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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

So glad this reading series exists! 🫶

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Ditmas Lit is 1 week from today, Wed. 5/28! We can’t wait to welcome @briangresko.bsky.social @shayneterry.bsky.social, Leila Taylor, and Andrew E. Colarusso!

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Such an honor to talk to @ariannarebolini.bsky.social about her memoir Better, what it means to be “healed,” and the craft of writing about real life.

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Autofocus Books @autofocusbooks.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Lives of Writers returns today in new form! In it, I weave together brief readings & interview clips from our spring authors: @erindorney.bsky.social, @shayneterry.bsky.social, & @troseistrose.bsky.social. Listen wherever, or here’s a link to Apple Pods: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Spring 2025

Podcast Episode · The Lives of Writers · 04/03/2025 · 1h 27m

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Philly friends! I will be in your city next Thursday, talking with the one and only Jiordan Castle at H&H Books! Come out 🤗 www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

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Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“When there are enough mothers, there will be no more guns, I reason to myself. I want to believe.” @shayneterry.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

“LEAVE: A Postpartum Account” by Shayne Terry

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

To be read this closely, this generously, especially by someone whose work you admire and deeply respect, is a gift. 🙏

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Talking to Jiordan Castle is pure joy. Thanks to The Rumpus for hosting this conversation about the craft of the postpartum account. ✨

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Thirteen questions that are also writing prompts. Keep going!

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Hi book friends! My book tour for Leave: A Postpartum Account 🪡kicks off on TUESDAY and I would love to see you on the road. I’ll also be at AWP — say hello! 👋

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This conversation with @rachellayown.bsky.social went so many places: account vs. memoir, the birth/death portal, the failings of the American health insurance system, paid family leave, making art from life… thank you to The Brooklyn Rail for having us! 🪡 brooklynrail.org/2025/02/book...

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SHAYNE TERRY with Rachel León | The Brooklyn Rail

Shayne Terry’s Leave: A Postpartum Account isn’t exactly a memoir, but tells of her heinous postpartum experience involving a painful obstetric anal sphincter injury. Leave isn’t Terry processing her ...

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Yes! 🙌 I am thrilled to be part of this! Do you have a novel or short story collection coming out with a small press next year? I would love to know about it!

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Waxahatchee Tiny Desk dropping just when you need it. ✨

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I read so many good books in 2024 and these were my favorites. www.thenextnovel.com/p/my-top-10-...

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My top 10 books of 2024

This is not a gift guide, but books do make great gifts

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

That moment when you realize the two essays you’ve been writing are actually one essay, and a simple copy and paste gets you so much closer to a full draft. ✨

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I just read this and loved it. The way the body holds on, the way the body releases.

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Saw my friend Clare Needham today and I want more poets in my life. They are the best.

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Okay, time to start planning. Who’s going to AWP? I’ll be there and my AWP motto is “I’m here to make friends!” #awp25

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

These days I think of myself as having two bodies, and I feel better when I focus on what my healthy, strong body can do than when I dwell on what my “broken” body can’t. (We are not broken!)

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

“Despite the drawbacks, life is still the best thing going.” We love a Mike Nagel essay where people just kind of walk around and look at stuff!

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Wrote a little about James Schuyler in my newsletter this week and it reminded me about this small gem, just 77 pages but contains such a world. #booksky

The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I hope someone wonderful takes over Pidgeonholes! Such a great lit mag. ♥️

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B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Holiday sale is now on at the B-Side Editions website. 15% off any order. Use code HOLIDAY15 at checkout. We also offer complimentary gift-wrapping! Woohoo! www.bsideeditions.com

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b-side editions

An occasional publisher of emotionally resonant literary books — sometimes atmospheric, sometimes sharp, always with heart.

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

When I decided to document my novel progress weekly, I did not think I would still be at it almost four years later, but here we are, still thinking about voice. www.thenextnovel.com/p/the-narrator

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The narrator

Still thinking about voice

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This book is excellent! Yes, cults and also recommend if you like reading about complicated father/daughter and/or sibling relationships, or if you like to see the Cubs win 🐻

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Okay. Okay! I'm going to go for it, folks. The kickoff of the 100 Notable Small Press Books, 2025: CLICK HERE if you want to review some small press books! Or if you're an interested small press! www.miriamgershow.com/100smallpress RT please to get the word out!

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100smallpress — Miriam Gershow

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I loved this book! Highly recommend for anyone interested in complicated family histories, abstract art, the craft of writing about memory, Baltimore, ekphrasis…

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Currently reading/recently finished. The books are good!

A stack of books including My Lives by Edmund White and Women by Chloé Caldwell and Green Frog by Gina Chung.

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Every time I open this app, I end up buying another book. (Not a complaint.)

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Never been so happy to wake up to rain in Brooklyn.

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I love Bright Archive by Sarah Minor. I still remember where I was when I read the essay Foul Chutes, which opens in my hometown of Rockford, Illinois and is shaped like the Mississippi River. How strange essays can be, I thought, and perhaps the stranger the better. #booksky 📚💙 #sarahminor #essays

The essay collection Bright Archive by Sarah Minor

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

First read Sempre Susan in 2018 and, though it’s a memoir, it completely changed how I write fiction. Falls into my favorite sub-genre of memoir: memoirs of other people. #sigridnunez #sempresusan #susansontag #memoir #booksky 📚💙

A photo of the book Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A new Sara Lippmann! I repeat, a new Sara Lippmann! 🙌

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Newsletter is a bit rambling this week. Epsom salt baths! Aggressively opting out! Dreams coming true! Enjoy. www.thenextnovel.com/p/taking-care

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Taking care

Find me, for now, in the bath with a book

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

5-year-old just loudly announced from the next room, “Mornings are for chilling.” Where did this child come from? These are not my genes.

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It’s all true! What Adam said is all true! www.littleengines.pub/p/new-stroke

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New Stroke

an essay by Mike Nagel

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/11/2024

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I love this book for Ginzburg’s frankness, the way she lets the brutality of life in Mussolini’s Italy speak for itself. #nataliaginzburg #familylexicon #booksky

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I think I’m just going to use this account to post about books I love.

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Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

New here! 👋 I’m a writer of *mostly* fiction, and I have a newsletter where I document my novel progress: www.thenextnovel.com. My first book, Leave: A Postpartum Account, will come out with Autofocus in February 2025: autofocusbooks.com/store/p/leave Would love to connect with other writers!

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a cartoon character from inside out is saying hi while stretching her arms .

ALT: a cartoon character from inside out is saying hi while stretching her arms .

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