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Sandra Jensen

@sandrajensen.bsky.social
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Published in World Literature Today, AGNI, Wasafiri, Cutleaf Journal, Hobart etc. Bunch of short and long listings. Bridport novel prize winner. ME/CFS/late stage Lyme etc. www.sandrajensen.net

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Super proud an essay of mine, “Invisible“, set in a Berlin sauna, was published in @underthesunonline.bsky.social. Thank you Under the Sun, especially editor Miriam Mandel Levi! #cnf #creativenonfiction #writing @writingcommunity.bsky.social #essay #memoir underthesunlitmag.com/invisible-sa...
A screenshot of Under the Sun literary magazine's page/logo with Sandra Jensen's personal essay title "Invisible" and image of a sauna
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
SO excited to hear that a story of mine will be published in @pangyrus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
As I write in this blog, it's lovely to have a piece published given all else that has happened for me this year. Especially in the very special The Selkie."https://sandrajensen.net/2025/02/26/the-four-types-of-conditionals/ #writingcommunity
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hard to believe that I’m actually posting a photograph of something that isn’t Ronan, i.e. within the four walls of our apartment. Got out this week 😁David treated us to a sauna. This is what greeted us as we left…. All wonky but that is how it is these days.
Photo of Brighton’s i360 Tower, clouds and blue sky
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A little story of an ordeal with late stage Lyme treatment…https://sandrajensen.net/2025/02/17/the-untellable-tale/ #chronicillness
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Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com · 30/01/2025
Do you have a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, ideas, and you think you have enough to turn it into a book? If it seems scattered and overwhelming—and you’re not sure what will fit where—here are ideas for organizing your material and moving forward, from Lara Lillibridge.
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Turn Your Short Pieces Into a Finished Nonfiction Book | Jane Friedman
If you’ve amassed a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, and ideas, here’s a step-by-step guide to shaping them into a book.
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
It’s too late in the evening for me to answer this one but I suppose I could say that the very fact that I, a *completely* unfunny person, has written a comic novel makes me laugh 😅 #pretendpanel #writingcommunity #writers #authors #writingprompts
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
For clarity on upcoming pitch events, here's a graphic. #Bluepit #P2Ppit #2025pit #YouDeservePit #MiseryPit #QuestPit #CuPit
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Wolf moon…
Photo of a nearly full moon and some houses
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 11/01/2025
A stacked list of highly anticipated books by women of color to look out for this year electricliterature.com/48-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2025
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48 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Laila Lalami, Andrea Long Chu, Angela Flournoy, and EL's own Denne Michele Norris are among the most anticipated
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
That time of year again…. Brrrrr. So hard to imagine the tragic fires in California. We have very dear friends who have had to evacuate. I love Los Angeles. I can’t bear that this has happened. I feel very privileged to simply be cold
Photograph of women in her 60s outside wearing a hooded coat with lots of fake fur around the edge
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Snip from my WIP, A Force of Nature, a hybrid memoir in essays.... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
Snip from my WIP, a hybrid memoir in essays titled A Force of Nature:

"Frida wore plaster corsets for most of her life and being Frida Kahlo she painted them: drawings of birds, tigers, a blood-red hammer and sickle. In one, an open circle is carved into the plaster near the heart like a skylight. 
	My mother did not paint the plaster cast that encased her after the accident, nor did she carve into it. I doubt she could have if she’d tried, as the cast restricted movement in her arms. Think of Kahlo’s painting, The Two Fridas. Think of the white, stiff-collared dress worn by the Frida on the left. Not a plaster cast no, but it is strangely similar in design to my mother’s cast."
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
ANNOUNCEMENT In interest of saving characters for your pitch, I've realized that WIPSnipsPit is really long, so WIPSnipsPit is now going to use the hashtag #WSPit This leaves more room for other tags and your pitch! Full tags list and details coming soon. Mark your calendars for Feb 26!
Hashtag Change

#WIPSnipsPit is now #WSPit
An author hype event
February 26, 2025
If it's Feb 26 in your time zone it counts. I'm not the time zone police.

