Abigail Oswald
@abigailoswald.bsky.social
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Abigail Oswald
@abigailoswald.bsky.social
· Sep 23
Dead Poets Society (1989): The Powerful Play Goes On
So much of what Keating does in Dead Poets Society has to do with shifting one’s perspective. Stand on the desk and say what you can see.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
feeling very grateful to have the chance to explore what Dead Poets Society means to me in the first entry of Viewfinder, my new column over at @bwdr.bsky.social!
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/09/23/d...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/09/23/d...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
wrote about the mysterious book I stumbled across at a convention that ended up sending me on a very creatively rejuvenating adventure 😊
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abigailoswald.substack.com/p/my-thousan...
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
wrote about the mysterious book I stumbled across at a convention that ended up sending me on a very creatively rejuvenating adventure 😊
abigailoswald.substack.com/p/my-thousan...
abigailoswald.substack.com/p/my-thousan...
the Cameron Crowe memoir is HERE, y’all! and he included all kinds of fun stuff like letters, photos, this Bowie drawing… truly one of my most anticipated reads of the year, can’t wait to dive in!
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the Cameron Crowe memoir is HERE, y’all! and he included all kinds of fun stuff like letters, photos, this Bowie drawing… truly one of my most anticipated reads of the year, can’t wait to dive in!
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Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
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LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EDT: What's on all these #VHS tapes? Commercials? Weird stuff? Home movies? Endangered or #lostmedia we could save at @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? airs live on Twitch tonight at 7pm EDT.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
October 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EDT: What's on all these #VHS tapes? Commercials? Weird stuff? Home movies? Endangered or #lostmedia we could save at @archive.org? There's only one way to find out. IS THIS ANYTHING? airs live on Twitch tonight at 7pm EDT.
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
twitch.tv/uncommonephe...
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We've got news! Our amazing creative director Maggie made us a new website (and those of you who've suffered through our barely-functional mobile phone version are going to LOVE how much easier it is to click through our site now)!
www.splitlippress.com
www.splitlippress.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We've got news! Our amazing creative director Maggie made us a new website (and those of you who've suffered through our barely-functional mobile phone version are going to LOVE how much easier it is to click through our site now)!
www.splitlippress.com
www.splitlippress.com
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Want more chills? Here's another haunted fave by @abigailoswald.bsky.social
You'll love what it does with doppelgangers & disappearing
(Even if you don't believe, like I do, that the screen is a mirror from beyond which The Nether beckons)
#commonsense
ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/you-are-st...
You'll love what it does with doppelgangers & disappearing
(Even if you don't believe, like I do, that the screen is a mirror from beyond which The Nether beckons)
#commonsense
ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/you-are-st...
You Are Still Allowed Your Dreams by Abigail Oswald
"I was fourteen when I found my doppelganger on the internet... Here was a picture I did not remember taking, in a posture I had never assumed, wearing clothes I had never owned..."
ashortstorylong.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Want more chills? Here's another haunted fave by @abigailoswald.bsky.social
You'll love what it does with doppelgangers & disappearing
(Even if you don't believe, like I do, that the screen is a mirror from beyond which The Nether beckons)
#commonsense
ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/you-are-st...
You'll love what it does with doppelgangers & disappearing
(Even if you don't believe, like I do, that the screen is a mirror from beyond which The Nether beckons)
#commonsense
ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/you-are-st...
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"We’re not meant to be tourists of art—close the book, walk away, The End.
We’re meant to live it." — @abigailoswald.bsky.social www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/09/23/d...
We’re meant to live it." — @abigailoswald.bsky.social www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/09/23/d...
Dead Poets Society (1989): The Powerful Play Goes On
So much of what Keating does in Dead Poets Society has to do with shifting one’s perspective. Stand on the desk and say what you can see.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"We’re not meant to be tourists of art—close the book, walk away, The End.
We’re meant to live it." — @abigailoswald.bsky.social www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/09/23/d...
We’re meant to live it." — @abigailoswald.bsky.social www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/09/23/d...
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Womb House Books, an amazing feminist bookstore and probably my favorite place in the Bay Area, is launching an imprint. Help them bring the weirdest, most vivid, and most challenging women’s writing into the world: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wom...
Womb House Books: The Imprint
Help us to launch the publishing arm of Womb House Books!
www.kickstarter.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Womb House Books, an amazing feminist bookstore and probably my favorite place in the Bay Area, is launching an imprint. Help them bring the weirdest, most vivid, and most challenging women’s writing into the world: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wom...
I genuinely think every writer today should listen to this new episode of @bradlisti.bsky.social's Otherppl—a frank conversation with Jeff Alessandrelli about the often sobering realities of making art today, and why we do it anyway
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
What Does It Mean to Be a Minor Writer?
Podcast Episode · Otherppl with Brad Listi · 10/12/2025 · 1h 8m
podcasts.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I genuinely think every writer today should listen to this new episode of @bradlisti.bsky.social's Otherppl—a frank conversation with Jeff Alessandrelli about the often sobering realities of making art today, and why we do it anyway
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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10/10 all true, and Aubrey makes this so easy to understand in her newsletter! We should have had her make this graphic for us a long time ago!!!
