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Lucy Heuschen (she/her)

@petitecreature1.bsky.social

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Poet ~ Nominated for Pushcart and Forwards (Best 1st Collection) ~ Pamphlets with Hedgehog & The Broken Spine ~ Commended in Poetry Society Stanza Comp 2024 ~ First Collection "Daughter of Fire" out now with Yaffle Press! ~ www.lucyheuschen.co.uk

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · Mar 23

My personal poetry website has a fresh new look and info about my forthcoming debut collection! Signed copies of Daughter of Fire available here from 13th April! #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetrySky www.lucyheuschen.co.uk

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Welcome to the personal website of the poet Lucy Heuschen!

www.lucyheuschen.co.uk

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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 1d

Flash UK Kindle sale for The Process of Poetry!

Just 2.99 for a book 37 readers have rated as 4.5 stars?!

www.amazon.co.uk/Process-Poet...

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 2d

I am so sorry to hear this. Sending love and light to you ✨️

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats all! ✨️✨️✨️

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 3d

And this! Thank you @afterpoetry.com @markantonyowen.com again 😌❤️

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 3d

**PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES ANNOUNCED**

Please join @afterpoetry.com in congratulating K Roberts, @corinnaboard.bsky.social, Suzi Feay, @arainbowpoet.bsky.social, Matt Cariello and @victoriaspires.bsky.social on their nominations for the next edition of the @pushcartprize.bsky.social.

Promotional poster announcing the six nominees for the 51st edition of The Pushcart Prize, as chosen by the editor of online ekphrastic poetry journal After...

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 4d

That is lovely news, congrats dear Marcelle ✨

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 4d

How many ways are there to say both WOW and thank you??? Being on these pages is an honor++++. More grateful than you will ever know. 🌩️🌨️⚡ bsky.app/profile/eatt...

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 4d

Lovely! See you in a bit x

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Louise Longson @louisepoetical.bsky.social · 4d

I am honoured to be among those reading for this @thebrokenspine.co.uk event later this evening eventbrite.co.uk/e/notjustpre... a 90-minute online literary arts open mic amplifying women’s voices in poetry, performance & film. #poetrycommunity

#NotJustPretty: A Literary Arts Open Mic & Showcase

A 90-minute online literary arts open mic amplifying women’s voices in poetry, performance & film. Nine slots still open.

eventbrite.co.uk

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The Creative Writing Programme @creativewritinguk.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations to Advanced Poetry Workshop alumni Lucy Heuschen whose debut poetry collection came out recently. Lucy was a student of John McCullough
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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight!

Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 7d

Seriously, we are on the countdown for this launch of #NotJustPretty, a 3-part #zoom gathering I host for #WomenPoetsArtistsWriters who break through stereotypes to reclaim themselves. 🌟🌟🌟
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/09/14/n...
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/09/06/n...

We Are #NotJustPretty

Hear and See Us
in the launch of this special 3-zoom series
hosted by Karen Pierce Gonzalez
Oct.4 8pm gmt/12pm pst
Feature Poets: Rusty Rose, Lucy Heuschen
Feature Artist/Filmmaker: Jenny Wong
Open Mic Poets
Upcoming:
Nov. 8 5pm pst/8 pm est: Featured: Phynne-Belle, Debby Segal, Sylvia Van Nooten, Open Mic

Jan 24, 2026 8pm gmt/12pm pst: Featured: Cat Balaq, Laura Grevel, Fidel H. Walsh, Soheila Vahedi, Open Mic

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 6d

Congratulations are also in order for our runners-up, Nairn Kennedy and Jack Houston, as well as our commended poets, Corinna Board, Lucy Heuschen, Katharina Goda, Sam Phipps, Leah Larwood, Will Kemp, Suzanna Fitzpatrick, C.I. Marshall, Di Slaney, and Jacquie Shanahan!

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks Rosanna! Must catch up soon. You are busy doing some fab events and workshops I see! X

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 4d

Self promo plug to say if you’re interested in this & wanna invite me to your dept, esp if your city is nice - then invite me!! I am a good value seminar guest 😅

Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 13d

Our History Research Seminar @uninorthampton.bsky.social kicks off next Wed 1 Oct with a talk by me on my new project 'Medievalism, gender and politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right, 1962 – 1982'. It will be at 12pm UK time and on Teams. Email rachel.moss @ northampton.ac.uk for a link.

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Royal Studies @royalstudies.bsky.social · 5d

New podcast episode! @ewoodacre.bsky.social interviews Professor Nwando Achebe and Lydia Amoah, discussing the distinctive features of African queenship, including :

royal women from across African history from ancient Egypt and Kush to the recent death of the Asantehemaa in Ghana.

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 5d

This #NotJustPretty zoom launch feaures #RustyRose @petitecreature1.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social and 12 dynamic #OpenMicPoets. Lucky, lucky us! Tune in to hear and see #powerful #poems and #Poetryfilms. Will be amazing 💜 bsky.app/profile/theb...

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 5d

Pleasure Laura. Hope all is well x

Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 5d

Tom Branfoot's "Boar" engages with the history of medieval land clearances/ enclosure in Bradford. Rosie Jackson and Rachel Mann are also worth reading (Rosie's book Love Leans Over The Table and Rachel's Eleanor Among The Saints)

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 5d

Creative responses to history - my collection Daughter of Fire engages with Margaret of Anjou and considers how women seeking and using their power have been maligned from antiquity to today. For poetic-creative engagement with medieval literature I recommend @drlauravarnam.bsky.social (Beowulf)

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Kerry Darbishire @kerrydarbishire.bsky.social · 6d

Beyond thrilled to win 2nd prize at The Canterbury Poet of the Year tonight! Congratulations to Lucy Crispin 1st prize for her stunning poem! Thanks to all the judges! 🙏

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats Kerry! ✨️

Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 6d

The @poetrysociety.org.uk Stanza Comp 2025 results are in & I'm honoured to be commended for the second year in a row! Judge Jonathan Edwards has chosen beautiful poems that play with the theme of "play". 💗Congratulations to Marilyn, Nairn, Jack and all the commended poets too! #NationalPoetryDay

POPCORN
By Lucy Heuschen
Commended in the Poetry Society's Stanza Competition 2025

The first time he calls me popcorn I take it like a compliment.
A little caramel, a little salt. Enough sweetness to make me
open my mouth. Popcorn is not served at the club like port
and cigars. He tries hard to show me, make me understand.
It takes years for me to understand. To fashion a dolly, first
she must be stripped. I yield. String myself light as Christmas
trim. I am (of course I am) popcorn. I deserve to be popcorn.
Will never be anything more. Cheap as poor man’s cocaine,
thrilling on the tongue. A sugar rush, consumed in the dark
long before the credits roll. I forget. I forget my kernel, the wild
grass I stem from. How to green myself with rain, stretching
my fingers skyward. I forget my spikelets, my silk, my tassels,
my gold. How to cocoon, how to butterfly. Swelling, scorched, splitting like a wound, I rise— strike my hellish racket—
bangbangbang— into his speechless face, that sweet, livid O!
I’ve let them think I’m popcorn ever since. If it serves me,
I wear it. Popcorn still pulls them in. At night I unzip my skin,
shrug it off, step from its folds, clean. If I can’t sleep, can’t sleep,
can’t sleep, I count all the men, all the mouths I’ve burned.

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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 6d

Come along to our #NotJustPretty reading on Saturday led by @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Among poems of women of history, legend, myth and fantasy, I will read my commended poem from @poetrysociety.org.uk's Stanza Competition, just announced today on #NationalPoetryDay. 🍿💗

The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 7d

#NotJustPretty — we don’t platform women to show them. We publish them to hear them.

Poetry. Art. Defiance.

Read it: thebrokenspine.co.uk...

@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
@jenwithwords.bsky.social
@petitecreature1.bsky.social

#NotJustPretty: Meet the Artists Leading the Charge - The Broken Spine

On October 4, 2025, we’ll be launching #NotJustPretty — a new series that celebrates artists who identify as women. For us, this project is about refusing to

thebrokenspine.co.uk

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 7d

As one window shuts (@iambapoet.com), another opens – and this one's for the whole of October.

If you have an 'after' or #ekphrastic poem that's looking for a home, that home could be @afterpoetry.com.

So go on. Send it in.

afterpoetry.com/submit

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 8d

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social · 11d

One week from today!! Saturday, October 4th @ 8pm GMT.

Join me along with feature poets Rusty Rose, @petitecreature1.bsky.social and our wonderful host @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social for the first of a @thebrokenspine.co.uk special Zoom Series #NotJustPretty!!

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