Rachel Carney
@createdtoread.bsky.social
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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This online #poetry #creativewriting course is now available to book! 📚 createdtoread.com/experimentin...
Just two weeks left to sign up for my next online poetry #creativewriting course! www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
January 19, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Just two weeks left to sign up for my next online poetry #creativewriting course! www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...
January 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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This call is about memory and refusal.
What we carry.
What carries us.
If that’s central to your practice, submit.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
What we carry.
What carries us.
If that’s central to your practice, submit.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year
thebrokenspine.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
This call is about memory and refusal.
What we carry.
What carries us.
If that’s central to your practice, submit.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
What we carry.
What carries us.
If that’s central to your practice, submit.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry
Reposted by Rachel Carney
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
bit.ly/iamb_is_six
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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January 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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
bit.ly/iamb_is_six
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-...
January 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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-...
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
My chapter is titled 'The Power of Words: Neurodiversity, Authenticity, and Inclusion in the Creative Writing Classroom'
#neurodiversity #creativewriting
December 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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
My chapter is titled 'The Power of Words: Neurodiversity, Authenticity, and Inclusion in the Creative Writing Classroom'
#neurodiversity #creativewriting
This online #poetry #creativewriting course is now available to book! 📚 createdtoread.com/experimentin...
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This online #poetry #creativewriting course is now available to book! 📚 createdtoread.com/experimentin...
Reposted by Rachel Carney
@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
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
@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
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
#neurodiversity #neurodivergence #creativewriting
@serenbooks.bsky.social @lucentdreaming.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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
#neurodiversity #neurodivergence #creativewriting
@serenbooks.bsky.social @lucentdreaming.bsky.social
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
#collageart #poetryobject #ekphrasis #ekphrasticwriting #ekphrasticpoetry #ekphrastic
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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
#collageart #poetryobject #ekphrasis #ekphrasticwriting #ekphrasticpoetry #ekphrastic
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
Please share!
#neurodiversity
#neurodivergent #poetry #creativewriting
@serenbooks.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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
Please share!
#neurodiversity
#neurodivergent #poetry #creativewriting
@serenbooks.bsky.social
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
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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
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
#collageart #ekphrasis #ekphrasticpoetry
October 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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
#collageart #ekphrasis #ekphrasticpoetry
Great conversations, company & films at the #poetryfilm festival today! The Bristol lightship made for an interesting backdrop...
@helendewbery.bsky.social
@helendewbery.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Great conversations, company & films at the #poetryfilm festival today! The Bristol lightship made for an interesting backdrop...
@helendewbery.bsky.social
@helendewbery.bsky.social
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...
October 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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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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-...
'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
afterpoetry.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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-...
'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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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!
Check out the guidelines: mugwortmag.wordpress.com/special-call...
...then send us your best eerie, weird, or unsettling fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and art!
October 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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!
Check out the guidelines: mugwortmag.wordpress.com/special-call...
...then send us your best eerie, weird, or unsettling fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and art!
Reposted by Rachel Carney
The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55
October 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55
Sharing my upcoming poetry-film launch event as it's #NationalPoetryDay today! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... @imageworkscardiff.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sharing my upcoming poetry-film launch event as it's #NationalPoetryDay today! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... @imageworkscardiff.bsky.social
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
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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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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
Christmas-Winter 4
#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
October 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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
Christmas-Winter 4
#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
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
September 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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
I have a flash fiction piece in the latest issue of Mugwort Magazine! It's called 'In Queen Street' ✍️
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. 🖤🍂🍁
mugwortmag.wordpress.com
We create from the edges, and it is beautiful here. 🖤🍂🍁
September 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have a flash fiction piece in the latest issue of Mugwort Magazine! It's called 'In Queen Street' ✍️
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.
September 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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.