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Eiren Caffall
@eirencaffall.bsky.social
Lyrical dispatches from the apocalypse. Words in Orion, Guernica, The Rumpus, LARB, Al Jazeera, memoir THE MOURNER’S BESTIARY (Row House, 2024), and novel ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD (St. Martin’s, 2025)
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Applications close TODAY!

🥕 Write about food with Kate Lebo
🌏 Write about climate with Maria Pinto
✏️ Investigate your own style with Jennifer Landretti
🌱 Generate climate poetry with Jessica Abughattas
🕸️ Write through connection with Eiren Caffall

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November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
But have you seen Studs?
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Can you tell I am working on many new projects? I can. It has been a month since I posted anything here.
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Okay, I have just been shown tree.fm and it is saving my life at my open office right now.
tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World 🌳🔈
People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, while in lockdown or unable to travel. Use this site to chill, meditate or do some digital shinrin-yoku.
www.tree.fm
September 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Procrastinators rejoice! 😂

We are extending the deadline for Memoir In A Year applications (online with @eirencaffall.bsky.social and in-person with Rachel DeWoskin) until this Friday, September 12.

You have THREE more days. Apply now: buff.ly/eOXVcqo

#writingcommunity
In-A-Year Book Programs at StoryStudio Chicago - StoryStudio Chicago
IN-A-YEAR BOOK PROGRAMS Becoming an advanced writer takes a lot of hard work and dedication, and our “In A Year” programs are designed to help you cross the finish line… and…
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September 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Gonna reup this, in praise of protecting something our dear leader wants to destroy before climate collapse can get its hooks in.
I’ve been writing about climate collapse for a long time, and I’ve come to frame it for myself in terms of planning what to save for the world, the community, the children, the family we will make in the future we want, not just in the crisis we are living through. lithub.com/what-will-yo...
What Will You Save When the Climate Crisis Comes For You?
It started with a phone call from my godfather. A few days after Superstorm Sandy, he called me from Brooklyn after he’d spent all night in the basement of his daughter’s building in Red Hook, usin…
lithub.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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We are in the thick of #SummerReading and we have just the thing to keep those TBRs full:
🐳 Environmental reads
🎧 #Odyssey interviews & listen-alikes
📚 @libraryreads.bsky.social July picks
#PBSBooks countdown to the semiquincentennial
🎙️Interview with Michael Connelly
and more: bit.ly/40JmBWJ
July 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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@eirencaffall.bsky.social's book, The Mourner's Bestiary was featured on the cover of ‪‪@ala-booklist.bsky.social‬ #Page1MediaPR #LiteraryPR #BookMarketing #BooksInTheMedia #SummerReading
July 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Memoirs about disability & disabled experiences
July 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Last year, thanks to #dcasegrant, I went to a @storystudiochicago.bsky.social retreat at Ragdale co-run by @meganstielstra.bsky.social & @eirencaffall.bsky.social to work on my project COSMIC FRUIT. "We Beet On," now in @orionmagazine.bsky.social, started there! orionmagazine.org/article/we-b...
July 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Help us celebrate and uplift the disabled community this Disability Pride Month. We wanted to highlight the amazing work of former P1M authors, 
@eirencaffall.bsky.social‬ and Megan Nix as well as recommend some of our favorite books with disability representation!

#disabilitypride #booksky
July 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
March 2025 Me, in the hospital with a broken vertebra and high on painkillers, was super optimistic about what July 2025 Me, healed and back at work and stone cold sober, could get done during this month. To be fair to her, she was looking at this view.
July 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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"In dark places, it is light that calls us. Even in a broken ocean full of chemical fouling and warming water, bioluminescent fire remains."

Diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, Eiren Caffall processes life and death through space and sea.
Sky of Plankton, Ocean of Stars
Recently diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, a woman processes life and death through space and sea
orionmagazine.org
July 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
But have you seen Studs?
July 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The Trump administration has shut down a federal website on climate change, taking down congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment reports and extensive information on how global warming is affecting the country. @coveringclimatenow.org @sciencewriters.org www.latimes.com/environment/...
Trump administration shuts down U.S. website on climate change
The Trump administration shut down a website with national reports on climate change. Scientists decry the move, saying it robs the public of vital information.
www.latimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Crossed 20,000 words on the new novel today please clap.
June 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Welp, kittens, it took over a decade, but here it is, baby’s first hate mail! (Pro tip, Sir: the ass is not where climate communism goes.)
June 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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All the Water in the World - @eirencaffall.bsky.social
When the Moon Hits Your Eye - @scalzi.com
Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett
The Bones Beneath My Skin - TL Klune
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
The Will of the Many - James Islington
June 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Just saw this and felt so happy. Thank you for pulling this language out of the book.🌊
June 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Just gave a book talk in the perfect library on the tiny island that’s the star of my memoir and the place I do my best writing. And it is foggy. Best day.
June 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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This is the kind of thing that climate-concerned folks have been thinking about for a decade or two—but most of us (me very much included) just kind of assumed that by the time this was clear to people like Powell, the conversation would be...really different from what it is now.

Wild, indeed.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Missed marching with 100,000 siblings in my home city yesterday. But here, on a tiny island in Maine, there was also a march.
June 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Read 'All the Water in the World' in nearly one sitting. Really enjoyed the book. a pretty straightforward post-apocalyptic story but beautifully written and kept me engaged throughout. Loved the themes in the book and I hope @eirencaffall.bsky.social writes more!
June 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Today's blog post is a review of @eirencaffall.bsky.social 's ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD, post-apocalyptic novel set in New York and environs. watershednotes.ca/2025/05/28/r...
Review: All the Water in the World, by Eiren Caffall
Eiren Caffall’s All the Water in the World is a post-apocalyptic novel set in the near future in New York City. Floodgates have been installed on each side of
watershednotes.ca
May 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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