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Margo Steines

@margosteines.bsky.social
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writer + creative coach BRUTALITIES: a love story @w.w.norton essays @nytimes @brevitylitmag @thesunmagazine @offassignment @slate @airmail @romper @guardian_us @lareviewofbooks BAE notable alum @uarizonamfa everything: linktr.ee/margosteines

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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Want to write more in the new year? Here are my upcoming offerings for 2026 🖤 Details & enroll now at my website: margosteines.com
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Happening now! For today only - you can get my WYS course at a steep discount! No code needed - just add the course to your cart on my website and hit purchase <3 www.margosteines.com/write-your-s...
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creative writing course — MARGO STEINES CREATIVE
self paced creative writing class
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
THIS FRIDAY (11/28) - you can get the core or coached versions of my Write Your Story course at a discount! No code needed - simply add the course to your cart on my website and hit purchase anytime on 11/28 to apply the discount <3 MargoSteines.com/Write-Your-Story
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Hi writers! I’m doing a version of Black Friday (except sustainable, and without exploiting any workers) this year! No discount code needed! Just add the WYS course to your cart at margosteines.com and select purchase on Friday, November 28th :)
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
for any “poetry curious” writers who want to incorporate more poetry into their writing (✋🏻) ⬇️ my friend, Logan Phillips (aka dirtyverbs) and I are doing a Q&A over on IG live Monday (10/6) at 4pm pacific to chat about our upcoming seminar, Poetry For Every Writer. We’d love to see you there <3
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Off Assignment @offassignment.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Per Leslie Jamison, reading @margosteines.bsky.social's writing is "journeying to the center of the earth, except the earth is a human body." Learn from Margo, @christinajcooke.bsky.social @porochista.bsky.social @sarahmanguso.bsky.social & Krys Malcom Belc in "Writing the Body." buff.ly/JOxfnwQ
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
There is still time to join me for one of my Essay Master Classes this summer! www.margosteines.com/classes
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CLASSES — MARGO STEINES CREATIVE
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
For any writers looking to deepen their approach to the essay 📝 ~ I still have space for you in my next batch of Essay Master Class I & II this summer ☀️ www.margosteines.com/classes
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Write in community this summer with me <3 margosteines.com/classes #writing #writers #writingcommunity #authors #cnf #books #community #creatives #creativewriting #essay
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I am so pumped to work with the incredible cohort I am building. I'm reading applications through July--this is your moment <3 xoM
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
come write about that which is everything <3
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
does anyone else have the categories of "thoughts i can have on a couch" and "thoughts i need to sit in a hard chair for" or is this yet another disorder i thought was a personality quirk
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
***New 12-Month Book-Generative Course Offering: The Group Incubator Beginning August 11th!*** Calling all writers who have a book idea, but need some warm support (and accountability) to make it happen— www.margosteines.com/classes/p/we... Contact: margosteines@gmail.com
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Hi writers! I’ve got one seat left in June’s essay master class, where we will spend a month vibing together, nerding out on the essay, and supporting you in the incubation of a new work of nonfiction. Find details and enrollment at margosteines.com/classes xo, M
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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My Postpartum Rage Completely Blindsided Me
Who was this feral, adult-shaped raccoon screaming into a pillow in the carport?
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12/05/2025
years ago, after one too many people described sex workers to me as a “vulnerable population,” I tried to never refer to anyone in my work as “vulnerable” if I could instead say who and what had *made them* vulnerable
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
For @slate.com , I wrote about something literally and figuratively near my heart. slate.com/life/2025/04... (I didn't write the title)
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Everyone Shakes Their Heads at What I’ve Done With My Child. Get Over It.
I have a lot of thoughts about the "ick" reaction this brings on.
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The Ex-Zine Editor @bubblegumzines.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
@bmure.bsky.social book 17/83 is this heavily bookmarked copy of @margosteines.bsky.social's memoir Brutalities. It features throughout Disordered Readers Anonymous zine, first appearing chap 1 - which you can get to your inbox here exzineeditor.beehiiv.com/subscribe 💙📚 #zines #booksky #books
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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How To Make Time For Sex, Even When Your House Is Full Of Tiny People
At first, I didn't know how to be a sexual person and a parent. Which was fair, because nothing in life prepared me for that.
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Off Assignment @offassignment.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
OA fave @margosteines.bsky.social is bringing back her popular Writing the Body course w 4 new guests @sarahmanguso.bsky.social , Krys Malcolm Belc, @porochista.bsky.social , & @christinajcooke.bsky.social to help deepen your engagement w body writing of all forms. Sign up: buff.ly/x7277kr
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Off Assignment @offassignment.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Got a draft, but need the courage and discipline to sit down and REVISE? Join @margosteines.bsky.social for a Nonfiction Re-Vision intensive: one week of classes and 1:1 meetings focused on revising a piece of your writing and getting it ready for publication: buff.ly/4gYZQU2.
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
just wrote the phrase "traditional reality" so i think that's enough copywriting for today
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
ok someone on goodreads called me a pick me and i am SO offended at the ACCURACY
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
When I started teaching creative writing, this was the first course I built: a simple, step by step container to guide you from idea to pages drafted essay. Enrollment + details: www.margosteines.com/classes/p/wr... I’m so excited to see you there! xo, M
You're invited to Writing the Braided Essay. We meet for 6 weeks on Zoom, Thursdays, 6-8pm Pacific Time, starting February 27.
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
ok so twitter is literally unusable, facebook is my aunties on my dads side, instagram is a digital marketing petri dish, this place doesn't have enough going on to properly contextualize my random stupid thoughts, i work from home, and I have high kvetching needs. WHERE MIGHT ONE TURN
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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"Government and employer come first, and we can have what’s left, as a treat...Speaking as a fox: fuck that." Read @margosteines.bsky.social incredible review of Jennifer Case's We Are Animals in our Jan/Feb issue. literarymama.com/articles/dep...
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For When Your Hoof Is Caught in the Quicksand of Late Capitalism: A Review of We Are Animals
There are moments, reading Jennifer Case’s collection of essays, We Are Animals, when I can feel something twisting in my belly, a sharp discomfort in my deepest recesses. Case writes about the interi...
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Stoked to review Jennifer Case’s book of essays: literarymama.com/articles/dep...
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For When Your Hoof Is Caught in the Quicksand of Late Capitalism: A Review of We Are Animals
There are moments, reading Jennifer Case’s collection of essays, We Are Animals, when I can feel something twisting in my belly, a sharp discomfort in my deepest recesses. Case writes about the interi...
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Hi writers! New year, new you, new essay! Join me for a 2025 class. Details and enrollment at margosteines.com/classes xo, M
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
ugh ok, I’m here, who is here? SW twitter? writer twitter?
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Hi writers! I made a self-paced creative writing course! It’s called WRITE YOUR STORY and it’s now available for purchase It’s text-based, fully downloadable, and scalable for most levels of writing experience. To learn more or enroll, visit margosteines.com/write-your-story xo, M
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creative writing course — MARGO STEINES CREATIVE
self paced creative writing class
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
my book launches today! plz buy it so I can pay for more therapy wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Brutalities
'<em>Brutalities</em> is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments&#8212;to love and bewilderment, to bearing witness&#8212;and utterly propulsive.' &#8212;Leslie Jamison, author of <em>The Em...
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Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Just gonna casually drop this as if it is a common occurrence and not one of the peak moments of my life: www.nytimes.com/2023/09/30/b...
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Pain Was Her Drug
In “Brutalities: A Love Story,” Margo Steines chronicles her lifelong fixation with being hurt — and shows herself some compassion.
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