amanda kallis
@amandakallis.bsky.social
writer, Toronto
☆current: speculative novel
⊙prev: Iowa Writers' Workshop
*･｡ﾟwork in: Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Catapult, elsewhere
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amandakallis.com
amandakallis.substack.com
☆current: speculative novel
⊙prev: Iowa Writers' Workshop
*･｡ﾟwork in: Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Catapult, elsewhere
⁺✧⁺✧⁺✧
amandakallis.com
amandakallis.substack.com
where are my Ted Chiang stans to back me up on this?
September 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
where are my Ted Chiang stans to back me up on this?
*mom attempting to gentle parent during the apocalypse*
'I see that you're upset the zombie ate your friend, but that doesn't mean we hit'
'be careful! I mean,' *struggles to be specific* 'we run with the machete's cutting side down!'
'I see that you're upset the zombie ate your friend, but that doesn't mean we hit'
'be careful! I mean,' *struggles to be specific* 'we run with the machete's cutting side down!'
August 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
*mom attempting to gentle parent during the apocalypse*
'I see that you're upset the zombie ate your friend, but that doesn't mean we hit'
'be careful! I mean,' *struggles to be specific* 'we run with the machete's cutting side down!'
'I see that you're upset the zombie ate your friend, but that doesn't mean we hit'
'be careful! I mean,' *struggles to be specific* 'we run with the machete's cutting side down!'
you should start your day with excerpts from Virginia Woolf’s diary
www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...
August 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
you should start your day with excerpts from Virginia Woolf’s diary
www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...
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This is a terrific book! 👇
an open marriage gets complicated when two lovers become pregnant at the same time—read the first chapter of Likeness here!
SHR Exclusive: First Chapter LIKENESS by Samsun Knight
SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW
www.southernhumanitiesreview.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is a terrific book! 👇
an open marriage gets complicated when two lovers become pregnant at the same time—read the first chapter of Likeness here!
SHR Exclusive: First Chapter LIKENESS by Samsun Knight
SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW
www.southernhumanitiesreview.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
an open marriage gets complicated when two lovers become pregnant at the same time—read the first chapter of Likeness here!
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🧵GAZA
I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can.
If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza.
Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.
I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can.
If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza.
Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.
Jews for Food Aid for Gaza
Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza
www.foodaidforgaza.org
June 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🧵GAZA
I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can.
If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza.
Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.
I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can.
If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza.
Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.
mom-brain is sick bc how did I successfully forget a major spoiler to The Last of Us
July 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
mom-brain is sick bc how did I successfully forget a major spoiler to The Last of Us
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Girls in your area
Girls in proximity to your location
Girls approaching your coordinates
Girls have breached the perimeter
Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the
Girls in proximity to your location
Girls approaching your coordinates
Girls have breached the perimeter
Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the
July 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Girls in your area
Girls in proximity to your location
Girls approaching your coordinates
Girls have breached the perimeter
Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the
Girls in proximity to your location
Girls approaching your coordinates
Girls have breached the perimeter
Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the
uh here's a corner of my house. thought the light was nice
June 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
uh here's a corner of my house. thought the light was nice
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The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
June 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
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kind of regretting teaching my parrot the Tears in Rain monologue
May 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
kind of regretting teaching my parrot the Tears in Rain monologue
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Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer
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IfNotNow has released a Passover haggadah which you can download here: cdn.sanity.io/files/14yk6f...
April 22, 2024 at 12:31 AM
IfNotNow has released a Passover haggadah which you can download here: cdn.sanity.io/files/14yk6f...
Two detectives came to my door & my first assumption was that it was to arrest me for my crimes? What crimes, Amanda?
March 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Two detectives came to my door & my first assumption was that it was to arrest me for my crimes? What crimes, Amanda?
mickey 17: the rare movie to center what I can only describe as 'wholesome horniness'
March 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
mickey 17: the rare movie to center what I can only describe as 'wholesome horniness'
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The Anti Defamation League is so right, if there’s one thing that makes me feel safe as a Jew, it’s people with unpopular political opinions getting abducted by the government
March 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Anti Defamation League is so right, if there’s one thing that makes me feel safe as a Jew, it’s people with unpopular political opinions getting abducted by the government
read a blog post! pretend it's 2008 :)
on naming
of titles, tech, & babies
amandakallis.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
read a blog post! pretend it's 2008 :)
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
February 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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Full image of the cover for Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus, my debut poetry collection from Black Square Editions. Edited by John Yau and managed by Margaret Galey. Cover art by Eunha Kim with design by @shannacompton.bsky.social. Grateful for blurbs from Kim Hyesoon and Mark Levine.
January 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Full image of the cover for Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus, my debut poetry collection from Black Square Editions. Edited by John Yau and managed by Margaret Galey. Cover art by Eunha Kim with design by @shannacompton.bsky.social. Grateful for blurbs from Kim Hyesoon and Mark Levine.
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okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES!
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
January 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES!
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books.
(details below)
Haven't worn hard pants in months so here I am writing about fashion! (but actually writing about writing, ofc)
the many deaths of personal style
our screentime is telling on us
amandakallis.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Haven't worn hard pants in months so here I am writing about fashion! (but actually writing about writing, ofc)
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“I wrote to you of Benjamin's three stages of prose writing: the musical, the architectonic, and the textile. So first you have a song and at the end you have a piece of cloth and in between there's something like a shelter.” —Sofia Samatar, OPACITIES
January 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“I wrote to you of Benjamin's three stages of prose writing: the musical, the architectonic, and the textile. So first you have a song and at the end you have a piece of cloth and in between there's something like a shelter.” —Sofia Samatar, OPACITIES
my most popular substack of 2024! here’s to all you weird and horny writers out there:
how to f*ck an alien
a 10-step guide
amandakallis.substack.com
December 31, 2024 at 7:22 PM
my most popular substack of 2024! here’s to all you weird and horny writers out there:
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(why not work for free, I guess) tense in English-written works shouldn't always be measured in grammatical terms but can be used as a way to express a character's lived reality or as a way of expressing a disrupted self
December 26, 2024 at 3:12 PM
(why not work for free, I guess) tense in English-written works shouldn't always be measured in grammatical terms but can be used as a way to express a character's lived reality or as a way of expressing a disrupted self