Mair MacLeod
@mairmacleod.bsky.social
✨poet, writer, 1/2 of crisp packet poetry 🥔
📍glasgow
🖋️recent writing at the link below
➡️ linktr.ee/mairmacleod
📍glasgow
🖋️recent writing at the link below
➡️ linktr.ee/mairmacleod
Thank you @petrichorlit.bsky.social for the nomination 😍
You can read the nominated poem here: petrichormag.com/26-meredith-...
(best read on desktop)
You can read the nominated poem here: petrichormag.com/26-meredith-...
(best read on desktop)
August 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Thank you @petrichorlit.bsky.social for the nomination 😍
You can read the nominated poem here: petrichormag.com/26-meredith-...
(best read on desktop)
You can read the nominated poem here: petrichormag.com/26-meredith-...
(best read on desktop)
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Hello! Here’s the first of some forthcoming updates—the Critical Circle is on! Send your application between today and June 15th. Time for discourse in July!
June 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Hello! Here’s the first of some forthcoming updates—the Critical Circle is on! Send your application between today and June 15th. Time for discourse in July!
“being a human is so baseline sometimes. It’s just fuckin toast stuck in the toaster.” - gentian rhosa
May 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
“being a human is so baseline sometimes. It’s just fuckin toast stuck in the toaster.” - gentian rhosa
I've a new piece up in Jet Fuel Review, a work of short fiction exploring medical misogyny, embodied anxiety, and the struggles of interpersonal intimacy throughout climate collapse. I'd love you for life if you gave it a read. Many thanks to the JFR team!!!
www.jetfuelreview.com/meredith-mac...
www.jetfuelreview.com/meredith-mac...
Meredith MacLeod Davidson Spring 2025
Hysteric TUESDAY They arrived at the shore in the night, mist marring the coastal highway, puddles lying in wait, cellphone flashlights hurriedly flicked on to...
www.jetfuelreview.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I've a new piece up in Jet Fuel Review, a work of short fiction exploring medical misogyny, embodied anxiety, and the struggles of interpersonal intimacy throughout climate collapse. I'd love you for life if you gave it a read. Many thanks to the JFR team!!!
www.jetfuelreview.com/meredith-mac...
www.jetfuelreview.com/meredith-mac...
the Vinted icon changed to a shade just ever so slightly darker and it’s driving me mad
April 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
the Vinted icon changed to a shade just ever so slightly darker and it’s driving me mad
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growing up is realising that the better your activism & organising & advocacy work is for your CV, the less effective it is at changing the status quo of systemic oppression
April 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
growing up is realising that the better your activism & organising & advocacy work is for your CV, the less effective it is at changing the status quo of systemic oppression
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Here is our nonfiction excerpt “On Engagement.” By Meredith Macleod Davidson.
March 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Here is our nonfiction excerpt “On Engagement.” By Meredith Macleod Davidson.
That’s me! So honoured to have this piece up in the incredible @anthro-poetry.bsky.social !!! Thank you team 💜💜💜
Today on Anthropocene new poetry by Meredith Macleod Davidson 🧺🫧
https://www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/rinse-cycle-by-meredith-macleod-davidson
t.co
March 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
That’s me! So honoured to have this piece up in the incredible @anthro-poetry.bsky.social !!! Thank you team 💜💜💜
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Having led a team of admissions counsellors for 5 years in another life, & been an academic for longer, I’m here w. the annual pro bono offer of aid — essays, LORs, application fee funds — for folks from marginalised backgrounds applying to Master’s/PhDs abroad.
Share, DM 🌸.
Share, DM 🌸.
March 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Having led a team of admissions counsellors for 5 years in another life, & been an academic for longer, I’m here w. the annual pro bono offer of aid — essays, LORs, application fee funds — for folks from marginalised backgrounds applying to Master’s/PhDs abroad.
Share, DM 🌸.
Share, DM 🌸.
WHY DID I TWEET THIS IN MY SLEEP
what if speakeasy menus were just taco bars
March 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
WHY DID I TWEET THIS IN MY SLEEP
what if speakeasy menus were just taco bars
March 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
what if speakeasy menus were just taco bars
genuinely nothing so special as Finnish sauna culture
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
genuinely nothing so special as Finnish sauna culture
love Finland and devastated to leave it - where else will a group of naked sweating people hear me out while I ramble incoherently for 20 minutes about the foreign critique of America through films such as The Apprentice and Civil War and meet me with something vaguely akin to sincerity?
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
love Finland and devastated to leave it - where else will a group of naked sweating people hear me out while I ramble incoherently for 20 minutes about the foreign critique of America through films such as The Apprentice and Civil War and meet me with something vaguely akin to sincerity?
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"But when, after decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?"
Don't miss today's conversation with Omar El Akkad, about a book I'll surely be thinking alongside for a long time. A map, a guide, a thinking through & a breakup letter with the American dream.
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
@aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
@aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk @textpublishing.bsky.social
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
tinhouse.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"But when, after decades of respectful prodding, the condition one arrives at is reticent acceptance of genocide, is it not at least worth considering that you are not changing the system nearly as much as the system is changing you?"
magic dusk moments
February 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
magic dusk moments
hello from the forest today 🤍
February 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
hello from the forest today 🤍
🌀 you want to order a copy of @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social ( & read two poems by me! paired with unreal photography!) so badly 🌀
Afternoon, we have a very limited number of copies of Legion available from us, free plus postage and packing. See www.abridged.zone/obtaining-ab... for info. Or if you like what we do and can spare us a penny or two we'd be most grateful. All our projects are free but we do have costs. Ta!
February 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🌀 you want to order a copy of @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social ( & read two poems by me! paired with unreal photography!) so badly 🌀
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Don't forget, the new Abridged issue is now online! If you want a copy of the print edition, drop us a line. It's free plus postage and packaging.
The new Abridged issue is now online and free to read! Go see at www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1...!
February 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Don't forget, the new Abridged issue is now online! If you want a copy of the print edition, drop us a line. It's free plus postage and packaging.
Thank you @dustpoetry.bsky.social for sharing my odd love poem on Valentine’s Day - read at the link below 💜
Today’s poem is Love Begins Off the Record by Meredith MacLeod Davidson.
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/love-be...
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/love-be...
Love Begins Off the Record by Meredith MacLeod Davidson
Love Begins Off the RecordBe memorial. Make thisdrawn, a digital layout,make outs, anime stills &the phone shots of thatsnakeskin, stickshapedin the sand off ourriverwalk & my handaround your hand aro...
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Thank you @dustpoetry.bsky.social for sharing my odd love poem on Valentine’s Day - read at the link below 💜
A lovely Finnish aurora to add to the very gorgeous full moon clear night we’ve got goin’ here tonight 🤍
February 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A lovely Finnish aurora to add to the very gorgeous full moon clear night we’ve got goin’ here tonight 🤍
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February 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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poetry is life
February 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
poetry is life
this tree and i wrote a poem together today
February 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
this tree and i wrote a poem together today
desk on day one of residency month
February 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
desk on day one of residency month