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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I almost forgot to share my exciting update here! My first poetry chapbook, Near You: Poems in Co-Respondence is out from Emergency Flash Mob Press 💌 DM if you'd like to order (limited copies remaining!)

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

First upheaval has occurred! Check out the updated version (the original is gone for good!) in New Session issue 4 😎

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Wow that's so stunning! Will you be selling prints of this piece on your Etsy too?

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

If you, like me, love poetry and love queerness, I encourage you to subscribe to the League of Canadian Poets' Poetry Pause, which sends a poem to your inbox daily. This month's theme is, of course, Pride! Spoiler: you just might recognize a poet or two... 🫣 poets.ca/offerings/pr...

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Poetry Pause: archives - League of Canadian Poets

Poetry Pause is the League’s free daily poetry dispatch program, augmenting the presence of Canadian poetry and providing an opportunity to Canadian poets. Poetry Pause delivers more than a poem; it d...

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My first flash-in-print was published by the stunning body-positive nudie mag, Peachfuzz Magazine! I'm so thrilled that my piece, "We Think Ourselves Apart" found a home in this magical publication. Get yourself a copy of Issue 34 & see all the goodies for yourself 🐝🐞🐝

A magazine splayed open on a dandelion-covered lawn. On the left page is an image of a nude woman with sunbeams framing her body; on the right is a flash fiction story titled "We Think Ourselves Apart"

A closer look at the flash fiction piece, "We Think Ourselves Apart"

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Last night I opened for the incredible poet Christine Wu (author of Familial Hungers) at Westminster Bookmark. After the reading, everyone lingered until the owners had to politely shuffle us out so they could close. We gathered on the sidewalks & kept talking for several minutes. ✨Community heals✨

A crowd of 20 writers and readers gather outside on a sidewalk. They all smile at the camera. For a moment, there is only joy.

Michelle, a young-ish white woman, stands before an audience (not pictured), with hundreds of colorful books behind her. She is laughing. Life is good.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

the two types of vehicle are cars and trucks, with every vehicle being a subclass of one of those two. a jeep is a truck. a motorcycle is obviously a car. a boat is a truck. an airplane is a car and a helicopter is a truck. trucks are cars, interestingly enough, and cars are a specific type of chair

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

If you're in the Fredericton area & you love words, or stories, or great sweaters... Come listen to Christine Wu read her poems at Westminster Bookmark this Thurs at 7 pm! I'll be opening with a couple poems/stories of my own!

A flyer for the UNB reading series. On February 19th at 7 pm, authors Christine Wu and Michelle Hoeckel-Neal will read at Westminster Bookmark in Fredericton, NB.

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Look! I wrote a review about your new favorite book! Check it out then get yourself a copy :-) @toriiellen.bsky.social 💕☠️💕

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Also grateful to the folx at New Session for causing a cute bonding moment in which my techy wife teaches me how to use telnet 🫣

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

So thrilled to be included in this issue! Check out "This Story Eats" today— and again each time SCOTUS rules on a 2nd amendment case... Watch it shrink until "the whole story" is unrecognizable...

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 06/02/2026

with stories from @mhn-hello.bsky.social as well! (I promise next time I'm gonna ask people's socials, and I *will* tag everyone when web goes live tomorrow afternoon)

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 06/02/2026

New Session Issue 4: Upheaval now live on telnet: issue4.anewsession.com featuring work by: @asterolsen.bsky.social @mbbischoff.com @ultraviolet.gay @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social ...and more! web release coming on Saturday so STAY TUNED!

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I'm in there too! Congrats on having your work published! 🤗👩‍💻

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Just four days until @toriiellen.bsky.social's newest collection Destroy Me, Desecrate My Bones is released through Girl Noise Press!! And if you need any extra convincing to order your copy asap, check out my review in @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social, which will be published on the same day 🩷☠️🩷

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Chunkin’ Deuces✌️ @thiccceywicket.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

No. 6 - Event Factory by Renee Gladman @dorothyproject.bsky.social 1st release. Gladman’s themes of architecture (who is it for, what is its nature) & limits of language are here but it’s also elusive; open to interpretation. Most of all, a joy to read. The Ravickians is next 💙📚 #Booksky #LitFic

But there was a gesture I was to make upon entering a place that was already peopled, something between "hello", "sorry", and "congratulations I'm here," and I could not remember what it was. As subtly as I could, I bent here and there trying to jog my memory: was I to do a shake, a roundoff? I kept thinking, "How great it would be to enter." If only traveling were about showing off your language skills, if only it did not also demand a certain commitment of body communication, of outright singing or dancing -- I think I would be absolutely global by now. In Ravicka, I was barely urban. a child approached me and asked if I were sleepy. Why it was this question that recalled the missing gesture, I shall never know. But there it was: you folded your body and though you were taking a bow with your legs spread far apart, and then, after holding that position for several seconds (depending on your age) you brought your legs together quickly. I stepped inside the door; the patrons turned to me; I performed and was right.

Was I a spy? Did I have a message? I told them at best I was a linguist and that the dream was about architecture. But they stared at me, still waiting. I dug deep within myself for words that might satisfy them. "Do I have something?" I asked Dar in her language. She said, "Well, tell them why you came here." Which was perhaps more what se wanted to know. I thought about the gaps and breaths and my failure to record them. I said "At some point I knew we'd have to leave here." And they breathed and beat back "The violence of your premise." Leaving no room for response.

Architecture again. It always comes to that. I can never get inside it; the singing structure eludes me. All my life, I swear that that this has been true: I look at a shape, then look ut into the world for the contents to fill it, but the thing I bring back does not fit -- it more than not-fits, it destroys the shape altogether. As though putting my hands on things causes their distinctions to blur, as though I am not right to touch.

