Emily Mohn-Slate
@mohnslate.bsky.social
poet & essayist, THE FALLS & FEED 📚 BE WHERE YOU ARE on Substack ✨ teaches @madwomencarlow.bsky.social ⚡️
Come hang with Ass in Chair Collective this September! We’d love to see you and cheer you on with your creative work in the midst of ALL THE THINGS 🙌🏼 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/ass-in-cha...
Ass in Chair Collective // September 2026
⚡Join us to get moving on your creative project!⚡
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Come hang with Ass in Chair Collective this September! We’d love to see you and cheer you on with your creative work in the midst of ALL THE THINGS 🙌🏼 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/ass-in-cha...
Ass in Chair Collective // September 2026
⚡Join us to get moving on your creative project!⚡
emilymohnslate.substack.com
new beginner's mind interview today with Lauren Davis, who tells the story of how her book THE NOTHING (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social) came out of letting herself just “play” with this form in the wake of the rejection of her first poetry collection. So much wisdom here for writers! 💥
“Being uncomfortable is temporary...on the other side is beauty”
poet, writer, and creative writing instructor Lauren Davis on acceptance, play, and doing the work even when there seem to be no results ✧
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new beginner’s mind interview up today with poet, editor, and yoga philosophy teacher, Catherine Esposito Prescott! (co-founder of @swwim.bsky.social) So much wisdom in here for your writing and meditation practices—check it out! emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/songs-of-d...
Songs of Delight and Rawness
poet, editor, and yoga philosophy teacher Catherine Esposito Prescott on going deep into the authorship of your favorite writers, and the power of a daily practice 🌺🌊
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Sep 2: A reading of Barbara Wolvovitz's The Only Way to Now. 7-8:30 pm, JCC of Greater Pgh (Squirrel Hill), Room Levinson B; 5738 Darlington Rd. Free & open to the public, but pls RSVP: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/vnV01hK94q Books for sale. Presented by Madwomen & MadBooks. Not a JCCPGH-sponsored event.
This Monday the 17th at noon EST is our FREE Ass in Chair Collective meet-up! We work on our own creative thing alone/together and it’s kind of magic. Come try it out and bring a friend 🙌🏼💥 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/ass-in-cha...
Ass in Chair // August 2026
"August is the Sunday of the year, am I right?" —Erinn
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Final post for The Practice of Attention Book Club w/ highlights from our author visit with Cody Cook-Parrott + the recording from my Generative Writing Workshop on Attention, Noticing, and Tuning In w/ @catherinepierce.bsky.social and her Summer of Attention crew! @stmartinspress.bsky.social
Last post for The Practice of Attention Book Club + our Writing Workshop Recording + a prompt ✨
all the good things for you!
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Thank you to Ed Simon @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social and to Kris Collins & Joan Bauer for their leadership of the Hemingway’s Poetry Series. I wrote this poem after the fires in LA in 2025, trying to name what it is to live through all these apocalypses—impacting some far greater than others.
Emily Mohn-Slate at Hemingway's - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Over this summer PRoB will be featuring the work of upcoming readers that will be appearing at Pittsburgh’s venerable Hemingway’s Poetry Series, now
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NEW: A guide to the best bookshops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 📚🇺🇸 by Lesley Rains @upittpress.bsky.social @staygoldbooks.bsky.social @cityofasylum.bsky.social @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social
The best bookshops in Pittsburgh, USA - LSE Review of Books
In this guide, Lesley Rains takes us on a tour of the best independent bookshops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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In my latest for @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social I look beyond the question of casting in Nolan's Odyssey to what kind of story Nolan is trying to tell, and whether it will ever be possible to tell that story with the Odyssey. pghrev.com/nolans-odyss...
His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a loving husband and father murdered July 13, 2026. We stand with the people of Maine, their protest, and their quest for justice for another innocent civilian murdered at the hands of ICE.
