Kristen Havens
@kristenhavens.bsky.social
Tired writer. Known to hug a tree or three. Los Angeles.
It has arrived! @blacklilyzine.bsky.social and my car wash photo. Thank you to the editors. Looking forward to reading all this punk/goth poetry and prose.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It has arrived! @blacklilyzine.bsky.social and my car wash photo. Thank you to the editors. Looking forward to reading all this punk/goth poetry and prose.
Thank you, @mattkendrick.bsky.social!
"Once again, I have lost time: hundreds of seconds have slipped away from me while eavesdropping on other people’s lives"
Brilliantly layered storytelling from @kristenhavens.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social - wonderful textural variation at the level of prose
Brilliantly layered storytelling from @kristenhavens.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social - wonderful textural variation at the level of prose
"Each of us is alone, but we’re together in loneliness: isn’t that enough?"
Short story, long title, massive impact. Fabulous new flash #fiction from @kristenhavens.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kris...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Short story, long title, massive impact. Fabulous new flash #fiction from @kristenhavens.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kris...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thank you, @mattkendrick.bsky.social!
If you can support and buy a copy of this zine, please do. Thankful to have a photo appearing in this issue. (And what a stunning cover image!)
Orders for @blacklilyzine.bsky.social issue 3 are now open! See details below.
October 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you can support and buy a copy of this zine, please do. Thankful to have a photo appearing in this issue. (And what a stunning cover image!)
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Book banners say they are only targeting pornography and books with no literary merit.
Since 2021, works by more than a dozen #NobelPrizeForLiterature-winning authors have been banned in U.S. school districts.
https://pen.org/nobel-prize-winners-banned/ #BannedBooksWeek
Since 2021, works by more than a dozen #NobelPrizeForLiterature-winning authors have been banned in U.S. school districts.
https://pen.org/nobel-prize-winners-banned/ #BannedBooksWeek
These Authors Won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Their Books Have Been Banned in Districts Across the Country
For countless U.S. schoolchildren, works by more than a dozen Nobel-winning authors have been banned and removed from shelves.
pen.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Book banners say they are only targeting pornography and books with no literary merit.
Since 2021, works by more than a dozen #NobelPrizeForLiterature-winning authors have been banned in U.S. school districts.
https://pen.org/nobel-prize-winners-banned/ #BannedBooksWeek
Since 2021, works by more than a dozen #NobelPrizeForLiterature-winning authors have been banned in U.S. school districts.
https://pen.org/nobel-prize-winners-banned/ #BannedBooksWeek
New flash by me! Thank you, @doesithavepockets.bsky.social!
"Each of us is alone, but we’re together in loneliness: isn’t that enough?"
Short story, long title, massive impact. Fabulous new flash #fiction from @kristenhavens.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kris...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
Short story, long title, massive impact. Fabulous new flash #fiction from @kristenhavens.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kris...
Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
New flash by me! Thank you, @doesithavepockets.bsky.social!
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Autumn (Online) is calling! 🍂🍁
For the first time ever, Tin House is opening up our online faculty readings to the public! All readings are on Zoom and are free to attend.
Register here: forms.gle/NPQx38ksrxUJ...
For the first time ever, Tin House is opening up our online faculty readings to the public! All readings are on Zoom and are free to attend.
Register here: forms.gle/NPQx38ksrxUJ...
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Autumn (Online) is calling! 🍂🍁
For the first time ever, Tin House is opening up our online faculty readings to the public! All readings are on Zoom and are free to attend.
Register here: forms.gle/NPQx38ksrxUJ...
For the first time ever, Tin House is opening up our online faculty readings to the public! All readings are on Zoom and are free to attend.
Register here: forms.gle/NPQx38ksrxUJ...
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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
The bean plant in my garden that I posted about 6 months ago, just before I went on a digital fast—it’s bloomed and faded and come back to bawdy life:
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The bean plant in my garden that I posted about 6 months ago, just before I went on a digital fast—it’s bloomed and faded and come back to bawdy life:
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Revision tip: check your manuscript for gasp, held breath, twisted guts, glanced, saw, felt, monitor, control, lighting strike, smiled, fringed, glared, sucked in, scrunched, blood stopped, ran cold, anything filtering emotions as bodily responses, especially ones which are involuntary in real life
September 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Revision tip: check your manuscript for gasp, held breath, twisted guts, glanced, saw, felt, monitor, control, lighting strike, smiled, fringed, glared, sucked in, scrunched, blood stopped, ran cold, anything filtering emotions as bodily responses, especially ones which are involuntary in real life
Update your ID. Do it now. Tomorrow.
🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
April 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Update your ID. Do it now. Tomorrow.
Open to submissions:
Deadline extended to 4/15. Still needing stuff in every genre. If we don’t get enough submissions, I’m gonna consider the project unviable and close after two issues but still proud of what we put out.
Hey y’all. We’re a smol, still new goth/punk/antifascist print-only zine. If you want to put your angst about this shit into art/poetry/fiction/CNF/flash/or hybrid firms, please and sit to us. We’re open til 4/1. It’s a small thing we’re doing but I hope it helps. Submission guidelines below:
April 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Open to submissions:
Tariffs bad, fiction good. I got a flash story accepted today. It’ll come out in October. Here’s to doing what makes us tick, whatever else may happen.
April 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Tariffs bad, fiction good. I got a flash story accepted today. It’ll come out in October. Here’s to doing what makes us tick, whatever else may happen.
Sometime in the last month I’ve started aggressively closing apps with a flinging motion as if dealing cards from the top of a deck. I now, officially, use my smartphone just like my mother.
March 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Sometime in the last month I’ve started aggressively closing apps with a flinging motion as if dealing cards from the top of a deck. I now, officially, use my smartphone just like my mother.
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Don't miss Writing Outside of Your Lane, an upcoming Community Class with Milo Todd on March 28!
This 90-minute lecture welcomes writers of all identities and focuses on equipping you with the knowledge and confidence to write with integrity.
#onlineclass #writingclass #clarionwest
This 90-minute lecture welcomes writers of all identities and focuses on equipping you with the knowledge and confidence to write with integrity.
#onlineclass #writingclass #clarionwest
March 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Don't miss Writing Outside of Your Lane, an upcoming Community Class with Milo Todd on March 28!
This 90-minute lecture welcomes writers of all identities and focuses on equipping you with the knowledge and confidence to write with integrity.
#onlineclass #writingclass #clarionwest
This 90-minute lecture welcomes writers of all identities and focuses on equipping you with the knowledge and confidence to write with integrity.
#onlineclass #writingclass #clarionwest
One of the things keeping me sane right now: our community garden. This is a bean plant that showed up, planted by some past gardener. Seeing all these intentions come to fruition is oddly moving. Someone wanted these plants and trusted them to live on into the future.
March 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the things keeping me sane right now: our community garden. This is a bean plant that showed up, planted by some past gardener. Seeing all these intentions come to fruition is oddly moving. Someone wanted these plants and trusted them to live on into the future.
Reposted by Kristen Havens
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
And now, for something lighter:
Horrified Woman Swears Off Ambien After Seeing Number Of Library Books She Reserved Last Night — theonion.com/horrified-wo...
Horrified Woman Swears Off Ambien After Seeing Number Of Library Books She Reserved Last Night — theonion.com/horrified-wo...
Horrified Woman Swears Off Ambien After Seeing Number Of Library Books She Reserved Last Night
COLUMBUS, OH—Reeling as she took stock of the damage done in her debilitated state, area woman Brittany Marino told reporters Wednesday she had sworn off Ambien for good after she woke up and saw how ...
theonion.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
And now, for something lighter:
Horrified Woman Swears Off Ambien After Seeing Number Of Library Books She Reserved Last Night — theonion.com/horrified-wo...
Horrified Woman Swears Off Ambien After Seeing Number Of Library Books She Reserved Last Night — theonion.com/horrified-wo...
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It’s too bad so many people see politics as a game rather than something that literally determines whether people live or die.
February 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It’s too bad so many people see politics as a game rather than something that literally determines whether people live or die.
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Canada’s new Rural Community Immigration Pilot offers permanent residence to skilled workers who want to work and settle in rural and more remote communities.
14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.
More info here:
14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.
More info here:
Rural Community Immigration Pilot - Canada.ca
How to apply for the Rural community immigration pilot as a candidate.
www.canada.ca
February 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Canada’s new Rural Community Immigration Pilot offers permanent residence to skilled workers who want to work and settle in rural and more remote communities.
14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.
More info here:
14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers.
More info here:
I can’t believe this is my first post here, but so be it. This is funny/sad. We need a new stereotype.
I remember when I read Dracula and found out the one American character is a Texan rancher who tries to shoot Dracula with a gun and I realized that stereotypes about Americans haven’t changed that much in 120 years.
February 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I can’t believe this is my first post here, but so be it. This is funny/sad. We need a new stereotype.