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Hot on the trails of my post about the joys of poetry festivals, I'm happy to tell you that I will be the official Blogger at this year's Winchester Poetry Festival which will take place October 7 - 9. I will be posting my Festival Blogs on this site, as well as tweeting poetry snippets… Continue reading Blogging for Winchester Poetry Festival 2016
Judging by a few comments I've read recently, It seems that New Year is a time when people decide to start a new blog or make a decision to blog more regularly. For the last two years, I've been trying to write in this blog at least once a week although I haven't always succeeded.… Continue reading On blogging regularly
It's been four years since I set up this blog. For the last two years I've been trying to write in it every week but, very recently, my resolve has lapsed. I admire bloggers who never disappoint their readers, a bit like the most faithful members of a sports team who turn up to play… Continue reading Top reads at this blog
I won't be around for the whole of November (I'm going away for eight days) otherwise I would've been tempted to join in with National Blog Posting Month and publish a blog post a day for the whole of November. However, if you're on a NaBloPoMo mission and are looking for some inspiration, here are… Continue reading Ideas and prompts for NaBloPoMo
My poetry site And Other Poems turned three years old in August. What started as an uncluttered place for my own poems has grown into an online anthology of over 350 poems by more than 250 poets, archived at The British Library, and viewed more than 125,000 times. In September 2015, my post 'Three poems by Tania Hershman' was… Continue reading Three years of ‘And Other Poems’.
In a bid to be productive, to keep you updated about what I'm up to and to fulfil my goal of writing a post a week on this blog, I'm writing this article with the clock ticking. More specifically, I'm using the timer app on my iPhone and when the 15 minutes are up, that's it! (3… Continue reading Writing against the clock
On the one hand the cliché of that title, on the other hand the article is off and running and you're reading it (thank you, by the way). On the one hand I will miss the friends I've made during the last 18 months when I've been reading aloud every week with people living with… Continue reading This Writer’s Life
This post has been prompted by a letter I received, out of the blue, from a Writing student who's composing a research essay about the connections between getting published and "self-promotion in contemporary poetry in the UK." The letter goes on to say that "self-promotion is a rather poor term...... and that online sharing of work......connecting with other… Continue reading Poetry and Self-Promotion
Is this a thing? I think I'm experiencing it! I'm ploughing through my unfinished poems and despatching them to magazines at rates previously unknown to me. I have eight poems out with four different magazines. As most magazines take between 4 - 8 months to respond to submissions, I've decided to send them in twos… Continue reading Low Blogging Energy, High Writing Energy!
Archiving your blog or website at The British Library As out-of-the-blue messages go, the email I received last week from The British Library, requesting permission to archive my poetry site, And Other Poems, was one of the most unexpected: Dear Sir/Madam The British Library would like to archive your website in the UK Web Archive. The… Continue reading Someone in the future is waiting for your post
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