Rachael Smart
@smartrachael.bsky.social
Tarot teller
Giver of skeletal leaves
Likes blood oranges, neologisms,
men wearing waders.
Giver of skeletal leaves
Likes blood oranges, neologisms,
men wearing waders.
I have an interview at The Letters Page. ♡
Are you Team Blunt Pencil or Team Sharp Pencil? ✏️
In our latest article, writer @smartrachael.bsky.social talks tools of the trade (and reveals how to write a thank you letter to a sheep).
Interview by @naomiadam.bsky.social
theletters.page/2025/06/27/s...
In our latest article, writer @smartrachael.bsky.social talks tools of the trade (and reveals how to write a thank you letter to a sheep).
Interview by @naomiadam.bsky.social
theletters.page/2025/06/27/s...
June 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I have an interview at The Letters Page. ♡
I wrote The Letters Page a letter and they published it.
Good things come to those who write. ✍️
Many thanks to everyone who has written to us here at The Letters Page for Vol. 8. We look forward to hearing from even more of you across Vol. 9! As ever, we are at:
The Letters Page
School of English
The University of Nottingham
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
Many thanks to everyone who has written to us here at The Letters Page for Vol. 8. We look forward to hearing from even more of you across Vol. 9! As ever, we are at:
The Letters Page
School of English
The University of Nottingham
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
June 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I wrote The Letters Page a letter and they published it.
March 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I wrote a thing about cacti and marriage. You may want to subscribe. Or not.
open.substack.com/pub/rachaels...
open.substack.com/pub/rachaels...
They are spiny beasts that can sometimes rip open your skin and tear your clothes.
The boys went on holiday.
open.substack.com
August 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM
I wrote a thing about cacti and marriage. You may want to subscribe. Or not.
open.substack.com/pub/rachaels...
open.substack.com/pub/rachaels...
May 12, 2024 at 12:53 PM
He wakes to voyeurs. There are so many men. He peels their names off the back of his tongue. Crescent moon marks in the skin of his back, deep bites that leave their lilac. He shrugs off his coat, offers his mouth to the one watching.
#mpotd
#mpotd
Here's the 19 April image for micro prompt of the day.
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Alan Spazzali
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Alan Spazzali
April 19, 2024 at 3:37 PM
He wakes to voyeurs. There are so many men. He peels their names off the back of his tongue. Crescent moon marks in the skin of his back, deep bites that leave their lilac. He shrugs off his coat, offers his mouth to the one watching.
#mpotd
#mpotd
From the yawn of the bed she told him how she hated the word devour due to the long vowel sound which sounded a purse disapproval. I'll bin it, then, he said. And so she became gobbling, gorging, gulping, insatiable, wolfish, ravenous, gormandizing, unquenchable.
#mpotd
#mpotd
The 16 April word prompt for #mpotd (micro prompt of the day): DEVOUR.
I'll post a prompt word/image. Write a micro using the word/inspired by the image. Use the hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post instead of replying.*
#writingprompt
I'll post a prompt word/image. Write a micro using the word/inspired by the image. Use the hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post instead of replying.*
#writingprompt
April 16, 2024 at 5:14 PM
From the yawn of the bed she told him how she hated the word devour due to the long vowel sound which sounded a purse disapproval. I'll bin it, then, he said. And so she became gobbling, gorging, gulping, insatiable, wolfish, ravenous, gormandizing, unquenchable.
#mpotd
#mpotd
The tote bag was unorthodox. Things she carried in it: petty habits, a hypothesis about the infidelity of men, anya potatoes, a paperback about the blues, one heart: perforated, the beguiling patterns of his mouth down her back, dropped apples, a tease club in the city.
#mpotd
#mpotd
Here's the 15 April image for micro prompt of the day.
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Emil Robinson
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Emil Robinson
April 15, 2024 at 7:27 PM
The tote bag was unorthodox. Things she carried in it: petty habits, a hypothesis about the infidelity of men, anya potatoes, a paperback about the blues, one heart: perforated, the beguiling patterns of his mouth down her back, dropped apples, a tease club in the city.
