Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 19/12/2025We sure are and our students and alumni get all the benefits, including a free Chill Subs subscription! Check out our small but mighty program where students are doing great things! 051
Reposted by Stephanie Vandersliceevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 23/07/2025When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult because I imagined that adulthood would be a time when no one would interrupt me when I was trying to read. If I could go back in time, I would tell that little girl she has never been more wrong about anything in her life. 18100997
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceKaren Babine @karenbabine.bsky.social · 22/07/2025"If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Man, I’d really love to get a camper, pack up my stuff, and head into the Canadian wilderness with my two cats,” then Karen Babine’s new book is going to speak to you with stunning specificity." racketmn.com/fake-unicorn...racketmn.comFake Unicorns and Real Llamas, Open Mike Eagle, Pickup Truck Opera: The Week's Best Events - RacketPlus a rebranded and expanded Pillsbury House. 111
Reposted by Stephanie Vanderslice𝔼𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕥𝕙 🌈 Author 🪶 Quill Cassava Elska 🐻 @authorquillcelska.bsky.social · 08/03/2025🌞 Find a balance 💪 #WritingCommunity #Inspire 073
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceMG🐕🦺💙🐸🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇩🇰🇩🇪 @mothergoose104.bsky.social · 08/03/2025We are not alone! 031
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Watching Love, Meghan on Netflix. I like it! It’s no more or less awkward than Barefoot Contessa which I also like. There, I said it. Could we lay off the Sussexes? 020
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 10/02/2025New way to think about stress dreams: the opportunity to wake up and think, well whatever happens to me today, it probably won’t be as bad as that. 040
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Me: Friday’s going to be such a productive day! 30 degree temperature drop induced headache: Not so fast! 140
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceFay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social · 29/01/2025On days you feel low, organizing and cuddling your old work can feel good. You will see personal growth and remember how you felt actually writing some things. You will also find writing you have zero memory of ever writing. The mystery of YOU is real. #writingcommunity #writers #inspiration 2131
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceMiranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Tech bros: “So we stole creatives’ IP on a grand scale to train our AI. So what?” Also tech bros: “DeepSeek stole our IP! Waaaaaah!” Karma, baby. It’s DELICIOUS. ☺️ 💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity 1184
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceNancy Christie @nancychristie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 1.29.25 from Nora Roberts www.nancychristie.com/my-books-for... #writingprocess #writingadvice 052
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I needed this. Maybe you do too. Seize joy.open.substack.comReckoning With This Vicious WorldDon’t let it make you anxious or merciless or indifferent. This moment requires balance, compassion, and love from each and every one of us. 010
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceJacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Check out @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social's interview in CRAFT on the lyric essay: "all of these different lyric elements…sound or visual images, smell, or doing strange things with time…engage with the reader in a different way than a more traditional linear narrative would." buff.ly/3E3ikoJbuff.lyInterview: Heidi Czerwiec - CRAFTI started writing lyric essays long before I knew the language for what I was doing. Working at the intersection of poetry and prose, I wrote about big emotions (love, grief) because I wasn’t sure how... 1124
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Listening to podcast with an artist I admire. How she's stayed true to her art in her long career. Unmentioned: her partner's income stability & health ins. Asking again, could we PLEASE be upfront about this? For those of us who ARE the partners with the health insurance etc.w/out such flexibility. 162
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/01/2025New substack: Sources to help you determine what it would cost to live in France.open.substack.comHow: The Cost of LivingLooking at sample French budgets from around the web 010
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceClay Sheldon @claysheldon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Writing Tip: Consider drawing your world. You don't have to be an epic artist to do this, just create a rough map of where things are geographically. A visual representation can really help iron out the details of your worldbuilding, and you can update it as you go. #writing #writingtips #writesky 3268
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 23/01/2025For your reading pleasure. You’re welcome. literarymama.com/articles/dep...literarymama.comUnmooredJane Eyre would dig a good packing cube. In fact, she’d probably identify with one. Compact and useful, the cube is neither fussy nor proud. Its task-directed presence, quietly doing its duty, contain... 010
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 22/01/2025If you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? Writing. 2. your initial major? English 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? Human Development (Psych, Eng. minors) 4. what do you do now? Writer, Writing prof. Creative writing pedagogy scholar 040
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I have already preordered and cannot wait for this book to come out in May. But look! We get a sneak peek!!! 030
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceSusan Perabo @susanperabo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I'm proud to have a new story in this splendid issue of @literarymama.bsky.social, which left us for a brief time, but has returned just when we need it most, as we face -- as editor @ajfields.bsky.social says -- "the hard, often uncomfortable work we need to do." 5206
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceShaindel Beers @shaindelr.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I need everyone in the world to STOP what they are doing and look at this dog's markings! 🖤 Her name is Bridgette, and she deserves to be someone's Valentine. Available at Best Friends of Baker in Baker City, Oregon. #dogs #ValentinesDay 823630
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025"Writing a little bit each day is akin to leaving the faucets dripping on a cold January night; while the ideas are flowing the creative pipes won’t freeze." ~ @marthasilano.bsky.social 15812
