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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Looking forward to running this new online course! Starts 27th January. Details here - createdtoread.com/about/events...
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#neurodiversity
#neurodivergent #poetry #creativewriting
@serenbooks.bsky.social
Please share!
#neurodiversity
#neurodivergent #poetry #creativewriting
@serenbooks.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.
Still time to sign up! The #ekphrasticwriting course starts in 3 weeks time! createdtoread.com/more-online-... Please do share with anyone interested in #poetry #creativewriting or #ekphrasis! @serenbooks.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Still time to sign up! The #ekphrasticwriting course starts in 3 weeks time! createdtoread.com/more-online-... Please do share with anyone interested in #poetry #creativewriting or #ekphrasis! @serenbooks.bsky.social
I have a villanelle in this anthology celebrating 20 years of Write Out Loud!
- www.writeoutloud.net/books/
- www.writeoutloud.net/books/
September 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have a villanelle in this anthology celebrating 20 years of Write Out Loud!
- www.writeoutloud.net/books/
- www.writeoutloud.net/books/
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Join me, @zoebrigley.bsky.social, Tangie Mitchell and Kandace Siobhan Walker on 21st of September at 3pm London Time.
Register here: course.veevart-apps.com/emilydickins...
Register here: course.veevart-apps.com/emilydickins...
August 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Join me, @zoebrigley.bsky.social, Tangie Mitchell and Kandace Siobhan Walker on 21st of September at 3pm London Time.
Register here: course.veevart-apps.com/emilydickins...
Register here: course.veevart-apps.com/emilydickins...
I'll be speaking as part of this 'Divergent Writers' panel at the online @nawewriters.bsky.social conference this November alongside @christiecollins.bsky.social & other contributors to the forthcoming @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social book 📚 www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-e...
September 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I'll be speaking as part of this 'Divergent Writers' panel at the online @nawewriters.bsky.social conference this November alongside @christiecollins.bsky.social & other contributors to the forthcoming @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social book 📚 www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-e...
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This conference is is packed with great content and is amazing value for money. All sessions are recorded, so if you can't attend live, or have sessions you want to attend running at the same time, you can listen back later. Please share
#NAWEConf25 #InspiringWriting
#NAWEConf25 #InspiringWriting
Teach or facilitate creative writing? Grab your Early Bird ticket for the NAWE Online Conference: 'Inspiring Writing'. 7 & 8 November 2025. It's a great opportunity to meet with fellow writers in the field, share approaches & build contacts. Book bit.ly/3qesnem #creativewriting #writingineducation
September 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This conference is is packed with great content and is amazing value for money. All sessions are recorded, so if you can't attend live, or have sessions you want to attend running at the same time, you can listen back later. Please share
#NAWEConf25 #InspiringWriting
#NAWEConf25 #InspiringWriting
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**AUDITIONS OPEN IN 14 DAYS**
From Sep 20th-27th, auditions for @iambapoet.com open for the first time since 2022 – and for just ONE week!
Be ready when the submission form goes live. Head to the journal's Audition page for full details.
Good luck with your audition! 🍀
iambapoet.com/audition
From Sep 20th-27th, auditions for @iambapoet.com open for the first time since 2022 – and for just ONE week!
Be ready when the submission form goes live. Head to the journal's Audition page for full details.
Good luck with your audition! 🍀
iambapoet.com/audition
Audition for poetry journal iamb in Sept 2025
Audition to be part of quarterly poetry journal iamb between the 20th and 27th of September 2025.
iambapoet.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
**AUDITIONS OPEN IN 14 DAYS**
From Sep 20th-27th, auditions for @iambapoet.com open for the first time since 2022 – and for just ONE week!
Be ready when the submission form goes live. Head to the journal's Audition page for full details.
Good luck with your audition! 🍀
iambapoet.com/audition
From Sep 20th-27th, auditions for @iambapoet.com open for the first time since 2022 – and for just ONE week!
Be ready when the submission form goes live. Head to the journal's Audition page for full details.
Good luck with your audition! 🍀
iambapoet.com/audition
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Reminder that we are open year-round for prose submissions! Have an idea for an essay, interview or conversation? Drop us a line.
andotherpoems.com/essays/
andotherpoems.com/essays/
Essays
“essay” (n.), 1590s, meaning “trial, attempt, endeavour,” also “short, discursive literary composition”, from French essai, meaning “trial, attempt, essay”, deri…
andotherpoems.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reminder that we are open year-round for prose submissions! Have an idea for an essay, interview or conversation? Drop us a line.
andotherpoems.com/essays/
andotherpoems.com/essays/
I'll be running two online #creativewriting courses this autumn 🍁 createdtoread.com/more-online-... There's also a fee waiver scheme & free places for Aber uni students & staff!
@serenbooks.bsky.social @aberenglishdept.bsky.social
@serenbooks.bsky.social @aberenglishdept.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'll be running two online #creativewriting courses this autumn 🍁 createdtoread.com/more-online-... There's also a fee waiver scheme & free places for Aber uni students & staff!
@serenbooks.bsky.social @aberenglishdept.bsky.social
@serenbooks.bsky.social @aberenglishdept.bsky.social
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On this day, the anniversary of Seamus Heaney's passing, it is this poem that sits with me.
'I have seen halls in flames, hearts in cinder, benches filled and emptied, the circles of companions called and broken'
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#SeamusHeaney
'I have seen halls in flames, hearts in cinder, benches filled and emptied, the circles of companions called and broken'
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#SeamusHeaney
August 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
On this day, the anniversary of Seamus Heaney's passing, it is this poem that sits with me.
'I have seen halls in flames, hearts in cinder, benches filled and emptied, the circles of companions called and broken'
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#SeamusHeaney
'I have seen halls in flames, hearts in cinder, benches filled and emptied, the circles of companions called and broken'
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#SeamusHeaney