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Helen Betya Rubinstein

@helenbetya.bsky.social

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part bicycle 🚲 writing & coaching other writers ✎ FEELS LIKE TROUBLE, on writing & teaching, coming 2026 www.helenbetya.com

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Helen Betya Rubinstein @helenbetya.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

yes!! writing doesn't have to—shouldn't ever!—be miserable <3

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Helen Betya Rubinstein @helenbetya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

thank you to @pw.org for recommending FLT among the "Best Books for Writers"! www.pw.org/best-books/f...

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Feels Like Trouble: Provocations on Writing, Teaching & Power

Building on her article published in Poets & Writers Magazine in 2018, “Practice Imagining Change: A Workshop Manifesto,” Rubinstein interrogates the notion of “good writing” in this collection of ess...

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Helen Betya Rubinstein @helenbetya.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

not on which specific one yet!

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Helen Betya Rubinstein @helenbetya.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

thank you friend!!! (i apparently forgot i was on here too) but yes, bless, preorder! there will be a wholly new cover, too!

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Helen Betya Rubinstein @helenbetya.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

very happy to announce my first two books :)

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report: FEELS LIKE TROUBLE, THE CASE AGAINST RUBINSTEIN, By Helen Betya Rubinstein. Imprint: University of New Orleans Press. Iowa MFA and Jewish Currents contributing writer Helen Betya Rubinstein's FEELS LIKE TROUBLE: PROVOCATIONS ON WRITING, TEACHING & POWER, a collection of essays challenging assumptions about what "good writing" means; and THE CASE AGAINST RUBINSTEIN: AN ANTI-FICTION, in which the author puts herself on trial for the crime of telling a story about a Soviet case against her grandfather, to Chelsey Shannon at University of New Orleans Press, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026 and spring 2027 (US).

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Good article by Helen Betya Rubinstein about writing workshops, from 2019. (Via Mary Anne) lithub.com/toward-chang...

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Toward Changing the Language of Creative Writing Classrooms

I open the creative writing courses I teach with this vow: “I’ve seen far too many workshops become an indoctrination into an instructor’s taste—a semester-long exhortation to love what the instruc…

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

2000+ Jewish professors, staff, and students circulating a letter on Trump-Vance's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil: "We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."

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Helen Betya Rubinstein @helenbetya.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Steal rest!!! <3

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Helen Betya Rubinstein @helenbetya.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

<3 <3 <3 <3 only correction is it was (always is) an honor not a problem

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Helen Betya Rubinstein @helenbetya.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Thank you for listening & for sharing!

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Helen Betya Rubinstein @helenbetya.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

To support faculty writers is a joy & an honor and it’s also very intimate, which means I rarely get to talk about it. So it was a huge pleasure & honor to be in conversation with @katecarp.bsky.social of @draftingthepast.bsky.social last month, about my work with historians in particular 🙏

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

The latest Drafting the Past newsletter is here, and it has BONUS CONTENT from episode 52 with @helenbetya.bsky.social. Check it out here to hear more from Helen on writing about collective history when we're used to individual narratives: buttondown.com/draftingthep...

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Bonus Audio: "To better reflect the collective possibilities for our future"

Bonus audio from Episode 52: Helen Betya Rubinstein In case you missed it, last week’s Drafting the Past episode featured an episode with writing coach Helen...

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