charlotte shevchenko knight
@shevchenkoknight.bsky.social
poet, unfortunately. Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape). Lecturer @ University of Hull. NWCDTP-funded PhD on authotheory and anorexia @ Manchester Writing School. rep’d by Peter Straus @ RCW Literary Agency
every weekend hundreds of people who’ve never left their houses before are unleashed upon York city centre to give ‘society’ a go
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
every weekend hundreds of people who’ve never left their houses before are unleashed upon York city centre to give ‘society’ a go
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⭐A CHOICE OF 4 WORKSHOPS
How to Write a Synopsis with Joe Sedgwick ✍️
Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚
Poetics of the Haunted w/ @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social 👻
Writing Intimacy & Relationships with Rozie Kelly ❤️
How to Write a Synopsis with Joe Sedgwick ✍️
Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚
Poetics of the Haunted w/ @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social 👻
Writing Intimacy & Relationships with Rozie Kelly ❤️
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
⭐A CHOICE OF 4 WORKSHOPS
How to Write a Synopsis with Joe Sedgwick ✍️
Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚
Poetics of the Haunted w/ @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social 👻
Writing Intimacy & Relationships with Rozie Kelly ❤️
How to Write a Synopsis with Joe Sedgwick ✍️
Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚
Poetics of the Haunted w/ @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social 👻
Writing Intimacy & Relationships with Rozie Kelly ❤️
on a separate note i’ve been getting really into Brian Eno, which i’ve heard can only mean good things
October 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
on a separate note i’ve been getting really into Brian Eno, which i’ve heard can only mean good things
if you missed my poetics of the haunted workshop, fear not, i’ll be running it again in-person for National Creative Writing Industry Day alongside a whole host of amazing events @commapress.bsky.social - get involved here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...
The National Creative Writing Industry Day 2025
Hear from published authors and have a 1-to-1 with two agents/editors at the largest event for aspiring writers in the North of England
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
if you missed my poetics of the haunted workshop, fear not, i’ll be running it again in-person for National Creative Writing Industry Day alongside a whole host of amazing events @commapress.bsky.social - get involved here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...
haven’t really posted on here in a while because it feels like shouting into the void BUT it feels important enough to say that i’m now a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull which has been a big dream for years now. probably the only thing worth void posting
September 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
haven’t really posted on here in a while because it feels like shouting into the void BUT it feels important enough to say that i’m now a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull which has been a big dream for years now. probably the only thing worth void posting
choose your fighter
August 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
choose your fighter
i have a few fun things coming up this autumn - including workshops! - so prepare yourselves for a thread 🧵
August 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
i have a few fun things coming up this autumn - including workshops! - so prepare yourselves for a thread 🧵
a dear pal sent me this old article by Žižek on poetry and the torture house of language. it is extremely compelling so i’m having to share here for those who haven’t already come across it www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
The Poetic Torture-House of Language
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
a dear pal sent me this old article by Žižek on poetry and the torture house of language. it is extremely compelling so i’m having to share here for those who haven’t already come across it www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
reading a collection of Helene Cixous’s essays and she essentially pulls this move every time (which i love)
August 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
reading a collection of Helene Cixous’s essays and she essentially pulls this move every time (which i love)
devastated to report that i finally started watching Girls because everyone in my life says i’m ‘such a Hannah’ and i wanted to find out what that means….and now i know…..
August 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
devastated to report that i finally started watching Girls because everyone in my life says i’m ‘such a Hannah’ and i wanted to find out what that means….and now i know…..
sooo interesting to watch this interview of Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag and see how Jack Kroll interrupts Sontag when she is talking about being interrupted, only to mansplain Citizen Kane. 1969. has anything changed at all lmao youtu.be/XTO61r_UjU4?...
July 23, 2025 at 6:12 AM
sooo interesting to watch this interview of Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag and see how Jack Kroll interrupts Sontag when she is talking about being interrupted, only to mansplain Citizen Kane. 1969. has anything changed at all lmao youtu.be/XTO61r_UjU4?...
recently came across interview footage of Bob Geldof in the 80s and it has completely rocked my world. i had no idea that man was so handsome and eloquent….almost enough so to forgive those atrocious christmas songs…..
July 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
recently came across interview footage of Bob Geldof in the 80s and it has completely rocked my world. i had no idea that man was so handsome and eloquent….almost enough so to forgive those atrocious christmas songs…..
working on a poem for a friend, which means i get to return to some of my ‘essential’ reading — sharing here as a lil treat for everyone else. in order, Sophie Robinson, Frank O’Hara, Anne Carson 🪨
July 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
working on a poem for a friend, which means i get to return to some of my ‘essential’ reading — sharing here as a lil treat for everyone else. in order, Sophie Robinson, Frank O’Hara, Anne Carson 🪨
forgot Larry David’s name and referred to him as ‘Curb’
July 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
forgot Larry David’s name and referred to him as ‘Curb’
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a startling, original and thrilling new voice.
— @rebeccatamas.bsky.social
This is a brilliant debut.
— Caleb Klaces
An intimate & astonishing debut which asks us to pay close attention to what it really means to be alive.
— @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
— @rebeccatamas.bsky.social
This is a brilliant debut.
— Caleb Klaces
An intimate & astonishing debut which asks us to pay close attention to what it really means to be alive.
— @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
June 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
a startling, original and thrilling new voice.
— @rebeccatamas.bsky.social
This is a brilliant debut.
— Caleb Klaces
An intimate & astonishing debut which asks us to pay close attention to what it really means to be alive.
— @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
— @rebeccatamas.bsky.social
This is a brilliant debut.
— Caleb Klaces
An intimate & astonishing debut which asks us to pay close attention to what it really means to be alive.
— @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
thrilled to share that i’m now a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Food for the Dead! it’s an incredible list of authors and i feel honoured to be joining that legacy. huge thank you to the judges, @societyofauthors.bsky.social, my friends, family and love for making it an evening to remember
June 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
thrilled to share that i’m now a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Food for the Dead! it’s an incredible list of authors and i feel honoured to be joining that legacy. huge thank you to the judges, @societyofauthors.bsky.social, my friends, family and love for making it an evening to remember
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📖 @johamya.bsky.social for The Hypocrite
📖 Ashani Lewis for Winter Animals (Dialogue Books)
📖 @jaseokundaye.bsky.social for Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain (@faber.bsky.social)
📖 @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social for Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape, Vintage)
📖 Ashani Lewis for Winter Animals (Dialogue Books)
📖 @jaseokundaye.bsky.social for Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain (@faber.bsky.social)
📖 @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social for Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape, Vintage)
June 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📖 @johamya.bsky.social for The Hypocrite
📖 Ashani Lewis for Winter Animals (Dialogue Books)
📖 @jaseokundaye.bsky.social for Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain (@faber.bsky.social)
📖 @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social for Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape, Vintage)
📖 Ashani Lewis for Winter Animals (Dialogue Books)
📖 @jaseokundaye.bsky.social for Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain (@faber.bsky.social)
📖 @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social for Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape, Vintage)
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Next up are the Somerset Maugham Awards, awarded for published works of fiction, non-fiction or poetry by writers under 30, to enable them to enrich their work by gaining experience of foreign countries
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#SoAwards
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#SoAwards
June 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Next up are the Somerset Maugham Awards, awarded for published works of fiction, non-fiction or poetry by writers under 30, to enable them to enrich their work by gaining experience of foreign countries
🧵
#SoAwards
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#SoAwards
Maya Caspari, Becca Drake, and Janine Bradbury all delivering phenomenal performances tonight at Bluebird Bakery in York. very lucky to call these poets our own 💙
June 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Maya Caspari, Becca Drake, and Janine Bradbury all delivering phenomenal performances tonight at Bluebird Bakery in York. very lucky to call these poets our own 💙
just took my driving theory test (and passed!) but i met a girly at the test centre clearly hungover as all hell and she hit me with the
June 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
just took my driving theory test (and passed!) but i met a girly at the test centre clearly hungover as all hell and she hit me with the
as summer approaches i am once again calling out to the void for novel recommendations! i’m a particularly big fan of Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen, Olga Tokarczuk, and Ottessa Moshfegh… pls help me find more deliciously good books
June 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
as summer approaches i am once again calling out to the void for novel recommendations! i’m a particularly big fan of Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen, Olga Tokarczuk, and Ottessa Moshfegh… pls help me find more deliciously good books
Bruce Springsteen tonight in Liverpool welcoming onstage a ‘local lad’ Paul McCartney — yes i cried ❤️🩹
June 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Bruce Springsteen tonight in Liverpool welcoming onstage a ‘local lad’ Paul McCartney — yes i cried ❤️🩹
went for dinner and there was this face from a mural reflected in my friend’s cutlery but i didn’t realise that was what was happening at first and got scared that it was josie packard
June 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
went for dinner and there was this face from a mural reflected in my friend’s cutlery but i didn’t realise that was what was happening at first and got scared that it was josie packard
ultimate compliment: someone told me my outfit was ‘very French’
June 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
ultimate compliment: someone told me my outfit was ‘very French’
Food for the Dead has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2025 — i’m very grateful to be included on the shortlist, and in such stellar company too, thank you to the judges ❤️
seamusheaneycentre.com/poetry-prize...
seamusheaneycentre.com/poetry-prize...
2025 Shortlist | Seamus Heaney Centre | Queen's University Belfast
seamusheaneycentre.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Food for the Dead has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2025 — i’m very grateful to be included on the shortlist, and in such stellar company too, thank you to the judges ❤️
seamusheaneycentre.com/poetry-prize...
seamusheaneycentre.com/poetry-prize...