charlotte shevchenko knight

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

dragons, today i want to awaken you from an eternity of darkness

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

oh i can see building cosplay being a future trend! makes me think of Drop Dead Gorgeous

anyone done this yet

thank you sweet Wendy xx

New prose feature out today from @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social

On Emily Dickinson, anorexic aesthetics, and inexpressibility.

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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…

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...

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

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…

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...

the church is in on it

a revelation in St Mary’s Church, Whitby

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...

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...

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

HI HOLLY

⭐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

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

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...

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’ll also be reading a newly commissioned poem for Manchester Literature Festival in what is their 20th anniversary (!) alongside my fellow Multilingual City Poet manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/manch...

Charlotte Shevchenko Knight Workshop - What’s so funny? – Translating the absurd into poetry. Charlotte Shevchenko Knight hosts a poetry workshop over Zoom

then in October i’m lightening the mood with this online workshop on humour in poetry for Verve Poetry Festival, for the more chuckle-prone poet www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charlotte-...

Poetics of the Haunted with Charlotte Shevchenko Knight | Romalyn Ante Who are your daily ghosts? What thoughts go unsaid, shivering in the background, absent presences? Do they belong in poetry?

in September i’m running an online workshop for Tsaa with Roma that asks if ghosts belong in poetry, in case any of you haunted types are keen to join www.romalynante.com/event-detail...

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...