@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
Really pleased to have a chapter in this @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social book due to be published April 2026! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/divergent...
My chapter is titled 'The Power of Words: Neurodiversity, Authenticity, and Inclusion in the Creative Writing Classroom'
#neurodiversity #creativewriting
This online #poetry #creativewriting course is now available to book! 📚 createdtoread.com/experimentin...
01.12.2025 14:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@vikkicwrites.bsky.social @lucycoatswriter.bsky.social @createdtoread.bsky.social and many more feature in this starter pack of people associated with the great Bridport Prize. @bridportprize.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #booksky
25.11.2025 08:56 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Preparing materials for my online course 'Writing Neurodiversity: Processing Lived Experience through Poetry' which begins 27th January! createdtoread.com/about/events...
#neurodiversity #neurodivergence #creativewriting
@serenbooks.bsky.social @lucentdreaming.bsky.social
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
A piece of sheet music for a violin, where the musical notes have been replaced by numerous silhouettes of cats. The cats are depicted in various poses, climbing, tumbling, and napping along the musical staff lines.
The Symphony of the Cat, Moritz von Schwind, 1868. #Caturday
08.11.2025 20:13 — 👍 640 🔁 178 💬 1 📌 0
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
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
03.11.2025 12:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
Great conversations, company & films at the #poetryfilm festival today! The Bristol lightship made for an interesting backdrop...
@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...
17.10.2025 11:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
04.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 82 🔁 16 💬 7 📌 3
Sharing my upcoming poetry-film launch event as it's #NationalPoetryDay today! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... @imageworkscardiff.bsky.social
02.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
02.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
30.09.2025 17:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have a flash fiction piece in the latest issue of Mugwort Magazine! It's called 'In Queen Street' ✍️
20.09.2025 13:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
19.09.2025 16:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
09.09.2025 12:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks!
09.09.2025 11:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
07.09.2025 19:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This 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
**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
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...
03.09.2025 18:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
