Kristi Ferguson
@kfergusonwrites.bsky.social
Third-culture kid from Brazil 🇧🇷
✍️ latest writing in JMWW, Bellevue Literary Review, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @rfpress.bsky.social & others
📖 read CNF for @triquarterlymag.bsky.social
✨ linktr.ee/kristiferguson ✨
✍️ latest writing in JMWW, Bellevue Literary Review, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @rfpress.bsky.social & others
📖 read CNF for @triquarterlymag.bsky.social
✨ linktr.ee/kristiferguson ✨
Pinned
“How to Eat Pitanga” came from my first-ever submission to the SmokeLong Summer workshop, titled “We Are All WIPs.”
This week's SmokeLong Workshop Prize long-listed story is by Kristi Ferguson. Read her interview and the story—published in Tiny Molecules—here: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
This week's SmokeLong Workshop Prize long-listed story is by Kristi Ferguson. Read her interview and the story—published in Tiny Molecules—here: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
An Interview with Kristi Ferguson - SmokeLong Quarterly
In 2024 SmokeLong hosted our second SmokeLong Workshop Prize competition. Our workshop participants reported almost 300 publications to us before November 1, 2024. In 2025, we’ll be featuring one writ...
www.smokelong.com
So happy to have the opportunity to talk to SmokeLong about the birth of my @tinymolecules.bsky.social essay “How to Eat Pitanga,” in the @smokelong.bsky.social workshop and about getting and giving feedback! Read the interview here: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
Thrilled to be doing an event with @AndrewPorter01 @kramerbooks in DC on July 18 at 7p!
kramers.com/events/29667...
kramers.com/events/29667...
Andrew Porter & Andrew Bertaina | Kramers
kramers.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Thrilled to be doing an event with @AndrewPorter01 @kramerbooks in DC on July 18 at 7p!
kramers.com/events/29667...
kramers.com/events/29667...
!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🎉🎉🎊🎊🎉🎊🎉
@Ladiwoods1 with her copies of “The Great Grown-Up Game of Make Believe” @autumnhousepress.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🎉🎉🎊🎊🎉🎊🎉
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
And read the essay. Such sensory descriptions - and more.
“How to Eat Pitanga” by @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social
www.tinymolecules.com/how-to-eat-p...
“How to Eat Pitanga” by @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social
www.tinymolecules.com/how-to-eat-p...
June 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
And read the essay. Such sensory descriptions - and more.
“How to Eat Pitanga” by @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social
www.tinymolecules.com/how-to-eat-p...
“How to Eat Pitanga” by @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social
www.tinymolecules.com/how-to-eat-p...
So happy to have the opportunity to talk to SmokeLong about the birth of my @tinymolecules.bsky.social essay “How to Eat Pitanga,” in the @smokelong.bsky.social workshop and about getting and giving feedback! Read the interview here: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
“How to Eat Pitanga” came from my first-ever submission to the SmokeLong Summer workshop, titled “We Are All WIPs.”
This week's SmokeLong Workshop Prize long-listed story is by Kristi Ferguson. Read her interview and the story—published in Tiny Molecules—here: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
This week's SmokeLong Workshop Prize long-listed story is by Kristi Ferguson. Read her interview and the story—published in Tiny Molecules—here: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
An Interview with Kristi Ferguson - SmokeLong Quarterly
In 2024 SmokeLong hosted our second SmokeLong Workshop Prize competition. Our workshop participants reported almost 300 publications to us before November 1, 2024. In 2025, we’ll be featuring one writ...
www.smokelong.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
So happy to have the opportunity to talk to SmokeLong about the birth of my @tinymolecules.bsky.social essay “How to Eat Pitanga,” in the @smokelong.bsky.social workshop and about getting and giving feedback! Read the interview here: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
Some of the shortest pieces I've ever read hit the hardest. Take for instance, "The Non-Denominational Government Exorcist Makes His Rounds" by H. A. Eugene. Or as I like to call it, the literary version of Bruce Lee's One Inch Punch. Check it out on 6/29!
June 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Some of the shortest pieces I've ever read hit the hardest. Take for instance, "The Non-Denominational Government Exorcist Makes His Rounds" by H. A. Eugene. Or as I like to call it, the literary version of Bruce Lee's One Inch Punch. Check it out on 6/29!
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
It’s the official publication day for Underwater!!!! Thank you to @wordperv.bsky.social and @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social for making my little-girl-poet dreams come true at 52 and for being the absolute sweetest publisher, sending this gorgeous bouquet to celebrate!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
June 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It’s the official publication day for Underwater!!!! Thank you to @wordperv.bsky.social and @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social for making my little-girl-poet dreams come true at 52 and for being the absolute sweetest publisher, sending this gorgeous bouquet to celebrate!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
🎉🎊 Congratulations!!! 🎉🎊
Well.
