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Cari O.

@cariwriting.bsky.social
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Writer. Wine taster. Chapbook prize winner. Memoirist. Words in Josephine Quarterly, Thin Skin, Taos Journal of Poetry, Thimble, Mom Egg Review, Literary Orphans, The Fourth River, Marbled Sigh, Lime Hawk Review... Found in Europe + Florida.

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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On a train to Germany after the beautiful weekend in Madrid with @saloneurope.bsky.social - and all of what I absorbed is slowly sinking in. I feel like there are not enough notebooks in the world to hold it all. 💜🌟 Thank you gorgeous writing tribe.
Lime green notebook on a train tray table
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brought me back to my guinea pig days (well. my daughter’s). Brilliant reading! 💜
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy autumn 🍂
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When a fellow writer and friend knows your own writing so well and chooses a perfect poem for the day. 💜💜
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My #Fridayreads. Finishing up The Irish Goodbye today and moving excitedly into The Disappearers after that.
Two hardcover books: The Irish Goodbye and The Disappearers
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
These book club chats are always so smart. Join us! 🌟
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hiking a 79-km wine trail in Germany next month, actually. Bought a new sports bra and everything. If I don’t have an epiphany of some sort, I swear to god …
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Alright, I’m feeling this particular prompt (written from these last beach days of my summer). #PoemsAbout #EndofSummer @thebrokenspine.co.uk
it is the turning away
from icebox cakes 
lemon and light, yellow 
and white, barely frosted-
drizzles of cool
sticky syrup
crumbs brushed crumbs
swept to birds and sand 

to the dense dark cakes
the apple and the pumpkin
rich cinnamon and weighty
butter creams thick like socks
slicing in at firesides with hot drinks, palates hungry all season
crumbs gathered against the wet of a sponge.
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m not dealing with any of it today, thanks.
Guava spritz, sunglasses, and book on a chair at the beach
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So there’s a chapbook by me and it won a prize and I read from it in various places and I know we are supposed to sell these things but honestly I just enjoy the fact that it exists in the world. Happy writing, friends.
Ocala chapbook and red wine  
Me reading from Ocala chapbook in MadridMe reading from Ocala chapbook in St PeteOcala chapbook and note from publishers (Yellowjacket Press)
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
So much to cling to in this poem. 💜
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Where are you, Spanish writer friends?? ⬇️
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Anyway, the memoir edits are going well. #amwriting #cats
Cat laying on my manuscript
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If we are talking about #fridayreads, please know how much I am enjoying this story and especially the main character.
The book “Safekeep” by Yael Van Der Wouden
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Same.
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A perfect Sunday reading by the canal in Vienna why is Monday and its demands banging on my door…
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My #fridayreads is irresistible and the weekend work may not get done.
A book: The Wax Child standing on a table in front of a window
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
So. Excellent.
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Oh hello
Cat at a window
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Haarlem vibes.
Book and chai latteArt sign on a street with flowers Bicycle on a path
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Wine. Canal view (not pictured: ducks). New notebook. So much writing inspiration from two days with @saloneurope.bsky.social Bliss.
Glass of wine with notebooks and pens
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Hi! I’m here and I can’t wait to see everyone tomorrow.
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Today’s inspiring cat pose.
Cat draped over cupboards
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I could not book that Amsterdam salon fast enough. I MISS my writers. 💜💜
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Writing a poem over a divine lunch and taking things too far in my description of a cucumber slice these things cannot be helped.
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Happy birthday to the most encouraging group of writers I know! I’ve been with them in Berlin, Brussels, Madrid, and Paris … and I can’t wait for where we go this year. 💜💜💜
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I had a great time last week listening to @cariwriting.bsky.social share poems from her new chapbook, which won the Yellow Jacket Press 2025 chapbook award. #poetryopenmic #poetrychapbooks #poetry #floridapoets
A picture of Cari Oleskewicz at the microphone reading from her chapbook at Studio 620 in St. Petersburg, FL.
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
So happy to have a flash piece (which began as a writing prompt last year) in the fantastic @thin-skin.bsky.social … enjoy all the good work in this issue. 💜 thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...
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A Perfect Day Not to Meet - Thin Skin
Jon is no doubt wandering Egmont Park, wondering if he got a detail wrong. He is looking for me, anxious perhaps that I am late, but certain I will show. I am a good person, he trusts that.
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Tickets procured and yes I am looking forward to September even though it’s only January. See you in Madrid, EWS besties. 💜
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
And so this is happening. If you find yourself in St Petersburg FL in early February, please come hear me read some poems. Maybe read some of your own! 💜
Flyer advertising a poetry reading on Feb 4 at Studio620 in St Pete FL
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
You’ll find me celebrating this incredible organization ALWAYS, and especially on their 2nd birthday. 🎉🌟🩵
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
#Fridayreads is a sweet and tender story. 🩵
Book and mug on a porch. Book is “The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen”
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Reading poems! Sipping cider! So grateful to have a literary crew at “home” in Florida. 💜
Woman reading in front of a microphone Glass of cider Group of poets
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Marie is one of the finest writers I know, so this tracks. 🥂🎉
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
#caturday vibes
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Highly recommend all online and in-person offerings from this beloved salon. 💜💜💜
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Perfect #fridayreads for the mood 💜 📚
Book cover: In winter I get up at night by Jane Urquhart
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I wrote a blog for Chill Subs! And I managed to write it about wine!Read it here. Cheers. 🍷 www.chillsubs.com/blog/how-to-...
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Cheers to Submission Rituals (Which May or May Not Include a Glass of Wine) | Chill Subs Blog
How to build a submission practice you'll actually stick to
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
A poem of mine is included in The Fourth River’s winter edition, which is beautifully dedicated to our feathered bird friends. Enjoy Salt Marsh and all the other gorgeous work here. #poetry www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
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Salt Marsh — The Fourth River
by Cari Oleskewicz
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Heading to 🌟 Paris 🌟 this morning to hang out with my favorite writing community ever… allons-y! @saloneurope.bsky.social
Coffee and eclair
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Listen, if you’re writing a memoir about horses, this is absolutely relevant information, thank you @merriam-webster.com 🐎 #amwriting
Dictionary Description of whoa versus woah.
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Dean Haspiel @deanhaspiel.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
So much fun reading and listening tonight, and I love my @saloneurope.bsky.social fam.
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A double dose of #fridayreads today, and I’ll be adding some László Krasznahorkai before the weekend is over, too, because #Nobel Happy reading, friends.
Set of books - Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck and a collection of stories by Shirley Jackson
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Meet us in Paris, writer friends!
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
My #fridayreads is “Foster” by Claire Keegan, which I began reading in a lovely, leafy park in Brussels 💜
Book cover: Foster by Claire Keegan in a leafy park
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Don’t ask me to do anything for the next month. I already HAD too much writing to do, and now that I’m fresh off the @saloneurope.bsky.social salon in Brussels, there is even MORE writing to do. I’m at my desk. And I’m not leaving it until Madrid. 💜
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a cartoon character holding a sign that says not disturb
Alt: a cartoon character holding a sign that says not disturb
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Found everything I need in Brussels. #books #reading
Sidewalk sign for Passa Porta bookshopSign across the wall walking into a bookstore
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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I am in Brussels and 😍😍😍 I already love this city!
Church in Brussels
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