Corina Bardoff
@causeatiger.bsky.social
Writer, librarian. My story "Barbara Blue" won the 2025 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize. Writing most recently in TYPO, @northamerreview.bsky.social, @minorliteratures.bsky.social, and @exactingclam.bsky.social. She/her.
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Corina Bardoff
@causeatiger.bsky.social
· Sep 27
The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing
www.thetomlafargeaward.com
Writers, publishers, and/or educators: the application period for the 2026 Tom La Farge Award is now open. This $10,000 prize supports innovative work and community practice. Please spread the word! www.thetomlafargeaward.com
“Architects transform their thoughts into images, and these images are transformed into rooms, buildings, houses, parks, cities, roads. You think you’re walking down a street, but you’re walking in the thoughts of a stranger.”
- Laura Vazquez, The Endless Week trans. Alex Niemi
- Laura Vazquez, The Endless Week trans. Alex Niemi
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“Architects transform their thoughts into images, and these images are transformed into rooms, buildings, houses, parks, cities, roads. You think you’re walking down a street, but you’re walking in the thoughts of a stranger.”
- Laura Vazquez, The Endless Week trans. Alex Niemi
- Laura Vazquez, The Endless Week trans. Alex Niemi
We say "I better head out soon or I'll turn into a pumpkin" and I'm realizing this means we identify not with Cinderella, but with her conveyance to the ball. Maybe we identify with the story itself: the container of the Cinderella arc
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We say "I better head out soon or I'll turn into a pumpkin" and I'm realizing this means we identify not with Cinderella, but with her conveyance to the ball. Maybe we identify with the story itself: the container of the Cinderella arc
I’m taking a class on Tolstoy’s short fiction, and Father Sergius visited one of my classmates in a dream
November 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I’m taking a class on Tolstoy’s short fiction, and Father Sergius visited one of my classmates in a dream
What an incredible joy and privilege it is, in 2025 (or any time really), to open a new library
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
What an incredible joy and privilege it is, in 2025 (or any time really), to open a new library
It took me 6 business days to cave and put Outlook and Slack on my phone
October 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It took me 6 business days to cave and put Outlook and Slack on my phone
Reposted by Corina Bardoff
the Tom La Farge Award 2025
Please join us at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th St., New York City) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 16 October to honor Zack Darsee, this year's recipient of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing.
www.thetomlafargeaward.com
Please join us at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th St., New York City) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 16 October to honor Zack Darsee, this year's recipient of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing.
www.thetomlafargeaward.com
The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing
www.thetomlafargeaward.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
the Tom La Farge Award 2025
Please join us at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th St., New York City) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 16 October to honor Zack Darsee, this year's recipient of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing.
www.thetomlafargeaward.com
Please join us at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th St., New York City) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 16 October to honor Zack Darsee, this year's recipient of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing.
www.thetomlafargeaward.com
I created a form called a "migraine story" that uses the stages of a migraine, from trigger to rebound, as a structure. TYPO has just published the first migraine story in issue 12. Thank you, Norman Conquest!
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NEW ISSUE!
IN THIS ISSUE:Julien Gracq’s “The House”Albert Cossery’s “Perpetually Barking Man”The Belgian School of the BizarrePaul Nougé’s Optic UnveiledA “Surreal Wheels” pictorialDoug Skinner’s intrus…
blackscatbooks.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I created a form called a "migraine story" that uses the stages of a migraine, from trigger to rebound, as a structure. TYPO has just published the first migraine story in issue 12. Thank you, Norman Conquest!
blackscatbooks.com/2025/10/01/n...
blackscatbooks.com/2025/10/01/n...
Writers, publishers, and/or educators: the application period for the 2026 Tom La Farge Award is now open. This $10,000 prize supports innovative work and community practice. Please spread the word! www.thetomlafargeaward.com
The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing
www.thetomlafargeaward.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Writers, publishers, and/or educators: the application period for the 2026 Tom La Farge Award is now open. This $10,000 prize supports innovative work and community practice. Please spread the word! www.thetomlafargeaward.com
Tom La Farge's The Crimson Bears back in print, now in one volume as he always intended
www.kickstarter.com/projects/186...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/186...
New edition of THE CRIMSON BEARS and A HUNDRED DOORS
Reissuing Tom La Large's two-part fantasy series in a single volume, a whimsical yet profound animal epic
www.kickstarter.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Tom La Farge's The Crimson Bears back in print, now in one volume as he always intended
www.kickstarter.com/projects/186...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/186...
This is my last week in a public library before I move to an academic one. I am so excited for this opportunity, but I will miss the kids, and the older folks, and the weirdos
September 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is my last week in a public library before I move to an academic one. I am so excited for this opportunity, but I will miss the kids, and the older folks, and the weirdos
"Given the prevalence of hype and misunderstandings surrounding GenAI, unpacking discourse on GenAI and AI literacy is a powerful and necessary part of this work" www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/ai-feel...
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
August 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Given the prevalence of hype and misunderstandings surrounding GenAI, unpacking discourse on GenAI and AI literacy is a powerful and necessary part of this work" www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/ai-feel...
Angelo Pastormerlo asked me to write little reactions to his collection of not-so-obscure objects of desire, and to write an introduction. The strange little book is out now from Book Whisperer Press with photographs by Norman Conquest. How can you resist? www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMKC3SYT
Not-So-Obscure Objects of Desire
Not-So-Obscure Objects of Desire [Pastormerlo, Angelo, Bardoff, Corina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Not-So-Obscure Objects of Desire
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August 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Angelo Pastormerlo asked me to write little reactions to his collection of not-so-obscure objects of desire, and to write an introduction. The strange little book is out now from Book Whisperer Press with photographs by Norman Conquest. How can you resist? www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMKC3SYT
Yesterday was a good day in the library, in which I did all the usual democratizing information work, and I also helped a young person find comics and told a regular patron to listen to @wfmu.bsky.social 🤘
July 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Yesterday was a good day in the library, in which I did all the usual democratizing information work, and I also helped a young person find comics and told a regular patron to listen to @wfmu.bsky.social 🤘
Do something interesting with language
ALSO: from August 1st @minorliteratures.bsky.social will open for fiction submissions
no fantasy, romance or horror—sci-fi a hard sell
no interest in pared-down realism concluding in subdued poetic revelation
do something interesting with language
more details here:
oleada.io/publication/...
no fantasy, romance or horror—sci-fi a hard sell
no interest in pared-down realism concluding in subdued poetic revelation
do something interesting with language
more details here:
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Do something interesting with language
Reposted by Corina Bardoff
“‘Sexual stealing’ has been a constant in American history and has held center stage in our literature since the moment of its inception.”
SEXUAL STEALING by Wendy Walker is a beautiful, dangerous book. Available free in seven weekly instalments. Start here :
temporary-culture.com/sexual-steal...
SEXUAL STEALING by Wendy Walker is a beautiful, dangerous book. Available free in seven weekly instalments. Start here :
temporary-culture.com/sexual-steal...
July 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“‘Sexual stealing’ has been a constant in American history and has held center stage in our literature since the moment of its inception.”
SEXUAL STEALING by Wendy Walker is a beautiful, dangerous book. Available free in seven weekly instalments. Start here :
temporary-culture.com/sexual-steal...
SEXUAL STEALING by Wendy Walker is a beautiful, dangerous book. Available free in seven weekly instalments. Start here :
temporary-culture.com/sexual-steal...
The summer issue of @northamerreview.bsky.social is here and I am thrilled to have my story "Barbara Blue" out in the world!
June 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The summer issue of @northamerreview.bsky.social is here and I am thrilled to have my story "Barbara Blue" out in the world!
Congratulations to Zoe Darsee, winner of the 2025 Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing. Thrilled to celebrate your writing and community practice
The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing
www.thetomlafargeaward.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Congratulations to Zoe Darsee, winner of the 2025 Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing. Thrilled to celebrate your writing and community practice
Nest found in the library parking lot near the woods. I think it's a house finch's. I think/hope the chicks fledged and everyone moved out before it fell out of the tree
June 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Nest found in the library parking lot near the woods. I think it's a house finch's. I think/hope the chicks fledged and everyone moved out before it fell out of the tree
Often, patrons come to talk to me at the reference desk, and I can tell they are practicing making conversation with someone safe - maybe their therapist even suggested it. They are nervous, awkward, and earnest. I'm always happy to talk to them about the weather
April 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Often, patrons come to talk to me at the reference desk, and I can tell they are practicing making conversation with someone safe - maybe their therapist even suggested it. They are nervous, awkward, and earnest. I'm always happy to talk to them about the weather
Reposted by Corina Bardoff
“The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social said funding cuts mean cuts to services, hours of operations, and in more rural areas, some libraries may be forced to close entirely.”
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#SaveIMLS
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#SaveIMLS
April 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social said funding cuts mean cuts to services, hours of operations, and in more rural areas, some libraries may be forced to close entirely.”
wgntv.com/western-subu...
#SaveIMLS
wgntv.com/western-subu...
#SaveIMLS
More and more worried about this. About the Talking Book and Braille Centers, about Interlibrary Loan, about all the research databases provided by state libraries to smaller public libraries
Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA.
The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.
Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.
Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
March 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
More and more worried about this. About the Talking Book and Braille Centers, about Interlibrary Loan, about all the research databases provided by state libraries to smaller public libraries
This is a great issue of Clam, Exacting Clam. Especially enjoying the short fiction
March 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is a great issue of Clam, Exacting Clam. Especially enjoying the short fiction
Snow Moon tonight, and I am over the moon to share that my story "Barbara Blue" won the 2025 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize
northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
Winners of the 2025 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize | North American Review
northamericanreview.org
February 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Snow Moon tonight, and I am over the moon to share that my story "Barbara Blue" won the 2025 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize
northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...
Just one more week to apply! This generous prize supports folks working outside accepted literary convention
The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing is now accepting applications through February 15. Send us your adventurous proposals. And please spread the word www.thetomlafargeaward.com
The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing
www.thetomlafargeaward.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Just one more week to apply! This generous prize supports folks working outside accepted literary convention
A couple times a week, our reference desk gets a phone call from a gruff man in his car who wants to know what song is currently playing on the classical radio station
January 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A couple times a week, our reference desk gets a phone call from a gruff man in his car who wants to know what song is currently playing on the classical radio station