Rachel Wright
@rachelwrighting.com
Writer and editor. Into art, Earth, and diversity. ADHD superstar. Music fan. Purveyor of female rage. Free Palestine. Fuck ICE.
I mostly post about books and poetry.
I mostly post about books and poetry.
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Rachel Wright
@rachelwrighting.com
· Oct 2
www.artsatl.org
I wrote about book bans in Georgia for Banned Books Week. Check it out!
Thanks to @authorsabb.bsky.social and @penamerica.bsky.social for your help with this and your amazing anti-censorship work!
www.artsatl.org/georgia-book...
Thanks to @authorsabb.bsky.social and @penamerica.bsky.social for your help with this and your amazing anti-censorship work!
www.artsatl.org/georgia-book...
Happy Hemlocke Springs Day to all who celebrate.
the apple tree under the sea by hemlocke springs on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 10 Songs
music.apple.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Happy Hemlocke Springs Day to all who celebrate.
I had a fantastic time researching this article about the Atlanta Rare Book Fair for ArtsATL because I got to talk to some really interesting book people. Take a look!
Inaugural Atlanta Rare Book Fair is attracting bibliophiles from the entire metro - ARTS ATL
Rare book dealer and author Charlene Ball lights up when she talks about going to a rare book fair. “It’s a vast cavernous space, but when the booksellers are set up, it looks like 100-plus bookshops,...
www.artsatl.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I had a fantastic time researching this article about the Atlanta Rare Book Fair for ArtsATL because I got to talk to some really interesting book people. Take a look!
Happy pub day to Yah Yah Scholfield and On Sunday She Picked Flowers (@sagapressbooks.bsky.social).
I was lucky enough to review it for ArtsATL, and I loved it. It's a modern Gothic horror full of rage and need, violence and love, folklore and monsters. I highly recommend it.
I was lucky enough to review it for ArtsATL, and I loved it. It's a modern Gothic horror full of rage and need, violence and love, folklore and monsters. I highly recommend it.
Review: Yah Yah Scholfield’s ‘On Sundays …’ is a modern take on gothic Southern horror - ARTS ATL
The horror genre has seen a resurgence in the post-pandemic period, and it’s not difficult to guess why. The world is traumatized, and trauma is a subject that horror is uniquely equipped to explore t...
www.artsatl.org
January 27, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Happy pub day to Yah Yah Scholfield and On Sunday She Picked Flowers (@sagapressbooks.bsky.social).
I was lucky enough to review it for ArtsATL, and I loved it. It's a modern Gothic horror full of rage and need, violence and love, folklore and monsters. I highly recommend it.
I was lucky enough to review it for ArtsATL, and I loved it. It's a modern Gothic horror full of rage and need, violence and love, folklore and monsters. I highly recommend it.
“I saw my people lean—
not toward hope but toward each other.”
—Ilya Kaminsky
not toward hope but toward each other.”
—Ilya Kaminsky
“Psalm for the Slightly Tilted”
“This is not / a good year. / But it has / witnesses.”
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:34 PM
“I saw my people lean—
not toward hope but toward each other.”
—Ilya Kaminsky
not toward hope but toward each other.”
—Ilya Kaminsky
I reviewed Atlanta writer Yah Yah Scholfield's debut horror novel, On Sundays She Picked Flowers, out week after next from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social, and I loved it.
Read to find out why!
Read to find out why!
Review: Yah Yah Scholfield’s ‘On Sundays …’ is a modern take on gothic Southern horror - ARTS ATL
The horror genre has seen a resurgence in the post-pandemic period, and it’s not difficult to guess why. The world is traumatized, and trauma is a subject that horror is uniquely equipped to explore t...
www.artsatl.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
I reviewed Atlanta writer Yah Yah Scholfield's debut horror novel, On Sundays She Picked Flowers, out week after next from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social, and I loved it.
Read to find out why!
Read to find out why!
Before Rosa Parks, there was brave Claudette Colvin. Rest in power, Claudette.
Unsung US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dies, aged 86
Colvin's arrest for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.
www.aljazeera.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Before Rosa Parks, there was brave Claudette Colvin. Rest in power, Claudette.
Happy Pub Day to Bianca Stone’s new collection, The Near and Distant World! @tinhouse.bsky.social
I loved this collection’s questions about the meaning and purpose of both life and art given the state of the world. Some poems express despair, some transcendence, but all are filled with empathy.
I loved this collection’s questions about the meaning and purpose of both life and art given the state of the world. Some poems express despair, some transcendence, but all are filled with empathy.
January 13, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Happy Pub Day to Bianca Stone’s new collection, The Near and Distant World! @tinhouse.bsky.social
I loved this collection’s questions about the meaning and purpose of both life and art given the state of the world. Some poems express despair, some transcendence, but all are filled with empathy.
I loved this collection’s questions about the meaning and purpose of both life and art given the state of the world. Some poems express despair, some transcendence, but all are filled with empathy.
“maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul.”
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs
by Renée Nicole Macklin
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs
by Renée Nicole Macklin
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
“maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul.”
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs
by Renée Nicole Macklin
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs
by Renée Nicole Macklin
Another great mail day from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social.
This book is sooooo up my alley, and the design is gorgeous. I can’t wait to read!
This book is sooooo up my alley, and the design is gorgeous. I can’t wait to read!
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Another great mail day from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social.
This book is sooooo up my alley, and the design is gorgeous. I can’t wait to read!
This book is sooooo up my alley, and the design is gorgeous. I can’t wait to read!
How gorgeous is the cover of this poetry collection from @tinhouse.bsky.social, y’all? Gonna dive in by the fire this weekend.
December 13, 2025 at 3:40 AM
How gorgeous is the cover of this poetry collection from @tinhouse.bsky.social, y’all? Gonna dive in by the fire this weekend.
I reviewed PJ Nelson's new book, All My Bones, for ArtsATL. This novel was a very nice reprieve from the vicissitudes of real life--check it out!
Review: Author P.J. Nelson’s latest in Old Juniper Bookshop series is magical and a little grotesque - ARTS ATL
On December 9, A Cappella Books and the Georgia Center for the Book will host a celebration in honor of the release of All My Bones (Minotaur), the second book in P.J. Nelson’s cozy Old Juniper Booksh...
www.artsatl.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I reviewed PJ Nelson's new book, All My Bones, for ArtsATL. This novel was a very nice reprieve from the vicissitudes of real life--check it out!
Look what came in the mail today! Can’t wait to dive in tonight!
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Look what came in the mail today! Can’t wait to dive in tonight!
Reposted by Rachel Wright
I ate a lot of queso tonight. Like too much queso. But I’m calling it self care so it’s fine
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I ate a lot of queso tonight. Like too much queso. But I’m calling it self care so it’s fine
Reposted by Rachel Wright
it us. literally.
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
it us. literally.
I got to speak with the delightful Doug Jones about the workshop he's leading as part of Lostintheletters' Letters Festival this weekend. Read about it in ArtsATL here:
Doug Jones wants to help writers connect with his Opening Movements workshop - ARTS ATL
Brooklyn-born novelist Doug Jones found himself lonely for other writers after he moved to Atlanta from New York City in 2017. “In New York, you sit on your stoop, you talk to your neighbor,” he says,...
www.artsatl.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I got to speak with the delightful Doug Jones about the workshop he's leading as part of Lostintheletters' Letters Festival this weekend. Read about it in ArtsATL here:
I wrote about Debbie Gibson's new book and pop legacy. Check it out here:
Debbie Gibson joins MJCCA Book Festival lineup - ARTS ATL
Last week, the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA) announced that 1980s pop superstar Debbie Gibson had joined its Book Festival lineup for what it called “an intimate conversation and p...
www.artsatl.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I wrote about Debbie Gibson's new book and pop legacy. Check it out here:
Reposted by Rachel Wright
I hope that everybody celebratorily hooks up tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I hope that everybody celebratorily hooks up tonight
I wrote about Book//Zine, the first annual zine fair organized by @burnaway.org. The zine world is an exciting and inspiring space--check it out!
