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We'll be launching this year's brilliant 2023 Rhys Davies Short Story Award anthology, 'Harvest' (Parthian Books), on Thursday 12th October at 6pm at Waterstones Swansea 📚

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🗓️ ONE FOR YOUR DIARIES 🗓️
We'll be announcing the winner of this year's prestigious Rhys Davies short story competition on Thursday 21st September! ✍️📚🏆

For more information on the competition, including info on this year's shortlist, please visit: bit.ly/RDSSC2023

Loved reading with Jodie Hollander, Luke Morgan (Luke Morgan) & Emily Vanderploeg (@dippy_dumpling) tonight! 💕

A mouse, rat, wood louse, gypsy moth, hydra, salamander, wolf & plenty of horses came out of the poetic woods. Some beastly humans snuck in too.

What fun! 🐾🐾🐾

My latest newsletter, all about Nothing!

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Join us next week for an evening of poetic animals! (In the poems, not the poets... but no promises.) Eventbrite link below - it's FREE!

Excited to read with poets Christina Thatcher, Jodie Hollander and Emily Vanderploeg as part of this virtual event on 25th of July! Hosted by Cardiff University. Click here to register ➡️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetic-beast…

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Only a few days left to vote for Bees in the WBOTY awards! 🐝

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A library assistant, two English teachers, and a university student are among the 12 authors shortlisted for the 2023 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition.

Cultural Institute - Swansea University

🎉 We are delighted to have the 2022 The Paul Torday Memorial Prize winning author, Jane Fraser ✍️, judge the 2023 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition.

Discover the shortlist here: swan.ac/RDSSC2023

📚 We are thrilled to reveal the 12 finalists for the prestigious 2023 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition on behalf of The Rhys Davies Trust and in association with Parthian Books.

🎉 Congratulations to all! 🎉

📰 PRESS RELEASE: swan.ac/RDSSC2023

Huge congrats Joshua Jones | Local Fires OUT NOW jlgeorge.bsky.social Silvia Rose Ruby Burgin Ruairi Bolton 🖤🤍💜 E. Moyle (Books and Wine Gums) 📚 Bethan L. Charles - Writes ✏️ Emily Vanderploeg Matthew G. Rees - Writer Satterday Shaw Dan Williams & Rachel Powell! 🎉🎉📚📚And big thanks to fab guest judge Jane Fraser Parthian Books

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If we don’t patronize our small indie bookstores, this local woman’s bookshop is GONE. And she’ll be so stressed that she becomes susceptible to being catfished online.⁣
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Tomorrow's Canadian Independent Bookstore Day— visit the shop around the corner & show them some love 💖📖

Unreal: A Florida county just banned eight books by NORA ROBERTS from school libraries, due to objections from one right wing activist. Under the guise of targeting 'pornography,' the book bans are getting uglier.

'All of it is shocking,' Roberts told us:
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You've probably heard of this guy called Erasmus before — but who was he? Well, this quote sums him up:

'I believe in listening to both sides with openness. I love liberty. I will not and cannot serve any faction.'

Here is the story of history's greatest educator...