Saskia McCracken
@saskiaderm
Writer represented by @agentjenny |
Short stories Zero Hours with @brokensleep |
Editor @osmosispress & Beastly Modernisms EUP |
PhD Woolf, Darwin, Animals
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Join us Monday 19 August for a poetry reading at Main Point Books! Poetry from Jane Goldman and Petra Reid. Event free. Learn more here: mainpointbooks.co.uk/poetry-19-auguβ¦
Absolutely WILD that Rural has been shortlisted for the The Wainwright Prize for nature writing. And to be shortlisted alongside these incredible books too is just unreal. (And you know what this means, I get to go to the party too!)
Just over a month until the Introduction to Life Writing short course begins University of Glasgow UofG CreativeWriting! It's 6.30-8.30pm online, Tuesdays from 24 Sept-3 Dec. ποΈ You can register here: gla.ac.uk/study/short/coβ¦
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Exciting poetry post ahead of the Osmosis Press triple book launch on Wednesday with david gaffney πππ―π¦π ππ©π’π‘πͺπ’π―π’ carolyn hashimoto and Jac Common Glasgow Zine Library: glasgowzinelibrary.com/events/2024/8/β¦
I'm on my way to Glasgow to do a reading this evening from my new book Whale at the Glasgow Zine Library Reading with me are the amazing Saskia McCracken πππ―π¦π ππ©π’π‘πͺπ’π―π’ carolyn hashimoto and Jac Common Thanks Osmosis Press for organising
A joy to attend Osmosis Press book launch at Glasgow Zine Library yesterday, with Saskia McCracken and πππ―π¦π ππ©π’π‘πͺπ’π―π’ reading amongst others.
Looking forward to this Pink Witch & @witchesofscotland reading with the 12 Collective and Main Point Books on 26 Sept 7.30pm Waterstones Glasgow: waterstones.com/events/pink-wiβ¦
My pamphlet *Common Name*, on seaweeds (plumed chenille, creeping tongue, oyster thief) is out with Osmosis Press! In excellent company with MP Pratheesh πππ―π¦π ππ©π’π‘πͺπ’π―π’ carolyn hashimoto Caroline Harris david gaffney Susie Campbell Lydia Unsworth Robin Boothroyd & more: osmosispress.com/common-name-saβ¦
You can read a little excerpt from Common Name on Caught by the River! caughtbytheriver.net/2024/09/commonβ¦
'Each pearl pocketed is another silvering tongueless mouth washed ashore ripe for brittling underfoot.' Read an extract from Saskia McCracken's new prose poetry pamphlet 'Common Name', which explores the strange common names of seaweed caughtbytheriver.net/2024/09/commonβ¦
Enjoying these & other beautiful poems by Thomas A Clark in *that which appears* from Carcanet Press