Jacqueline Doyle
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social
Author of The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF editor, CRAFT Literary Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
This will make you laugh whether you're over 65 or not. R.L. Maizes is great.
A bingo card for those navigating life as an older writer (by R.L. Maizes the Elder @rlmaizes.bsky.social)
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Where's My "5 Over 65" Award? - Electric Literature
“Senior Writer Bingo,” a graphic narrative by R.L. Maizes the Elder
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November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This will make you laugh whether you're over 65 or not. R.L. Maizes is great.
"'Do you sense anything?' the dentist asks, pricking at my gums with her tiny metal sickle. I shake my head no, but honestly, I’m never sure what I feel." Love this essay by Linda Button via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/numbing/
Numbing
by Button | Who would choose pain?
www.short-reads.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"'Do you sense anything?' the dentist asks, pricking at my gums with her tiny metal sickle. I shake my head no, but honestly, I’m never sure what I feel." Love this essay by Linda Button via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/numbing/
Another amazing graphic story by @jesselkercheval.bsky.social. Love it!
Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Another amazing graphic story by @jesselkercheval.bsky.social. Love it!
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‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
Lovely "Beautiful Things" post from Karen Skalitzky in @riverteeth.bsky.social today. ❤️
✨“I go back to that fateful day in mid-September. Was the morning air swollen with heat? Did you slip through the hospital doors unnoticed?”
-from “Toward Love,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Karen Skalitzky
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-from “Toward Love,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Karen Skalitzky
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Lovely "Beautiful Things" post from Karen Skalitzky in @riverteeth.bsky.social today. ❤️
ICYMI Inuk Canadian throat singer @tanyatagaq.bsky.social's book SPLIT TOOTH sounds like a fascinating blend of memoir, fiction, and folklore. Definitely on my TBR list. Read this excerpt published in @thewalrus.ca
thewalrus.ca/split-tooth/
thewalrus.ca/split-tooth/
Split Tooth | The Walrus
We pile our hair as high as it will go, even though the wind destroys our hairdos to the point that every time we come in from outside, the girls’ bathroom is a haze of Final Net
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November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ICYMI Inuk Canadian throat singer @tanyatagaq.bsky.social's book SPLIT TOOTH sounds like a fascinating blend of memoir, fiction, and folklore. Definitely on my TBR list. Read this excerpt published in @thewalrus.ca
thewalrus.ca/split-tooth/
thewalrus.ca/split-tooth/
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TELEKINESIS by Hope Smith LeGro and Andy Fogle is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
August 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
TELEKINESIS by Hope Smith LeGro and Andy Fogle is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Love this new essay by @budsmith.bsky.social
Here is an essay I wrote for @parisreview.bsky.social about building a desk for a pickup truck
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November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Love this new essay by @budsmith.bsky.social
You'll definitely start an inventory of your past kisses after you read this flash essay by Kristina Patterson via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/kissings/
Kissings
by Kristina Patterson | XOXO.
www.short-reads.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
You'll definitely start an inventory of your past kisses after you read this flash essay by Kristina Patterson via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/kissings/
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Happy Best American Essays Day to everyone but especially to ME because I have a Notable this year!!!
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Happy Best American Essays Day to everyone but especially to ME because I have a Notable this year!!!
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Must-read column by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social about the deaths caused by Trump's ICE and CBP agents. Things are going to get much worse.
Commentary: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse
One shudders to think what Bovino thinks is excessive for la migra. With his powers now radically expanded, we're about to find out.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Must-read column by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social about the deaths caused by Trump's ICE and CBP agents. Things are going to get much worse.
Commentary: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Celebrate the election today, and this great braided flash by @nikwalk.bsky.social in CRAFT.
www.craftliterary.com/2025/11/05/s...
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Still. Life. by Nicole Walker - CRAFT
Max was two. Zoe, seven. I was forty, when the nurse called and told me I needed to come in for a follow-up mammogram and ultrasound. My manners couldn’t catch up with my physical reaction. I started ...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Celebrate the election today, and this great braided flash by @nikwalk.bsky.social in CRAFT.
www.craftliterary.com/2025/11/05/s...
www.craftliterary.com/2025/11/05/s...
