Jen Machajewski
@jenmachajewski.bsky.social
Writer. Overthinker. Runs on peanut butter. WIP: Flash & micro memoir about ears and teeth, anxiety and sleep, parenting and grief. 🎧 I’ve always been too old because it’s always been too loud.
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Our Nov-Dec '24 issue is live! If features #CNF from Alison Colwell, Bridgette Shade, Casey Mulligan Walsh, Jen Machajewski, Kate Lu Sedor, Marcos Reyna, Michael Nagle, Monika Dutt & Rayya Liebich. Plus new reviews, interviews & a craft column! www.hippocampusmagzine.com
So very excited to be a part of this issue. Looking forward to reading the other contributors’ work.
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Yes, please stop.
September 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Yes, please stop.
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My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!
September 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My neighbor in Orlando mentioned this EXACT concern to me last night!
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Read every banned book you can get your hands on. Give them as gifts. Quote from them every day.
September 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Read every banned book you can get your hands on. Give them as gifts. Quote from them every day.
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Here, fixed it.
August 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Here, fixed it.
Williamson County, Texas — Sheriff, DPS, and likely others out and active tomorrow Wed Aug 20th
August 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Williamson County, Texas — Sheriff, DPS, and likely others out and active tomorrow Wed Aug 20th
I’m so grateful for the Five Minutes platform for giving micro work a place to live.
I wanted to call my sister-in-law. I thought about asking my mother-in-law. I did not want to need my mother.—"I Called Her" by @jenmachajewski.bsky.social
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/i-called-her
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/i-called-her
August 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I’m so grateful for the Five Minutes platform for giving micro work a place to live.
3 books reserved at library.
2 were ready and I picked up!
21 minutes later (and back at home), email received:
Book #3 is ready!
Moral: Don’t dash in and out — stay at the library at least 30 minutes, just in case
2 were ready and I picked up!
21 minutes later (and back at home), email received:
Book #3 is ready!
Moral: Don’t dash in and out — stay at the library at least 30 minutes, just in case
July 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
3 books reserved at library.
2 were ready and I picked up!
21 minutes later (and back at home), email received:
Book #3 is ready!
Moral: Don’t dash in and out — stay at the library at least 30 minutes, just in case
2 were ready and I picked up!
21 minutes later (and back at home), email received:
Book #3 is ready!
Moral: Don’t dash in and out — stay at the library at least 30 minutes, just in case
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I started rehab the same week my husband had to be out of town for his new job. —"I Called Her" by @jenmachajewski.bsky.social
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/i-called-her
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/i-called-her
June 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I started rehab the same week my husband had to be out of town for his new job. —"I Called Her" by @jenmachajewski.bsky.social
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/i-called-her
https://www.fiveminutelit.com/i-called-her
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There is no literary world. There is, however, this interconnected mass of people who made similarly poor choices to pursue their dreams and are now pitching the emotional damage as art
May 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
There is no literary world. There is, however, this interconnected mass of people who made similarly poor choices to pursue their dreams and are now pitching the emotional damage as art
A nod to those with complex feelings on Mother’s Day. An essay about mine. hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/a-le...
A Letter to Mother with the Long Hair by Jen Machajewski | Hippocampus Magazine
"It’s funny that I should remember it as long when you so rarely wore it down." -- from the essay "A Letter to Mother with the Long Hair" by Jen Machajewski.
hippocampusmagazine.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A nod to those with complex feelings on Mother’s Day. An essay about mine. hippocampusmagazine.com/2024/11/a-le...
The texts are awful. I’ve wondered could any of them be from spam bots posing as Dems? They can’t ALL be bots, so plenty of campaigns need to find better ways. I do try to remember how I hate being “attacked” in these panicked texts when communicating with Repubs who are not overtly MAGA.
"It’s reached the point where I spend more time engaging with undesirable, messy, uncreative, and soul-draining texts from Democratic strangers running for office than I do texts from friends and colleagues whom I actually know and like."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democrats-...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats I Don't Know Keep Texting Me
Please stop.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The texts are awful. I’ve wondered could any of them be from spam bots posing as Dems? They can’t ALL be bots, so plenty of campaigns need to find better ways. I do try to remember how I hate being “attacked” in these panicked texts when communicating with Repubs who are not overtly MAGA.
