‘The Maple Moon Podcast’ is my podcast offshoot from my Substack, but episodes are available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube! open.spotify.com/show/7s2JU5n... #Podcast #Literature #Newsletter #Art #Books #Substack

““Perhaps Emerald Fennell has mistaken the Victorian term “ejaculate”, meaning to exclaim, for cumming?!” open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

This essay is right! Wayne Holloway-Smith needs to step down as editor of The Poetry Review. The pages of that magazine are bland and exactly the same. Every poem I’ve ever sent has been rejected when it would provide some variety to the noise! open.substack.com/pub/vamoul/p...

On Fiverr, I am offering my beta reading services for SHORT STORIES and POETRY. Short Stories: www.fiverr.com/courtenaywri... Poetry: www.fiverr.com/courtenaywri... #BetaReader #ShortStories #Poetrt #WritingCommunity

I am also offering my services for poetry COLLECTIONS! Do you need help with cohesion and order? I’m your girl! #BetaReader #Fiverr #Poetry www.fiverr.com/s/o8yEyDG?ut...

I am now offering my services on Fiverr! I will BETA read your poem(s)! The higher tiers include specific recommendations of where to submit, detailed reports, and thorough analysis. www.fiverr.com/courtenaywri... #Poetry #Fiverr #BetaReader

What is the point in this website if I can’t use the DM feature?

I am now offering my services on Fiverr! I will BETA read your poem(s)! The higher tiers include specific recommendations of where to submit, detailed reports, and thorough analysis. www.fiverr.com/courtenaywri... #Poetry #Fiverr #BetaReader

“Now, I respect the verse of G K Chesterton, but what I cannot abide by is his wretched sonnet to one of the most offensive cheeses of all: Stilton (otherwise known as ‘armpit slough’).” #Cheese #Humour #OpenLetter #Food open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

“Outside was brutally quiet, pierced only by the tender song of snowdrops falling to the ground. There was a twin to each arm of Mr. Saturn, whose feet were flayed by the tarmac.” #Fiction #ShortStory #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

It’s my golden birthday today. I’m turning twenty-eight on the 28th of May! 🎂⭐️🌝

🎭 Here’s an exclusive clip from my debut as a playwright last year with The Short List MCR. 🎭 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘The Change’ @salfordartstheatre.bsky.social 2024) - • dir. Amanda Fleming / Jonathon Carley • Starring Rebecca-Clare Evans and Nikola Bartosova #playwright #theatre #theatrelife #livetheatre

🎭 Here’s an exclusive clip from my debut as a playwright last year with The Short List MCR. 🎭 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘The Change’ @salfordartstheatre.bsky.social 2024) - • dir. Amanda Fleming / Jonathon Carley • Starring Rebecca-Clare Evans and Nikola Bartosova #playwright #theatre #theatrelife #livetheatre

The Ambition Bird: Fiona Larkin and The Poetry Society courtenayscorner.com/2025/03/27/t...

The Ambition Bird: Fiona Larkin and The Poetry Society courtenayscorner.com/2025/03/27/t...

We all (rightly) talk of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, but I see barely anyone discuss her other masterpiece, Mathilda. open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

Have you read Leduc’s ‘The Lady and the Little Fox Fur’? 🦊 open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

With a reading by the author, check out my third-place winning poem, Where Flowers Give Birth to Snow. 🏆⭐️ “I am dragged back into catatonia / eyes bouncing; marbles of worlds.” #Poetry #WritingCommunity courtenayscorner.com/2025/03/01/t...

I came third in London Writer’s Salon Hour Contest’ ‘Roots’ themed competition with my poem, Where Flowers Give Birth to Snow! 🏆⭐️ open.substack.com/pub/writersh...

Last year, I wrote an in-depth, academic article on Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’. As someone who didn’t go to university (and dropped out of sixtg form), I didn’t have previud experience with citations, but they are included here. #GoblinMarket #Poetry open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

Every Valentine’s Day, I giggle at the fact James Joyce had such a fierce fart fetish. His letters to Nora Barnacle are something to behold! 💨

On this day, in 1963, we lost one of the greatest minds in poetry. Sylvia Plath’s poem, Elm, featured in a dream I had the other night, so I figured it appropriate.

“Going back to Imogen Wade’s winning poem, I recognise that the topic is of course terrifying, but that fear is (in my opinion) not shown throughout the poem.” #LiteraryCriticism #Poetry open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

Trying to become a famous poet is a lot harder than I thought: open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

A HUGE thank you to @anthro_poetry @charliebaylis6 for publishing my poem, Breastplate, in Anthropocene. It is a response to a photograph (by Lee Miller) which shows a severed breast (post-mastectomy) on a white dinner plate. #Poetry #WritingCommunity

A HUGE thank you to @anthro_poetry @charliebaylis6 for publishing my poem, Breastplate, in Anthropocene. It is a response to a photograph (by Lee Miller) which shows a severed breast (post-mastectomy) on a white dinner plate. #Poetry #WritingCommunity

Poetry Postmortem #10 concerns Dylan Thomas’ ‘Love in the Asylum’ open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

I believe (I think) I’ve found an old case of plagiarism in poetry?! I wrote this quote down from James Henry: “The human skull is of deceit / As full any egg of meat,” in my commonplace, but as I was researching, this quote by Mercutio in R + J appeared. Thoughts?!

Who gets to be a critic and why? Why was Louise Glück’s arrogance accepted? These are just some of the features pertaining to my essay, Born to Judge: themaplemoon.substack.com/p/born-to-ju...

On Boxing Day I will be taking you through how I wrote my poem, We Left the Garden, originally published by Eunoia Review: themaplemoon.substack.com

Check out my Sestina over at Libre Lit! www.librelit.com/issue-two/se...

AI poetry is a hot topic right now, so I wrote about it! open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

Read my poem, Red Eye! open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

As a Boltonian, I do enjoy a glottal stop: “I’m going t’ shop, does tha’ wan’ owt?”

“A spaceman came travelling on a ship from afar. It was light years of time before his mission did start…” open.substack.com/pub/themaple...

Today I wrote a Sonnet inspired by this piece of work by Jannis Kounellis! ✂️

Fun Fact: If you didn’t know already by my middle name, I am 1/4 Maltese! 🇲🇹

A dream of my career would be to have Frank Skinner read my work and talk about it on his podcast.

4th Song from 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman (making love to marilyn monroe: the faber book of blue verse)

I've made an Amazon Wishlist for anyone who would like to / can support my writing in a different way! 📖 www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/...

My brother is days old, but I am determined to foster a love of Literature.

My last poetry collection come out was ‘The Maggot on Maple Street’. If you’re at all interested, click the link! courtenayscorner.com/books/

This is certainly a first from The London Magazine…👀💫

For Arlan

I became a big sister this morning; to a little brother (we share a father). ARLAN is a Scorpio Sun, Gemini Moon, and Libra Rising! 💫

Barney ⭐️

“The memory of the egg-rolling engulfed the heart of the poem, which is a rather dark fable on mental illness. My opposing a pleasant memory with allusions of a severed head rolling down a hill illustrates the strict dichotomies of depression.” themaplemoon.substack.com/p/how-i-wrot...

They should rename writer’s block “Linguipation” (linguistically constipated).

I do have a Substack if you’d like to become a free / paid subscriber! (£6 pm / £30 py) dhttps://open.substack.com/pub/themaplemoon/p/poetry-postmortem-9?r=k9fyk&utm_medium=ios