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carrieetter.bsky.social
Poet and fiction writer, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at U of Bristol | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈‍⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bath, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
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Come on, folks--I know a lot of you believe in restoring the A Level in Creative Writing in England--sign and share now! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @poetrysociety.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social @kitdewaal.bsky.social

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@davebonta.bsky.social Any new calls for poetry films? Just made my first with @helendewbery.bsky.social !

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@mateolg3.bsky.social hello! Are you in Madrid now?

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Thank you @carrieetter.bsky.social for organising last night ❤️ @bookhaus.bsky.social

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Goodbye, my beloved spirit animal...Susu(watari) Etter Lillistone, 2005-2025 xxx

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I have accidentally engineered a circumstance where every time I do an event at @grovebookshop.bsky.social, @devaneemily.bsky.social makes me a book-themed cheesecake and it’s quite the most wonderful thing. Last night I got this glorious one, along with a packed house and a brilliant audience. 🍪🩵

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Boom!

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Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2016! Flash and poetry from @carrieetter.bsky.social, Kathy Gee, David Calcutt, Alex Reed and Nina Lewis! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

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Really excited about this initiative from Octopus Books: www.octopusbooks.co.uk/landing-page... Please share!

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.bsky.social to headline new festival celebrating #women #writers over 50 Festival dates: 15 March in Brighton and 30 March in Crawley www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #AmWriting

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Some paid writing work would be extremely helpful to me right now, I am just putting that out there for what it's worth.

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This aged well.

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Come one, come all! If you support restoring the Creative Writing A Level in England, please fill out this form, and please share! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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URGENT deadline worth £10,000s to some all under 73s should check! It's about boosting your future or current State Pension by filling in missing National Insurance years. Sounds boring but is incredibly lucrative. Here's my new step-by-step www.moneysavingexpert.com/latesttip/#h... Please share

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Yesterday's most surreal moment: at @naomimillner.bsky.social's excellent talk, 'Can Carbon Be Commoned?', I linked her remarks on carbon credits to my ex-husband's work in game theory and social justice. If he ever hears of it, I expect he'll be speechless for several minutes!

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@naomimillner.bsky.social Great to hear your talk yesterday--and to learn you also write fiction!

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Today's knockout poem by an emerging poet, @eveellis14.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/evee...

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Here’s the opening poem from SPIT VALVE, which is coming very soon from ignitionpress. Oxford Brookes have made it their featured Weekly Poem. Get your content warnings firmly in place, then enjoy. x

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@eveellis14.bsky.social Your poem in the Oxford Brookes weekly--whoa! The build is deftly handled, and that ending! Well done!

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Donald Trump is lying about Social Security for one reason: So he has an excuse to CUT Social Security. That's always been the GOP's plan.

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Travelling by train to Bristol on Friday potentially in this ridiculous top - come along to @bookhaus.bsky.social on Friday for poetry and wine and books and readings from Luke Palmer and Mark Wynne and me, hosted by @carrieetter.bsky.social ❤️

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@ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social Evanston? I’m reading at The Hungry Brain on Easter!

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@meandmecousin.bsky.social the middle one? I bought the one on the left to start….

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@harlowe33.bsky.social you’re adorable!

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Less than a year after the publication of Grief's Alphabet with a 1000-copy print run, Seren Books is now preparing to reprint!! It all began in London on 11 April, my adoption birthday. Thanks to everyone who's supported me along the way--I'm so grateful! Mwah!

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This is a picture of what it means to be a happy poet-teacher. You inspire and enable others, and it's so, so gratifying. It was wonderful to meet you, @annashelton.bsky.social, and I look forward to reading more and more of your writing. Mwah! bsky.app/profile/anna...

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Wow, what an evening! CB1 Poetry with the inspirational @carrieetter.bsky.social ❤️ Such a moving performance thanks Carrie! My first time reading at an Open Mic in my home town. Loved it.❤️

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@johnfonesucu.bsky.social What's the best way to reach you? I'm a fellow regional UCU member

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11 weeks apart. They were willing to overlook the lies, Jan 6th, fraud, the arrest, the charges & the rape to celebrate his return to the White House. Now they feign surprise that the sociopath we all warned was a sociopath is indeed still a sociopath.

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The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;

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On the day I move to Bristol, I'm hosting this reading at @bookhaus.bsky.social with a great line up of debut poets: Wendy Allen, Luke Palmer, and Mark Wynne. We kick off at 7, tickets here: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/.../fri-7-ma.... Please share!

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