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Rosie Johnston
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Writer, mentor, poet published in UK, Ireland & USA living by the sea in UK. New non-fiction soon from Colorful Crow, USA. Five published poetry books since 2010: latest 'Safe Ground', Mica Press 2025. Reviews for londongrip.com
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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · Aug 18
'Safe Ground', published by wonderful Mica Press last year, came up in conversation again today. A friend's friend needed cheering up so she sat her down & read her my poem 'Happy the Woman'. All smiles in no time.

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#SafeGround #Horace
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Shirley Jackson always knows how to start a book
Excerpt from the opening paragraph of “we have always lived in the castle”: “My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death- cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.”
September 22, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Thanks to our great speakers Leah Keggi and Carla Hoch, our volunteers and everyone who made our September meeting a success. Join our mailing list for info on all of our events: atlantawritersclub.org/contact/. #amwriting #WritingCommunity @leahkeggi.bsky.social
Leah Keggi at podium. Carla Hoch in front of screen with slide about fight scenes.
September 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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#amwriting #writetip #WritingCommunity #writerslife
Oscar Wilde and quote: "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
September 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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A new batch of books has now reached me and they're all itching to find a reader, clamouring for me to slip them into an envelope and post them off, ready to be devoured.

Would you like to lend them a helping hand?! 😜 If so, just drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy for you...
September 18, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Gorgeous book launches at #Rye as part of the arts festival. Lovely to hear Alex Josephy launch her 'A Little Bridge' (Pindrop Press) today - birdsong included - & to see Anwesha & Sagar's new book too. 'Rye in Light and Shade' launches tomorrow in the George's ballroom

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September 14, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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#SmallpoemSunday

'Carnlough Bay' from my Safe Ground collection published last year by Mica Press @micapress @lesbell #Carnlough #Antrimcoast #seapoems
September 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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The Uses of Sorrow
(in my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

—Mary Oliver

#SmallPoemSunday #poetry
The Uses of Sorrow (in my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. —Mary Oliver
October 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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#writingbuddies tomorrow 2-4pm at Tilly's Old Curiosity Tea Shop in Broadstairs, close to the beach, across from the little cinema. Perfect place on a lovely Sunday afternoon

#startwriting #keepwriting
September 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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I went down to the shore this evening with Mary Oliver's poem in my heart & a little #17 of my own from way back hovering at my shoulder. This is the most gorgeous time of year. Enjoy your autumn
#MaryOliver #17syllables #igodowntotheshore
September 8, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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#Poetry #Painting #Apples

There were ten thousand
thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down,
and not let fall.

- Robert Frost

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September 7, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Want a chance to earn a contract with a literary agent or editor? Get advice about what’s right and wrong with your book? Learn more and sign up for the fall Atlanta Writers Conference at atlantawritersconference.com/the-conferen.... #amquerying #amwriting #writetip #WritingCommunity #writerslife
Conference Activities
Our 35th Atlanta Writers Conference on November 6-7, 2026, held in-person at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel, consists of TWELVE parts and you may participate in one, some, or all of these events …
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September 3, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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All your mates are coming. Don’t be late.
September 1, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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Just over three hours to go...!
August 30, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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TODAY IS PUBLICATION DAY for The Mountains Don’t Forget by Pat Walker Johnson! Follow a young woman whose journey takes her far beyond the mountains she calls home in search of freedom, independence & love.
#DebutNovel #HistoricalFiction #AppalachianFiction #StrongWomen #BookClubFiction 💙📚 #booksky
August 25, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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[Exit Queen.]
August 25, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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'Safe Ground', published by wonderful Mica Press last year, came up in conversation again today. A friend's friend needed cheering up so she sat her down & read her my poem 'Happy the Woman'. All smiles in no time.

micapress.uk/product/safe...

#SafeGround #Horace
August 18, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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What do I wish I'd known 20 years ago when I was writing my first book? So many worries can wait until later - my latest blogpost
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#startwriting #keepwriting
Things not to worry about with your first draft
When my first novel was published about twenty years ago (by a mixture of persistence and sheer luck), there were so many things I wish I’d known sooner. Jumping into the unknown can be fun. But no…
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August 24, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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This writing malarkey. Why do we do it?
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#getwriting #keepwriting #writingbuddies
WHY DO WE WRITE?
I get asked now and again, as if it’s a weird thing to do, why I write. Well, I didn’t always. Lots of us spend years talking and thinking about writing as if that’ll do the real thing …
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August 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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Thunderstorms all day here on the north Kent coast and fabulous skies.

The poem is #Seasalter from #SafeGround published last year by Mica Press micapress.uk/product/safe... Seasalter is along the coast a bit from #Whitstable & each stanza is a micropoem of #17syllables because I love them
August 20, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Good to see Rosie Johnston on here (
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), a fine poet who's well worth a follow.
August 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Rain in the evening glimmer #seasideliving
August 19, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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This writing malarkey. Why do we do it?
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#getwriting #keepwriting #writingbuddies
WHY DO WE WRITE?
I get asked now and again, as if it’s a weird thing to do, why I write. Well, I didn’t always. Lots of us spend years talking and thinking about writing as if that’ll do the real thing …
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August 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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Another Sky... #BeachLife #Photography #StormHour
August 18, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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90 años de su asesinato.

Este homenaje que le hicieron a Lorca en la serie El Ministerio del Tiempo sigue siendo un mar de lágrimas. Es una escena preciosa 😭❤️✨
August 18, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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#Poetry #Painting #Nightime

So comes to us at times, from the unknown
And inaccessible solitudes of being,
The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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August 19, 2026 at 1:37 AM