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Acropolis Journal @acropolisjournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES: STONE ANGELS BY RACHEL CARNEY ACROPOLIS JOURNAL ISSUE 11 @createdtoread.bsky.social acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

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Issue Eleven | Acropolis Journal

Acropolis Journal Issue Eleven 11 poetry artwork

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

April’s Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 24th, with Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social reading. Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Open mic slots on a first come, first served basis.

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Celebrating 10 years of book blogging today! createdtoread.com/celebrating-...

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

“The ratio of reading poems to writing them should be about 50:1.” @ravoon.bsky.social on his debut poetry collection and how it got here. (Very pro author photo with hand on chin, in the contemporary style.)

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The 3 rules for writing great poems — by our poetry critic

Graeme Richardson waited until he was 50 to publish his first poetry collection, Dirt Rich. He explains how he fell in love with language as a Nottinghamshire choir boy

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 12/01/2026

On Feb 1 2026, @iamb.uk celebrates six years online. Join @louisepoetical.bsky.social and creator/curator @markantonyowen.com on Jan 31 – plus a hand-picked selection of poets from the 380 who've featured in the journal so far – for a free, fun evening of poetry readings. 🥳🎂 bit.ly/iamb_is_six

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Last Saturday - celebrating 6 years of iamb

Join iamb's creator/curator Mark Antony Owen & host Louise Longson for a night of poems to celebrate 6 years of this great poetry showcase.

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

New blog post! "I like the fact that you can read a novella in one sitting, but that its narrative stays with you long after you have finished reading. Perhaps the novella has more in common with the poem than we might think." createdtoread.com/book-review-...

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Really pleased to have a chapter in this @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social book due to be published April 2026! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/divergent... My chapter is titled 'The Power of Words: Neurodiversity, Authenticity, and Inclusion in the Creative Writing Classroom' #neurodiversity #creativewriting

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This online #poetry #creativewriting course is now available to book! 📚 createdtoread.com/experimentin...

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

@vikkicwrites.bsky.social @lucycoatswriter.bsky.social @createdtoread.bsky.social and many more feature in this starter pack of people associated with the great Bridport Prize. @bridportprize.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #booksky

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Preparing materials for my online course 'Writing Neurodiversity: Processing Lived Experience through Poetry' which begins 27th January! createdtoread.com/about/events... #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #creativewriting @serenbooks.bsky.social @lucentdreaming.bsky.social

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I was pleased to be able to display my interactive collage book at the launch of my poetry-film! It's a meta-ekphrastic response to some of my own ekphrastic poems www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7I3e4... #collageart #poetryobject #ekphrasis #ekphrasticwriting #ekphrasticpoetry #ekphrastic

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The Symphony of the Cat, Moritz von Schwind, 1868. #Caturday

A piece of sheet music for a violin, where the musical notes have been replaced by numerous silhouettes of cats. The cats are depicted in various poses, climbing, tumbling, and napping along the musical staff lines.

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Looking forward to running this new online course! Starts 27th January. Details here - createdtoread.com/about/events... Please share! #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #poetry #creativewriting @serenbooks.bsky.social

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Delighted to be nominated by @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social for the Best Microfiction Award! My hybrid #ekphrastic prose/poem text was inspired by this landscape by Thomas Gainsborough www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast... #ekphrasis #ekphrasticwriting

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Some behind the scenes photos of the process that went into making my #poetryfilm - ready for the launch on Thursday! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... #collageart #ekphrasis #ekphrasticpoetry

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Great conversations, company & films at the #poetryfilm festival today! The Bristol lightship made for an interesting backdrop... @helendewbery.bsky.social

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Enjoyed reading at Bookspace Cardiff #poetry open mic 🎤 - here's me reading from my phone like a young person... 😊 I'll be one of the featured poets next month - 12th November - tickets here! www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/products/poe...

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 07/10/2025

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-...

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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 · 01/10/2025

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 · 04/10/2025

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

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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 · 02/10/2025

For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍‍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂 Christmas-Winter 4 #toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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.

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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 · 08/09/2025

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 · 21/08/2025

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 · 07/09/2025

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 · 07/09/2025

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

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 06/09/2025

**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

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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.

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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/

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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 · 03/09/2025

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 · 30/08/2025

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 · 30/08/2025

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 · 28/08/2025

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

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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 · 10/08/2025

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 · 08/08/2025

I'm so excited to be launching my new poetry-film 'Fragments of Us' in Cardiff! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... It responds to the creativity of museum visitors who contributed to an interactive #poetry display @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

New blog post! A review of 'Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets' createdtoread.com/a-review-of-... with recommendations of other books on this theme published by @serenbooks.bsky.social & @lucentdreaming.bsky.social #poetry @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Bridport Prize starter pack @bridportprize.bsky.social with winners & shortlisted writers including @kitdewaal.com @dreenawriting.co.uk @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @esloudon.bsky.social Please follow & repost the pack & tell me if you want to be included #booksky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Really pleased to have my 'Multiple Choice' poem published in the latest issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social magazine (composed out of texts written by visitors in response to the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social interactive poetry display that I organized in 2022)

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

New blog post! I'll be delivering this course along with four other #creativewriting courses next year! createdtoread.com/an-online-cr... "Writing Neurodiversity: Processing Lived Experience through Poetry" will run on Tuesday evenings from 27th January...

Writing Neurodiversity - processing lived experience through poetry, 10 weekly Tuesday evening workshops starting 27th January. Delivered by Rachel Carney. Cardiff University centre for lifelong learning. Image of poet, and image of ideas coming out of a box.

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Finished Creatures Poetry Magazine @finishedpoetry.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Submissions are now open for issue nine. The theme is Trespass: rights and wrongs; encroachment and colonisation; faults and forgiveness. Please see the website (link in bio) for information and guidelines. Window closes August 31st. 🕊 xx

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📣 Our submission window is now OPEN for the month of August. Get your blooms to us while the sun is shining! badlilies.uk/submit

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Submission FAQ — Bad Lilies

Guidelines to submit to Bad Lilies

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The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Submissions are open for the next issue! 💙 We can't wait to see your work 😍

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