Mark your calendar. Full guidelines coming soon.
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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 29/12/2024
#pretendpanel is coming up in a couple of days! Join me to practice answering writers panel type questions, and maybe make some friends along the way ✌️ #WritingCommunity #BookSky #AmWriting #Writers #Authors #WriteSky #WritingPrompts
#pretendpanel calendar with 31 days of prompts
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Carolyn Page @jacuzzitubbs.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
For those evacuating with pets in LA: Hilton’s Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton, Tru and Canopy brands are all 100% pet friendly. Even cats! And a lot of hotels are waiving pet fees atm. Good on u Hilton! Pun intended: that’s hot.
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🎉Happy New Year! Our submission period for 📚 debut novels opens next Saturday 1/11/2025 at 12:01 a.m. PT and stays open until Sun 1/12/2025 at 11:59 p.m. PT. See full guidelines, FAQ, and how to submit your work here: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Snip from the Bridport Prize winning novel I'm shopping around "At Least We're In This Together": #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #writers #authors #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips #bridportprize
Snip from the Bridport Prize winning novel I'm shopping around, titled "At Least We're In This Together":

"Normally Mum asks me for a list of what I want for Christmas but the only lists going from my direction to hers are grocery lists. Other lists just go in one direction, from Mum to Mum. Lists for what needs to be built/torn down here and at the craft centre and lists for things needed to buy to do all this. Mum’s been driving like a maniac back and forth to the craft centre to keep an eye on the builders. The bloody builders, she always calls them, as if this is actually what they’re called. A special construction outfit, The Bloody Builders."
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nicole cunningham @nicolecunningham.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
#mswl send me some literary fiction! family & relationship stories, stories about sex, identity, belonging, colonization, betrayal, friendship, romance. make me fall in love at the level of the line, let me deep dive into amazing character work. would love some #litfic for the new year #amquerying
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Definitely worth a read!
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 05/01/2025
My new novel, The Best of Everything makes the list! Yippee!
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40 of the best new books in 2025
Here's our guide to some of the best books to be discovered in bookshops this year – January to June edition! We've got long-awaited literary masterpieces by bestselling authors; romance, thriller...
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
#wipsnips #mechanical #amquerying #booksky #indieauthors #indiebooks #sffwriters #writingcommunity #writersky #timetravel #speclit #speculativefiction #timetravelauthors #amwriting #authors #sff #sci-fi #thrillerwriters #writerandreader #writers
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The Forge Literary Magazine @theforge.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
From all of us at The Forge, a very Happy New Year to you! Submissions are OPEN. Editors-of-the-month, @saracrowley.bsky.social & Sommer Schaffer are hoping for your bravest and best. More details here: forgelitmag.com/submit/ #theforge #writingcommunity #greatwriting #amreading
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Snip from my WIP, A Force of Nature, a hybrid memoir in essays.... #AmWriting #WriteSky #Writers #Authors #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
snip from my WIP A Force of Nature, a hybrid memoir in essays:

"My mother may not have wanted a lifetime career as a sculptor, but it’s clear she needed to do things. She had the ability to write books, articles even, and did, but she did not have the inclination to pursue writing as a vocation. Not physical enough? I think of the words of Henri Moore she quoted: vitality, pent up energy, physical action. An intense life of its own. If my mother wanted an intense life, it is certainly what she got, her inner world private to everyone except perhaps myself: Feeling insecure, lonely, unloved, unsafe is something one has to accept as part of everyone’s life, she wrote to me. I suffer from those feelings ALL the time I am not being ‘busy’. My mother didn’t need to tell me she’d wake in the night weeping. It was as if it were me doing the waking and weeping for no matter how far from her I lived, her pain was palpable. Her loneliness and anger, the furious mettle of her. "
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Jan Karlsson @jangoeswriting.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Some things you just have to accept, or worry for ever … From “The Body Politic”. #WiPSnips
Were anyone else to call something ‘creepy’ Phibber would accept it as intended. Some would say it in a mocking sort of way, others would fiercely believe it, still others would say such a thing in off-hand fashion, as though something being ‘creepy’ was little more than the mind playing tricks with shadows and creaks of settling wood. When Pinea said it, Phibber knew that the feeling must have bordered on the utterly horrifying. Pinea was not one for hyperbole. If anything, she played down things that would drive most people to insanity. If she said it was creepy, it was creepy! Probably with an additional two or three exclamation points to further exclaim it.
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips Snip from my WIP "A Force of Nature", a hybrid memoir in essays
Snip from my WIP "A Force of Nature":

I see my seven-year-old self curled together with my brother, my father driving, my mother beside. The seat behind holding the American, Costas my mother’s lover and the American’s girlfriend. A large car, the Volkswagen Cortina station wagon my mother bought in Dusseldorf, the one Charles drove us to Greece with. I remember the singing, Σιγά σιγά, slowly slowly. I remember the American and the line of blood along his forearm. I remember my brother saying, Don’t look. I remember the sound of crickets, the hiss of the Volkswagen’s engine. I remember the house opposite, the elderly Greek couple standing rigid in their black clothes, wailing. I was not wailing. Greeks are good at wailing, not me. Not then, not at the hospital where Manolis took me by the elbow as we navigated the stairs down, Είσαι καλά? Are you okay? I pulled away. I didn’t want to be touched, not by anyone but my mother but she was in the operating theatre. The Greeks were good at touching children. Not like that, no. But they’d reach out and squeeze my cheek, caress my hair and pet my head without hesitation or invitation, as if I was their child and not my mother’s.
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
From my hybrid memoir in essays "A Force of Nature" #WIPSnips #Writing #Authors #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
A photo of a snip from my WIP that has the word 'government' in it ...

"A woman ahead of her time, ahead of anyone’s time. I don’t know who made her, who or what sculpted such a woman. How would you grow up if you had an alcoholic for a mother and a chauvinist for a father, parents who sent you away from home and not the boy who raped you? Would you weld rather than knit? If her reasons for making art, for building houses with her own two hands, slapping on concrete as if it were jam were not solely to keep busy, was it because she was born into a country where Black women and men risked imprisonment or worse if they sat on a park bench engraved with the words Slegs Vir Blankes? Was she the sort of woman who certainly wasn’t going to knit when Blacks were being tortured? Better to light a fire if only in your own studio, better to assist the Blacks mixing that concrete rather than order them to do so, better to slice and dice metal, to hammer it into submission at least if not the government."
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
The goals for #WIPSnips are: - Continue building this awesome community with daily WIP shares - Host our first ever author hype event in February - Figure out other ways to promote community members - Consider other avenues of connection to facilitate more networking for those interested #WriteSky
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Last selfies of 2025… here’s to truly seeing each other, truly listening, truly seeing, truly being there in the way we each most need. A beautiful new year to all, holding you in my heart ❤️ . . #2025
Photo of long haired white womanPhoto of a black cat with white hair in his ears
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Hunter D Phoenix 🐦‍🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @hunterdphoenix.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
The post below is my most successful post ever, on any platform. I knew I found a home on #BlueSky when you responded so well to it. As a #Blind dude, I’ve never felt #Inclusion or any real effort with #Accessibility on socials. Thanks 🙏 for interacting/sharing it, & for all efforts using Alt-Text 😎
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
If you are interested in an online version of my The Art of Therapeutic Writing workshop, let me know. I hope to start mid January! This won't be journalling, have a read: sandrajensen.net/workshops-an... #therapeuticwriting #creativewriting #writing #writingworkshop #WritingCommunity
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Workshops and Mentoring
MENTORSHIP I offer writing mentorship sessions and programmes. You might want an editorial eye or feedback on a single story, or a series of sessions to help you through the long-haul of writing a …
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
From A Force of Nature #WIPSnips #Writing #Authors #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
Quote from WIP, A Force of Nature: What he did do is pay for the trip to Klosters, where we stayed in the Swiss doctor’s summer cottage, a My Fair Lady house, a room for each of his five children, drawers neatly labelled Unterwäsche, Blusen, Socken, drawers I’d slide open in wonder. Even the knickers were folded. My brother’s interest was focussed on the bomb shelter where the doctor was required by law to keep enough supplies in case of war, and even more on the fact that roads and bridges were mined and ready to be blown up. There were guns, he tells me on WhatsApp.
	We all learned to ski—my mother now freed from her straight-jacket—i.e. I spend a large amount of time on my bottom careening down the slopes and my mother spends a large amount of time flirting with our ski instructor.
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
#wipsnips #stay #amquerying #booksky #indieauthors #indiebooks #sffwriters #writingcommunity #writersky #timetravel #speclit #speculativefiction #timetravelauthors #amwriting #authors #sff #sci-fi #thrillerwriters #writerandreader #writers
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it: -keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice. -do not feed them raw dairy -do not feed them raw meat
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Cats in the U.S. Are Contracting Bird Flu: What Pet Parents Need to Know
Cases in domesticated cats have risen dramatically over the past year.
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
“Santa? Down the chimney? Is there going to be something for ME?!” #cats
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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Last Syllable” Issue 3 showcases Kate Branca’s essay “Barrier.” Don’t miss this evocative essay—read it here: lastsyllablelit.com/barrier
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Snip from my WIP - A Force of Nature - a hybrid memoir in essays about my relationship with my once-famous sculptor mother, trauma, illness, female artists and why we do what we do.... #WIPsnips #writingcommunity #writer #writesky
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The #WIPSnips word for December 23 is "strap" Remember that synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine! #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Writers #Authors
#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
December 23 - strap
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
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The image behind the text is a border that is black with stars with a light blue rectangle highlighted by a fuchsia line. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner.
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
On Jan 5th, I'm starting a monthly workshop on "The Art of Therapeutic Writing" in Hove, UK. Details on my website: sandrajensen.net/workshops-an... - & on the TOL page here where you can book a spot: www.tolcentre.com/teachers/san... - also will hold these online, DM me! #writingcommunity
