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Claire Taylor

@clairemtaylor.com
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Writer. EIC of Little Thoughts Press (@littlethoughtspress.com) clairemtaylor.com otherthoughts.beehiiv.com 📍Baltimore April and Back Again available now: www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/ap…

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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 1h
Book recommendation request! What’s a book that you really enjoyed and that taught you something new? I don‘t want to feel called to action or to have to grapple with the past or the future. Just like, wow I didn’t know anything about this and now I do and it was fun learning it…
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 29/09/2026
Had someone submit to my lit mag but they never replied to my acceptance email to confirm their piece was available for publication. I've reached out 3 times, provided a must-confirm-by date, tried to contact via social media. No luck. So now I have to cut them from the issue & it's a bummer but 🤷
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 27/09/2026
Man it really would be swell if one of these fake book clubs that wanted to feature my book was a real book club that wanted to feature my book.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 24/09/2026
Anyone who thinks pasta shape doesn’t matter has not spent enough time with a three-year-old.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 22/09/2026
Novel writing is…kind of lonely? Poetry & flash gave me more pieces to submit, more publications to share and that brought more interactions with fellow contributors. But now it’s just me alone with this one story for as long as it takes to finish this draft.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 17/09/2026
Fun to wait an hour for the pharmacy to fill a prescription that your child will refuse to take.
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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To celebrate our local roots: In addition to work from writers anywhere in the world, we will include a special Maryland Writers section in our fall issue. Accepting submissions for this during September.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 26/08/2026
Trying to get my 9yo to do things himself while simultaneously trying to convince my 3yo that he cannot do everything himself.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 22/08/2026
Second draft of this novel is going really well which is such a shame because it means I can’t just give up on it.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 12/08/2026
A thing about writing that has become very clear to me in working on the 2nd draft of my novel is how many of the problems in a piece can be easily resolve by deleting an entire paragraph and replacing with a single more clarifying sentence.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 09/08/2026
“It’s like they’re both on cocaine.” - @grandcards.bsky.social, about our children’s particular intensity today. Counting down the days until school starts.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 06/08/2026
My 9yo: Mom, what’s bitcoin? Me: world‘s deepest sigh
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 06/08/2026
Hot flashes are so weird because the word flash suggests a quick burst of heat but I’m finding I gradually get hotter & hotter until I’m like oh my god why am I so uncomfortable and sweaty?!
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 05/08/2026
Intermittent fasting but it's just me forgetting to eat all day and then at 4pm devouring all the junk food in the house in a Tasmanian Devil-esque rush before I crash out. Follow me for more great health tips.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 05/08/2026
A thing bumming me out: though sub guidelines for my kidlit mag clearly state no AI, it's becoming increasingly hard for me to confidently assess if a submission from a kid writer was actually written by a kid. I hate having to second guess myself & stress over it. It's tedious & depressing.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 01/08/2026
Listen to this man with good taste and a great beard!
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 01/08/2026
Ah August, that beautiful time of year as a poet when everyone shares the huge stacks of poetry books they’ll be reading all month and none of them include your book.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 16/07/2026
The sound of my children eating popsicles is my villain origin story.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 16/07/2026
The hardest thing about writing as a parent is not finding time to write but that most of the mental effort of writing happens in periods where you're not physically writing & that space is so overwhelmed by noise & your children's needs that your mind feels constantly chaotic & overstimulated.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 16/07/2026
how does one get some of that good rip van winkle sleep?
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 14/07/2026
Since spam invitations from fellow writers are filling my inbox daily, I just want you all to know that I would never cordially invite you to do anything. If you ever think, oh wow, how nice, Claire wants me to join her for a party…no she does not. She definitely, absolutely does not.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 12/07/2026
What a great day to be alive.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 09/07/2026
Self-serving but I think every time your writing gets interrupted by your kids and you manage not to act like a total bitch about it, you should get a little reward.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 08/07/2026
This version of me just has to write the novel. A different version of me can figure out how to make the novel make sense.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 07/07/2026
Fully 90% of what my children say to me daily is shouted from at least two rooms away, and 95% of that comes 15 seconds after I’ve just left the room that they were in.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 26/06/2026
Trying to make tuna salad with two hungry cats in the house feels like living inside an episode of I Love Lucy.
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GrandCards @grandcards.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is just a sailboat account now I guess. Here’s Ecuador sailing in earlier this afternoon. Crew standing on the masts, music blaring!
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 23/06/2026
Don’t mind me, just committing rage-induced arson because my printer won’t do the only job it’s designed to do.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 22/06/2026
A great source of conflict in my house right now is that if I work for 15 minutes my kids think that time feels like 2 and a half hours and I think it feels like 2 and a half seconds.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 21/06/2026
Happy Father’s Day to the best in the game, @grandcards.bsky.social
The Corner

