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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITY! I'm thrilled to serve as final judge for The Radiant Collective Fellowships, at Prospect Street Writers House in Bennington VT, which brings 6 writers to PSWH July 8 - 15 for a fully-funded residency! Open to all within a (rough) 50-mile radius. More here: tinyurl.com/2v87raut

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Join us as we shout out the Finalists of the 2025 Literary Awards Program pt 2: Sandy Nietling, Anna Dickson James, Jennifer Love, @cdiacono.bsky.social, @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social, Joseph O’Donnell, Amanda Holmes, Jeanne Gassman, Joe Oestreich, & Scott Lane! buff.ly/W9BV5sP

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I wrote about the fear of failure, and the worry that I won't do anything with all of my ideas: free to read here! #amwriting #artists #memoir #fiction #writingcommunity caitlindmcgill.substack.com/p/what-is-ha...

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What is happening to my ideas?

When I scribble so many down, but do "nothing" with them, have I failed?

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Virginia 50501 Movement @50501virginia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

No Kings Day 6/14 Richmond. Unlike other “leaders” worried about getting their “hair” wet, in DC, 50501 Virginia will be loudly saying No Kings, -rain or shine- Be a part of history tomorrow. It’s a first amendment right. @indivisibleva.bsky.social @acluva.bsky.social @henricodems.bsky.social

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Solstice Literary Magazine @solsticelitmag.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Thank you to everyone who has submitted to our annual literary contest this year! You make our community so wonderful. We can't wait to see what you have in store for us with your stories. Thank you all again for being a part of this with us!

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Also sharing this piece from last year, which I read at @awpwriter.bsky.social and hold up here for my #sober & sober curious friends: "Through the Threads," a flash #essay up at Hunger Mountain Review. @vcfa.bsky.social

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Hunger Mountain Review – VCFA Journal of the Arts

Hunger Mountain is the VCFA Journal of the Arts

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Briefly stepping out of my social media break to offer this to anyone who needs it—"Creating Differently, & Writing Slumps" #writingcommunity

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"Creating Differently,"

& writing slumps

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT! Did you hear? @samuelashworth.bsky.social will be in-conversation with Mary Kay Zuravleff to discuss Samuel's debut novel, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY, TONIGHT at 5pm EDT at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social! RSVP for FREE: buff.ly/kAoWoje @susanschulman.bsky.social

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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY | A Busboys & Poets Books Presentation

Join us to discuss a visceral novel that twines the stories of a magnetic celebrity chef with the obsessive doctor assigned to his autopsy

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

yeah fuck it we ball Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure. Deadline: July 1st More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

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Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry

Autistic people’s rights are being threatened. Our worth is being questioned. And suddenly, we’re facing a bizarre accusation that an…

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In the 90s, Toni Morrison found out that one of her books had been banned in a men’s prison because they were afraid it would incite a riot. And she was absolutely delighted. In an interview she smiled and said “how powerful is that?” I want to write books that incite riots and tear down prisons.

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Jill Christman @jillchristman.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Today's the day, AWP friends. We're going to have a blast. Come laugh with us. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful...

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Such a killer new piece by Kat Gonso!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

And like the victims sent to Guantanamo and El Salvador, these grabs are made to strike terror in the broader population, to intimidate people out of exercising their rights and freedoms.

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Please join us Friday AWP!! :) Can't wait to hear from the audience <3 "Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way" 12:10pm-1:25pm, Room 518, Level Two #awp25 @paulhaney.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social

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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A reminder that if you’re using AI to write your novel or memoir or whatever it is you’re trying to develop, you’re absolutely doing it wrong and missing the point entirely of what it means to make art and tend to and honor your creative self.

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The memoir is finally down to 88k thanks to my INCREDIBLE readers and friends (thank you!!!!), and thanks to so many years of rewriting and cutting and rewriting and cutting and rewriting. 🥹 #memoir

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you are upset about what's going on but aren't sure what to do: start by calling your reps. This app 👇 makes it easy. Standing up to authority is a muscle. If you haven't had to exercise it before, this is a great first step. I promise DOING one thing will make you feel better & more capable.

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Bless the protestors standing outside on busy Broad Street yesterday in the Richmond suburbs.

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

HUGE congrats to @laurenfsharma.bsky.social for her gripping, important novel, CASUALTIES OF TRUTH. I did not want to put it down, did not want it to end. I’m still thinking about Prudence. The writing and the story—just incredible. Get your copy friends!!! bookshop.org/p/books/casu...

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Book jacket with summary of book. See link to book purchase.

