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Richard Skinner

@richardnskinner.bsky.social

Writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction & poetry. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine. Most recent publication: ‘Undercurrents’ (Essays) (Broken Sleep Books, 2025).

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Reading for an essay on lucid dreaming.

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Poem of the Week ​This poem is taken from  the   light   user   scheme   (Smokestack, 2013)
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Another late flurry of photos… These are from the Gladstone Library in North Wales, Plymouth, London and on the road somewhere between Oxford and Margate. Thanks Emma, Lesley, Evalyn & Sophia.

Launch in Margate tomorrow!

11.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Come along to the launch of this fabulous new book of essays on cinema! Besides our four fabulous readers, there is exclusive work inside by Jonathan Coe, Rob Doyle, Wendy Erskine, Maria Fusco, Nicholas Royle & many others. You can purchase your copy here: richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...

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Wow! What a photo! Thank you!

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A picture of Vanguard Edition magazine on a shelf with sea shells and dawn light

A picture of Vanguard Edition magazine on a shelf with sea shells and dawn light

#Love & #Gratitude to @richardnskinner.bsky.social #poet & #editor of #14Magazine for including my poem ‘I Didn’t Think You Meant It’ in series 2, Issue 6

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Thank you dear Evalyn!

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And on #NationalPoetryDay I just want to share the amazing #poetry & work and teaching of @richardnskinner.bsky.social

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When I revived 14 magazine in 2020 and revamped its design, I was always looking forward to the time when there were enough covers to create different mosaics of colour, like Raster-Noton albums or Mondrian paintings. After 5 years, that’s finally the case. Just look at those gorgeous colour pops.

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Explore more about what celebrating the image of God in everybody means in worship with @autismtheology.bsky.social Director, Dr Leon Van Ommen at @sarumcollege.bsky.social online on 9th Oct: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...

28.09.2025 09:53 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Kristina Diprose’s beautiful debut pamphlet of eco poetry is now available on our website. Grab your copy today!

27.09.2025 09:36 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Just 11 days ago, I found myself in Paris when I heard the news of Robert Redford’s passing. Thanks so much to Andrew Gallix for publishing my reaction to watching Ordinary People again.

www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ordinary...

27.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The more of yourself you put into your writing, the more invisible you become.

#StartToWrite @faber_academy

27.09.2025 10:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks to all who sent in these wonderful photos from around the world! If you’d like to pick up your orange copy of 14, details below.

richardskinner.weebly.com/14-magazine....

26.09.2025 12:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Even more photos rolling in! From London, London, Southampton & Pennsylvania. 🙏

25.09.2025 16:02 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Reading Ruth - Sarum College Reflection of how different approaches to interpreting the Book of Ruth influences understanding of the Book of Ruth.

How do we read Scripture? Rabbi Professor Deborah Kahn-Harris of @leobaeckcollege.bsky.social explores 3 ways to read the book of Ruth at @sarumcollege.bsky.social on 3rd Nov. Come and enjoy a day of rich reflection & deep learning: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...

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‘If you can’t feel pain, then you’re not going to feel anything else either.’

Absolute masterpiece.

22.09.2025 14:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! Come & hear 14 amazing poets read their amazing poems from 14 magazine and more!

Sunday 12th October at the amazing Turner Contemporary in Margate!

These launches for 14 magazine tend to sell out so grab your ticket while you can!

www.margatebookie.com/big-weekend/...

22.09.2025 08:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Saturday morning.

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Laissez-vous rêver en route à Paris.

19.09.2025 09:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Brilliant folk in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Brighton, St Albans & Shipley, West Yorkshire sent in these brilliant photos. Please keep ‘em coming! 🙏

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Photos incoming from further afield now, from Leadgate, County Durham; Waterford and from the beaches of Tramore, Co Waterford & Liverpool. Wonderful. 🙏

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Cheers!

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Paris.

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Even more photos today from Middlesbrough, Shrewsbury, Oxford & Rotherham. Thanks everyone!

15.09.2025 17:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Photos continue to roll in from around the country, this time from Shrewsbury, Herts, Brighton beach & Oxfordshire.

15.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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More shots from around the country, this time from Suffolk, Exeter & Slinfold in West Sussex.

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Thanks to Clare Best for these gorgeously autumnal photos!

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Photos rolling in from London, Norwich, Oxford & Devon.

13.09.2025 08:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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