beckymaywriter
@beckymaywriter
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Poet. Storyteller. Words at @heroin_chic_mag @propelmagazine @InkSweatTears @PN_Review & #14Magazine
Manchester
Joined March 2021
I don't normally cross post but this one feels like a big poetry moment- I've got two poems in PN Review issue 277! . Really grateful to PN Review & to everyone in my MA workshop last semester for helping these pieces to shine.
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Celebrating my MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from @MMUEnglishDept with fellow poets @LauraS_poet & @NomadicAlison . Feeling extremely grateful for everything this experience has given me.
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A pretty good Sunday so far. Thanks Jo Bell & all the guest poets.
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RT @driftwoodpress: You have until July 15th to submit to our writing contests! Use the link in our bio for details. #writingcontest #deadl….
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My first ever offering for #TopTweetTuesday on the theme of #silence. Wrote this back in 2022 & seems like it fits the bill. Well, apart from being over 42 words. Thanks for the prompt @soopoftheday
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Loved being the Poet Mentor for this @CominoNWCC Project alongside @McrPoetryLib. So impressed with the writing from the young participants in the nine partnerships between Poet in Residence, Teachers & Cultural Partners. Catch their work @McrPoetryLib now, on till September!
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Finished this last night. What an accomplishment @JTaylorTrash! .I was completely immersed throughout.
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RT @FoundationSwift: PRIMERS, the excellent mentoring and publication scheme from our good friends @NineArchesPress is back! .
ninearchespress.com
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Still can't get over how well poet in residence Edmund Davie did with poetry on demand @hayfestival. I asked for a poem to help me & my fellow poets after rejections & within 5 minutes I had this. It's a new month. Let us go on!
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Just got an acceptance for a poem that's been out twenty-three times. Don't give up people, your poems will find their homes!.
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Fantastic evening @McrPoetryLib with Tishani Doshi reading alongside @MMUEnglishDept students who spent part of her week long residency with her.
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RT @chillsubs: Lots of international friendly pubs here, love to see it 👏. Submission details:..
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Bank holiday reading! Looking forward to exploring Fiona Benson's fourth collection
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What a performance from @ayanmoaden!.
This has been going viral a year later on Instagram, so i thought id bring it here👀. Usheeg ‘ Tell Them- a performance poem by Ayan Aden🫶🏾
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Congratulations to @LauraS_poet for her whisker filled poem in @AtriumPoetry. ❤️ it.
On Collecting Every Whisker Lost by Every Cat in the World - Laura Strickland @LauraS_poet . via @Atrium_Poetry.
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Look who's on the 2024 Poetry Prize list @DerbyPoetryFest! . Me & @NomadicAlison & @LaurieSansom. My first time on a shortlist.
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Congratulations to all the longlisted,commended & winning poets in the @PoetrySociety.#NationalPoetryCompetition. Lovely to see Manchester writer @wordsnfixtures on the longlist. Well done Sarah-Clare!
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My fellow writer @keltinae introduced me to this poem by Diane Di Prima a few weeks ago & can't stop thinking about it.
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Congratulations to fellow @MMUEnglishDept poet Carson Wolfe on their recent publication in @FrontierPoetry.
frontierpoetry.com
Carson Wolfe’s poem begins with an almost tender description of this person who, through the course of the poem, becomes a kind of icon for fragile masculinity, the way that women and femmes allow a...
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RT @PoetsandPlayers: Join us tomorrow 2.30 for a lovely, free event at @anthonyburgess in Manchester where you can hear poets @ZaffarKunial….
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Wonderful to be part of the @CominoNWCC #PoetinResidence project for the second year running, in association with @McrPoetryLib.
mmu.ac.uk
The Comino Poet In Residence 2025 project is underway, aimed at bringing together student poets, school pupils and cultural venues across Greater Manchester.
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