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Rachel Carney

@createdtoread.bsky.social

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Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 6d

Sharing my upcoming poetry-film launch event as it's #NationalPoetryDay today! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... @imageworkscardiff.bsky.social

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 1d

Art ... or artifice? That's the question posed by @saccharinequeen.bsky.social's new #ekphrastic poem.

'A tour guide holds forth on
body horror, the decayed viscera
of industrial decline, yah de blah,
but no, it‘s worse than that.
It‘s revolting pretentiousness.'

afterpoetry.com/poem/oct-07-...

Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'After viewing the installation I was irritable for hours' by Sadie Maskery exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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Mugwort Magazine @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · 7d

Our Mugwort Magazine submissions inbox is OPEN until 31/10 for our special winter issue, Spectral & Strange, to be published in December.

Check out the guidelines: mugwortmag.wordpress.com/special-call...

...then send us your best eerie, weird, or unsettling fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and art!

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 4d

The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 6d

Sharing my upcoming poetry-film launch event as it's #NationalPoetryDay today! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... @imageworkscardiff.bsky.social

Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 6d

For #nationalpoetryday on the theme of #play here's my poem 'Learning to Play' from my collection Octopus Mind... 🎹 👌📖 createdtoread.com/about/poetry... @serenbooks.bsky.social

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 6d

For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍‍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂
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#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 8d

New blog post! A summer 🏝️🌞 of Publication createdtoread.com/summer-of-pu... poems being rather like buses 🚌 always arriving together... @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social @streetcakemag.bsky.social @gillconnors.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social

Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 18d

I have a flash fiction piece in the latest issue of Mugwort Magazine! It's called 'In Queen Street' ✍️

Mugwort Magazine @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · 18d

Season 2: Volume 3 of Mugwort is here. As we move more fully into autumn, our last issue of 2025 covers much: from summer's end to frosty hints of winter, small joys & fears, natural & supernatural, tricks & treats.

mugwortmag.wordpress.com

We create from the edges, and it is beautiful here. 🖤🍂🍁

Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 19d

I'm really pleased to have a poem appear in Lighthouse Literary Journal and happy to see my villanelle in the Write Out Loud anthology, which was long-listed in their 'echoes' competition a few months ago. The villanelle is #ekphrastic, responding to a painting by Gwen John.

Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 29d

Still time to sign up! The #ekphrasticwriting course starts in 3 weeks time! createdtoread.com/more-online-... Please do share with anyone interested in #poetry #creativewriting or #ekphrasis! @serenbooks.bsky.social

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks!

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · Sep 8

I have a villanelle in this anthology celebrating 20 years of Write Out Loud!
- www.writeoutloud.net/books/

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Zakia Carpenter-Hall @zcarpenterhall.bsky.social · Aug 21

Join me, @zoebrigley.bsky.social, Tangie Mitchell and Kandace Siobhan Walker on 21st of September at 3pm London Time.

Register here: course.veevart-apps.com/emilydickins...

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · Sep 7

I'll be speaking as part of this 'Divergent Writers' panel at the online @nawewriters.bsky.social conference this November alongside @christiecollins.bsky.social & other contributors to the forthcoming @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social book 📚 www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-e...

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · Sep 7

This conference is is packed with great content and is amazing value for money. All sessions are recorded, so if you can't attend live, or have sessions you want to attend running at the same time, you can listen back later. Please share
#NAWEConf25 #InspiringWriting

National Association of Writers in Education @nawewriters.bsky.social · Jun 4

Teach or facilitate creative writing? Grab your Early Bird ticket for the NAWE Online Conference: 'Inspiring Writing'. 7 & 8 November 2025. It's a great opportunity to meet with fellow writers in the field, share approaches & build contacts. Book bit.ly/3qesnem #creativewriting #writingineducation

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iambapoet.com · Sep 6

**AUDITIONS OPEN IN 14 DAYS**

From Sep 20th-27th, auditions for @iambapoet.com open for the first time since 2022 – and for just ONE week!

Be ready when the submission form goes live. Head to the journal's Audition page for full details.

Good luck with your audition! 🍀

iambapoet.com/audition

Audition for poetry journal iamb in Sept 2025

Audition to be part of quarterly poetry journal iamb between the 20th and 27th of September 2025.

iambapoet.com

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reminder that we are open year-round for prose submissions! Have an idea for an essay, interview or conversation? Drop us a line.

andotherpoems.com/essays/

Essays

“essay” (n.), 1590s, meaning “trial, attempt, endeavour,” also “short, discursive literary composition”, from French essai, meaning “trial, attempt, essay”, deri…

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · Sep 3

More details here...

Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'll be running two online #creativewriting courses this autumn 🍁 createdtoread.com/more-online-... There's also a fee waiver scheme & free places for Aber uni students & staff!
@serenbooks.bsky.social @aberenglishdept.bsky.social

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · Aug 30

On this day, the anniversary of Seamus Heaney's passing, it is this poem that sits with me.

'I have seen halls in flames, hearts in cinder, benches filled and emptied, the circles of companions called and broken'

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#SeamusHeaney

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · Aug 30

I have a new #ekphrastic poem in the @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social responding to this painting by Gainsborough from the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social collection - www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast... @serenbooks.bsky.social

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am now a published fiction writer 😀 'The Appointed Story' is in the latest issue of Mugwort Magazine! mugwortmag.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'll be running 2 new online #creativewriting courses this autumn! 'Poetry Writing 1: Starting to Write' & 'Inspired by Art: Ekphrastic Poetry & Prose' are available to book now createdtoread.com/more-online-... Please share... #ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social #ekphrasticpoetry #poetry

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · Aug 10

Somehow it's Sunday again, somehow August. Writing is a winged thing flitting about in the late afternoon sun and I am trying to be still enough for it to land on me.

Happy #smallpoemsunday.
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you!

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