"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." ~ James Baldwin
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"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
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Sometimes when I’m stressed, I watch Jimmy Fallon realize he fumbled Nicole Kidman and it makes me giggle
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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!)
wrote a bit about being a twin cities transplant at this particular moment www.vogue.com/article/find...
Brevity's new issue launched this morning. Flash essays from Nicole Walker, Alex Sokol, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Shuly Cawood, Thomasin LaMay, Charles Montgomery, Derek Maiolo, José Orduña, Josh Martin, Liz Sauchelli, Margaret Grayson, and Rocky Halpern. Artwork by Michael Todd Cohen.
brevitymag.com
Went to a work meeting today and found out people in my department are dating new people & and I’m a little upset that no one is keeping me posted on the updates of their love lives. 😂
ok, haven't been on her consistently but am making my way back to be more in community again.
So, hey, happy new year lolz
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the dialogue is so bomb. The book does such great character work and is a wonderful lesson in raising stakes/keeping tension brewing.
I'm reading The Wedding People by Alison Espach, and it is outside of my typical reading, but I love it v much.
Hi writers!
I’m doing a version of Black Friday (except sustainable, and without exploiting any workers) this year!
No discount code needed! Just add the WYS course to your cart at margosteines.com and select purchase on Friday, November 28th :)
Love to be on this list with such an incredible group of writers!
CNF peeps: What are your favorite braided essays published in the last year or two??
This @colinhamilton.bsky.social essay about writers dying is NEXT LEVEL GOOD. @therumpus.net #RumpusEssays
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This was terrific (and dark) lol. Loved it.
So is Twitter officially over for the lit community? Have been kind of in hiding.
Is it just here and Substack?
Anyone need an awp panelist?? Add me so I can go.
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: natalielima09@gmail.com
✏️💗
Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
Yooo, none of the AWP panels I was asked to be on were accepted.
Please think of me if you need a person to add to your panel in the next couple of months. xo
Gorgeous
The fall 2024 Prairie Schooner spread open over my notebook, which is also open to the two pages where I copied “is the body ever truly naked” by ire’ne lara silva.
(Note that lineation doesn’t work in alt text, but the words are here) is the beautiful body ever truly naked what vulnerability is there in toned thighs and rippling abs unblemished skin seems a kind of armor it must be to have resisted scars and burns and stretchmarks and calluses everything the camera loves everything the light loves everything the eye has been taught to love would make you think no one ever loved and lusted after crooked little toes would make you think that it was impossible for hands to yearn for the soft yield of flesh that is neither breast nor ass would make you think that greying hair or wrinkling flesh or dark circled eyes could ever dim the light of the soul shining through would make you think that it wasn't the greatest measure of a gift to invite touch to say this my imperfect body will meet your imperfect body and we will say nothing of forgiveness because there is nothing to forgive
The issue held in my hand in front of a bookshelf. The cover image is of a white indoor hallway with brown leaves covering the floor.
Love this poem by Ire’ne Lara Silva in @prairie-schooner.bsky.social so I copied it into my notebook. Also, check out the amazing artwork by Song-Ming Ang! I am here for a hallway of crunchy leaves.
check out Edgar Gomez’s Alligator Tears if you haven’t yet. xx
Thrilled to have this review in my "hometown" newspaper. #memoirs #newbooks www.pressherald.com?p=7476949&uu...
I wrote about remembering how to feel for Nothing Compares to You, an anthology of essays on the legacy of Sinéad O’Connor. The book comes out tomorrow. Here, get your joy: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin...
Thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving this piece a home on @oldster_mag.
A few clients are announcing projects in new genres, new categories…
Remember, writer friends. You can jump around.
The oft said advice of “branding” doesn’t mean you need to stay in one lane.
It just means when you’re in a new genre or category, it still feels like a book from YOU. ❤️
