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Ellen Rhudy

@ellenrhudy.bsky.social
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Fiction writer with work in Story, Florida Review, Cream City Review. Instructional designer by day. Philadelphia! ellenrhudy.com

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Now even my local gardening FB group is being invaded by AI slop and I am "not fun" for asking if we can keep this stuff out. I think I just need to quit the entire internet at this point?
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Very happy to hear I inspired one of you to make a plan to give blood this week. Does anyone else want to join me? Apple juice, Lorna Doones, & helping someone who really needs it? The best. 🙌
Red Sign that reads “25% of blood donations go to cancer patients.” Hanging on white brick wallSelfie at the blood center with the blood pressure cuff on and wearing a mask. My arm with tube connected collecting blood.
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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"Studies show that overreliance on these digital tools causes cognitive decline, but if current events are any indication, nobody’s making much of a contribution anyway. Go ahead and use A.I. however you like." This is so great.
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My cat is 15 and has just learned windows can be like doors, and now he demands that I run inside through the door to admit him through the window.
A black and white cat who has just been exploring his yard, perches on a windowsill and waits to be let back inside his house
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Greg Zimmerman @gregzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Love @biblioracle.bsky.social's piece today. AI cannot read, and AI does not write. Support writers who DO write. biblioracle.substack.com/p/writers-wr...
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Writers Write
People who use AI to produce text are doing something else, which is fine for them, but it's not writing.
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Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
You spend your whole life hearing that English majors can't get jobs, and that you should stay away from drugs, only to reach middle age and find out "large language model that occasionally hallucinates" is worth billions of dollars
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Proof that if we all just ignore shitty technology that nobody wants, no matter how much money these dinguses throw into it, it will eventually go away. Next up: AI!
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is really wise and candid. It’s not often that people are willing to be like “I wanted to do this, it hasn’t gone as I hoped, I’m putting my focus elsewhere.” Jen’s a smarty.
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Brought home one more priceless gift from AWP (am so sick)
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The fiction team is here! 🤩 Have you stopped by for a tote bag yet?? @whatll-i-do.bsky.social @tinazhu.bsky.social @ellenrhudy.bsky.social
The Split Lip Magazine Fiction Team sits at the Split Lip booth. Tote backs, stickers, and pins sit on the table, including a Library Kids Club tote bag.
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
My AWP adventure is that my hotel has been without hot water or a working shower (of any temperature) since I arrived yesterday afternoon, and I am a person who cannot move an inch without sweating 🙃
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Exciting news, FAM ✨ At our reading next Thursday, we'll be raffling 2 LIBRARY KIDS tote bags with goodies inside, including postcards, pens, & books from contributors @sfeycreates.bsky.social, @litmagreject.bsky.social, @jrfenn.bsky.social, Monica Brashears & the late Martha Silano 😘
Our fancy new Library Kids Club tote bag and an assortment of postcards and books, including TINY VESSELS, BLOB, DECOMPOSE and TERMINAL SURREAL. Not featured: Monica Brashear’s novel.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Voiding documents that make it legal for people to move through the world normally—especially but not exclusively when you give them no practical opportunity to get new ones even if they wanted to—is (still) not about bathrooms or sports. It’s about erasure.
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
hrm
Amazon Reveals Feature That Teaches Alexa to Sound Like Your Dead Loved Ones by Todd Dillard 

When I chat with my mother
lately it’s about the internal

temperature of cooked chicken,
the ingredients for a DIY fly trap.

The baby naps and my mother plays
Tracy Chapman the way she used to.

When the baby wakes up he rips
my mother out of her socket

and her silence fills the room
like water in a suicide’s tub.

Sometimes my mother tells me it’s going to rain.
After, she says, “Have a nice day Todd.”

The way she says my name is plastic
orchids on a snow-covered headstone.

(The way I say her name
is by not saying her name at all.)

I don’t ask Mom why she lights up
when my wife and I lay together in bed.

I’ve learned with the dead
there’s something you need to know

and when they tell you
they die all over again.
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
My current AWP plan is one volunteer shift, visit the aquarium, visit the Visionary Art Museum, panel on university presses, Laura Lippman interview, a daily run around the harbor...so basically pretend I am not at AWP for 90% of my time in Baltimore. Am I doing this right?
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Got zero bites on my AWP writer-to-agent query, then saw that Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler also got rejected. So at least it’s not just me who’s fucked, but the whole literary ecosystem!
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Jen A. Miller @byjenamiller.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Today’s a great day to start masking again
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I don't see how self-publishing world survives GenAI. It's going to be an absurd increase in slop books with no reason to expect any increase in paying readers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
But with the help of A.I., Ms. Hart can publish books at an astonishing rate. Last year, she produced more than 200 romance novels in a range of subgenres, from dark mafia romances to sweet teen stories, and self-published them on Amazon.
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: Late night decision leads to late night posting of new double A-side single for #bandcampfriday! tedleo.bandcamp.com/album/februa...
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FEBRUARY 2026 DOUBLE A SIDE, by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
2 track album
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Yup. If you’re going to have little kids at a press conference, you have to welcome the fact that they act like little kids. What’s creepy is when people line up a bunch of silent children who behave like Act 1 Von Trapps.
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Great post that kinda makes me want to reclaim my younger self who did things like make zines, make my own band T-shirts for my favorite band that didn’t have them, draw postcards and comics just for the fun of it...
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Had a dream that to comfort myself over my sense of failure as a writer, I opened up the NEW YORKER issue with my story in it. Then I woke up to a world where I feel like a failure as a writer and no important people at the New Yorker have published me. Man…
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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!
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Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark
On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This is one of those quotes I think about more than any other.
from Jonathan Franzen's 2013 By the Book interview in the New York Times:

Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how).

