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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Not gonna lie, I am a little upset I wasted 2 of my Cinemark credits on this one. At least Michaela Cole’s acting was top tier as usual.

Mother Mary movie poster featuring Anne Hathaway in a red dress floating upward

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Intro episode is available now on Podbean, Spotify, and Apple. Follow @qtnonfictionpod on Instagram!

QUEER & TRANS NONFICTION PODCAST
WHAT IS IT?
THE QT (QUEER & TRANS) NONFICTION PODCAST EXPLORES THE BEST OF TODAY'S MEMOIRS, ESSAY COLLECTIONS, JOURNALISM, AND MORE BY LGBTQ+ AUTHORS. LISTEN IN ON DISCUSSIONS OF NONFICTION FORMS, CRAFT, LANGUAGE, PUBLICATION, AND BEYOND.
TRUE STORIES FROM QUEER AND TRANS PERSPECTIVES ARE PROOF OF OUR EXISTENCE WHICH IS NOW, IN AND OF ITSELF, A FORM OF RESISTANCE.

QUEER & TRANS NONFICTION PODCAST
WHO IS IT?
JACKIE DOMENUS (THEY/SHE)
JACKIE DOMENUS IS THE QUEER
AUTHOR OF NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS. A FORMER SUNDRESS ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS RESIDENT AND TIN HOUSE WORKSHOP GRADUATE, JACKIE'S WORK HAS APPEARED IN HUFFPOST, THE NORMAL SCHOOL, FOGLIFTER JOURNAL, AND ELSEWHERE.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I’ve been cooking up something…👀 Give @qtnonfictionpod a follow on Instagram!

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

AWP was chaotic and wonderful as usual. Happy to connect with so many new writing folks and catch up with friends. Also very pleased with my haul this year - can’t wait to dig in!

Mid Atlantic Arts booth at AWP conference with purple and neon yellow banner behind two people sitting. Books and paper handouts covering table.

Two people speaking in front of a mic with a backdrop of black polka dot wall art.

Pile of books, stickers, and other merch acquired at AWP conference.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Here’s where I’ll be this week!

JACKIE DOMENUS at AWP 2026
MID ATLANTIC ARTS Booth 505 (3/5 - 3/7)
THE BODY POLITIC: A TRANS & NONBINARY READING The Black Genius Art Show - 106 N
Eutaw St. Suite 1 Baltimore, MD21201 (3/5 @ 6PM)
BOOK SIGNING Booth 305 - Queer Love Project (3/6 @ 11AM)
HARD TIMES REQUIRE FURIOUS DANCING
4 N. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21201 (3/6 @ 6:30PM)

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Spent last week at Sunlit Residency in Ithaca, NY. The residency honors Dr. Su-Je Lee Gage and her dedication to human rights and social justice. I feel so lucky to have had the week to reset and re-focus on my creative work.

Wooden desk with open laptop, sticky notes, pen, stack of books, and microphone/headphones. Window behind desk shows snow covered ground outside.

White garage door with painted dark blue circle and light blue lotus flower, next to a light purple entry door.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

At each reading or event while launching this book, I set the bar on the floor and knew I’d be happy if 2 or 3 people showed, but at each and every one, I was stunned to see seats filled. I am forever grateful to my publisher and to everyone who has been a part of this journey so far.

Back of audience members heads at a reading.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

No Offense is officially one year old. I’ll never forget the feeling of holding this thing I worked so hard to create in my hands for the first time. This last year has been a whirlwind.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Ok but why did I think this was about a drag queen named Patty Melt who was currently serving?

Foldable sign outside of Five Guys restaurant reading “now serving: patty melt” with white lettering and red background

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

If you’re going to #AWP26 and you want to support trans youth and you also love free drinks, save the date!

Event flyer: THE BODY POLITIC: A TRANS & NONBINARY READING & DISSUSSION Ralsing
Funds For TRANS YOUTH EMERGENCY PROJECT featuring J Brooke, Kelsey L. Smoot, Jendi Reiter, Jackie Domenus
FREE COCKTAILS & GREAT MUSIC! Thursday March 5, 2026, 6:00-7:30pm The Black Genius Art Show 106 N. Eutaw St. Suite 1 Baltimore, MD 21201

Trans Youth Emergency Project flyer reading: WE HELP FAMILIES OF TRANS YOUTH THROUGH THE MAZE OF ACCESSING HEALTH CARE IN THIS TIME OF CRISIS PATIENT NAVIGATION to care providers unimpacted by restrictions TRANS YOUTH EMERGENCY "PROJECT TRAVEL GRANTS to help get your family to your appointment WRAPAROUND SUPPORT with resources and resilience tools GET SUPPORT
www.TransYouthEmergencyProject.org

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

They are selling these at the secondhand baby clothes store in case you wanna raise your child to be a lesbian.

Large carabiner for hooking bags onto a baby stroller

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Ah yes, the three genders: male, female, nonbinary lollipop.

A screenshot of the question “What is your gender?” with the options Male 🙋‍♂️, Female 🙋‍♀️, Non-binary 🍭

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Just remember: if someone tells you nobody cares about your Wrapped today, they’re wrong. I care. Deeply.

Spotify Wrapped Top Artists: 1. Turnstile, 2. Spanish Love Songs, 3. PUP, 4. Militarie Gun, 5. Hayley Williams

Spotify Wrapped Top Albums: 1. Never Enough, 2. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, 3. Brave Faces Everyone, 4. The New Chaos, 5. Not Through Blood

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween from Elliott and ET! 🎃

Baby dressed as Elliott from ET sitting in a milk crate next to Reese’s Pieces and a dog wrapped in a towel.

Screen capture from the film ET of Elliott riding a bike with ET in a crate on the front.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Trying to spread some positivity so here’s me announcing that our queer little family is about to grow! Please enjoy this ridiculous photo of my dog.

Yorki-poo dog wearing glasses sitting behind a book titled “What to Expect When Your Humans are Expecting”. String of baby clothes, decor, and ultrasound picture in background.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Wow. Omar El Akkad’s ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS is a must-read. Especially in this moment, as the government continues its violent attempts to silence those who speak out against genocide.

As always, the dead will be made to pay the moral debt born oftheir killing. At the start of this campaign, one oft-parroted justification was the nonsensical contrivance that Palestinians in Gaza were subject to a collective guilt on account of their voting for Hamas. It is somewhat pointless to note that most Gazans are too young to have voted for Hamas in the most recent election, or that collective punishment of a civilian population for their electoral choices would be subject to a far higher standard of scrutiny if that population werent a politically powerless contingent of Brown people, or that the very same terror group had long received support from the Israeli government as a matter of strategy so as to keep an thily in power that at least partially shared the governments disdain for peace or a two-state solution, or that the occupation and terror inflicted on Palestinians long predates the creation Oftlamas. It is pointless, even, to make the obvious analogies,

to imagine the response had almost any other country on earth killed hundreds or thousands of civilians on a hostage rescue mission, or flattened every hospital in a city on the hunt for a terror group, and then bragged about its success. Pointless because such things assume a conversation anchored in facts or reason or even the thinnest presupposition that the people being killed, like those killed on October 7, are human beings, their loss an utter indictment of the systems and leaders and world that allowed it. Instead, as the scope and scale of annihilation intensifies, an opposite presupposition becomes necessary, one that imposes onto the dead the appropriate mendacity to justify their killing. A few weeks in, the notion that Palestinians deserve to die because some of them voted for Hamas becomes insufficient to hold up the body count. Soon, Palestinians become indistinguishable from Nazis, and then worse than Nazis. As their eradication continues, they must transform into the worst human beings on earth, the weight of their deaths only then sufficiently lightened.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Just accidentally captured my entire attitude on my laptop screen. The unexpected perks of having written a book whose title begins with “no” lol.

A computer screen with two Microsoft Word docs open and a list of files in the background all titled “no”

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Got some sweet sweet book mail! Can’t wait to dig into this one by @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social!

Cover of Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

There is only so much fluorescent lighting one can handle, but I did make it to 3 great panels: Writing Sex Beyond Survival, Experiments in Time, and Reporting the Self. Got to hear some of my favs: @melissafebos.bsky.social @hbrenhouse.bsky.social @jailthepoets.bsky.social & more!

Author speaking from a podium at a panel

Authors sitting at a long table having a panel discussion

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

What an honor to be in discussion with @athenadixon.bsky.social whose work I admire so deeply. Thank you for the thoughtful questions and good laughs. And many thanks to A Novel Idea for hosting us, and to the friends who came out to support.

Jackie Domenus and Athena Dixon sitting next to each other, each holding books and laughing in front of a backdrop of bookshelves

Jackie Domenus and Athena Dixon with two rows of event attendees behind them smiling

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

AWP is in a week! 🌴 Let’s hang out and talk about words!

