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Joined August 2021
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19 Nov 2024
Huge congrats on a @PushcartPrize nomination to Strange Birds writer and host, @ESichr!
18 Nov 2024
my first ever pushcart nomination!! thank you so much @RadonJournal for championing my work
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22 Sep 2024
Thank you so much to @InkSweatTears for publishing this ghazal! Doggerland is the now-submerged land bridge that once connected Britain to mainland Europe. As a Brit living on the Dutch coast, I feel a real connection to that land under the North Sea.
inksweatandtears.co.uk/dilys…
22 Sep 2024
'a ghazal for Doggerland' by Dilys Wyndham Thomas (@dilyswt) feels like a hand reaching out to you through time.
Read the full poem at the link below, or through the link in our bio. inksweatandtears.co.uk/dilys…
ALT The background is a zoomed-in image of a knapped flint hand-axe, dark and slightly blurred. It is overlaid with text from 'a ghazal for Doggerland' by Dilys Wyndham Thomas. It reads: —after Doggerland: Lost World in the North Sea, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (2021) we walk through the exhibition hall lost amongst water-logged bones, a sunk haul lost grave-deep underwater, newly unearthed as North-Sea fishing boats treasure-trawl lost hunting grounds...
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28 Aug 2024
Massive congratulations @ESichr, our Strange Birds Lorikeets LGBTQIA feedback group host, who recently released their first poetry chapbook Eating Out Anne Sexton, published by @ghostcitypress.
You can order the chapbook here: ghostcitypress.com/2024-summ…
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17 Jun 2024
Happy Pride from all of us at Strange Birds! We're so excited to be able to announce our first LGBTQIA focused feedback group, which will be run by @ESichr. The first session is open for sign ups now: meetup.com/amsterdam-creativ…
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21 Apr 2024
Best news ever from the ever-supportive and super talented fellow @WeStrangeBirds poet @ESichr. @GhostCityPress has snapped up a real talent.
20 Apr 2024
guess who got MAIL 📬 gonna post about this way more once im coherent - just wanna say this is my FIRST!! EVER!! BOOK!! to be published and im so so honoured to have it w ghost city press 👻📘
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10 Feb 2023
Congratulations to Nawal Ali for the publication of her story "Cotton Candy" in the Winter 2023 issue of avalonliteraryreview.com 🎉
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7 Dec 2022
Delighted 'Black Ice' has found a good home, published by @commuterlit in Canada today! Set in a Irish border town, school bus and swimming pool, the awkwardness of young love is rife.
Thank you Nancy Kay Clark and @WeStrangeBirds for your support!
7 Dec 2022
WEDNESDAY: Black Ice commuterlit.com/2022/12/wedn…
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2 Dec 2022
If you get a chance, read the #brilliant short story "Foreign Girls" by @ashaindra. Accolades below 🔥
2 Dec 2022
Congratulations to our own @ashaindra for making @Mslexia's competition shortlist with her tender, bold, and knowing story about eros in American college. Look for the story "Foreign Girls" by @ashaindra in @Mslexia's upcoming anthology ✨✨✨🪶🪶🪶👑
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2 Dec 2022
Congratulations to our own @ashaindra for making @Mslexia's competition shortlist with her tender, bold, and knowing story about eros in American college. Look for the story "Foreign Girls" by @ashaindra in @Mslexia's upcoming anthology ✨✨✨🪶🪶🪶👑
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9 Nov 2022
We love to see the community love! Click through to read @dervillequigley's 12 perfect lines again about attraction and chemistry—or read them for the first time and give yourself a treat ✨
8 Nov 2022
Thank you @andthewordwas. High praise from a great writer is extra special x💜
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31 Oct 2022
"But conversation was taut. I had read Dumbness Is
Everything. He refused to discuss it. There was no need, just want and want. If only I
had a pen."
@dervillequigley's "A Date With My Favorite Writer" will make your breath catch:
litromagazine.com/the-surrea…
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24 Oct 2022
Strange Birds has passed 1500 members on Meetup!
Our global network of writers and feedback groups is based in Amsterdam but you can join from anywhere. Follow us on Twitter and click here for more info:
wearestrangebirds.com/pg/abo…
#WritingCommunity
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14 Oct 2022
Strange Birds member Nimruz de Castro has a new poem "(im)personal tragedies: 7" in @805Lit. Read it here:
805lit.org/pride-issue-2021-…
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14 Oct 2022
Add this interview with our own @dilyswt in @PassengersPress to your weekend reading lineup. Cheers, Dilys!
14 Oct 2022
It’s ✨that✨ day of the week again!
This week our Featured Work is accompanied by an interview with the writer and Assistant Poetry Editor Dilys! (@dilyswt)
You can read that interview and listen to this work riiigghht here: passengersjournal.com/featur…
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11 Oct 2022
I missed our @WeStrangeBirds Hummingbirds write-in sessions so much that I signed up as a temporary host. Join me every fortnight starting next Monday for writing sprints and encouragement. Sign up here: meetup.com/amsterdam-creativ…
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7 Oct 2022
Congratulations to our own @dervillequigley! 🎉✨🎉✨🎉
6 Oct 2022
Thrilled to have placed 2nd in Litro's prose poetry contest. Thank you @LitroMagazine and thank you @JoseHernandezDz. I'm gobsmacked!
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