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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Am reading my first Clarice Lispector (An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures) and not sure I get the hype.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Home sick with a cold caught from one of my kiddos, but at least I have good company... #booksky #newreleases

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🖼️ Kelly Louise Judd

Geraniums and dragonflies on grey background, painting.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I got rid of my smartphone over the summer (after 12 years: I was a late adopter) for an e-ink minimalist dumbphone & I gotta say: what a relief to wrest my brain back from the hellscape of a handheld screen offering me everything, everywhere, all the time. Highly recommend.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

nullibiety n.s. [from nullibi, Latin.] The state of being nowhere.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do you ever look at your nightstand and wonder, Who is reading all these books?

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Check out this microfiction by New Writer Tara Marshall 🐈‍⬛⚡️ www.claudineliterary.com/taramarshall

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The local schools paint the buses and then we gather around to watch them crash into one another. #westernmassfun #tricountyfair

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My kids want to know why, if I love coffee so much, I don't marry it. A question for the ages.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reread COMMONWEALTH this week -- I remember not really resonating with it the first time around (in 2017), but damn, it hit me hard this time. Beautifully layered, nuanced, multi-faceted. (The case for rereading: we change, and our relationship to the text changes, sometimes for the better.)

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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

read this story by Christine Sneed ! it’s about a group of ghosts who live in a closet in a house, watching the living residents as they move in & out. but now the house is going to be torn down… a very beautiful & interesting story <3 check it out xraylitmag.com/it-has-come-...

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It Has Come To Our Attention by Christine Sneed

For many years, so many we have lost count, a Stairmaster has occupied this room, an unsightly apparatus left to gather dust after a (short-lived) period of committed use, its panels and planks fading...

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What a gift Wendell Berry was to the world.

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 01/09/2026

An Interview with Rachel Harrison: You Keep Waking Up and It’s Still a Massacre gnofhorror.com/rachel-harrison-inte…

Interview An Interview with Rachel Harrison- You Keep Waking Up and It's Still a Massacre

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.” ―Ursula K. Le Guin

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Nada hay absoluto, todo se cambia, todo se meuve, todo revoluciona, todo vuela y se va." 💫 "There is nothing absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and moves on." —Frida Kahlo

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Too cloudy last night in Massachusetts to see the eclipse but I woke up and cried in the dark at 5 am so I guess it worked its charms regardless. #pisces

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JadedRabbit @lg-sprink.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Daily Haiku #545 (for 8/20) Misty road Sun after a thunderstorm Makes rainwater ghosts #Haiku #Poetry #Summer #DailyHaikuPrompt

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Fairy tale tellers are literalists of the imagination. Are you? Do you dream? Consider what it might mean to be a literalist of the imagination, and where it might lead you—to what places?" —Kate Bernheimer

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In case we run into each other: Yes, I did something to my shoulder, yes it's uncomfrotable, yes the compression sleeve helps, yes I'm in PT, yes it sucks to get old.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Complete this sentence. I own a ridiculous amount of: ~books ~dictionaries ~tarot cards ~black t-shirts ~clocks

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Met a writer friend halfway for lunch and a meadow walk. Summer, you're okay. #berkshirebotanicalgarden

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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Say, friends—here are about 84 literary journals opening for submissions in September. Some are open now or will close soon in August or September. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well.

The Cincinnati Review
A Public Space
Wigleaf
The Fiddlehead
Kenyon Review
LIT Magazine
Glassworks
Prairie Schooner
Doubly Mad
addanomadd
Crab Creek
In Short
Last Leaves
Garfield Lake
Adroit
DarkWinter
InterrobangLit
Quartet
Kweli Journal
Inlandia
The MacGuffin
Orchards Poetry
The Spectacle
OxMag
Recenter Press Poetry
Foglifter
Passages North
Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit
The Dodge
Prime Numbers
Barely South
Apricity
Dunes Review
Long River
Atlantic Northeast
Haunter Review
Floating Acorn
MUSE Literary
Route 7
Penn Review
Think
Scattered Flock
Revolute
Paper Dragon
Wild Garlic
Valley Voices
Thirteen Bridges
Wordgathering
Mania Magazine
Pictura Journal
Rust & Moth
Southhampton
Orion
Hawkeye
Sontag Magazine
Oyster River Pages
RockPaperPoem
Ignatian Literary
Salt Hill
ROOM
Constellations
Soundings East
The Journal
The Passionfruit Review
Twisted Tongue
Louisiana Literature
The Rumpus
The New Yorker
Pine Hills Review
Compulsive Reader
Mad Persona
South Florida Poetry
Up The Staircase
Terrazo
Poetry Northwest
CRAFT
Okay Donkey
Rappahannock Review
The Quasar Review
Cosmic Daffodil
Barcelona Review
X-R-A-Y
3Elements Review
Red Ogre Review

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

After an eternity with the same laptop, which stopped updating its OS about a million years ago, I've finally ordered a new computer. I expect this one will last till my writing "career" (ahem, bad habit) has run its course. At which point I'll go back to stone tablet.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hendrix: who wants to see me do some sick flips Barker: ha ha oh hell yes Hendrix: i call this the quadruple reverse ollie Koontz: whoaaaaa!!! Sager: it's not Sager: it's not that good [Hendrix launches straight into space] Sager: i mean, anyone could do that

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

like a solar eclipse I too want lots of attention & fuss over me but also do not want people to look directly at me

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Donna Castellanos @ Springfield Museums : the entire exhibit is made of books! Whimsical, weird, and strangely nostalgic. Even the coffee "spilled" on the floor is books. #bookart #summerbreak #westernmass

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Not sure I understand this place.

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Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Whimsy August is upon us. But don’t get too comfy, because for our second contest we’re taking this show on the road with theme… Happy Travels! Writers have 7 days to whip together a 300-word tale of whimsy based on one of our five whims and the unique object that has appeared in their inbox.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Those writing projects that shift and morph over X years and when they're finally (finally!) done it's near impossible to imagine this was once THAT.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I like my August with a side of despair.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The cat has a real sense of when it's time for me to start getting ready for my day because ~1 minute before he jumps on my lap & curls up for an indefinite snuggle.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not gonna lie, I'd rather be reading.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Never give up. If you ever wish to become a rumpled and world weary library detective with a quick wit and dangerous fists, you should start now. I believe in you.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sometimes I think: if hummus didn't exist, neither would I.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

That feeling when, after ~2 years of absolute slog and self-doubt and threats to "give this up for good," a bolt of lightning strikes and the story just pours out like water from a gushing garden hose.

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social, is available for preordering! The book releases in October & is the 5th in our award-winning Field Guide series! Everything you've ever wanted to know about lyric essay! icont.ac/51iZr

book cover for The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay. Cover is green with black, outlined, and mosaic crows on it.

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Hey weirdos we're open for submissions for print issue 27.

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Excuse not to write, #3452: someone's in my chair.

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 25/05/2026

We’re a long way from winter, but Sara Rauch’s essay WINTER MOON, feels like one: calm, chilly, reflective. Read it now on Afterimages as we prepare for June. ❄️ 🌙 @sara-rauch.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

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Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live: Converge The Avett Brothers Indigo Girls Lucius Lake Street Dive Bon Iver My Morning Jacket Gin Blossoms Salt n' Pepa Paula Abdul

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Justin Karcher @justinkarcher.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Today I got this poem published in @bulbregion.bsky.social

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 07/05/2026

Take the Break You Needed

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