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Chicago friends! Please recommend places where I could host a fun reading during AWP next spring. Feel free to inbox me. <3

met my new boyfriend at a party this weekend. Love me a short king. 🐾🐾🐾

A woman I met today told me that I look like a mix of Margaret Qualley & Andie Macdowell. 😂

an essay from my collection in progress in one of my fave journals.✨✨✏️ the birthday week boost I needed.

Cut the mold off the cheese and ate it anyways. My kids looked at me horrified, and obviously I didn’t raise them in enough poverty to understand this is completely normal.

I got a poetry acceptance yesterday! After receiving so many rejections on all kinds of projects big & small this year. I actually got a rejection yesterday & today too 😂. The slog is for real. So many days I feel like giving up. Down so many points at the halftime of my writing life.

This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is fantastic & you should read it. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

Opinion | The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses Has Finally Come

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Working on the print booklet cover for Significant Objects 2026 Season One today...

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One good thing about being consumed w/ work & doctors appts lately is that I haven’t been able keep up w/ all the news, except when leaving the house & turning on the TV for my dog to watch the Chicago news (always the first channel that pops up). So I know a little bit of what’s going there. 😝

So happy to be on “Pop of Culture” where Jen Blackmer asked great questions and Luke Jones came in with his stellar editing to make us the best versions of our talking selves. The theme? Joy. indianapublicradio.org/popofculture... @pinestatepublicity.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social

S03 E15 - We Find Joy

A memoirist and a musician take us on their journey to joy.

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My copy is here! So excited to dig in 😍 @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social

The number of people, including your friends, who believe writers from marginalized communities manage to publish books *because* they represent a marginalized community is truly astonishing.

Gorgeous memoir by @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social

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Good morning on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam 🌞 If you like short pieces with a lotta ❤️ then catch Memoir Editor @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social's "Top Surgery Triptych" in Issue 47 of @passagesnorth.bsky.social: buff.ly/8PSGCLj

“Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.” ~ James Baldwin

Awp Chicago is in the air already. Let me know if you want me to hop onto any of your panels. xo

"Frankly, I thought I knew how to write, but it turned out I didn’t, and I don’t. I don’t. I get to learn it over and over and over." ~ Jo Ann Beard

Watched the Euphoria premier last night & it’s a perfect example of inserting humor / levity to balance tone when the subject matter gets exceptionally dark.

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." ~ James Baldwin

if I ever need a lawyer, somebody call this lady

Dear humans, may all the beauty find you ❤️

Where there is rice... There is a Trevor. He starts to bark when he hears the timer on the rice maker. #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs #dinner youtube.com/shorts/cGTm3...

Where there is rice there is a Trevor #dogs #puppy #cute

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Sometimes when I’m stressed, I watch Jimmy Fallon realize he fumbled Nicole Kidman and it makes me giggle youtu.be/qtsNbxgPngA?...

Jimmy Fallon Blew a Chance to Date Nicole Kidman

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"Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion." ~ Barry Lopez

Ahhh! I'm so excited to share my inflatable dad story in Short Story, Long! Who could ask for a more thoughtful editor than @aaronburch.bsky.social and a more fitting artist than ‪@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social? (No one, that's who!) ‬

Aaron Burch@aaronburch.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New @jsavrankelly.bsky.social on Short Story, Long today!! 🚨 Hope y'all read it and share it and love it like I have.

wrote a bit about being a twin cities transplant at this particular moment www.vogue.com/article/find...

On Finding—and Rebuilding—a Safe Haven in Minnesota

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