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

My partner and I were up late last night discussing the bleak present and future, and I'm just so tired. But I'm going to keep telling stories and help others do the same. We have to. Also, we have to take breaks.

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Am I writing or am I searching for interactive cat toys as my indoor/outdoor cat cries and I try to tell her what's been happening to the birds?

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I would love to hear more about what everyone is counting as their writing for the day! Helps me feel less anguish at how few words I am writing...lately I've been reading and posting about other people's books and checking email...

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Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Mark your calendars! @shubhasunder.bsky.social is taking OPTIONAL PRACTICAL TRAINING on the road this spring. www.graywolfpress.org/events

Shubha Sunder on tour for "Optional Practical Training"

3/7 @ 7 PM | Brookline, MA
Brookline Booksmith
w/ Neema Avashia

3/12 @ 7 PM | Minneapolis, MN
Magers & Quinn
w/ Mark Haber

3/19 @ 7 PM | Washington, DC
Politics & Prose
w/ Koye Oyedeji

3/23 @ 6 PM | Providence, RI
Riffraff Bookstore
w/ E. C. Osondu

3/27 @ 12:10 PM | LA, CA
AWP Conference: “New Styles for
the Immigrant Novel”

4/4 @ 6 PM | Brooklyn, NY
Center for Fiction
w/ Aria Aber & Kate Folk

5/1 @ 7:00 PM | Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store
w/ Michelle Min Sterling

5/2–5/4 | Manchester Center, VT
Booktopia Festival, presented by Northshire Bookstore

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“I am looking to Lynda Barry and kids and other artists as I try to discover what story I might be writing next—after and between rounds of editing my memoir, and also as we try to survive these uncertain times.” substack.com/@caitlindmcg...

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Borrowing a State of Mind

Lynda Barry & Friends

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Omotara @omotarajames.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Celebrate Black poets. “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton poets.org From Quilting: Poems 1987–1990 by Lucille Clifton. Copyright © 2001 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with permission of BOA Editions Ltd. All rights reserved.

Celebrate Black poets. “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton

(at St. Mary’s)

“may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that”

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From Quilting: Poems 1987–1990 by Lucille Clifton. Copyright © 2001 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with permission of BOA Editions Ltd. All rights reserved.

Black and white photo of Lucille Clifton, wearing glasses and smiling through closed lips: her chin leaning on her hand, her index finger pointed across her chin, her thumb resting on her jawline.

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Been calling on my friends to help me remember: doing one small thing, one day at a time, is something; also: teaching is a hell of a something. If you are struggling with despair, hope this helps you too.

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Writers—I have a long essay (finally down to 6500 words) that I've worked on for years, but now truly feels done. Any suggestions for lit mags publishing longer work? I've tried the top suspects, but, in its 7500-word form, all rejections. Feeling a little low on hope! Hoping to try again in 2025

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

"I am not offering this poem for judgment. I am not trying to win a poetry prize. I am trying to continue to be able to love in the face of shamelessness and slaughter." Thank you, dear Richard. voxpopulisphere.com/2024/12/13/r...

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Richard Hoffman: Looking at Photos of Gaza | November, 2024

I am no longer bewildered by cruelty, have not been speechless facing suffering, but I have nothing now to say to anyone to move them to change their minds.

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T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

There’s a lot of important journalism in the Atlantic article; some content that made me cry, some that enrages. But I’m glad they outline the below for ppl who don’t know or refuse to know; “Supporting local” on a Hawaiian vacation is not helping us Kanaka (Hawaiians). It is feeding billionaires

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is your annual reminder that buying @librofm.bsky.social gift credits for the audiobook lovers in your life makes them happy, supports indie bookstores, and is the easiest holiday shopping you will ever do. Also right now you can save 10% on gift credit bundles: libro.fm/gift

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Digital audiobook gift cards

Gift our version of audiobooks gift cards with audiobook credit bundles.

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small spider
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn't
And she scared me
And I smashed her

I don't think
I'm allowed

To kill something

Because I am

Frightened.

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

submitting letters of rec for my amazing students applying to MFAs, thinking of how I applied to like, 9 programs? and my amazing professors submitted all those damn letters <3

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

because I forever find this fascinating: writers who published their memoirs: what was your final, published-version word count?

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I loved listening to your recorded Bread Loaf talk on this! Excited to read the book.

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Classes done (aside from their final portfolios). One more week til I send this manuscript to a dear reader (so grateful!). Ready for this!! 💜🥹😴

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Caitlin McGill @caitlindmcgill.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ending the semester, as usual, with wise words from Toni Morrison: “I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power…

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Backflash—Out Today!!!

Nine illustrations showing an adult son taking care of his aging mother.

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