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
Love the joy in this flash essay by Melinda Brasher via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/to-the-young...
To the Young Couple Building a Snowman on the Aspen Loop
by Melinda Brasher | Thank you.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Love the joy in this flash essay by Melinda Brasher via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/to-the-young...
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“… I know I’m your only sister and you felt you had to ask for a toast despite your misgivings, but maybe if you didn’t always have misgivings about me I …”
Your Perfect Day by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social with art from Angel Dionne in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
Your Perfect Day by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social with art from Angel Dionne in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
NUNUM Winter 2025 Volume 8, Issue 4
David Sydney, Dawn Miller, Jacqueline Doyle, Kelly Ronayne, Kristen Reece, Owen Brown, Pia Quintano, Steven Ostrowski and Angel Dionne have come together to give us NUNUM’s Winter 2025 issue.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
“… I know I’m your only sister and you felt you had to ask for a toast despite your misgivings, but maybe if you didn’t always have misgivings about me I …”
Your Perfect Day by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social with art from Angel Dionne in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
Your Perfect Day by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social with art from Angel Dionne in NUNUM online.fliphtml5.com/kmmwt/drrt/#...
Reposted by Jacqueline Doyle
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
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With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
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Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
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My newest essay, “Enough,” on @essaydaily.bsky.social’s Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
Dec 21: Patrick Madden, Enough (on tense, timing, recreation, evocation, and eternal happening)
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and pr...
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December 23, 2024 at 7:08 AM
My newest essay, “Enough,” on @essaydaily.bsky.social’s Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
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I just got a rejection labeled "Default Decline" from a print journal that's had my submission since September 2022. No answer when I queried about the status in July 2023. Now a decline that ends "we're grateful you considered us." Really?
December 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I just got a rejection labeled "Default Decline" from a print journal that's had my submission since September 2022. No answer when I queried about the status in July 2023. Now a decline that ends "we're grateful you considered us." Really?
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"The wind blew, the windows rattled, the firelight flickered like writhing ghosts on the floor."
And:
"The cellar stairs were dark. And steep."
I love this extraordinary writing by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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And:
"The cellar stairs were dark. And steep."
I love this extraordinary writing by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Some Come Back
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December 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"The wind blew, the windows rattled, the firelight flickered like writhing ghosts on the floor."
And:
"The cellar stairs were dark. And steep."
I love this extraordinary writing by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social 💙💙💙
bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
And:
"The cellar stairs were dark. And steep."
I love this extraordinary writing by @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social 💙💙💙
bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
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"I looked up and she’d crumpled lifeless to the floor. As she wasted away, Berenice grew more beautiful by the day, especially her teeth." Wow--brilliant voice in these 2 micros, both chilling and funny @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social
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Some Come Back
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December 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"I looked up and she’d crumpled lifeless to the floor. As she wasted away, Berenice grew more beautiful by the day, especially her teeth." Wow--brilliant voice in these 2 micros, both chilling and funny @jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social
bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
Scams targeting published authors. You probably know all t his, but just in case. electricliterature.com/that-persona...
That Personalized Email About Loving and Marketing Your Book Is a Scam - Electric Literature
Taking advantage of aspiring authors is a rich tradition, and now published authors are being scammed too
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December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Scams targeting published authors. You probably know all t his, but just in case. electricliterature.com/that-persona...
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"The first time I watched Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, I was twenty years old, and I felt the pin on the hand grenade in my head coming loose."
Let's go @leahmensch.bsky.social, Dec 11th in the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
Let's go @leahmensch.bsky.social, Dec 11th in the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"The first time I watched Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, I was twenty years old, and I felt the pin on the hand grenade in my head coming loose."
Let's go @leahmensch.bsky.social, Dec 11th in the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
Let's go @leahmensch.bsky.social, Dec 11th in the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
Such a nice idea. We have such a nourishing literary community. Without nominating the writer who nominated me (an amazing human being), here are three of many writers whom I really appreciate for their inspiration and support:: @kathyfish.bsky.social, @patforan.bsky.social, @danbillyc.bsky.social
Who wants something nice for a weary Wednesday? Quote post this post & tag 1, 2 or 3 other writers who inspire you / support you / are amazing human beings. I'll pick a winner at random. Poster + nominees win a free recording of one one of my workshops: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/workshop-rec...
Workshop-recordings (List) | MattKendrick.co.uk
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December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Such a nice idea. We have such a nourishing literary community. Without nominating the writer who nominated me (an amazing human being), here are three of many writers whom I really appreciate for their inspiration and support:: @kathyfish.bsky.social, @patforan.bsky.social, @danbillyc.bsky.social
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“‘Take your beak out of my heart,’ I said.”
“Okay, I did it, I told the police, who were staring, staring, listening, listening. Listen, it was...”
lovers, murderers, man you should have seen them not kicking EAP & @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
“Okay, I did it, I told the police, who were staring, staring, listening, listening. Listen, it was...”
lovers, murderers, man you should have seen them not kicking EAP & @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
Some Come Back
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December 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“‘Take your beak out of my heart,’ I said.”
“Okay, I did it, I told the police, who were staring, staring, listening, listening. Listen, it was...”
lovers, murderers, man you should have seen them not kicking EAP & @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
“Okay, I did it, I told the police, who were staring, staring, listening, listening. Listen, it was...”
lovers, murderers, man you should have seen them not kicking EAP & @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
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Love this so much! 🖤
Not sure how to describe my piece in @bendinggenres.bsky.social today. A haunting maybe. A hybrid medley incorporating Poe's music, his murderers, his lovers, his women. Most of them come back.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Love this so much! 🖤
Not sure how to describe my piece in @bendinggenres.bsky.social today. A haunting maybe. A hybrid medley incorporating Poe's music, his murderers, his lovers, his women. Most of them come back.
bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Not sure how to describe my piece in @bendinggenres.bsky.social today. A haunting maybe. A hybrid medley incorporating Poe's music, his murderers, his lovers, his women. Most of them come back.
bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
"As a child, you wanted a bigger, stronger body. As a woman, you wanted and want to be smaller. Your body is something you inhabit but also something that inhabits you." Read @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social 's compelling essay in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/bod...
Body Essay - The Cincinnati Review
Guest Literary Nonfiction Editor David Lazar: Allison Field Bell’s “Body Essay” is, indeed, greater than the sum of its parts. This self-forensic,
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December 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"As a child, you wanted a bigger, stronger body. As a woman, you wanted and want to be smaller. Your body is something you inhabit but also something that inhabits you." Read @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social 's compelling essay in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/bod...
Semicolons! I almost left them behind when I left academic writing behind (when I was very fond of them). Maybe they're worth another love affair. Check out Georgia Bellas' enchanting experiment in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/bellas
www.matchbooklitmag.com/bellas
matchbook | Georgia Bellas
; ;;;; ;;; spells I love you in semicolons, a language no one speaks. She writes notes to herself in this semicolonese, G; e; t; space bar m; i; l; k; She whispers each letter aloud with every tap of ...
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December 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Semicolons! I almost left them behind when I left academic writing behind (when I was very fond of them). Maybe they're worth another love affair. Check out Georgia Bellas' enchanting experiment in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social
www.matchbooklitmag.com/bellas
www.matchbooklitmag.com/bellas
SF and Bay Area friends! Looking forward to reading with @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social and these great writers on Tuesday, Dec 9, at the Sycamore in the Mission.
December 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
SF and Bay Area friends! Looking forward to reading with @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social and these great writers on Tuesday, Dec 9, at the Sycamore in the Mission.
A timely subject (the history of psychiatry) and also a genre that draws me ("not-quite-memoir-not-quite-history"). See @sharrona.bsky.social's review of @susantonetta.bsky.social's THE DEVIL'S CASTLE in Lilith today.
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Glass Castles and Throwing Stones
Antonetta lays bare how the atrocities committed by the Nazis under the grotesque misnomer of “euthanasia,” had the complicity and cooperation of the medical and psychiatric establishment.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A timely subject (the history of psychiatry) and also a genre that draws me ("not-quite-memoir-not-quite-history"). See @sharrona.bsky.social's review of @susantonetta.bsky.social's THE DEVIL'S CASTLE in Lilith today.
lilith.org/articles/gla...
lilith.org/articles/gla...
Consider pre-ordering @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social's ALL THAT BLUE. Pre-orders are always important, but especially with this press.
My debut poetry collection is available to pre-order from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social ! Please order and share 💙
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December 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Consider pre-ordering @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social's ALL THAT BLUE. Pre-orders are always important, but especially with this press.
Powerful flash essay by @kristaleehanson.bsky.social via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/in-the-waiti...
In the Waiting Room Outside Immigration Court - June 2025
by Krista Lee Hanson | Watching.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Powerful flash essay by @kristaleehanson.bsky.social via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/in-the-waiti...
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An essay about lovely brother in honor of World AIDS Day: creativenonfiction.org/writing/catc...
Catch: A Memory in Three Fragments - Creative Nonfiction
1 It was 1983 and I was six years old, riding between my father and brother in my father’s Oldsmobile, back when front seats stretched from door to door. My father drove, and my brother, who was ninet...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
An essay about lovely brother in honor of World AIDS Day: creativenonfiction.org/writing/catc...
I love owls. hearing them at night (often, in our neighborhood), the extremely rare glimpses I've had of them (just about never). Loved today's Beautiful Things in @riverteeth.bsky.social by Anne Giordano.
✨“I’d been puttering around—making coffee, feeding the dogs—before I noticed it: a barred owl perched on a branch right outside my kitchen window.”
-from “The Owl Mother,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Anne Giordano
Read the rest:
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-from “The Owl Mother,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Anne Giordano
Read the rest:
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December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I love owls. hearing them at night (often, in our neighborhood), the extremely rare glimpses I've had of them (just about never). Loved today's Beautiful Things in @riverteeth.bsky.social by Anne Giordano.
Musk dismantled government watchdogs for all his businesses, and now the Trump administration is dismantling all watchdog oversight for civil rights violations in immigration cases.
Whatever checks and balances we thought we had in the US government are gone.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Whatever checks and balances we thought we had in the US government are gone.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn
Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms
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November 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Musk dismantled government watchdogs for all his businesses, and now the Trump administration is dismantling all watchdog oversight for civil rights violations in immigration cases.
Whatever checks and balances we thought we had in the US government are gone.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Whatever checks and balances we thought we had in the US government are gone.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
(How do we explain our fascinations?
Our obsessions?
We’re drawn. Isn’t that enough?)
Love this lyric essay by @jilltalbot.bsky.social in @sonorareview.bsky.social
Our obsessions?
We’re drawn. Isn’t that enough?)
Love this lyric essay by @jilltalbot.bsky.social in @sonorareview.bsky.social
Thanks to @sonorareview.bsky.social for publishing my essay. sonorareview.com/2025/11/04/s...
Staring at the Silence | Jill Talbot - Sonora Review
Stepping through the back door, I squint against the shadows before sliding into the corner booth of the bar section. The restaurant’s near empty, the way I like it. Every few weeks, I drive the seven...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
(How do we explain our fascinations?
Our obsessions?
We’re drawn. Isn’t that enough?)
Love this lyric essay by @jilltalbot.bsky.social in @sonorareview.bsky.social
Our obsessions?
We’re drawn. Isn’t that enough?)
Love this lyric essay by @jilltalbot.bsky.social in @sonorareview.bsky.social