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Helen Marguerite

@helenxmarguerite.bsky.social
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Dark memoir. Queer immigrant. MFA in CNF. Tin House ‘25. Writing from the well of sex work, liminality, and transgression. She/her HelenxMarguerite.com

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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Is it insomnia or is it just that you’re a parent who finally has their “me time” after the entire house has fallen asleep?
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Obsessively writing only in my diary right now. The laptop’s been on a long break 😅
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Moonyeka ✧ nawa angel a.h. ( they/them ) @moonyeka.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
seattle! i’ll be at the free community clinic from 5PM-7PM offering some healing bondage with plant bodies, sensation receiving, spirit lifting, foot baths + more. 30 minute sessions come tend to yourself for spring 🌹🌺🌸🌷 masks 😷 available at door opulentwitchclientscheduling.as.me/schedule/afc...
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Biweekly check-in with @sabrineamro.bsky.social my Tin House nonfiction cohort buddy. We’re figuring it out together—where we’re at, where we’re headed. Showing up. Talking life, writing, all the stuff in between. These meetings help adjust my compass. Thank you Sabrine 🤍 #writingcommunity
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It’s okay to be cyclical in your work It’s okay to be cyclical in your work It’s okay to be cyclical in your work
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Our CNF Discord is officially up and running! Now that #THWW is over, it’s great to have a space to talk with other nonfiction writers. If you write creative nonfiction and want to join, let me know—I’ll send you the link.
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Got to read your poem in this, I felt it!! So relatable to today
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A much-needed peer meet! 🤍
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Such a gorgeous poem! Thank you Mai-Linh
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Happy Mexica (Aztec) New Year 🪶
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The Aztec Empire wasn’t ‘ancient’—it thrived while Da Vinci painted The Last Supper. Tenochtitlán, larger than London, had running water before Madrid and a complex infrastructure that rivaled the most advanced cities of its time. Calling it ancient is a Eurocentric and colonized narrative.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 06/03/2025
These books are full of women embarking on transformative self-discovery journeys, coming into their own in their 30s and 40s
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7 Stories About Women Coming of Age in Their 30s and 40s - Electric Literature
These novels celebrate women who chart new paths of self-discovery, embracing life beyond the expectations of marriage and motherhood
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Have given up trying to write daily and instead honor my cycles
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Trent Jonas @trentjo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A new #poem about a #dream - link below. #poetry #verse #coyote #art #literature #writing
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coyote
A ragged coyote loped across the plains of my dreams eyes
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I was going to go to AWP but I’m not jumping on planes right now nuh-uh
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 28/02/2025
Don't buy shit, write your book
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 28/02/2025
These books illuminate the dichotomies of Guatemala, a place blessed with beauty and plagued by history. (@jaredlemus.bsky.social)
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Don’t buy today. Give the greedheads a taste of their own medicine.
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Almost dropped my Domme content on this account. This is why burner phones exist 😅
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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hear me out: a scholastic book fair but for adults
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 27/02/2025
We've got a barrage of good news and BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS coming your way in the next 7 days (and starting tomorrow!), so keep your eyeballs peeled 👀👀👀
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
So honored to read my peer’s work, it’s been years and this feeling never gets old 🥹
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KC/Casey Bratt-Pfotenhauer @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Really pleased to have two poems from GRIEF SUITE in the new issue of Modern Language Studies, and even more pleased to be presenting on Ilya Kaminsky's DEAF REPUBLIC and women-led utopian resistance narratives at NeMLA (which sponsors MLS!) in two weeks.
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The importance of reading Chekhov, for any writer
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
you’re the only one who can tell your story, so imposter syndrome ✨be gone✨
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
😂😂
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Moonyeka ✧ nawa angel a.h. ( they/them ) @moonyeka.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I confess this compassion I am not above hating you. if you think my freedom a threat, if you kill a scapegoat because it is more alive than you.
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M.E. Macuaga (she/her) @memi-writes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🏆🚀⚡My winning story is up! It's a drabble, just 100 words... come on... you know you wanna click & read... flashpointsf.com/2025/02/21/s... My 💖 thanks to @flashpointsf and artist Kevin Pabst!🎤🎨🙏🎉 Congrats also to my co-winner Lily Black! 🧙‍♀️🔥 #SFF #flashfictionfriday #comedy #apocalypse #friendship
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So everyone’s going nuts in our fallout shelter, and lemme tell ya
Our 2024 Drabble Contest Co-Winner #2!
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Revisiting this gem to ground myself before jumping into my next stack of reads
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Best week EVER. I’m blown away by how helpful, enlightening, and elevating the @tinhouse.bsky.social workshop has been. I felt largely alone on my writing journey—now, not so much. Forever grateful for this experience!
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Some writers I know put together a “Rejection Club” where once a month we meet on zoom and share our latest rejections and chat about our new submissions. And that’s one of the things I’m most excited about in 2025
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Seoung @seoungkim.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
my story "standardized test" is now free to read! please fill out your answers with a #2 pencil and pray for mercy! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/stan...
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Standardized Test - Lightspeed Magazine
DIRECTIONS: Fill in the correct letter with a #2 pencil on the answer sheet. Do not use ink or ballpoint pens. Questions left blank will be marked incorrect. Completely fill in each circle.
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Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The @tinhouse.bsky.social workshop is in full swing, and I’m in awe of my peers’ work—both beautifully written and deeply important. I’m so honored to be a part of this! 🖤 #thww
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