Natalie Lima
@natalielima09.bsky.social
Writing embarrassing crap about my life.
Creative Writing Prof @ Butler University
📍Indianapolis
🇨🇺🇵🇷🇺🇸
natalielima.com
Creative Writing Prof @ Butler University
📍Indianapolis
🇨🇺🇵🇷🇺🇸
natalielima.com
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Natalie Lima
@natalielima09.bsky.social
· Aug 22
If anyone wants to add me to your #awp26 panel, holler Happy to talk about:
-Bodies/fatness/beauty standards
-Sex/fetishes
-Sobriety/recovery
-Humor/balancing tone
-immigration
-politics/current events in CNF
-the memoir plus
-memoir in general
-querying
-academia
-class/race/diversity
xo
-Bodies/fatness/beauty standards
-Sex/fetishes
-Sobriety/recovery
-Humor/balancing tone
-immigration
-politics/current events in CNF
-the memoir plus
-memoir in general
-querying
-academia
-class/race/diversity
xo
Yooo, none of the AWP panels I was asked to be on were accepted.
Please think of me if you need a person to add to your panel in the next couple of months. xo
Please think of me if you need a person to add to your panel in the next couple of months. xo
CNF peeps: What are your favorite braided essays published in the last year or two??
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
CNF peeps: What are your favorite braided essays published in the last year or two??
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This @colinhamilton.bsky.social essay about writers dying is NEXT LEVEL GOOD. @therumpus.net #RumpusEssays
therumpus.net/2025/11/10/t...
therumpus.net/2025/11/10/t...
The Spurious Glamor of Certain Voids - The Rumpus
Don’t we all love looking, Diane Seuss wondered, at dead things?
therumpus.net
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This @colinhamilton.bsky.social essay about writers dying is NEXT LEVEL GOOD. @therumpus.net #RumpusEssays
therumpus.net/2025/11/10/t...
therumpus.net/2025/11/10/t...
So is Twitter officially over for the lit community? Have been kind of in hiding.
Is it just here and Substack?
Is it just here and Substack?
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
So is Twitter officially over for the lit community? Have been kind of in hiding.
Is it just here and Substack?
Is it just here and Substack?
Anyone need an awp panelist?? Add me so I can go.
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: natalielima09@gmail.com
✏️💗
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: natalielima09@gmail.com
✏️💗
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Anyone need an awp panelist?? Add me so I can go.
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: natalielima09@gmail.com
✏️💗
I can talk about lots of nerdy things with y’all. Xoxo
Shoot me an email, if you need a replacement: natalielima09@gmail.com
✏️💗
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Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
PERIPLUS: An FAQ
PERIPLUS: AN FAQ Updated August 2025 Hi! Thanks for your interest in Periplus, a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. We're glad you’re here. Rea...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
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Yooo, none of the AWP panels I was asked to be on were accepted.
Please think of me if you need a person to add to your panel in the next couple of months. xo
Please think of me if you need a person to add to your panel in the next couple of months. xo
If anyone wants to add me to your #awp26 panel, holler Happy to talk about:
-Bodies/fatness/beauty standards
-Sex/fetishes
-Sobriety/recovery
-Humor/balancing tone
-immigration
-politics/current events in CNF
-the memoir plus
-memoir in general
-querying
-academia
-class/race/diversity
xo
-Bodies/fatness/beauty standards
-Sex/fetishes
-Sobriety/recovery
-Humor/balancing tone
-immigration
-politics/current events in CNF
-the memoir plus
-memoir in general
-querying
-academia
-class/race/diversity
xo
August 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Yooo, none of the AWP panels I was asked to be on were accepted.
Please think of me if you need a person to add to your panel in the next couple of months. xo
Please think of me if you need a person to add to your panel in the next couple of months. xo
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Love this poem by Ire’ne Lara Silva in @prairie-schooner.bsky.social so I copied it into my notebook. Also, check out the amazing artwork by Song-Ming Ang! I am here for a hallway of crunchy leaves.