It's still unreal to me—my DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION has WON the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award and is coming LATER THIS YEAR!!!
22 stories, 12 years of my writing life. Thank you to everyone who's read my work or followed along for a part of this time. Thank you.
It's still unreal to me—my DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION has WON the @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award and is coming LATER THIS YEAR!!!
22 stories, 12 years of my writing life. Thank you to everyone who's read my work or followed along for a part of this time. Thank you.
May 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
🎉🎊 Congratulations!!! 🎉🎊
sometimes you’re reading a novel and a set of lines perfectly encapsulates something you have felt and never articulated. my favorite thing about reading.
May 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
sometimes you’re reading a novel and a set of lines perfectly encapsulates something you have felt and never articulated. my favorite thing about reading.
once had a friend tell me she took a book to bar and was disappointed when no man used it as an opportunity to make conversation and I had to break it to her that she is insufficiently online and that this is a trope people are warned to avoid 😂
If I'm reading in a public place and you're not my dear friend or bartender, please do not talk to me
April 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
once had a friend tell me she took a book to bar and was disappointed when no man used it as an opportunity to make conversation and I had to break it to her that she is insufficiently online and that this is a trope people are warned to avoid 😂
turns out I just needed something new to procrastinate on to become very efficient in this totally disparate area of my life 🙌
April 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
turns out I just needed something new to procrastinate on to become very efficient in this totally disparate area of my life 🙌
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
We offer a fellowship for BIPOC writers to attend a two-week residency at Mineral Arts & Residencies. Applications due May 15. WelcomeToMars.submittable.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We offer a fellowship for BIPOC writers to attend a two-week residency at Mineral Arts & Residencies. Applications due May 15. WelcomeToMars.submittable.com
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
JAKE wants to read your writing! We think. There's a two percent chance that he said "eat" instead of "read", but we're pretty sure we heard right.
jakethemag.com/guidelines/
jakethemag.com/guidelines/
Guidelines
JAKE has submission guidelines, but if the work is good enough, then JAKE could give a shit what he called for:
FICTION
JAKE is looking for short stories of a literary or experimental stripe, regard...
jakethemag.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
JAKE wants to read your writing! We think. There's a two percent chance that he said "eat" instead of "read", but we're pretty sure we heard right.
jakethemag.com/guidelines/
jakethemag.com/guidelines/
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
I promise to stop talking about this today (there are obviously far bigger things happening) but I did want to call out that these books are all from small/university presses. In a lit world where it’s really hard to break a collection out, I’m grateful for the attention to small-press books!
April 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I promise to stop talking about this today (there are obviously far bigger things happening) but I did want to call out that these books are all from small/university presses. In a lit world where it’s really hard to break a collection out, I’m grateful for the attention to small-press books!
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
New Writer Beware blog post: A look at what the US Copyright Office has determined is copyrightable for creators who use generative AI in their work writerbeware.blog/2025/04/04/g...
Generative AI and Copyrightability: Report From the US Copyright Office - Writer Beware
In 2023, the US Copyright Office launched an initiative to examine the legal and policy implications for copyright of generative AI (GAI). Incorporating comments from the public, the resulting report ...
writerbeware.blog
April 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
New Writer Beware blog post: A look at what the US Copyright Office has determined is copyrightable for creators who use generative AI in their work writerbeware.blog/2025/04/04/g...
Aaaa what a gorgeous cover!!! Congratulations @ladiwoods.bsky.social!!! Can’t wait to read!!
Cover Reveal: The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods! (@ladiwoods.bsky.social)
Winner of the 2024 AHP Fiction Prize, selected by Kristen Arnett, Lauren’s debut collection of lyrical stories invites us to imagine new paths—joyful, whimsical, even absurd—through the world.
Winner of the 2024 AHP Fiction Prize, selected by Kristen Arnett, Lauren’s debut collection of lyrical stories invites us to imagine new paths—joyful, whimsical, even absurd—through the world.
March 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Aaaa what a gorgeous cover!!! Congratulations @ladiwoods.bsky.social!!! Can’t wait to read!!
oh my heart!
“and you were so hungry for the Care Bear pencil prize and you felt as small as an ant and air scratched at your throat and you tried and you cracked and your voice came out like a butterfly song”
the stunning language and emotion in this piece by @amymarques.bsky.social ❤️🩹 gorgeous!
