embarrassingly i’ve become the kind of person who takes heart from the messages in fortune cookies

calling all yorkshire folk - i’ll be running a free poetry workshop this weekend at Goole Museum on finding yourself in the archive. we’ll be going through the collection and writing poems that explore our place alongside pier portraiture and local artefacts. come keep me company!

every image of gertrude stein looks like it could be taken from a TOAST ad campaign

june jordan

love going to the theatre, where else can i listen to people have coughing fits, test out different ringtones etc

addison rae’s music is for driving really fast to

love to check my junk mailbox and pretend i won all these competitions i never signed up for. really good confidence boost, would recommend

great match at hull today - the game had to pause for 10 minutes because a squirrel stormed the pitch and nobody could catch it. when it was eventually removed the crowd started to chant WE WANT THE SQUIRREL BACK

had a dream that there was a new machine at the gym called The Coffin which was a coffin-shaped mechanism i had to lay down in and then propel myself upwards using my core strength to resemble a nosferatu jumpscare

anyone done this yet

New prose feature out today from @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social On Emily Dickinson, anorexic aesthetics, and inexpressibility. andotherpoems.com/2026/01/13/e...

jumping back on the void app to share an excerpt of the new non-fiction book I’m working on, The Inexpressible, which is published today @andotherpoems.bsky.social — this excerpt is about Emily Dickinson and anorexia and silence / a kind of void essay andotherpoems.com/2026/01/13/e...

Emily Owns the Void

In this essay on Emily Dickinson and ‘anorexic aesthetics’, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight blends close reading and autobiography, critical analysis and personal narrative. Moving between Dickinson sc…

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instead of a resolution i’m giving myself a poem for the year. be strong Bernadette….. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49723/...

pigs with wings, whatever happened to them?

when i have to talk to customer service, that is Kafkaesque. when customer service is an AI chatbot, that is a hate crime

i don’t really get the anxiety behind ‘X artist was only X-years-old when they created their masterpiece!’ — BUT learning Cameron Winter was only 22 when he released Heavy Metal does give me a huge amount of hope, more than anything….the kids are more than alright. they’re even better ❤️‍🩹

before there was Selima Hill, there was Stevie Smith. some fun contents pages here

concrete proof that poetry is a disruptive force for good? i will be spending the rest of the day feeling incredibly smug lithub.com/can-adversar...

Can “adversarial poetry” save us from AI?

Turns out, the Terminator movies would have been more realistic if Sarah Conner had a poetry MFA. In a new paper titled “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large L…

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a revelation in St Mary’s Church, Whitby

briefly logging back on to share this brilliant article by Eliza Clark on the argument surrounding masculinity and contemporary commercial fiction. god she’s great www.vogue.co.uk/article/vani...

It’s Time To Put The “Where Are All The Male Novelists?” Debate To Bed

“Male writers still continue to dominate literary awards,” writes novelist Eliza Clark. “They make up a large portion of our bestsellers, all the while continuing to be viewed as more worthy and deser...

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every weekend hundreds of people who’ve never left their houses before are unleashed upon York city centre to give ‘society’ a go

⭐A CHOICE OF 4 WORKSHOPS How to Write a Synopsis with Joe Sedgwick ✍️ Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚 Poetics of the Haunted w/ @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social 👻 Writing Intimacy & Relationships with Rozie Kelly ❤️

on a separate note i’ve been getting really into Brian Eno, which i’ve heard can only mean good things

if you missed my poetics of the haunted workshop, fear not, i’ll be running it again in-person for National Creative Writing Industry Day alongside a whole host of amazing events @commapress.bsky.social - get involved here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...

The National Creative Writing Industry Day 2025

Hear from published authors and have a 1-to-1 with two agents/editors at the largest event for aspiring writers in the North of England

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haven’t really posted on here in a while because it feels like shouting into the void BUT it feels important enough to say that i’m now a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull which has been a big dream for years now. probably the only thing worth void posting

choose your fighter

i have a few fun things coming up this autumn - including workshops! - so prepare yourselves for a thread 🧵

a dear pal sent me this old article by Žižek on poetry and the torture house of language. it is extremely compelling so i’m having to share here for those who haven’t already come across it www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

reading a collection of Helene Cixous’s essays and she essentially pulls this move every time (which i love)

devastated to report that i finally started watching Girls because everyone in my life says i’m ‘such a Hannah’ and i wanted to find out what that means….and now i know…..