July 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Love this poem by Ire’ne Lara Silva in @prairie-schooner.bsky.social so I copied it into my notebook. Also, check out the amazing artwork by Song-Ming Ang! I am here for a hallway of crunchy leaves.
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Thrilled to have this review in my "hometown" newspaper. #memoirs #newbooks www.pressherald.com?p=7476949&uu...
A heartbreaking, achingly beautiful memoir of love, loss and resilience
In 'The Murmur of Everything Moving,' Maureen Stanton relates how her passionate, tumultuous young love with Steve changed inalterably when he got sick.
www.pressherald.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thrilled to have this review in my "hometown" newspaper. #memoirs #newbooks www.pressherald.com?p=7476949&uu...
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I wrote about remembering how to feel for Nothing Compares to You, an anthology of essays on the legacy of Sinéad O’Connor. The book comes out tomorrow. Here, get your joy: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin...
Thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving this piece a home on @oldster_mag.
Thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving this piece a home on @oldster_mag.
Girl You Better Try To Have Fun
Megan Stielstra on embodying many ages at once, and learning of Sinéad O'Connor's death the summer her father was dying. An excerpt of "Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O'Connor Means to Us"
oldster.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I wrote about remembering how to feel for Nothing Compares to You, an anthology of essays on the legacy of Sinéad O’Connor. The book comes out tomorrow. Here, get your joy: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin...
Thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving this piece a home on @oldster_mag.
Thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving this piece a home on @oldster_mag.
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A few clients are announcing projects in new genres, new categories…
Remember, writer friends. You can jump around.
The oft said advice of “branding” doesn’t mean you need to stay in one lane.
It just means when you’re in a new genre or category, it still feels like a book from YOU. ❤️
Remember, writer friends. You can jump around.
The oft said advice of “branding” doesn’t mean you need to stay in one lane.
It just means when you’re in a new genre or category, it still feels like a book from YOU. ❤️
July 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A few clients are announcing projects in new genres, new categories…
Remember, writer friends. You can jump around.
The oft said advice of “branding” doesn’t mean you need to stay in one lane.
It just means when you’re in a new genre or category, it still feels like a book from YOU. ❤️
Remember, writer friends. You can jump around.
The oft said advice of “branding” doesn’t mean you need to stay in one lane.
It just means when you’re in a new genre or category, it still feels like a book from YOU. ❤️
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“Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write.” ~ Robert Macfarlane
June 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write.” ~ Robert Macfarlane
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This is indeed a perfect time to support @theoffingmag.bsky.social. Patrons who give at the $10 level will receive a copy of our 10th anniversary anthology featuring work by @iamlisako.bsky.social @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social and so many others!
www.patreon.com/c/theoffing
www.patreon.com/c/theoffing
June 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is indeed a perfect time to support @theoffingmag.bsky.social. Patrons who give at the $10 level will receive a copy of our 10th anniversary anthology featuring work by @iamlisako.bsky.social @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social and so many others!
www.patreon.com/c/theoffing
www.patreon.com/c/theoffing
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So pumped that @meganstielstra.bsky.social selected @bennysummerhill.bsky.social's essay "'Tell Me When to Go' Had Just Dropped and I Was from Oakland" as the winner of the @therumpus.net Prize in Nonfiction!!! A stunning essay.
therumpus.net/2025/06/05/r...
therumpus.net/2025/06/05/r...
Rumpus Prize in Nonfiction, First Place: Daniel B. Summerhill - The Rumpus
A tight plot of land with poverty gripping the neck of its residents even tighter. The same way America held off on recognizing street gangs as an issue until blood was spilt outside of the hood in 19...
therumpus.net
June 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
So pumped that @meganstielstra.bsky.social selected @bennysummerhill.bsky.social's essay "'Tell Me When to Go' Had Just Dropped and I Was from Oakland" as the winner of the @therumpus.net Prize in Nonfiction!!! A stunning essay.
therumpus.net/2025/06/05/r...
therumpus.net/2025/06/05/r...
