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Daniel Addercouth
@ruralunease.bsky.social
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Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 12d
This is a huge honour and very exciting! Enormous thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for the nomination and for all he does to support other writers!
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The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 12d
And for the Haunting Award:

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Genrepunk Haunting Award Nominations. Daneil Addercouth, Linda Bayley, Susmita Bhattacharya
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 6d
Congratulations, Kate!
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 7d
Thanks for asking. In terms of online magazines that specialise in poetry, I really like Basket and @rustandmoth.bsky.social, both of which I recently discovered.
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 8d
Thanks for the tips! I don't know Iterant or Wildness, I'll be sure to check them out!
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Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social · 8d
Calling all poets 📣📢💥
Exploring Poetic Concepts and Forms - Online Poetry Workshop Series
In this friendly course, we will learn and try different approaches to writing poetry. Join the whole series or choose individual sessions.
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 8d
Writer friends: what are your favourite online poetry magazines?
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 9d
And the second prose poem here also deals with climate change:
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Daniel Addercouth — Does It Have Pockets
Beavers Will Save Paradise Fields | Give Us a Billion Bitcoin or Humanity is Doomed | Plausibility of Fact
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 9d
Here's one I wrote about sea level rise:
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Managed Retreat
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 12d
That's very exciting!
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 12d
Thank you!! 🙏
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 12d
Thanks so much for believing in my piece, Matt!
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 12d
This is a huge honour and very exciting! Enormous thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for the nomination and for all he does to support other writers!
welkinprize.bsky.social
The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 12d
And for the Haunting Award:

@lmbayley.bsky.social
@ruralunease.bsky.social
@susmitab.bsky.social
Genrepunk Haunting Award Nominations. Daneil Addercouth, Linda Bayley, Susmita Bhattacharya
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 15d
Wow, congratulations James!
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 15d
Thanks for the shout-out, James, that's so kind of you!
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James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 15d
‘I point to one dominated by reddish hues. “Is this anger?”

“No, that’s unsettlement,” Dad says, as if the answer is obvious.’

Just gorgeous from @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com - love how that title looms large 🎨

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Acceptance by Daniel Addercouth
The first time I see the painting that I consider my father’s finest work is when I visit him to check how he’s doing, a month after my mother’s death. “I’ve painted a pentaptych to represent the f...
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 15d
Bless you, Amanda! Thanks for reading it! 🙏
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Attawoman @attawoman.bsky.social · 15d
I've only got around to reading this now. Well done! Now if you'll excuse me I have something in my eye.
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 17d
Thanks so much for your kind words, Matt! I'd better get working on something!!
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 18d
P.S. I always appreciate some good swearing in a story, this piece pulls that off brilliantly as well!
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 18d
I'm a big fan of @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's writing and am always excited to see she has a new story published. This is another banger, great title too!
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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 19d
I have a new story in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it! I hope you like it as much as I do! okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/19/1...
13.1 Septillion Pounds by Emily Rinkema
To help her sleep, we give the baby a basketball, a full-size regulation ball that my husband, CT, puts in her crib one night. He writes her name on it with a black Sharpie, bold letters like they …
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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 23d
The programme for this year's Bookmark Blairgowrie book festival. A really excellent, high quality book festival in the heart of Perthshire. This year feat. @seanluskauthor.bsky.social @linanderson.bsky.social @billykayscot.bsky.social @florajowriter.bsky.social and many others. Well worth a visit.
The programme for this year's Bookmark book festival in Blairgowrie, 4-5 October. Tickets www.bookmarkblair.com
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 18d
Thanks to @seanluskauthor.bsky.social for introducing me to this great writer!
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 18d
The wonderful Frankie McMillan knocks it out of the park today in the new issue of Flash Boulevard:
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FRANKIE MCMILLAN: The Stories My Grandmother Tells
Flash Fiction by Frankie McMillan Dumb virgins There was us, hitchhiking north, getting into stranger’s cars and too dumb to know what a man meant when he said he had something interesting to show …
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 23d
Awesome piece by the Berlin-based writer Jane Yager in the fabulous new issue of @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social: "I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad let slip that the pits are still active."

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La Brea Tar Pits - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Imleedh Ali on Unsplash by Jane Yager I’m the one who wanted to come here, but now I sit in the car while everyone else goes into the museum, because as we pulled into the parking lot, Dad le...
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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 26d
Thanks so much for the repost and the kind words, Cole! I'm so pleased you liked this story!
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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social · 26d
"I don’t remember unsettlement – is that even a word? – being one of the stages of grief."

Wonderful story about a father and son, life and death, art and grief by @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com

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Acceptance by Daniel Addercouth
The first time I see the painting that I consider my father’s finest work is when I visit him to check how he’s doing, a month after my mother’s death. “I’ve painted a pentaptych to represent the f...
www.havehashad.com
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