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charlotte shevchenko knight
@shevchenkoknight.bsky.social
poet, unfortunately. Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape). Lecturer @ University of Hull. NWCDTP-funded PhD on authotheory and anorexia @ Manchester Writing School. rep’d by Peter Straus @ RCW Literary Agency
embarrassingly i’ve become the kind of person who takes heart from the messages in fortune cookies
July 21, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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!
July 9, 2026 at 10:27 AM
every image of gertrude stein looks like it could be taken from a TOAST ad campaign
July 4, 2026 at 11:24 AM
june jordan
April 15, 2026 at 8:01 AM
love going to the theatre, where else can i listen to people have coughing fits, test out different ringtones etc
April 15, 2026 at 8:00 AM
addison rae’s music is for driving really fast to
April 15, 2026 at 8:00 AM
love to check my junk mailbox and pretend i won all these competitions i never signed up for. really good confidence boost, would recommend
February 10, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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
February 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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
February 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
anyone done this yet
January 22, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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New prose feature out today from @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social

On Emily Dickinson, anorexic aesthetics, and inexpressibility.

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January 13, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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…
andotherpoems.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM
instead of a resolution i’m giving myself a poem for the year. be strong Bernadette….. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49723/...
The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica
Be strong Bernadette Nobody will ever know I came here for a reason Perhaps there is a life here Of not being afraid of your own heart beating Do not be afraid of your own heart beating Look at very s...
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January 1, 2026 at 10:28 PM
pigs with wings, whatever happened to them?
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
when i have to talk to customer service, that is Kafkaesque. when customer service is an AI chatbot, that is a hate crime
December 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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 ❤️‍🩹
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
before there was Selima Hill, there was Stevie Smith. some fun contents pages here
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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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November 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
a revelation in St Mary’s Church, Whitby
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
every weekend hundreds of people who’ve never left their houses before are unleashed upon York city centre to give ‘society’ a go
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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⭐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 ❤️
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
on a separate note i’ve been getting really into Brian Eno, which i’ve heard can only mean good things
October 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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
September 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM