Marie Winfield

At the Marienkirche.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Berlin, September 1964. Visit and photos compiled here: www.aacvr-germany.org/dr-kings-vis...

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1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️

Thank you for your dedication to local reporting about important issues to NYC residents! I still remember everyone retweeting the image of the FOIL from the article...

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Proud to be the 2025 nonfiction prize winner for the Four Palaces Publishing nonfiction anthology and thrilled to be working with my writing mentor over the next year. Hopefully more to come!

De Blasio’s $1 Million Flood Plan Shelved and Hidden From High-Risk East Harlem The low-lying neighborhood was saved during Superstorm Sandy only by the luck of the tides, researchers say. Meanwhile, the city is sitting on a 280-page report created two years ago to prepare East H...

My essay, A Matter of Tide, is about urban planning and climate change in East Harlem, NYC, the pier, and raising children in these times. Rachel Holliday Smith reported on the issue at the heart of my essay back in 2021 for The City.

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The anthology is finally here! Stopped by Dussmann to pick it up. You can find my latest essay, A Matter of Tide, in When Home Hurts, a nonfiction anthology online or at your local, independent bookseller! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-home-...

Game on.

Three days, 3,465 words. And a bit of direction for the fall. Sounds like success! #mini-1000 #1000wordsofsummer

New publication date, fingers crossed: September 22, 2025!

well, this would be a terrible way to find out Ryuichi Sakamoto is no longer alive... but thanks, Spotify! for the live music recommendation

Aww I went to college with Jarvis. Beautiful family!

Signing in for the #mini-1000 #1000wordsofsummer mad late. But better late than never. Wrote 1027 words in dueling love letters this morning. Getting excited for spending more time writing this fall!

An essay on Berlin, migration and the long trek to the refugee residences in Potsdam on the 691 bus. Evergreen.

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Sat with this letter until today to catch up for my last day of #1000wordsofsummer Ending with 15k+ words I'm looking forward to continue working with. Thanks @jamiattenberg.bsky.social and the 1000 words online community!

1019 words, scraping by, late night. #1000wordsofsummer

Everyone needs magic words. Loved this letter about kennings. 2223 words today, somehow found a flow, went with it. 4 more days to go! #1000wordsofsummer

African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant and unexpected.

African prisoners made sound recordings in German camps in WW1: this is what they had to say
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Something unexpected showed up today on the page. A late 1393 words. Proud of myself! Looking forward to the next 5 days...

All caught up with a writing session during the rain. 2203 words to make up for Day 7. #1000wordsofsummer

From the Day 7 letter: "And then, maybe, the time you have, will be exactly the time you need.”

I love this image and the words, as I sit reading this letter having not sat down to write yesterday. So now it's already Day 8, maybe I will find the time I need today! #1000wordsofsummer

"You’re bringing into full view a thing that is already there, if for the moment only glimpsed from this angle or that, still partially submerged, still cast in shadow."

1079 words waiting for the ophthalmologist on Tuesday, so this letter hit all the right places. 2589 for the last 2 days!

Day 3 #1000wordsofsummer Late push. 1040 words and now sleep.

Loved reading about Goals Magic today! 1200 words. Some of it feels like a poem about the ocean. Excited about the rest of this week!

Excited to find messages from other Berlin-based writers in the slack this AM! 1044 words this morning. Off to a good start!

Publication date update: Spring/Summer 2025 [TBA]

A great feeling!