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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I'll shout this into every internet void I can find: my book is here, thanks to @bellepointpress.bsky.social! Come for the surreal cover, stay for a strange story about fanaticism, family, and quiet rebellions.
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Love this piece. "The fight in Fairhope was established in 1894 with the aim of creating a utopian community. Today, Fairhope votes Republican in deeply red Alabama. But the settlers’ embrace of independent thinkers remain woven into the character of the city." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u....
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Utopian Dreamers Founded This Alabama City. Now, a Fight Over Books Is Dividing It.
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"Rural noir" is my latest reading obsession. I put together a short list of favorites for @shepherdbooks.bsky.social. shepherd.com/best-books/r...
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The best rural noir books about haunted landscapes, grief, and resilience
Sandra K. Barnidge shares the 5 best books on rural noir haunted landscapes grief and resilience. Have you read Little Ones?
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Meagan Lucas @meaganlucas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The world is on fire. So I preordered this beauty by my brilliant friend @skbarnidge.bsky.social as a little treat. Coming in July from @bellepointpress.bsky.social
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New Wind & Root for you today. Artful Academics from columnist Brandy Renee McCann - come on over to Reckon and read: SOMEWHERE IN TIME: WRITING THE IMAGINED FUTURE
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We have a special treat for you today, our Charlotte Hamrick's NITTY GRITTY interview with Kristin Tenor is up at Reckon Review. @kristintenor.bsky.social
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Grist @grist.org · 30/01/2025
Fiction to reality: Bridging the urban-rural divide When you envision the future of sustainable living, do you picture a dense city or the rural countryside? grist.org/looking-forw... #Rural #Urban #Fiction #Climate
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Fiction to reality: Bridging the urban-rural divide
When you envision the future of sustainable living, do you picture a dense city or the rural countryside?
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/01/2025
I knit and crochet because I love making something tangible. And I'm so glad to see I'm not alone! What do you do as an alternative to doom-scrolling?
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‘Knitting is a lifeline’: young people turn to craft to cast off gloom
A new generation of enthusiasts say they are putting down their phones and picking up needles
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Wisconsin writers! The annual fiction and poetry contests by The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters are officially open for submissions. Maggie Ginsberg and Denise Sweet are our final judges. Don't miss this! www.wisconsinacademy.org/content/writ...
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Are we, maybe, looking for you? Questions? Reach out to our Managing Editor, Charlotte Hamrick - features@reckonreview.com @charhamrick.bsky.social @meaganlucas.bsky.social
We are looking for a couple of Fiction First Readers to join our family. Readers help by reading submissions and recommending pieces to our Editors. We expect a commitment of approximately 2 hours a week.  

At Reckon, we embrace diversity and strive to foster a community that demonstrates inclusiveness.

To Apply - Email - features@reckonreview.com with:
1) One paragraph detailing why you want to work with us. 
2) One link to a piece of published work you are most proud of, or if you are unpublished, send a brief write-up based on one of the pieces we've published. 500 words max to showcase how you think and talk about craft.
3) Your bio and social handles.

