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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Get my chapbook THE MISSING GIRL at 40% off! This month only, ALL Black Lawrence Press titles are 40% off with the code BACKTOSCHOOL40 at checkout. The full catalogue: blacklawrencepress.com/books/ The Missiing Girl: blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-mi...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

See my Substack today for more about my new essay “Normal” and my book The Lunatics’ Ball and for an appreciation of @sfmontgomery.bsky.social and her new online magazine @nervetowrite.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Remember when readings were in person and not on Zoom? Such fun to read at @booksonb.bsky.social with @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and @lynnmundell.bsky.social to celebrate and launch @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social 's Pardon Me for Moonwalking!

Four women standing in front of bookstore bookshelves, arms entwined, with big smiles. The second woman is wearing snazzy green shoes.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Only one more week to enter the Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest at CRAFT! Roxane Gay judges this year. See details here: www.craftliterary.com/craft-memoir...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Thank you NUNUM for nominating "Your Perfect Day" for BEST MICROFICTION 2026, along with works by Dawn Miller @dawnwriter.bsky.social, Cole Beauchamp @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and others. Congrats to all!

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Not sure how to describe my piece in @bendinggenres.bsky.social today. A haunting maybe. A hybrid medley incorporating Poe's music, his murderers, his lovers, his women. Most of them come back. bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

SF and Bay Area friends! Looking forward to reading with @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social and these great writers on Tuesday, Dec 9, at the Sycamore in the Mission.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I’m bursting with good news I can’t disclose yet. In the meantime, our Thanksgiving cactus has bloomed. Have a happy Thanksgiving!

A Thanksgiving cactus with magenta blooms on a wood table with two bowls of fruit in the background, one with green grapes, one with an apple and bananas.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Surprised and thrilled to find my name on the longlist for the WIGLEAF TOP 50! Big thanks to Francine Witte, who published my micro in FLASH BOULEVARD, and to @laughingyeti.bsky.social, @samanito.bsky.social, and the @wigleaf.bsky.social readers! Lots of great flash to read here: www.wigleaf.com

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It's here! Just picked up @sfmontgomery.bsky.social's ABBREVIATE (@smallharborpub.bsky.social) from my local indie bookstore. Can't wait to read this collection of flash creative nonfiction.

Slender paperback book held up in front of green plants with magenta flowers: lavender and orange and pink cover with figures of women and title ABBREVIATE and author's name Sarah Fawn Montgomery.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I finally saw "American Symphony." Such a beautiful movie!

movie poster for A Netflix Documentary AMERICAN SYMPHONY showing Jon Baptiste conducting in Carnegie Hall and a vignette of Jon Baptiste with his wife Suleika Jaouad.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Hooray! Woke up to an acceptance this morning! #writing #writsky photo: Unexpected Catalonia on Unsplash

A brown horse lying on its back on green grass, wiggling in delight.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If you happen to be in the vicinity of Santa Monica on Sunday, stop by the launch reading for the SANTA MONICA REVIEW from 5-7pm. Take a look at the great new issue, which includes a story by my husband Steve.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"How was your AWP?" Well, since you ask: www.jacquelinedoyle.com/whats-new/ho... I limited my book acquisitions to what I could carry, and here they are: The new PAST TEN anthology, books by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, and Len Kuntz. There were so many more I wanted to buy!

four books displayed on a couch: THINGS I CAN'T EVEN TELL MYSELF by Len Kuntz with a pale gray cover and two dark figures, THE PAST TEN: AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Donald Quist, Kali White VanBaale, and Bailey Gaylin Moore, with an orange abstract design of overlapping sticks on the cover; OTHER EMERGENCIES by Sarah Freligh, a night sky with a blue moon and some clouds on the cover; and THESE WORN BODIES by Avitus B . Carle, with a collage on the cover with eyes and hands and magenta and black shapes against a white and aqua background.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Celebrate International Women's Day before someone bans it in the U.S.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY in white and red lettering. #BreakTheBias in small black lettering against a purple background with three drawings of women's profiles in different colors.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The new change to the Washington Post opinion pages announced by Jeff Bezos today is unconscionable.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

ESSAYS! Two collections I’ve been reading for a while, and two in the mail today from Orison Books and @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social's EYES MOVING THROUGH THE DARK and @andrewbertaina.bsky.social’s THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE.

