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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Lisa Freedman and I got to clap for all the fabulous PEN award winners from VIP seating last night! It truly was a grand Oscar-esque show.

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

🫣 That was an amazingly measured response… Thank you to you and all your staff and volunteers for your work and dedication. And—patience in the face of those who don’t understand. There’d better be a special sainthood badge for all of you!

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The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The time has come to apply for this summer’s Young Writers Program! If you know or are a high school student (rising 9-12 this fall) excited about creative writing, note that The Common is offering a two-week, fully virtual intensive on the craft of fiction. Learn more here: buff.ly/kyKj9xx

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

So looking forward to this conversation! Come join us!

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Wow, I completely blipped over this last month—thanks again to @electricliterature.com for publishing this excerpt from UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE. It’s one of those stories you wish weren’t relevant to the time we’re living in…

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

And maybe the student sat through a class where poetry was taught in a way that left too little room for students to find their own way in, to feel into words, rather than focus on terminology? (I can’t know if that was the case, but their resentment towards iambic pentameter made me wonder…)

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Oh, wow, thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social for giving space to my Oma Lotte’s big dream to become a writer and to the kindness of a young tailor who fed and held her dream. Let’s all nourish and defend a world where girls’ and women’s voices can ring loud and clear and free.

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Tomorrow is Pub Day for UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE! So happy to celebrate on my publisher’s home turf! A lively conversation with students today and a reading snd discussion tomorrow —Big Thanks to Restless Books and the German Department at Amherst College for the invitation!

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

That entire puzzle reads like a found poem about a charmed life, from beginning in JESTand MOSS all the way to TheEND….

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Yes! Very early stages! But super excited to get going on this once my book tour is over. ❤️

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

“Departures” by Yojiro Takita. I guess I’m trying to figure out how to live with so much loss every day. So I needed to be reassured that there is beauty in a bleak time and that kindness is what matters and persists.

Cover Picture of the Movie Departures bei Yojiro Takita

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

There are times when you have to read Pratchett to maintain your sanity in an insane world. Others I keep thinking of right now are “The Truth” and “Nightwatch” .

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Yayyy! Congratulations!! Your students and colleagues are so lucky!

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

There’s a whole novel hiding in that one sentence… (And I want to read it!)

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

When Kirkus Review sounds like they might have asked your mom about your memoir…. 🙈😬🙈

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Das erinnert mich an Ursula Le Guin. Sie hat einmal so etwas gesagt wie: wenn man in einer SciFi Geschichte nicht an den Aktionen der Protagonisten erkennen kann, wer gut und böse ist, sondern nur daran, wer gut und böse genannt wird, dann hat die ganze Geschichte keinen Sinn.

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Don't self-reject! Submit your manuscript to the 2025 Literary Awards Program, judged by @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, for a chance to have your book published! The deadline to enter is 9/15 and our entry fee is $30. Make sure to read our full guidelines: buff.ly/sj20Ri1

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Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

TONIGHT! Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social) Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Well, it IS their future? (This is —astounding and—also a poem?)

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Thank you so much, Lilly! I learned a lot in your class.

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Congratulations, Lilly! So well deserved!!

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I’d be happy to have Restless Books send you a galley of my essay collection about what it means to grow up as the daughter and granddaughter of women living through fascism and WWII in Germany, if you are interested: www.catharinacoenen.com/unexploded-o...

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

So, so many losses. So much to grieve and worry about.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 08/07/2025

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I had a lot to say about red currants if anyone is up for an essay about things that I hoped were in the past when I wrote this. (But—aren’t.) I’m so glad to see that there ARE people here who love them! www.thecommononline.org/red-currants/

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Red Currants

CATHARINA COENEN <br> Sometimes red currants at the farmer’s market glow like dashboard warning lights, the sugar in my shopping basket drags on my arm like lead, and sweetness, beauty, danger taste t...

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Things about mainstream publishing I wish more people knew: 1) The NY Times Bestseller List is a marketing list, not an accurate list of the best-selling books for that period. 🧵

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Psst…we’re reading full-length poetry manuscripts now. Yes, we read them all. Yes, all submitters hear back from us before we announce selections. No, there’s no mandatory reading fee. 📚💙🌊🌊 riverriverbooks.org/editors/subm...

