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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley

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Clay Sheldon @claysheldon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In honor of the spookiest month, consider writing a horror story! Even if you're not normally a writer. It doesn't have to long or even necessarily good. But give it a try! Think about what scares or unnerves you. Explore that (in a safe way) and put it to the page. You might just surprise yourself!
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Clay Sheldon @claysheldon.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Good writing comes from passion. Not passion to make a dollar or passion at being noticed, but passion about the subject matter. Passion about the work itself. That is where good storytelling comes from.
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Great way to start the day! #onepeloton #peloton #meditation members.onepeloton.com/classes/medi...
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
If you buy this book, in a few days your Alexa will beep and say, "You have one new notification from Amazon.com. A no-good worthless book has arrived." #amwriting #writingcommunity #kidlit #inventingreality www.amazon.com/gp/product/194...
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Happy Wednesday!
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blu-dot @blu-dot.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
No Quill “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” -Edgar Allan Poe #Spooktober #weapon #31DaysOfHalloween #ClassicMono #photography #vintage #EastCoastKin #DangerousDays
Black and white photo of a vintage Underwood typewriter.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Remembering EDGAR ALLAN POE - who left us 176yrs ago today
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Edgar Allan Poe died on this day in 1849. Doom. Plague. Despair. Madness. Creeping existential horror. He would have loved 2025.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/10/2025
“Painting and novels to my mind are basically wed. You can’t take them apart from each other.” Brandon Taylor discusses his new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” which follows a young painter in the years after the supposed racial reckoning of 2020.
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Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art
The author discusses his latest novel, “Minor Black Figures,” and the discourse around racial subjectivity.
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ~Edgar Allan Poe
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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Bernardine Evaristo on a writer’s freedom and the sensitivities of storytelling, in conversation with Ostap Slyvynsky at Lviv BookForum 2025 this weekend.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 05/10/2025
Teacher, scholar, he had worked a true task when all alive… —Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod” New Collected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011 Today is #WorldTeachersDay. In this poem Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, celebrates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School 1/4
Iain Crichton Smith
For Angus MacLeod
Headmaster, and Editor of Gaelic Poems

Today they laid him in the earth’s cold colour,
a man from Lewis with his seventy-five
years struck from his head. Teacher, scholar,
he had worked a true task when all alive,

building a school, elucidating texts.
The Gaelic shone quite clearly in his bones.
A casket filled with ashes had been mixed
with filtered sunlight and the small stones.

A useful life with pupils and with poems:
sufficient honours (his humour asked no more)
he takes his place in many minds and rooms.
Without their knowing it, his patient care

instructs far hands to turn a new lever,
a voice to speak in a mild-mannered tone.
The deeds we do reverberate forever.
Inveterate justice weighs the flesh and bone.

His best editions are some men and women
who scrutinise each action like a word.
The truest work is learning to be human
definitive texts the poorest can afford.
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“At degree level, students are still reading whole novels and plays. However, there are lots of initiatives to help students read. Some universities do reading resilience courses.” www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
OpenAI is risking pissing off a lot of Hollywood with the next update of Sora, which will allow you to generate videos with copyrighted content (Iron Man, Shrek, etc.) unless the owner specifically opts out. Scoop with @keachhagey.bsky.social and Berber Jin www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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Exclusive | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the company notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Sometimes teen boys go looking for extremist content online. Often, it finds them. Julie Jargon and I spoke to young men who fell down dangerous Internet rabbit holes and came out the other side. www.wsj.com/tech/how-two...
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How Two Young Men Got Pulled Into Internet Darkness, and How They Got Out
Teens and men in their 20s look for belonging in corrosive online spaces but often end up feeling more isolated. “The beliefs themselves instilled loneliness,” one says.
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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...
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L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie
Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.
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Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” —Samual Johnson
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 03/10/2025
"As for my approach to writing comic fiction in general, the simple answer is that I try to make myself laugh." @chayab77.bsky.social interviews Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ed Park on his Debut Short Story Collection, An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House). ➡️ buff.ly/FH5A2MY
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"I became a writer because, as a Houston high school teacher, I wanted my students to find books with characters they could relate to" writes Ashley Hope Pérez in the @houstonchronicle.com, "people looking to create vibrant lives in difficult circumstances." www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
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First Texas schools banned my book. Now it's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
The problem isn't just the new state law. It's how some school leaders are reacting to it.
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#selfpublishing #indieauthor #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...
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Why writers need to carry business cards
We’ve all experienced this before: You want to get hold of someone but don’t know how. You could look them up online and probably find their email and phone number, of course…if only you could…
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#fridayfoster
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 30/09/2025
When I didn't know how to live I became my grandmother: .. And in my head came her raspy voice and her soft voice and her quiet voice; which rarely laughed but was always delighted with living and eighty years of reticent habits cultivated by her small hands. - Sue Zhao #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Hong Kong

When I didn't know how to live I became my grandmother: opening windows in the morning early enough to see the light sifting between the curtains, I swept the floor with a bamboo broomstick and made breakfast.

