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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is what my fabulous students were doing this week!

Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yesterday I came home to the Advanced Reader Copies of my forthcoming short story collection! We are on our way! If you are a reviewer/interviewer please be in touch, and I will see if I can get you one.

Photo of Abby Manzella holding her book RIPPLES INTO THE WILD.

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am doing some reading right now. What is your favorite small press piece you read or wrote in 2026? If you have the link, that's even better.

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am thrilled to share the cover reveal of my short story collection, RIPPLES INTO THE WILD, which is coming out in February. Check it out, and the interview I did with DEBUTIFUL about the experience! debutiful.net/2026/08/31/s...

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See the cover for Ripples into the Wild by Abby Manzella - Debutiful

In her debut short story collection, Ripples into the Wild, Abby Manzella explores man-made disasters, climate change, the pandemic, and imagined future catastrophes. Moving between realism and the sp...

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Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wrapping up @smokelong.bsky.social’s #ArchiveChallenge with @abbymanzella.bsky.social’s “Intervals on the Beach at Dusk” in @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Love the tension between the narrator’s theoretical knowledge and the stress that inhibits her music-making. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/seven...

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Issue Seventeen — Tiny Molecules

Issue 17 - Autumn 2023

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Check out my latest book recommendations. abbymanzella.substack.com/p/books-on-a...

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Books on Animals

The Stories that Look Outward

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Taking @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social's new novel to another body of water, the Isar River in Munich!

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I have a new Substack about combining books and connecting with animals. shorturl.at/1OXNu

The cover of Beverly Cleary's book The Mouse and the Motorcycle. Ralph is riding his motorcycle.

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm starting a Substack: writing and animals and the outdoors! This pose is what happens when I sing to the wild rabbits. Come check it out and subscribe for the fun to come! abbymanzella.substack.com/p/starting-t...

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Starting Things

I’ve been meaning to start a Substack, and now, at the start of July, seems as good a time as any for things to begin.

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Mist morning light outside my window while I am at The Porches in Virginia on a Nancy Ludmerer Flash Nonfiction Fellowship to finish my book of micro memoirs.

Pink morning sky with visible mist in the distant trees.

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Settling into my flash fellowship retreat at The Porches in Virginia!

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

At the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, I am slowing down and paying attention as Maggie Smith advises. (The orange is apparently to attract orioles.)

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

What are your favorite memoirs and why? I am looking for some broad reading.

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The Unbound Book Festival is one of my favorite weekends in Columbia. Tales on the road by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ir.bsky.social, @bjsoloy.bsky.social, @nancycrochiere.bsky.social, and @samuelkolawole.bsky.social led by @caylinct.bsky.social. .

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Really stoked etc etc to be included in this flash fiction reading!!! If you are in and around mid Missourah and heading to Unbound next week, come hang! Ft. @abbymanzella.bsky.social, Ayotola Tehingbola, @ruthjoffre.bsky.social, @wigleaf.bsky.social, and myself!

Flyer for flash fiction reading called Flash of Lightning, taking place at Nightjar art collective for Unbound Book Festival. Fabulous Readers include Abby Manzella, Tuth Joffre, Ayotola Tehingbola, Scott Garson, and Daniel Miller

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I'm pleased that my short story "Sheepskin" is in the latest issue of @passagesnorth.bsky.social. It's about frustration, dogs, and paint colors! Check out the print copy!

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I am looking for short creative essays that are about place and/or writing about place. Any suggestions?

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I'm delighted to report that my micro "Welcome to Death Valley and Other Eco-Crisis Tours" will be in the forthcoming Ghost Parachute Anthology. Thanks @brettpribble.bsky.social and the rest of the team! It looks like it's going to be a great collection!

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for the John Leonard Prize!

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I'm happy to be a finalist for the Raleigh Review Flash Fiction Prize! My piece will be published in their spring issue.

