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
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...
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
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'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/
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...
More details here...
September 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
More details here...
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
I have a new #ekphrastic poem in the @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social responding to this painting by Gainsborough from the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social collection - www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast... @serenbooks.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I have a new #ekphrastic poem in the @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social responding to this painting by Gainsborough from the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social collection - www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast... @serenbooks.bsky.social
I am now a published fiction writer 😀 'The Appointed Story' is in the latest issue of Mugwort Magazine! mugwortmag.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
August 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I am now a published fiction writer 😀 'The Appointed Story' is in the latest issue of Mugwort Magazine! mugwortmag.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
I'll be running 2 new online #creativewriting courses this autumn! 'Poetry Writing 1: Starting to Write' & 'Inspired by Art: Ekphrastic Poetry & Prose' are available to book now createdtoread.com/more-online-... Please share... #ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social #ekphrasticpoetry #poetry
August 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I'll be running 2 new online #creativewriting courses this autumn! 'Poetry Writing 1: Starting to Write' & 'Inspired by Art: Ekphrastic Poetry & Prose' are available to book now createdtoread.com/more-online-... Please share... #ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social #ekphrasticpoetry #poetry
I'm so excited to be launching my new poetry-film 'Fragments of Us' in Cardiff! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... It responds to the creativity of museum visitors who contributed to an interactive #poetry display @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity
#ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity
#ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I'm so excited to be launching my new poetry-film 'Fragments of Us' in Cardiff! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... It responds to the creativity of museum visitors who contributed to an interactive #poetry display @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity
#ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity
#ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social
New blog post! A review of 'Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets' createdtoread.com/a-review-of-... with recommendations of other books on this theme published by @serenbooks.bsky.social & @lucentdreaming.bsky.social #poetry @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New blog post! A review of 'Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets' createdtoread.com/a-review-of-... with recommendations of other books on this theme published by @serenbooks.bsky.social & @lucentdreaming.bsky.social #poetry @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
AND absolutely stunned by this heartbreaking poem by @aldugmore.bsky.social - see final pic for info on where the words come from for this poem...
August 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
AND absolutely stunned by this heartbreaking poem by @aldugmore.bsky.social - see final pic for info on where the words come from for this poem...
Really pleased to have my 'Multiple Choice' poem published in the latest issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social magazine (composed out of texts written by visitors in response to the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social interactive poetry display that I organized in 2022)
August 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Really pleased to have my 'Multiple Choice' poem published in the latest issue of @poetrywales.bsky.social magazine (composed out of texts written by visitors in response to the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social interactive poetry display that I organized in 2022)
Enjoyed hearing @wendycaitlin.bsky.social read from 'Portrait in Mustard' last week @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social
@serenbooks.bsky.social #thesealeychallenge
#sealeychallenge
@serenbooks.bsky.social #thesealeychallenge
#sealeychallenge
August 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Enjoyed hearing @wendycaitlin.bsky.social read from 'Portrait in Mustard' last week @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social
@serenbooks.bsky.social #thesealeychallenge
#sealeychallenge
@serenbooks.bsky.social #thesealeychallenge
#sealeychallenge
New blog post! I'll be delivering this course along with four other #creativewriting courses next year! createdtoread.com/an-online-cr... "Writing Neurodiversity: Processing Lived Experience through Poetry" will run on Tuesday evenings from 27th January...
July 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
New blog post! I'll be delivering this course along with four other #creativewriting courses next year! createdtoread.com/an-online-cr... "Writing Neurodiversity: Processing Lived Experience through Poetry" will run on Tuesday evenings from 27th January...
Hay Castle was looking lovely in the sunshine yesterday. And I may have accidentally bought a few novels. Summer resolution is to actually read all the books I have bought in the last six months or so.... I'm not doing the Sealey Challenge properly this August, but I will be reading A LOT. 🌞 📚 📖
July 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Hay Castle was looking lovely in the sunshine yesterday. And I may have accidentally bought a few novels. Summer resolution is to actually read all the books I have bought in the last six months or so.... I'm not doing the Sealey Challenge properly this August, but I will be reading A LOT. 🌞 📚 📖