To submit poetry or short fiction to a #litmag. That is the question. 🤣 Especially when you can only submit in one genre...
Kelly Esparza Is Agented Again!
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Mystery writer for adults & teens | poetry chapbook @bottlecappress | freelance editor | EIC: @flarelitmag.bsky.social 🔥| layout: Anahita Karthik | she/her | rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social @madwomanliterary.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/kellyesparza
📣Happy Disability Pride Month! 📣 If you buy a PRINT copy of my poetry chapbook about lupus, you’ll receive a free bookmark! Visit: kelly-esparza-merch-and-books.square.site to buy your copy! Free shipping worldwide and $10 per print book and $3.75 per digital PDF!
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"but angry girls are cool" by Kelly Esparza (@kellyesparza.bsky.social) genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/b...
but angry girls are cool – Kelly Esparza
we’re all just striving for equal rights, but it’s 2026, and society doesn’t like angry women or emotional girls. speaking out about our chronic illnesses makes us hypochondriacs. if we’re young, w…
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FLARE and Exclamation Mark Literary Journal's collab issue is OUT now! Go check it out here: flare-magazine.com/special-coll... Stay tuned for more details about the print version soon! . . . #litmags #disabilityawareness #mentalhealth #chronicillness
Kind of mind blown that I somehow sent over 100 emails in 3 days😂
🚨 And the collab issue stats are in!🚨 We received 175 pieces! Out of those, we have accepted 16 pieces, 14 creators! The digital issue will come out on Sat., June 27th, and more details are to come for the print version!
My boyfriend: I have about 2 more books to read, but I think I want to buy more now. Like a lot more. I want MORE. Me: 🥹 I’ve trained you well🤣
Our Flash 405: 2022 Issue features writings themed: ROUTINE & RITUAL, ESCAPE, INHERITANCE, & BURN: tinyurl.com/ExpoFlash22. @miagabb.bsky.social @angelines.bsky.social @kellyesparza.bsky.social @cherylskorysuma.bsky.social @sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social @jackbedell.bsky.social @lmariharris.bsky.social
Flash 405: 2022 Issue - Exposition Review
Flash 405 is Exposition Review’s multi-genre flash competition, awarding prizes and online publication to the winners. To celebrate these award-winning works, we’ve collected them together in our Flas...
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Some news! I wrote a short personal essay titled "Learning to Live" about living with lupus months ago, and today, it's published through the WhyNot platform for young voices like me. Read it here: I get paid for this one! 🥰
WhyNot | Learning to Live
I thought I’d pursue an editing career at a publishing house, keep up with my long-distance running, and live in an apartment once I moved back. However, life, as it does, has a knack for interrupting...
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‼️ Exclamation for and by the Disabled and Chronically Ill ‼️ is our theme for our June issue collab with Exclamation Mark Literary Journal! Check out some ideas we have about what we'd love to see when we open (very soon and keep your eyes peeled for THAT news)!
*hearing a sudden thunder and lightning storm* quick! Read! Write! Coziness is power! 🤣
Actual footage of me suddenly getting more ideas for the book I’m writing and writing all the ideas down as fast as I can😂 I really thought this next book would just be an adult mystery without speculative elements. Pshh what was I thinking?😂
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Found myself in the wild Kula botanical gardens in Maui, Hawaii.🌺 Updated author pic!
I wrote a poem about autism, chronic illness, and having needs that conflict with each other within one's own body. It was published in @wishbonewords.bsky.social, a literary magazine dedicated to the experiences of disabled folks. You can buy the magazine here: wishbonewords.com/magazine/iss...
Issue 16 | May 2026 – Wishbone Words
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My Success Story Interview through QueryTracker is LIVE! Go read it here: querytracker.net/offers/inter... for: #amquerying #writers
Kelly Esparza Success Story Interview | QueryTracker
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Psst...just a reminder that I do query letter critiques for $20 each. I have BAs in English and Creative Writing, 5 years of editing experience, and am agented myself. I'm trying to earn some $ for extra medical payments! ko-fi.com/c/86500be530
Query Letter Critiques
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*excited squeal* my bio and pic are up on the Mad Woman Literary Agency website🥰 #amagented
Kelly Esparza | Mad Woman Literary
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Shout out to the lady getting chemo who gave me a chocolate granola bar when I started my monthly lupus infusion today. It’s the little things that matter 💜
So excited to be working with Kelly on her adult and YA speculative mysteries! Editors, you’d better be ready for a ghostly good time soon! 👀👻
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨: I’m SO excited to announce that I’m officially represented by Alex Land (@alexbrownwrites.bsky.social) at @madwomanliterary.bsky.social, and I’m so happy to have a passionate person championing my YA and adult mysteries! 🤩🎉 (1/2)
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨: I’m SO excited to announce that I’m officially represented by Alex Land (@alexbrownwrites.bsky.social) at @madwomanliterary.bsky.social, and I’m so happy to have a passionate person championing my YA and adult mysteries! 🤩🎉 (1/2)
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨: I’m SO excited to announce that I’m officially represented by Alex Land (@alexbrownwrites.bsky.social) at @madwomanliterary.bsky.social, and I’m so happy to have a passionate person championing my YA and adult mysteries! 🤩🎉 (1/2)
Starling House X A House with Good Bones. THE GHOST OF BONGAON is a fantasy folk horror that follows a woman trapped in a fog-sealed village, where a sentient house and a resurrected boy force her to confront the evil she once unleashed. #questpit #h #a #q #litagents #amquerying #agentsguide
I have been told time and time again I shouldn’t run due to certain health issues. Especially when my chronic illness was unbearable, I didn’t know if I could ever return to it. Well, I did. I’m still not where I want to be, but I’m improving🥹 A LOT!
My birthday weekend is this weekend, and I'm sooo excited. Can it be Friday all readyyy? Pleeeease! I've got such a fun three days coming up!! 🎂
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