Burnaway’s first Book//Zine fair was an escape from digital malaise - ARTS ATL
On October 11, Atlanta-based nonprofit contemporary art magazine Burnaway hosted its first annual Book//Zine fair at Goat Farm, which attracted between 700 and 1,000 attendees, according to organizers...
www.artsatl.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I wrote about Book//Zine, the first annual zine fair organized by @burnaway.org. The zine world is an exciting and inspiring space--check it out!
I wrote about book bans in Georgia for Banned Books Week. Check it out!
Thanks to @authorsabb.bsky.social and @penamerica.bsky.social for your help with this and your amazing anti-censorship work!
www.artsatl.org/georgia-book...
Thanks to @authorsabb.bsky.social and @penamerica.bsky.social for your help with this and your amazing anti-censorship work!
www.artsatl.org/georgia-book...
www.artsatl.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I wrote about book bans in Georgia for Banned Books Week. Check it out!
Thanks to @authorsabb.bsky.social and @penamerica.bsky.social for your help with this and your amazing anti-censorship work!
www.artsatl.org/georgia-book...
Thanks to @authorsabb.bsky.social and @penamerica.bsky.social for your help with this and your amazing anti-censorship work!
www.artsatl.org/georgia-book...
I interviewed the exceptional Ally StoneWright at Georgia Center for the Book about her Emerging Student Writers event at this weekend's Decatur Book Festival. Check it out!
www.artsatl.org/2025-decatur...
www.artsatl.org/2025-decatur...
2025 Decatur Book Festival gives student writers a turn in the spotlight - ARTS ATL
One of Ally StoneWright’s first experiences at the Decatur Book Festival was participating in a student reading at Eddie’s Attic as a MFA student at SCAD Atlanta. “It made me feel part of the literary...
www.artsatl.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I interviewed the exceptional Ally StoneWright at Georgia Center for the Book about her Emerging Student Writers event at this weekend's Decatur Book Festival. Check it out!
www.artsatl.org/2025-decatur...
www.artsatl.org/2025-decatur...
Josh Johnson’s weekly videos have been a balm for me this year, and last night’s hit me right in the gut. A long video, but well worth the watch.
This Kind of Freedom Will Leave You Speechless
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Josh Johnson’s weekly videos have been a balm for me this year, and last night’s hit me right in the gut. A long video, but well worth the watch.
“I say here that it is not music, not so ordinary;
it is a sacrament, it remains a sacrament
and this is all that must be said.”
it is a sacrament, it remains a sacrament
and this is all that must be said.”
“Bob Marley, Live, 1980”
“In Kingston after the storm, the yard / cools, the grass slippery underfoot, / leaves dripping—the air heavy with fatigue.”
www.newyorker.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“I say here that it is not music, not so ordinary;
it is a sacrament, it remains a sacrament
and this is all that must be said.”
it is a sacrament, it remains a sacrament
and this is all that must be said.”
“how is it you shed earlier selves and are more yourself with each shedding?—
in defeat, you were thrown to the muck and, dazed, got back up, determined, reinvigorated”
in defeat, you were thrown to the muck and, dazed, got back up, determined, reinvigorated”
“Rift”
“How is it you shed earlier selves and are more yourself with each shedding?”
www.newyorker.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“how is it you shed earlier selves and are more yourself with each shedding?—
in defeat, you were thrown to the muck and, dazed, got back up, determined, reinvigorated”
in defeat, you were thrown to the muck and, dazed, got back up, determined, reinvigorated”
“Let your candy
apple cowboys die in their own desert
until my grandmother’s name is spoken
like the emergency it has become.”
apple cowboys die in their own desert
until my grandmother’s name is spoken
like the emergency it has become.”
Preamble to the West
A poem
www.theatlantic.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“Let your candy
apple cowboys die in their own desert
until my grandmother’s name is spoken
like the emergency it has become.”
apple cowboys die in their own desert
until my grandmother’s name is spoken
like the emergency it has become.”