Rachel Wright
@rachelwrighting.com
Writer and editor. Into art, Earth, and diversity. ADHD superstar. Music fan. Purveyor of female rage. Free Palestine. Fuck ICE. I mostly post about books and music.
Happy Charli XCX day to all who celebrate!
Music, Fashion, Film by Charli xcx on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 11 Songs
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Saturday is alright for KICKSTARTING! The Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter is 51% funded! GET A LITTLE UNCANNY ACTION IN! buff.ly/KUBvYgD
“Your horror has been stolen from you” is a 10/10 sentence.
unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 3w agoYou can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.
My newest is up today. If you're looking for vacation reads, these three new books set in Georgia are scheduled for release this month!
Need a summer book? Three new titles set in Georgia are perfect vacation reads - ARTS ATL
July is here and with it comes peak vacation reading season. If your flight and hotel are set but you’re still on the hunt for the right book for your leisure time, look no further. This month sees th...
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From Demolition to Dedication: How Community Support Built America’s Only Independent Amphibian Conservation Center | Amphibian Foundation
As the demolition of our longtime home at Blue Heron Nature Preserve approached, Amphibian Foundation faced one of the most complex biologic
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Summer tunes! I bounced around the house to this all weekend.
2026 Summer by Rachel Wright on Apple Music
Playlist · 47 Songs
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Amphibian Foundation is a unique nonprofit that focuses solely on amphibian and reptile education and conservation. I’ve been working with them since the beginning of the year, and I’d love for them to be able to keep their mission going.
AF: Secure the Mission Fund
We have successfully completed the relocation of more than 1,000 amphibians and 100 reptiles!
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There are big leadership changes afoot at the Decatur Book Festival. I wrote about them for ArtsATL.
Decatur Book Festival’s new leadership looks to the future - ARTS ATL
The Decatur Book Festival’s last half-decade has been eventful, seeing the once-sprawling event and its coffers greatly diminished by the pandemic. Canceled in 2023, the Festival was relaunched the ne...
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I had the great honor and challenge of copy editing this report, which my father (a research librarian and my personal hero) contributed to. It’s a meticulous, empirical case for reparations in Fulton County. I can’t wait for y’all to see it!
"Once you know that (it) exists, it’s hard not to think about it every time you see a sudden flood of enthusiastic posts about a famous person’s new project or haircut or outfit or relationship or face." web.archive.org/web/20260515...
The Feed Is Fake
What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?
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me: i was just wondering why they don’t call water bottles ‘portable potables’ my gynecologist: what
I reviewed Carol Loeb Shloss’s new O'Connor biography, Flannery and Regina, which explores the writer's complicated relationship with her mother, and her mother's impact on her posthumous legacy.
Review: Book on Flannery O’Connor’s final years considers her work through a familial lens - ARTS ATL
At the age of 25, Flannery O’Connor collapsed on a train platform in Macon, Georgia. She’d been on her way from Connecticut to visit her mother, Regina, at Andalusia, the family dairy farm outside of ...
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archaeologists have unearthed what many are calling "the most metal shit anyone's ever seen"
My first ever podcast story came out yesterday! My segment starts at 20:02, but the first 19 minutes are great too!
Summer Evans co-hosts + 100 paintings for 100 songs | The ATL Arts Collective
✦ Summer Evans ✦ Let’s Go Dancing ✦ Commonplaces ✦ American Sublime ✦ Jessi Kirtley ✦ Best Bets ✦ Welcome to The ATL Arts Collective, powered by ArtsATL. This is your home for stories from Atlanta’s...
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Josh Russell's new collection of flash essays is thoughtful, sensitive, and strange. I talked to him for ArtsATL about how he pulled it off.
Josh Russell’s essay collection ‘Commonplaces’ connects life challenges with everyday beauty - ARTS ATL
In college at the University of Maryland, Atlanta author Josh Russell used to make photocopies of poems that he read in literary magazines at the library. He couldn’t afford to buy everything he read,...
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O, to take what we love inside, to carry within us an orchard, to eat not only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days, to hold the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into the round jubilance of peach.
From Blossoms
From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we turned toward signs painted Peaches . From…
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Confederate Heritage? What fucking heritage, may I ask? The Confederacy didn't even last 4 years as far as I know. That's like me celebrating the heritage of a top I got from Forever 21 until it got too ragged for my whole life.
“I won’t tell you there’s freedom anywhere but look at what you hold in your arms for free”
“Then”
“Then the full / moon rose / & filled the / windows.”
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I loved Kylie Lee Baker's new horror novel, out next week. Bloody, moody, and surprisingly tender, Japanese Gothic is equal parts dreamlike and devastating. Read my review for ArtsATL!
Review: Kylie Lee Baker’s ‘Japanese Gothic’ stokes dread, salves with off-kilter beauty - ARTS ATL
Last year, Atlanta author Kylie Lee Baker released her first horror novel, Bat Eater and other Names for Cora Zeng, to wide acclaim. Nobody would have blamed her for taking a year off, but, luckily for horror fans, she didn’t. Japanese Gothic (Hanover Square Press), her newest effort in the…
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If you love bookstores, you should know about Bookish in East Atlanta. They're doing incredible work in their community, and they could use some love right now. I wrote about it for ArtsATL this week.
Beloved East Atlanta bookstore Bookish reopens after flood - ARTS ATL
Walking into East Atlanta’s Bookish, you’d never guess it had been closed for flooding one week earlier. The shelves were packed with books, colorful streamers hung from the ceiling and owner Kendra L...
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In other news, the first review of my book for @ugapress.bsky.social is out, courtesy @rachelwrighting.com. Really humbling to be mentioned in the same breath as a writer and reporter like @tomjunod.bsky.social Read it at Arts ATL: www.artsatl.org/the-2026-spr...
Happy Grace Ives Day to all who celebrate!
Girlfriend by Grace Ives on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 11 Songs
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Happy Harry Styles Day to all who celebrate.
Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. by Harry Styles on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 12 Songs
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