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Just played basketball with a group of friends for nearly 3 hours. Child-me would have never imagined feeling joy in a gym. Good friends heal us.

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

It's day one of The Stafford Challenge —writing a poem a day for a whole year. I feel so energized, and I'm thrilled to have several friends who have joined along for the journey.

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

If anything is going to get me to submit my work to lit mags, it's having this little gal cozied up next to me

A white cat with a tricolor tail sleeps pressed against a person's leg. The person is sitting on a couch with a laptop.

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#art by Sliman Mansour Temporary escape, oil on canvas, 2018 #Palestine

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

You as well, Ian! Here's to day 2!

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Thrilled to have participated in my first Poetry Weekend! So many inspired poets, so much stunning verse. I love being here. If you're local, come!

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UNB Department of English @deptenglishunb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

UNB Reading Series Presents: Anuja Varghese, Author of Chrysalis and winner of the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, with an opening reading by Alessandra Naccarato OCT 2nd 2025 7:30 PM @ UNB Art Centre - Memorial Hall (9 Bailey Dr.) (An accessible venue) FREE OF CHARGE AND ALL ARE WELCOME!

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Update from our new home in Freddy: I am writing, I am running, I am biking, I am cooking, I am reading, I am learning, I am I am I am

Mirror selfie—wearing a black skirt and brown shirt.

Autumnal landscape: orange and yellow trees with pines in the foreground. A red bench. Blue sky, partly cloudy.

Quiche! With farm fresh kale, tomatoes, and feta. So delish.

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

On Thursday I visited our bike shed only to find that my bike was stolen! Ah, well. Now I'm "officially" a Freddy resident. Plus, it offered the perfect writing prompt for that day's session!

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Our contests are OPEN until November 1st! Learn more in the thread & submit today! fictioncollective2.submittable.com/submit

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I figure now would be a good time to actually establish a consistent writing practice (mere days before my PhD program begins). I'm at 2 hrs/day, 4 days running. About 5k words. Better late than never! 💪🖋️💪🖋️

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This was terrific! Aimee Bender discusses noticing and defamiliarizing 🦋🦋

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

August 9th! Aimee Bender! www.smokelong.com/august-9th-m...

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

We're here!!!! Happy New Brunswick Day to all who celebrate!

Beatrice, a tall woman wearing denim shorts, a t-shirt, and cute little space buns, smiles next to a sign made of flowers that says "Fredericton"

An image of a hazy sun through a gap in an abstract stone statue.

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I move to Canada in a week. My home is in shambles. The walls are freshly spackled. Our chairs are gone. My cat is missing amongst the cardboard. I am 🐝 buzzing 🐝

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I forget about this platform sometimes, but I should share this here: I was honored to host a workshop titled "Creative Activist Approaches to Archival Research" with an incredible team of scholars & writers at #FemRhet2025. Thanks to all who attended & offered their insights!

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

If you're still buzzing from #FemRhet2025, consider submitting to Peitho's upcoming special issue, Academia in Crisis: How Feminist Rhetorical Scholars Respond. As our time together at the conference made clear, the value of feminist rhetorics is higher now than ever. CFP: tiny.cc/PeithoSummer...

Peitho Special Issue
Summer 2026
Call for Proposals
Academia in Crisis: How Feminist Rhetorical Scholars Respond
Editors: Patty Wilde, Erin Costello Wrecker, and Justine Trinh.
Submissions: 2026peithospecialissue@gmail.com
Proposals due August 1.

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I am overjoyed to share that I was accepted into the University of New Brunswick's English/creative writing PhD program! Now that the study permit is approved, I can finally allow myself to believe it's real ✨🤗

A silly little collage including a picture of me posing next to a neon cat sign and an excerpt from the "you're in!" message from UNB

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I'm honored to be included among this group of incredible, innovative writers! 🫣 And a huge congratulations to the Sukenick Prize winner, Radhika Singh ✨

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

To be clear, it's a reading of poetry & prose (and maybe some witchcraft)

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Sunday! Summon Spring with us 🌷☀️

The next Queen City Scribe Series is this Sunday, April 13th, noon at BBC.

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Our fifth annual Tax Fort was our best one yet! We finished our taxes and cozied up for a movie & snacks 🤗

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I tell you what, it was pretty simple and easy to explain the existence of trans people to my kid (at age 5) and it is going to be WAY harder to explain to him why masked and hooded people grabbed a Tufts student off the street in a neighborhood he's in often

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This morning, the Israeli military deliberately targeted and killed beloved Palestinian journalists Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour.

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Looking forward to digging up some tales to share at Smitty's Book Cellar this weekend! Join if u dare :o) S/o to @toriiellen.bsky.social for organizing yet another event for local writers! 🌠

Flier advertising a creative writing reading event on Fri, March 28th at 6 pm eastern. Location: Smitty's Book Cellar, Waterville ME

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"Prone to environmental embrittlement" could be a nice new slogan for the company and it's...associates

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Really proud of my wife, Beatrice June (@b3a4real.bsky.social), for showing our county's Probate Office what queer joy looks like at her name change hearing! Even the Register teared up a bit 🥹

The world's most beautiful, kind, and genuine woman proudly displays her name change certificate: Beatrice June Hoeckel-Neal

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Michelle (she/her) @mhn-hello.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

At a busy intersection in Quebec City this weekend, a woman (chewing loudly on a pastry) knocked on my car's window and said in English: "I heard what your governor said to that bully! Good woman!"

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