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction

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2025 LONGLIST NONFICTION
America, América: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin (Penguin Press)
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins, by Barbara Demick (Random House)
Empire of Al: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAl, by Karen Hao (Penguin Press)
The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story, by Brandy Schillace (W.W. Norton)
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution, a Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, by Scott Anderson (Doubleday)
Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper)
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson, by Gardiner Harris (Random House)
A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile, by Aatish Taser (Catapult)
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness, by Michael Koresky (Bloomsbury)
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America, by Michael Luo (Doubleday)

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

During some commutes, I’d stop the car to catch the beauty of the fall fields with my camera. I then wrote some lighthearted poems to go with the images. tinyurl.com/4msudt5n

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At a Highway Seventy-Five & Between the Rows of Corn – The McNeese Review

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Hey Flash writers (fiction and nonfiction)! I have some pieces coming out in this micro-a-day calendar for 2027, and I'd love to have you join me! Consider submitting to this fun project! #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #submissioncall

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Nonfiction writers, what journals are you reading and where are you sending your most lyric essays? I'm looking for those places that are interested in experimentation and the poetic.

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We’re proud to share that essays by Christina Sharpe and Namwali Serpell from The Yale Review are included in The Best American Essays 2025, edited by Jia Tolentino.

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I’m happy to announce that I have been awarded a fellowship to stay at Porches Writing Retreat to work on my nonfiction! I’m looking forward to getting back to Virginia for a little bit in 2026!

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

What are some great historical short stories you'd recommend? (Meaning that they are in the subgenre of historical fiction, not old). I'm hoping to bring some recent pieces into a new class I'm building, and they need to be stories not novels. Particularly interest in any fun craft elements.

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Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies @assayjournal.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

In “In Search of Delight at the Art Museum: A Writing Exercise with Pen in Hand” Manzella invites students to claim space, both mental and physical, by exploring “delight” through a hands-on exercise in a campus art museum using pen and paper. Read it here: buff.ly/fz5OjQP #Pedagogy#SchoolResource

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It was gratifying to talk to @karenbabine.bsky.social about her new memoir THE ALLURE OF ELSEWHERE. Check it out! shorturl.at/0rvdX For this book she thought about "history, and stories, and landscape and at what point the California Babines just stopped telling stories of who they were..."

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Hybrid Interview: Karen Babine - CRAFT

Essay by Abby Manzella • In Karen Babine’s latest memoir, The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo (Milkweed 2025), the author preps her Scamp camper and drives from her home in Minnesota to th...

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Hybrid Interview: Karen Babine - CRAFT

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

What current book publishers seem to like essays that are paired with a photo? Big or small publishers welcome.

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

What current book publishers seem to like essays that are paired with a photo? Big or small publishers welcome.

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

And we're live! Our first reader is @abbymanzella.bsky.social

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I'll be reading here in less than an hour!

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

It's the perfect day for homemade strawberry jam on scones made for the pairing!

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 09/07/2025

During World War II, the U.S. government disappeared more than a quarter-million Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans under the Alien Enemies Act. Now, Trump is reviving the law. @brandonshimoda.bsky.social reflects on the horror of history repeating.

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Alien Enemies | Brandon Shimoda

The torturers have been revising, the gestapos have been busy, and the prisons have been full for generations.

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I'm happy to announce that my short story collection, RIPPLES INTO THE WILD, will be published by Cornerstone Press (2/27)! These stories engage with realism, surrealism, and cli-fi. If you're an author with a nearby pub date or a pressmate, be in touch so we can plan events. The fun begins!!!

Image of a lake with ripples by a forest's edge.

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

this rules

Meet Me at the Crossroads was chosen as a Library Reads pick for June (the image has a small insert of the book's cover) it reads Meet Me at the Crossroads, Megan Giddings, Amistad. Seven mysterious doors suddenly appear in different places across the globe, and when they open, they appear to lead to new dimensions in the universe. Two Black twin sisters get caught in the mystery as one sees paradise while the other sees peril. A spellbinding story about the choices that can both bring us together and tear us apart. Blurb by Magen Szwarek, LibraryReads Ambassador, IL

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