OPEN UNTIL March 1, 2025                                Questions? Email Charlotte - features@reckonreview.com
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Grist @grist.org · 14/01/2025
✨ "Congratulations to the winners of our 4th Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Collection! ✨ **Ready for hopeful futures? ** ➡️ Jump straight to the collection: grist.org/imagine2200-... OR ⬇️ Dive into this thread🧵 and find out who won ⬇️ Supported by @nrdc.org and Earth Rising Foundation
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Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest: The 2025 collection
Grist's 2025 climate fiction contest celebrates stories that imagine futures in which climate solutions flourish and we all thrive.
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
OK, I think I've finally got a handle on the Bluesky vibe. It's giving LinkedIn, for the "let's go out for coffee because the break room drip pot is ick" crowd.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Writing is a tough gig. The least we can do is be good to each other.
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
After a lengthy break, I think I'm querying agents again?!? Writer friends, what's changed about this process in the last couple of years, if anything?
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Please welcome Susan Schirl Smith to our Wind & Root team. Susan is a writer, photographer, and holistic nurse. This is her first column with us, head over to our site to give it a read. @sschirlsmith.bsky.social
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Welcoming Drew Coles as our new Fiction Editor. Drew is an incredible writer who started with us as a contributor and then a reader, there he proved himself essential to our team, with a clear vision, terrific taste, and an even, calming leadership style. Send him something to read! Submit a story!
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Absolutely required reading. Great reporting & this alarm bell is ringing loud and clear. Posting here to try to get more center-left people to pay attention to what's rising & how it's intersecting with government.
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Happy New Year!
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EcoLit Books @ecolit.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Our favorite environmental books from 2024... #ecofiction #environmental #writing #books #booksky #bookreview #poetry ecolitbooks.com/2024/12/18/t...
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The best environmental books we’ve read in 2024
We published 30 book reviews this year and read many more. And out of all the books we've read, here are a handful of our favorites. You'll find a mix of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. We hope you e...
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My heart needed this today. New Wind and Root from columnist Barlow Adams and Managing Editor Charlotte Hamrick: reckonreview.com/wind-and-roo... @barlowadams.bsky.social @charhamrick.bsky.social
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We are so, so very proud. To read these dynamite stories: reckonreview.com/award-nomina... @marythor.bsky.social @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social @patforan.bsky.social @katywrites.bsky.social @arlaina.bsky.social
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 10/12/2024
Monarch butterflies to be added to threatened species list in the US #Climate
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Monarch butterflies to be added to threatened species list in the US
US Fish and Wildlife Service extends protections to ‘iconic’ insects, who experts say may not survive climate crisis
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New fiction today from Elizabeth Murphy. Read THINGS THAT ADD UP, here: reckonreview.com/things-that-...
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This is 30% off. Took me a year to write it. I opened up old wounds to get it done. Support real writers while tech bros threaten to publish thousands of AI “books” next year. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The wheels of justice may be turning, just a bit, for Jim and Pam, the bald eagles who lost their nest last week to an impatient developer in Auburn, Alabama. www.al.com/news/2024/11...
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Feds investigating bald eagle nest removed to make way for Auburn subdivision
Special agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are probing the incident.
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sent edits back to my publisher tonight, and it's starting to feel real real now: my debut speculative novel about a young girl struggling to grow up in a culture that prioritizes violence, zealotry, and strict class hierarchies is forthcoming in June 2025. The Diamondbacks, here we goooo!
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My kind of guy, right here. "He didn't see boundaries btwn disciplines that today we would say, 'Art is over here & science is over here.' It was all part of a grand experiment to try to understand the world. All of these different paths, to him, are entirely connected." www.npr.org/2024/11/18/n...
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Artist, scientist, polymath — a new documentary uncovers the real Leonardo da Vinci
We have a lot of labels for Leonardo da Vinci but a new documentary seeks to understand him as a person.
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
New Wind & Root today from columnist Sandra Barnidge and Managing Editor Charlotte Hamrick, asks this question that I've been struggling with, too: “How do we stop talking about value, when what we’re really searching for is meaning?” Read it here: reckonreview.com/wind-and-roo...
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Grateful, as always, for this column in @reckonreview.bsky.social to explore complicated and meandering feelings about writing, gardening, and the future in general. “How do we stop talking about value, when what we’re really searching for is meaning?” reckonreview.com/wind-and-roo...
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
"Lately, I’ve come to realise that I want to read one story: despite everything, it is going to be OK." Honestly, I think so much of what @bellepointpress.bsky.social publishes does EXACTLY this. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
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‘It will renew your faith in humanity’: books to bring comfort in dark times
The best literary comfort reads rebuild our strength so we can face reality, argues novelist Francesca Segal. She picks her ultimate reading list – with help from Nick Hornby, Sathnam Sanghera and Nao...
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Thrilled to share the latest issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas, the magazine of the The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. It's the first issue with me on the masthead, but it truly was a team effort to get this one to print. www.wisconsinacademy.org/magazinecove...
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
I'm here, again, for now. So, hello!
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Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
New Wind & Root today! From columnist @skbarnidge.bsky.social and editor @charlottehamrick.bsky.social reckonreview.com/wind-and-roo...
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
My talk from this weekend's Kentuck Art Festival. Come for some local gossip about my city government, stay for a broader plea for artists, writers & makers to fight back everywhere against hyper-development & backwards-looking urban design. tinygoat.substack.com/p/remarks-on...
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
From greenspace to greed space: My city wants to sell a public park to a developer who will cut down ~50 trees for a parking lot. I'm struggling to make sense of this senseless thing as a person/writer/mother. Grateful to @reckonreview.bsky.social for giving me the space to try & reckon with it.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
A pace of economy, work, and even of what sometimes passes as leisure that would be better for the climate would also be better for our brains, bodies, and communities, imo.
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gertrudious @erinchristinebell.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
native bee flashcards! krystle hickman (western US regions, vol 1) beeflashcards.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
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Pre-order Native Bees of the Western United States Flashcards on BackerKit
Learn about native bees and how to identify them with these colorful flashcards
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
Trying this here to see what happens: the Northport, AL, city council is trying to sell our oldest park to a condo developer. We're raising $ to sue and are within striking distance of $10K, which is AMAZING. If you're into #greenspace & #democracy, consider helping? www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-n...
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Save the Northport Park & Community Center, organized by Sandra Barnidge
The City Council in Northport, Alabama, is attempting to sell the oldest p… Sandra Barnidge needs your support for Save the Northport Park & Community Center
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Belle Point Press @bellepointpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
If you’re looking for more Belle Point Press authors to follow, here are some! @robroensch.bsky.social @skbarnidge.bsky.social @jasonpmyers.bsky.social
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
My latest, for On Wisconsin Magazine: A new plastic upcycling center at UW-Madison is poised to revolutionize our ability to #recycle #plastics AND launch a major new economic opportunity for Wisconsin’s $2.3 billion plastics-packaging industry. onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/reclaiming-r...
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Reclaiming Recycling | On Wisconsin
UW research may solve the plastics problem that menaces the planet.
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Love this: “How can we transform dread into something more workable? You’ll hear this over and over again: Action is one of the antidotes to dread.”
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andrea blancas beltran @drebelle.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
C.T. Salazar and Casie Dodd of @bellepointpress.bsky.social created a remarkable anthology here, which is now available for purchase: bellepointpress.com/products/mid...
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Now that I've officially made the jump over from TwiX-land, I'm taking the opportunity to rebuild my online network from the ground up, rather than just re-follow the same names from "over there." Nature writers, climate scientists, eco advocates, where are you? Do we hashtag here??
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
The city council in Northport, Alabama, is plowing ahead with a bizarrely corrupt scheme to sell off the oldest park in town to strip-mall developer. We're fighting back & preparing to launch a lawsuit. If you have a couple of dollars to spare, please consider lending us a hand: gofund.me/93785d03
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Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Glad to be here.
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