thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/death-is-a... Remembering #GlenHansard and thinking about the lives we'll leave behind.
The Lives We'll Leave Behind
on Glen Hansard and remembrance
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Beth Kephart
@bethkephart.bsky.social
Writer, paper artist, teacher, believer in the good that will one day overcome, National Book Award finalist, and a Substacker (The Hush and the Howl). Due in April 2025, Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News, with Tursulowe Press.
What is the ideal sentence and how do we write it? A recording of my Craft Talk on the topic, celebrating the work of many beloved writers, some prompts, and some ideals is now on sale here: writingcraft.com/event/the-id...
August REPLAY | The Ideal Sentence: Your Voice, Your Tone, Your Pace - Craft Talks
Every beginning sets a tone, establishes a voice, and signals the quality of the language that is to come. Your beginning is one of your most important writing choices--learn to make it powerful.
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Gratefully announcing the almost release of MUD ANGELS, a picture book illustrated by the great Florentine painter #RobertoInnocenti and published by #CreativeEditions, with words by me. The story of this book's inception is here, on my Substack: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/when-the-d...
Thank you so much, LIT Magazine, for featuring three of my muslin monoprints in your gorgeous issue 43. www.litmagazine.org/lit-43-summe...
Writing arrives when you're not looking. So true. Sometimes alarming. Thank you, @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/do-we-chas... #writingcommunity #writinglife #authorlife
Do we chase what we wish for—
or make room for it to make room for us?
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Bill and I are returning to the Winterthur craft show, July 17 - July 19. In addition to Bill's exquisite clay, Kephart Keepers, 9 x 12 paper and thread art, and one-of-a-kind cards, I'll be selling art quilts built out of my monoprinted, cyanotyped, and marbled fabric pieces. #artquilts #Winterthur
So very grateful to have a prose poem called "Black" featured in the gorgeous literary magazine, UNBROKEN, an @ambidexbloodhound.bsky.social Press publication. www.theunjournals.com/unbroken50
Unbroken | Issue 50 | Summer 2026
Prose poems for y'all.
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Thoughts on beauty, age, resilience, and rain, on today's substack thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/when-in-th...
When in the Morning—
on regret and resilience
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Huge congratulations to @bethkephart.bsky.social for such a well-deserved award. With great thanks to #ForewordReview for recognizing Beth's work and Peggy's story.
Such gratitude. And to @tursulowepress.bsky.social, without whom this book would not exist. #PhiladelphiaStory #novel #awardwinning #ForewordReview #EditorsChoice
So grateful to The Core Review of @forkapplepress.bsky.social, for including two pieces of my Visual Poetics in their newest wonderful issue, including Burst Pipes: \https://forkapplepress.com/the-core-review/issue-4/burst-pipes
Burst Pipes — Fork Apple Press
BETH KEPHART
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Late last year I learned that My Life in Paper was a finalist in the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award. Last night I received this beautiful crystal piece to hold the memory of this enormously generous honor. I will treasure this. Forever.
Sometimes the work we make is not work that is ready to be shared with the world. This week, I was chastened by that discovery. Meditations on #time in #creativepursuits. Meditations on #humility. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/time-does-...
Time Does Tell
excruciating, liberating truths
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This coming Sunday, Bill and I will be setting up our Bind Arts booth for the first time this year in the heart of Bryn Mawr, PA, with the Clover Market, selling framed fabric squares and handmade books and Kephart Keepers and Bill’s amazing clay. #craftshow #bindarts @clovermarket.bsky.social
Blessed to be in community with #SuleikaJaouad and #JenniferGarner on the remarkably wholesome and whole-making #TheIsolationJournals on #Mother’sDay, with a piece I wrote about my mother and the giving of gifts. theisolationjournals.substack.com/p/mama-was-r...
Mama Was Right
On gifts that reveal themselves over time
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Old drafts return us to ourselves, and especially so when we are in some ways feeling empty. #writing #olddrafts #revision #picturebooks thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/there-i-wa...
There I was, alive in me
old drafts are old friends
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'Old drafts remind us what is in us.' When we no longer feel like ourselves, how we might find our way back. @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/there-i-wa... #creativity #writinglife #authorlife #writingtips
There I was, alive in me
old drafts are old friends
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So very grateful to be a featured artist in Spring 2026 issue of The Indianapolis Review. theindianapolisreview.com
This is something I used to do as a child. Why is that word what it is? I would concentrate on its sound qualities, as though it were a tune. Who decided its tone and shape? This is a grown-up version @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/amateur-ne... #writinglife #authorlife
Our Books of Words
in which my son and I define ourselves as we define our words (and Kory Stamper!)
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Celebrating #indiebookstores and #korystamper and #truecolor, and celebrating, too, a new word-centric tradition I have begun with my son: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/amateur-ne...
Our Books of Words
in which my son and I define ourselves as we define our words (and Kory Stamper!)
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Thoughts on procrastination, weeding, and art. Because it's spring. And there are gardens ... and neighbors. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-fine-a...
The fine art of procrastination
in a manicured neighborhood, I remain the apologetic outlier
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A song for the simple and regenerative broom. A hope for a renewal, coming. #huskbroom #broom #sweeping #renewal thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/i-stand-he...
I Stand Here Sweeping
Imagining a world swept clean
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Bill is at work (as he will be for quite a while now) on the illustrations that will accompany our upcoming Juncture Workshop Series. I love this one. I love them all. We hope you will consider joining us. junctureworkshops.com/shop-6/#shop
An IMAGE intensive with in-depth manuscript reviews, upcoming. #creativenonfiction #memoir #writingworkshop
"Lightning Strikes" is a finalist in the Cleaver Magazine visual poetics contest. More about all the finalists here: www.cleavermagazine.com/poetry/ #visualpoetics #CleaverMagazine
An exquisite learning opportunity for writers seeking to connect language and love for our environment. It's free. It's all part of the Buried Creek Collective initiative . Learn more here: buriedcreekcollective.com @buriedcreek @stephanie.feldman
Buried Creek Collective
Fostering creative climate resilience for Greater Philadelphia
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Does insomnia reveal or shield our truest self? I wonder about that, here. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/insomnia
Insomnia
when exhaustion reveals the person you might be
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This is what we all need today. There is so much difficulty in the world. We're each trying to stay afloat in forces that are overwhelming. We need this art that restores our deep inner spaces @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/when-nobil...
This is what art does
When nobility suggests itself within a broken world
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