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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Have you preordered your copy of The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay? It releases on Tuesday! Only 5 more days to get free US shipping on your preorder w/ code LYRICFREESHIP! @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social have edited a stunner! rosemetalpress.com/books/field-...

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

Glad to be part of this group! Thanks!

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Passages North @passagesnorth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

passages north presents our best small fiction nominations: Abby Manzella “Sheepskin” Kevin Chesser “Plinth” Sydney Koeplin “One Bite” Dr. Robin Silbergleid “[All my lesbian lovers]” Michael Bazzett “An Oral History of the Flat Earth” so excited to nominate these wonderful pieces!!

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm with you on the joy of the short story collection! I am current reading something in between with Bora Chung's MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE (translated by Anton Hur). It is a good time of year for a novel built out of ghost stories.

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

This is what my fabulous students were doing this week!

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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 · 20/09/2026

But it's such a cute little mortar and pestle!

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks, Matt! It's a great group!

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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 · 25/06/2026

Absolutely, and maybe we can even do an event together in spring 2027! I hope to be heading up to Vermont at some point! (I went to college up there.)

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Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Congrats! Here's to story collections in 2027!

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

Backyard rabbits are the best!!!

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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

Thanks, Lisa. I am all for bending genre definitions, and I love place writing, too!

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

Interesting. Thanks for the suggestion.

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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 · 05/03/2026

Ohhh, are we in this collection together? How fun!

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