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William Woolfitt

@williamwoolfitt.bsky.social
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Writer, poet, teacher. Out now: THE NIGHT THE RAIN HAD NOWHERE TO GO (poems @BellePointPress, 2024). EYES MOVING THROUGH THE DARK (essays @OrisonBooks, 2024).

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Love the innovative POV in @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social's new story "Abalone and Urchin" in @thedodgemag.bsky.social: thedodgemag.com/spring-2026-...
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Abalone and Urchin - The Dodge
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Emily Mohn-Slate @mohnslate.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Margot Kahn truly lives out the ethos of beginner’s mind in her writing and her life (she opened a bakery! she hosts a podcast about ferries with her son!) Read on & channel some of that potent beginner’s mind energy for yourself.🌲 emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/i-have-time
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"I have time"
baker, poet, and biographer Margot Kahn on getting over self-consciousness to begin again (and again) and the power of reminding yourself that you do have time 🌲
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Marianne Worthington @mworthington.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
So happy to see @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social’s poem up today at @poetrydaily.bsky.social !! @bellepointpress.bsky.social poems.com/poem/dry-run...
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Dry Run Creek
malformed calves      foaming at the mouth      a creek that bubbles
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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
In other news, if you'd like a signed copy of one of my books or a critique of a short story, poem, first chapter, lmk! For critiques, we can work out an affordable rate. Very affordable.
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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 25/04/2025
It was so fun to be a part of @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social's Speaking of Marvels series - thanks for including me in this! spkofmarvels.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/a...
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Amy Stuber
“I’m constantly thinking as I’m writing, ‘That’s not really it!’ or ‘That doesn’t ring true’ to get myself to drill down and get at the real emotion of a character.&#8…
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Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thanks to @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social for the chance to talk about ordering a manuscript and writing oddball poems. spkofmarvels.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/a...
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Abbie Kiefer
“Sometimes we are sheltered surely and fully and sometimes we only have a particular kind of solace—maybe not the complete respite we hoped for, but solace all the same.” Certain Shelte…
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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for the wide-ranging, open-ended questions—this interview touches on Mycocosmic but is more about process and the power of books to change us. @tupelopress.bsky.social
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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The one review I managed to write last year, just published in Revolute, sings the praises of The Night The Rain Had Nowhere to Go. Congratulations @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social !
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jessicamanack.bsky.social @jessicamanack.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Thanks so much to @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about my work at his site Speaking of Marvels! spkofmarvels.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/j...
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Jessica Manack
“what if one told the story of one’s life in terms of times that they felt fed… with love, with knowledge, with a sense of security in one’s self and one’s environment?” Gastromyt…
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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
ESSAYS! Two collections I’ve been reading for a while, and two in the mail today from Orison Books and @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social's EYES MOVING THROUGH THE DARK and @andrewbertaina.bsky.social’s THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE.
4 books: colorful cover of Best American Essays 2025, editor WESLEY MORRIS's name prominent at the bottom; orange, green, and yellow cover or Ross Gay's The Book of (More) Delights, with DELIGHTS and ROSS GAY visible; white cover with black lettering and a black train with THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE in caps, Andrew Bertaina's name below; and a black and white photo of the woods, with EYES MOVING THROUGH THE DARK in caps, William Wolfitt below.
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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thank so much to @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social for featuring this interview about Mycocosmic at the wonderful site Speaking of Marvels! spkofmarvels.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/l...
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Lesley Wheeler
“…we’re all connected, even if in invisible, underground ways.”   Mycocosmic (Tupelo Press , forthcoming March 4, 2025) A question from Toni Ann Johnson: Why are you wri…
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Renée K. Nicholson @reneeknicholson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Today in heartbreak, read this new poem by William Woolfit: reckoning.press/turquoise-ci...
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Turquoise Circles | Reckoning
I drive four hundred miles to my grandparents’ Angus cattle farm near Nestorville, West Virginia. And walk up the knob, zenith and center of meadows they mowed, cow paths, rust-roofed sheds, silo, shr...
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
...we dream in the pool of a moon-washed house. There’s Angus cow in me, flat-spired snail, night shark, jaguarundi, giant kelp, ground dove. @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social in @reckoningmag.bsky.social reckoning.press/turquoise-ci...
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Turquoise Circles | Reckoning
I drive four hundred miles to my grandparents’ Angus cattle farm near Nestorville, West Virginia. And walk up the knob, zenith and center of meadows they mowed, cow paths, rust-roofed sheds, silo, shr...
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Nicholas Yingling @nyingling.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Spending my holiday with these lovely essays by @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social
Cover of EYES MOVING THROUGH THE DARK by William WoolfittD Is for Dominion