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Workshops and Mentoring
MENTORSHIP I offer writing mentorship sessions and programmes. You might want an editorial eye or feedback on a single story, or a series of sessions to help you through the long-haul of writing a …
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
My latest favourite music find. Niaz Diasamidze, Georgian singer and songwriter - the music here is from the film Tangerines (Georgian: მანდარინები Mandarinebi) youtu.be/y2ksCzFuEU8?...
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Niaz Diasamidze - Mandariinid - Tangerines Soundtrack ( 29 Minutes )
YouTube video by COMRADE 10
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Jo Gatford @jmgatford.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Now this is a writing challenge I can get on board with. I think I'm currently on 5/100?
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J.M. Frey @jmfrey.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
WORDS FOR WRITERS: How to Create a Pitch Package for your Book jmfrey.net/2019/08/word... #PitchPackages #Query #Amquerying #writingadvice #writingblog #writingtips #wordsforwriters
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Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Fun fact: writers don't 'finish' books, we just eventually stop editing before we spiral into madness. #booksky
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Ok so here’s a rather, well —weird? personal? revolting? something, anyway — shortish creative non-fiction essay of mine that just got published in Moria online 😁 www.moriaonline.com/issue-fourte... Photo credit Moria staff #personalessay #Writer #creativenonfiction #writing
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“Jupiter’s Moons” by Sandra Jensen — MORIA
Jupiter’s Moons It wasn’t until I watched the contents of my bowel move slowly through the glass-windowed tunnel, embedded eye-level into the wall — eye-level for the hapless person lying o...
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
UK residents- would be super grateful if you might sign this petition – “Reform the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme” petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... #chronicillness #vdps #vaccineinjury
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Petition: Review the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme
We call on the Government to review the current Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, as we believe it is not supporting those affected, is inefficient, out-dated, and is compounding harm.
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Mark Stevens @writerstevens.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Are you an author? Would you like to participate in the first-ever Mesa Verde Literary Festival in southwest Colorado? The date is Saturday, July 12: Let us know you’d like to attend here: #books #writing #literaryfestivals All published writers welcome. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Mesa Verde Literary Festival Looking for Authors!
The first annual Mesa Verde Literary Festival is being planned for Saturday, July 12, 2025 and the organizers are looking for published writers (fiction, non-fiction, poetry) who would like to be invo...
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megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A huge honor to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize by @fracturedlit.bsky.social for my story "Horsebroken". I'm so grateful! fracturedlit.com/horsebroken/ @pushcartprize.bsky.social #FlashFiction #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity
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Horsebroken – Fractured
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Kim Steutermann Rogers @kimsrogers.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A new little piece of mine in @emergejournal.bsky.social. Thanks to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social and @adenbleyker.bsky.social for publishing this one! emergeliteraryjournal.com/luck-be-a-la...
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Luck Be a Lady
by Kim Steutermann Rogers You’re not sure what to do about the drunk standing by his banged-up truck, his back curved like a C, as he mumbles into his phone, and you think you could turn around, wa…
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Owen Booth @owenbooth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Naming no names, but here’s a gentle reminder - to *anyone who might need it* - of the official, legally enforced size limits for the eight standard literary formats
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Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
May I suggest you check out Marc Labriola's story in the latest issue of the impeccably-curated Malahat Review? 💙💜
Cover of The Malahat Review, Issue 228. Colourful abstract art: detail from a work called "Penrose_5 Complete Aphex Twin 1," by Eli Bornowsky (egg tempera, gesso on wood, 2024). Text in bottom left corner: Annie Mackillican Revolts; Sanchari Sur Seeks; Marc Labriola Excavates; Joyce Li Sketches. Snapshot of opening paragraph of "Bury the Carnival," a short story by Marc Labriola. 

They say the locals piss on it. Your supposed to kiss it in two peculiar places if you want to get pregnant [. . .].
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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Our beautiful boy turned 15 sometime in the last month… we don’t know specifically what day because he was found in the side of the road in Ireland, a tiny, starving kitten. May he live MANY more years, my little soul mate 🐈‍⬛
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