Elizabeth M. Castillo | Poetry, Writing & Workshops
@emcwritesthings.bsky.social
• 🇬🇧🇲🇺Multilingual British-Mauritian Poet, Writer & Educator
• Author of "Cajoncito" & "Not Quite An Ocean"
• Author of "Cajoncito" & "Not Quite An Ocean"
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Join @emcwritesthings.bsky.social in just eight days! July 12 & 19, 9–10:30am EST.
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July 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Just 10 days to join @emcwritesthings.bsky.social to write and reflect on the Ocean July 12 & 19, 9–10:30am EST.
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July 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just 10 days to join @emcwritesthings.bsky.social to write and reflect on the Ocean July 12 & 19, 9–10:30am EST.
Sign up on our Submittable page under 'Fahmidan Education'.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
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Poets, writers, ocean lovers—this is for you.
Join us for a generative writing workshop that honors the rhythms and mystery of the sea.
Led by Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social. July 12 & 19.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Join us for a generative writing workshop that honors the rhythms and mystery of the sea.
Led by Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social. July 12 & 19.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
June 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Poets, writers, ocean lovers—this is for you.
Join us for a generative writing workshop that honors the rhythms and mystery of the sea.
Led by Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social. July 12 & 19.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Join us for a generative writing workshop that honors the rhythms and mystery of the sea.
Led by Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social. July 12 & 19.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
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Can writing save the sea?
Discover how poetry and prose can honour, echo, and protect our oceans.
Join Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean, a two-day workshop with Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Discover how poetry and prose can honour, echo, and protect our oceans.
Join Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean, a two-day workshop with Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
June 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Can writing save the sea?
Discover how poetry and prose can honour, echo, and protect our oceans.
Join Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean, a two-day workshop with Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Discover how poetry and prose can honour, echo, and protect our oceans.
Join Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean, a two-day workshop with Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Reposted by Elizabeth M. Castillo | Poetry, Writing & Workshops
Can writing save the sea?
Discover how poetry and prose can honor, echo, and protect our oceans.
Join Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean, a two-day workshop with Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Discover how poetry and prose can honor, echo, and protect our oceans.
Join Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean, a two-day workshop with Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
June 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Can writing save the sea?
Discover how poetry and prose can honor, echo, and protect our oceans.
Join Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean, a two-day workshop with Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Discover how poetry and prose can honor, echo, and protect our oceans.
Join Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean, a two-day workshop with Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
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Dive deep into the soul of the sea.
Join Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social on July 12 & 19 for Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean. Let your words become waves.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Join Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social on July 12 & 19 for Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean. Let your words become waves.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
May 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Dive deep into the soul of the sea.
Join Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social on July 12 & 19 for Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean. Let your words become waves.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Join Elizabeth M. Castillo @emcwritesthings.bsky.social on July 12 & 19 for Ecopoetry & Prose: Writing the Ocean. Let your words become waves.
Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/30888...
Got a book but not sure how to get it out there?
Join me on June 1st for "Write, Publish, Sell," a live masterclass for indie authors ready to write, publish & actually sell their work.
Sliding scale $5–25 | Free spots available.
Link below to sign up! 💥📚
(RTs appreciated!)
Join me on June 1st for "Write, Publish, Sell," a live masterclass for indie authors ready to write, publish & actually sell their work.
Sliding scale $5–25 | Free spots available.
Link below to sign up! 💥📚
(RTs appreciated!)
May 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Got a book but not sure how to get it out there?
Join me on June 1st for "Write, Publish, Sell," a live masterclass for indie authors ready to write, publish & actually sell their work.
Sliding scale $5–25 | Free spots available.
Link below to sign up! 💥📚
(RTs appreciated!)
Join me on June 1st for "Write, Publish, Sell," a live masterclass for indie authors ready to write, publish & actually sell their work.
Sliding scale $5–25 | Free spots available.
Link below to sign up! 💥📚
(RTs appreciated!)
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May 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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So... I'm going to back to school!
