Saskia McCracken
@SaskiadeRM
Writer represented by @agentjenny Awful Creatures with @chiffchaff Zero Hours with @brokensleep Editor @osmosispress & Beastly Modernisms EUP PhD Woolf, Animals
Very excited that Awful Creatures, my nature writing debut about underappreciated animals and why we should care about them, will be published by @chiffchat in 2027! 🐸🐦⬛🪼🦟🦇
Yay! New poems from @poisbem & @Gregchthomas!
out now @Gregchthomas - spires spines paperviewbooks.pt/books/spires-s…
Our lovely Creative Writing workshops with nature writer Saskia McCracken are underway at Clarkston Library! The weekly sessions, funded by #SEPA are stand alone, each exploring a different eco theme to spark ideas for putting pen to paper. @SaskiadeRM ercultureandleisure.org/sepa-project/
Looking forward to the launch of Joke Book by @TessaBerring on Feb 11th @Good_Press - join us!!
The latest @paperboatswrite zine, edited by @CharltonLeonie and @karenlloydwrite is out! And I have a little sea gooseberry inside...paperboats.org/category/zines…
Really enjoyed this collection of ecstatic prose poems about seaweed by @SaskiadeRM on @OsmosisPress, here photographed next to some framed specimens. Ace artwork by @brihughespoet too!
A little book research update... thealicemccoshtrust.org.uk/Reports/2024%2…
This creative writing & the body workshop is next week! Still a couple of spots left and you can register for free here!
Join us for a Creative Writing Workshop for #PhysiologyWeek at @UofGlasgow! Open to everyone 18+, no science background needed! 📅 19 Nov, 11am-1pm 👩🏫 Led by @SaskiadeRM Free but ticketed—sign up! 👉 eventbrite.com/e/creative-wri… Thanks @Physoc! #SciArt #CreativeWriting
Join us @GlasgowZineLib next year as an intern!
We're hiring a fundraising intern to help us secure additional funding! We're working with @sgsah to offer a funded internship. Applicants must be a 2nd/3rd year PhD student in the Arts & Humanities, registered at a Scottish HEI Find out more + apply: sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/2025/…
After years of recommendations, finally made it to Leakey's second hand bookshop in Inverness!
Join us for a Creative Writing Workshop for #PhysiologyWeek at @UofGlasgow! Open to everyone 18+, no science background needed! 📅 19 Nov, 11am-1pm 👩🏫 Led by @SaskiadeRM Free but ticketed—sign up! 👉 eventbrite.com/e/creative-wri… Thanks @Physoc! #SciArt #CreativeWriting
Join me for a workshop on creative writing, physiology and the body, on 19th November @UofGWriting! 🦠🦵🧠👁️eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-wri…
Thank you @tweetbytheriver for publishing my little flash nonfiction piece!
'I opened the front door and cold light spilled across the floor. I held it there, waiting. But she did not come.' For @SaskiadeRM, worlds collide — briefly — in the hallway of a Glasgow tenement flat caughtbytheriver.net/2024/10/an-enc…
A new Oo print for sale. *riverever*, screenprint in turquoise on white, 42x29cm, run of 20. "[T]he waters of the rivers are those of the sky, and the waters of the sky are those of the river" (Ailton Krenak). £35 incl. postage anywhere. Buy at oo-press.com/poem-prints
Why not get my Edgehill prize listed collection Concrete Fields? Only 3 reasons per person please.
'I opened the front door and cold light spilled across the floor. I held it there, waiting. But she did not come.' For @SaskiadeRM, worlds collide — briefly — in the hallway of a Glasgow tenement flat caughtbytheriver.net/2024/10/an-enc…
Congratulations to the winners of the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2024! 💛✨
The winners of The Forward Prizes for Poetry 2024!
One of the highlights of researching underappreciated animals is having people sending me plenty of material like this🦇🐸🐌
My latest book Arthropod out in the wild.
Beautiful post of handbound books from @of_whilst