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Bess Winter

@bess-winter.bsky.social
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YYZ->CVG. MACHINES OF ANOTHER ERA is my book. Web and Media Editor of cincinnatireview.bsky.social.

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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Very happy for my former StoryStudio student Tamar Shapiro on the publication of RESTITUTION
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
My little essay on my dad’s song hopped over to The Toronto Star today just in time for game 3. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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My dad wrote the song that defined Canadian baseball. Now, more than ever, it’s the anthem we all need
My dad Tony Kosinec was a folk musician and jingle writer in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s. I loved listening to his catchy jingles on the radio — especially one
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
There is still time to sign up for this—such a FUN course, and we start right before Halloween which means it’s also spooky 🎃👻💀
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
If your book’s almost done, learn how to revise and where to submit in @bess-winter.bsky.social's @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class… Four classes, Zoom, starts October 30! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
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The Last Ten Percent: Revision and Submission Intensive with Bess Winter - StoryStudio Chicago
This four-week online course, intended for intermediate to advanced fiction writers who are seeking their first publications, focuses on that last ten percent of short story writing: revision and subm...
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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We’re excited to announce APOSTASIES by Holli Carrell: Release date September 15. Available NOW for preorder at a sale price till 9/15 at perugiapress.org/product/apos... and also available at asterismbooks. Check it out in our Linktree! @hollicarrell.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Have a story you want to get across the finish line? I’m teaching at @storystudiochicago.bsky.social again: THE LAST TEN PERCENT, a 4-step revision intensive meant for the writer who wants to publish. Register while you can, and pass it on! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
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The Last Ten Percent: Revision and Submission Intensive with Bess Winter - StoryStudio Chicago
This four-week online course, intended for intermediate to advanced fiction writers who are seeking their first publications, focuses on that last ten percent of short story writing: revision and subm...
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Pssst…we really need nonfiction submissions!!!
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
New title, same great editor! To better reflect all she does for CR, Assistant Managing Editor @bess-winter.bsky.social is now our Web and Media Editor!
Graphic reflecting Bess's title change from Assistant Managing Editor to Web and Media Editor. Features a photo of Bess, a white woman with curly brown hair wearing a gray sweater and white blouse, posed against a blue backdrop.
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Every day a good thing or memory. No one can control your mind palace or steal your joy. Here’s day 1:
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
You know what’s great? Turner Classic Movies, just the channel, with some old guy curating for you. I miss curation. I miss not knowing I what I really wanted was to see Mickey Rooney today
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
My ode to the stacks, today at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
happy to announce that i have no AWP events on the docket as usual and will be spending my time in KC working at the bookfair and visiting the international federation of doll clubs museum, a lifelong aspiration. i will also not sell even one copy of my old book or sign shit
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Urban decay and old brick buildings abound in this audio-photo essay in which contributor Jim Palmarini reads his mesmerizing piece from issue 20.2, WELCOME TO THE READING. Direction and editing by Assistant Editor Holli Carrell.
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Special Feature: Jim Palmarini's "WELCOME TO THE READING"
A video ode to the places where poetry lives and has lived in Cincinnati, from contributor Jim Palmarini.
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
when you move back to Cincinnati but this time video doorbell technology exists. the things my neighbors share are like Twin Peaks episodes without the cost of a ShowTime subscription
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Wes Anderson Film Idea: Walter Benjamin unpacking his library
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Bess Winter @bess-winter.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Forget doll stories! The only public writing I'm doing these days is musing on crusty signs.
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