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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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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

If I weren't already repped, you'd be getting a query from me. ❤️

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I was so excited to see that you've started on this bold new venture! Perfect fit. ❤️

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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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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Had this reaction just yesterday, I'm guessing to the same writer. I love him anyway, but damn.

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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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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This flash has convinced me that I'm going to have to check it out. I'm missing out!

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This is really fucking great ❤️

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

(...but also, if you ever do Jane Eyre, I really want in.)

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

It's crazy how few people remember the retractable gym floor over the swimming pool in It's a Wonderful Life. I've talked to so many people who swear I'm making it up when I mention it.

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

I'm really not trying to be insufferable I swear!

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

There are so many great Bronte facts--such a wild family! (Possibly my favorite: Emily once stitched her own hand together by their family fire after she was mauled by a dog because she didn't trust the doctor.) Anne is def the least fun/interesting. Poor Anne.

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Ha! I could have put my very rusty Austen knowledge on full display!

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

(Sorry--I was totally nerding out during today's podcast.)

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

On a totally different note, one cool irony of Austen novels is that they're so often thought of as "happily ever after" marriage books because of the central plot line, but almost always, every other marriage in the book is unhappy to some degree or other.

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

The whole thing about a man inheriting was a holdover from feudalism with the expectation that, if the monarch needed to call his people back into battle, that those being called were dudes. (It's been a while, & I might not have that entirely right, but I think I'm not far off.)

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

I think Mike mentioned the difficulty of understanding English property laws a couple times. I don't know if this helps, but they varied based on the estates. If I remember correctly, "entailed" estates had often been passed down since William the Conqueror & others distributed them to their knights

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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 · 17/04/2024

True story: After years of begging, I got my first dog for my 6th birthday and named him Mr. Happy. I think I was in high school, the dog sadly long gone, when I finally figured out why my Dad's grad students had found the name so hilarious.

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

If you'd like to pick up mine, here’s a link—and maybe browse and treat yourself to another while you’re there? They don't disappoint. bullcitypress.com/product/the-...

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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 · 01/04/2024

I somehow let Apeirogon slide by me (along with basically every other book published in 2020), and reading it in preparation for his visit was such a ...what's the word I want? Not any word so slight as a treat or a delight. It's a penbreaker of a novel--so good that I wonder why I even write.

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Oh my god--that would be a dream!

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

I was just going to message you to be sure you and yours were safe. Glad to see this update from you, horrible as it is. What a nightmare!

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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Cool but also terrifying! How big of an ass will I manage to make of myself?

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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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Siân Griffiths @sbgriffiths.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

...or minor awards, for that matter. I've been introduced by a bunch of people as an "award-winning novelist," and I always wonder if they know something I don't because I'm pretty sure I haven't won anything... (or entered anything, to be fair).

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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 · 13/03/2024

He really knows how to live--I love it ❤️

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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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