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Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.
May 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.
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MAHA: “We’re going to make America healthy again!”
The people: “So we’re getting universal healthcare, UBI, abortion access, clean air, public health campaigns and paid time off?”
MAHA: “Nope”
Us: “what do we get?”
Them: “Healthy. Or eliminated”
Believe Nazis when they tell you who they are
The people: “So we’re getting universal healthcare, UBI, abortion access, clean air, public health campaigns and paid time off?”
MAHA: “Nope”
Us: “what do we get?”
Them: “Healthy. Or eliminated”
Believe Nazis when they tell you who they are
May 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
MAHA: “We’re going to make America healthy again!”
The people: “So we’re getting universal healthcare, UBI, abortion access, clean air, public health campaigns and paid time off?”
MAHA: “Nope”
Us: “what do we get?”
Them: “Healthy. Or eliminated”
Believe Nazis when they tell you who they are
The people: “So we’re getting universal healthcare, UBI, abortion access, clean air, public health campaigns and paid time off?”
MAHA: “Nope”
Us: “what do we get?”
Them: “Healthy. Or eliminated”
Believe Nazis when they tell you who they are
Priceless & perfect response.
obviously the most important papal endorsement is my dad’s
May 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Priceless & perfect response.
It’s been like an immediate flip of the switch.
It's been a consumer goods paradise, and it was awesome while it lasted and now I can't throw anything away ever again, preparing from The Scarcity. I'm suddenly my depression era parents, cool cool cool.
May 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s been like an immediate flip of the switch.
Chronological order isn’t always the best storytelling. My order for the story arc, movies only.
1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2. Star Wars: Ep. 4 A New Hope
3. Star Wars: Ep. 5 The Empire Strikes Back
4. Star Wars: Ep. 6 Return of the Jedi: STOP BEFORE Luke confronts Darth Vader
1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2. Star Wars: Ep. 4 A New Hope
3. Star Wars: Ep. 5 The Empire Strikes Back
4. Star Wars: Ep. 6 Return of the Jedi: STOP BEFORE Luke confronts Darth Vader
May 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Chronological order isn’t always the best storytelling. My order for the story arc, movies only.
1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2. Star Wars: Ep. 4 A New Hope
3. Star Wars: Ep. 5 The Empire Strikes Back
4. Star Wars: Ep. 6 Return of the Jedi: STOP BEFORE Luke confronts Darth Vader
1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2. Star Wars: Ep. 4 A New Hope
3. Star Wars: Ep. 5 The Empire Strikes Back
4. Star Wars: Ep. 6 Return of the Jedi: STOP BEFORE Luke confronts Darth Vader
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Today, we're officially leaving Twitter, along with our friends @literaryhub.bsky.social. We're happy to be here on Bluesky, but we hope you'll also connect with us the “old-fashioned” way: by getting our emails and going to our site! Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/4aNcHae
Why Electric Literature Is Leaving Twitter - Electric Literature
X has become a dystopian shadow of itself—and a very bad place for literature
buff.ly
May 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Today, we're officially leaving Twitter, along with our friends @literaryhub.bsky.social. We're happy to be here on Bluesky, but we hope you'll also connect with us the “old-fashioned” way: by getting our emails and going to our site! Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/4aNcHae
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Calling all emerging writers! Submit your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to the Emerging Writer’s Contest, run by our April sponsor @psharesjournal, for the chance to win $2,000, a conversation with Aevitas Creative Management, and more! Details here: pshr.us/ewc2025. (sponsored)
April 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Calling all emerging writers! Submit your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to the Emerging Writer’s Contest, run by our April sponsor @psharesjournal, for the chance to win $2,000, a conversation with Aevitas Creative Management, and more! Details here: pshr.us/ewc2025. (sponsored)
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After seeing how people think “negotiating” works, Bugs Bunny tricking Elmer Fudd into marrying a lit stack of dynamite covered with a wedding dress feels a lot more plausible
April 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
After seeing how people think “negotiating” works, Bugs Bunny tricking Elmer Fudd into marrying a lit stack of dynamite covered with a wedding dress feels a lot more plausible
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When does the winning start?
April 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
When does the winning start?
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There it is, in a nutshell.
April 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
There it is, in a nutshell.