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Lorna Callery-Sithole

@LornaCallery

Poet / Artist / Educator. Pigeon with Warburtons (Speculative Books 2019), Colour Theory (Dreich, 2022), Facing Our Past: Shining the Light (NTS, 2022).

 Glasgow, Scotland
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Joined January 2011
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Tony Garner@tony_ygarner16 Feb 2025
Looking forward to joining headliner Keeks Mc and host @LornaCallery doing a slot at VerseAye at Bossa Nithsdale Road this wed, 8pm. Should be a great night!
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iamb ~ poetry seen and heard@iamb_uk1 Feb 2025
Five years ago today, @iambapoet was born. Just look how far we've come. Twenty waves and counting, 320 poets (so far), and almost 1,000 poems. Thank you to the poets who've appeared – and to those who've visited, read, listened and shared. This celebration is for us all.
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I Am Loud Productions@IAmLoudPro13 Jan 2025
Glasgow, you brought the fire!!! Huge thanks to all of the poets who slammed with us on Saturday night, and congratulations to our new Glasgow Champion Arlo Bayne! Special thanks to @JimMonaghan10, our stellar sacrificial poet.
Photo of the twelve poets who slammed at the event, plus two of the judges. All are screaming joyously.

ALT Photo of the twelve poets who slammed at the event, plus two of the judges. All are screaming joyously.

Photo of Arlo Bayne holding the Loud Poets Slam Champion belt.

ALT Photo of Arlo Bayne holding the Loud Poets Slam Champion belt.

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I Am Loud Productions@IAmLoudPro3 Jan 2025
We are kicking off 2025 with the Glasgow Heat of our Loud Poets Slam Series! We have 12 Amazing poets competing for £200 and a spot in the Grand Slam Fina! We also have the incomparable @JimMonaghan10 as our sacrificial poet. Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/loud-poet…
Scotland's premiere spoken word night Loud Poets Slam Series Heat Glasgow Heat Sacrificial Poet Jim Monaghan Poets Competing; Arlo Bayne, Angie Strachan, Biff Smith, Biz, Christie Gourlay, Jordan Taylor, Kate Bradley, Lorna Callery-Sithole, Lyric Avra, Ross Wilcock, Shashvat Sharma, Spencer Mason. 7:30pm on 11th January 2025 £10 / £8 Drygate Brewing Co, 85 Drygate Glasgow www.IAmLoud.co/Slam Logos for I Am Loud Productions, Creative Scotland, and the National Lottery

ALT Scotland's premiere spoken word night Loud Poets Slam Series Heat Glasgow Heat Sacrificial Poet Jim Monaghan Poets Competing; Arlo Bayne, Angie Strachan, Biff Smith, Biz, Christie Gourlay, Jordan Taylor, Kate Bradley, Lorna Callery-Sithole, Lyric Avra, Ross Wilcock, Shashvat Sharma, Spencer Mason. 7:30pm on 11th January 2025 £10 / £8 Drygate Brewing Co, 85 Drygate Glasgow www.IAmLoud.co/Slam Logos for I Am Loud Productions, Creative Scotland, and the National Lottery

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Sooo looking forward to competing in the @IAmLoudPro first heat of 2025 with the outstanding @JimMonaghan10 as sacrificial poet and an amazing array of fellow poets! Join us!🔥🔥🔥
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Bad Lilies@BadLilies29 Nov 2024
Bad Lilies is a purely digital product, and we're currently unable to pay contributors, but if we were publishing in hard copy and doing the latter, we would do the same as discussed here. Support our poetry print magazines in every way you can.
Poetry London (@Poetry_London) profile picturePoetry London@Poetry_London29 Nov 2024
An update on changes to submissions at Poetry London. (Statement also in text form in the post below).
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Out-Spoken Press@Outspoken_Press29 Nov 2024
Happening live NOW 24hr Global Reading starting now from Palestine Join the livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=RxJNpyXN…
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youtube livestream screenshot showing Munir Nuseibah of Al Quds University and Ghazal Mosadeq of Pamenar Press. Closed captioning fragment reads " Palestinian poets in Palestine and in the diaspora followed by"

ALT youtube livestream screenshot showing Munir Nuseibah of Al Quds University and Ghazal Mosadeq of Pamenar Press. Closed captioning fragment reads " Palestinian poets in Palestine and in the diaspora followed by"

