Richard Skinner
@richardnskinner.bsky.social
Writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction & poetry. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine.
Most recent publication: ‘Undercurrents’ (Essays) (Broken Sleep Books, 2025).
Most recent publication: ‘Undercurrents’ (Essays) (Broken Sleep Books, 2025).
November 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
As part of a new essay, I’m writing about the novelisation of the movie ‘The Deer Hunter’, specifically the choices EM Corder made regarding scene order and length. Characterisation is pretty much the same but the dialogue is slightly different. Fascinating.
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
As part of a new essay, I’m writing about the novelisation of the movie ‘The Deer Hunter’, specifically the choices EM Corder made regarding scene order and length. Characterisation is pretty much the same but the dialogue is slightly different. Fascinating.
That’s ’The Carbon Arc’ well and truly launched In Manchester. Thanks as ever to Helen and her team at the mighty Impiety Hour bookshop for stocking and selling Vanguard’s books. Farewell Manchester until next time!
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
That’s ’The Carbon Arc’ well and truly launched In Manchester. Thanks as ever to Helen and her team at the mighty Impiety Hour bookshop for stocking and selling Vanguard’s books. Farewell Manchester until next time!
A sensational review of ‘The Carbon Arc’ in this month’s Sight & Sound magazine! Amazing!
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November 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A sensational review of ‘The Carbon Arc’ in this month’s Sight & Sound magazine! Amazing!
Copies available here! richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
Copies available here! richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
📢 Manchester folk! 📢
Next Wednesday is the launch of ‘The Carbon Arc’, a new collection of 16 commissioned essays on cinema published by Vanguard Editions. The launch will take place at the fabulous Impiety Hour bookshop. Free entry!
Books for sale on the night, pay bar, film clips. Join us!
Next Wednesday is the launch of ‘The Carbon Arc’, a new collection of 16 commissioned essays on cinema published by Vanguard Editions. The launch will take place at the fabulous Impiety Hour bookshop. Free entry!
Books for sale on the night, pay bar, film clips. Join us!
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📢 Manchester folk! 📢
Next Wednesday is the launch of ‘The Carbon Arc’, a new collection of 16 commissioned essays on cinema published by Vanguard Editions. The launch will take place at the fabulous Impiety Hour bookshop. Free entry!
Books for sale on the night, pay bar, film clips. Join us!
Next Wednesday is the launch of ‘The Carbon Arc’, a new collection of 16 commissioned essays on cinema published by Vanguard Editions. The launch will take place at the fabulous Impiety Hour bookshop. Free entry!
Books for sale on the night, pay bar, film clips. Join us!
Good writing isn’t about copying the world around you, it’s about creating something out of nothing.
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
October 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Good writing isn’t about copying the world around you, it’s about creating something out of nothing.
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
As those who know me well will know, @sarumcollege.bsky.social has been an amazing force in my life for a while now, so I was delighted and very humbled to accept an invitation from them to teach a one-day poetry workshop. Details aren’t up on the website yet but here is a taster.
October 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
As those who know me well will know, @sarumcollege.bsky.social has been an amazing force in my life for a while now, so I was delighted and very humbled to accept an invitation from them to teach a one-day poetry workshop. Details aren’t up on the website yet but here is a taster.
I left Sarum College this morning and carried on down the Exeter railway line to Yeovil Junction, where I got off and made my way to East Coker. Went to St Michael and All Angels Church and paid homage to my poetry master T.S. Eliot. I read the following words there and left.
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I left Sarum College this morning and carried on down the Exeter railway line to Yeovil Junction, where I got off and made my way to East Coker. Went to St Michael and All Angels Church and paid homage to my poetry master T.S. Eliot. I read the following words there and left.
So good to see ‘The Carbon Arc’ & ‘The Hinge of a Metaphor’ nestled alongside Tarkovsky in the library @sarumcollege.bsky.social 🤩
October 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
So good to see ‘The Carbon Arc’ & ‘The Hinge of a Metaphor’ nestled alongside Tarkovsky in the library @sarumcollege.bsky.social 🤩
Reading for an essay on lucid dreaming.
October 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Reading for an essay on lucid dreaming.
Another late flurry of photos… These are from the Gladstone Library in North Wales, Plymouth, London and on the road somewhere between Oxford and Margate. Thanks Emma, Lesley, Evalyn & Sophia.