I've been accepted for an MSt (equivalent of MFA) at @ox.ac.uk
As a self-taught author and poet, I can hardly say how excited I am about this one!!!
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #MFA
I've been accepted for an MSt (equivalent of MFA) at @ox.ac.uk
As a self-taught author and poet, I can hardly say how excited I am about this one!!!
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #MFA
April 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
So... I'm going to back to school!
I've been accepted for an MSt (equivalent of MFA) at @ox.ac.uk
As a self-taught author and poet, I can hardly say how excited I am about this one!!!
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #MFA
I've been accepted for an MSt (equivalent of MFA) at @ox.ac.uk
As a self-taught author and poet, I can hardly say how excited I am about this one!!!
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #MFA
Y'all... just finished the first draft of my Tropical Gothic novel...
(First original novel/3rd full length piece of work)
How should I celebrate?
#writingcommunity #tropicalgothic #amwriting
(First original novel/3rd full length piece of work)
How should I celebrate?
#writingcommunity #tropicalgothic #amwriting
April 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Y'all... just finished the first draft of my Tropical Gothic novel...
(First original novel/3rd full length piece of work)
How should I celebrate?
#writingcommunity #tropicalgothic #amwriting
(First original novel/3rd full length piece of work)
How should I celebrate?
#writingcommunity #tropicalgothic #amwriting
Brought my second poetry book baby to visit Queen Arujumand (AKA Mumtaz Mahal) at her final resting place. Polymath & mother of 14, I reckon she would have loved my little collection of ecofeminist poems...
Have you read it yet? Link in my bio, or DM for a signed copy!
#poetrybook
Have you read it yet? Link in my bio, or DM for a signed copy!
#poetrybook
March 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Brought my second poetry book baby to visit Queen Arujumand (AKA Mumtaz Mahal) at her final resting place. Polymath & mother of 14, I reckon she would have loved my little collection of ecofeminist poems...
Have you read it yet? Link in my bio, or DM for a signed copy!
#poetrybook
Have you read it yet? Link in my bio, or DM for a signed copy!
#poetrybook
I don't know what to post on here I don't have the bandwidth what do you guys want to read/see if anyone at all ends up seeing this post 😩
March 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I don't know what to post on here I don't have the bandwidth what do you guys want to read/see if anyone at all ends up seeing this post 😩
Had a fab time coaching a group of WONDERFUL indie authors how to launch their indie book last night ✨
If you missed it and would like a recording of the workshop, DM me and we can set it up 🎥
#writerlife #workshop
If you missed it and would like a recording of the workshop, DM me and we can set it up 🎥
#writerlife #workshop
March 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Had a fab time coaching a group of WONDERFUL indie authors how to launch their indie book last night ✨
If you missed it and would like a recording of the workshop, DM me and we can set it up 🎥
#writerlife #workshop
If you missed it and would like a recording of the workshop, DM me and we can set it up 🎥
#writerlife #workshop
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Spotlighting @emcwritesthings.bsky.social who is one of our inaugural facilitators at Fahmidan Education.
Sign up for Elizabeth's 2 workshops 'Ecopoetry & prose: Writing the Ocean &
Writing the unsayable: tackling difficult themes' here: buff.ly/4hBKWUX
Sign up for Elizabeth's 2 workshops 'Ecopoetry & prose: Writing the Ocean &
Writing the unsayable: tackling difficult themes' here: buff.ly/4hBKWUX
February 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Spotlighting @emcwritesthings.bsky.social who is one of our inaugural facilitators at Fahmidan Education.
Sign up for Elizabeth's 2 workshops 'Ecopoetry & prose: Writing the Ocean &
Writing the unsayable: tackling difficult themes' here: buff.ly/4hBKWUX
Sign up for Elizabeth's 2 workshops 'Ecopoetry & prose: Writing the Ocean &
Writing the unsayable: tackling difficult themes' here: buff.ly/4hBKWUX
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Today’s poem from our latest issue is ‘In our bed’ by Nancy Huggett.
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/in-our-...
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/in-our-...
