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Holly M. Wendt

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Novel HEADING NORTH (Braddock Avenue Books) out now! Free newsletter: hmwendt.beehiiv.com. Words in Shenandoah, Fourway Review, Memorious, & c. Writer, educator, enthusiast. they/them

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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 1h
A little weaving while watching Il Lombardia.
A close-up of a loom with a laptop in the background showing a bicycle race in soft focus
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 19h
by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I know I am about as biased as possible on this but go to an indie bookstore. An indie bookstore's vibes are the opposite of...all of this. You'll be surrounded by memories, stories, brave visions of the future that don't ignore our barbarous present. Your brain can be quiet AND full. Seriously.
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Next week!! The reading/Q&A are free and open to all (see the Zoom registration below). Invite your students, invite your friends, and don't miss Cleyvis Natera reading from her canny, intense novel that shines an unrelenting light on luxury tourism and climate inequality.
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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh! Free shipping TODAY on gender/queer longing! bookshop.org/p/books/endp...
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Endpapers
It's 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she spends all day repairing old books but hasn't created anything of her own in years--and with no...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, graphic narratives, & translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap42
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ANMLY Submission Manager
**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Dani Carr @itsdanicarr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy Spooky Season! The Sullivan coven is brewing up some fun. Check out The Witch Wolf, an ongoing paranormal romance webcomic, to see what these witches are up to! (Hint: forest magic, werewolves, vampires, and smooches) #TheWitchWolf - a #webcomic by Dani Carr & Bree Williams thewitchwolf.org
A comic panel from The Witch Wolf - three redheaded women work around a bubbling cauldron. The middle one says “Littles less mugwort, Eves. Lighter hand.” The one on the right says “Ah, sorry.”
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"before I pushed you off of me with a shriek of stop; before you yanked on the button of my jeans; before tried to slide your palms under my sweater" Sharing again, in light of Cornell. From @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/fourteen-by-...
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026
tracing Japanese managers challenging an ump’s call, I’ve watched this 500x
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Friends, you do not want to miss CLEYVIS NATERA'S Writing: A Life reading at @lebanonvalley.bsky.social on 10/13! Join us in-person at 7 p.m. Eastern in Bishop Library Atrium or join us on Zoom from wherever you are: zoom.us/meeting/regi... @cleyvisnatera.bsky.social is a force and a light--turn up!
A flyer advertising a reading by author Cleyvis Natera at Lebanon Valley College on Tuesday, October 13, at 7 p.m. in Bishop Library Atrium. There is a QR code to scan to register for the Zoom broadcast. The flyer features an image of Natera, a beautiful Black woman wearing her hair pulled back and a black blouse. A copy of the cover of her novel also appears on the image.
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy hockey season, y'all! If you're looking for a hockey novel to keep you company between periods, may I suggest HEADING NORTH? www.braddockavenuebooks.com/pages/books/...
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Heading North: A Novel by Holly M. Wendt on Braddock Avenue Books
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, November 2023. A young, talented Viktor Myrnikov is on the brink of realizing his lifelong dream of playing for the National Hockey League when a catastrophic plan...
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If this sounds like something you'd like, get a copy direct from Braddock Avenue Books (above) or find it on ebook at Amazon: www.amazon.com/Heading-Nort... The novel is a love-letter to hockey, to movement, to desire, to moving the puck, to not chasing hits, to not backing down on draft choices.
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
From Carlee Tressel's review at The Under Review: "The relationships playing out on the page are at once delicate and stubborn, tender and brutal. Not unlike the nature of hockey itself. And not unlike so many of the story’s sentences and paragraphs, exquisite and beautiful in their precision.
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
From Kasey Peters' review at @fullstopmag.bsky.social: "The ways that Wendt complicates masculinities as they are envisioned, enacted, and disciplined in professional hockey make this book an urgent work of queer world-building on an international stage. & Wendt’s sentences are simply masterful."
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy hockey season, y'all! If you're looking for a hockey novel to keep you company between periods, may I suggest HEADING NORTH? www.braddockavenuebooks.com/pages/books/...
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Heading North: A Novel by Holly M. Wendt on Braddock Avenue Books
Braddock, PA: Braddock Avenue Books, November 2023. A young, talented Viktor Myrnikov is on the brink of realizing his lifelong dream of playing for the National Hockey League when a catastrophic plan...
