Wildly excited for this night of Florida lit at P & T Knitwear on July 1, with @kristenarnett.bsky.social, @kaylakumari.bsky.social, Gabriella Burnham, & Lynn Steger Strong. You can get your tickets right here: www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-ni...
not to sound like a woman in 1951 but it’s so annoying that I can’t get paid to play tennis
why is my letterboxd literally always giving she’s unwell your honor
@kaylakumari.bsky.social on how playing tennis helped manage her competitive tendencies while writing: “I do get frustrated at myself when I’m losing.”
How Tennis Helped Me Manage the Competitive Beast That Was Ruining My Writing
I’m in a tennis losing streak. The last three singles matches I played, I lost. Badly. For each match, I know why I lost and what I need to work on. That doesn’t make the losses any less frustratin…
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When you randomly find a book you illustrated for the amazing writer, @kaylakumari.bsky.social, at an amazing place like The Nook on Robinson in the Milk District. #orlando
It was great to catch up with @kaylakumari.bsky.social and listen to her wife, the incredibly talented @kristenarnett.bsky.social, discuss the craft of writing accurate depictions of clowning, grief, and Florida.
i’m doing signed preorders for STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE with The Lynx (real florida moves) and i’ll draw anything you want in there!!!!!!!! clown it up, it’s your time to shine (and my time to sign) thelynxbooks.com/item/ZoOPMvN...
Stop Me If You've Heard This One
A Novel
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amateur women’s tennis is incredible. watched two women almost get in a fist fight over a line call today. 10/10
🎶to the tune of For Good🎶 I do believe I have been changed for the 🔫 WORST
Day 9 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @kaylakumari.bsky.social against the myth of the solitary writer mailchi.mp/27d5b5a60194... @writingco-lab.bsky.social
I’m sure there’s no “right” way to grieve a dog but why is my way to start roasting a whole duck at 6pm on a school night (and started prep at 6am)
I just woke up from a dream in which I tweeted “my toxic trait is that I’m positive all I’d need is a 10 minute conversation with Ariana Grande to convince her to let me ghostwrite her memoir” and you know what…….tea
took a galley trip through central florida and all anyone got to show for it was my new book, beautiful friendship, and some clown noses www.autostraddle.com/we-took-a-ga...
We Did a Bookstore Crawl Through Florida, and You Should Too!
There’s more to this place than theme parks and beaches.
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I’m teaching a craft intensive on writing freaky essays with Tin House this month and would appreciate if you could spread the worddddd https://tinhouse.com/product/winter-craft-intensive-kayla-kumari-upadhyaya/
they said it* couldn’t be done *dressing like slutty Dominic Toretto for my wife’s bowling birthday party
can’t wait for my wife and I to ditch my family on Christmas Day to go see Babygirl and use the excuse of it being the anniversary of when Kristen proposed
most opponents I encounter are great but the terrible sportsmanship in a certain flavor of white suburban women who play competitive tennis in central florida makes the mean girls in high school tennis seem harmless
this is a psa that you can start your indoor herb garden today and have fresh herbs for cocktails and cooking at holiday dinner parties for the rest of the year and wouldn’t that be so NEAT!!!!! learn about apartment/small space indoor gardening from DAD LESSONS!!!!
Kristen Arnett@kristenarnett.bsky.social · 2y agoalso guess what? it’s never a day off for dad, so i’ve gone ahead and given you another dad lesson in urban gardening, let’s learn to grow something!!!!! kristenarnett.substack.com/p/dad-lesson...
ah yes it’s that time of year when my husband suddenly becomes an expert in dog breeds while watching the The National Dog Show presented by Purina
at the risk of sounding like a desperate loser, I am available for awp readings 🤪