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Jenny Mitchell@JennyMitchellGo26 Nov 2024
STOP PRESS! a #Black #woman who got into university by the skin of her teeth, writes a #poem that's going on permanent display in a #university! Please listen, comment and retweet. Many thanks. 🦋 #BlowYourOwnTrumpetDay🎺
Sussex Library (@sussexlibrary) profile pictureSussex Library@sussexlibrary25 Nov 2024
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Sussex Alumna @JennyMitchellGo performed her new poem, Notes Inside a Library, which was written to celebrate our anniversary. It will be going on permanent display in the Library following the end of our #Chapter60 exhibition (3/7)
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📣📣📣 TONIGHT FOLKS! Versaye’s last event of 2024 at Bossa ft Tickle and @carla_woodburn 🔥🔥🔥
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📣 Calling Black and African writers worldwide! The Afritondo Short Story Prize 2025 is open for submissions! This year’s theme is “masks”. Stories must be written in English and between 3,000 to 5,000 words. Deadline: 23 December Learn more: commonwealthfoundation.com/o…🔗
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Patrick Holloway@hollowaywriter211 Nov 2024
Note to people submitting work to journals— when you receive a rejection don’t be a dick. We spend countless hours reading all the work. We don’t want to get rude, snarky or abusive emails back in return.
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berlin lit@berlinlit30 Oct 2024
open for submissions until 20 November. More details here: berlinlit.com/submissions/
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Creative Renfrewshire@Creative_Ren27 Oct 2024
Welcome @LornaCallery to @Creative_Ren's Directory - She's a award-winning multi-disciplinary poet/artist/Art & Design teacher. Running Creative writing/ art workshops from her Paisley studio. co-founder/Director of Versaye Poetry Night. @onerenculture creativerenfrewshire.com/dir…
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award-winning multi-disciplinary poet and artist and a fully qualified teacher of Art & Design

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Out-Spoken Press@Outspoken_Press11 Oct 2024
For the night owls TONIGHT 5pm PST / 1am UK Organised by @Workshops4Gaza >> workshops4gaza.com/calendar/…
A poetry reading for Gaza Fady Joudah Solmaz Sharif Wendy Trevino Juliana Spahr Joshua Clover Friday 11 Oct 5-6pm PST

ALT A poetry reading for Gaza Fady Joudah Solmaz Sharif Wendy Trevino Juliana Spahr Joshua Clover Friday 11 Oct 5-6pm PST

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Versaye for Palestine fundraiser this Wed at @thegladcafe: spoken word, hip hop, music, film & comedy. All proceeds go to BADIL. Get your tix here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/versaye-f…
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Sorcha Dallas Gray@GraySorcha27 Sep 2024
I’m helping grow this network, please share, get involved and help too! It’s a non hierarchical sector driven community, by & for diverse, creative archives in Scotland ❤️🌈⬇️
The Alasdair Gray Archive (@AGrayArchive) profile pictureThe Alasdair Gray Archive@AGrayArchive27 Sep 2024
Please share 🙏 #ScottishArtistsArchivesNetwork is about building sector support & shared learning around creative archives throughout Scotland, head over to Instagram or sign up to the mailing list here 👇🏽scottishartistsarchivesnetwo…
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Still a few spaces left for my performance poetry workshop series starting Monday 7th Oct at my studio in Paisley, free parking, caffeine & biscuits, oh aye, and poyetree! Lots of it, come fill yer boots! Email or DM to secure your slot 👊
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Janey Godley@JaneyGodley18 Sep 2024
NEWS I have to cancel my upcoming tour, I’m sorry but the cancer has spread and the Beatson cancer team have advised me to stop work. I am currently in hospital with sepsis ( it’s under control) pls contact your theatre for a refund - I’m sorry everyone 👇watch please
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UofG CreativeWriting@UofGWriting17 Sep 2024
Come and work with our friendly team and talented students at beautiful @UofGlasgow jobs.ac.uk/job/DJT402/lectur… @UofGArtsHums @UofGCritStudies
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Jenny Mitchell@JennyMitchellGo10 Sep 2024
Poets, check out this great competition! I'm delighted to be on the judging panel and can't wait to read your work! Retweets appreciated. nitter.cf/after_endings/status/1… @SalsLaura
aftertheendproject (@after_endings) profile pictureaftertheendproject@after_endings1 Aug 2024
After the End poetry competition is open! Enter your poetry portfolios by 3rd October 2024. Prizes for the winning poems! Find out more on aftertheend.squarespace.com/… #Poetry competition 🌍#GlobalHealth #Research
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