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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 20h

My AWP funding came through, so I'll be in Chicago...hoping to do some off-sites! Hit me up if you want me...I promise to bring the funny!

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

cheers to @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social for nominating my story "Canis Ex Machina" for Best of the Net! Check-check it: lastsyllablelit.com/canis-ex-mac...

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Canis Ex Machina | Last Syllable Literary Journal

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Somewhere in the wings @prettyminotaur.bsky.social is fist pumping at this obvious victory…

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“We are reliably informed … that Descartes owned a little dog – Monsieur Grat – upon whom he lavished much affection, and who used to accompany him on his walks.”

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

really having a hard time getting my mind around the fact that a major shift in geopolitical opinion is happening as a result of the white rapper who was gonna open for the guy who makes the background music at Target

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From moments in pop culture, to their role in American history, discover the impact horses have made in @prettyminotaur.bsky.social's #shortstory collection, HORSE SHOW! Snag a copy of HORSE SHOW right here: buff.ly/YUYLXO2

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ms. rachel refusing to get off ed sheeran's neck actually was on my 2026 bingo card

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I still have a crush on Micky Dolenz. Yup.

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

FYI, destabilizing our national food supply and dismantling the USDA was outlined in Project 2025. I have never been angrier at a group of people who didn't do the reading.

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This new trend where scammers send AI emails pretending to be interviewers from LARB or editors from small presses while using suspicious email addresses like partyboy69@hotmail makes me really sad, as someone with an overactive bullshit detector. It's hard enough out there for writers, geez.

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

THANK YOU to everyone who came out to see me and Janelle Bassett at The Novel Neighbor last night! Our hearts are so full!

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sometimes I'm sad that teaching college isn't more like being in a charli xcx video.

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Don't forget to register for @prettyminotaur.bsky.social's event at The Novel Neighbor in St. Louis, MO on August 27th at 6:30pm CDT with @janellebassett.bsky.social - author of THANKS FOR THIS RIOT! Click here to register ASAP: buff.ly/hE5YrI6

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One of our cats is named Susannah. This means that she must tolerate having "Sussudio" sung at her more often than most felines would prefer.

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I am allergic to mandatory fun.

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

ST. LOUIS! THANKS FOR THIS RIOT! HORSE SHOW!

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Trying to figure out why my left arm aches, then remembered having to stop Teddy from bolting on the lunge twice Tuesday and decided to accept that yes, yanking a 1,200 lb animal's body back toward mine probably did something to my shoulder.

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The tomatillos weren't setting fruit for the longest time. Then they all did it at once.

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Matthew Beswick (they/them) @mbeswick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Storm with garden set. Comes with authentic Storm dialogue like: 'I summon a gentle breeze to pollinate these flowers!' 'These weeds shall not survive the mistress of the elements!' 'Nature is at my command. Bring forth a rain shower to quench my garden's thirst!'

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

ST. LOUIS! THANKS FOR THIS RIOT! HORSE SHOW!

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I am sad to report that the Squash Vine Borers have won this year's war. Next year I'm only planting Tromboncino.

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's time to go to the HORSE SHOW! From now through July 31st, you can get 25% off HORSE SHOW by @prettyminotaur.bsky.social when you enter code SUMMERREADS at checkout when you shop directly from our Square store! buff.ly/M2joCGp @susanschulman.bsky.social

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

every gardener i follow is going absolutely hogwild flexing that they eat lettuce from behind their house. i've never seen gardeners act like this in my life. this is our super bowl. this is our olympics. gold medal in shitting normally

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If HORSE SHOW were a show, it’d attract odd sponsors. Brylcreem. Studebaker. Love’s Baby Soft. Some bleary-eyed viewers would wonder how and why defunct companies were buying airtime, then dismiss it as a stoned hallucination. monkeybicycle.net/if-my-book-h...

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IF MY BOOK: Horse Show, Jess Bowers |

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If HORSE SHOW were a horse, it would be the exact color your dream horse was, back when you were a kid with sticky Flav-Or-Ice hands and deeply felt opinions about stuff like “dream horses.” You’ve probably got a good name picked out already if you can remember. monkeybicycle.net/if-my-book-h...

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As a person who does a lot of research online, I am irritated that Google now requires me to completely alter how I've used it for over a decade in order to avoid AI bullshit.

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

lil' flash acceptance and a reading in STL next month with the redoubtable Janelle Bassett...deets as I get 'em!

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The second MORTAL KOMBAT movie killing the core cast of the first one is extremely funny.

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's time to listen to the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack like it's 1998 and you're in high school again

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This book is deliriously batshit in the best possible way. Highly recommended. bookshop.org/p/books/you-...

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You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel

A Novel

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just making a my little list of writers who better never say shit again about craft after proudly admitting they started using AI to write

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Question. Does Emily Dickinson's decision to name her dog Carlo indicate that she was a Jane Eyre/St. John Rivers shipper? A Riveyre?

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

RIGHT NOW you can get 25% off a copy of HORSE SHOW and new books by @laurencjohnson.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and @carolinehagood.bsky.social so what the heck are you waiting for, homeskillet?!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

tax the rich but also make each of them walk down a runway where they get an extra tax if i think their outfit is ugly

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Our summer sales are almost as hot as the heat wave we've been having! Now through 7/31, you can get 25% off your total purchase when you enter code SUMMERREADS at checkout when you shop directly from our Square store! buff.ly/ax9rU76

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

hellooooo new followers! i wrote a book. a critically acclaimed book! it's called HORSE SHOW, and it's for anyone who loves history, animals, americana, amusement parks, Nick at Nite, sideshows, photography, film, and short stories. if this sounds up your alley... www.sfwp.com/books/bowers

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Horse Show - Jess Bowers — Santa Fe Writers Project

Product Details: Paperback : 156 Pages ISBN : 9781951631314 Cover design: Gwen Grafft About the Book: From the tale of Lady, the mare who read a Duke University psychologist’ s mind, to te...

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 20/06/2026

Just Write Forever: The Taco Bell Quarterly Method

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Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Just imagining Matt Bellamy's five year old daughter asking about the lyrics she sings on the new Muse album: "daddy, what's a 'nightshift superstar?'" Seriously, though, we'd all like to know

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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

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