In our bed by Nancy Huggett
In our bed we try to banish the bad luckwe’ve acquired. We openall the windows and I chantmy sorrows into the sun-chokedtrees. Your seduction techniqueneeds work, you tease. But namingwhat weighs me d...
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February 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Today’s poem from our latest issue is ‘In our bed’ by Nancy Huggett.
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/in-our-...
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/in-our-...
February 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Show me you in a hat
Pinched this from my mum, and it has since unravelled for my sins
Pinched this from my mum, and it has since unravelled for my sins
February 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Show me you in a hat
Pinched this from my mum, and it has since unravelled for my sins
Pinched this from my mum, and it has since unravelled for my sins
"You can recognise AI text from it's excessive use of the em-dash" lol have you ever met a poet though?
#poetrycommunity
#poetrycommunity
February 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"You can recognise AI text from it's excessive use of the em-dash" lol have you ever met a poet though?
#poetrycommunity
#poetrycommunity
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Huge thank you to @emcwritesthings.bsky.social for the shout-out! Elizabeth's newsletter is an essential for all indie poets and you can sign-up here: elizabethmcastillo.net
If you'd like a signed copy of Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, drop me a DM - £10 via PayPal, inc. P&P 🌊
If you'd like a signed copy of Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, drop me a DM - £10 via PayPal, inc. P&P 🌊
February 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Huge thank you to @emcwritesthings.bsky.social for the shout-out! Elizabeth's newsletter is an essential for all indie poets and you can sign-up here: elizabethmcastillo.net
If you'd like a signed copy of Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, drop me a DM - £10 via PayPal, inc. P&P 🌊
If you'd like a signed copy of Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, drop me a DM - £10 via PayPal, inc. P&P 🌊
This day just turned sour and my heart is hurting anyone have a new poem, meme or pet pic to share?
a man is laying on a couch next to a pile of cups and bowls .
ALT: a man is laying on a couch next to a pile of cups and bowls .
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February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This day just turned sour and my heart is hurting anyone have a new poem, meme or pet pic to share?
🚀 Got a book ready to launch? Join me on March 2nd for “Ready, Set, Launch,” a 90-min online workshop for indie writers. Learn how to craft your book's BIG debut with tips, tricks & good vibes. 💸 Sliding scale + 2 free spots!
Sign up now: link in replies!
#WritersOfBluesky #IndieAuthors
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#WritersOfBluesky #IndieAuthors
February 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🚀 Got a book ready to launch? Join me on March 2nd for “Ready, Set, Launch,” a 90-min online workshop for indie writers. Learn how to craft your book's BIG debut with tips, tricks & good vibes. 💸 Sliding scale + 2 free spots!
Sign up now: link in replies!
#WritersOfBluesky #IndieAuthors
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#WritersOfBluesky #IndieAuthors
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Today’s poem from the new issue is Sometimes, there is happiness by Elizabeth M Castillo.
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/sometim...
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/sometim...
Sometimes, there is happiness by Elizabeth M Castillo
Sometimes, there is happinessSometimes, if you take a day apart, piece by layer, piece by layer, you might just glimpse it. It’s there, in a promise, in a pair of short legs pounding—a tumbling tide s...
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
February 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Today’s poem from the new issue is Sometimes, there is happiness by Elizabeth M Castillo.
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/sometim...
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/sometim...
Question: if you had a successful fanfic "career"... I mean novel-length work read by 5000+ people? would that be something worth mentioning on a writers' cv? Alongside all your other writing achievements?
#writingcommunity #askingforafriendANDmyselfactually
#writingcommunity #askingforafriendANDmyselfactually
February 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Question: if you had a successful fanfic "career"... I mean novel-length work read by 5000+ people? would that be something worth mentioning on a writers' cv? Alongside all your other writing achievements?
#writingcommunity #askingforafriendANDmyselfactually
#writingcommunity #askingforafriendANDmyselfactually
February 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Iike I want to make all the art but I also want to just take a nap as well y'know?
February 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Iike I want to make all the art but I also want to just take a nap as well y'know?