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Rachel Turney

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Writer in Residence - NKollectiv (Denver)
Book - Retired Wannabe Club Kid
Founder - Poetry (in Brief) @poetryinbrief
AWP Poetry Mentor

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Do yourselves a favor and read Rachel Turney's Record Player Life!

@turneytalks by @turneytalks

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Upcoming free events!

10/17 @pikespeakzinefest I'll be tabeling at Pikes Peak Zine Fest - say hi!

@oldfirehousebooks Creative Writing Group guest host 10/21 in Fort Collins, CO 📚 ✍🏼 6-7:30pm

10/24 Poetry (in Brief) Issue II: Body goes live on TurneyTalks.com ONLINE @poetryinbrief

10/24 Online Zoom events: noon CSTPoetry (in Brief) Horror(ible) Women - a spooky reading! & 1pm CST Three Women. Three Books. Queer Edition. - a celebration of recently published books. Both events are free, live on Zoom. Join from my website TurneyTalks.com ONLINE

11/7 I am hosting a session about identity writing at Zine Librarians Unconference @zineluc - this unconference is held online and has free registration options. zinelibraries.info

11/25 I'll be hosting Trident Women's Writing Group in Boulder, CO 6-7:30pm by @turneytalks

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In September, Zach and I made our annual pilgrimage to New York City ... the greatest city in the world. (Followed swiftly by Tokyo.) We had great success in entering Broadway lotteries and with some super deals during Broadway Week. This is my epic run of 19 shows in 17 days!

I enjoyed everything! I'm a theatre nerd, as you may have guessed. I am also working on a play about my brother and family bonds, which I hope will be my next great adventure. Send tips and places to submit a short play. 🙏🏼 🎭 ☕ by @turneytalks

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Save the date: Two weeks from today! 10/24 live and free on Zoom...

Poetry (in Brief), the reading series, returns from our summer break with Horror(ible) Women live on October 24th at Noon CST on Zoom. Let our invited readers scare you and then join in if you like and share your own micro-horror (open to all persons) during our short open mic! We are partnering with The Morgue Literary Magazine for this one ghouls!
(Invited readers announced on @poetryinbrief)

After Poetry (in Brief), on the same Zoom link, we will host a special Three Women. Three Books. at 1 p.m. CST. Help us celebrate books launched this year by: Jhané, K.M. Hanslik, & L. Rose! 🥂

Both recordings will be on our YOUTUBE channel if you can’t make it live. Our events always run less than one hour fyi. by @turneytalks

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During my annual pilgrimage to NYC I found homes for some of my projects! Thank you to @codexbooks for stocking my zines: Women Making Soup Together and After (a new project). Village Works carries Women Making Soup Together and my book Record Player Life (the b-side). I also traded a copy of my debut poetry and shorts collection for a jar of pickles over at @sweetpicklebooks ! 🥒 😋 Huge thanks to @quimbysbookstorenyc for stocking my zine and my last hardback copy from the first print run of Retired Wannabe Club Kid. The books can also be found in Poets House, a poetry library. @poets_house ❤️ 📚

It's an honor and joy to share these collections in a city with such limited space! Thank you to all of those above for giving my little projects a chance in The Big City! @thepoetrylighthouse @parlyaree by @turneytalks

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I am grateful to announce that Record Player Life (the b-side) and Retired Wannabe Club Kid will appear in the Poets House 2026 Showcase this winter! Thanks to Leo and team! @poets_house @thepoetrylighthouse @parlyaree

Women Making Soup Togehter has also been added to the expansive and inspiring chapbook collection. 📚

I receive unconditional support from my number one fan and legally binded partner lol, Zach Stewart. Here we are with the cover I shot of him on The Fool’s World, which we found in Poets House! @thefools.world taken in Poets House by @turneytalks

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One year ago The Poetry Lighthouse announced their first cohort of published authors! This was the first book I ever submitted and the first press I submitted to! I haven’t been as lucky since lol, but this book was clearly meant for The Poetry Lighthouse. Record Player Life (the b-side), a collection of poetry and shorts, is about daily life, slowing down, the mundane reimagined through surrealism, travel, love, and music (and also murder lol). Order the book through your local bookstore or request it to be stocked at your library. Thank you for all of the amazing support for my first collection. It means a lot to have friends and family jump into my odd little mind. 🧠

What an honor to be published alongside Sofia Perez with her beautiful translated poetry (French and English), Emilie Galindo with her unique take on Earthly observations, and Pat Farrington with her contemplative nature collection.
@wildthingxumakeverythingroovy
@s_a_b_l_e_r_o_s_e
@thepoetrylighthouse

The Poetry Lighthouse has started releasing their second cohort of authors! Keep an eye out for those collections and into 2027 for new global poetry!