D descends from the Hebrew 7, daleth, from the Greek A, delta, from the shape of a farmhouse door blown open by a snarl of wind, from the rich dirt the river carries to its mouth. D is for dread, deer meat, dump truck, dig down deep. D is for drill, detonate, dove of peace. See it open, see it take wing and lift in the wind, a staked animal skin, a tattered flag, a heavy cloud. Hear it sing the long story of the places that we try to claim, the places that swell our hearts to bursting, hear it sing and then follow its underground threads, the secrets of holding cells and dangerous men waiting for soup in the basement, the masses of pig iron and dross and korl, the smoke of a spoil tip burning in Trace Gap.On our side porch, while we're hunting for his rain boots, the boy spies a bird's nest tucked into my old shoe. "Why," he says. He half-smiles, half-grimaces. Maybe he's surprised, astonished. I'm thinking there are stories my son will need to hear someday-stories about different kinds of looking and taking, the newest Jim Crow-about who breaks the world, who glues the cracks. Maybe I'll tell him or maybe he'll tell me your look can be honest, humble, steady, unafraid, here's current of sorrow, river of light, we're drinking it in. Soon, I'm walking with my son down the quiet road near our house. "That," he says; he means, what is that? He notices everything. "That," he says, and I tell him, cracked asphalt, or drainpipe, or seedpods in the ditch. From my son, I am learning to see.
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Isaac Yuen @ekostories.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
So grateful for the thoughtful questions posed by the editors at Speaking of Marvels on the craft behind my debut essay collection UTTER, EARTH - here are a few excerpts! 🙏to founder @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social for the invitation! Full interview here spkofmarvels.wordpress.com/2024/11/11/i...
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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
It’s an annual pleasure to highlight some of the books I’ve loved in the annual “Pleasures in Reading, Viewing, & Listening” column from Aqueduct Press—and to read great recs from others, too: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-... @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social
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The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2024, pt.4: Lesley Wheeler
Pleasures of 2024 by Lesley Wheeler     During the summer, I spent two weeks in Scotland. I read many memorable books to set the m...
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Coming early 2025 in Reckoning 9: new work by @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social, Sofia Ezdina, Ellen K. Fee, Jacqueline Roberti, Purbasha Roy, @ideofmarch.bsky.social, S.L. Harris, Offor Chidera, Mário Coelho, @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social, August Cao, Solomon T. Hamza, Allison Whittenberg, ... (1/3)
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Heather Bell Adams @heatherbelladams.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Loving this essay collection from @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social
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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Amy Stuber's stories are about your neighbors and friends, the people you think you know, and what they are all hiding from you: the truth, which is that we are children and will remain so, that we are performing and we don't know it.
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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 13/11/2024
I'd like to create an "Authors of Small/Indie Press Books 2024-2025" starter pack. Is that you? If so, please reply here. Also, if you don't mind reposting this for visibility, I'd appreciate it! #writingcommunity #indiebooks #indieauthors #booksky
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Ida Stewart @idastewart.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
"... and when I was young I was mildly outrageous, and now I am completely, having seen in my brief forays into predictability that there's no percentage in it. Really, there isn't. I know you hope there is, but really, there isn't." —Irene McKinney, "Legs," from "Have You Had Enough Darkness Yet?"
Legs
by Irene McKinney, from "Have You Had Enough Darkeness Yet?"

I can prop my legs straight up the wall
while I'm lying in bed reading, or I can
bend them any which way whenever,
although I'm sixty-seven and "suffering"
from various conditions and diseases,
and I look in the mirror sometimes and
say "Hain't you cute" and that's the way
it is at this juncture. I have always been
careless because I never had

anything to lose, no money, no gorgeous
looks, no social position, no power,
no automatic respect from various
possible sources, and when I was young
I was mildly outrageous, and now I am
completely, having seen in my brief forays
into predictability that there's no percentage
in it. Really, there isn't. I know you hope
there is, but really, there isn't.
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
New Micro Q&A with @scribblermiller.bsky.social! Congrats to Janna on the publication of her new collection, ALL LOVERS BURN AT THE END OF THE WORLD! Out now from @emergejournal.bsky.social! #flashfiction
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Author Interview * Janna Miller
Janna Miller’s new collection, All Lovers Burn At the End of the World, conjures a host of weirdly beautiful characters, enticing the reader into landscapes perilous precisely because of their surf…
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William Woolfitt @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
My editing students are making online literary magazines, and I'd like you to meet Bric-a-Brac! They're open for submissions of flash, poetry, fiction, cnf, and more. The deadline is April 2. bricabracmagazine.wordpress.com/submissions
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Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Thankful to the stellar and stunning Evergreen Review, esp. to poetry editor Jee Leong Koh, for publishing four of my abecedarian attempts, alongside art by Jenny Rask. One of these poems is for bees and flowers. The other ones are for people. evergreenreview.com/read/attempt...
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Attempt with a Gap in It
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William Woolfitt @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
My prose poem "Buying Snowball Pumpkins..." just got an acceptance from @gonelawn.bsky.social, will be in my forthcoming @bellepointpress.bsky.social book, borrows a line from the Carter Family song "When the World’s on Fire," and borrows another line from this beautiful poem by Maggie Anderson --
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
It is a PHENOMENAL day to purchase a book from a small press. Post yours here and receive a haiku from me. Need a small press rec? Oh I have suggestions! Bloof Books, Ethel Zine, Ornithopter are among some of my favorites. 💙
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William Woolfitt @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
It's official publication day for my collection of short stories Ring of Earth! You can buy it online at Madville Publishing or elsewhere. Here's my book on the front porch and a bit of the title story.
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Belle Point Press @bellepointpress.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
In 2024, we’ll be publishing three full-length poetry collections. You can follow them now to keep up with their work! @tadasborne.bsky.social @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social @juscarts.bsky.social
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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 12/08/2023
I just watched Mark Pellington's 2018 film "Nostalgia" and I've been thinking about inheritance and artifacts, so Julie Otsuka's essay in Lithub on writing and memory and boxes of her parents' stuff spoke to me particularly right now. (It's also a subject I keep returning to in my own writing.)
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Julie Otsuka on Writing From and Into Memories
“The Boxes” One day in late April, two enormous boxes arrived at my door. Together, they weighed eighty-six pounds. For the last two years, my brothers and I had been renting a storage …
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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
My #flash collection THE MISSING GIRL, available from Black Lawrence Press (not from Amazon at the moment, apparently—but I hope you're avoiding them for book purchases anyway!) blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-mi…
chapbook cover: art by Raeleen Kai, a woman's dress on a hangar, something like a brown tree trunk with twigs on the right shoulder and a hole in the abdomen. Gradations of orange in the background. The Missing Girl, Jacqueline Doyle in the foreground.
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C.T. Salazar @ctsalazar.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
I don’t think I’ve shared on here yet but I’m leading a 2-Session sonnet workshop through @bellepointpress.bsky.social here’s the link for more info: bellepointpress.com/products/little…
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