Richard Skinner
@richardnskinner.bsky.social
Writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction & poetry. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine.
Most recent publication: ‘Undercurrents’ (Essays) (Broken Sleep Books, 2025).
Most recent publication: ‘Undercurrents’ (Essays) (Broken Sleep Books, 2025).
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The Carbon Arc will launch in Manchester Nov 12th, published by @richardnskinner.bsky.social work by @anne-worthington.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Maria Fusco, Gareth Evans, Sam Mills et al. richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Carbon Arc will launch in Manchester Nov 12th, published by @richardnskinner.bsky.social work by @anne-worthington.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Maria Fusco, Gareth Evans, Sam Mills et al. richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
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The Carbon Arc will launch in Manchester November 12th, published by @richardnskinner.bsky.social work by @anne-worthington.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Maria Fusco, Gareth Evans, Sam Mills et al. richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Carbon Arc will launch in Manchester November 12th, published by @richardnskinner.bsky.social work by @anne-worthington.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Maria Fusco, Gareth Evans, Sam Mills et al. richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
A sensational review of ‘The Carbon Arc’ in this month’s Sight & Sound magazine! Amazing!
Copies available here! richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
Copies available here! richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
November 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A sensational review of ‘The Carbon Arc’ in this month’s Sight & Sound magazine! Amazing!
Copies available here! richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
Copies available here! richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
📢 Manchester folk! 📢
Next Wednesday is the launch of ‘The Carbon Arc’, a new collection of 16 commissioned essays on cinema published by Vanguard Editions. The launch will take place at the fabulous Impiety Hour bookshop. Free entry!
Books for sale on the night, pay bar, film clips. Join us!
Next Wednesday is the launch of ‘The Carbon Arc’, a new collection of 16 commissioned essays on cinema published by Vanguard Editions. The launch will take place at the fabulous Impiety Hour bookshop. Free entry!
Books for sale on the night, pay bar, film clips. Join us!
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📢 Manchester folk! 📢
Next Wednesday is the launch of ‘The Carbon Arc’, a new collection of 16 commissioned essays on cinema published by Vanguard Editions. The launch will take place at the fabulous Impiety Hour bookshop. Free entry!
Books for sale on the night, pay bar, film clips. Join us!
Next Wednesday is the launch of ‘The Carbon Arc’, a new collection of 16 commissioned essays on cinema published by Vanguard Editions. The launch will take place at the fabulous Impiety Hour bookshop. Free entry!
Books for sale on the night, pay bar, film clips. Join us!
My one-day ‘Spiritual Landscapes’ poetry course @sarumcollege.bsky.social in March is now open for bookings.
www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...
www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...
Spiritual Landscapes - Sarum College
Spirituality, landscape & the environment. Is there anything more vital to write about today?
www.sarum.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My one-day ‘Spiritual Landscapes’ poetry course @sarumcollege.bsky.social in March is now open for bookings.
www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...
www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...
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Looking for hidden pearls of insight by finding theological meaning in the experience of people who live with Dementia. 26th Nov at @sarumcollege.bsky.social Peter Kevern brings academic expertise and personal experience to guide us in this exploration. Book here: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...
Touching God: Dementia and the Bodies of Christ - Sarum College
The dread of dementia has a unique hold over us, because dementia seems to eat away at what makes us human. If we lose our capacity to remember, to think, to act and even to speak, what is left of us?...
www.sarum.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Looking for hidden pearls of insight by finding theological meaning in the experience of people who live with Dementia. 26th Nov at @sarumcollege.bsky.social Peter Kevern brings academic expertise and personal experience to guide us in this exploration. Book here: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...
Good writing isn’t about copying the world around you, it’s about creating something out of nothing.
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
October 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Good writing isn’t about copying the world around you, it’s about creating something out of nothing.
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
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Delighted to have my copy of @richardnskinner.bsky.social’s “Undercurrents” (@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social) with me here in Switzerland! Looking forward to reading! #WritingCommunity #booksky #books #newbooks
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Delighted to have my copy of @richardnskinner.bsky.social’s “Undercurrents” (@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social) with me here in Switzerland! Looking forward to reading! #WritingCommunity #booksky #books #newbooks
I saw this being performed at Evensong in Salisbury Cathedral on Tuesday, 14th October. It was one of those moments…
This version was recorded in Oxford just a few days earlier, on the 9th.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9F...
This version was recorded in Oxford just a few days earlier, on the 9th.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9F...
James MacMillan - A New Song
YouTube video by The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
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October 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I saw this being performed at Evensong in Salisbury Cathedral on Tuesday, 14th October. It was one of those moments…
This version was recorded in Oxford just a few days earlier, on the 9th.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9F...
This version was recorded in Oxford just a few days earlier, on the 9th.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9F...
As those who know me well will know, @sarumcollege.bsky.social has been an amazing force in my life for a while now, so I was delighted and very humbled to accept an invitation from them to teach a one-day poetry workshop. Details aren’t up on the website yet but here is a taster.
