@onlybooyskies.bsky.social in Issue 4 of Hot Flash Literary!! Check out the whole story here: hotflashliterary.com/corresponden... #flashfiction #literary #instantkarma
Wendy BooydeGraaff
@onlybooyskies.bsky.social
Reader, writer, sporadic gardener, fair-weather biker, Can/Am, SALAD PIE pb author, THE HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA contributor, fiction & poems in various literary mags wendybooydegraaff.com
"Why are you here? her daughter said from the chaise. I’m going out to get the mail. Mail does not exist, the daughter said." Such unsettling writing from @onlybooyskies.bsky.social; love the way this one shifts.
Wendy BooydeGraaff@onlybooyskies.bsky.social · last wk.New story up today! hotflashliterary.com/corresponden...
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Correspondence - Hot Flash Literary
I’m going out to get the mail, she called, and no one responded. She put on the boots by the front door. The hydrangea drooped bloomy branches over the front step. Her clippers were in the shed. The b...
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“There’s something, he said, no one can quite tell what it is but you know, he said, you know both what it is and what to do about it.” @onlybooyskies.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social www.tinymolecules.com/issues/issue...
twenty-eight — Tiny Molecules
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Read Wendy BooydeGraaff’s @onlybooyskies.bsky.social poem, “After Lunch Surplus,” at www.sierranevadareview.com/wendy-booyde...
Love this experiment, and think over time (maybe months, years--a more longitudinal look) results would be interesting via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/what-happens...
What Happens When You Mail 30 Writers Free Lit Mags?
Here’s the thing about indie lit: it’s full of problems everyone complains about and almost nobody has the time, money, or spreadsheet stamina to solve. How can lit mags get more subscr…
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Fun read! Seven Literary Sins — The Dial www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Seven Literary Sins — The Dial
Bad habits and secret pleasures.
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Wow, this poem “This is Going to Be Great Television“Poems by Márton Simon — The Dial www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
Poems by Márton Simon — The Dial
Translated from Hungarian by Tímea Sipos and Ádám Dániel Németh.
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"Writing is hard because your human brain, the one that’s been running and updating the biological human survival software for roughly 200,000 years, is genuinely convinced that putting words on a page might kill you." -April Dávila lithub.com/why-writing-...
Why Writing Feels So Hard (and How to Make it Easier)
Let’s be honest about something: the fact that writing is hard has nothing to do with how talented you are, how many ideas you have, or how much you want to have finished your novel. Writing …
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Happy to have a poem included in Southword 50! Thank you @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social · 3mo agoHave you got your issue of Southword 50? It has now been restocked in Waterstones along with Roisin Leggett Bohans ‘We Fall We Carry’. These books and many others are available through our website- www.munsterlit.ie
Excited to see my flash "The Full Weight of Fridges" included in this special print issue! Thank you @thirteenbridges.bsky.social
Thirteen Bridges Review@thirteenbridges.bsky.social · 4mo agoCheck out our latest print issue, Thirteen Bridges Review! A selection of the best poetry and prose featured in Thirteen Bridges Review online. www.amazon.com/Thirteen-Bri...
"The health of a society can often be measured by the freedom of its books. Every society that has tried to control its people has started by controlling its books. And every society that has expanded freedom has done the opposite—it has expanded access to books." -Julie Finch tinyurl.com/yk2zp3f5
Why We Still Need Book Festivals
The health of a society can often be measured by the freedom of its books. Every society that has tried to control its people has started by controlling its books. And every society that has expand…
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On this fabulous Monday, we are featuring two Issue 32 poems by Wendy BooydeGraaff! @onlybooyskies.bsky.social Read her poems in Issue 32 today: rowanglassworks.org #GWIssue32 #WritingKicksGlass #LitMag #Poetry #AmWriting
Excited to receive a contributor copy of Alaska Quarterly Review— thank you AQR and editor Ronald Spatz
Looking forward to this issue, and happy to have a poem included!
The Sierra Nevada Review@sierranevadareview.com · 7mo agoComing March 1st
“Reviewing means evaluating, weighing, considering, judging—carefully, of course, and with an eye toward clarity and beauty…an important part of engaging in democracy,” Emily Greenhouse, the current editor of the New York Review of Books, told me” "reviewnaissance" www.cjr.org/feature/insi...
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A new generation tries its hand at publishing “the unusual, the difficult, the lengthy.”
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Love this poem in swamp pink by Benjamin Niespodziany swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/art...
Artificiality – swamp pink
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Americans already think like entrepreneurs. Almost half say they’ve had a specific idea for an entrepreneurial venture in the past year or see opportunities in the economy for such ideas. But they’re unsure how to proceed — only 35 percent would know where to go for help.
The Obvious Place to Get Started in Business is the Library. Here’s why…
Many people have business ideas, but no idea how to get started. That’s where the libraries step in!
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"...and if your worldview can be undone by a book, then I think that I understand why you’re concerned, but I also think the problem might not be with the book, but instead with the worldview." -John Green A very good and informative interview
PEN America@penamerica.bsky.social · 9mo agoBestselling author John Green's "Looking for Alaska" is the most frequently banned book since PEN America began counting in 2021. In a new interview, he tells us the dubious honor is both "strange" and "surreal." Read the full interview at: https://pen.org/john-green-interview/