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Christina Berke MFA M.Ed.
@christinaberke.bsky.social
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✍️ Chilean-American writer and educator with work in The Sun, Teen Vogue, Khora and elsewhere. Support from Hedgebrook, VONA, Tin House etc. Sound baths, dogs, Libra (she/her/ella) 🇨🇱

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Wahoo! My piece "What Were You Thinking" made the Longlist for Fractured Lit's Writing Contest <3
October 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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We're doing a 4-week session now! www.eventbrite.com/e/write-like...
#creativewriting #writingclass #popstarwriting #onlineworkshops
October 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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This SATURDAY! Register here: writeordiemag.com/workshops/p/...

#creativewriting #popstars #writingworkshop #britney #mariah
October 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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"In the quiet moments before her virtual classroom fills with aspiring writers, Christina Berke sets the mood with music, a soft invitation into creative possibility." Thanks for the thoughtful interview with Blake at Writing Workshops! writingworkshops.com/blogs/news/t...
Christina Berke Interview: Teaching Creative Nonfiction with Joy
Christina Berke shares writing wisdom & teaching philosophy ahead of her 8-week creative nonfiction workshop. Learn why there's no single "right" way to write.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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So excited for this month's issue! As a memoir reader of submissions, it's really special to see the work come out into the world. @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 15
Kick back, fix yourself a warm drink, and enjoy our SEPTEMBER ISSUE. 🍁

WORDS by Max Wheeler, JR Fenn, Kimaya Diggs, & Michal ‘MJ’ Jones
ART by Valerie Marshall
AND Benjamin Selesnick reviews Katie Lynn Johnston
PLUS Matthew Groff reviews Gabe Montesanti

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Technical-style drawing with an isometric view of industrial buildings on a square plot of land, surrounded by a crevasse on all sides, enmeshed with tree roots. A wonky forest with striped antelopes forms a desolate stronghold around the complex.
September 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Ever wanted an excuse to fuse your love of Britney, Whitney and Mariah into your creative writing? Here’s your chance. writeordiemag.com/workshops/p/...
Write Like a Popstar: A Generative Workshop with Christina Berke— October 4 — Write or Die Magazine
Ever wanted an excuse to fuse your love of Britney, Whitney and Mariah into your creative writing? Here’s your chance. Using the lyrics, lives, and lovers of beloved popstars, we’ll write using inspir...
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September 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Launching a self-paced trauma-informed creative writing class! www.writenowworkshops.com/restorying-e...
ReStorying Enrollment | Empower Your Voice Today — Write Now Workshops
Join ReStorying Enrollment for trauma-informed, supportive memoir writing guidance, helping you safely share your story and develop lasting writing practices.
www.writenowworkshops.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Listen. "Erin Morton is a junior in the BFA Musical Theatre program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and she absolutely blisters the paint off of the walls with her performance of Radiohead’s Creep."

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Is This the Best Cover of Radiohead’s Creep?
Do yourself a favor and watch this: Erin Morton is a junior in the BFA Musical Theatre program at the University of Cincinnati C
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May 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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"You are standing on your favorite beach in a pink bathing suit. Your hair is sun drunk and wind washed...You think this is how it will always be."

SLM memoir reader @christinaberke.bsky.social has a new piece out in @thesunmagazine.bsky.social , which you can check out here: buff.ly/oHaqMnO
May 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Met Gala Favorites so far--Diana Ross! Kerry Washington! Ciara! Coleman Domingo! Zendaya!
May 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Early Halloween inspo from Black Mirror and White Lotus.
April 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Happy to have my work in The Sun. Many thanks to Andrew Snee for his thoughtful edits.
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/592...
Zuma
When you get to your father's bedroom, you see Dad shaking like a freshly fumigated bug. Your brother is by his side on the phone, his face red and sweaty, like when he's been skateboarding all day.
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April 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Khora's 43 issue is now live! You can read my piece "Rich" alongside more art. www.corporealkhora.com/2025/03/issu...

Thank you to Leigh and our amazing cohort Ella, Raja'a and Isra <3
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KHÔRA
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March 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Have an idea for an essay or article you want to publish? Learn how tomorrow morning!

Last chance to register for Pitching 101: Landing a Byline www.porchtn.org/class/pitchi...
January 26, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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What an honor to get to read this magical book and ask Elizabeth Gonzalez James all of my questions about poetic prose, the importance of empathy on the page, and the profoundest thing someone can do for THE RUMPUS.
@therumpus.bsky.social

~*~*~

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January 25, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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Hi! I’m going to Hedgebrook! While I hesitated to post this good news amidst so much trauma in this world, I am very honored to become part of this community. A few months ago, I was awarded this fully funded writing residency— over 1800 applicants and 40 are chosen each year.
January 1, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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SO thankful this month and all months for our incredible SLM FAM and their constantly inspiring accomplishments! Congratulations to @christinaberke.bsky.social @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social @robroensch.bsky.social @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social @annablabs.bsky.social & many many more! buff.ly/485QqSP
Beneath an apple tree, a book rests on top of a wicker picnic basket, propped open by a single red apple
December 6, 2023 at 6:14 PM
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Woohoo! @splitlipthemag.bsky.social made the list of the top 1,000 literary magazines at #66 :) So proud to be a part of this team! www.brechtdepoortere.com/rankings
November 27, 2023 at 10:50 PM
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Come write with me on Wednesdays at 4:00pm PST// 6:00pm CST starting January 17, 2024. This 2-hour, 8-week course is online through Zoom.

Register here: www.porchtn.org/class/founda...
November 21, 2023 at 12:44 AM
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Our NOVEMBER ISSUE is finally here!
WORDS by @lesliepwriter.bsky.social M. Ezra Zhang, Rachel Girty, & Michael Todd Cohen
ART by Kadazia Allen-Perry
PLUS Madeleine Bazil reviews Aria Aber & Anna Rollins reviews Anna Gazmarian
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A portrait made with boldly colored and patterned paper, framed by felt plants. A girl wearing large, rose-colored glasses blows a big bubble of gum. Her hair is up in high pigtails, with ties down the length sectioning off large bubbles of hair.
November 15, 2023 at 3:00 PM
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Submissions are open, and we are proud to be a paying market!
We pay:
$75 for poems, flash, memoir, art, and fiction
$50 for interviews and reviews
$25 for mini-reviews of short stories, poems, short essays Check out our guidelines here:
splitlipthemag.com/submit
Submissions Guidelines — Split Lip Magazine
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November 17, 2023 at 3:53 PM
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I had the pleasure of chatting with Jami Nakamura Lin about her debut speculative memoir, The Night Parade-- out today!

Read our interview about the importance of laughter, the Japanese story structure kishōtenketsu, and the ghosts of ancestral trauma.

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November 8, 2023 at 2:05 AM
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Channel your inner Olivia Rodrigo in my 4-week class starting this week! www.porchtn.org/class/the-ar...
October 30, 2023 at 6:26 PM
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Some amazing work here in the October issue of @splitlipthemag.bsky.social <3 I'm so honored to be part of the team.
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Oct 15
We're SO excited to bring you our stunning OCTOBER ISSUE!!

🧡 WORDS by Eliza Gilbert, Carly Alaimo, Pepper Cunningham, & Jennifer Battisti

🧡ART by Yixuan Wu

🧡PLUS Genevieve Hartman interviews Justine Chan

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A watercolor triptych with assorted everyday objects, scientific apparatus, and disembodied human parts flowing into one another like stages of a lab experiment. The components are sequentially labeled with mental stimuli, states, and responses.
October 27, 2023 at 7:08 AM
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"Legacy of Leche" is out now in the San Fernando Valley edition of James Beard Foundation-winning Edible magazine! Pick up a copy at Erewhon or the Canyon Club.

Thank you, Sarene & Tami!
October 24, 2023 at 1:43 AM