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Ellen Adair @ellenadair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What do the Phillies say to the God of Bad Defense Offseason Discourse? NOT TODAY
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was driving home when Bohm hit that dinger and I yelled.
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Friends, you do not want to miss CLEYVIS NATERA'S Writing: A Life reading at @lebanonvalley.bsky.social on 10/13! Join us in-person at 7 p.m. Eastern in Bishop Library Atrium or join us on Zoom from wherever you are: zoom.us/meeting/regi... @cleyvisnatera.bsky.social is a force and a light--turn up!
A flyer advertising a reading by author Cleyvis Natera at Lebanon Valley College on Tuesday, October 13, at 7 p.m. in Bishop Library Atrium. There is a QR code to scan to register for the Zoom broadcast. The flyer features an image of Natera, a beautiful Black woman wearing her hair pulled back and a black blouse. A copy of the cover of her novel also appears on the image.
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Learn how Sundress intern Zie Madayag's Filipino background and upbringing shaped her studies and led her to Sundress: sundressblog.com/2026/09/25/meet-ou…
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Meet Our New Intern: Zie Madayag - The Sundress Blog
In the Philippines, though not enshrined in the official constitution, you are required to pay your class treasurer—for whatever amount agreed upon—if you speak a sliver of Filipino. Slipping out even the smallest word of a particular thing you forgot to translate was unforgivable, even by accident. I can guarantee, maybe eighty-five percent, that most … Continue reading Meet Our New Intern: Zie Madayag →
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Feeling oddly optimistic this fall, which is certainly wishful thinking, but isn't that what sports are for?
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric's query workshop is magnificent!
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I might be too emotionally dependent on my nightly broiler s'more, but times being what they are...
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Solidarity!
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Edmundo Sosa appreciation society
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Me. I am holding me hostage. ...this, too, is fandom.
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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
they should make a version of baseball that's good
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm at this Phillies game. They're sure chipping away at something*. *My will to go on.
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can confirm.
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stellars are so beautiful! ...& amusingly sneaky. One tried to snag my pistachios at a campground in northern California.
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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEGATIVE GIRL features a bi co-tagonist and a whole host of LGBTQA+ side characters! Happy Bi Visibility Day! bookshop.org/p/books/nega...
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Negative Girl
For fans of Cottonmouths by Kelly J. Ford comes Negative Girl: an evocative, moody, neo-noir thriller that explores obsession and people dying across America's forgotten spaces.Martin Wade lived hard ...
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love him, your honor.
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 21/09/2026
Perfectly pleasing intervals but quite pedestrian. Why not Tritone Park
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I suppose it is a change from being called Wendy, so there's that.
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A reminder from the e-mail I just received: please give your messages a quick read before hitting send so that you don't address your recipient as "Dead holly." (I mean, I'm generally not feeling the best these days, but let's not make assumptions, even on a Monday.)
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.
From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."
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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
we'll be reopening for new work on october 1 💜🌀💜🌀💜🌀💜
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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 19/09/2026
Inside you are two wolves: the Phillies, and the Phillies a week later
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Working on the sneaky side project this morning. Every sentence is a discovery, which is always my favorite phase of the writing process. #5amWritersClub
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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Join Nico Lang, author of American Teenager, at MCC Knoxville on September 19 at 6 PM for a reading and Q&A on how to be an ally to trans kids during a turbulent era.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie.
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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am devastated by the loss of Annie Dillard. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek changed my life and changed my teaching. My best professor introduced me to The Writing Life. Her work has been a lifeline in my creative life. "If I am a maple key falling, at least I can twirl."
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP Annie Dillard, one of the great, if not the greatest, non-fiction stylists of our time www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Tessa Yang ~THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM~ @theptessadactyl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good moment to say: People keep telling me my novel has Widow's Bay vibes! ☑️ Eerie New England island setting ☑️ The locals have Something To Hide ☑️ Scary and funny ☑️ [Redacted for spoilers] but this plot point overlap kind of blows my mind 🤯
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The Jellyfish Problem
A marine biologist makes the discovery of a lifetime when called to rescue the inhabitants of a small Maine island being menaced by a giant, glowing jellyfish in this richly imagined, wholly original ...
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