Grateful for this conversation with poet Cecily Parks. "I’ve learned to trust that my curiosity won’t lead me wrong," she says. There's so much wisdom here in a very distilled way. If you haven’t read THE SEEDS (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) yet, I can’t recommend it enough. 🌱
"my curiosity won’t lead me wrong"
poet Cecily Parks on not needing a room of her own to write, walking and weeding as meditative movement, and trusting her curiosity 🌱
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Last Monday in Ass in Chair, Katie wrote in the chat: “So grateful for this group and the chance to make something in community. It really has moved me out of years of deep stuck-ness.” Maybe come try it out? We'd love to see you!
Ass in Chair Collective // July 2026
☀️ Steal some creative time for yourself this summer! ☀️
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✧ new beginner’s mind interview up today with Leigh Sugar on trying to resist punitive ways of thinking/working regarding writing and training herself to trust softness ✧
"I am not a machine"
Leigh Sugar on resisting punitive ways of thinking/working and training herself to trust softness ✧
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💥 new beginner’s mind interview up today with writer, critic, and poet Adriana E. Ramírez on gratitude, "productination," and the power of out-engineering your weaknesses
"Redefine yourself as the sky, and everything else as weather"
Adriana E. Ramírez on gratitude, "productination," and the power of out-engineering your weaknesses💥
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new beginner’s mind interview up today with writer, artist & movement practitioner Cody Cook-Parrott ⚪ “Do not beat yourself up for needing to start over. Do not feel like you are too late to begin a spiritual practice. You are right on time!”
"You are right on time"
writer, artist, and movement practitioner Cody Cook-Parrott on starting a running practice, leaning into ritual, and taking life one day at a time ⚪
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Check it out, Jessica Danger was recently interviewed by @mohnslate.bsky.social to talk about her memoir NO HEROIC MEASURES, and more over on Substack! buff.ly/BQR0F9A Get NO HEROIC MEASURES here: buff.ly/ocbhE5V @susanschulman.bsky.social
"Come on luminous entourage. Let’s get to it.”
memoirist, professor, and literary citizen Jessica Danger on being a creative and a whole ass person 🍅
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Workshop fee waivers (no questions asked) and pay-what-you-can, when-you-can available to all who need them!
Time to spotlight one of our upcoming summer workshops that still has plenty of room! Digital Storytelling w/Dr. Christina Fisanick; Wednesdays, May 20-June 24, 2026, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time; online via Zoom. Sign up today at forms.cloud.microsoft/r/VkfKgx2aTE!
April 27, 1:00 p.m. EDT: Registration opens for Summer 2026 Madwomen workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry! 6-week workshops, online and on-campus options, $175 each (scholarships and pay-what-you-can available). Complete info: bit.ly/su26mad.
Our low-key book club on The Practice of Attention starts this Monday, May 11th! I'd love for you to join us. Any questions? Let me know! 🙌🏼
Let's read The Practice of Attention together ✨
Join our low-key book discussion group to help reclaim your attention & have fun while doing it
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⚡new beginner’s mind interview up today with novelist Davin Malasarn today! Davin shares about writing practices, including how he cultivates a sense of security before he writes, which involves wearing a cape! which yes, is my favorite creative ritual anyone has shared yet in this series...
"a book is only a step, not a finish line"
novelist Davin Malasarn on the power of cultivating a sense of security, just playing in your work, and defining what success means for yourself 🌴
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⚡ new beginner’s mind interview up today with memoirist Jessica Danger! I highly recommend her memoir, NO HEROIC MEASURES, just out with Santa Fe Writer’s Project! ⚡
"Come on luminous entourage. Let’s get to it.”
memoirist, professor, and literary citizen Jessica Danger on being a creative and a whole ass person 🍅
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Our Ass in Chair Collective is open to anyone this Monday, April 20th! Join us for a burst of collective energy and virtual gold stars & time to work on what you want to do. 💥 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/free-ass-i...
⚡FREE Ass in Chair: Mon, April 20th ⚡
This one's open to anyone—get on the list!
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This interview w/ @chingin.bsky.social is a GIFT right now. Ching-In talks about how they need to be accountable to others to write at all, how they push themself to write outside of their wheelhouse, and what we need to learn from fungi 🍄 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
"WE NEED TO LEARN FROM THE FUNGI"
writer, community organizer, and teacher Ching-In Chen on the power of writing within community, continually changing up our process, and what we need to learn from fungi 🍄
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something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is