JACKIE DOMENUS AT AWP 2025

WEDS. 3/26 @ 7 PM: EXISTENCE AS RESISTANCE A QUEER AND TRANS MEMOIR OFFSITE AWP EVENT W/ KRYS MALCOLM BELC. ZOE BOSSIERE, KB BROOKINS, FREDA EPUM
LIBERATION COFFEE HOUSE AT LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER
6725 SANTA MONICA BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA 90038

THURS. 3/27 @ 2 PM: AUTHOR SIGNING
BOOTH 718 - ROWAN UNIVERSITY /
GLASSWORKS/SINGULARITY PRESS
LOS ANGELESE CONVENTION CENTER

FRI. 3/28 @ 7 PM: A NIGHT OF NONBINARY) - FICTION W/ ZOE BOSSIERE, KB BROOKINS, NEESHA POWELL-INGABIRE
SKYLIGHT BOOKS 1818 N VERMONT AVE. LOS ANGELES, CA 90027

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Today’s installment of @writingco-lab.bsky.social’s 100 Days of Resistance by @torreypeters.bsky.social is keeping me going.

Torrey Peters Is Talking...
So look. This idea of trying to find the simplest route between addresser/ addressee also sustains me in this political era. These fuckers are destroying the institutions. I can't get an NEA grant anymore, because of "gender ideology." And to that I say: eh whatever. Because an NEA grant is nice, but very likely not the simplest route between addresser and addressee. The simplest route to an addressee is at a nearby reading. It's doing an event with a friend. It's xeroxing some wild shit and leaving it at a cafe a la Sybil Lamb (the writer with whom I first shared that stage, when I bombed).

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Who do I know in Baltimore?! Come hang out and talk with us about creating change as queer artists. The venue is beautiful, it’s BYOB, the vibes will be immaculate. partiful.com/e/Qhupwv8ulQ...

Event flyer: Kap2ure Film Studios presents Creators of Change, Queer Perspectives with special guests Black Assets, Katie Simbala, and Jackie Domenus. April 8, 2025 @ 7 pm. 1414 N. Wolfe Street Baltimore, MD 21213. BYOB.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Had a v lovely, v gay discussion with @otroedgargomez.bsky.social at The Nonbinarian Bookstore in Brooklyn the other night.✨

Edgar Gomez and Jackie Domenus sitting in chairs holding microphones in front of a mural of colorful, mythical creatures.

Jackie Domenus and Edgar Gomez posing with a seated audience behind them in a bookstore.

Copies of No Offense and Alligator Tears displayed on a table with stickers and miscellaneous items.

Edgar Gomez and Jackie Domenus standing back to back holding their books in front of a mural of colorful, mythical creatures.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Will be reading and chatting and signing books at Asbury Book Cooperative on March 22nd! Come through! www.eventbrite.com/e/presentati...

Purple flyer for event: Queer book club pick. Join us for a presentation and signing with Jackie Domenus. Saturday, March 22nd at 7pm. 644A Cookman Ave. Asbury Park, NJ 07712.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Philly Philly! Come hang out at A Novel Idea on March 20th and help us launch No Offense in the greatest city of all time. I’ll be reading from the book and talking all things memoir and essay with the brilliant @athenadixon.bsky.social! Register here: anovelideaphilly.com/events/

Purple event flyer. No Offense: Philly Book Launch with Jackie Domenus and Athena Dixon on Thursday, March 20th 6pm at A Novel Idea.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Last week, I had a book launch, the first of many events for NO OFFENSE. I am so overwhelmed with gratitude that over 60 people showed up - friends, family, and folks I’d never met before. What a night.

A crowd of people seated in an art gallery facing a speaker at a podium.

Author Heather Lanier and Jackie Domenus sitting across from each other interview style holding microphones.

A book cake with the cover of No Offense printed on it surrounded by purple and pink icing.

Author Matthew Vesely standing at a podium speaking into a microphone as others watch from chairs behind him.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be there or be square. RSVP here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...

Flyer for offsite AWP event Existence as Resistance: A Queer and Trans Memoir event featuring Krys Malcolm Belc, Zoe Bossiere, KB Brookins, Jackie Domenus, Freda Epum. March 26 at 7pm at Liberation Coffee House at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

AWP OFFSITE UPDATE! 📢🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @fredaepum.bsky.social has joined the lineup! RSVP here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

AWP folks! Mark your calendars and RSVP here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...! The event is free but we highly suggest making a donation to LA fire relief funds.

Flyer for offsite AWP event Existence as Resistance: A Queer and Trans Memoir event featuring Krys Malcolm Belc, Zoe Bossiere, KB Brookins, and Jackie Domenus. March 26 at 7pm at Liberation Coffee House at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

NJ, Brooklyn, Philly: come talk about memoir and queerness and the current collapse of society with me!