#mpotd
#mpotd
Reposted by Rachael Smart
COMPETITION TIME ✍️
In the comments, complete the phrase 'My drafting process is like...'
Our judge, the magnificent @jmgatford.bsky.social, will pick her favourite simile. The winner will get a place on the May round of Dust Off Those Drafts.
DEADLINE: 19th April
shorturl.at/BEJX4
In the comments, complete the phrase 'My drafting process is like...'
Our judge, the magnificent @jmgatford.bsky.social, will pick her favourite simile. The winner will get a place on the May round of Dust Off Those Drafts.
DEADLINE: 19th April
shorturl.at/BEJX4
April 13, 2024 at 6:57 AM
COMPETITION TIME ✍️
In the comments, complete the phrase 'My drafting process is like...'
Our judge, the magnificent @jmgatford.bsky.social, will pick her favourite simile. The winner will get a place on the May round of Dust Off Those Drafts.
DEADLINE: 19th April
shorturl.at/BEJX4
In the comments, complete the phrase 'My drafting process is like...'
Our judge, the magnificent @jmgatford.bsky.social, will pick her favourite simile. The winner will get a place on the May round of Dust Off Those Drafts.
DEADLINE: 19th April
shorturl.at/BEJX4
She paints swift, throughout the squall, the brushes fine, her colours impasto. When ships split their pastel spines and the palm kneels down for the sky, she gives leaden inks to her horizon.
#mpotd
#mpotd
Here's the 13 April image for micro prompt of the day.
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Jean Gaumy
I'll post a prompt word or image. Write a micro using the prompt word/inspired by the image. Use hashtag #mpotd. Stay w/in 300 characters.
*It helps if you quote post the prompt post.*
#writingprompt
Credit: Jean Gaumy
April 13, 2024 at 8:28 AM
She paints swift, throughout the squall, the brushes fine, her colours impasto. When ships split their pastel spines and the palm kneels down for the sky, she gives leaden inks to her horizon.
#mpotd
#mpotd
This had me in bits. Congratulations. Heart-hurty.
I won! Some banging stories all round - thank you to all who voted, and the judges - delighted!
The @retreatwest.bsky.social Monthly Micro results are out!
Find the winners and read all ten incredible shortlisted stories here
westword.substack.com/p/march-24-m...
Find the winners and read all ten incredible shortlisted stories here
westword.substack.com/p/march-24-m...
March 29, 2024 at 8:46 AM
This had me in bits. Congratulations. Heart-hurty.
Reposted by Rachael Smart
Review of Fabulae by Scott Manley Hadley on The Triumph of the Now in case you are interested 👇https://triumphofthenow.com/2024/03/28/fabulae-how-it-begins-by-isabella-streffen/
Fabulae: How It Begins by Isabella Streffen
interesting contemporary poetry about detailed rereadings of books I haven't read
triumphofthenow.com
March 28, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Review of Fabulae by Scott Manley Hadley on The Triumph of the Now in case you are interested 👇https://triumphofthenow.com/2024/03/28/fabulae-how-it-begins-by-isabella-streffen/
💙 oh my
💙 cyanometer for my heart 💙
Did I mention I made this?
https://www.atmosphericquarterly.com/isabella-streffen
💙 cyanometer for my heart 💙
Did I mention I made this?
https://www.atmosphericquarterly.com/isabella-streffen
💙 cyanometer for my heart 💙
isabella streffen — atmospheric quarterly
www.atmosphericquarterly.com
March 27, 2024 at 6:44 AM
💙 oh my
March 22, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Reposted by Rachael Smart
Hello, Blue Sky! We're "welkin on sunshine" to be in this new place.
Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting...
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting...
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
November 19, 2023 at 5:23 PM
Hello, Blue Sky! We're "welkin on sunshine" to be in this new place.
Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting...
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting...
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
Reposted by Rachael Smart
