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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our wildly talented author Mary Ardery has won the Debut category of the 2026 Indiana Authors Awards for Level Watch! 🤩 More at indianaauthorsawards.org/2026-honorees/

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What an amazing poem and what a rendering of 'ominous'! I'm so happy @mardery.bsky.social chose her gorgeous poetry to tell the stories that fill Level Watch (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2025). Just ✨😍✨! #poetry 📚💙

book on wooden surface. The cover shows watercolor landscape by Bronwen McCormick: the art is superimposed on a map and is a painting of hilly pinewoods in foreground and bluish mountains in the back, there is a horizontal burn-mark crossing the sky, like a burnt edge of a sheet of paper. The colors are very light and subdued.

$Little Lost Cove From up on the cliffs, the forest unspools. Gauzy haze in the distance, inscrutable blue that resolves into green up close. Inside those forest corridors, the woods come alive. Creatures watch, camouflaged in the flora, and the leaves begin to feel like fur—one giant animal, one consciousness. The trees bear witness as a woman kneels to pump water from a shallow stream. She startles the minnows awake, and a snake sunning on a nearby rock lifts its head when the fish scatter, fracturing the little trapezoid of light where it trembles on the warming water.$

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thanks to our distributor, Asterism, for celebrating the Gold IPPY win for Mary Ardery, from our friends at @juneroadpress.bsky.social, along w/ Silver for Holli Carrell of Perugia, in their recent Summer Reading List! 🌟📚🎉 @mardery.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Mary Ardery @mardery.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

My first book LEVEL WATCH is officially out today!! <3

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

"I tell my students that they do not have to write every day—I am unable to ask this of myself—but they do have to widen the scope of what they consider writing to be." @mardery.bsky.social interviews @mfraterrigo.bsky.social, author of The Perils of Girlhood: A Memoir in Essays:

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A Lineage of Women and Writers: A Conversation with Melissa Fraterrigo

After publishing two books of literary fiction—Glory Days and The Longest Pregnancy—Melissa Fraterrigo’s first book of nonfiction, The Perils of Girlhood, comes out in September 2025. This wide-rangin...

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Join us for a cozy Sunday-night virtual craft chat on 9/28 to celebrate the launch of Level Watch in two weeks, featuring Abbie Kiefer! Register at bit.ly/level-watch-launch ✨

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"My sister's unborn baby was as big as a striped skunk that week. Or, romaine lettuce." This week's miCRo, "Benevolent Ruler" by @mardery.bsky.social‬, is an essay that presents the mundane but also demonstrates the complexities of women's health treatment. More on our site:

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miCRo: "Benevolent Ruler" by Mary Ardery

An essay in which the quotidian overlies concerns about women's health

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Mary Ardery @mardery.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I'm so very excited to share the cover of my book LEVEL WATCH. It's out September 23rd from June Road Press ♥️ Learn more at the website: www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch

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Level Watch — June Road Press

A poetry collection by Mary Ardery

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Hi friends—I’m offering this workshop twice in July, to raise money for our upcoming year at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social 📚💙 It’s a suggested $100 donation to attend, & you can donate here to save your seat: tinyurl.com/mnbtc3ks Then email riverriverbooksevents@gmail.com & let me know which day!

Finding Shape in the Dark
on writing difficult narratives
a generative writing workshop

July 5: 9-11am (ET)
July 19: 9-11am (ET)

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Han VanderHart, PhD, MFA
author of Larks

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Here is a great litmag fundraiser that comes with awesome swag—adore @nataliesolmer.bsky.social and The Indianapolis Review. Support them here: www.bonfire.com/the-indianap...

Editor Natalie Solmer wearing a tie-dye MAKE ART / NOT KINGS sweat shirt

Text: Please help support The Indianapolis Review. We want writers and artists to Make Art, Not Kings! Eff the NEA call for propaganda. We are not backed by any institution (a good thing these days?!), but need help paying annual fees. https://www.bonfire.com/the-indianapolis-review

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June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We’re delighted to announce our new authors for this year—two Marys (go figure)! Mary Ardery and Mary Simmons will have woodsy, wonderful debut collections out in the fall, and we’ll be sharing lots more details along the way. But first: AWP next week in LA! Find us at at table 318! 😎☀️

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Mary Ardery @mardery.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

For those looking for a writing prompt to start off the new year, consider writing (and submitting) to this stellar one from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

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River River Books Submission Manager

Submit to River River Books. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.

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Mary Ardery @mardery.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This was my first year applying for an NEA. I got rejected, as anticipated, but the email actually made me feel really encouraged to try again because 35 fellows out of 2,003 eligible applicants is way better odds than many first-book contests😅

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Mary Ardery @mardery.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I’m here mostly for the writing community, but I’m also here for pictures of your pets. Here’s mine, with his pet pumpkin roll.

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