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I got to talk to my friend and former student CQ in @bombmag.bsky.social about Meet Me at the Crossroads, faith, how many nuns I'm related to, Severance, letting people have things as a treat, inexplicableness, academic kookiness, Lucille Clifton and Pure Michigan: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
BOMB Magazine | Megan Giddings by CQ Quintana
Speculative fiction that grapples with spirituality, sisterhood, kooky academics, and seven mysterious portals.
bombmagazine.org
June 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I got to talk to my friend and former student CQ in @bombmag.bsky.social about Meet Me at the Crossroads, faith, how many nuns I'm related to, Severance, letting people have things as a treat, inexplicableness, academic kookiness, Lucille Clifton and Pure Michigan: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
If anyone wants to add me to your #awp26 panel, holler Happy to talk about:
-Bodies/fatness/beauty standards
-Sex/fetishes
-Sobriety/recovery
-Humor/balancing tone
-immigration
-politics/current events in CNF
-the memoir plus
-memoir in general
-querying
-academia
-class/race/diversity
xo
-Bodies/fatness/beauty standards
-Sex/fetishes
-Sobriety/recovery
-Humor/balancing tone
-immigration
-politics/current events in CNF
-the memoir plus
-memoir in general
-querying
-academia
-class/race/diversity
xo
June 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If anyone wants to add me to your #awp26 panel, holler Happy to talk about:
-Bodies/fatness/beauty standards
-Sex/fetishes
-Sobriety/recovery
-Humor/balancing tone
-immigration
-politics/current events in CNF
-the memoir plus
-memoir in general
-querying
-academia
-class/race/diversity
xo
-Bodies/fatness/beauty standards
-Sex/fetishes
-Sobriety/recovery
-Humor/balancing tone
-immigration
-politics/current events in CNF
-the memoir plus
-memoir in general
-querying
-academia
-class/race/diversity
xo
thrifted outfit of the day. It’s how we cope w/ the chaos
June 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
thrifted outfit of the day. It’s how we cope w/ the chaos
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This book is out TODAY! I put my whole heart into it. You can buy it wherever you buy books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725681...
June 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This book is out TODAY! I put my whole heart into it. You can buy it wherever you buy books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725681...
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At my newsletter NO FAILURE, ONLY PRACTICE, I've started giving quarterly Zoom craft lectures for paying subscribers. Today's is on "Sentence Acoustics and Style," one of my favorite topics, and should be a blast. You can still sign up if you'd like to join!
Paid Subscriber Benefit: Live Lecture Today!
“Sentence Acoustics and Style”: This lecture on how to write better sentences and paragraphs will begin with theory and then proceed through a number of examples of excellent sentence-level craft, bre...
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June 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
At my newsletter NO FAILURE, ONLY PRACTICE, I've started giving quarterly Zoom craft lectures for paying subscribers. Today's is on "Sentence Acoustics and Style," one of my favorite topics, and should be a blast. You can still sign up if you'd like to join!
Twitter is where i keep in touch w/ everyone for the last few years. I’ve taken a break from posting. But should I be using bluesky the same way? Or is the answer Substack?
Help! 😝💗
Help! 😝💗
June 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Twitter is where i keep in touch w/ everyone for the last few years. I’ve taken a break from posting. But should I be using bluesky the same way? Or is the answer Substack?
Help! 😝💗
Help! 😝💗
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A long weekend is the perfect time to send us your work. No fees.
$200 prize for fiction and creative nonfiction.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
$200 prize for fiction and creative nonfiction.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
May 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
A long weekend is the perfect time to send us your work. No fees.
$200 prize for fiction and creative nonfiction.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
$200 prize for fiction and creative nonfiction.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
Turn on my AC for the first time in over 6 months. I’ve never been so happy to be hot again 😆
May 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Turn on my AC for the first time in over 6 months. I’ve never been so happy to be hot again 😆
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helloooooooooo, Meet Me at the Crossroads is on @latimes.com's list of 30 Books to read this summer: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
May 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
helloooooooooo, Meet Me at the Crossroads is on @latimes.com's list of 30 Books to read this summer: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
the new pope is gringo
May 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
the new pope is gringo