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Daniel Addercouth

@ruralunease.bsky.social

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Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you!

Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks Claudia! I'm glad you liked it!

Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks so much for the repost and for the kind words, Claudia! I'm so glad you liked this story.

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 1d

"Weeds grew out of the asphalt on the rubbish-strewn single street &the smell of diesel that used to permeate the village was gone.Water was almost topping the harbour wall,fishing boats sold off or scrapped."Powerful flash on sea level rise @ruralunease.bsky.social
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Managed Retreat

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations, Kate!

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks for asking. In terms of online magazines that specialise in poetry, I really like Basket and @rustandmoth.bsky.social, both of which I recently discovered.

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks for the tips! I don't know Iterant or Wildness, I'll be sure to check them out!

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Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social · 12d

Calling all poets 📣📢💥

Exploring Poetic Concepts and Forms - Online Poetry Workshop Series

In this friendly course, we will learn and try different approaches to writing poetry. Join the whole series or choose individual sessions.

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 12d

Writer friends: what are your favourite online poetry magazines?

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 13d

And the second prose poem here also deals with climate change:
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Daniel Addercouth — Does It Have Pockets

Beavers Will Save Paradise Fields | Give Us a Billion Bitcoin or Humanity is Doomed | Plausibility of Fact

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 13d

Here's one I wrote about sea level rise:
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Managed Retreat

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 16d

That's very exciting!

Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you!! 🙏

Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks so much for believing in my piece, Matt!

Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 16d

This is a huge honour and very exciting! Enormous thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for the nomination and for all he does to support other writers!

The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · 16d

And for the Haunting Award:

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Genrepunk Haunting Award Nominations. Daneil Addercouth, Linda Bayley, Susmita Bhattacharya

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 19d

Wow, congratulations James!

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks for the shout-out, James, that's so kind of you!

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James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 19d

‘I point to one dominated by reddish hues. “Is this anger?”

“No, that’s unsettlement,” Dad says, as if the answer is obvious.’

Just gorgeous from @ruralunease.bsky.social in @havehashad.com - love how that title looms large 🎨

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Acceptance by Daniel Addercouth

The first time I see the painting that I consider my father’s finest work is when I visit him to check how he’s doing, a month after my mother’s death. “I’ve painted a pentaptych to represent the f...

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 19d

Bless you, Amanda! Thanks for reading it! 🙏

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Attawoman @attawoman.bsky.social · 19d

I've only got around to reading this now. Well done! Now if you'll excuse me I have something in my eye.

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks so much for your kind words, Matt! I'd better get working on something!!

Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 22d

P.S. I always appreciate some good swearing in a story, this piece pulls that off brilliantly as well!

Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 22d

I'm a big fan of @emilyrinkema.bsky.social's writing and am always excited to see she has a new story published. This is another banger, great title too!

Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 23d

I have a new story in @okaydonkeymag.com and I am so excited about it! I hope you like it as much as I do! okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/19/1...

13.1 Septillion Pounds by Emily Rinkema

To help her sleep, we give the baby a basketball, a full-size regulation ball that my husband, CT, puts in her crib one night. He writes her name on it with a black Sharpie, bold letters like they …

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Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social · 27d

The programme for this year's Bookmark Blairgowrie book festival. A really excellent, high quality book festival in the heart of Perthshire. This year feat. @seanluskauthor.bsky.social @linanderson.bsky.social @billykayscot.bsky.social @florajowriter.bsky.social and many others. Well worth a visit.

The programme for this year's Bookmark book festival in Blairgowrie, 4-5 October. Tickets www.bookmarkblair.com

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Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks to @seanluskauthor.bsky.social for introducing me to this great writer!

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