when they tore down
Tiger Stadium, my husband said nothing is sacred

but that was before he had children

before he discovered how beautifully the soft head of a new life 
tucks into the corner 
of his elbow


from April and Back Again, by me
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 18/06/2026
It’s only day 2 of summer break and I cannot bear to throw any more balls, or draw any more cars, or dance around to the same three songs any more, or lose another Mario Kart race.
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HAD @havehashad.com · 16/06/2026
"Sexual Orientation • Heterosexual • Homosexual • Okay, so it’s 1999 and The Mummy is in theaters and everyone is falling in love with men and women and eyeliner as thick as the lid of a sarcophagus..." today from Frances Klein! www.havehashad.com/lk1uf
June 16, 2026
Demographics
Frances Klein
Sexual Orientation (select one)

Heterosexual
Homosexual
Okay, so it’s 1999 and The Mummy is in theaters and everyone is falling in love with men and women and eyeliner as thick as the lid of a sarcophagus and all the teens are doodling on their notebooks in loopy cursive, Mr. Rachel Weisz’s Belted Tanktop, and Mrs. Brendan Fraser’s Center-Part Bangs, and Arnold Vosloo’s Shaved Head and the small towns of America aren’t so small when you sit in the dark with desert stretching past the horizon, and we all see the movie every weekend, tickets are cheap if you smuggle in your own snacks, cargo pants pockets stuffed with Skittles, and the ticket taker doesn’t notice because he’s making eyes at the cardboard cutout of Brendan, we all are, we all want to be all four lips and two tongues inside the big kiss at the end, want to be every locust buzzing out of Imhotep’s unhinged jaws, we have no words for what we feel, know only that something inside us h
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 06/06/2026
I need you to love me better than this (I said to my cat)
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 05/06/2026
If you’re terrible at crafts and have zero artistic talent but love to disappoint people, I highly recommend having children.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 01/06/2026
I went pretty much a full year without submitting any writing anywhere and just recently started sending stuff out again and boy, not doing the whole submission waiting game was way better for my mental health. I really gotta figure out a way to send it then completely forget it.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 27/05/2026
"A dated reference can break the spell a book casts on readers....it can pull young readers out of the story." This completely ignores that kids are constantly reading words & character names they have never encountered before & they just keep on reading, no problem. Let's trust kids more.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 27/05/2026
so much for the soccer ball drenched with rain water left outside the back door
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 26/05/2026
Perhaps in a world increasingly obsessed with efficiency, hacks, and outsourcing all human effort to AI, the most radical thing you can do is take forever to finish writing your novel.
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 23/05/2026
It is time. Send Thirty West your books thirtywestph.com/submit
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Carolina VonKampen 📚 Freelance Editor @carolinavonkampen.com · 22/05/2026
I fixed it! #blackoutpoetry #poem #writingcommunity #writersky
A blackout poem of the Granta letter that reads: "AI" by Carolina VonKampen. The AI generated us elaborate wealth so we awarded it.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 21/05/2026
Should I keep all my old writing notebooks so that someday when I’m dead, my children can find them and realize how pathetically few synonyms I knew for extremely common words?
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 20/05/2026
I’ve drafted 12 new poems this month and they are all for a project that I started just for the fun of doing it, so take what you want from that about writing and motivation.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 20/05/2026
I am so fucking tired of having to hear about AI
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 20/05/2026
Every time you‘re like, “it’s too damn hot,” someone’s gotta be like “at least it’s not cold!” as if that’s the only other option.
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 18/05/2026
Sometimes when I’m sitting in my yard in the middle of the day, a bird will swoop past me so fast and so low that I’ll think it’s a bat and I have to remind myself that not everything in this world is rabid.
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
@porcupinelit.bsky.social is looking for an associate fiction editor and a social media manager. If you are a teacher and interested in either position please send an email outlining your interest and experience to porcupinesubmissions @ gmail
static.klipy.com
Obi-Wan Kenobi: You Are Our Only Hope
Alt: Obi-Wan Kenobi: You Are Our Only Hope
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 12/05/2026
Mark your calendars. Thirty West is opening for book manuscripts on May 23 thirtywestph.com/submit
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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 13/05/2026
submissions open in two days … this could be you:
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Take note, poets! 📚💙 Full guidelines here: riverriverbooks.org/editors/subm...
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