And in my head came her raspy voice and her soft voice and her quiet voice; which rarely laughed but was always delighted with living and eighty years of reticent habits cultivated by her small hands.

She had not always been loved, so she knew all about love.

And on days which were longer and longer still, on returning home to an empty apartment in that spectacular city - her voice emanated like bells.

You must be hungry, she said, looking over at what I was cooking. And I laid my head in the lap of her voice, nodding. I am, I am.

Sue Zhao
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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Ta-Nehisi Coates - BOTD 📚 #LiteratureSky
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Chembu🌺🧶♿ - Ko-Fi shop Updated. Checkout please! @chembarathi.northsky.social · 01/10/2025
Why Are Your Poems so Dark? Isn't the moon dark too, most of the time? And doesn't the white page seem unfinished without the dark stain of alphabets? When God demanded light, he didn't banish darkness. - Linda Pastan #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Why Are Your Poems so Dark?

BY LINDA PASTAN

Isn't the moon dark too, most of the time?

And doesn't the white page seem unfinished

without the dark stain of alphabets?

When God demanded light, he didn't banish darkness.

Instead he invented ebony and crows

and that small mole on your left cheekbone.

Or did you mean to ask "Why are you sad so often?"

Ask the moon. Ask what it has witnessed.
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#onepeloton #peloton #meditation 🫶🏽🧘🏽‍♀️ members.onepeloton.com/share/workou...
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I just took the 10 min Courage Meditation with Kirra Michel
Taken by spanduaballet on the Peloton App. Give it all with live & on-demand studio classes with world class instructors, right from home.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Just a reminder that if you preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis through my favorite bookstore, @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social, you will get an extra letter from me tucked into your book. I wrote that letter this week, and I think some of you might find it useful.
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Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
variety.com/2025/digital... 3 times in 3 years
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Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month
Disney is raising the prices of its Disney+ and Hulu plans in the U.S., including most bundles, as of next month.
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
#authors #writer #writingcommunity #amwriting #EffectiveWriting
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Avoid exposition (Show, don't tell!)
Want to slow your story to a glacial grind and get readers to quit reading your story? Then load it with lots of exposition. Problems arising with exposition often (and rightfully) elicit cries of “Sh...
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
#book #writer #writingcommunity #creativewriting #writing
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net
A post from Feeding the
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“This decision does not only silence one book – it silences the voices and lived realities of minority communities. It sends a harmful message: that when these stories make others uncomfortable, they can be erased.”
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Showing vs. telling in your writing.
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
fordhampress.com/bad-medieval... #literature #medievalstudies
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Get your copy of Bad #Medievalism & the Modernity Problem by #KathyLavezzo today🙌🏾👏🏽 fordhampress.com/bad-medieval...
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A quote from @elizabethheider.bsky.social taken from the post “Writing a Book is Magic”:
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery | Documentary Trailer | Now streaming
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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Disney’s ‘Lilith Fair’ Doc Premiere’s Red Carpet Canceled Amid Jimmy Kimmel Suspension Controversy
The red carpet at today's premiere of Disney's 'Lilith Fair' documentary from ABC News Studios has been canceled amid the Jimmy Kimmel suspension.
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Pelo Buddy @www.pelobuddy.com · 21/09/2025
Peloton will celebrate Oktoberfest 2025 with special classes taking place this month (and another new badge). #Peloton #OnePeloton #PelotonBike #PelotonTread www.pelobuddy.com/2025-peloton...
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Leslie Potter 🦋🫘🇺🇸🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇴🇺🇦 @mudlady64.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Taking a break riding my Peloton bike while watching the HBO series “The Pitt”. Because ER emergencies are more relaxing than politics. Yep. That’s where I am in my self care regimen.
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 09/09/2025
Find out more about the 2025 National Poetry Competition here: poetrysociety.org.uk/npc
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
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Pelo Buddy @www.pelobuddy.com · 06/09/2025
Former Peloton instructor Kristin McGee has launched a digital platform: Kristin McGee Movement, a space dedicated to yoga, Pilates, sculpt, and meditation classes. #Peloton #OnePeloton #PelotonBike #PelotonTread www.pelobuddy.com/kristin-mcge...
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Pelo Buddy @www.pelobuddy.com · 07/09/2025
The New York Times has a feature on Aditi Shah, showing a day in the life, including her time inside & out of the Peloton Studios. #Peloton #OnePeloton #PelotonBike #PelotonTread www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/n...
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Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Had such a wonderful poetry-filled weekend ✨ My poem Nettles was The Scotsman’s poem of the Week on Saturday, followed by a magical visit to Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Garden Poem’, where I read alongside Janette Ayachi, Nasim Rebecca Asl and Chris Crawford to celebrate Ian’s centenary
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
neat idea!
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Deborah Elizabeth Whaley @dewhaley.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
9/16: “An Intimate History of Mexican Kansas,” at Lawrence Public Library 6:30pm
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