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Swetha Amit

@swethaamit.bsky.social
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Writer/ interviewer/ Author of 1 memoir and 3 chapbooks- Fiction @ghostparachute @bendinggenres @soflopojo and others. Member @writersgrotto

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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bay Area folks- Join Yi Shun Lai Mike Copperman and myself for a wonderful Litquake panel discussion .about sports and identity on October 14th Wednesday, 6:30 pm Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St, San Francisco. Link litquake2026.sched.com/event/2WDms/...
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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New extra unhinged interview up at JMWW this morning. Thanks @swethaamit.bsky.social :) jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/c...
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Cause for Hope: An Interview with T. K. Rex by Swetha Amit
as I built this world, I wanted to explore the possibility of a better future than the one we’re currently facing.
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Glad to have a piece titled Whake watching in @silvercanyonreview.bsky.social thank you @pamavoledo.bsky.social
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wonderful surprise! Thank you editors! 🙏
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you for reading and sharing 🙏
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Not quite a song. More like a thought she can’t quite let go of." @swethaamit.bsky.social in WestWord westword.substack.com/p/finding-th...
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Finding the Right Notes
A Flash Fiction by Swetha Amit
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Grateful to have 2 stories in Flash Boulevard. Thank you @francinewitte.bsky.social 🙏 wrote this at the @bendinggenres.bsky.social retreat. Thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social and others for providing a magical week ! flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2026/10/03/s...
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SWETHA AMIT: The Girl With My Eyes
Flash Fiction by Swetha Amit The Blue Balloon In the photograph, we are standing outside our vacation home, a big family gathered in the street: grandparents, aunts, me in my green button-down dres…
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Appeared in a podcast with UK based Oratoria Magaxine! Thank you Amrita for the fabulous questions! Link oratoriamag.substack.com/p/it-is-okay...
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A new flash up in September efition of Westword journal! westword.substack.com/p/finding-th...
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Finding the Right Notes
A Flash Fiction by Swetha Amit
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you for including my story
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The B'K Magazine Volume 17, Issue 4 launches on October 1st! It features artwork by Aicha Benali, Ayinde Fatai Abiodun, Mai Keo, and Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel; fiction by: Belle Habs, @swethaamit.bsky.social, and Yi-Jung Chen...
Cover art from Aicha Benali, a digital drawing of a young woman with scarlet skin and pink, wavy hair gazing to her right while a centipede crawls up her neck. To the left are the logos for The B'K Magazine and Global Majority Press. Text says Vol. 17, Issue 4 and has the featured creatives listed. At the bottom is the webpage globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you @joshdale.co @thirtywestph.com for this nomination! Gratitude 🙏 link ti my story thirtywest.substack.com/p/riders-in-...
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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 29/09/2026
TW-Afterimages Best of the Net 2027 Nominations @sundresspub.bsky.social Congrats and good luck to all 10 writers! @ascoomer.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social @shomedasgupta.bsky.social @swethaamit.bsky.social
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you so much 🙏
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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Update. More dropped through the door today. @barbarabyar.bsky.social @tcboudreau.bsky.social
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Congratulations
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My interview with Beth Winegarner up in @bendinggenres.bsky.social thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙏 x.com/rgvaughan/st...
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Robert Vaughan (@rgvaughan) on X
Today on our @BendingGenres blog, @AmitSwetha0627 interviews poet/ author Beth Winegarner about her new collection, Swim Poems: https://t.co/oJQ4jh4Taw
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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Happy to have a 50-word micro in the latest issue of @thehooletsnook.bsky.social . Thank you to editor G.R. LeBlanc! thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...
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Sleepover
by Lori Cramer Wide awake well into the night, the two tweens, side by side in glittery purple sleeping bags, giggle and gab about the careers they’ll pursue (choreography for one, cosmetology for...
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Loved it!
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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I think of my mother refusing help. Of the rent due next week. Of working double shifts." Read @swethaamit.bsky.social in Revolution John.
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thank you so much for reading and sharing 🙏
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thank you 🙏
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A new story titled Karma Coffee up in Revolution John. Thank you editors 🙏 link 👉 revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/s...
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“I you are, the tree said, talk-singing through the wire’s whine. I’m here for you, too” beautiful and heartbreaking piece by @patforan.bsky.social
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Beautiful and heartbreaking piece. Sorry to hear about your Dad, Pat.
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you 🙏
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Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com · 11/09/2026
The Shortlist for Sept 11: See what you missed over the summer at Turn & Work: Featuring: Terena Elizabeth Bell @terenabell.bsky.social Huina Zheng Patrick Geraghty Michael Flavin @michaelflavin.bsky.social Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Read 'em here:
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The Shortlist for September 10, 2026 - Turn and Work
Fiction / Nonfiction from XXXXX
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thank you 🙏
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Glad to have a flash inspired by my biking earlier this year in @turnandwork.com thank you Hugh 🙏
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thank you 🙏
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thank you Claudia 🙏💗
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just came in the mail. Happy to have my poem included. Thank you editors!
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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My interview with Beth Sherman up in @bendinggenres.bsky.social thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙏 bendinggenres.com/swetha-amit-...
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Swetha Amit interviews Beth Sherman about her new flash novella, How to Get There From Here
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thank you 🙏
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“The air is warm and dry, carrying the faint sweetness of grapes and dust from the winding roads” from “In a Grapevine ” by @swethaamit.bsky.social gooseberry-pie.com/in-a-grapevi...
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In a Grapevine - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Great story!
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I have a new story “Tomatoes and Oil Paintings” in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. grateful to any of you who read this one + @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for giving it a home 🍅 🎨 fracturedlit.com/tomatoes-and...
Tomatoes and Oil Paintings
by Anna Vangala Jones
Fractured Lit
Excerpt of story: “The woman waters the plants in her garden before she leaves for her morning walk. The man sits at his easel, painting, before he leaves for his morning walk. Once outside, both glance at their watches and quicken their pace to avoid being late.”
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Thank you for reading and sharing 🙏
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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Look at her, flying so effortlessly,” he’d tell his friends proudly, noticing me for the first time in months. This #FlashInTheFeed by @swethaamit.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social asks, What would happen if you jumped into a cloud? #archivechallenge mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...
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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thank you, @swethaamit.bsky.social, for these fabulous questions! You helped me articulate (I hope) the vision for this book and the experience of writing it! Q: How did you manage to break the rules? jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/a...
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A River Runs Through it: A Conversation with Nina Schuyler by Swetha Amit
Even if you’re someone who doesn’t “believe in climate change,” you know the weather has changed—it’s hotter; there’s less water, droughts, wildfires, floods, the ocean is warming, rising. Farmers …
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Yeah it’s Rasputin By Boney M I listened to back in the 80s. It’s a catchy number. Thank you for listening . 🙏
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Got interviewed by BBC for 3 mins regarding a flash story about one of my fav songs and what the song meant to me. Listen to this clip from the 6th minute and see my written excerpt. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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BBC Audio | Soul Music | Rasputin by Boney M
Why a disco song about a Russian priest still brings joy today.
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thank you
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Great story!
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Gooseberry Pie latest issue is live with work by @ckrich.bsky.social Barry Yedvobnick Lindsay Peliicia @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social @swethaamit.bsky.social Andrea Cavedo @abbywilliams.bsky.social Noreia Rain Tina Barry @iamchrisscott.bsky.social @sandraarnold.bsky.social photo by Guy Biederman
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Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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