October 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
As those who know me well will know, @sarumcollege.bsky.social has been an amazing force in my life for a while now, so I was delighted and very humbled to accept an invitation from them to teach a one-day poetry workshop. Details aren’t up on the website yet but here is a taster.
I left Sarum College this morning and carried on down the Exeter railway line to Yeovil Junction, where I got off and made my way to East Coker. Went to St Michael and All Angels Church and paid homage to my poetry master T.S. Eliot. I read the following words there and left.
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I left Sarum College this morning and carried on down the Exeter railway line to Yeovil Junction, where I got off and made my way to East Coker. Went to St Michael and All Angels Church and paid homage to my poetry master T.S. Eliot. I read the following words there and left.
So good to see ‘The Carbon Arc’ & ‘The Hinge of a Metaphor’ nestled alongside Tarkovsky in the library @sarumcollege.bsky.social 🤩
October 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
So good to see ‘The Carbon Arc’ & ‘The Hinge of a Metaphor’ nestled alongside Tarkovsky in the library @sarumcollege.bsky.social 🤩
Reading for an essay on lucid dreaming.
October 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Reading for an essay on lucid dreaming.
Another late flurry of photos… These are from the Gladstone Library in North Wales, Plymouth, London and on the road somewhere between Oxford and Margate. Thanks Emma, Lesley, Evalyn & Sophia.
Launch in Margate tomorrow!
Launch in Margate tomorrow!
October 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Another late flurry of photos… These are from the Gladstone Library in North Wales, Plymouth, London and on the road somewhere between Oxford and Margate. Thanks Emma, Lesley, Evalyn & Sophia.
Launch in Margate tomorrow!
Launch in Margate tomorrow!
Come along to the launch of this fabulous new book of essays on cinema! Besides our four fabulous readers, there is exclusive work inside by Jonathan Coe, Rob Doyle, Wendy Erskine, Maria Fusco, Nicholas Royle & many others. You can purchase your copy here: richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
October 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Come along to the launch of this fabulous new book of essays on cinema! Besides our four fabulous readers, there is exclusive work inside by Jonathan Coe, Rob Doyle, Wendy Erskine, Maria Fusco, Nicholas Royle & many others. You can purchase your copy here: richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
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#Love & #Gratitude to @richardnskinner.bsky.social #poet & #editor of #14Magazine for including my poem ‘I Didn’t Think You Meant It’ in series 2, Issue 6
October 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
#Love & #Gratitude to @richardnskinner.bsky.social #poet & #editor of #14Magazine for including my poem ‘I Didn’t Think You Meant It’ in series 2, Issue 6
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And on #NationalPoetryDay I just want to share the amazing #poetry & work and teaching of @richardnskinner.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
And on #NationalPoetryDay I just want to share the amazing #poetry & work and teaching of @richardnskinner.bsky.social
When I revived 14 magazine in 2020 and revamped its design, I was always looking forward to the time when there were enough covers to create different mosaics of colour, like Raster-Noton albums or Mondrian paintings. After 5 years, that’s finally the case. Just look at those gorgeous colour pops.
September 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
When I revived 14 magazine in 2020 and revamped its design, I was always looking forward to the time when there were enough covers to create different mosaics of colour, like Raster-Noton albums or Mondrian paintings. After 5 years, that’s finally the case. Just look at those gorgeous colour pops.
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Explore more about what celebrating the image of God in everybody means in worship with @autismtheology.bsky.social Director, Dr Leon Van Ommen at @sarumcollege.bsky.social online on 9th Oct: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...
September 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Explore more about what celebrating the image of God in everybody means in worship with @autismtheology.bsky.social Director, Dr Leon Van Ommen at @sarumcollege.bsky.social online on 9th Oct: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...
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Kristina Diprose’s beautiful debut pamphlet of eco poetry is now available on our website. Grab your copy today!
September 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Kristina Diprose’s beautiful debut pamphlet of eco poetry is now available on our website. Grab your copy today!
Just 11 days ago, I found myself in Paris when I heard the news of Robert Redford’s passing. Thanks so much to Andrew Gallix for publishing my reaction to watching Ordinary People again.
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ordinary...
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ordinary...
September 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Just 11 days ago, I found myself in Paris when I heard the news of Robert Redford’s passing. Thanks so much to Andrew Gallix for publishing my reaction to watching Ordinary People again.
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ordinary...
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ordinary...
The more of yourself you put into your writing, the more invisible you become.
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The more of yourself you put into your writing, the more invisible you become.
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
Thanks to all who sent in these wonderful photos from around the world! If you’d like to pick up your orange copy of 14, details below.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Thanks to all who sent in these wonderful photos from around the world! If you’d like to pick up your orange copy of 14, details below.
richardskinner.weebly.com/14-magazine....
richardskinner.weebly.com/14-magazine....