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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

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Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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McCormack Writing Center @mccormackwc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Build your ideal writing community at the 2027 Winter Online Workshop! Parent Scholarship: This award is intended to help support parents/guardians who have at least one child under the age of eighteen. Fee waivers available! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.submittable.com/submit/17761...

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Chicago friends! Please recommend places where I could host a fun reading during AWP next spring. Feel free to inbox me. <3

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

met my new boyfriend at a party this weekend. Love me a short king. 🐾🐾🐾

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A woman I met today told me that I look like a mix of Margaret Qualley & Andie Macdowell. 😂

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

an essay from my collection in progress in one of my fave journals.✨✨✏️ the birthday week boost I needed.

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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Cut the mold off the cheese and ate it anyways. My kids looked at me horrified, and obviously I didn’t raise them in enough poverty to understand this is completely normal.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I got a poetry acceptance yesterday! After receiving so many rejections on all kinds of projects big & small this year. I actually got a rejection yesterday & today too 😂. The slog is for real. So many days I feel like giving up. Down so many points at the halftime of my writing life.

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is fantastic & you should read it. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

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Opinion | The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses Has Finally Come

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Working on the print booklet cover for Significant Objects 2026 Season One today...

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

One good thing about being consumed w/ work & doctors appts lately is that I haven’t been able keep up w/ all the news, except when leaving the house & turning on the TV for my dog to watch the Chicago news (always the first channel that pops up). So I know a little bit of what’s going there. 😝

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Jill Christman @jillchristman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

So happy to be on “Pop of Culture” where Jen Blackmer asked great questions and Luke Jones came in with his stellar editing to make us the best versions of our talking selves. The theme? Joy. indianapublicradio.org/popofculture... @pinestatepublicity.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social

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S03 E15 - We Find Joy

A memoirist and a musician take us on their journey to joy.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The number of people, including your friends, who believe writers from marginalized communities manage to publish books *because* they represent a marginalized community is truly astonishing.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

“Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.” ~ James Baldwin

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Awp Chicago is in the air already. Let me know if you want me to hop onto any of your panels. xo

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"Frankly, I thought I knew how to write, but it turned out I didn’t, and I don’t. I don’t. I get to learn it over and over and over." ~ Jo Ann Beard

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Watched the Euphoria premier last night & it’s a perfect example of inserting humor / levity to balance tone when the subject matter gets exceptionally dark.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." ~ James Baldwin

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

if I ever need a lawyer, somebody call this lady

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Dear humans, may all the beauty find you ❤️

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Trevor, Westley and 🌈Bueller🌈 @buellerl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Where there is rice... There is a Trevor. He starts to bark when he hears the timer on the rice maker. #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs #dinner youtube.com/shorts/cGTm3...

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Where there is rice there is a Trevor #dogs #puppy #cute

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Nichole @tnwhiskeywoman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Sometimes when I’m stressed, I watch Jimmy Fallon realize he fumbled Nicole Kidman and it makes me giggle youtu.be/qtsNbxgPngA?...

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Jimmy Fallon Blew a Chance to Date Nicole Kidman

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion." ~ Barry Lopez

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Ahhh! I'm so excited to share my inflatable dad story in Short Story, Long! Who could ask for a more thoughtful editor than @aaronburch.bsky.social and a more fitting artist than ‪@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social? (No one, that's who!) ‬

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krys malcolm belc @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

wrote a bit about being a twin cities transplant at this particular moment www.vogue.com/article/find...

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On Finding—and Rebuilding—a Safe Haven in Minnesota

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Brevity's new issue launched this morning. Flash essays from Nicole Walker, Alex Sokol, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Shuly Cawood, Thomasin LaMay, Charles Montgomery, Derek Maiolo, José Orduña, Josh Martin, Liz Sauchelli, Margaret Grayson, and Rocky Halpern. Artwork by Michael Todd Cohen. brevitymag.com

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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Went to a work meeting today and found out people in my department are dating new people & and I’m a little upset that no one is keeping me posted on the updates of their love lives. 😂

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

ok, haven't been on her consistently but am making my way back to be more in community again. So, hey, happy new year lolz <3

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I'm reading The Wedding People by Alison Espach, and it is outside of my typical reading, but I love it v much.

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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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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Love to be on this list with such an incredible group of writers!

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

CNF peeps: What are your favorite braided essays published in the last year or two??

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

So is Twitter officially over for the lit community? Have been kind of in hiding. Is it just here and Substack?

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Anyone need an awp panelist?? Add me so I can go. I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: natalielima09@gmail.com ✏️💗

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq

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PERIPLUS: An FAQ

PERIPLUS: AN FAQ Updated August 2025 Hi! Thanks for your interest in Periplus, a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. We're glad you’re here. Rea...

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Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Yooo, none of the AWP panels I was asked to be on were accepted. Please think of me if you need a person to add to your panel in the next couple of months. xo

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Love this poem by Ire’ne Lara Silva in @prairie-schooner.bsky.social so I copied it into my notebook. Also, check out the amazing artwork by Song-Ming Ang! I am here for a hallway of crunchy leaves.

The fall 2024 Prairie Schooner spread open over my notebook, which is also open to the two pages where I copied “is the body ever truly naked” by ire’ne lara silva.

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is the beautiful body ever truly naked

what vulnerability is
there in toned thighs and rippling abs unblemished skin seems a kind of armor it must be to have resisted scars and burns and stretchmarks and calluses everything the camera loves everything the light loves everything the eye has been taught to love would make you think no one ever loved and lusted after crooked little toes would make you think that it was impossible for hands to yearn for the soft yield of flesh that is neither breast nor ass would make you think that greying hair or wrinkling flesh or dark circled eyes could ever dim the light of the soul shining through would make you think that it wasn't the greatest measure of a gift to invite touch to say this my imperfect body will meet your imperfect body and we will say nothing of forgiveness because there is nothing to forgive

The issue held in my hand in front of a bookshelf. The cover image is of a white indoor hallway with brown leaves covering the floor.

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Megan Stielstra @meganstielstra.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I wrote about remembering how to feel for Nothing Compares to You, an anthology of essays on the legacy of Sinéad O’Connor. The book comes out tomorrow. Here, get your joy: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin... Thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving this piece a home on @oldster_mag.

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Girl You Better Try To Have Fun

Megan Stielstra on embodying many ages at once, and learning of Sinéad O'Connor's death the summer her father was dying. An excerpt of "Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O'Connor Means to Us"

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A few clients are announcing projects in new genres, new categories… Remember, writer friends. You can jump around. The oft said advice of “branding” doesn’t mean you need to stay in one lane. It just means when you’re in a new genre or category, it still feels like a book from YOU. ❤️

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

“Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write.” ~ Robert Macfarlane

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Mimi Wong @mimiwong.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This is indeed a perfect time to support @theoffingmag.bsky.social. Patrons who give at the $10 level will receive a copy of our 10th anniversary anthology featuring work by @iamlisako.bsky.social @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social and so many others! www.patreon.com/c/theoffing

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