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2026
@brokensleepbooks
This boy is 2 years sober today and his first full collection Alanis Morissette has been signed by the legends at
@brokensleep
. I’m so unbelievably grateful and delighted to be working with
@godzillakent
a poet and person I admire.
@Canisteoman
@JordanPeele
You when a close relative of yours dies please tell me, so I can come to the funeral and ask you why you aren’t at a different funeral also happening on the day.
HUGE NEWS!
We are overwhelmingly excited to let you know we have received Arts Council funding of £60,000. This will allow us to release books, run events, do community outreach, start a pamphlet imprint, recruit a board and much much more.
Thank you so much
@ace_national
I’ve been asked to pass on this message: Gboyega’s friends and family are taking the necessary time to process the heartbreaking news of his passing. Please could members of the poetry & literature community not speak to press without direct permission from his family. Thank you.
So very saddened to hear that
@PennedintheM
have closed their doors. If all my books were with me I would show you the huge amount of books I have from them and the impact they have had on me as a writer. I wish Tom Chivers all the best. A sad day in publishing.
We are going through something huge as a community right now something sad and hard to hold. But I’ve been out today and see the incredible hard work of people who care about a beloved friend and it gives me hope.
#FindGboyegaOdubanjo
@GCMANIAC12
@FutbolBible
So Balloteli says I'm sick of being racially abused and I want to play somewhere in loved and feel safe and he's a racist? Did you think before you tweeted this?
I just lost a 28 year old friend to Corona. Please stay safe, please stay inside.
This is not a joke this is a pandemic and we all need to do our part.
Rest easy Granny. There wasn’t anyone like you a rebel, a writer and my hero. I simply would not be who I am today without you and I will miss you so very much.
There’s a group of us heading to London go to hold some space and have hugs and talk about Yega. Would be lovely to see as many people for hugs as possible DM me for more details.
It’s a testament to
@amyacrepoet
’s ability as an editor that we have won publisher and pamphlet of the year. She deserves every single bit of praise. Unbelievably proud of her and all the work she does. I can’t stress how good she is at what she does. A good day!
Since the ACE money came in I have just been booking and programming live poetry events around the UK. Including four London events. I am living my best life.
I was not ready, not ready for
@ilya_poet
’s collection Deaf Rebublic I have not found the words yet to describe it's absolute amazingness. Just remarkable. The title of this poem is a better poem than any of my poems.
Some monumental news:
@ace_national
have offered us a £30k grant for our 2022 artistic programme 🎉🎉🎉
We'll be using it to publish 12 books of poetry & run our biggest ever national tour.
THANK YOU ACE & all the incredible poets & partners working with us to make art happen.
I’ll be honest with you being sober when grieving is maybe the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I know if I’ve got this then I’m ok and I’m lucky for friends checking in but honestly it’s fucking awful.
Not tons to say. Grateful for the people who have supported me through the first year. I’m obviously talking about Amy. Feels weird to celebrate something that I am doing because I had become a person I didn’t want to be. I’m sure every year after this will be easier thanks.
30th BIRTHDAY GIG ANNOUNCMENT!
MARCH 24th 2022
Doors 6pm
@thejagodalston
Tickets Pay What You Can suggested donation £10.
Link:
It's an absolute honour thank you to everyone on this list!
Visuals
@TyroneLewis22
It’s alive. Two years of hard work, endless reading, hard writing, loss and recovery come down to this. I am so proud of this book I can’t wait for you to read it. Pre-order from
@badbettypress
. I can never thank
@copyslut
enough for everything.
Happy publication day to the one and only
@amyacrepoet
this book is everything. I’ve seen these poems being written and worked on and re reading them now I am still in awe of the genius of them.
@BloomsburyBooks
for a copy come to a launch event!
I'VE ONLY GONE AND COMPLETED
#Couchto5K
i’m absolutely over the moon tbh. I can't recommend running enough. I celebrated by doing an extra kilometre. Catch me running all the time, next stop 10k.
SUBMISSIONS (8 days left to send)
Hello you beautiful lot. I am spending some of this fine Sunday reading lots of your poems. Why not send more? Bad Betty is extending the family and inviting you.
Guidelines:
Happy
#NationalPoetryDay
to all.
My copy of Bi+ just arrived and it’s beautiful. Go get a copy from
@Bi_Poets
and
@fourteenpoems
join one of the launches. Be gay do crime read my poem about the hottest guy chopping wood. Cheers
An absolute masterpiece of beautifully honest poems that hit me in places no other collection has.
@rachelnalong
was always going to hit a home run first time but I’d say this is all the way out the park.
@nocontextfooty
The thing is you can’t play the men against the women so the ratings are separate and in women’s football Kerr deserves nothing less than these stats.
It’s the end of quite an extraordinary tour and brilliant year. So hear is a goofy Jake round up and thanks to everyone involved.
14 dates 11 cities 3 countries
80+ artists work created for
£12000 of
@ace_national
funding we are unbelievably grateful for.
1 tired me.
This film comes out in cinemas nation wide today. Not only is it a brilliant coming of age film, but the main character is reading
@badbettypress
’s Dizziness of Freedom all the way through! It's also an indie film made on a micro budget that has made it nationwide, go support it!
I did 1000 crunches and then ran! I completed week 3 of
#Couchto5K
which means Friday I’m running for a total of 16 minutes and I am excited and nervous!
Being a parent is just making someone go to bed at a sensible time, so you can binge watch something on Netflix until 2am. Then being woken up at 6:30 telling yourself never again. The repeating that until your child moves out.
Tomorrow I have to go back to work and I feel like I need someone to let the customers know that I need space. I just don’t know if I have the energy to talk to customers and have them ask for a book they’ve walked past.
