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Annlee Ellingson

@annleee.bsky.social
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Editor at @expositionreview.bsky.social. Managing editor at WriteGirl. Treasurer at @lafilmcritics.bsky.social. Editor, Digital Cities, at @bizjournals.com. (she/her/hers)

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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Very much looking forward to celebrating @lafilmcritics’ latest pair of scholarship winners this weekend. Congratulations Sebastian Carrasco and ellie sunlight moon (@naproxen.bsky.social)! 📽️ #criticslife
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
ONE MORE DAY to both our awards vote and our scholarship application deadline! LAFCA, with support from @rottentomatoes.com, is offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to aspiring film critics attending L.A.-area community colleges. Apply by Dec. 7: bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025 #filmcritic #scholarship
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Two more days to apply for LAFCA’s scholarship! LAFCA, with support from @rottentomatoes.com, is offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to aspiring film critics attending L.A.-area community colleges. Apply by Dec. 7, and spread the word! bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025 #filmcritic #scholarship
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are counting down to LAFCA’s awards vote—and the close of applications for our 2025 scholarship! LAFCA, with support from @rottentomatoes.com, is offering 2 $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to aspiring film critics attending L.A.-area community colleges: bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025 Apply today!
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We are so excited to hear our very own Managing Editor (and past 4 issue Co-EiC & Editorial Board member) @annleee.bsky.social interviewed on Lit Mag News! Tune in on Wednesday, November 12 at 10:30 AM PT for the Q&A: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...! See you in the Zoom room!
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Save the Dates! November Interviews & Info Sessions!
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Aspiring film critics! LAFCA and @rottentomatoes.com are again offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to students attending L.A.-area community colleges: one to a woman and one to a person from an underrepresented group(s). Apply by Dec. 7 and spread the word! bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2025
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Happy birthday to me! 🥳 Help me celebrate this milestone by supporting the organizations that have preoccupied me since the last time there was a zero in my age. 🧵
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.
FILM CRITICS’ GROUPS DENOUNCE NEXSTAR AND DISNEY-ABC DECISIONS TO SUSPEND “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE!”

