Pick of the day
RAAC (A concrete poem with with holes in)
Posted by Ewan on Sat, 18 May 2024
It's not about concrete
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This Sort of Thing - April 2024 - The Sporophyte Stage
Posted by Turlough on Wed, 15 May 2024
Eat your words but don't go hungry. Words can make you grow rotundly.Read morePoem of the week
A Bookshop in Aberystwyth
Posted by mcmanaman on Tue, 14 May 2024
It was in my drinking days,
hungover at the seaside, Butty Bach
after Butty Bach, bringing up all
my usual drunken topics,
people on their phones in restaurants,
how much I love Ross's podcast,
all the money I wasted on a B&Q bathroom,
that I wished I'd asked advice from friends
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READING EVENT - THANK YOU
I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who came to our reading event last night. The rest of the world may be going down the plughole but ABCTales reading events are still fabulous.
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Firstly I am really looking forward to seeing a few of you tomorrow evening, and hearing you read at our online reading event. There's still room in the audience if anyone wants to be a last minute attendee.
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Our Story and Poem of the Month for April, very kindly chosen by Drew Gummerson
An honour, as always, and a pleasure, to be the one doing the Picks of the Month.
I’ll be brief. So here we go.
Story.
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Want to join ABCTales?
We've had to suspend the automatic joining facility for a while so if you would like to join us please email
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Posting From Your Android Phone - Fixed!
Some of you have been having issues with posting your work using an android phone. Ewan and John our techie have been working really hard to fix this.
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