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Luanne Castle

@luannecastle.bsky.social
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Poet, writer, artist. Now out: Hybrid flash memoir Scrap: Salvaging a Family (ELJ Editions 2026)! Best Microfiction 2026. 4 award-winning poetry collections. www.luannecastle.com Hunting the Cosmos forthcoming 2026 from Shanti Arts

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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
As the mother of adult children I have a different perspective. I am glad I didn’t pub my memoir until they were adults. And my hands are tied on writing about them.
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A good day at Poisoned Pen bookstore (in my vestibular migraine hat for the fluorescents). Come see me next Saturday at Desert Foothills Book Festival at the Holland Center in Scottsdale.
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tonight. Remedios Varo stories.
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know there are more. They are like Lay’s chips.
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks Sabrina!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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INTERVIEW: Luanne Castle, Author of Scrap: Salvaging a Family | Hippocampus Magazine
"Every memory written out was a burden released." -- Luanne Castle, author of Scrap: Salvaging a Memoir, interviewed by Rudri Bhatt Patel.
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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hello friends, our submissions have been running a little low. With a little under 3 weeks left before submissions close, if you could help us to spread the word it would be so greatly appreciated. All categories are open but we especially need more artwork and photography. heroinchic.weebly.com
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Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can you write a story in just 75 words? Paragraph Planet publishes one story every day on its home page (and has done since 2008). Get involved! paragraphplanet.com/submission.php #amwriting #flashfiction #microfiction Pls RT
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
S1 E1: Welcome to the Launch of My Reading Room rebeccasreadingroom.ca/2021/09/01/w...
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S1 E1: Welcome to the Launch of My Reading Room
Welcome to the Launch of Rebecca’s Reading Room
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you so much!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've got 4 free spots to give away for this for low income writers. If this is you, please DM me and I'll get you signed up! Everyeone else, I'd be grateful if you could share so this gets to the right people. I'll even throw in a free spot for someone (picked out the hat) who does just that!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks, Claudia!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Grateful! My lil Scrap is happy.
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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“What Can I Do with the Anger He Leaves Behind?”: A Review of Luanne Castle’s Scrap: Salvaging a Family, A Memoir in Flash - SmokeLong Quarterly
Reviewed by D.E. Hardy On page one of Scrap: Salvaging a Family, A Memoir in Flash [ELJ Editions, 2026], Luanne Castle declares her father Rudy a bastard. The word has three apropos definitions accord...
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
❤️❤️❤️
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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When One Poem Reminds Me of Another
and they are both beautiful
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The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thank you for your beautiful art!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
😹😹😹
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Cover Reveal of Hunting the Cosmos
Forthcoming from Shanti Arts November 10
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I love it!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thank you so much!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Grateful!!!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
He heard a coyote girl lives there.
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Giorgio de Chirico (Italy, 1888–1978) : Predictor, 1916 Oil on canvas Metaphysical art (Pittura Metafisica) A mysterious, mannequin-like or mechanical figure with a helmeted head set against a surreal, dream-like architectural background.
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Anxiety anyone? writersite.org/2026/08/24/t...
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The Age of Anxiety
I'm borrowing Auden's title for his book-length poem that won the Pulitzer in 1948 because contemporary life is even more anxiety-provoking than in the 20th cen
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Going to start doing a thing on a Monday where I give away a free workshop recording to one winner each week. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/workshop-rec... All you have to do to get your name in the hat is reply with the name of someone who's a cheerleading superstar in the writing community.
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Workshop-recordings (List) | MattKendrick.co.uk
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Absolutely!!!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Australians! Doll God now available direct at a discounted price. “Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothing / is immune.”
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thank you!!!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thank you so much!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
@1writeway.bsky.social thank you for the reposts! And good morning!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Goulash eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/g...
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Goulash
The alarm on my phone signals the time for six pills because I can’t handle my screaming until my surgery date & there are no hospital beds available before then although I started my pil…
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Loss, The Word eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/l...
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Loss, The Word
after Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” I’ve buried the word in all its parts and tenses patting the soil with my shovel, and still it seeps up out of its grave to ravage me. It …
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Thank you so much for sharing, Claudia!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
BOOKSTAGRAM TOUR: Salvaging a Family: A Memoir In A Flash by Luanne Castle @LoveBooksTours #BookstagramTour #BookPromotion #Bookstagrammers #BookReviews kellylacey.com/2026/08/15/b...
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BOOKSTAGRAM TOUR: Salvaging a Family: A Memoir In A Flash by Luanne Castle @LoveBooksTours #BookstagramTour #BookPromotion #Bookstagrammers #BookReviews
Starting Soon: Salvaging a Family: A Memoir In A Flash by Luanne Castle How much of our parents’ past do we really know? And how much of what happened before we were born quietly shapes our own liv…
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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I keep hearing that AI is going to get better, then I see shit like this. Just do your own work. So horrible that a school ok'd this.
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Middle School student agendas contain misspelled states and science errors, raising AI questions
YouTube video by WSMV 4 Nashville
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Interview to Forgiveness to Weather to Tanka to Book Review
One of the very top creative nonfiction journals is Hippocampus Magazine. I was pretty jazzed to be interviewed for them by Rudri Patel, the co-founder and co
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Painting Fun for Your Pre-Schooler
Since the beginning of the year, my now 2.5 year old grandson Hudson has painted pictures at my house. He begs to paint every time he comes. And I love sharing
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Only if you start peering between the stripes.
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Tanka sequence inspired by the QUEEN. Sylvia Plath. Tanka —03 by Luanne Castle latinosenglishedition.blog/2026/07/30/t...
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Tanka —03 by Luanne Castle
after “Fever 103” by Sylvia Plath imagine her sprawled in the chair of her walkup her long legs spilling to the side, book tossed away her face a pale winter sky. in a dozen hours yellow sullen smo…
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Back atcha!!!!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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A Hugely Talented Friend
If you're a blogger you might know Marie at 1 Write Way (this recent blog post of hers was a reposting of her fantabderful (yup, needed a portmanteau word) revi
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It was super cool to be interviewed by the fabulous @writesofkathryn.bsky.social about my memoir in flash Scrap: Salvaging a Family at one of my favorite journals, Cleaver Magazine! Thank you so much, Kathryn and the wonderful editors at Cleaver. www.cleavermagazine.com/a-conversati...
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A CONVERSATION WITH LUANNE CASTLE, AUTHOR OF SCRAP: SALVAGING A FAMILY by Kathryn Kulpa • Cleaver Magazine
Fiction Interview by Kathryn Kulpa SALVAGING FAMILY, INTERROGATING MEMORY: KATHRYN KULPA INTERVIEWS LUANNE CASTLE ABOUT HER NEW FLASH MEMOIR SCRAP: SALVAGING A FAMILY (ELJ Editions) Luanne Castle’s me...
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Agree!!!!!!!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
WOWSA!!!!!!
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Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
That’s so kind!
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Maybe I'll address it in a newsletter. I did do this one, but what constitutes a "bad title" often depends on the story it sit atop. open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...
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The Trouble with Titles...
Ten tried and true tips for writing terrific ones
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