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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

#durham peeps! Story Connection is coming your way! Find your voice, make new friends, feel better about the world in a live storytelling class. Sign up now--class starts Sept 2!! www.writingisjoy.com/story

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Story Connection — Writing is Joy - Writing classes, coaching, retreats, and live storytelling in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Tell your story with more joy and ease.

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Kate Blackwood @katenblackwood.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

"For the better part of a year, Monet got up at 3:30 am and painted haystacks." A writer walks through the Art Institute of Chicago and this is only one of the insights we get. I'm bookmarking this Substack for return visits. from @juliafgreen.bsky.social writingisjoy.substack.com/p/my-kind-of...

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I was thrilled to be invited to talk craft with some of my favorite writers about one of my favorite short stories: "Housewifely Arts," by Megan Mahew Bergman. Thanks so much for this wonderful chat, @juliafgreen.bsky.social and @ralphwalker.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Season 3, Episode 7: Housewifely Arts

Podcast Episode · Writing in the Dark · 08/15/2025 · 46m

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 10/07/2025

Good news: every clumsy embarrassing fumble forward counts towards writing

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Can't wait to watch the new season of The Bear, which is why I yakked about the pilot episode on the podcast with @ralphwalker.bsky.social

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Summer in the city means cleavage cleavage cleavage (cannot be the only person whose skull this lyric has been knocking around in the last few days)

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Writing is Joy @writingisjoy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

HEARD! The new episode of Writing in the Dark is all about The Bear and what prose writers can learn from it. Had a lot of fun deep dishing with @ralphwalker.bsky.social on character, conflict, and Chicago. Thanks, as always, for listening-- open.substack.com/pub/writingi...

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Season 3, Episode 5: The Bear

Spicy characters rage and sweat in this fast-paced TV show set in a Chicago restaurant

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Writing is Joy @writingisjoy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

School's pretty much out for the summer, which makes writing hard! Some thoughts on how to keep going amid the chaos: open.substack.com/pub/writingi...

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Chaos is coming

How to keep writing when summer demolishes routine

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I hope everybody CRUSHES #1000wordsofsummer and also I wrote about why I won't do it again. Keep writing friends 💜 writingisjoy.substack.com/p/against-wo...

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Against Word Count

Why I'll never do the #1000wordsofsummer challenge again.

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Looking for some writing accountability in June? Highly recommend Allison Kirkland's June Writing Circle - weekly meetings in the evening on Zoom. Keep writing even as the summer blows up life! open.substack.com/pub/allisonk...

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Registration Closes Today

For the June Writing Circle

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A student called me Master Splinter today which gave me way more joy than I was expecting on a Monday in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-five

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

To all the moms, "moms" & people who give care and nurturing to other humans: we see you and we celebrate you. And since you can't get paid parental leave or subsidized childcare or a shred of fucking respect as a parent in this country, I hope you at least got a nap and 20 minutes of alone time.

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Some One Sentence Book Reviews Would be curious to hear your thoughts on any of these! writingisjoy.substack.com/p/one-senten...

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One Sentence Book Reviews

And a couple titles I didn't get through

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

There is so much in America I don’t want to see. And I don’t mean the suffering. I mean the entertainment, the consumerism, the success, the celebritism, the sickness disguised as having it all.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Neil P Bardhan @neilpbardhan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Screaming Screaming Screaming AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I feel that if you are a working mother, you should not have to submit a ton of shit to apply for a residency, you should just have to check a box that says: please, I have a child, please let me write

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Writing is Joy @writingisjoy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

What's in your revision toolbox? Ours has a machete writingisjoy.substack.com/p/mean-girls...

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Mean girls meet the revision machete

My go-to scene revision strategy

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rchaels.bsky.social @rchaels.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The way I SCREAMED A SCREAM upon reading scanned lines of prose. This made my poet-heart so happy, and is also proof that time heals all wounds (thousands of lines of AP Latin scansion homework.) I read this short story then listened to the podcast and then read the story out loud to myself again.

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

best advice i have for starting your day right is to sign up for newsletters/journals that send poems to your inbox

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Approx one hundred times a day I wonder what the world would look like if EVERYBODY KEPT A JOURNAL

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Loving the birds rn. You wanna hear an angry bird? Stand near a tree in NC in April. These birds got something to SAY

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Bonnie Burton ✍️ @bonniegrrl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Everyone is dealing with something. EVERYONE. Be kinder. 💕

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

got asked again during a Q&A what led to me becoming a poet, and this time i decided to answer completely honestly: "being a weird person"

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It's Wednesday. Put on pants (or don't) and shine your light into this dark, dark world. We need you 💜

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

If you need me I'll be on my bike (her name is Shirley) yelling at undergraduates recklessly riding scooters in all/no directions as if they had a hundred wild and precious lives

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Missing rotary telephones today

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Writing is Joy @writingisjoy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It's a whole thing living in this world right now. Be kind to yourself, to others, as much as you are able. And make a little art if you can. A two minute doodle, a little haiku, some plunked piano keys--it all will make the world a brighter place 💜

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Writing is Joy @writingisjoy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Are you ready to take your writing to the next level? The Journey to Jupiter Writing Retreat is for fiction and memoir writers who are hungry for the time, community, and craft they need to advance their projects to the next level. writingisjoy.substack.com/p/are-you-re...

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Are you ready to take your writing to the next level?

The Journey to Jupiter Writing Retreat launches again with two new instructors

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

when your brain is ugh and your heart is blah

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I hope you find bloom and abundance today. Bloom and abundance exist—they exist.

Hot pink azaleas against a blue and white clouded Carolina sky.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 08/04/2025

Hey look at me I've been here for years and I still have zero books out. You can just be a writer! No qualifications! No clue what you're doing! Just making things and telling other people about it all day who barely care! That's all I do!

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Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Jupiter … if writing is your thing, this is the thing to thing at. Experts, encouragement, camaraderie, and neato-keen cool #5amwritersclub peepages (yes, like you see here daily). Apply. Trust me, we stay crunchy. Even in milk.

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Still a few spots left in FREE live storytelling class for underrepresented voices in #carrboro NC. All the info is here: writingisjoy.substack.com/p/a-free-sto...

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Jay Heltzer @jayheltzer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

And we've got guest faculty too! Wanna learn from the best? @ralphwalker.bsky.social @juliafgreen.bsky.social @pennyzang.bsky.social and Caroline Manring! Click back to the OP, fill out the form, block your calendar and LFG to Jupiter! #5amWritersClub #WritersRetreat

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Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Are you not feeling much existential dread these days? Do you have psychic room to feel more pessimism about the fate of the planet? Are you in the mood for 900 pages of well written doom? Then Stephen Markley's DELUGE is for you! (I loved it, actually, but it's A LOT)

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