Rachel Carney

Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'After viewing the installation I was irritable for hours' by Sadie Maskery exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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-...

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!

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

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

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

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' ✍️

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

Thanks!

I have a villanelle in this anthology celebrating 20 years of Write Out Loud!
- www.writeoutloud.net/books/

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...

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...

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

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.

**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

Essays “essay” (n.), 1590s, meaning “trial, attempt, endeavour,” also “short, discursive literary composition”, from French essai, meaning “trial, attempt, essay”, deri…

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/

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

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 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...

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

Somehow it's Sunday again, somehow August. Writing is a winged thing flitting about in the late afternoon sun and I am trying to be still enough for it to land on me.

Happy #smallpoemsunday.
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Thank you!

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

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

Thanks! I was trying to remember which years it was - I think it was 2019 and 2021 but I'd need to go away and look up the information somewhere.

I've been shortlisted twice, and am still incredibly pleased to have made it that far.

Bridport Prize starter pack @bridportprize.bsky.social with winners & shortlisted writers including
@kitdewaal.com @dreenawriting.co.uk @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @esloudon.bsky.social Please follow & repost the pack & tell me if you want to be included #booksky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity