"The peach pit in my stomach cracks open." This is a piece only @willmusgrove.bsky.social could've written! Loneliness and the need to be seen in "Bus Windows." Gorgeous, moving work. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Bus Windows by Will Musgrove

I watch as Sammy breathes on the glass, fogs it up. With a finger, he writes BEHIND YOU in the condensation. The bus parks at its next stop, and Sammy, his hoodie hood up so he resembles a ghost, slap...

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We’re going to Singapore Writers Festival, y’all! 💜💜

Mixed Bag@m-ixedbag.bsky.social · yesterday

Literary Namjooning (and @smokelong.bsky.social) and @eunoiareview.bsky.social showing up at the Singapore Writers Festival Reveal event. What a great evening. SWF runs from 13-22 November. Do come if you’re around.

“The lingering smell of sweat and rubber, the taste of Windex in the air, makes me relax within this calm before the storm.” Finding zen moments in…fencing? Yep! Read this new piece by @ninamiller.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 2d ago

Author Spotlight's on! @ninamiller.bsky.social writes a wonderfully meditative essay on "salle-itude" she finds while fencing! Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“You say: One day.” Get lost in this beauty by @pdforan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 3d ago

Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Author Spotlight's on! @ninamiller.bsky.social writes a wonderfully meditative essay on "salle-itude" she finds while fencing! Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Kissing, Still by Pat Foran

after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...

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Love this with all the love @patforan.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 3d ago

Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"Kissing, Still" by the amazing @pdforan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social. So beautiful (and kinda hot, I think).🔥

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 3d ago

Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Let's begin this Monday morning with the inimitable @pdforan.bsky.social's magical fiction piece, "Kissing, Still." "You are living and not living, and we are kissing." literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Kissing, Still by Pat Foran

after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...

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Have you registered yet? Issue 1 & 2 authors, we hope to see y'all too! <3

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · last wk.

Good news, everyone! (yes, it's a Futurama reference). We're celebrating our Issue 3 authors with a LAUNCH PARTY!! Do come, hear them read their work, chat with Lit Nam Eds, and have a generally good literary time! Friday, Oct 2, 9:00 PM EST. Registration link : us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Split Lip Magazine@splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 5d ago

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@madeleinewrite.bsky.social expertly braids history & art with a moving story in "The Execution of Lady Jane Grey." This took me down an amazing history rabbit hole. That's what great writing (and art) does to you, I guess. Read Madeleine's piece here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

As the third anniversary of my sister's passing approaches, I can feel a giant wave of sadness (and regrets, once again) coming, building, and I find myself going back to two wonderful pieces - "What Feels like Destiny" by @jamybond.bsky.social in The Sun www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/249...

We're having a party and you're invited!

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · last wk.

Good news, everyone! (yes, it's a Futurama reference). We're celebrating our Issue 3 authors with a LAUNCH PARTY!! Do come, hear them read their work, chat with Lit Nam Eds, and have a generally good literary time! Friday, Oct 2, 9:00 PM EST. Registration link : us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — the wall behind us, the one we lean on. The one between us. The one you don’t mention" I'm just so in awe of @pdforan.bsky.social's writing. This is ANOTHER stunner: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Kissing, Still by Pat Foran

after David Bowie’s “Heroes”This we know: A wall is.A kiss is.And we are kissing still.We hear the drone of a slip cover of a song. Your song.We think: How it shudders, this song, how the wall does — ...

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Good news, everyone! (yes, it's a Futurama reference). We're celebrating our Issue 3 authors with a LAUNCH PARTY!! Do come, hear them read their work, chat with Lit Nam Eds, and have a generally good literary time! Friday, Oct 2, 9:00 PM EST. Registration link : us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"I fell in love with your kind heart and with the heavy summer beetles that buzz loudly at night" Wonderfully evocative piece from @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

The Long Goodbye by Kathy Prokhovnik

I didn’t know you could fall in love with a piece of land. But hand in hand I fell deeper and more deeply in love with you and with the land and the sky. I fell in love with your kind heart and with t...

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"The sulphur reek of road-kill skunk stirs my sleeping daughter. In the rear-view mirror, I watch Lily’s nose scrunch, lips puckering against the smell" Richly layered writing from @christyhartman.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Sour Cabbage Memories by Christy Hartman

The sulphur reek of road-kill skunk stirs my sleeping daughter. In the rear-view mirror, I watch Lily’s nose scrunch, lips puckering against the smell. I sing her favourite lullaby as the sun dips bel...

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"Only masochists and mooncalves have three babies in five years, right?" Fantastically creative piece from @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social I love this one so much: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Of all the landscapes her life has led her through by Dawn Tasaka Steffler

this is her favorite; there’s something about the windsweptness of this coastline. Scruffy trees bent from wind the sharp smell of cold. On a cliff overlooking the ocean she has created a sort of nest...

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"When Sadie was sick, I used to do puzzles with her. Not with her, exactly. She was too tired to sit up or concentrate much" A piece full of so much poise and contemplation from @amaliag.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Amalia Gladhart@amaliag.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a story about keeping busy yet staying present in the lovely new Issue 3 of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social. Please check it out, and all the other wonderful pieces. I’m fortunate to be in such good company. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

"People only see the juicy bits in the world, glue them to themselves for protection. I know the danger, but I want someone to chomp down hard" Such evocative sense of character and scene from @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Bus Windows by Will Musgrove

I watch as Sammy breathes on the glass, fogs it up. With a finger, he writes BEHIND YOU in the condensation. The bus parks at its next stop, and Sammy, his hoodie hood up so he resembles a ghost, slap...

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"I’ve been carrying on a long term affair with memory. I think, lately, about thinking..." I love how much there is between the cracks of this piece by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Deciphering by Andrew Bertaina

At night, we search for the darkness. We stumble around inside of ourselves. Someone says they can still see the fireflies, and I think, perhaps, I can still see my lover—pale pink lips.We cannot make...

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"In this New Zealand, I felt the fidelity-for-shit moon, and I heard, felt and heard, a little night music" Oh wow. This piece by @patforan.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social A must read: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

This New Zealand by Pat Foran

I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...

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At first it seems @pdforan.bsky.social is out to break your heart... then you realize he's working to heal it, with chisel & hammer, knocking off calcified pieces around your heart so you can feel more fully. Love this story. His book offers more. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

This New Zealand by Pat Foran

I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...

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Art by Mary Cassatt, ca 1884 from the National Gallery of Art public domain: www.nga.gov/artworks/521...

Children Playing on the Beach by Mary Cassatt

By the time Cassatt exhibited this painting at the eighth and final impressionist exhibition in 1886, her reputation as a painter of mothers and children had been well established. Critics had long co...

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Monday morning in Singapore. Let's turn on the author spotlight, shall we? It's on the talented @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and her moving NF piece. And that title! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/....

Of all the landscapes her life has led her through by Dawn Tasaka Steffler

this is her favorite; there’s something about the windsweptness of this coastline. Scruffy trees bent from wind the sharp smell of cold. On a cliff overlooking the ocean she has created a sort of nest...

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“She understands now why crones and wizards live on mountaintops.” A beautiful story of landscapes and families and distances by @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · last wk.

Monday morning in Singapore. Let's turn on the author spotlight, shall we? It's on the talented @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and her moving NF piece. And that title! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/....

“But she had to teach them how to not need her so much, didn’t she?” @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · last wk.

Monday morning in Singapore. Let's turn on the author spotlight, shall we? It's on the talented @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and her moving NF piece. And that title! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/....

“Because of all the raggedy people in our unfinished house smelling of sawdust, cigarettes, and beer, I loved you best.” @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Because of all the raggedy people in our unfinished house smelling of sawdust, cigarettes, and beer, I loved you best." The spotlight's on Nicole Brogdon - nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social and her fabulous Space Sisters against the world. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

“When I finally meet him—standing in all of his glory, carrying a mountain—he is, somehow, also kind.” Govind Gupta in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open!@lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 2w ago

Author Spotlights, let's go! First is Govind Gupta--a high-school student from India whose NF piece blew our socks off. Spirituality and the mundane come together in this beautifully deep essay - What the Monkeys Know. Don't miss it. Seriously, don't. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...