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Courtenay Schembri Gray ✰
@courtenaywrites.bsky.social
Writer • @carouselmag @anthro_poetry etc • THE MAPLE MOON https://themaplemoon.substack.com • Autistic 🧩
It’s my golden birthday today. I’m turning twenty-eight on the 28th of May!

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May 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🎭 Here’s an exclusive clip from my debut as a playwright last year with The Short List MCR. 🎭

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‘The Change’ @salfordartstheatre.bsky.social 2024) -

• dir. Amanda Fleming / Jonathon Carley
• Starring Rebecca-Clare Evans and Nikola Bartosova

#playwright #theatre #theatrelife #livetheatre
May 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Every Valentine’s Day, I giggle at the fact James Joyce had such a fierce fart fetish. His letters to Nora Barnacle are something to behold! 💨
February 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
On this day, in 1963, we lost one of the greatest minds in poetry. Sylvia Plath’s poem, Elm, featured in a dream I had the other night, so I figured it appropriate.
February 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A HUGE thank you to @anthro_poetry @charliebaylis6 for publishing my poem, Breastplate, in Anthropocene. It is a response to a photograph (by Lee Miller) which shows a severed breast (post-mastectomy) on a white dinner plate. #Poetry #WritingCommunity
January 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I believe (I think) I’ve found an old case of plagiarism in poetry?! I wrote this quote down from James Henry: “The human skull is of deceit / As full any egg of meat,” in my commonplace, but as I was researching, this quote by Mercutio in R + J appeared. Thoughts?!
January 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
On Boxing Day I will be taking you through how I wrote my poem, We Left the Garden, originally published by Eunoia Review: themaplemoon.substack.com
December 23, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Today I wrote a Sonnet inspired by this piece of work by Jannis Kounellis! ✂️
November 27, 2024 at 10:17 PM
4th Song from 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman (making love to marilyn monroe: the faber book of blue verse)
November 24, 2024 at 4:48 PM
My brother is days old, but I am determined to foster a love of Literature.
November 21, 2024 at 11:27 AM
This is certainly a first from The London Magazine…👀💫
November 20, 2024 at 12:47 PM
For Arlan
November 18, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Barney ⭐️
November 16, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Pas de quatre (shape poem) #Poetry #WritingCommunity #ShapePoetry
November 14, 2024 at 7:22 PM