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Because it’s awesome and you should read it! 061
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceAnthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Mister Rogers never misses 195248648236
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceRegal House Publishing @regalhouse.bsky.social · 02/01/2025We are beyond excited to announce the establishment of our new imprint, HOUSE OF KEL, to elevate finely crafted manuscripts of sci-fi, fantasy, and romantasy genres. Now accepting submissions. #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #romantasy houseofkel.com 092
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/12/2024Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! 5764761288
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceKendall Dunkelberg @kdunkelberg.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Happy holidays, #writingcommunity! As a holiday gift, I'm writing to let you know that my #submission tracker SubTracker is always available for free. Track your submissions in a database on your own computer with help from @libreoffice.bsky.social kendalldunkelberg.com/subtracker-2/kendalldunkelberg.comSubTrackerMy gift back to the writing community:a simple database for tracking submissions to magazines, publishers, contests, etc. SubTracker is built in LibreOffice. It also works in other OpenOffice imple… 062
Reposted by Stephanie Vandersliceweird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 23/12/2024snowball fight, italy, ca. 1400 404010871
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceAnna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 23/12/2024the more books I own & have yet to read, the more immortal I become 829851
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Merry Christmas to me, excerpt from memoir in progress up at The Lascaux Review, tw: health crisis. lascauxreview.com/back-to-me/?...lascauxreview.comBack to Me: A Love Letter, on purpose | The Lascaux Review 010
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceJennifer Goodland @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 21/12/2024📚 Library patrons! Please check out a book you plan to read someday, but not right now. We won’t be able to tell you haven’t read it, it’s good for our metrics, and it prevents good books from getting weeded when they still have a kindred spirit out there. 511458321
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 21/12/2024If anyone wants an update on how my efforts to go back in time to survive the present are going: the 1984 video on the making of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is available on YouTube and it holds up pretty well. 020
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceAdrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Alice Notley 0133
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 21/12/2024me: [carefully placing a baby on my boss’s desk] my boss: and the other one me: [pauses, then unstraps an ankle holster that cradles a smaller, but just as deadly baby] 142116481924
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 21/12/2024“crimes. If, for just one generation, we took seriously violence against women and children, do you know what an impact that would have on society? If you believed women just for once, instead of believing the clichés men say about them to cover up their crimes. “open.substack.comWhat Would A Woman Do To An Unconscious Man If She Thought No-One Would Find Out?I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the course of the trial of Dominique Pelicot and his fellow accused: what would a woman do to an unconscious man if she thought no-one would find out? 000
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20/12/2024"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...futurism.comOpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for FreeOpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them. 22062412084
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceMaureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I know no one wants to do this, but please wear an N95 in planes, trains, buses, & airports/stations this holiday. You don’t want to pick up illness on the way to vacation or to grandma. These masks work. I have not had a virus of any kind in over a year & I have been on many planes & trains. 😘 916116
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Sending this nugget around again. 515216
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceMillicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social · 20/12/2024If you cannot send a holiday card write a review, "I like this book"! #flowersong 065
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Innocent me in the early 20-teens before everything went to hell, “I mean, l like the Diane Rehm show as much as anyone but she needs to retire and make space for others.” Me today: “Diane Rehm has a podcast!? Why am I only finding this out NOW?!” 010
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 20/12/2024So I also have a substack. It's about France. Last summer we bought a house there.open.substack.comJoyeux Noel: Christmas in FranceLes Marches, in particular 020
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 02/12/2024There's something about the focus of a congealed male ego around the resentment of women. That scabby comfort blanket to cover the paunch and the mediocrities that age reveals. The misdirected self-pity of the pub bore. 819722
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 02/12/2024In my professional experience, the ones you really have to watch out for are the misogynistic turds of a certain age. 543653
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceStephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 17/12/2024Weather-scare stories are the last bastion of the tabloid hack. You can basically terrify a pensioner without any legal comeback. The beauty is that the weather isn't going to sue you if you write hyperbolic bullshit that doesn't transpire, and, hey, you might even be right once in a while. 6828
Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Me Monday: Ah, so much writing time this week. I can’t wait. I’ll just get that first Shingles and pneumonia shot out of the way. . . Me Thursday: Might finally be coming out of it. (PS Still glad I got the shot & had time to recuperate, husband got the same shot w/no side effects whatsoever). 330
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceDr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social · 05/12/2024So a really cool thing has happened—I just signed on as a Poetry Editor-at-Large for Texas Review Press today! This means I’ll have full freedom to acquire one poetry book a year and to edit one-on-one with the author throughout the whole process. I’m so so excited. 81107644
Reposted by Stephanie VandersliceFerris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping! 35394172638