Thanks @assayjournal.bsky.social for posting my article on Judith Ortiz Cofer today. (And thanks to CRAFT editorial assistant extraordinaire Amy Cook for letting me know!)
We’re highlighting Jacqueline Doyle’s essay “Shuffling the Cards: I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer” from Assay issue 4.1. In this piece, Doyle invites educators to re-deal the deck of narrative inheritance.
Read more here:
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#Pedagogy #Nonfiction #TeacherResources
Read more here:
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#Pedagogy #Nonfiction #TeacherResources
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thanks @assayjournal.bsky.social for posting my article on Judith Ortiz Cofer today. (And thanks to CRAFT editorial assistant extraordinaire Amy Cook for letting me know!)
" I finally crafted language describing my beginnings—'The compulsions, as automatic as breathing, began in childhood.'" Read DW McKinney's rich consideration of the influence of Maya Angelou on her memoir about OCD. memoirland.substack.com/p/writing-in...
Writing into the Truth about Black Mental Health
DW Mickinney on finding the courage to write her memoir about her OCD, and finding inspiration in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
memoirland.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
" I finally crafted language describing my beginnings—'The compulsions, as automatic as breathing, began in childhood.'" Read DW McKinney's rich consideration of the influence of Maya Angelou on her memoir about OCD. memoirland.substack.com/p/writing-in...
Love the music and rhythm and attitude in @mynachang.bsky.social's fantastic new flash in SoFloPoJo. "we’re one more time and don’t stop now, we’re how did we ever forget this? riding high all the way to dawn…" Goosebumps.
I have a little ghost story in SFPJ today -
"Jimmy. Fucking. Bang."
Thanks to Francine!
"Jimmy. Fucking. Bang."
Thanks to Francine!
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Love the music and rhythm and attitude in @mynachang.bsky.social's fantastic new flash in SoFloPoJo. "we’re one more time and don’t stop now, we’re how did we ever forget this? riding high all the way to dawn…" Goosebumps.
"Everything must be seen and experienced before it can be recycled, shredded or, as a last resort, binned. We must honour and mourn. …This alchemy is deeply exhausting." @thewrengirl.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Under the stuff I can’t throw out is the stuff my parents couldn’t throw out’: novelist Anne Enright on the agony of clearing her family home
Would saying goodbye to every last newspaper clipping, button and book her parents had saved over decades help her mourn?
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Everything must be seen and experienced before it can be recycled, shredded or, as a last resort, binned. We must honour and mourn. …This alchemy is deeply exhausting." @thewrengirl.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Quick note. Just because 57% support Prop 50, doesn't mean it passed. Don't get complacent. Get your vote in.
a sign that says your vote matters in red white and blue
ALT: a sign that says your vote matters in red white and blue
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October 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Quick note. Just because 57% support Prop 50, doesn't mean it passed. Don't get complacent. Get your vote in.
I voted today. If you're a Californian, I hope you'll vote yes on Prop 50 too!
Don’t let Republicans rig another election! Prop 50 defends fair play by giving California voters—not politicians—the final say on temporary congressional maps.
Power belongs to the people, not backroom deals.
Stand up and vote #YesOnProp50—our democracy depends on it.
Power belongs to the people, not backroom deals.
Stand up and vote #YesOnProp50—our democracy depends on it.
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I voted today. If you're a Californian, I hope you'll vote yes on Prop 50 too!
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Nerve to Write is open for nonfiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash nonfiction, lyric essays, memoir, and more!
October 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Nerve to Write is open for nonfiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash nonfiction, lyric essays, memoir, and more!
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Nerve to Write is open for fiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash fiction, full-length stories, and more!
October 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Nerve to Write is open for fiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash fiction, full-length stories, and more!
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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Nerve to Write is open for hybrid submissions until November 1st! Send us your graphic poetry and narrative, comics, erasures, speculative work, and more!
October 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Nerve to Write is open for hybrid submissions until November 1st! Send us your graphic poetry and narrative, comics, erasures, speculative work, and more!