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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla

@donnawd.bsky.social
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Appalachian fiction writer & poet. Find my work in The Anthology of Appalachian Writers Vol XVI, the Northern Appalachian Review, Voices from the Attic anthology series, Wild Wind: Poems & Stories Inspired by Rob’t Earl Keen, and other publications.

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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Please plan on attending if you are in the Pittsburgh area.
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Thrilled to have a poem up @The Pittsburgh Quarterly pittsburghquarterly.com/articles/liv...
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Living Grief - Pittsburgh Quarterly
How am I supposed to do this? Your rough hands cup my shouldersyou hold me a step away then kiss me.I know every assaultworking steel made to your body.Pockmarks on the top of your hands from scalds o...
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Joseph Bathanti: Cletis Pratt voxpopulisphere.com/2025/08/28/j...
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Joseph Bathanti: Cletis Pratt
First man I ever saw in irons, wearing nothing but a pair of scurvy white long john britches, was Cletis Pratt
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
@wdaofpa.bsky.social lithub.com/on-the-lates...
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On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump
There’s an ongoing crisis in book publishing. I mean, there are many, but corporate consolidation is a threat to anyone who cares about books. When there are fewer publishers, both large and small,…
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Colleges Must Eliminate DEI Programs to Receive Research Funding, NIH Says www.chronicle.com/article/coll...
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Colleges Must Eliminate DEI Programs to Receive Research Funding, NIH Says
The agency did not define what it meant by DEI efforts, leaving institutions to try to interpret whether their programs are implicated.
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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PGHwrites: Free Association Reading Series - City of Asylum
The Free Association Reading series showcases local writers every month in an intimate reading at City of Asylum.
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Stand for Science. Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh
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God @thegodshow.com · 30/01/2025
Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is good news. But I think that we know not to rely too much on judges. Please keep calling, urging Congress to use their power proactively to oppose Trump, not to sit hoping that another judge won’t overturn this. Modified call script below. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121
I’m horrified that Trump is trying to illegally withhold federal funds from programs that people in our district/state rely on, like SNAP and Medicaid. And that he’s blocking funds that hospitals and universities operate on, like the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.

I work at ____ university, where those federal programs fund all kinds of jobs. Losing them could devastate our region.

What is the Rep/Senator doing to oppose this as strongly as possible? We need Congress to assert itself, not to rely on judges.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 25/01/2025
Always follow the 2 Rogers Rule.
Black and white photo with captain America - Steve Rogers - on the left and Mr Fred Rogers on the right
Caption reads: The 2 Rogers rule of humanity - if Steve or Fred wouldn't do it, neither should I.
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hope you’ll join is in March! cityofasylum.org/program/pghw...
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PGHwrites: Free Association Reading Series - City of Asylum
The Free Association Reading series showcases local writers every month in an intimate reading at City of Asylum.
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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Really good reporting by my friend Brian on health insurers scrubbing information from their sites. www.pghindependent.com/post/health-...
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Health executives scrubbed from Highmark, UPMC websites after UnitedHealthcare CEO killing
“We believe that keeping the best interests of our patients and members at the center of every decision we make is the best strategy for engendering the good will of those we serve.”
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Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Are you Christmas shopping for the writer in your life? How about buying them the gift of attending the Amesville Writers' Workshop this June. Our instructors Lori Jakiela and John Vercher are incredible.
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silashouse.bsky.social @silashouse.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My major novel recommendation for this holiday season is THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOSPELETTES. It is a lyrical, funny, profound, and moving page-turner filled with a vivid sense of place and characters you will not forget. Read more about it here. appalachianreview.net/2024/11/15/t...
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Tammy Oberhausen explores family, faith, hypocrisy and doubt in The Evolution of the Gospelettes – Appalachian Review
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
RELEASE DAY! Madville is pleased to announce the release of WILD WIND edited by Sandra and Ron Cooper today! This anthology of poems and short stories is an homage to Texas singer/song-writer Robert Earl Keen. Purchase WILD WIND here: madvillepublishing.com/product/wild...
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Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
poets.org/poem/ave-maria
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Ave Maria
Mothers of America
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/11/2024
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Since Pittsburgh is showing up here, gonna drop that Belt has this killer book by @chefstentor.bsky.social coming in March
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Pittsburgh in 50 Maps
By Stentor DanielsonMarch 18, 2025 Pittsburgh in 50 Maps offers unique new views of a city at a crossroads—culturally, economically, and demographically. There are countless ways to map a city. Roads,...
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
My husband, Steve, and I were talking about how our fathers would react in the aftermath of this election. Both were family men, decent and kind, and strong union men. Talking about them gave me solace—they lived through wars and times of chaos. They took care of others. We can do this.
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Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
New Wind & Root today from columnist Sandra Barnidge and Managing Editor Charlotte Hamrick, asks this question that I've been struggling with, too: “How do we stop talking about value, when what we’re really searching for is meaning?” Read it here: reckonreview.com/wind-and-roo...
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