No Offense Events. Feb 26 South Jersey Book Launch @ Rowan Art Gallery. Mar 13 Queer Memoir in NYC @ The Nonbinarian Bookstore. Mar 20 Philly Book Launch @ A Novel Idea. Mar 22 Queer Book Club @ Asbury Book Cooperative.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Author copies have arrived, it’s getting real!! I did the whole unboxing vid thing over on Instagram (@jackie.d.writes) if you wanna watch me be proud and awkward at the same time!!

Copies of No Offense: A Memoir in Essays in a cardboard box, purple cover with pink and dark purple speech bubbles.

Jackie wears a light pink shirt while smiling and holding a copy of No Offense: A Memoir in Essays

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Oh wow look at this super real, not-edited-at-all screenshot of Time’s 40** most anticipated books of 2025!

Edited screenshot of Time’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025 lists to include No Offense: A Memoir in Essays

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This beauty arrived in the mail and I can’t wait to crack it open! @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

Copy of These Worn Bodies by Avitus B. Carle

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Wrapped is out and as I say every year, while everyone posts about not giving a shit who/what you listen to, just know I do. I care about your fav song. I am eager to see your top artists. I wanna analyze your listening taste. Post away!

Spotify Wrapped Top Artists: 1. Green Day, 2. Bayside, 3. Militarie Gun, 4. Chappell Roan, 5. Can’t Swim

Spotify Wrapped Top Songs: 1. Suffocate, 2. Parasites, 3. Do It Faster, 4. I Feel So, 5. Pink Pony Club

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Seriously, I am so thankful to the writers who took the time (or even considered taking the time) to blurb. It’s a pretty wild feeling when your favorite writers say nice things about your work. @sabs.bsky.social @zoebossiere.bsky.social @athenadixon.bsky.social 💖 elj-editions.com/no-offense-a...

“Equal parts humor and heartbreak. Refreshingly frank.” - Sabrina Imbler, author of How Far the Light Reaches

“Both contemporary and timeless, No Offense offers keen observations about masculinity, sexuality, friendship, and so much more.” - Zoe Bossiere, author of Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

“In No Offense, there is tenderness given to both the past and present selves along with love and hope toward the future self, too. Domenus’ engaging narrative voice leads readers to an unfurling of these selves.” - Athena Dixon, author of The Loneliness Files

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I am notoriously bad at both describing my own work and saying good things about it, so shout out to these incredible folks who were willing to blurb the book: @mlfaliveno.bsky.social @otroedgargomez.bsky.social @mcrane12.bsky.social & Shayla Lawson 💞 elj-editions.com/no-offense-a...

“A deeply honest, open-eyed, and at times, disarmingly funny exploration of the journey toward selfhood, of the language that can harm us and set us free.” - Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland

“A smart and deeply inspecting celebration of queer identity.” - Edgar Gomez, author of Alligator Tears and High-Risk Homosexual

“An ode to owning your story, to the fluidness of identity and self-discovery. This book cracked me open.” - Marisa Crane, author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

“A feel-good memoir about coming out and coming-of-age. Jackie Domenus is the kind of writer whose critical lens you can trust.” - Shayla Lawson, author of How to Live Free in a Dangerous World

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Have been thinking a lot about “mutual aid” since the election and how I can contribute. Plz share this amongst your queer & trans communities, particularly in the PA/NJ/DE area.

Queer & trans folks: if you’re engaged/planning to get married for legal reasons/have a wedding planned post-2024…I am a queer, ordained person who is happy to legally marry you and your partner free of charge, so you can get your paperwork in order pre-January, pre-Trump. Local to NJ, PA, & DE (will prob just ask for gas money if it’s over an hour drive). Email: jackiedomenus@gmail.com

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 One movie 🎥 One album 💿 One tv show 📺

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

✨COVER REVEAL✨Wasn’t sure I’d ever see the day when this big gay thing became an actual book people could hold in their hands. NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS coming to you in February of 2025! Shit is getting real.

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

New headshots. Out here doing real ✨author✨ things!

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

📢📢 Plz share with your queer and trans writing friends! We’ll be exploring examples of borrowed form essays and experimenting with new, non-traditional ways to tell our stories. Virtual so folks can join from anywhere! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.bluestoop.org/classes/jack...

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Had a restful week of writing and reading at @sundresspub.bsky.social residency. Also got to spend time with some super cool humans (and animals)! Feeling grateful.✨

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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

If you know any writers in the NJ/Philly area who are thinking about starting to submit their work, please share! We will cover all the basics and more.

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