Dear Bookworms, we are delighted that so many of you contribute to #BookWormSat every Saturday. Reading your literary posts, and discovering new novels, poems and plays to read is absolutely wonderful.
As of January the 1st 2025, #BookWormSat no longer hosts on what was known as Twitter (28th of December is the last session), but we continue our literary adventures on Bluesky.
Themes
| 10/01 | Places of Sadness, Gloominess and Bleakness in Literature |
| 17/01 | We celebrate the birthday of Anne Brontë with a day of C19th Women’s Literature |
| 24/01 | Celebrating the birthday of landscape architect, Leonard Springer, with the theme Gardens in Literature |
| 31/01 | The last day of National Storytelling Week, we will turn to any stories, tales or poems that have their foundation in the oral storytelling tradition. |
| 07/02 | For Charles Dickens’ birthday: Dickens and only Dickens! And then some more Dickens! Until we all drown in Dickens. |
| 14/02 | Since it’s Valentine’s Day we embrace both love and anti-love in literature. |
| 21/02 | Celebrating W. H. Auden’s birthday with 20th-century poetry. |
| 28/02 | For Finland’s Kalevala Day, we will have a day of ancient poetry. |
| 07/03 | Celebrating Edwin Landseer’s birthday with Horses, Dogs, Stags, Deers, Falcons and Lions in Literature. And Polar Bears. |
| 14/03 | To celebrate Algernon Blackwood’s birthday, today will be supernatural, literature-wise. |
| 21/03 | Forests for International Day of Forests. |
| 28/03 | It’s Shakespeare Week, so Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare! |
| 04/04 | Hell! |
| 11/04 | For National Pet Day, we will curl up with, walk, ride and pat all the pets of literature. |
Some Rules
- Sexism, racism, fascism and so on has no place in our community.
- Stay on topic.
- We love to see multiple posts from the same accounts and we definitely encourage them but please do not flood the hashtag.
- We love gifs too but we think that the silly ones should remain in the gif database.
- The hashtag is about literature. The hosts are writers, and we understand how important it is to get your work out there. However, we kindly ask that you avoid using #BookWormSat to promote your own work.
- And finally, as J.M. Barrie would have said: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
Hosts & Hours
The hashtag is hosed by Signe Maene and the brilliant Rachel Deering.
#BookWormSat hosts between 11am and 11pm CET.
Thank you!
A massive thank you to every follower and every bookworm who contributes to the hashtag. We love hosting it, and your posts always brighten up our Saturdays!
Signe Maene 