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Stephanie Vanderslice

@stephvanderslice.bsky.social
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Writes,teaches,reads. Fiction, CNF, Director, Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop. Check us out. Partner: John V., Proud parent: Jackson, Wilson. Huge Bluey Fan.

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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We 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!
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
When 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.
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Karen 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...
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Fake Unicorns and Real Llamas, Open Mike Eagle, Pickup Truck Opera: The Week's Best Events - Racket
Plus a rebranded and expanded Pillsbury House.
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𝔼𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕥𝕙 🌈 Author 🪶 Quill Cassava Elska 🐻 @authorquillcelska.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🌞 Find a balance 💪 #WritingCommunity #Inspire
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
You sure do favor her.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
She looks just like the kind of teacher all the kids would have adored.
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MG🐕‍🦺💙🐸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇩🇰🇩🇪 @mothergoose104.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
We are not alone!
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Watching 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?
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New 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.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Me: Friday’s going to be such a productive day! 30 degree temperature drop induced headache: Not so fast!
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Happy to send it, really.
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Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
On 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
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Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Tech 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
A screenshot of a news article about Artificial Intelligence, which reads: “OpenAl says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor. White House Al tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft.”
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I also pubbed a book that deals with this a lot. I still have some copies, dm me your address and I’ll send you one.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I know this may not be helpful but as a creative writing teacher, most of the people who felt they were bad writers were far from it. It’s the people who feel they’re already great writers we need to worry about. You may still need a break. You are just at a different stage.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This!
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Nancy Christie @nancychristie.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 1.29.25 from Nora Roberts www.nancychristie.com/my-books-for... #writingprocess #writingadvice
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I needed this. Maybe you do too. Seize joy.
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Reckoning With This Vicious World
Don’t let it make you anxious or merciless or indifferent. This moment requires balance, compassion, and love from each and every one of us.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Just knowing it's something I might someday find is heartening. Recently discovered the regular dark chocolate bar.
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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Check 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/3E3ikoJ
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Interview: Heidi Czerwiec - CRAFT
I 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...
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
There's a BROWNIE BAR?
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Interested in how this goes, please keep us posted.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It does!
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
All it would take would be adding, "btw. I am grateful for the partner whose health insurance allowed me to do this." Reminds me that comedian Leanne Morgan does this all the time, talking about her husband with a regular salary.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Listening 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.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
New substack: Sources to help you determine what it would cost to live in France.
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How: The Cost of Living
Looking at sample French budgets from around the web
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Grr. Everybody meets on Monday nights, when I teach.
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Clay Sheldon @claysheldon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Writing 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
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
For your reading pleasure. You’re welcome. literarymama.com/articles/dep...
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Unmoored
Jane 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...
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If 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
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I have already preordered and cannot wait for this book to come out in May. But look! We get a sneak peek!!!
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Susan Perabo @susanperabo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I'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."
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Shaindel Beers @shaindelr.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I 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
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Life giving interview.
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Brevity / 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
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Even on road trips, which used to be the only times we ate fast food, we have to be careful and pack peanut butter sandwiches. But it saves a ton of money and he’s alive so-
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
It’s also a lot healthier and tastes better imo. My husband loves to cook so we always ate more at home but after he nearly died from a Sudden Cardiac Arrest, he had to drastically lower his sodium which severely limits our restaurant options and means they’re reserved for special occasions.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Because it’s awesome and you should read it!
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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Mister Rogers never misses
You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful 

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodThan any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodYou’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodHuman beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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Regal House Publishing @regalhouse.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
We 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
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
It doesn't.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/12/2024
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Ditto.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Thank you!
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
It's a portrait of George Washington, obvs.
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Please add me.
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Kendall Dunkelberg @kdunkelberg.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Happy 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/
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SubTracker
My 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…
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
My mil, RIP, would have said, “so lovely and colorful!”
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Stephanie Vanderslice @stephvanderslice.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This one
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a man wearing a red sweater and tie is sitting on a couch and says mmhm
ALT: a man wearing a red sweater and tie is sitting on a couch and says mmhm
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