Launch in Margate tomorrow!
Launch in Margate tomorrow!
October 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Another late flurry of photos… These are from the Gladstone Library in North Wales, Plymouth, London and on the road somewhere between Oxford and Margate. Thanks Emma, Lesley, Evalyn & Sophia.
Launch in Margate tomorrow!
Launch in Margate tomorrow!
Come along to the launch of this fabulous new book of essays on cinema! Besides our four fabulous readers, there is exclusive work inside by Jonathan Coe, Rob Doyle, Wendy Erskine, Maria Fusco, Nicholas Royle & many others. You can purchase your copy here: richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
October 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Come along to the launch of this fabulous new book of essays on cinema! Besides our four fabulous readers, there is exclusive work inside by Jonathan Coe, Rob Doyle, Wendy Erskine, Maria Fusco, Nicholas Royle & many others. You can purchase your copy here: richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
When I revived 14 magazine in 2020 and revamped its design, I was always looking forward to the time when there were enough covers to create different mosaics of colour, like Raster-Noton albums or Mondrian paintings. After 5 years, that’s finally the case. Just look at those gorgeous colour pops.
September 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
When I revived 14 magazine in 2020 and revamped its design, I was always looking forward to the time when there were enough covers to create different mosaics of colour, like Raster-Noton albums or Mondrian paintings. After 5 years, that’s finally the case. Just look at those gorgeous colour pops.
Just 11 days ago, I found myself in Paris when I heard the news of Robert Redford’s passing. Thanks so much to Andrew Gallix for publishing my reaction to watching Ordinary People again.
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ordinary...
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ordinary...
September 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Just 11 days ago, I found myself in Paris when I heard the news of Robert Redford’s passing. Thanks so much to Andrew Gallix for publishing my reaction to watching Ordinary People again.
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ordinary...
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ordinary...
The more of yourself you put into your writing, the more invisible you become.
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The more of yourself you put into your writing, the more invisible you become.
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
#StartToWrite @faber_academy
Thanks to all who sent in these wonderful photos from around the world! If you’d like to pick up your orange copy of 14, details below.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Thanks to all who sent in these wonderful photos from around the world! If you’d like to pick up your orange copy of 14, details below.
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Even more photos rolling in! From London, London, Southampton & Pennsylvania. 🙏
September 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Even more photos rolling in! From London, London, Southampton & Pennsylvania. 🙏
‘If you can’t feel pain, then you’re not going to feel anything else either.’
Absolute masterpiece.
Absolute masterpiece.
September 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
‘If you can’t feel pain, then you’re not going to feel anything else either.’
Absolute masterpiece.
Absolute masterpiece.
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! Come & hear 14 amazing poets read their amazing poems from 14 magazine and more!
Sunday 12th October at the amazing Turner Contemporary in Margate!
These launches for 14 magazine tend to sell out so grab your ticket while you can!
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Sunday 12th October at the amazing Turner Contemporary in Margate!
These launches for 14 magazine tend to sell out so grab your ticket while you can!
www.margatebookie.com/big-weekend/...
September 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up! Come & hear 14 amazing poets read their amazing poems from 14 magazine and more!
Sunday 12th October at the amazing Turner Contemporary in Margate!
These launches for 14 magazine tend to sell out so grab your ticket while you can!
www.margatebookie.com/big-weekend/...
Sunday 12th October at the amazing Turner Contemporary in Margate!
These launches for 14 magazine tend to sell out so grab your ticket while you can!
www.margatebookie.com/big-weekend/...
Saturday morning.
September 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Saturday morning.
Laissez-vous rêver en route à Paris.
September 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Laissez-vous rêver en route à Paris.
Brilliant folk in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Brighton, St Albans & Shipley, West Yorkshire sent in these brilliant photos. Please keep ‘em coming! 🙏
September 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Brilliant folk in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Brighton, St Albans & Shipley, West Yorkshire sent in these brilliant photos. Please keep ‘em coming! 🙏
Photos incoming from further afield now, from Leadgate, County Durham; Waterford and from the beaches of Tramore, Co Waterford & Liverpool. Wonderful. 🙏
September 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Photos incoming from further afield now, from Leadgate, County Durham; Waterford and from the beaches of Tramore, Co Waterford & Liverpool. Wonderful. 🙏
