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Emma McCoy

@poetrybyemma.bsky.social
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author THIS VOICE HAS AN ECHO (2024) poetry reader @ Chestnut Review doing it for the plot

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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
A new essay was published yesterday! Check out a fragmented view of Montana: sites.miamioh.edu/oxmag/pain-a...
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“Pain and Other Fragments Found in Montana” by Emma McCoy  – OXFORD MAGAZINE
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A beta reader just told me it feels like there's something missing between two chapters. The answer is the 10k words I cut and forgot about.
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Issue 3 of “Last Syllable” is coming soon!
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
New author photo? 1 or 2?
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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Grad readers: @sacornwell.bsky.social, @megcoley.bsky.social, @itmebugail.bsky.social, @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social, @poetrybyemma.bsky.social, @josiahroberts.bsky.social, @jess1et.bsky.social, among others. verbatimbooks.com/events/#even...
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
My goal for this novel draft is to cut 16k words. As of the midpoint I have cut (drumroll please) 14K WORDS!!!
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is probably my favorite poem I’ve ever written, and you can find it (and more!) at heartoffleshlit.com/issue-12/emm...
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/07/2023
Hey we're Taco Bell Quarterly, we're a prestigious Literary Magazine. We pay $100! We're open for another week. Submit something. This is one of our favorite poems published in our last issue, TBQ6, Staircase wit by Rhiannon McGavin. tacobellquarterly.org/staircase-wit
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Sometimes it feels like the current is beating ceaselessly against me
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I want to read some poetry! Submit!!
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Megan McDermott (she/her) @megmcdermott92.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Looking for another great indie press deal? @gameoverbooks.bsky.social books are 51% off at checkout today if you put in code "hellyeah," meaning you can likely get my chapbook w/ shipping for under $13!!! www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/woma...
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Woman as Communion — Megan McDermott — Game Over Books
Woman as Communion  is a chapbook that reckons with, but is not resigned to, the patriarchal past and present of the poet’s Christian faith. Through poems that inhabit the experiences of both bib...
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Yes, oh automated voice message, I know that if this is a medical emergency I should hang up and dial 911. However, if I was having a medical emergency I would not be calling my dermatologist
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today’s a great day to check out a poetry book on prophecy! (support a local bookstore here: bookshop.org/p/books/this...)
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Baby turned 12 :)
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Lexi @alexisbullock.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
@josephfasano.bsky.social lent a hand to some heart thoughts today
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’m so pumped to read at this! San Diego folks, pull up!
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hey if you want to buy my funky prophecy poetry book but don’t want to support Amazon, check it out: bookshop.org/p/books/this...
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This Voice Has an Echo a book by Emma McCoy
What does it mean to hear God speak? The prophets of the Old Testament faced burning bushes, bloody altars, deceitful kings, split seas, and generals determined to get their own way. They lived in war...
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
And sometimes it fights back, but that’s part of the fun
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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Another exquisite Small Press Nite this weekend at Book Catapult with extraordinary readings by Manuel Paul López, @lexikentmonning.bsky.social, @jacjemc.bsky.social, and @dtrobbins.bsky.social.
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I’m so thrilled to be finding more writers on Bluesky :) welcome everyone!!!
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D.T. Robbins @dtrobbins.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If Jake Paul beats Mike Tyson tonight, @aaronburch.bsky.social and @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social will kiss on the lips at AWP.
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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Last night a portion of my nonfiction workshop course focused on Ocean Vuong's essay about metaphors and similes. Truly a must read for any writer. www.instagram.com/stories/high...
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Metaphors = @ocean_vuong
See Instagram 'Metaphors' highlights from ocean vuong (@ocean_vuong)
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Kevin M. Kearney @kevinmkearney.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
in case you happen to be in san diego, come catch @dtrobbins.bsky.social @jacjemc.bsky.social @lexikentmonning.bsky.social tomorrow it's IMPORTANT
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hi y’all! I am here and ready to find my #writingcommunity folks!
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
WE ARE LIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!! lastsyllablelit.com/issue-i
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Our submissions are officially CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who submitted! We still can't believe we got over 500 submissions in the last two weeks! We'll make our decisions in the next month, so keep an eye out for an Issue soon!
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
i’ve got “boy/crow/cat/fox” on page 66!
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
i’ve got a piece of flash fiction out today with Verdant Journal! give it a read if you want :) t.co/Xz1rqNrJZX
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
My story, "The Town Full of Broken Tin Men" will be in @apexmag.bsky.social's Robotic Ambitions anthology, which is available for preorder right now! It's about a young father-to-be in a nineteen-fifties style suburb, who starts to have some very unsettling visions of robotic men🤖
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Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
subs for @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social are open! i want to see more long poems! send me ballads and multi-page longings….
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
We’re really excited to open for submissions soon! Stand by for guidelines and get those long-form works ready…
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