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Kym Deyn

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Writer, publisher, nuisance, fortune teller. In books & in bogs.

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I’ll be joining the amazing @fatemaabdoolcarim and @shortestwitch at @1b.books with @monitorbooks and @poetrybooksociety next month! Come hang with us and hear some knock-it-out-the-park poetry. by @shortestwitch

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Hi folks! I'm running an ecopoetry workshop on writing the human and the non-human at @culturehousesunderland and as part of @dibsonraoul's Somewhere Places Project on October 24th! If you're around, please come along ❤️ by @shortestwitch

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We are thrilled to present three incredible local voices from the contemporary gothic, weird and spooky poetry scenes: @pattiepoetry @lewisbrownpoet and @shortestwitch

Join us for an evening of poetry this October! 🕸️
📅 Wednesday 7 October
⏰ 7pm-9pm
📍North Shields Community Hub and Library
🎟️ Free

Follow our events link in our bio to book your space

#northtynesidelibraries #thehauntedpage #spookyseason🎃 #poetrylovers #gothic by @shortestwitch

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🖋️ First up: Writing Hauntings, a writing workshop with Kym Deyn @shortestwitch

Take a playful and experimental look at infusing writing with all manners of ghosts; look at how memories, questions and landscapes can haunt as well as themselves be haunted, and how the living can haunt as much as the dead 💀

This workshop is suitable for new as well as experienced poetry and prose writers, aged 16+

📅 Monday 5 October
⏰ 7pm-9pm
🎟️ £3 per person

Head over the the events link in our bio to book your place

#northtynesidelibraries #thehauntedpage #horrorfestival #poetrywriting by @shortestwitch

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A little behind the scenes ahead of this weekend’s @inpressbooks Writing Conference at WRITE Festival: the books have arrived!

We’ll have a full Inpress bookstall @theword_uk this Saturday, bringing together work from the writers, poets and publishers joining us across the day.

That includes books from @shortestwitch and @betarish ahead of our lunchtime conversation, alongside work from @scotstreetpress’ Jean Findlay and Petra Reid from the day’s final session. Pictured here.

We’ll also have copies of Oaths and Offerings from @carnyxpress on the stall, alongside a selection of individual work supplied by @ejlannie and Mae Tang.

It’s always lovely seeing the books arrive before an event like this and getting everything together for the day itself.

Join us at The Word in South Shields this Saturday 5th September, for three conversations looking behind the scenes of writing and publishing, with plenty of books to browse in between.

Tickets are available from The Word. Hope to see you soon! taken in North East UK by @shortestwitch

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Excited to be returning to @theword_uk for the @inpressbooks Writing Conference as part of WRITE Festival, and for my third year running I’ll be there in a slightly different capacity: this time as part of the Inpress team.

I’ll be helping to host and chair two panels across the day, bringing together writers, poets, editors and publishers to get behind the finished book and talk about what actually happens on the journey towards publication.

I’m particularly looking forward to our lunchtime session, The Many Jobs of a Writer, because I’ll be joining poets @shortestwitch and Rishi Dastidar to explore what it takes to build a working life in poetry.

Between them, Kym and Rishi have experience not only of writing and publishing their own collections, but of editing, running presses, creating anthologies, working with magazines and championing the work of other writers. We’ll be talking about the many different roles that can sustain a life in poetry, and what a writing career can really look like beyond simply getting a book published.

Elsewhere across the conference, The Route to a First Book brings together North East writers @ejlannie and Mae Tang with @carnyxpress editor Nathaniel Spain to discuss short fiction, building a body of work and finding a home for that first book.

The day concludes with Shaping the Story, as @scotstreetpress’ Jean Findlay and Petra Reid explore the editorial process across different forms, bringing historical and international voices to new audiences, and plenty more besides.

There’ll also be books, opportunities to chat, and freebies, so make sure to grab a place.

Tickets from @theword_uk. I can’t wait to be back!

(📸: Swipe across to revisit some of last year’s writing day) taken in The Word, National Centre for the Written Word by @shortestwitch

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2 months ago

Got some more event links through for even MORE things I'm getting up to this autumn, this time with the Haunted Page Horror Festival in North Shields! ❤️ Links to book in bio. by @shortestwitch

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We're super duper pleased to be joined on the grid by Kym Deyn and David Lynch, with their favourite poem Telemachus' Detachment by Louise Glück! 💘 come hear the inimitable Kym read at @borderless_books Friday 16th October with Ellora Sutton and Suyin du Bois!

David may or may not make an appearance...

#poetry #poet #poem #taxidermy by @shortestwitch

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2 months ago

A writer, a braag and the lambton worm walk into a book festival—its not a set up, just my plans for this autumn. Catch me if you can (and you can, my body is useless) in Newcastle, Durham, Stroud, Aldeburgh, or Edinburgh! ❤️

As usual, see link in bio for tickets. by @shortestwitch

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SO a million years ago when I was 22, I wrote a ridiculous love poem half a week into being in a relationship, half-embarrassed with myself but also already utterly convinced that the relationship was something special. I needn't have worried so much, because I'm relentlessly correct about things and its our 7th anniversary today.

Anyway, I'm terrible at shmaltz, it makes me itchy, so this is about as close as I'll get. by @shortestwitch

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I never shared this poem, I'm still friends with a bunch of my old flatmates and it felt like it needed an explanation, but ALSO wasn't it just this though? Anyway, it was longlisted for the National Poetry Prize 2025, so it seems weird to hide it away in my book like a secret. by @shortestwitch

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3 months ago

Teesmouth is coming up this Friday night compered by @beagriebob and featuring poetry by Enduanna ancient poet and the first author (also first female author) brought to the fore by Aidan Semmens and terrors from the deepest folk tales raised from the dead by @shortestwitch and pulling at the vines of code and retrieving the tangled tablet spells of image prompt language, @harrymanonthegram be reading from his new pamphlet ‘impressions’. 7:30pm at The Chapel on Whitehouse Street. See you there ✨

#boroevents #literature #live #poetry by @shortestwitch

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