Ciara

writer / very normal lesbian

[Bad Betty Press @badbettypress]

📢 It's about time we let you in on something very exciting... our 2025 poetry collection authors

We're over the moon to be publishing full-length works of poetry from:
✨Desree
✨Ashley Hickson-Lovence
✨Antosh Wojcik
✨Agata Maslowska

Read on & stay tuned for more details...

[Marc David Jacobs @MarcDavidJacobs]

On 12th September 2014, a group of us - some no longer here - put on a £4 screening of Tomboy and three shorts: Bedding Andrew, The Gay Agenda, Beyond the Mirror's Gaze.

Ten years on, the festival we started shows no sign of slowing - or of anyone ever getting the acronym right.

[Ciara @slowfaults]

delighted to have a poem in @propelmagazine’s first anthology! 💫

[Propel Magazine @propelmagazine]

Join us in celebrating our first print ANTHOLOGY

Feat. poems selected from across our first 12 issues and a foreword from EIC @Anthony_Anax, the Anthology offers work from some of the most exciting poets in UK/IE who’d yet to publish a full collection

https://t.co/JovGdunvE7

[Ciara @slowfaults]

@Chiaroscuro1897 @littlebettybbp Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed 💞

[Julia @Chiaroscuro1897]

Summer maybe fading, but its ‘Impossible Heat’ lingers courtesy of @slowfaults, whose poems of erotic longing, love, devotion and desire are scorching. Do grab a copy of this @littlebettybbp pamphlet if you can. ❤️‍🔥

[Ciara @slowfaults]

reading at the gutter launch in Glasgow tonight! see you there 😎

[Gutter @Gutter_Magazine]

Your turn now Glasgow! We will be launching issue 30 on the 23rd of August, 7pm, at The Alchemy Experiment with Meredith Macleod Davidson, Akshay Anilal Sreeja, Marianne MacRae, and Ciara Maguire.

The event is free and unticketed! We can't wait to see you there 😎

[Emma Flynn @emmaafln]

so pleased to be reading at the launch of Ciara’s searing, scorching, sexy pamphlet tonight. adore her work and this especially - come, feel the heat, etc.🥵

[Ciara @slowfaults]

launching my pamphlet in Glasgow tonight @ category is with readings from some talented friends 🌟

[Amy L. King @amykingpoetry]

Returned home from 5 days of camping yesterday to find my copy of @slowfaults brilliant pamphlet 'Impossible Heat' from @littlebettybbp waiting

Was too excited to unpack so did the most dykey thing I could think of instead (read it cover to cover to my girlfriend in bed) ✨

[Ciara @slowfaults]

@amykingpoetry @littlebettybbp love this!! thank you for sharing, i hope you enjoy it 💞

[SAND Journal @SANDJournal]

So happy to see this new release by SAND past contributor Ciara Maguire! @slowfaults 📚

[Little Betty @littlebettybbp]

❤️‍🔥 OUT NOW: Impossible Heat by @slowfaults ❤️‍🔥

'A work of claustrophobia, heat, and longing. The emotional incisiveness of this work is stark, its euphony sumptuous.’ @SusannahDickey

'Impossible Heat surrenders to its own melting.’ Maria Sledmere

https://t.co/1Pw1K2n0UC

[Ciara @slowfaults]

@emmaafln @StrathclydeUCU congratulations genius!!! what will you be doing at Glasgow?

[Ciara @slowfaults]

@therealdanpower huge congrats!!

[Ciara @slowfaults]

had the most amazing time launching impossible heat into the world at the weekend. in awe of my fellow little betty poets!!

[Little Betty @littlebettybbp]

What a beautiful time we had launching the Little Betty pamphlets @RoundhouseLDN. A true communion.

Thank you @citytwarbler @ParkinsBrown @suzannahevans @_oliviadouglass @slowfaults Jackson Phoenix Nash @JakeWildHall & everyone who came to celebrate with us. Thank you Gboyega.

[Amy Acre @amyacrepoet]

@RoundhouseLDN @ParkinsBrown @suzannahevans @_oliviadouglass @slowfaults @littlebettybbp @citytwarbler @JakeWildHall And I'll be reading at a pre-launch celebration at @the_betsey tomorrow night, with poetry idols @jsaphra @citytwarbler, Beverly Frydman and no less than 3 Little Betties 🌻

[Amy Acre @amyacrepoet]

This Sunday @RoundhouseLDN's Last Word Festival

Come and celebrate 🔥 pamphlets by @ParkinsBrown @suzannahevans @_oliviadouglass @slowfaults & Jackson Phoenix Nash, with @littlebettybbp @citytwarbler @JakeWildHall & me.

Tickets: https://t.co/YLwaU1Uq1p

[The National @ScotNational]

🚨 The Israel v Scotland game at Hampden has been delayed after a protester broke into the stadium and chained themselves to a goalpost.

Demonstrations outside the stadium have seen demands for the game to be called off over Israel's actions in Palestine

[Bad Betty Press @badbettypress]

Ey up ducks. We're opening for poetry submissions in June and July.

1st – 30th June 2024: Little Betty (pamphlets)

1st – 31st July 2024: Bad Betty (full-length collections)

Excited to welcome @Vanessa_Kisuule to @littlebettybbp 💫💫💫

[Ciara @slowfaults]

@SANDJournal Thank you for all the support 💫