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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just started watching Rooster, with Steve Carell, and it’s the salve I need! I couldn’t help but notice the cop’s gun *not going off* in a nod to Chekhov. So I wait. m.youtube.com/watch?v=L00r...

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm so excited for Christina's book, and how wonderful that a story started in my workshop is included! Congrats, @christinaltudor.bsky.social!

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Calling all flash writers! I have *one* spot left in my Hermit Crab Flash Workshop, on Sunday, Oct. 18--a 4-hour writing session, with lots of feedback. Because there's been such interest, I've opened up the last session of the year, on Sunday, Nov. 8. Join us! www.cherylpappas.net/events

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The October installment of From the Bookshelf is now posted! This month's writing prompt is inspired by a flash by Zbigniew Herbert's "Hell." substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looking forward to be in conversation about my novel The Imagined life with author Jeff Condran at the Six Bridges Book Festival in Little Rock, Arkansas on Sept 30. The event starts at 6 PM in the Ron Robinson Theater! I’d you’re in the Little Rock area, I’d love to see you! ❤️

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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did you know that @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social , @aniking.bsky.social and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social all have new books out, or about to come out? And that they're all going to have REMOTE BOOK LAUNCHES? I don't know if I can get to them all, but I'm darn well signing up! Congratulations all!

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This man is 55! (It's artist William Morris Hunt, who died by drowning in 1879.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

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William Morris Hunt - Wikipedia

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wrote this short essay almost 10 years ago about what Annie Dillard can teach us, looking at her essay "Seeing." I also quote extensively from her essay in my flash fiction class. Her words give us so much, and I'm so grateful. www.essaydaily.org/2017/03/cher...

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Cheryl Pappas: Learning To See Again, with Annie Dillard

If you are like me and you check your smartphone about 80 times a day, then you, too, might need a gentle reminder that there is an unseen u...

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...

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Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News

Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“You’ll have fish left over” is just one line of Annie Dillard’s that I keep with me. So grateful to her and her words.

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who shared this news today! In a few months, you’ll be hearing more!

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Congratulations to @ldeforest.bsky.social on her book Any Kind of Known Tomorrow, which is published today!

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Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hi y’all! You know what would be rad? If you came to my remote launch party for Family Night on Oct 24 @1pm ET. More info in the alt text and at the registration link below. aniking.net/launchparty/

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've opened a Hermit Crab Flash FIction Workshop online session for 10/18! You’ll write three flash using found forms (aka the hermit crab, because you’re “borrowing” a familiar form). Everyone will receive feedback on their work. Join us! 1-5pm ET $80 www.cherylpappas.net/events

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

did you know that the English words druid, trust, truth, betroth, and truce all share a root word with “tree”? this reflects the longstanding spiritual and symbolic significance of trees in many European cultures

a hand drawn diagram of a tree showing the many words that come from the root word of ‘tree’

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

lmao "so go ahead and fail" is such a terrific burn

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's crazy to me that this is not leading the New York Times, NBC News, CNN, etc. If you're that numb, maybe think about a field other than journalism.

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Back on my story collection business, and as much as I hate to admit it, not all stories deserve a place!

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This month's From the Bookshelf, inspired by a short story by Katherine Vaz, is now posted! cherylpappas.substack.com/p/from-the-b...

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From the Bookshelf

September 2026

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Don’t let folks tell you Gen Z students can’t read. Kicked-off my Duke first-year class with this favorite Lydia Davis story - projected text onto a whiteboard so we could annotate by hand. So many smart and insightful readings, by a group of 18 year-olds in their first week of university life.

If you ask her what is a favorite story she has written, she will hesitate for a long time and then say it may be this story that she read in a book once: an English-language teacher in China asked his Chinese student to say what was the happiest moment in his life. The student hesitated for a long time. At last he smiled with embarrassment and said that his wife had once gone to Beijing and eaten duck there, and she often told him about it, and he would have to say the happiest moment of his life was her trip, and the eating of the duck.

-Lydia Davis, Happiest Moment

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” ~ Dolly Parton

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Friends, book reviews are drying up. We all know this. But it's worth repeating. Advance reviews we used to (gratefully!) count on are no longer a given; we're not getting them. Newspapers where intrepid reviewers used to talk about our books . . . well, you know. PLEASE, if you read our books . . .

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

All social science core classes at the University of Chicago will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students and professors

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Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall

All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This class is sold out. I just opened another one up for Sunday, October 18. Details in the link below!

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Staring down the eye of AI with our little spear.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We are isolated in the US. We are exhausted and sad, yet somehow supposed to be fiercely independent. But multi-generational living changed that for @writesloud.bsky.social. She wrote about it in @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social’s LIVING, TOGETHER. buff.ly/TSbBXwd

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Hard-Earned Patience: An Interview with Hannah Grieco - Mutha Magazine

We are exhausted and sad, yet somehow supposed to be fiercely independent

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This class is almost full! I just had a star flash fiction writer sign up ❤️.

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Great news, @kiklodge.bsky.social! Congratulations!! I can't wait to read this book!

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Click through to find a poem from my forthcoming collection, Beginning to Sense, Feb. 2027!

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New From the Bookshelf writing prompt! Happy August to you. This month's inspiration is Dorothy Parker's story "Advice to the Little Peyton Girl." So fun. cherylpappas.substack.com/p/from-the-b...

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August 2026

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I just went through this tremendously helpful resource. Thank you, Jessamyn!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you happen to know someone at Harvard who’d like to take my creative nonfiction workshop this fall, here’s the application. Part of what’s fun is I can accept students from any part of the college, undergrad and graduate students: hms.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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"Who Do You Think You Are?" A Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop

Application for 2024 Fall course.

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This lady is getting ready for vacation!

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The latest From the Bookshelf post is live! This month's writing prompt is inspired by Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. cherylpappas.substack.com/p/from-the-b...

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From the Bookshelf

July 2026

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Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

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w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction

An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is a bit late, because this wonderful journal arrived in the mail during the semester, but the fabulous @mooncityreview.bsky.social published my story "Morning Bus" in their latest issue. Thank you to editor extraordinaire Michael Czyzniejewski!

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'm thrilled to share "Gretel Overhears Her Parents," published in Fractured Literary. It is adapted from an excerpt of my forthcoming novel by Cornerstone Press, A Thousand Ways to Disappear. Thank you, @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social, and the Fractured team. fracturedlit.com/gretel-overh...

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Gretel Overhears Her Parents | Fractured

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