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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

embarrassingly i’ve become the kind of person who takes heart from the messages in fortune cookies

charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

calling all yorkshire folk - i’ll be running a free poetry workshop this weekend at Goole Museum on finding yourself in the archive. we’ll be going through the collection and writing poems that explore our place alongside pier portraiture and local artefacts. come keep me company!

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

every image of gertrude stein looks like it could be taken from a TOAST ad campaign

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

love going to the theatre, where else can i listen to people have coughing fits, test out different ringtones etc

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

addison rae’s music is for driving really fast to

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

love to check my junk mailbox and pretend i won all these competitions i never signed up for. really good confidence boost, would recommend

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

great match at hull today - the game had to pause for 10 minutes because a squirrel stormed the pitch and nobody could catch it. when it was eventually removed the crowd started to chant WE WANT THE SQUIRREL BACK

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

dragons, today i want to awaken you from an eternity of darkness

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

had a dream that there was a new machine at the gym called The Coffin which was a coffin-shaped mechanism i had to lay down in and then propel myself upwards using my core strength to resemble a nosferatu jumpscare

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

oh i can see building cosplay being a future trend! makes me think of Drop Dead Gorgeous

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

New prose feature out today from @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social On Emily Dickinson, anorexic aesthetics, and inexpressibility. andotherpoems.com/2026/01/13/e...

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

jumping back on the void app to share an excerpt of the new non-fiction book I’m working on, The Inexpressible, which is published today @andotherpoems.bsky.social — this excerpt is about Emily Dickinson and anorexia and silence / a kind of void essay andotherpoems.com/2026/01/13/e...

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Emily Owns the Void

In this essay on Emily Dickinson and ‘anorexic aesthetics’, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight blends close reading and autobiography, critical analysis and personal narrative. Moving between Dickinson sc…

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

pigs with wings, whatever happened to them?

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

when i have to talk to customer service, that is Kafkaesque. when customer service is an AI chatbot, that is a hate crime

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

i don’t really get the anxiety behind ‘X artist was only X-years-old when they created their masterpiece!’ — BUT learning Cameron Winter was only 22 when he released Heavy Metal does give me a huge amount of hope, more than anything….the kids are more than alright. they’re even better ❤️‍🩹

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

before there was Selima Hill, there was Stevie Smith. some fun contents pages here

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

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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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

⭐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 ❤️

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

on a separate note i’ve been getting really into Brian Eno, which i’ve heard can only mean good things

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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...

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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

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

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

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

i’ll also be reading a newly commissioned poem for Manchester Literature Festival in what is their 20th anniversary (!) alongside my fellow Multilingual City Poet manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/manch...

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

then in October i’m lightening the mood with this online workshop on humour in poetry for Verve Poetry Festival, for the more chuckle-prone poet www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charlotte-...

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Charlotte Shevchenko Knight Workshop - What’s so funny? –

Translating the absurd into poetry. Charlotte Shevchenko Knight hosts a poetry workshop over Zoom

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

in September i’m running an online workshop for Tsaa with Roma that asks if ghosts belong in poetry, in case any of you haunted types are keen to join www.romalynante.com/event-detail...

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Poetics of the Haunted with Charlotte Shevchenko Knight | Romalyn Ante

Who are your daily ghosts? What thoughts go unsaid, shivering in the background, absent presences? Do they belong in poetry?

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

i have a few fun things coming up this autumn - including workshops! - so prepare yourselves for a thread 🧵

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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...

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The Poetic Torture-House of Language

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

reading a collection of Helene Cixous’s essays and she essentially pulls this move every time (which i love)

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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…..

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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?...

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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…..

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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 🪨

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

forgot Larry David’s name and referred to him as ‘Curb’

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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...

When you dug inside of yourself, what did you find? I spiralled so far inward; I ended up on the outside.
Confronted by all the things my body knows but wouldn’t let my mind in on till now. I start to cave.
I know a tenderness is required of me if I want to stop being as sick, if I want to feel my emotions in real-time. When I drink, I think about how a lighter click could burst me into flames.

How unbearable it must be to know everything. I refuse to see it; I can’t bear to look.

cold saline  
pushed through 
a butterfly      
in the nook  
of my arm  
hand or wrist 
sharp scratch  
to the vein  
it tastes metallic  
or it smells
metallic   
& I’m thinking  
that I can taste
it as it travels
through me 
I feel it all over 
as it seeps under
my skin
like bitter rain

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

📖 @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)

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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 💙

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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

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charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

yes to Cain, no to De Marcken! but It Lasts Forever is on my list - should i start there?

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