4 books: colorful cover of Best American Essays 2025, editor WESLEY MORRIS's name prominent at the bottom; orange, green, and yellow cover or Ross Gay's The Book of (More) Delights, with DELIGHTS and ROSS GAY visible; white cover with black lettering and a black train with THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE in caps, Andrew Bertaina's name below; and a black and white photo of the woods, with EYES MOVING THROUGH THE DARK in caps, William Wolfitt below.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Two pubs today! Both in magazines that I love! Pleased to appear for the first time in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social with a CNF microflash sequence, "Teachers' Pets." A great issue. (Also, nice graphic for my piece.) Thank you Camille Griep ! www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/jacqueli...

Picture of largely empty classroom with empty orange floor and chairs against the wall. Writing on blackboard on far wall JACQUELINE DOYLE TEACHERS' PETS FIVE MICROMEMOIRS DOES IT HAVE POCKETS CREATIVE NONFICTION. And on the bottom of the photo in script: "My mother told me on the phone about the suicide, an offhand do-you-remember-so-and-so? It figures that I'd be drawn to the teacher harboring darkness inside."

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This might be important to someone you know. Please pass it on.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Last few days! CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest closes January 15. www.craftliterary.com/craft-memoir...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Finally bought CRAFTING THE LYRIC ESSAY by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social! And there's A ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING THE LYRIC ESSAYAbook, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social and @artichokeheart.bsky.social ,to look forward to next winter.

Book held up to a window that shows greenery outside: title at bottom is Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord, author's name at top Heidi Czerwiec, picture of a dark-skinned goddess with a lyre, fist raised, surrounded by art nouveau designs

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

So pleased to be included in @fictivedream.bsky.social's upcoming "Flash Fiction February" this year! Looking forward to a grand party with a flash a day all month.

abstract art in blue with multi-colored dots of varying sizes and a banner reading FLASH FICTION FEBRUARY 2025 in topsy-turvy letters

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Our Christmas cactus has started to bloom! The plant is old and should be repotted so I’m always surprised and uplifted when it blooms anyway.

Christmas cactus with red buds and a couple of blooms in a brown, beige and white pottery pot. On a white windowsill with glimpse of another plant in a green pot behind it and green vegetation visible through the window.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Hard NOT to feel this way as a writer now… (Not sure where this meme originated. Post in comments if you know.)

Meme in two parts. Upper frame a city on fire, labeled "The world:" Lower part: a man cupping his mouth and shouting: "Do you need any poems?"

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

2024: Some Year-End Thank Yous www.jacquelinedoyle.com/whats-new (photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash)

closeup of an old-fashioned typewriter with a piece of paper inserted with the words: DANNK! THANK YOU! MERCI! GRAZIE! GRACIAS! DANK JE WEL! (photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash)

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

34 years sober today. Hard to believe!

Colorful orange and yellow flowers (chrysanthemums, a rose, a sunflower) in a yellow cup with a handle on a wooden kitchen table. A glimpse of the outdoors through the window behind it.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“Many of you could be where we are—on the street—but for some simple and not uncommon twist of fate. This is part of your rejection, this fear that it could be you.” Read this first-hand account of homelessness by writer Patrick Fealy. Long but very worth your time. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

“The unexpected bonus of essentially using [Philip Guston’s] gorgeous painting [“Painting, Smoking, Eating”] as a writing prompt was that all the shame I felt around my problem morphed into a perverse kind of pride.” Read Ann Levin's amazing essay in CRAFT. buff.ly/3UF2Kov

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I'll be reading with some of my favorite flash writers on Saturday, November 13T (11am PST, 2pm EST): Pamela Painter, Jeff Friedman, Kat Gonzo, Lynn Mundell, Kathryn Silver-Hajo, Cheryl Pappas, and Mary Grimm. Register here (it's free): us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The Prose Garden a monthly lit series hosted by Meg Pokrass and Francine Witte with a surrounding circle of red roses and green leafy stems

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Nice walk at Lake Chabot near where we live. Trees DO change color in Northern California in the fall. Well, not nearly as many as on the East Coast.

Bright red leaves on a tree with a slender trunk. Green foliage in the background.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

COMING SOON! Steve Gutierrez’s CAPTAIN CHICANO DRAWS A LINE IN THE AMERICAN SAND, the University of Tampa Press’s first novella, drops on August 16. Preorder here or on Amazon: utampapress.org/product/capt...

Ad for Captain Chicano Draws a Line in the American Sand by Stephen D, Gutierrez, with Captain Chicano in bold large print, text describing it, and a picture of the b&w cover with a superhero hanging from the door of a San Francisco trolley

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

San Francisco and Bay Area friends: Come hear @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social and five of us read on Thursday, 7pm at The Sycamore in the Mission District!

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

So thrilled to see my story “(Parenthetical Asides)” on the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist. Big thanks to Lynn Mundell and Centaur for publishing it. Here are the full shortlist and full longlist for your browsing pleasure. A wealth of talent here! wigleaf.com/2024top501.htm wigleaf.com/2024longlist...

Drawing of a long-haired woman smoking with 2024 issuing from her cigarette instead of smoke. "the wigleaf top fifty" in four banner lines overlays the picture, colored in tan and yellow and brown and orange.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Thank you @doublebackreview.bsky.social (@sundresspub.bsky.social) for publishing my essay “Doorbells” in your new issue. (Check out Doubleback Review, which resurrects "your retired darlings, your dead art, your beautiful zombies.”) Cover art by Kathleen Harris. doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...

cover DOUBLEBACK REVIEW, lower right, issue 6.1, April 2024. Cover art: "Ophelia in Outer Space" by Kathleen Harris. Torso and head of weeping woman, her dark hair flowing into a star-studded sky, spiky planet or sun behind her, planet covered in eyes with. Saturn-like ring above her.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Freesias are always the first sign of spring in our yard in the San Francisco Bay Area. And those tiny blue grape-like plants (does anyone know what they're called?).

Lavender and white freesias amid green weeds. Small plant with tiny blue balls like miniature grapes.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

“I dream you are alive, bright-eyed, a little sheepish but brash, so brash. Ready to rebel. Ready to go places.” Thrilled to have seven nonfiction micros in Francine Witte’s FLASH BOULEVARD today. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/j...

banner b/w photo of a rainy urban street and a pedestrian with an umbrella by Wes Canela

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

I'm amazed every year when our old and somewhat scruffy Christmas cactus knows it's time to bloom.

Christmas cactus with three red blooms in a brown ceramic pot on a windowsill, green foliage outside the window.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Some year-end thank yous and a writing retrospect on my website. Grateful to the writing community for all of your support! www.jacquelinedoyle.com/whats-new/so... [Photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash]

manual typewriter with thank you written in multiple languages on a piece of white typewriter paper

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Celebrating 33 years of sobriety today. I can hardly believe it.

Bouquet of yellow roses in a glass vase (obscured) on a straw mat on a wooden table.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

The CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest is open until January 14. $1K awarded to 3 winners. General CNF subs remain open. At CRAFT there are NEVER submissions fees, and ALL contributors are paid ($200 for essays/memoir excerpts, $100 for flash). #memoir #essay www.craftliterary.com/submit/

Announcement in white letters of various sizes: 2023 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest November 13, 2023-January 14, 2024 $3,400 Awarded Guest Judge: Sarah Fawn Montgomery. Background from cover of Montgomery's book Far From Home, flames in shades of brown, tan and beige with tiny off-white moths

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

In search of the Japanese Zen Garden in Castro Valley (closed today, it appears), we happened on a beautiful, tranquil brook we'd never seen before.

Brook hidden amid dense foliage and trees.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Thanks Tom Conaghan at @scratchbooks.bsky.social for asking me to introduce a story for SCRATCH CLASSICS. The opening line of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" has haunted me for years. www.scratch-books.co.uk/post/the-tel...

abstract black and beige woodcut of a man buried under floorboards, his body twisted, one eye bulging, an anatomical image of a red heart visible in his chest)

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

I took an author photo for my husband's forthcoming novella! And the University of Tampa Press just announced it here, complete with description: utampapress.org/acquisition-...

Gray and black haired man in glasses smiles sightly at the camera. He wears a light blue buttoned shirt with the collar open. The green background, possibly trees, is blurred.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

My contributor's copy is here! Pleased to be included with so many talented writers in AWAKENINGS: Stories of Body & Consciousness, edited by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social (ElJ Editions @emergejournal.bsky.social). Can't wait to read them all! #author #WritingCommunity #nonfiction #litworld #flaslhlit

Blue cover of anthology AWAKENINGS: Stories of Body & Consciousness, Edited by Diane Gottlieb, foreword by Gayle Brandeis: a woman underwater with her back arched. Held up against a yellow wall and colorful framed photograph of a Mexican doorway.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Blown away to learn that my (very hybrid) essay “Cutting Edge” has earned a Notable Essay listing in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2023. Big thanks to the editors at PERMAFROST and to the series editor Robert Atwan. #author #WritingCommunity #nonfiction #litworld

A photocopied page from the Notables Essays list at the back of Best American Essays with many alphabetical entries, and a red star next to Jacqueline Doyle, "Cutting Edge," Permafrost Magazine, 44/1.

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