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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"I see now that so much of what I love about basketball has nothing to do with basketball." ❤️ We're still loving A CHURCH WITH THE ROOF TORN OFF from @robroensch.bsky.social ❤️ Find it in the archives: buff.ly/lKceJiP

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Woolf: "If I could catch the feeling, I would; the feeling of the singing of the real world, as one is driven by loneliness and silence from the habitable world"

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Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · 12/12/2025

So take a peek at those chats👆 Who knows if 'good writing' is teachable but craft for sure is. Stories by @robroensch.bsky.social @lindspetersberg.bsky.social Rina Olsen Brittany Ackerman 🔥Sign up for (Better Than) MFA-Style Writing Workshops here www.litmatchcollective.com/writing-workshops

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Writing Workshops | Lit Match Collective

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Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com · 28/10/2025

Our plans for November are here! 🔥$15 Basic memberships! 🔥Chats with residency directors & @1demerith.bsky.social! 🔥A monthlong Write-More challenge led by @okaydonkeymag.com associate fiction editor @heidimarjamaki.bsky.social! And more👇 litmatchcollective.beehiiv.com/p/november-p...

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November Plans!

Q&As w/Residency Directors & Meredith Talusan, $15 membership, monthlong Write-More challenge, and more!

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Brian Evenson's Windeye: For when you want to feel afraid, and also sad.

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I just started Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. An epic novel built of short Chekhov stories. Wonderful.

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Story @storymag.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Read “Seekers” by @robroensch.bsky.social in Issue 21! Get your Copy here: www.storymagazine.org/store/summer...

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Story @storymag.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It's here! Slather on your SPF 75 and open the windows: Issue 21 of Story is available for purchase on our website, and it's about to be your favorite beach read of 2025! Check it out here: www.storymagazine.org/store/summer... #fiction #litmag #newrelease #booksky #writing #reading

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I teach freshman writing, and I think acting as the AI police is an opposite of teaching. I wrote a letter to my students that is not "AI bad" but a positive (to the point of cringe) argument about why it is worthwhile to do your own reading and writing. robroensch.medium.com/a-letter-to-...

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A Letter to My Writing Students About AI

I believe that when I discourage use of AI in my writing classes, I owe my students an explanation and, more than that, I owe them an…

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Story @storymag.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We are pleased to announce the contributors and their stories for Issue 21 of Story! Including stories by @mirarif.bsky.social, Zoe Ballering, Grace Chao, @angieellis.bsky.social, Scott Garson, Max Kruger-Dull, Molly Patterson, Robert Ren, Andrew Roe, Rob Roensch, and Anthony Varallo.

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Feather two steps from the front door

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The Floating Bookshop @thefloatingbookshop.com · 28/01/2025

Attn #booksky Looking support small bookstores like ours while reading ebooks? You can now get ebooks from @bookshop-org.bsky.social! You can purchase & read them in your browser (plus read them in their new app)! Check it out: bookshop.org/ebooks And here’s the FAQ: bookshop.org/info/ebooks

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Reading Levis's selected again, day by day, and finally got to the wonderful, wandering "Sleeping Lioness," which I wrote an appreciation of at The Rumpus many years ago

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

For some reason, it has recently become important to write with the green pen.

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My novel, In the Morning, The City is the Prairie, has been in the world for a year. Here's a review in the wonderful The New Territory. I'm heartened by this line: "stylistically minimal, but not without its moments of deep intimacy and reflection." I hope minimalism and intimacy aren't opposites.

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Teaching Mark Doty's My Alexandria, a favorite book. As a fiction, I don't get to teach whole books of poetry often. A totally different experience. The end of "The Advent Calendars": "Half the windows are open, / half the windows are closed. / There is no single location of miracle."

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

SO thankful this month and all months for our incredible SLM FAM and their constantly inspiring accomplishments! Congratulations to @christinaberke.bsky.social @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social @robroensch.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social @annablabs.bsky.social & many many more! buff.ly/485QqSP

Beneath an apple tree, a book rests on top of a wicker picnic basket, propped open by a single red apple

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Hello SEPTEMBER ISSUE!! ✨ Check out all this magic ✨ WORDS by Emily Costa, Moisés Delgado, Elizabeth Koster & Stephanie Kaylor ART by Michael Young PLUS our own Maureen Langloss interviews Kate Doyle & Daniel Garcia reviews Taneum Bambrick buff.ly/2Z36noR

Collaged photos. A man leans on a white rock retaining wall, his fly suggestively open. His upper body is a silhouette cutout of another image, ghostly and sensual. Within the cutout is part of a bare torso and arm, also leaning against the rock.

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Here's the cover of my new novel, In the Morning, the City is the Prairie, coming in November from @bellepointpress.bsky.social ! The cover features a beautiful original piece by Chad Reynolds--https://www.typewriterart.com. Pre-orders just opened: bellepointpress.com/products/in-...

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

AI can make something that is effective, but it can't make something that is beautiful. That is the test.

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

My favorite (so far) from the @bellepointpress.bsky.social anthology of sonnets from the Mid-South

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

It is so useful and cool to carry a pen in your shirt pocket that it is worth the risk of leaking ink. #brave

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Rob Roensch @robroensch.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

The font work here is quite pleasant. Slightly more solid. This doesn’t make sense but it’s also like doing homework in middle school, in a good way.

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Belle Point Press @bellepointpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

If you’re looking for more Belle Point Press authors to follow, here are some! @robroensch.bsky.social @skbarnidge.bsky.social @jasonpmyers.bsky.social

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