Can we stop using fat as one of the insults for Donald Trump, especially in the same breath as racist or sex pest. Your weight has nothing to do with your personality.
Very happy to have a poem in this about a hot man chopping wood. Described to me as sexy which I will be honest with you is not something I thought I would achieve with a poem. Love to
@helen_bowell
and
@Bi_Poets
and Fourteen Poems.
Thrilled to reveal the cover of our latest anthology edited by
@helen_bowell
/
@Bi_Poets
. Themed around inbetweenness, these poems look at how we can use poetry to express our desires, fears, and hopes. So excited for you to read these 40+ poets! Preorder via bio link!
❤️💜💙
I have just got on a 6 hour train that has no plug sockets, everyone is losing there shit, realising there phones will die. I think this is how the end of the world will be, just people searching for plug sockets.
I work for Waterstones and when they did Read for Ukraine I walked in to the shop and said oh “this is great when will we do Palestine” I was asked not to say that again on the shop floor. Anyway I would love
@Waterstones
to do this.
3 years today Grenfell burned down. We still don't have justice for the 72 people who lost there lives. There are still families who haven't been re-housed. The conservative government and the Kensington and Chelsea council are responsible and have to be held to account.
Absolutely delighted to have my poem White City in the newest
@BathMagg
! I’ve been waiting to post about and I’m so glad I can. You can read the poem here:
Incredibly proud of this list
@citytwarbler
and Gboyega put together for Little Betty. Thank you to Anja for all the hard work and thank you for leaving us something truly special Yega!
We are incredibly proud to announce our inaugural pamphlet list, selected by Gboyega Odubanjo and Anja König, and published in memory of Gboyega.
Jackson Phoenix Nash
Olivia Douglass
@_oliviadouglass
Kareem Parkins-Brown
@ParkinsBrown
Ciara Maguire
@slowfaults
Suzannah Evans
My dad just hit my mum with this.
Dad: everyone’s clapping for the NHS staff and careers, but what about the locksmiths?
Mum: what are you talking about?
Dad: you know the key workers.
Honestly so proud and excited about this list of full-length books. Keep looking at it going I helped this happen and thinking “I’m just a guy”. These writers are unbelievably talented and I’m so happy to be publishing them! This is just one of all the things we have planned 👀
📣 BREAKING NEWS 📣
We’re excited to reveal our new list of poetry authors, whose full-length books we’re publishing in 2023 / 24.
From debut collections & cross-genre to lyrical complete works, these are boundary-breaking books from writers we’ve long admired…
Train lines listed in order of how easy they are to stand on:
Hammersmith and City Line
Waterloo and City
Circle
District
Jubilee
Bakerloo
Northern
Victoria
Metropolitan
Piccadilly
Hot coals
Central
It’s got lost in all the wedding stuff. But I got a new job, I am no working at Waterstones. It’s my first job outside of the service industry. Today is my first day and it’s boiling and it’s Sally Rooney day. Wish me luck I am a tomato.
If I accidentally press the stop button on the bus a stop early, I will always get off early unless someone else gets off. So that I haven’t wasted everyone’s time. Who else does this?
@JB7071
@FutbolBible
So what you are saying is you think it's bad to go to another, country/ continent make money from being there, then leave that place after taking what you want and then invest it somewhere completely different. Wait until you hear about the British empire...
NEW POEMS
Thank you to
@charliebaylis6
and
@anthro_poetry
for publishing these two poems of mine. I am incredibly proud of them have a read have a share tell me what you think! Happy Sunday.
#worldcupofcartoonthemetunes
It's all over!!
The winner is: Arthur!
If you've enjoyed the world cup please consider buying me a coffee or whatever you think 4 months work is worth!
I will not let you know exactly how many times I cried reading
@rrobinson72
A Portable Paradise. I will let you know it was not less than five. I've be blown away by the powerful, tender beauty and honestly of this collection. Thank you Roger.
When I speak to certain people about
@CalebFemi_
I feel like he might end up being one of the most influential poets of our generation. He has allowed many of us, myself included, the knowledge and ability to write about the places we are from without shame. Thank you.
We’ve had to move house six times but we’ve made it. It’s been an incredibly trying time as I hear moving house is. I couldn’t have done it without
@amyacrepoet
! Nottingham we are finally settled and in you in a perfect house! Now let’s buy pillows!
So it looks like it's going I be a
#worldcupofcartoonthemetunes
so I guess the question is what do I need to include? As always I will include everything you suggest. Please like and share to make sure no one misses out.
We’re absolutely delighted to say we’ve been awarded
@ace_national
funding for our 2021 publishing programme! So grateful and excited to share everything we have planned. Keep your eyes peeled.
Ok ok ok. I’ve been invited to give a guest lecture about the process of publishing an anthology. If you need me I will mostly be fighting imposter syndrome in a dark room.
SUBMISSIONS
There is lots of good reasons to send work we do events pay a competitive advance but mostly Amy is unbelievably good at her job and takes the care and time to make poems the best poems they can. Not a single poem I’ve written & had published would exist without her.
We are OPEN for submissions of full-length poetry collections, from 1st to 31st July.
Selected authors will work with Bad Betty's founding editor
@amyacrepoet
, for publication in 2025.
Full details: 👇👇👇
1 month sober today. Which is something I have done before but only for like Dry January or Sober October so it has felt a bit different. Anyway happy Monday hope everyone is good.
In the midst of this terrifying day, some amazing news: we’ve been awarded an
@ace_national
grant to support our 2020 publishing programme. We’ll be putting it to good use, with a cracking list of books & programme of events. Here’s what to expect… (1/4)
I’ve got a meeting this morning and then I am probably going to read some submissions. Anyway very excited to read your work hope it is sunny where you are.
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