We, the members of the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics, strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air. For decades, our organizations have represented a profession that is enabled by the First Amendment. Kimmel’s long-running talk show promotes free speech, including when it gives film artists the chance to discuss their work. There is only one word to describe the decision by powerful media corporations to silence an individual’s perspective due to fear of repercussions by the government: censorship. This is the antithesis of the values embodied by our work. We demand a reversal of this decision and encourage our colleagues across the industry to do the same.
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
So excited for the eleventh season of @expositionreview.bsky.social and to see the work inspired by the theme “ParaSocial”! Submissions are open now! tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial 👥 #litmag #editorslife
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Call for Submissions for Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” - Exposition Review
Issue XI begins with an infinite tension. Para – altered, beside, beyond, against. Social – the networks of intimacy, recognition, and belonging we carry with us. Joined together, these words suggest ...
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Some films #DirectedbyWomen I saw last month—thoughts at #CineWomen: annleee.medium.com/cinewomen-19-c709dd248ab7 - #FreakierFriday - #EastofWall - #ItsNeverOverJeffBuckley - #Folktales - #TheBoysofBaraka 📽️ #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #52FilmsbyWomen
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Also in this month’s #CineWomen column, I reflected on how one of my favorite travel activities is something I do multiple times a week at home: go to the movies. 📽️ annleee.medium.com/cinewomen-18...
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Some films #DirectedbyWomen I saw this month—thoughts at #CineWomen: annleee.medium.com/cinewomen-18... - #IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer - #TheOldGuard2 - #OhHi - #Girlfight 📽️ #FemaleFilmmakerFriday #52FilmsbyWomen
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CineWomen 18: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson waxes nostalgic with ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’…
Plus Victoria Mahoney directs a sequel to ‘The Old Guard,’ Sophie Brooks says ‘Oh, Hi,’ and Karyn Kusama’s ‘Girlfight’ turns twenty-five.
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Welcome welcome @themaureenlee.bsky.social and @shirklesxp.bsky.social!
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
First up in our Vol. X: “Spring” issue spotlight, we have our fiction section, co-edited by @courtlandavenue.bsky.social & @mellindak.bsky.social w/ Heather Vaughn, featuring stories by Daphne Armbrstet, Jennifer Bannan, Briana Courtney & Valentina Gómez. Read their work: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring!
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Starting today, we’re sharing every piece from our 10th annual issue, Vol. X: “Spring”, which you can read for free. Tune in to our Insta Stories and Bluesky. And if you can’t wait, read the full issue here: tinyurl.com/ExpoV10Spring!
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
“We had an inkling—or, rather, a fear. But in the year of fire and ICE our hometown of Los Angeles has experienced so far, ‘Spring’ acutely speaks to the hope we have for recovery and resistance.” So grateful for @annleee.bsky.social & @lilrensing.bsky.social: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x... 🌱
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Check out our Vol. X: “Spring”Masthead! expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x... 🌱
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- Exposition Review
Vol. X: “Spring” Editors-in-Chief: Annlee Ellingson & Laura Rensing Section Editors: Fiction Co-Editors: Dave Gregory & Mellinda Hensley Associate Fiction Editor: Heather Vaughan Flash Fiction Editor:...
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We’re thrilled to have Jessica Taylor Bellamy as our Vol. X: #Spring cover artist. Jessica’s multi-disciplinary work explores “themes of utopia >< dystopia, human >< nature, fantasy >< reality, image >< text, and the collapsing of time.” Experience it here: tinyurl.com/ExpoPrecarious. #artsky
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Congrats to #ExpoContributor @varshawrites86.bsky.social on making THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 longlist for TELL THE BEES from our “POP!” issue! @willwriteforchai.bsky.social 🥳 Thank you to @samanito.bsky.social and the @wigleaf.bsky.social team!
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Read our Vol. X: “Spring” LETTER FROM THE EDITORS from Co-Editors-in Chief @annleee.bsky.social & @lilrensing.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpringLetter. 🌱 A million thank yous to Annlee & Laura, and shoutout to Annlee, who is completing her 4-year term as Co-EiC—but thankfully, is on our Board…!
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Vol. X: Letter from the Editors - Exposition Review
We’re not going to lie and say we had no idea last summer when we chose our theme “Spring” how resonant it would be. We had an inkling—or, rather, a fear. But in the year of fire and ICE our hometown ...
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
“Spring” has sprung! Happy happy publication day to @expositionreview.bsky.social! Inside you’ll find work that is moving, sometimes hard, and, most of all, hopeful. Read Vol. X at expositionreview.com. 🌱⛲️🥹 #litmag #editorslife
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Exposition Review - Exposition Review
Independent journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, art, & experimental narratives | Annual Issue | Flash Contests | We pay writers!
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Folks, check out the cover for @expositionreview.bsky.social Vol. X: “Spring”! 🌱 Cannot wait to share what’s inside with you! 😍
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Attention Los Angeles film critics! The deadline to apply to join LAFCA is TONIGHT! Details here: bit.ly/JoinLAFCA
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a man playing drums with the words " this is your last chance " above him
ALT: a man playing drums with the words " this is your last chance " above him
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#ExpoContributor Joseph Byrd’s piece from #ExpoReview, Vol. IX: “POP!” was selected for inclusion in the 2025 Best Small Fictions! Thanks to @robertshapardbooks.bsky.social, @altcurrent.bsky.social & the BSF team for choosing this piece! Celebrate Joseph & read his piece: tinyurl.com/ExpoThings
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Tix for #Sinners’ 70mm expansion are back online at AMC—highly recommend if you can snag ‘em!
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Attention Los Angeles film critics! LAFCA is now accepting membership applications through May 31! Details here: bit.ly/JoinLAFCA
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I’m sorry, why do I have to work instead of rewatching Val Kilmer clips all day?
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
T-shirt vendors with geeky lit designs would make a killing at #AWP. LMK if I’m missing such a booth! #AWP25
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
And that’s a wrap on #AWP25 Day 2!!
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🥳 TONIGHT! Celebrate 10 years of @expositionreview.bsky.social @ Truly LA from 7-10 PM! Join us for our in-person, #AWP25 off-site, literary citizenship extravaganza! We hope to see you there: partiful.com/e/eDO1yhEJWzBaZA5GUgGk
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We join our colleagues in @nsfc.bsky.social, @nyfcc.bsky.social and @bsfc.bsky.social in condemning the attack on NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal.
U.S. FILM CRITICS’ GROUPS 
CONDEMN VIOLENCE AGAINST HAMDAN BALLAL

We, the members of the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Boston Society of Film Critics, express our support for the Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal and condemn, in the strongest terms, the brutal and unlawful attack he suffered this week at the hands of Israeli settlers, as well as his detainment by Israeli authorities. We are gravely concerned for Mr. Ballal’s health and safety, as well as the safety of his loved ones, and, now that he has been released, extend our hopes for his full recovery from his injuries.

Mr. Ballal was assaulted near his home in Khirbet Susya, a village in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank. Attacks on the residents of Masafer Yatta are nothing new, as we have seen from “No Other Land,” the Academy Award-winning documentary that Mr. Ballal co-directed with Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor. As critics representing four of the numerous organizations that honored “No Other Land” as the best documentary of 2024, we are infuriated that a filmmaker’s brave and principled advocacy has made him even more of a target in a community where Palestinians already exist under continual threat of displacement and violence.

