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Siân Griffiths

@sbgriffiths.bsky.social
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Creative Writing Professor at Weber State University (opinions here are my own). Passionate about horses, dogs, dressage, and tennis. Books: Borrowed Horses, Scrapple, The Heart Keeps Faulty Time, & The Sum of Her Parts. www.sbgriffiths.com

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I don't want to discourage anyone, but it is possible to go big *and* go home.
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
an irony that I keep re-learning: sometimes shorter stirrup leathers allow a longer leg #dressage
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Top tip: If you want to delight your grad students, refer to Aristotle as "that mo fo."
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My new neighbor, a 20-something young mother, is the absolute sweetest, but the first time we met, she asked if I was retired and when we were chatting today, she asked if I had grandkids, and man oh man, I know she's not meaning anything by it, but my vanity is taking a *hit*.
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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 11/06/2025
Chapbook submissions close this Sunday June 15. buff.ly/N5KHIWt
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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
so far, we're at about 150 fiction subs (capped at 500) and only 12 nonfiction (also capped at 500). Presumably the essayists are just being dramatic and waiting to make a splash right at the close of the window
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy 5th birthday to my pandemic book baby, Scrapple. You may have gone under the radar, but I'm still proud of you. ❤ www.amazon.com/Scrapple-Si%...
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Scrapple [Siân Griffiths] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Scrapple
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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
Check out this fun interview Jess Bowers did with @sbgriffiths.bsky.social over on Horse Nation! buff.ly/3WtnRMc Then afterwards, get HORSE SHOW here: buff.ly/3WtnSje
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Barn Aisle Chats: ‘Horse Show’ with Jess Bowers
Siân Griffiths talks to Jess Bowers about her new story collection, Horse Show. Horse Show combines real-life and fictional accounts of horses throughout t...
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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Not surprisingly, we hit our cap on fiction submissions, but we are still open for 10 more days for nonfiction and poetry barrelhouse.submittable.com/submit
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Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse!  Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep ...
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Happy 2nd birthday to my first essay collection, The Sum of Her Parts, and thank you to everyone who's read the book and/or left a review! The love that has been given to my little book is really heart warming. ❤️ www.amazon.com/Sum-Her-Part...
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Funicular Magazine @funfunfunicular.bsky.social · 26/04/2024
🚨🚨🚨WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS🚨🚨🚨
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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
I knew this one was going to be a keeper from the first paragraph! Thanks to @sbgriffiths.bsky.social for sending it our way! We're opening to submissions tomorrow! Send us your best! #flash #flashfiction
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
Yesterday was the 4th birthday of The Heart Keeps Faulty Time. I’ve always been proud of this little book, and I am so happy to be a part of the @bullcitypress.bsky.social family. I’ve bought so many books from them, and every one is a banger.
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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 08/04/2024
“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” Margaret Atwood #StartWriting
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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
SPD shutting down abruptly (and in the shittiest, least communicative way possible) has put many of your favorite presses in danger of closing up shop, so this is a good week to order some books directly from small presses you love and support
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
On Thursday, I have the honor of interviewing Colum McCann during Weber State's National Undergraduate Literature Conference. To say I am nervous about this is beyond understatement. How do you talk to someone who is a profoundly great human being, let alone genius writer?
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
This craft essay by @sbgriffiths.bsky.social in Waxwing Mag is one of the best resources I’ve seen, covering the amazing versatility of the 2nd-person: #sffh #shortfiction
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Oh You!: A Taxonomy of the Second Person | Siân Griffiths
I’ve heard it called experimental. I’ve heard it called a gimmick. I’ve heard it called bossy and obtrusive. Distracting. Annoying. ❡
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Resonated with this morning's Book Fight! on ambition. The writing career I have is not, perhaps, the one I imagined, and I'm certainly not on anyone's radar or making even the long lists for major awards, but I'm content, and that's not nothing.
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Once again, spell check is trolling me.
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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Holy hell, the Katy Perry March Danceness essay by Megan Galbraith should maybe win it all. Definitely worth your time. marchxness.com/1strd-perryv...
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3/5, 1st Round: (4) Katy Perry vs (13) Electric 6 — March Danceness
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
👀 👀 👀 www.funicularmagazine.com/shop/issue-13
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
If you need a break from writing discourse with some equestrian discourse, the big controversy lately is that an eventer wore a mankini to a fancy dress thing and was chastised for being inappropriate.
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
that flicker of self doubt when Word tries to tell you that "copse" is not a word
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Christopher James @christopherjames8d.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
How long would a Martian have to live on Earth before we could call her an Earthling?
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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
A convicted rapist under multiple indictments for crimes including theft of top secret documents, campaign bribery, and dozens of charges related to a failed coup d’état, has just won the Iowa Caucus due to the support of people who love that he openly hates the same folks they hate.
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Just cleared the 100-page mark on the new novel project 💪
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 15/01/2024
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: HAVE A LOOK AT THESE BLOW-DRIED COWS
a blow dried cow. very fluffyet another very fluffy blow dried cowguess what. one more blow dried cow. is it fluffy? yescow. blow dried. fluff. You get it
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Really loving hearing Weber State being called out repeatedly in tonight’s NFL game ❤️🐾😻
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
pinched the tip of my index taking apart my stovetop this morning in a failed attempt to fix it myself and now it hurts to type, which feels like the most writer-y of problems
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June Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Do not go gentle into that good night
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
From Charlie Kaufman’s ANTKIND (love a good parenthetical)
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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
An unanticipated side effect of watching the Super Models documentary while battling the flu last week was that it made me pick up my can of styling mousse again, and why did we ever stop using this stuff? It’s great.
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