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David Lloyd

@cymrubookman

Welsh, Devon based writer, Co- Curator of Word Kitchen www.wordkitchen.org.uk - promoting the spoken word in East Devon and Exeter -I write about hidden histories including queer ones - with a novel and memoir in development Faber Academy Alumni

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Creative opportunities β€” Exeter City of Literature

Our call out for short submissions of prose and poetry for a new anthology of writing about the East Devon landscape is featured in the @exetercityoflit.bsky.social opportunities listing for this month www.exetercityofliterature.com/creative-opp...

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Submissions open for a new writing anthology inspired by the East Devon landscape more info www.wordkitchen.org.uk

Submissions open for a new writing anthology inspired by the East Devon landscape more info www.wordkitchen.org.uk

05.01.2026 11:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Exeter Novel Prize deadline Jan 1st 
More info via word kitchen website

Exeter Novel Prize deadline Jan 1st More info via word kitchen website

#writers countdown to Jan 1st

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Congrats to Lucy Steeds - her novel The Artist has been named @waterstones.bsky.social Book of The Year
She was shortlisted for The Exeter Novel Prize in 2020
for an earlier novel.
The Exeter Novel Prize is open for entries until JAN 1st more details here www.wordkitchen.org.uk

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Exeter Novel Prize - NewWriters.org.uk Exeter Novel Prize information including the prize details along with the all-important deadline, terms and entry fee.

newwriters.org.uk/competition/... We are accepting entries until New Year’s Day

12.11.2025 07:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Word Kitchen's Festive Fandango Word Kitchen proudly present our Festive Fandango December 15th at Exeter Phoenix A Fandango?? It can be any of the following: *a lively Spanish courtship dance *a piece of music for that dance *a ...

Save the date Exeter folk 15 Dec Festive Fandango wegottickets.com/event/680763

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Remarks by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on famine in Gaza | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory [As delivered] Please read the IPC report, cover to cover. Read it in sorrow and in anger. Not as words and numbers but as names and lives. Be in no doubt that this is irrefutable testimony.Β  It is a famine.Β The Gaza Famine.Β 

"Each with a name, each with a story. That strips people of dignity before it strips them of life. That forces people to risk their lives to seek food. It is a famine that we repeatedly warned of. But that the international media has not been allowed in to cover."

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No enough dick and too much Moby

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Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought Nazi Germany Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may β€˜regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine

They’re dangerous www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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He’s cat in residence at Ty Newydd Writers’ Centre

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@hedgehogpress.co.uk I’ve been trying to contact you re a poetry / publishing event at Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival on Sept 18th thanks

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Passes on sale wegottickets.com/WordKitchen

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#writers take a look at the Exeter Novel Prize now open for entries www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...

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70 plus writers and friends came together -more about exeter novel prize www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...

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More pics from our event last night for The Exeter Novel Prize and launch of Cathie Hartigan’s The Luthier’s Promise

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Glorious launch for the 2025 Exeter Novel Prize last night at Exeter Library more info on submitting here : www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...
@exetercityoflit.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @exetercouncil.bsky.social

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Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousandsβ€” major embarrassment to Orban

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If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

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Entries go live July 1st at www.wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel...

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Word Kitchen Prose Open Mic Our first open mic of 2025. Bring us your stories, your novel extracts, your life writing, flash fiction. Join a community of writers whether you are a regular at the mic or a first timer who wants to...

Just in case you’d like to come wegottickets.com/event/647376

02.02.2025 11:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Sunset over Exe Estuary with light cloud

Sunset over Exe Estuary with light cloud

Hello February! The days are getting longer. Topsham sunset just after 5pm ...

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@nickswiftwrites.bsky.social hi Nick our paths haven’t crossed yet but we do several events in Exeter over the year including some prose night open mics -you’d be very welcome

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Three debut authors in conversation at Exeter Library March 15th 4pm
Tickets wegottickets.com/event/647408 with audience Q&A

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We need to be back in EU regardless

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'SERGEI & THE WESTMINSTER SPY RING', NEW PODCAST TRAILER OUT! - The Citizens From exclusive parties at theΒ Russian EmbassyΒ to the corridors of Westminster, journalists Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes – with the help of Conservative party whistleblower Sergei Cristo – expose ...

NEW: Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring.

I'm very excited to introduce my new investigative podcast with @peterjukes.bsky.social & Ruth Abrahams about a Russian influence operation at the heart of the British establishment.
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the-citizens.com/2024/12/serg...

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And the same to you

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