One of the most powerful aspects of “No Other Land” — and the reason so many have tried, in vain, to limit its reach and silence its message — is that it is itself a rare feat of collaboration between Palestinian and Israeli journalists, activists, and artists, united by their belief in dignity and equality for all. By the very nature of its form and creation, the film represents, and dares to imagine, a more peaceful future. We applaud Mr. Ballal and his colleagues for the courage and artistry with which they have advanced that vision and affirm that it will never be forgotten.
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Goodness it’s dusty at the #WriteGirl #songwriting workshop and showcase! 😭 #ImNotCryingYoureCrying 🎤 #WeWriteTheSongs
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Among my favorite emails to write as @expositionreview.bsky.social co-EIC is to let our contributors know we’ve nominated them for a literary prize. You can see all the folks we sent e’s to this year at tinyurl.com/Expo24LitNoms. 🤩 #litmag #editorslife
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“POP!” Literary Prize Nominations - Exposition Review
At Exposition Review, our mission is to continue to create opportunities for our ever-growing community of talented writers and artists to share their voices and grow their platforms. This is why ever...
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We are delighted to introduce Hakim Muhammad and Arpa Vardanian, the 2024 recipients of the LAFCA Ruth Batchelor Scholarship, supported by @rottentomatoes.com! bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2024Winnners 📽️ #filmcritics
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
January #poetry reads: - #AnneCarson’s #WrongNorma - @lenakt.bsky.social’s #SomethingAboutLiving — including the poem “First Generation” that first appeared in @expositionreview.bsky.social! - #HalaAlyan ’s #TheMoonThatTurnsYouBack - @carolynroliver.bsky.social’s #TheAlcestisMachine 📚 #amreading
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I have a lock of hair stubbornly sticking straight out of my head, and I feel like it’s manifesting the state of my brain the past couple of days.
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
LAFCA has postponed our Jan. 11 awards banquet out of regard for the impact of the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. Stay tuned for updates. And until then, wishing safety and strength for our community.
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
IT HAPPENED! 🤩 Wordle 1,290 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Kait Quinn’s sharp poem about young summer lust-not-love is another of our “POP!”-issue summer romance sub-theme and is full of pop culture references that will take you back! Read JULY AT THE END OF THE WORLD here: tinyurl.com/ExpoJuly.
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July at the End of the World - Exposition Review
by Kait Quinn Poetry   July’s throat roars open, and my thighs are back on that concrete, dandelion spine, fingers working the shredded cuffs of my jeans. I always needed something to busy my hands wi...
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
It may be the first day or winter, but we are ready for spring—“Spring”-themed work that is! Send us your work in nonfiction, art, comics, film, and experimental narratives by December 31 for your chance to get paid to become an #ExpoContributor. Details: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpring.
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Call for Submissions for Vol. X: “Spring” - Exposition Review
Exposition Review is happy to announce the theme for our tenth annual issue: “Spring.” Submissions will be open September 15–December 15*, 2024. We accept work in all forms: fiction, flash fiction, no...
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Had the best doctor visit today. This woman was 74, retiring in February, and out of f’s.
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Good news, we’ve extended our deadline for a selection of genres: nonfiction, experimental, art, comics, and film! So send us your “Spring”-themed work in these genres by December 31: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpring.
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Varsha Venkatesh‘s flash fiction piece TELL THE BEES is just wow! Like swimming underwater to find a treasure chest, you don’t want to come up for air with this one. What a dream. Enjoy this “POP!” Piece of the Week here, tinyurl.com/ExpoTell.
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Tell the Bees - Exposition Review
by Varsha Venkatesh Flash Fiction   Hey there, lover. I know you’d rather be doing anything else, but it will fall to you to tell the bees I’m gone. Before they play “Angels” at my funeral because I d...
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
🚨⌛️SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TONIGHT! It’s the last day to submit to our “Spring” issue. Send us your writing, art, and creative pursuits by midnight tonight! We pay contributors $50! Submit here: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpring.
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
With only a few days left before submissions close for Vol. X: “Spring,” we’re offering free submissions in honor of Human Rights Day! Send us your work in any genre: tinyurl.com/ExpoSpring. Did we mention we pay $50!?
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Kabubu Mutua’s (@kabubumutua.bsky.social) fiction piece OUR BEST DAYS is a sweeping queer love story that transports the reader to Africa and into this epic young love. Read our “POP!” Piece of the Week here: tinyurl.com/ExpoOurBest.
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Our Best Days - Exposition Review
by Kabubu Mutua Fiction   Even now I remember the first time I saw him, a beautiful boy cycling through Uhuru Street as if he’d done it his entire life. How I envied him. How by that week’s end I had ...
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A VERY fun series of posts to make in quick succession. Congrats to @lafilmcritics.bsky.social on a fun and invigorating awards vote! 📽️ #criticslife #awardsseason
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
ONE MORE DAY to both our awards vote and our scholarship application deadline! LAFCA, with Rotten Tomatoes, is offering TWO $3,000 SCHOLARSHIPS to aspiring film critics attending L.A.-area community colleges. Apply by Dec. 8! bit.ly/LAFCAScholarship2024 #filmcritic #scholarship
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Annlee Ellingson @annleee.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I picked up tickets for USC Women’s Basketball and now my socials are full of deals for men’s hoops. Read the room, algorithm!
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
You read that right! We’re offering free submissions to our “Spring” issue for #GivingTuesday! Send us your best writing and art in any form (including film, scripts, experimental hybrid works, visual art, comics, and any and every genre you can think of!): tinyurl.com/ExpoSpring.
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