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Kristi Ferguson

@kfergusonwrites.bsky.social
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Third-culture kid from Brazil 🇧🇷 ✍️ writing in @underthesunonline.bsky.social, JMWW, Bellevue Literary Review, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @rfpress.bsky.social & others 📖 read CNF for @triquarterlymag.bsky.social ✨ linktr.ee/kristiferguson ✨

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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thrilled to have an essay in @underthesunonline.bsky.social’s 2026 issue alongside the works of so many talented writers! Check out my essay (and the gorgeous accompanying art!) here: underthesunlitmag.com/changing-min...
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Changing Minds
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🎉🎉🎊🎊🎉🎊🎉
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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
And read the essay. Such sensory descriptions - and more. “How to Eat Pitanga” by @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social www.tinymolecules.com/how-to-eat-p...
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How to Eat Pitanga — Tiny Molecules
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
So happy to have the opportunity to talk to SmokeLong about the birth of my @tinymolecules.bsky.social essay “How to Eat Pitanga,” in the @smokelong.bsky.social workshop and about getting and giving feedback! Read the interview here: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Some of the shortest pieces I've ever read hit the hardest. Take for instance, "The Non-Denominational Government Exorcist Makes His Rounds" by H. A. Eugene. Or as I like to call it, the literary version of Bruce Lee's One Inch Punch. Check it out on 6/29!
 “Benevolent spirit, please understand, the Captain was only following orders.”
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Jill Michelle @jillpoppyflower.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
It’s the official publication day for Underwater!!!! Thank you to @wordperv.bsky.social and @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social for making my little-girl-poet dreams come true at 52 and for being the absolute sweetest publisher, sending this gorgeous bouquet to celebrate!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🎉🎊 Congratulations!!! 🎉🎊
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
sometimes you’re reading a novel and a set of lines perfectly encapsulates something you have felt and never articulated. my favorite thing about reading.
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
once had a friend tell me she took a book to bar and was disappointed when no man used it as an opportunity to make conversation and I had to break it to her that she is insufficiently online and that this is a trope people are warned to avoid 😂
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
turns out I just needed something new to procrastinate on to become very efficient in this totally disparate area of my life 🙌
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Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We offer a fellowship for BIPOC writers to attend a two-week residency at Mineral Arts & Residencies. Applications due May 15. WelcomeToMars.submittable.com
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
JAKE wants to read your writing! We think. There's a two percent chance that he said "eat" instead of "read", but we're pretty sure we heard right. jakethemag.com/guidelines/
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Guidelines
JAKE has submission guidelines, but if the work is good enough, then JAKE could give a shit what he called for: FICTION JAKE is looking for short stories of a literary or experimental stripe, regard...
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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 12/04/2025
I promise to stop talking about this today (there are obviously far bigger things happening) but I did want to call out that these books are all from small/university presses. In a lit world where it’s really hard to break a collection out, I’m grateful for the attention to small-press books!
Screenshot of Pen Robert w Bingham prize finalist list announcement from here https://pen.org/announcing-the-2025-pen-america-literary-awards-finalists/
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 04/04/2025
New Writer Beware blog post: A look at what the US Copyright Office has determined is copyrightable for creators who use generative AI in their work writerbeware.blog/2025/04/04/g...
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Generative AI and Copyrightability: Report From the US Copyright Office - Writer Beware
In 2023, the US Copyright Office launched an initiative to examine the legal and policy implications for copyright of generative AI (GAI). Incorporating comments from the public, the resulting report ...
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Aaaa what a gorgeous cover!!! Congratulations @ladiwoods.bsky.social!!! Can’t wait to read!!
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
oh my heart! “and you were so hungry for the Care Bear pencil prize and you felt as small as an ant and air scratched at your throat and you tried and you cracked and your voice came out like a butterfly song” the stunning language and emotion in this piece by @amymarques.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹 gorgeous!
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Enjoyed the latest Together, Alone by @gbullard.bsky.social! I don’t often watch movies (on planes or off), so when I watch one on a flight it tends to be one I’ve wanted to see. My latest: Ex Machina, Bohemiam Rhapsody, Cidade de Deus, & A Star is Born. www.watchingtogetheralone.com/p/a-few-thou...
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A Few Thoughts About Airplane Movies
In-flight, must be right
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Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
new new: "The Patchwork Child," by Allison Wyss: wigleaf.com
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w i g l e a f :  (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Been doing my best to stay off social media but went to review polling data from the only source I trust and finally found this: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... This is a travesty. FiveThirtyEight was the best political news source and nothing in the current landscape can replace it.
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Opinion | FiveThirtyEight is gone. Its legacy will endure.
Nate Silver’s website suffered because of Trump and changes in political news coverage.
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Congratulations to our workshop participants whose work was published in February (or thereabouts)! We're thrilled for you! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...
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SmokeLong Workshop Celebration—February 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below is eligible to wi...
