Brenna Womer
@brennawomer.bsky.social
she/they ✨ queer 🏳️🌈 Latine 🇲🇽 childfree ✂️ sober ☕️ Fresno State MFA professor | views mine | author of Unbrained (FlowerSong Press) & Honeypot (Spuyten Duyvil) | brennawomer.com
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Brenna Womer
@brennawomer.bsky.social
· Aug 5
Sharing the cover of DEAR MOM, with blurbs from three writers I deeply admire, has me feeling quite a lot. The chapbook is forthcoming from @petrichorlit.bsky.social this fall as part of their digital chapbook series. I'm so lucky to be working with Seth and his team.
Read the blurbs on my website!
Read the blurbs on my website!
Reposted by Brenna Womer
FEE FREE 48 HRS 🐑when you get a break from the severed floor, journey to submittable... sotospeak.submittable.com/submit
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
FEE FREE 48 HRS 🐑when you get a break from the severed floor, journey to submittable... sotospeak.submittable.com/submit
My very first graphic essay, “Only”—about the complexities of remembering as an only child—is in Blackbird 24.1 🖤 It was a hard one to write and illustrate, but I’m grateful for the process and the processing. TW for suicidal ideation. If you take the time to read and engage with it, thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏽
Only
blackbird.vcu.edu
October 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My very first graphic essay, “Only”—about the complexities of remembering as an only child—is in Blackbird 24.1 🖤 It was a hard one to write and illustrate, but I’m grateful for the process and the processing. TW for suicidal ideation. If you take the time to read and engage with it, thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏽
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
LBJ
LBJ
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
LBJ
LBJ
And if the escalator tries to bring you down go crazy
September 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
And if the escalator tries to bring you down go crazy
First five min of the Lilith Fair doc and have already cried twice. (Hulu!!)
September 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
First five min of the Lilith Fair doc and have already cried twice. (Hulu!!)
“Most of the women in my life were at war, and the men around us—even or especially the ones we loved—couldn’t see it, didn’t want to, or worse, cared hardly at all.”
Jamie Hood, from Trauma Plot
Jamie Hood, from Trauma Plot
September 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“Most of the women in my life were at war, and the men around us—even or especially the ones we loved—couldn’t see it, didn’t want to, or worse, cared hardly at all.”
Jamie Hood, from Trauma Plot
Jamie Hood, from Trauma Plot
So very neat to be scrolling through the 2025 @pw.org Guide to MFA Programs and see us! Come write with Venita Blackburn, @stevenchurch.bsky.social, Ra Jarrar, Brynn Saito, Mai Der Vang, & myself at Fresno State, and work on The Normal School! I’m so proud to work where I do ✍🏽
September 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
So very neat to be scrolling through the 2025 @pw.org Guide to MFA Programs and see us! Come write with Venita Blackburn, @stevenchurch.bsky.social, Ra Jarrar, Brynn Saito, Mai Der Vang, & myself at Fresno State, and work on The Normal School! I’m so proud to work where I do ✍🏽
Have Trump supporters been to the grocery store lately? I just got ingredients for a simple chicken verde, which I already have half the ingredients for, and spent $34. No items were organic or cage-free; I bought the cheapest version available of each item. How can anyone afford to live right now?
August 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Have Trump supporters been to the grocery store lately? I just got ingredients for a simple chicken verde, which I already have half the ingredients for, and spent $34. No items were organic or cage-free; I bought the cheapest version available of each item. How can anyone afford to live right now?
What’s a book that gets better every time you read it? For me, @melissafebos.bsky.social’s BODY WORK 🤯😭🫠
August 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
What’s a book that gets better every time you read it? For me, @melissafebos.bsky.social’s BODY WORK 🤯😭🫠
Brain creases
increase the available
surface area, like the fins
of car radiators,
a highly evolved trait
which allows us to lie
and know we are being
lied to, and still be happy,
still laugh in our sleep,
a flaw that’s not quite
a flaw.
Dorianne Laux, from “Moonflaw”
increase the available
surface area, like the fins
of car radiators,
a highly evolved trait
which allows us to lie
and know we are being
lied to, and still be happy,
still laugh in our sleep,
a flaw that’s not quite
a flaw.
Dorianne Laux, from “Moonflaw”
August 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Brain creases
increase the available
surface area, like the fins
of car radiators,
a highly evolved trait
which allows us to lie
and know we are being
lied to, and still be happy,
still laugh in our sleep,
a flaw that’s not quite
a flaw.
Dorianne Laux, from “Moonflaw”
increase the available
surface area, like the fins
of car radiators,
a highly evolved trait
which allows us to lie
and know we are being
lied to, and still be happy,
still laugh in our sleep,
a flaw that’s not quite
a flaw.
Dorianne Laux, from “Moonflaw”
Well, this is super exciting news to wake up to 🥳 See you in the new year, Baltimore! #AWP26
@stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social
@kaicoggin.bsky.social
@janehuffman.bsky.social
@christinastoddard.bsky.social
@stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social
@kaicoggin.bsky.social
@janehuffman.bsky.social
@christinastoddard.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Well, this is super exciting news to wake up to 🥳 See you in the new year, Baltimore! #AWP26
@stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social
@kaicoggin.bsky.social
@janehuffman.bsky.social
@christinastoddard.bsky.social
@stevieedwardspoet.bsky.social
@kaicoggin.bsky.social
@janehuffman.bsky.social
@christinastoddard.bsky.social
This semester is all grads all the time 📚 Here are the combined booklists for my two MFA seminars, form & theory of CNF and the nonfiction workshop. A few of these I’ve taught before, but mostly I’m bringing lots of new energy. All are fabulous & brilliant, and I can’t wait to dive in ⚡️
August 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This semester is all grads all the time 📚 Here are the combined booklists for my two MFA seminars, form & theory of CNF and the nonfiction workshop. A few of these I’ve taught before, but mostly I’m bringing lots of new energy. All are fabulous & brilliant, and I can’t wait to dive in ⚡️
Sharing the cover of DEAR MOM, with blurbs from three writers I deeply admire, has me feeling quite a lot. The chapbook is forthcoming from @petrichorlit.bsky.social this fall as part of their digital chapbook series. I'm so lucky to be working with Seth and his team.
Read the blurbs on my website!
Read the blurbs on my website!
August 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Sharing the cover of DEAR MOM, with blurbs from three writers I deeply admire, has me feeling quite a lot. The chapbook is forthcoming from @petrichorlit.bsky.social this fall as part of their digital chapbook series. I'm so lucky to be working with Seth and his team.
Read the blurbs on my website!
Read the blurbs on my website!
Reposted by Brenna Womer
"Through the erasure of [my mother's] often confessional correspondence to her own parents, I render visible some truths that are difficult for me to speak..."
On our site, a visual poem by @brennawomer.bsky.social using collage and erasure of letters to find her own idiom. Link in thread:
On our site, a visual poem by @brennawomer.bsky.social using collage and erasure of letters to find her own idiom. Link in thread:
![White words on black background: Special Feature. Red parallelogram with white words: "Through the erasure of [my mother's] often confessional correspondence to her own parents, I render visible some truths that are difficult for me to speak. Brenna Womer, '26 Sept 86.'" There is a circular profile picture of Brenna Womer (a Latine woman with short dark hair, black clothing, and a colorful tattoo on their shoulder) toward the top.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6gwro6d6fci3zqfakfmp7nz6/bafkreicom642arfh2d5xuc4ug4lqdpjioj27n3m3vcvx3de76lvvtrlv6i@jpeg)
August 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Through the erasure of [my mother's] often confessional correspondence to her own parents, I render visible some truths that are difficult for me to speak..."
On our site, a visual poem by @brennawomer.bsky.social using collage and erasure of letters to find her own idiom. Link in thread:
On our site, a visual poem by @brennawomer.bsky.social using collage and erasure of letters to find her own idiom. Link in thread:
Go watch the new South Park episode on Paramount+ like right now.
July 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Go watch the new South Park episode on Paramount+ like right now.
Reposted by Brenna Womer
June 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Reposted by Brenna Womer
Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun.
Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23.
Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.
Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23.
Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.
June 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun.
Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23.
Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.
Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23.
Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.
Taking care of this poor feral girl for the next week. She went in for spay with a runny eye and came out with it removed—a surprise to us both. They handed me her trap, showed me a picture of a setup, said she needs to be inside, and then basically said figure it out. So figuring it out we are…
June 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Taking care of this poor feral girl for the next week. She went in for spay with a runny eye and came out with it removed—a surprise to us both. They handed me her trap, showed me a picture of a setup, said she needs to be inside, and then basically said figure it out. So figuring it out we are…
Reposted by Brenna Womer
sometimes it seems like people want to get published like it will Solve Their Problems and I just want to confirm that after you publish they don't give you a new childhood, you still have to live with yourself, it's just that some of that self is on display this month at a Review
May 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
sometimes it seems like people want to get published like it will Solve Their Problems and I just want to confirm that after you publish they don't give you a new childhood, you still have to live with yourself, it's just that some of that self is on display this month at a Review
Reposted by Brenna Womer
“Can we go outside and play now?”
“Soon, boy.”
“You said that ten minutes ago.”
“As soon as I finish my cof-“
“Oops.”
“You did that on purpose.”
“It slipped.”
“I’ll get my coat.”
“Excellent.”
“Soon, boy.”
“You said that ten minutes ago.”
“As soon as I finish my cof-“
“Oops.”
“You did that on purpose.”
“It slipped.”
“I’ll get my coat.”
“Excellent.”
May 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“Can we go outside and play now?”
“Soon, boy.”
“You said that ten minutes ago.”
“As soon as I finish my cof-“
“Oops.”
“You did that on purpose.”
“It slipped.”
“I’ll get my coat.”
“Excellent.”
“Soon, boy.”
“You said that ten minutes ago.”
“As soon as I finish my cof-“
“Oops.”
“You did that on purpose.”
“It slipped.”
“I’ll get my coat.”
“Excellent.”
My neighbor agreed to let me take her two 16-week-old sibling-kittens to be fixed & ear-tipped since they’re outdoor and have started wandering into the neighborhood a bit more with the colony. So, I get to hang out with these cuties, Poncho & Poncha, today! 🖤🩶🤍🤎
May 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My neighbor agreed to let me take her two 16-week-old sibling-kittens to be fixed & ear-tipped since they’re outdoor and have started wandering into the neighborhood a bit more with the colony. So, I get to hang out with these cuties, Poncho & Poncha, today! 🖤🩶🤍🤎
Waylon is neutered, ear-tipped, dopey, & in a comfier crate now before release 🐱👂✂️💕
The washable caves for under my porch furniture arrived too, & omg I’m up to $160 in Venmo donations thanks to another badass, cat-loving woman! 🥹🙏🏽 Taking two kitten-siblings (4mo, 1M 1F) to be fixed in the morning!
The washable caves for under my porch furniture arrived too, & omg I’m up to $160 in Venmo donations thanks to another badass, cat-loving woman! 🥹🙏🏽 Taking two kitten-siblings (4mo, 1M 1F) to be fixed in the morning!
May 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Waylon is neutered, ear-tipped, dopey, & in a comfier crate now before release 🐱👂✂️💕
The washable caves for under my porch furniture arrived too, & omg I’m up to $160 in Venmo donations thanks to another badass, cat-loving woman! 🥹🙏🏽 Taking two kitten-siblings (4mo, 1M 1F) to be fixed in the morning!
The washable caves for under my porch furniture arrived too, & omg I’m up to $160 in Venmo donations thanks to another badass, cat-loving woman! 🥹🙏🏽 Taking two kitten-siblings (4mo, 1M 1F) to be fixed in the morning!