The book creates the experience. If I’m loving something, I suddenly discover large chunks of reading time that I wasn’t aware of having.
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Eshani Surya @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
SO STOKED
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Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“She closed her eyes, hands resting on the egg’s box, and pictured a tiny man curled inside the shell. He resembled Wyatt, in khaki slacks and a pastel button-up” @ellenrhudy.bsky.social does corporate dystopia so well.
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TM @tmsoc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
GIFT LINK: share.inquirer.com/pEIqAv
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Another senseless killing in Trump’s senseless war against Americans | Editorial
The president's masked thugs have now executed two U.S. citizens in broad daylight on the streets of Minneapolis.
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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they want to be murderers, they signed up to be murderers, they gleefully joined in order to be paid our tax dollars to commit murders with impunity. you can't reform that
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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I missed this one when I took my brief holiday break. Fortunately it’s evergreen.
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Very hard to work on my little novel about the peace corps at this specific moment in time!!
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This thread is a whole journey. Enjoy, friends!
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alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🤙🏻
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Mid Century Monster @mollybreakfast.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
*David Attenborough voice* In the slick cold of a Minnesota winter, miles from a softer, warmer life that expected less of him, this agent learns the awkward way that he is ill-equipped to have followed his prey to a climate so different from his own.
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I started donating recently after learning rules changed (mad cow disease: no longer a concern!) and it‘s such an easy way to feel like you’re doing a little good in the world. Highly recommend! www.redcrossblood.org
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Blood donors report feeling a sense of great satisfaction after making their blood donation. Why? Because helping others in need just feels good. Donate blood today to help those in need.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Local TV news anchor and reporter in Denver
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Tried to start 2026 off right by donating platelets and something went wrong because HOLY SHIT did that hurt (like a 2-hr charley horse in one arm). Got home and immediately burst into tears from hours of politely saying “it hurts!”, so I guess I gotta find another way to be a good person this year
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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This is a terrific thread!
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. No question it’s Teenage Fanclub’s BANDWAGONESQUE. I acknowledge the art might make you think it’s not as good as it is (one of the most perfect albums not just of the 90s but all time imho)
The admittedly hideous neon, cliparty album art for Teenage Fanclub’s 1991 album Bandwagonesque
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Merry Xmas! Just learned that the 40% price increase Microsoft is forcing on personal customers (for all the AI) is essentially, actually, a change in subscription type. Go to your account, select “cancel subscription,” and you’ll see the option to switch to the AI-free plan at your former price
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It got taken down from ytube, but it’s still up here, & I encourage everyone to take 15 minutes (13 + 2 to breathe afterward) to watch it. So much to say about civil v. criminal offenses, why ANYONE should wind up in a place like this, what America is doing, &w/in that, what CBS & Weiss are doing
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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Lotta folks talking resolutions, so a quick reminder to focus on goals you can control. Instead of making it about agents or deals, focus on things like reading more to improve your craft, finding ways to support your peers, drafting something new… You don’t need anyone else, to chase those goals.
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Barrelhouse Write-ins @bhwriteins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Are you a writer who can't get away for a residency? Spend your holiday break at Barrelhouse Write-in’s Imagine Cabins Writing Retreat! Join us between Christmas & New Year’s in a (make-believe, Zoom-based) Imagine Cabin in the woods, and get some writing done! www.barrelhousemag.com/writeins
Barrelhouse Write-In’s Imagine Cabins Writing Retreat From December 26-31! 

A picture of a cozy cabin in the snowy woods with two bright green aliens standing nearby
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We are THRILLED to announce our ✨Best Small Fictions Nominations✨ Lots of love to @sashabrown.bsky.social, JR Fenn, John Jodzio, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Neeru Nagarajan buff.ly/2zs2H2a
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I’m so excited for this benefit reading. I hope you can make it! Huge thanks to our former fiction editor @jonmcconn.bsky.social for the brilliant inspiration & legwork to harness AWP for community-building in this way. So thrilled to spotlight CHARM—a fantastic local literary organization!
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
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Jen A. Miller @byjenamiller.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Maybe there needs to be additional meetings and reminders for DRIVERS TO STOP BLASTING THROUGH CROSSWALKS WHEN PEOPLE ARE IN THEM JFC
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I loved this @sheldoncosta.bsky.social essay on "failure", and am excited for his novel The Great Work. "I felt an odd sort of ambivalence about whether the book would be published. Obviously I was nervous, but a rejection in my inbox no longer sent me spiraling. I’d done all I could, after all."
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One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel
I started trash bashing three weeks after it became clear to me that my first novel was not going to sell. I’d tried to be honest with myself, from the moment the manuscript went out on submission,…
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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Finished a first draft of my new novel. The trick was writing a $250 check to Moms for Liberty to be mailed on January 1 if I didn’t finish. Just like that, 35K words fell out of me in five weeks!
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