Derek Pollard, PhD
• Helping writers get into print since 1991.
• Poets on Poetry Series Editor (Univ. of Michigan Press): https://poets-on-poetry.carrd.co
• Author of ‘On the Verge of Something Bright and Good’ (Barrow Street) & ‘Inconsequentia’ (BlazeVOX).
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Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg: @gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social 🔗 www.uwp.co.uk
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Associate Professor @ University at Buffalo and Coeditor of Theatre Journal. Author of Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past. Current projects: monuments, performance, afterlives of conquest.
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For more than 90 years, the University of Oklahoma Press has been internationally recognized as an outstanding publisher of scholarly literature.
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The University of Leicester's annual festival of literature, featuring free lectures, talks and readings. Book your free tickets now! www.tickettailor.com/events/literaryleicester
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Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
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‘One of the best book bashes in the UK’. The Quietus. 5-7 June 2026.
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Supports, develops and champions writers from the East Midlands - supported by Arts Council England. linktr.ee/writingeastmidlands
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We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
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The Local Festival for Local Authors Affordable, accessible, and tremendous fun. Main festival Saturday 20th September, evening events 12th June & 18th Sept Leamington Spa Warwickshire www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com
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Arguably the best book festival in the west! #DingleLit will take place again on November 21st, 22nd & 23rd 2025
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Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
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Award-winning annual community festival held in the Spring in venues across Huddersfield and online. Championing accessibility, diversity and under-represented groups and showcasing emerging artists alongside major names https://www.huddlitfest.org.uk
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Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
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12th - 13th September 2025 www.yorkbookfair.com The UK's largest rare & secondhand book fair. Organised by the PBFA.
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Welcome to the Foreword Festival – the first literary fringe festival in the UK! Join us for year-round literary events: http://forewordfestival.uk
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The greatest platform for creative freedom in the world 🌎 01 - 25 August 2025. #edfringe Register a show: https://www.edfringe.com/take-part/artists/organise-a-show/registration/
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The film festival for audiences. #GFF25 26 February - 9 March 2025
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Novelist, essayist, and lover of words. I write about identity, culture, and the complexities of human connection. Author of White Teeth, On Beauty, and Swing Time, among others. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Zadie-Smith/author/B001D0P4CA?ref=ap_rdr&isDram
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Champion of stories and storytellers. Registered Scottish Charity (SC002368) This account is monitored Mon-Fri, 10am-6pm.
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Save the dates for our 20th Festival! #MLF25 runs 10-26 October 2025. www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
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A comedian that you or your parents or maybe your grandparents may have enjoyed occasionally since the late 80s. A member of the skit comedy ensemble The Kids In The Hall for 40 years and counting because none of us can find the exit.
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Best-selling memoirist and artist. My band = The Dresden Dolls. My TED talk = “The Art of Asking”. My heart = full of love. I’m grateful to be a fully crowd-supported artist on both Substack & Patreon.
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Founding member of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club. Keeping it real out here in the field.
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Artist living near the Adriatic Sea. Raised in the Caribbean with a bit of my heart forever in Los Angeles. ⚓︎ Writing about art news and artists' work: joellemctigue.substack.com
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South London-based publishing collective focused on experimental literatures at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, & neurodiversity. We also run online journal theHythe! linktr.ee/the87press https://www.the87press.co.uk/
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A Carnival of Voices in independent publishing. Our titles reflect a diverse and contemporary Wales that cast a keen eye on the wider world.
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The National Centre for Writing is a place of discovery, exchange, ideas and learning for writers, translators, readers and everyone who loves words.
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Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
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Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks https://inkfishmag.com
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Poetry & poets. Puppies too. Hog River Press, a print & digital poetry journal: we publish magnificent poems and indulge in the occasional crazed paper arts collaboration. https://www.hogriverpress.com/
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Red Ogre Review is an indie press for poetry, music, and art based in California and the UK. We're fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media for nonprofit activities and a member of CLMP. Subs open! https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit
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📚 UK publisher of collaborative/hybrid poetry books since 2010, based in London and Cambridge. Editors: Kirsten Irving (@kirstenirving.bsky.social) and Jon Stone (@shotscarecrow.bsky.social). www.sidekickbooks.com
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Glasgow-based publisher of contemporary writing. Home of sound poetry imprint Angry Starlings. Hem Press: hempressbooks.com Angry Starlings: angrystarlings.bandcamp.com
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A small, feminist press with a big heart. Subscribe for your free ebook and early access to the good stuff! linktr.ee/AnimalHeartPress Posts by @judemarr.bsky.social
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Nonprofit arts org publishing lit mag/hosting regular events/annual festival/fellowship w @cavecanempoets
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