Reviewers: message me for a digital review copy. 👍🏼 by @turneytalks

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A huge thanks to Village Works for stocking my books in the greatest city in the world. It's a dream come true. I had a really nice chat with them about reclaiming spaces which is what my chapbook Women Making Soup Together is all about. I dropped off Record Player Life (the b-side) about daily life and the now, too. How I got to NYC without more copies of Club Kid is evidence of my amazing chaos lol. My art sees your art, Village Works. ❤️ 🍎 📚 😁 🙏🏼 taken in Village Works by @turneytalks

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One year ago 9/18/25 my second poetry collection found love and acceptance at her perfect home: Parlyaree Press! This is an unusual collection, and I scoured the indie scene to find the right fit. I couldn’t be happier with the opportunity and attention Andrew Baker and his team have given this little weirdo collection of autobiographical EDM poems and shorts about my previous life as an international party girl. @parlyaree 🪩 🎵 🌎

Thank you to all who answered my call to get the book into your local library. Please ask a librarian how to request that Retired Wannabe Club Kid be stocked at your library. This is important because the book deals with divergent topics and rejection of labels. I hope that in sharing my story, other little lost odds will find that they are not alone.

Thank you also to all of those who have reviewed the collection. If you have the time to leave a quick GoodReads, Amazon, StoryGraph review that is very helpful because that exposure supports the press and me.

Big shout-outs to:
The Morgue Literary Magazine, who interviewed me about this book. Read the interview in the awesome graphic collection: Autopsy Four.
Thanks to Dipity Literary for featuring the book on their 2026 Fall Reading List.
Umbrella Factory Magazine for the feature.
Dear Booze for printing pieces from this collection.
@dear_booze
@dipitylitmag
@themorguemag
@umbrellafactorymagazine

Also thanks to the bookshops who have ordered and stocked this collection - among them:
Trident @tridentboulder
Lakeside @lakesidebookslg
Little Blue Pigeon @littlebluepigeonbooks
Westside @westsidebooksdenver
Old FIrehouse @oldfirehousebooks
Boulder Bookshop @boulderbookstore for Reading Den event @reading__den
Inkberry @inkberrybooks
NKollectiv @nkollectiv

Thank you all, and may you always be in the music.
-The Kid 🥂 🍾

The book is available in hardback and softcover. If you are interested in writing a review for a literary magazine, please contact me for a digital ARC. by @turneytalks

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We are pleased to announce that our EIC Rachel Turney is serving as an AWP Poetry Mentor this season! @awpwriter @turneytalks

Poetry (in Brief) is also attending AWP 2027 in Chicago! See you there.

Save the date for our reading at Quimby's Chicago on March 18th in the evening. @quimbysbookstore

📚 🐛 ❤️ 🍏 by @turneytalks

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✨Welcome to Behind the Draft–a series where I sit down with writers to talk about the realities of writing, querying, publishing, and the stories that keep them going!

For my next spotlight interview, I’m elated to feature the hilarious and iconic @turneytalks 🫶🏻

✍🏻About Rachel
Rachel Turney, Ed.D. (she/her) is the Writer in Residence (2026) at NKollectiv in Englewood, Colorado and runs the Trident Women’s Writing Group in Boulder. She is a poetry mentor with the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Rachel is passionate about immigrant rights, teacher support, and empowering other artists. She is a Writers’ Hour prize winner and has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best Microfiction. Rachel is the founder of the popular online reading series Poetry (in Brief) and EIC of PiB (the Magazine). She is on staff at Bare Back Magazine with her monthly column Friday Night in the Suburbs. She reads for The Los Angeles Review. Her debut poetry collection, Record Player Life (the b-side), is available with The Poetry Lighthouse. Her second poetry book, Retired Wannabe Club Kid, is out now with Parlyaree Press

📖 Currently Promoting: Record Player Life (the b-side) & Retired Wannabe Club Kid
Record Player Life (the b-side) spins through the intimate, the strange, and the deeply human. Like the unexpected songs on the reverse side of a beloved album, these poems surprise, unsettle, and linger.
Retired Wannabe Club Kid features an expansive collection of poems spanning decades and continents, all celebrating the power of music, parties, and the night.
If you like poetry about genuine human experience please go buy Record Player Life (the b-side) & Retired Wannabe Club Kid. Check out Rachel’s website to keep up with all her latest poetry news.

🎤Interested in being featured on Behind the Draft? Click the link in my bio and fill out my author interest form! Whether you’re working on a manuscript, navigating the querying trenches, self-published, traditionally published, or anywhere in between, I’d love to chat about your writing journey and help share your work with fellow readers and writers. by @turneytalks

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The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 protects equids as living historical symbols. The wild horses pictured here are the living art of the Wyoming landscape. Art is all around us, and this photograph captures interacting with and protecting life and art as inseparable concepts.

Our first Art Wednesday by @turneytalks!

https://sundaymorningmag.neocities.org/art_wednesday/wyoming by @turneytalks

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