Dr Rachel Knightley

Thank you @nawewriters.bsky.social headlined by @naomialderman.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at this year’s conference, Inspiring Writing.

Write, Speak, Connect celebrated how freedom, permission & creativity start with our work with ourselves, and support every other writer we work with.

The past tense on Twitter was ‘tweeted’. So, when I’ve posted here, have I ‘blueskid’?

Yes, that'd be us. The small suitcase proved heavier than expected when being lifted to the overhead shelf.

Symbols are SO personal, whether we’re discovering characters in the world or in our heads.

I’ll never forget the LOOK I got when I tried explaining to the wrong person the skull on my scarf was a positive symbol for me.

But it is. We’re here now.

So glad!

So who else is on a train returning from @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social carrying many, MANY more books than they arrived with?

#worldfantasycon

Enormously proud to report Green Ink Sponsored Write 2025 for Macmillan Cancer Support reached £1815.

Proofreading by Writers’ Gym members Bella and Truett today; digital anthology by Steve for all our sponsors tomorrow.

Thanks @rhi.bsky.social for a fab title and all who wrote or sponsored 💚

Green Ink Sponsored Write 2025 for Macmillan Cancer Support Help Green Ink Sponsored Write at the Writers' Gym raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

We’ve nearly doubled our intended total — and I’ve sneakily left the page open so you can still secure the world-exclusive new writing anthology by donating any amount to Macmillan tonight.

Thank you @rhi.bsky.social for a glorious title.

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Not a truly indicative picture of my tube-strike journey — but ALMOST made it worth it.

18 October: we write. 19 October: we edit. 20 October: world-exclusive anthology published, all for Macmillan Cancer Support.

@sarahbrooks.bsky.social @rhi.bsky.social @rozkaveney.bsky.social @katharineorton.bsky.social

Honoured to be involved in this year's Sponosored Write, on behalf of Macmillan Cancer Support, along with a whole gaggle of amazing writers!

We have a beautiful title from @rhi.bsky.social this year and, as ever, 48 hours from creation to publication all for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Grab your world-exclusive anthology by 18 October at justgiving.com/page/somewhere-thats-green

I very much enjoyed talking with @drrachelknightley.bsky.social for her brilliant writing podcast series. I'm not sure if I said anything useful, but all her questions are thoughtful and interesting.

Wise and generous creative insights from multiple-BAFTA-winning screenwriter, director and producer @danberlinka.bsky.social, joining me on The Writers’ Gym today.

Follow or download wherever you get your podcasts.

Getting to know yourself as a writer — and becoming the writer that helps other writers along the way.

Find Priya Sharma talking to me about writing, life, and finding what works for us on The Writers’ Gym this week, wherever you get your podcasts.

And my vote for ‘Most Ironic Book to Stand Your York Ghost Merchants Boo On’ goes to…

YouTube video by Dr Rachel Knightley Rachel Knightley talks to Tiny Pieces of Skull author and 2016 Lambda winner Roz Kaveney

Me talking to the wonderful
@drrachelknightley.bsky.social about my writing as if I know what I'm doing.
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Activist, critic, poet, fantasy writer @rozkaveney.bsky.social on the rewards and perils of research, deadlines, confidence, creativity — and of discovering how well we really know the characters around us on or off the page.

Join The Writers’ Gym wherever you get your podcasts.

Thank you to the brilliant @drrachelknightley.bsky.social for letting me chat about my white noise obsession, creative doubts, and much more! I've found listening to her podcast incredibly helpful when my confidence is wavering, so it was an honour to be on it ❤️📚
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One of the most important things about The Writers' Gym is showing success isn’t about not having the doubts or the struggles: that they’re part of what makes the wins so meaningful.

Thank you @sarahbrooks.bsky.social for sharing such encouraging examples of making our writing lives our own.

For every nose I ever see turn up at what (they think) writing coaching is, I also get to read the real experiences — what it really changes, on the page and in the world.

Thank you, Dr Kim Fleet, for sharing what these seven months have already created. This is why I do what I do.

Thank you Philip Palmer for a brilliant interview with The Writers' Gym: it’s such a pleasure sharing your love of writing and of supporting writers.

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Shelfies #45: Rachel Knightley Books have to be ‘in order’ – but it isn’t necessarily an order anyone but me would recognise

New #Shelfies alert! This week, it's @drrachelknightley.bsky.social on Discworld, Holmes, Cadfael and Narnia! (ooh, I love the Cadfael books! Good call, there).

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The ‘what if’ that inspired thriller and Disney+ Series Playdate by Alex Dahl.

Alex’s full interview with the Writers’ Gym podcast is waiting for you wherever you get your podcasts.

Here is a text message I got yesterday in The Writers' Gym Voxer, word for word.

Writing coaching doesn’t tell anyone how to write.

It frees them to enjoy being who they are and what that means they want to create.

On the page and in the world.

Award-winning author, journalist, kidnap survivor and ovarian cancer wrangler Jennifer Steil joins the Writers’ Gym Podcast today. Writing for emotional health, creating our own realities on the page and in the most dangerous circumstances of our lives: find us on Apple, Spotify and everywhere else.

A genuine delight to bring Creative Confidence to @olympicstudios #barnes today. The books, businesses and new eras our club members are planning are a privilege to clarify and see them create. Wishing a happy beginning to everyone and can’t wait to see where we go from here ❤️

It’s certainly a unique experience, that one!

@drrachelknightley.bsky.social

Just watched your video essay of The Seventh Grave Blu-Ray and thought your take was dead on. Enjoyed the movie quite a bit.

‘After’ and ‘Before’ shots of a truly lovely first workshop. What receptive, thoughtful writers (familiar and new faces alike) and, of course, a fabulous venue. Thank you, Olympic Studios #Barnes