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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 · 21/09/2025

That was my intent with this one but at some point it demanded more attention than I could give it with a tv on 😆

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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

took literal months working on this one (I admit to a lack of dedication). finally finished with a little help from my friends but I did notice many parallels between puzzle making and novel writing along the way 😅

completed puzzle of a fantastical woman riding a polar bear—lots of blues and whites.

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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

Thank you Barbara and thank you so much for sharing!

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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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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

they just needed you to know 🙄😖

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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

Happy Birthday Lisa!! 💐🎉 thanks for sharing some of its beauty with us

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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 · 04/05/2025

it’s gorgeous! bet it tastes better than any story 😁

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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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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 🎉🎊🎊🍾🎂

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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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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I didn’t where I am, but it makes me happy that someone saw it.

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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

that’s an excellent question, don’t think I’ve heard it before either

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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I recently encountered someone who hadn’t seen Schitt’s Creek and was jealous they got to see it for the first time, so that one if you haven’t seen it! Also: Hacks, Grace and Frankie, A Man on the Inside.

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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

😬😩 at least you caught it before handing them out!

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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I really want to read more of this story

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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

I once told a friend she only thinks her pet dogs love her because they’re essentially captives that rely on her for food and a simulation of freedom (leashed walks) and are likely suffering from stockholm syndrome. we’re still friends though, maybe it’s all in the delivery 😅

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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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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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Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I feel like this “pal” knew what they were doing.

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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’m always stunned by your writing Claudia 🤩♥️

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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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