Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 15/08/2025I don't want to discourage anyone, but it is possible to go big *and* go home. 020
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 28/07/2025an irony that I keep re-learning: sometimes shorter stirrup leathers allow a longer leg #dressage 220
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Top tip: If you want to delight your grad students, refer to Aristotle as "that mo fo." 010
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 17/06/2025My 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*. 000
Reposted by Siân GriffithsBull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 11/06/2025Chapbook submissions close this Sunday June 15. buff.ly/N5KHIWt 033
Reposted by Siân GriffithsBarrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 01/06/2025so 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 1236
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Happy 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%...amazon.comScrappleScrapple [Siân Griffiths] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Scrapple 000
Reposted by Siân GriffithsSFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 19/07/2024Check 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/3WtnSjebuff.lyBarn Aisle Chats: ‘Horse Show’ with Jess BowersSiân Griffiths talks to Jess Bowers about her new story collection, Horse Show. Horse Show combines real-life and fictional accounts of horses throughout t... 031
Reposted by Siân GriffithsBarrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 22/05/2024Not surprisingly, we hit our cap on fiction submissions, but we are still open for 10 more days for nonfiction and poetry barrelhouse.submittable.com/submitbarrelhouse.submittable.comBarrelhouseThanks 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 ... 0137
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 01/05/2024Happy 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...amazon.com 042
Reposted by Siân GriffithsFunicular Magazine @funfunfunicular.bsky.social · 26/04/2024🚨🚨🚨WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS🚨🚨🚨 0165
Reposted by Siân GriffithsChelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 25/04/2024I 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 063
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 08/04/2024Yesterday 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. 111
Reposted by Siân GriffithsBull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 08/04/2024“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” Margaret Atwood #StartWriting 022
Reposted by Siân GriffithsBarrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 02/04/2024SPD 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 11710
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 25/03/2024On 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? 130
Reposted by Siân GriffithsElectric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 18/03/2024This 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 #shortfictionwaxwingmag.orgOh You!: A Taxonomy of the Second Person | Siân GriffithsI’ve heard it called experimental. I’ve heard it called a gimmick. I’ve heard it called bossy and obtrusive. Distracting. Annoying. ❡ 121
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 18/03/2024Resonated 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. 141
Reposted by Siân GriffithsAmorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 05/03/2024Holy hell, the Katy Perry March Danceness essay by Megan Galbraith should maybe win it all. Definitely worth your time. marchxness.com/1strd-perryv...marchxness.com3/5, 1st Round: (4) Katy Perry vs (13) Electric 6 — March Danceness 142
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 05/03/2024👀 👀 👀 www.funicularmagazine.com/shop/issue-13 011
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 24/02/2024If 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. 110
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 21/02/2024that flicker of self doubt when Word tries to tell you that "copse" is not a word 020
Reposted by Siân GriffithsChristopher James @christopherjames8d.bsky.social · 21/01/2024How long would a Martian have to live on Earth before we could call her an Earthling? 132
Reposted by Siân GriffithsMat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 16/01/2024A 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. 44013
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 15/01/2024Just cleared the 100-page mark on the new novel project 💪 000
Reposted by Siân Griffithsyaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 15/01/2024EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: HAVE A LOOK AT THESE BLOW-DRIED COWS 15536128
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 15/01/2024Really loving hearing Weber State being called out repeatedly in tonight’s NFL game ❤️🐾😻 000
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 14/01/2024pinched 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 000
Reposted by Siân GriffithsJune Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 01/12/2023Do not go gentle into that good night 6960691732
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 04/12/2023From Charlie Kaufman’s ANTKIND (love a good parenthetical) 010
Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 19/11/2023An 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. 100