OPEN TO SUBS!

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I’m wrapping up Pride Month in my newsletter with this comic on bisexuality, myths and stereotypes, bi erasure, and what my bisexuality means to me. Happy Pride, everyone! Don’t let the bastards grind you down. Read the full comic: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/my-letter

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Zoë Bossiere @zoebossiere.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The Brevity Blog is a separate editorial team & pub than the literary magazine. As the Brevity lit mag's managing editor, I can say we do not & will never consider essays written—even partially—by LLMs. Ethics aside, we consider AI anathema to what makes art worth making & stories worth telling

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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Hey, I'm accepting book pitches for @barrelhouse.bsky.social for our new nonfiction series, For What It's Worth. Book-length essays (25-30K words) on a pop cultural obsession, ideally with a personal angle that makes the book something only you could write.

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Barrelhouse - Book Pitches: For What It's Worth (CNF)

We're accepting pitches for a new book series, For What It's Worth: short (25-30K words) works of creative nonfiction that have some pop-cultural "thing" at their center and combine elements of memoir...

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The older I get, the more helping other people matters to me. We are all in this together. We are all we have. Kindness and compassion are the only weapons that will not chip against the armor of injustice and callousness that surrounds the modern world. We can be and do better.

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Center for Humans & Nature @humansandnature.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Review our full submission guidelines here: humansandnature.org/submission-g... We look forward to receiving your work on seeds! 💚

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Submission Guidelines

Inspire change by submitting your work and sharing your ideas on nature and the human experience.

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Center for Humans & Nature @humansandnature.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

For our 2025 open call for submissions to Humans & Nature Press Digital, we’ll be welcoming essays, poetry, & artwork on the theme of seeds. 🌱 Submissions will be open June 24 thru July 15. Contributors receive an honorarium of $500 upon publication. Guidelines: humansandnature.org/submission-g...

White text overlaid on a background of blue sky and a pink blooming flower says, “Humans & Nature Press. 2025 Digital Press Open Call. Submissions will be open June 24 through July 15. We accept essays, poetry, and artwork. Honoraria are given for published work. For this year's open call, we welcome your work on seeds. Words for inspiration: creativity, diversity, resiliency, adaptation, gardening, germination, genetics, interspecies relationship, generational knowledge, growth, knowledge transfer, seed sovereignty, seed keeping, rematriation, animacy, radical joy, belonging, listening, enchantment, embodiment, urgency, slowness, deep time, crafts, roots, dialogue. humansandnature.org/submission-guidelines”

White text overlaid on a background of blue sky and a pink blooming flower says, “Humans & Nature Press. 2025 Digital Press Open Call. We welcome your writings & artwork on the theme of seeds as both the offspring/wellspring of the plants and also as metaphors for resilient reimagining and active adaptation. In this time of accelerated climate and social change, what are the seeds we are planting for the future? What are we growing in our gardens and communities? What are the forms of adaptation and beginnings that we want to enact at this point in our shared histories? What ancestral knowledges do we retain and reinvigorate that will further the flourishing of humans, and other-than-human beings? What are our intentions and offerings for the generations who follow us? How are we cultivating transformation in this time? humansandnature.org/submission-guidelines”

White text overlaid on a background of blue sky and a pink blooming flower says, “Humans & Nature Press. 2025 Digital Press Open Call. The Center for Humans & Nature is home to a press and farm that explore in-depth and diverse perspectives about what it means to be human in an interconnected world. Humans & Nature Press amplifies voices critical to our collective future, providing print and digital platforms connecting readers with stories and ideas. Humans & Nature Press Digital publishes creative work that explores and promotes human responsibilities in relation to the whole community of life. humansandnature.org”

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Catharina Coenen @catharinacoenen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

👏👏👏👏 Musste ich gerade dran denken:

Cover Bild von „Mein Jahr im Wasser“ von Jessica J. Lee

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