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
10/10 all true, and Aubrey makes this so easy to understand in her newsletter! We should have had her make this graphic for us a long time ago!!!
the new issue of @mcsweeneys.net is a TRAPPER KEEPER I am crying
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
the new issue of @mcsweeneys.net is a TRAPPER KEEPER I am crying
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What about this, a page of all the books by Short Story, Long contributors??
bookshop.org/wishlists/37...
bookshop.org/wishlists/37...
October 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What about this, a page of all the books by Short Story, Long contributors??
bookshop.org/wishlists/37...
bookshop.org/wishlists/37...
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Happy Publication Day to @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social and her incredible comic collection GRAPHIC RAGE: COMICS ON GENDER, JUSTICE, AND LIFE AS A WOMAN IN AMERICA!!!
Time to celebrate! Aubrey will be in conversation with @robhollywood.bsky.social TONIGHT at 8pm ET--registration info in our bio. 🎉🎉🎉
Time to celebrate! Aubrey will be in conversation with @robhollywood.bsky.social TONIGHT at 8pm ET--registration info in our bio. 🎉🎉🎉
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Happy Publication Day to @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social and her incredible comic collection GRAPHIC RAGE: COMICS ON GENDER, JUSTICE, AND LIFE AS A WOMAN IN AMERICA!!!
Time to celebrate! Aubrey will be in conversation with @robhollywood.bsky.social TONIGHT at 8pm ET--registration info in our bio. 🎉🎉🎉
Time to celebrate! Aubrey will be in conversation with @robhollywood.bsky.social TONIGHT at 8pm ET--registration info in our bio. 🎉🎉🎉
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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I love this haunted and haunting post SLM intern Ella Schweizer curated with work by @abigailoswald.bsky.social, Thirii Myint, Coyote Shook, Mark Galarrita, Roppotucha Greenberg, Alejandro Pasquale, Ahsan Butt, Sophie Hoss, and more!
Halloween is almost here! Check out our latest blog post for some excellent 👻 pieces from our archives to get you in the spooky spirit. 🎃 buff.ly/sy2TDMD
October 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I love this haunted and haunting post SLM intern Ella Schweizer curated with work by @abigailoswald.bsky.social, Thirii Myint, Coyote Shook, Mark Galarrita, Roppotucha Greenberg, Alejandro Pasquale, Ahsan Butt, Sophie Hoss, and more!
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Introducing Brewed for You! For a donation of just $1 (or more!), take the quiz and get a personalized list of books recommended to you by your favorite authors and indie booksellers! (for example...)
form.typeform.com/to/FOqqV2LJ?...
form.typeform.com/to/FOqqV2LJ?...
October 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Introducing Brewed for You! For a donation of just $1 (or more!), take the quiz and get a personalized list of books recommended to you by your favorite authors and indie booksellers! (for example...)
form.typeform.com/to/FOqqV2LJ?...
form.typeform.com/to/FOqqV2LJ?...
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All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
zinemachine.com/the-mag
zinemachine.com/the-mag
Read — Zine Machine
Our launch issue is LIVE!! Read zines made by real (paid!) human artists in Zine Machine's Summer '25 Edit, out now.
zinemachine.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
zinemachine.com/the-mag
zinemachine.com/the-mag
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Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
went on a hunt for marginalia at a secondhand bookstore for this month's Microfascination!
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September 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
went on a hunt for marginalia at a secondhand bookstore for this month's Microfascination!
abigailoswald.substack.com/p/marginalia...
abigailoswald.substack.com/p/marginalia...
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Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
September 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
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Dial-A-Poem, the phone addiction that’s actually good for the soul
The Sixties experiment that spread the joy of poetry has been resurrected for the smartphone age
The Sixties experiment that spread the joy of poetry has been resurrected for the smartphone age
Dial-A-Poem, the phone addiction that’s actually good for the soul
The Sixties experiment that spread the joy of poetry has been resurrected for the smartphone age
www.thetimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Dial-A-Poem, the phone addiction that’s actually good for the soul
The Sixties experiment that spread the joy of poetry has been resurrected for the smartphone age
The Sixties experiment that spread the joy of poetry has been resurrected for the smartphone age
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I made a free printable bookmark you can use for any banned books week (or before or after!) displays, books, etc., that gives people *action items* for defending the right to read.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
A Free Printable Bookmark About Book Censorship
Print these free bookmarks to help engage your friends, family, and community in the fight against book bans.
buttondown.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I made a free printable bookmark you can use for any banned books week (or before or after!) displays, books, etc., that gives people *action items* for defending the right to read.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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Fans (and writers!) of SFF and noir, check out this new anthology. They're also taking submissions. 🕵️♀️👻🤖📖
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for... @richienarvaez.bsky.social @latinxfiles.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for... @richienarvaez.bsky.social @latinxfiles.bsky.social
The Speculative Detective Agency
A Curious Collection of Mysterious Cases
www.kickstarter.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Fans (and writers!) of SFF and noir, check out this new anthology. They're also taking submissions. 🕵️♀️👻🤖📖
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for... @richienarvaez.bsky.social @latinxfiles.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/for... @richienarvaez.bsky.social @latinxfiles.bsky.social