Alice Anderson
@aliceanderson.bsky.social
Poet: HUMAN NATURE and THE WATERMARK
Memoirist: SOME BRIGHT MORNING I’LL FLY AWAY
Winner of the Bobst Prize for literature, lesbian, mama, lover of forests and whales and starry skies ✨
Memoirist: SOME BRIGHT MORNING I’LL FLY AWAY
Winner of the Bobst Prize for literature, lesbian, mama, lover of forests and whales and starry skies ✨
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“Nobody can beat you to the things only you can write.” — @elizmccrack.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
“Nobody can beat you to the things only you can write.” — @elizmccrack.bsky.social
And…TikTok went dark. :(
January 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
And…TikTok went dark. :(
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Forest Avenue Press is opening for novel submissions in January! No agent required. Link to details in comments.
#callforsubmissions #novelsubmissions #amwritingfiction #amwriting #ampublishing #writingcommunity
#callforsubmissions #novelsubmissions #amwritingfiction #amwriting #ampublishing #writingcommunity
December 18, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Forest Avenue Press is opening for novel submissions in January! No agent required. Link to details in comments.
#callforsubmissions #novelsubmissions #amwritingfiction #amwriting #ampublishing #writingcommunity
#callforsubmissions #novelsubmissions #amwritingfiction #amwriting #ampublishing #writingcommunity
Luna says hi ::::
December 18, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Luna says hi ::::
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The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time
December 18, 2024 at 7:05 PM
The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time
I fear I can only jingle some of the way
December 18, 2024 at 3:24 PM
I fear I can only jingle some of the way
You should try blaring classical music in your AirPods while doing errands. I’m suddenly the tortured yet peaceful star of my own film!
December 15, 2024 at 5:03 PM
You should try blaring classical music in your AirPods while doing errands. I’m suddenly the tortured yet peaceful star of my own film!
Quick, let’s get married before they ban 🏳️🌈 marriage again ::::
Quick, let’s kiss before homosexuality is a crime again.
Quick, let’s kiss before polio comes back.
December 15, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Quick, let’s get married before they ban 🏳️🌈 marriage again ::::
I think my dream day job is owning a laundromat where I have a small desk where I write books to the dulcet tones of sudsy sloshes and dryers humming.
December 15, 2024 at 4:56 PM
I think my dream day job is owning a laundromat where I have a small desk where I write books to the dulcet tones of sudsy sloshes and dryers humming.
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I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too.
(And if you haven’t read any of Alice’s work, fix that. It’s phenomenal.)
(And if you haven’t read any of Alice’s work, fix that. It’s phenomenal.)
To everyone who is wondering if the book you’re writing has worth: remember all the books that saved your life and know that someone, somewhere is waiting to read the book that only you can write. Keep going ::::
December 13, 2024 at 6:12 PM
I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too.
(And if you haven’t read any of Alice’s work, fix that. It’s phenomenal.)
(And if you haven’t read any of Alice’s work, fix that. It’s phenomenal.)
To everyone who is wondering if the book you’re writing has worth: remember all the books that saved your life and know that someone, somewhere is waiting to read the book that only you can write. Keep going ::::
December 13, 2024 at 5:40 PM
To everyone who is wondering if the book you’re writing has worth: remember all the books that saved your life and know that someone, somewhere is waiting to read the book that only you can write. Keep going ::::
Writerly reminder that your art doesn’t need to directly address politics to be political. Beauty is political. Love is political. Tenderness is political. 🏳️🌈
November 24, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Writerly reminder that your art doesn’t need to directly address politics to be political. Beauty is political. Love is political. Tenderness is political. 🏳️🌈
November 22, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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anyway I don't believe in failed drafts, you don't call every stroke that carries you to the shore drowning do you
November 22, 2024 at 1:50 PM
anyway I don't believe in failed drafts, you don't call every stroke that carries you to the shore drowning do you
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I love a poem with couplets that have wild second lines. Give me "Everyday he ate the same breakfast: / fourteen love letters folded into paper airplanes" alllllll day. Business in the front, fantasy in the back. Little poetry mullets. Tiny tugboats dragging leviathans into the harbor.
November 20, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I love a poem with couplets that have wild second lines. Give me "Everyday he ate the same breakfast: / fourteen love letters folded into paper airplanes" alllllll day. Business in the front, fantasy in the back. Little poetry mullets. Tiny tugboats dragging leviathans into the harbor.
Anyone else text themselves “write poem about [ ]” with
alarming frequency? 🤣
alarming frequency? 🤣
November 20, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Anyone else text themselves “write poem about [ ]” with
alarming frequency? 🤣
alarming frequency? 🤣
Seriously!
Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
November 20, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Seriously!
Here’s the thing—feeling sorrow and fighting are not the binary. We can, and should, do both.
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
—Adrienne Rich
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
—Adrienne Rich
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Here’s the thing—feeling sorrow and fighting are not the binary. We can, and should, do both.
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
—Adrienne Rich
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
—Adrienne Rich
Maybe I’m a nerd but even with three books under my belt I still get fizzy when I see “[insert famous author’s name] followed you back.”
November 18, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Maybe I’m a nerd but even with three books under my belt I still get fizzy when I see “[insert famous author’s name] followed you back.”
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“Another air raid alert
As if they are walking the whole country to the execution
But shoot just one of us”
--Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian poet who died from wounds inflicted by the Russian bombardment
As if they are walking the whole country to the execution
But shoot just one of us”
--Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian poet who died from wounds inflicted by the Russian bombardment
November 12, 2024 at 6:44 AM
“Another air raid alert
As if they are walking the whole country to the execution
But shoot just one of us”
--Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian poet who died from wounds inflicted by the Russian bombardment
As if they are walking the whole country to the execution
But shoot just one of us”
--Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian poet who died from wounds inflicted by the Russian bombardment
Devastating ::::
Although you won’t hear of it in the news, Russia bombed Odesa, Ukraine again last night. Multiple dead and wounded:
November 18, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Devastating ::::
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This week on Breaking Form, we're revisiting the work of Louise Glück.
You can listen to the episode online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you go wild, Iris.
You can listen to the episode online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you go wild, Iris.
November 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM
This week on Breaking Form, we're revisiting the work of Louise Glück.
You can listen to the episode online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you go wild, Iris.
You can listen to the episode online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you go wild, Iris.
Well, over on threads I had a viral thread taken down for hate speech. The hate speech? Saying Sacramento is “super gay” with a bunch of rainbow emojis 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
November 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Well, over on threads I had a viral thread taken down for hate speech. The hate speech? Saying Sacramento is “super gay” with a bunch of rainbow emojis 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
With extra fire sauce
This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.
November 16, 2024 at 11:15 PM
With extra fire sauce