Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Find it here: bellepointpress.com/products/the...bellepointpress.comThe DiamondbacksThe Diamondbacks, by Sandra K. Barnidge In River City, loyalty is everything—and nothing defines it more than warcheck, the elegantly violent game that unites the town. Terra Laclem, daughter of a ret... 000
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 07/08/2025I'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. 100
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Love 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....nytimes.comUtopian Dreamers Founded This Alabama City. Now, a Fight Over Books Is Dividing It. 110
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...shepherd.comThe best rural noir books about haunted landscapes, grief, and resilienceSandra K. Barnidge shares the 5 best books on rural noir haunted landscapes grief and resilience. Have you read Little Ones? 011
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeMeagan Lucas @meaganlucas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025The 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 182
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 08/04/2025OMG thank you! Thank you, thank you, this means the world. 010
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 10/02/2025New 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 182
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 05/02/2025We 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 0102
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeGrist @grist.org · 30/01/2025Fiction 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 #Climategrist.orgFiction to reality: Bridging the urban-rural divideWhen you envision the future of sustainable living, do you picture a dense city or the rural countryside? 2164
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/01/2025I 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?theguardian.com‘Knitting is a lifeline’: young people turn to craft to cast off gloomA new generation of enthusiasts say they are putting down their phones and picking up needles 10256456
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Wisconsin 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... 000
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Are we, maybe, looking for you? Questions? Reach out to our Managing Editor, Charlotte Hamrick - features@reckonreview.com @charhamrick.bsky.social @meaganlucas.bsky.social 01314
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeGrist @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 Foundationgrist.orgImagine 2200 climate fiction contest: The 2025 collectionGrist's 2025 climate fiction contest celebrates stories that imagine futures in which climate solutions flourish and we all thrive. 22710
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 14/01/2025OK, 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. 000
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeGabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Writing is a tough gig. The least we can do is be good to each other. 1135530
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 13/01/2025After 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? 000
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Please 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 081
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Welcoming 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! 082
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Absolutely 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. 000
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Happy New Year! 0102
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeEcoLit Books @ecolit.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Our favorite environmental books from 2024... #ecofiction #environmental #writing #books #booksky #bookreview #poetry ecolitbooks.com/2024/12/18/t...ecolitbooks.comThe best environmental books we’ve read in 2024We 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... 1175
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 12/12/2024My 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 23713
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 10/12/2024We 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 14010
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeClimate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 10/12/2024Monarch butterflies to be added to threatened species list in the US #Climatetheguardian.comMonarch butterflies to be added to threatened species list in the USUS Fish and Wildlife Service extends protections to ‘iconic’ insects, who experts say may not survive climate crisis 03822
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 25/11/2024New fiction today from Elizabeth Murphy. Read THINGS THAT ADD UP, here: reckonreview.com/things-that-... 0104
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeGabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 25/11/2024This 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... 1836695
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024The 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...al.comFeds investigating bald eagle nest removed to make way for Auburn subdivisionSpecial agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are probing the incident. 000
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Sent 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! 000
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024My 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...npr.orgArtist, scientist, polymath — a new documentary uncovers the real Leonardo da VinciWe have a lot of labels for Leonardo da Vinci but a new documentary seeks to understand him as a person. 000
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 13/11/2024New 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... 0145
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Grateful, 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... 031
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...theguardian.com‘It will renew your faith in humanity’: books to bring comfort in dark timesThe 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... 000
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Thrilled 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... 000
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeReckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social · 11/10/2023New Wind & Root today! From columnist @skbarnidge.bsky.social and editor @charlottehamrick.bsky.social reckonreview.com/wind-and-roo... 052
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 16/10/2023My 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... 010
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 14/10/2023From 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. 010
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeDr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 27/09/2023A 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. 0145
Reposted by Sandra K Barnidgegertrudious @erinchristinebell.bsky.social · 06/09/2023native bee flashcards! krystle hickman (western US regions, vol 1) beeflashcards.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...beeflashcards.backerkit.comPre-order Native Bees of the Western United States Flashcards on BackerKitLearn about native bees and how to identify them with these colorful flashcards 001
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 05/09/2023I feel EXACTLY the same -- something about the change to X was the final psychological break for me. Thank you for articulating what I've been feeling about That Other Place. 030
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 01/09/2023Trying 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...gofundme.comSave the Northport Park & Community Center, organized by Sandra BarnidgeThe City Council in Northport, Alabama, is attempting to sell the oldest p… Sandra Barnidge needs your support for Save the Northport Park & Community Center 020
Reposted by Sandra K BarnidgeBelle Point Press @bellepointpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2023If you’re looking for more Belle Point Press authors to follow, here are some! @robroensch.bsky.social @skbarnidge.bsky.social @jasonpmyers.bsky.social 043
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 29/08/2023My 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...onwisconsin.uwalumni.comReclaiming Recycling | On WisconsinUW research may solve the plastics problem that menaces the planet. 000
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 29/08/2023Love 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.” 013
Reposted by Sandra K Barnidgeandrea blancas beltran @drebelle.bsky.social · 29/08/2023C.T. Salazar and Casie Dodd of @bellepointpress.bsky.social created a remarkable anthology here, which is now available for purchase: bellepointpress.com/products/mid... 13011
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 29/08/2023Now 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?? 010
Sandra K Barnidge @skbarnidge.bsky.social · 28/08/2023What is the developer offering in exchange for taking away a playground, 3-acre greenspace, and the most-rented community center in town? According to our city council president: "Dunno, maybe some alcoholic beverages??" It would be funny if it wasn't so damn sad. www.cbs42.com/news/local/n... 000