“and you were so hungry for the Care Bear pencil prize and you felt as small as an ant and air scratched at your throat and you tried and you cracked and your voice came out like a butterfly song”
the stunning language and emotion in this piece by @amymarques.bsky.social ❤️🩹 gorgeous!
Delighted to have a piece in the latest @gonelawn.bsky.social with gratitude to editors and to @francinewitte.bsky.social for the popup where it began:
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
gonelawn.net/journal/issu...
Gone Lawn 59 : Amy Marques
gonelawn.net
March 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
oh my heart!
“and you were so hungry for the Care Bear pencil prize and you felt as small as an ant and air scratched at your throat and you tried and you cracked and your voice came out like a butterfly song”
the stunning language and emotion in this piece by @amymarques.bsky.social ❤️🩹 gorgeous!
“and you were so hungry for the Care Bear pencil prize and you felt as small as an ant and air scratched at your throat and you tried and you cracked and your voice came out like a butterfly song”
the stunning language and emotion in this piece by @amymarques.bsky.social ❤️🩹 gorgeous!
Enjoyed the latest Together, Alone by @gbullard.bsky.social! I don’t often watch movies (on planes or off), so when I watch one on a flight it tends to be one I’ve wanted to see. My latest: Ex Machina, Bohemiam Rhapsody, Cidade de Deus, & A Star is Born.
www.watchingtogetheralone.com/p/a-few-thou...
www.watchingtogetheralone.com/p/a-few-thou...
A Few Thoughts About Airplane Movies
In-flight, must be right
www.watchingtogetheralone.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Enjoyed the latest Together, Alone by @gbullard.bsky.social! I don’t often watch movies (on planes or off), so when I watch one on a flight it tends to be one I’ve wanted to see. My latest: Ex Machina, Bohemiam Rhapsody, Cidade de Deus, & A Star is Born.
www.watchingtogetheralone.com/p/a-few-thou...
www.watchingtogetheralone.com/p/a-few-thou...
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
new new: "The Patchwork Child," by Allison Wyss: wigleaf.com
w i g l e a f : (very) short fiction
An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.
wigleaf.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
new new: "The Patchwork Child," by Allison Wyss: wigleaf.com
Been doing my best to stay off social media but went to review polling data from the only source I trust and finally found this: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... This is a travesty. FiveThirtyEight was the best political news source and nothing in the current landscape can replace it.
Opinion | FiveThirtyEight is gone. Its legacy will endure.
Nate Silver’s website suffered because of Trump and changes in political news coverage.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Been doing my best to stay off social media but went to review polling data from the only source I trust and finally found this: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... This is a travesty. FiveThirtyEight was the best political news source and nothing in the current landscape can replace it.
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
Congratulations to our workshop participants whose work was published in February (or thereabouts)! We're thrilled for you!
www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...
www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...
SmokeLong Workshop Celebration—February 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below is eligible to wi...
www.smokelong.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Congratulations to our workshop participants whose work was published in February (or thereabouts)! We're thrilled for you!
www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...
www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
Today's interview with a SmokeLong Workshop Prize long-listee features Ann Yuan, whose TWO longlisted stories, “Namo Amituofo”, published in Five on the Fifth, and “How to Write a Story on Skin”, MoonPark Review, were written in the SmokeLong Summer 2023 workshop: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
An Interview with Ann Yuan - SmokeLong Quarterly
In 2024 SmokeLong hosted our second SmokeLong Workshop Prize competition. Our workshop participants reported almost 300 publications to us before November 1, 2024. In 2025, we’ll be featuring one writ...
www.smokelong.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Today's interview with a SmokeLong Workshop Prize long-listee features Ann Yuan, whose TWO longlisted stories, “Namo Amituofo”, published in Five on the Fifth, and “How to Write a Story on Skin”, MoonPark Review, were written in the SmokeLong Summer 2023 workshop: www.smokelong.com/an-interview...
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
Thrilled to have a new little story in this issue!
BlueSky saw it first.
www.funicularmagazine.com/shop/qyo1rs7...
www.funicularmagazine.com/shop/qyo1rs7...
Funicular Magazine | Funicular 16
Featuring new writing from: Matthew [Bettina] Heinz, Katie Hession, Katherine Koller, Kate Lunau, Gavin Bradley, Zoe Elizabeth, Louise Davis, Samantha Deflitch, Audrey-Anna Gamache, Anthony Martin, M...
www.funicularmagazine.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Thrilled to have a new little story in this issue!
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
The Hopefuls
and we / went away from each other and worked daily // at not remembering
jakethemag.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Reposted by Kristi Ferguson
if you are planning an awp reading and need an extra me and my galley are cute and ready to perform for you
February 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
if you are planning an awp reading and need an extra me and my galley are cute and ready to perform for you