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Today's interview with a SmokeLong Workshop Prize long-listee features Ann Yuan, whose TWO longlisted stories, “Namo Amituofo”, published in Five on the Fifth, and “How to Write a Story on Skin”, MoonPark Review, were written in the SmokeLong Summer 2023 workshop: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
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An Interview with Ann Yuan - SmokeLong Quarterly
In 2024 SmokeLong hosted our second SmokeLong Workshop Prize competition. Our workshop participants reported almost 300 publications to us before November 1, 2024. In 2025, we’ll be featuring one writ...
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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Thrilled to have a new little story in this issue!
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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
R. H. Booker’s piece is a treeat to read jakethemag.com/the-hopefuls/
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The Hopefuls
and we / went away from each other and worked daily // at not remembering
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Mariah Rigg @riggstah.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
if you are planning an awp reading and need an extra me and my galley are cute and ready to perform for you
person with long brown hair, wearing chain dangling circles of silver earrings and a light blue sweater, holding a black book with a flower as a cover, in front of a full bookshelf and a lamp cut in half to the right
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
“I probably should have told you the truth. I should have told you that I don’t have calendars or clocks in my apartment. I should have told you that I count in loops backwards from 60 when I start to panic.” Gorgeous writing by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Excited to be reading at the 804 Lit Salon this weekend!! If you’re in or around DC you should come!
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
excellent advice ♥️
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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This little guy comes out tomorrow…unreal.
The cover of my short story collection, Haunted Ecologies. It depicts a woman standing in front of a mountain made of bones with a bird skeleton on her shoulder.
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“You realize how much of your body you’ve never touched with intention: the satiny inside of your arms, your knuckles’ bony hills– Why did you never notice how irregular they are?” wonderful story from @claudiamonpere.bsky.social!!
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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Hi new followers! I have a novel out in paperback just FYI! Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The Washington Post, A Noteworthy Book Harper's Bazaar, A Best New Book of 2023
Me, a bearded nerdy 45 year old man, holding the paperback of his novel. BROTHER & SISTER ENTER THE FOREST.
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Be on the lookout for scam emails from someone pretending to be with AWP asking for money. I just got my fourth one.
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
😱🤩🤩 Look at this cover! so excited for this book!!
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Did u know that @jmwwjournal.bsky.social is open for flash fiction submissions until Saturday, February 15 at 11pm? And that if you send in a story under 1500 words, I will read it? jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/
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Guidelines
Please go to our Submittable site for specific category guidelines and to submit work. jmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly.…
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Iron Horse Literary Review 🐴 @ironhorselitrev.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
We're now accepting submissions for our next Open Issue There's no theme, so please send us your best stories, essays, and poems. We're excited to read what you've been working on! Submit by March 15 at ironhorse.submittable.com
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Emily Mirengoff @emirengoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Exciting things are brewing at @triquarterlymag.bsky.social, and we're on the hunt for astute new Fiction readers. Apply to join our team, or DM me if you have any questions! It feels good to be a part of something beautiful and communal right now. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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TriQuarterly Fiction Reader Application
Thank you for your interest in reading for the Fiction section of TriQuarterly. We receive a large volume of submissions every year and need your help to spot the literary gems in our inbox! Enthusias...
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Kelsey Francis @kelseyfrancis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It took me years to write about this. Anger, shame, and regret prevented me from sharing it. I’m tired of the silence. Thank you for reading. 💜 www.huffpost.com/entry/baby-r...
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I Was Willing To Do Anything To Save My Baby. A Nurse Made A Suggestion That Almost Cost Me My Life.
"I didn’t ask questions and I didn’t do Google research. I was too busy keeping my baby alive."
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Tiny Molecules @tinymolecules.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
We’re finally here! Give us a like and a follow and help us find our friends!
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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Wrote about the five minute exercise for consuming art 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/the-fifth-...
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The Fifth Minute
On slowing it down.
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
LOUISIANA PEOPLE! I need you to call Senator Dr. Bill Cassidy, telling him to NOT confirm RFK Jr for Health Secretary. He’s a swing vote! It took 40 seconds of my time to call. I left a voicemail. His staff tallies the calls. He’s a vote that can be flipped: - he’s a doctor - pro-vaccine🧵
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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The list from Best Microfiction is live! Congrats, @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social on having your piece from WRR selected! www.bestmicrofiction.com
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Best Microfiction
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 29/01/2025
Please share
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blreview.bsky.social @blreview.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Hear from four best-selling medical writers about ethical dilemmas they face and how they use writing to dig deeper into considerations about these issues. 🩺✏️ Join us TOMORROW (online!) for The Book Doctors Are In! www.tickettailor.com/events/belle... @danielleofri.bsky.social @choo.bsky.social
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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Don't beat yourself up about how long you've been away from your writing practice. The important thing is to go back. Tonight, why not read the last pages you wrote?
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“I say to George, quickly and quietly, “I’m going to announce it, George,” and he says, “Announce what?” and passes David in the doorway.” I really enjoyed this story Emily!
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 24/01/2025
PSA for writers: if a publisher dangles a contract offer but first wants to know how many of your own books you plan to buy...your answer will 100% determine whether you actually get the contract. Along w/ things like not paying royalties till production costs recouped, this is stealth vanity pub
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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Love to hear this! Attn small press poets…
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
fascinating
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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
great ideas here for doing something productive
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