out the English system for criticism, saying water should be managed as a publicly owned service, rather than run by private companies set up to benefit shareholders.”
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While the Newlyn and St Ives artist colonies in Cornwall are well documented, in the late 19th and for much of the 20thC, Polperro was also considered a leading art centre, described as ‘the haunt of half the artists in Britain,' including, as here, Jack Coburn Witherop.
same as before. Chart showing notification of measles per year in England since 1940. Rapid drop off after measles vax introduced in 1968, and further drops following MMR in 1980s-1990s. In 2000s barely any
The amazing consequence of years of high rates of vaccination was that for 20 or so years in England, measles essentially disappeared. In 2016, WHO declared Measles eliminated (no or very little local transmission) in England. We’d gone from 100,000s of cases before vax to basically none. 3/8
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Due to a last minute cancellation there is one space available on my Six Month Writing Course starting this weekend @gladlib.bsky.social
To snap it up contact comms@gladlib.org
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Please share far and wide 🙏🏽
Spotted my #ShortStory collection (published
@flyonthewallpress.bsky.social) out in the wild yesterday at Storrington (West Sussex) #library. Remember, you can support authors by borrowing their books from UK libraries! #AmReading #WritingCommunity #Books
Whether you're a crowdfunding pro or a nervous baby deer newbie we can all give each other a helping hand to make our projects a success! So why not give it a go and apply below 👇 We're friendly honest!!
#Illustration #Art #Backerkit #opencall #artopps
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Calling all nature inspired creatives! 🍃 The lovely @kathryngarner.co.uk and I have teamed up to run a brand new @backerkit.com group collab and we're looking for creators fascinated by wildlife, nature and biology to join us! 👇
#SciArt #Nature #ArtSky #WildlifeArt
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It’s absolutely gorgeous. Love it!
Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard
