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Dawn Burns
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Writer. Connector. Creative community builder.

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Look at that beautiful cover! Look at those beautiful people! @rosstangedal.bsky.social @dawnburns.bsky.social @leahamilne.bsky.social
Two months until LINGERING INLAND: A Literary Tour of the Midwest is released!
Pre-order your copy here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

📷: Four LINGERING INLAND contributors with editor @andyoler.bsky.social at @indianahumanities.bsky.social's Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest
October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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West Michigan! Please join us tomorrow at these free events to talk about purity culture and religious trauma. With everything going on, this is more important than ever.

@dawnburns.bsky.social @saramoslener.bsky.social @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social

Please RSVP at the link below:
February 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Michael Martone & U.S. Highway 30—blending fact and fiction across the ordinary landscapes of northern Indiana. #LiteraryLandscapes by @dawnburns.bsky.social. #MichaelMartone #US30 #Hanna #FortWayne #Indiana #TheFlatness newterritorymag.com/literary-lan...
Michael Martone – LaPorte County, Indiana - The New Territory Magazine
Blending fact and fiction across the ordinary landscapes of northern Indiana. Literary Landscapes by Dawn Burns.
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January 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Thanks to @ramya.bsky.social, @dawnburns.bsky.social, @amygcb.bsky.social, Ava Tomasula y Garcia, and Matt Miller for contributing!
January 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We've got another Many Voices Open Mic coming up at Everybody Reads on February 22nd with three fantastic featured readers!

KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY
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COLLEEN ALLES
www.colleenalles.com
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SARAH CARSON
www.stuffsarahwrote.com

@colleenalles.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Second post up on Substack. Give it a read and follow me!

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January 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Lansing, Michigan, 7:50-8:02 a.m., 3 degrees 🥶

I woke wanting to see the sunrise.

Whenever I've worried the world would end, it hasn't. The world won't end today.

Every morning, the sun rises.

Joy is an act of resistance.

A sunrise is an act of resistance.

What's YOURS?
January 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Sharing an article about Zee the Goblin’s
art in Ink Free News! I’m a little late, but I remembered today!

So glad to have Zee in my life and as part of SwampFire.

They create art and community in ways that move and inspire me, AND they make an excellent pot of tea!
Anweiler Reacts To Life With Art
When I was 4, I said, ‘I’m going to be an artist.’ I’ve had other ideas since then, but I’ve always returned to that,” said Zee Anweiler. “I would tell my younger self that art is a reaction to life.”
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January 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Celebrating winter solstice with art I just received from Julian M. Norwood!

I’m so grateful for Julian’s art, friendship, and presence in the world, making the world a better place to live day by day!

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December 22, 2024 at 6:16 AM
“The first time Sammy and I met Hell’s self-appointed mayor Odum Plenty, whose real name is John Colone, we were waiting for Screams to open so I could buy her ice cream at the Creamatory.”

— “Go to Hell: A Love Story”

At the end of a semester, writing for myself feels exactly right!
December 14, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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Super excited that the #LiteraryLandscapes book has a title! Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest, forthcoming 2025 from @illinoispress.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Had a great time talking with @bonniejo.bsky.social at A Novel Concept last Friday about writing, community, and other things that matter!
November 19, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Thanks again to to IUSB for hosting @bonniejo.bsky.social and me, and to Natasha O'Hara who concludes, "every story has its own unique perspective, and whether you choose to shape that into fiction or non-fiction, there’s something powerful about writing from a place that’s deeply familiar."
Literary Event Takeaway
“In the dark of her bedroom, Evangelina McQuarry lay awake, her husband Russell snoring fitfully beside her like, she thought, a congested elephant. Evangelina opened her eyes. Evangelina clo…
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November 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM