Wendy BooydeGraaff
@onlybooyskies.bsky.social
Reader, writer, sporadic gardener, fair-weather biker, Can/Am, SALAD PIE pb author, THE HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA contributor, fiction & poems in various literary mags
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And another one at Cathexis Northwest Press
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November - December 2025 | Cathexis Northwest Press
Cathexis Northwest Press November - December 2025 Poetry Anthology
Cathexis Northwest Press: Publishing Poetry Since 2018
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November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
And another one at Cathexis Northwest Press
www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/nov-dec-2025
www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/nov-dec-2025
New poem up in The Fourth Rivers's Tributaries
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www.thefourthriver.com/tributaries-...
Garden of Rocks — The Fourth River
Robins spend months / harvesting crab apples. Didn’t // they used to migrate? In February, / they think it’s spring…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
New poem up in The Fourth Rivers's Tributaries
www.thefourthriver.com/tributaries-...
www.thefourthriver.com/tributaries-...
Informative episode with #kidlit author Tricia Springstubb podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Literary Screening: The Wild Robot with Tricia Springstubb
Podcast Episode · Page Count · 10/07/2025 · 40m
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October 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Informative episode with #kidlit author Tricia Springstubb podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Reposted by Wendy BooydeGraaff
Has your library banned Banned Books Week events/displays this year? I want to hear about it. I had thought I'd get 2-3 responses but, y'all, we're at over 20 at this point.
All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.
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All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...
October 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Has your library banned Banned Books Week events/displays this year? I want to hear about it. I had thought I'd get 2-3 responses but, y'all, we're at over 20 at this point.
All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...
All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...
Reposted by Wendy BooydeGraaff
Our upcoming Issue 60 marks the end of an era: Salamander is parting ways with Suffolk University after two decades.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as we take a hiatus from reading new submissions during the 2025-2026 reading period, and stay connected with us for updates.
🦎❤️
Thank you for your patience and understanding as we take a hiatus from reading new submissions during the 2025-2026 reading period, and stay connected with us for updates.
🦎❤️
October 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Our upcoming Issue 60 marks the end of an era: Salamander is parting ways with Suffolk University after two decades.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as we take a hiatus from reading new submissions during the 2025-2026 reading period, and stay connected with us for updates.
🦎❤️
Thank you for your patience and understanding as we take a hiatus from reading new submissions during the 2025-2026 reading period, and stay connected with us for updates.
🦎❤️
Receive this lovely gem in the mail today! Thank you @giganticsequins.bsky.social including my flash fiction within your beautiful pages
September 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Receive this lovely gem in the mail today! Thank you @giganticsequins.bsky.social including my flash fiction within your beautiful pages
7 spaces still available with @shadras.bsky.social for the Critique Carousel www.scbwi.org/events/criti...
#kidlit #Picturebooks #illustration #kidlitart
#kidlit #Picturebooks #illustration #kidlitart
SCBWI-MI Critique Carousel 2025 Register for event
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators provides the resources, professional networking, and community-building opportunities that support writers, illustrators, and translators throug...
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September 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
7 spaces still available with @shadras.bsky.social for the Critique Carousel www.scbwi.org/events/criti...
#kidlit #Picturebooks #illustration #kidlitart
#kidlit #Picturebooks #illustration #kidlitart
9 spaces still available with @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social for the Critique Carousel www.scbwi.org/events/criti...
#middlegrade #YA #kidlit #Picturebooks #illustration #novel-in-verse
#middlegrade #YA #kidlit #Picturebooks #illustration #novel-in-verse
September 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
9 spaces still available with @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social for the Critique Carousel www.scbwi.org/events/criti...
#middlegrade #YA #kidlit #Picturebooks #illustration #novel-in-verse
#middlegrade #YA #kidlit #Picturebooks #illustration #novel-in-verse
10 spaces still available with @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social for the Critique Carousel www.scbwi.org/events/criti...
#middlegrade #YA #kidlit
#middlegrade #YA #kidlit
September 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
10 spaces still available with @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social for the Critique Carousel www.scbwi.org/events/criti...
#middlegrade #YA #kidlit
#middlegrade #YA #kidlit
Reposted by Wendy BooydeGraaff
Issue 32 is LIVE NOW! We can’t get over this amazing lineup!
Mikki Aronoff
Amy Bates
Andrew Bertaina
Andy Bodinger
Wendy BooydeGraaff
Claire Breslow
Chelsea Hanna Cohen
Elina Kumra
Tali Libenstein
Elaine Maguire O’Connor
Cheryl Pappas
Fergus Sinnott
Francine Witte
Elena Zhang
leonliteraryreview.com
Mikki Aronoff
Amy Bates
Andrew Bertaina
Andy Bodinger
Wendy BooydeGraaff
Claire Breslow
Chelsea Hanna Cohen
Elina Kumra
Tali Libenstein
Elaine Maguire O’Connor
Cheryl Pappas
Fergus Sinnott
Francine Witte
Elena Zhang
leonliteraryreview.com
LEON Literary Review
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September 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Issue 32 is LIVE NOW! We can’t get over this amazing lineup!
Mikki Aronoff
Amy Bates
Andrew Bertaina
Andy Bodinger
Wendy BooydeGraaff
Claire Breslow
Chelsea Hanna Cohen
Elina Kumra
Tali Libenstein
Elaine Maguire O’Connor
Cheryl Pappas
Fergus Sinnott
Francine Witte
Elena Zhang
leonliteraryreview.com
Mikki Aronoff
Amy Bates
Andrew Bertaina
Andy Bodinger
Wendy BooydeGraaff
Claire Breslow
Chelsea Hanna Cohen
Elina Kumra
Tali Libenstein
Elaine Maguire O’Connor
Cheryl Pappas
Fergus Sinnott
Francine Witte
Elena Zhang
leonliteraryreview.com
The Art of Editing with The Cincinnati Review
Podcast Episode · Page Count · 09/09/2025 · 51m
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September 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Love it when poems reference #kidlit such as this one by Emily Dressler in @okaydonkeymag.com
okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/12/p...
okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/12/p...
Pete the Cat: All Grown Up & Alone In His Car by Emily Dressler
with help from my daughter At the library, we walk past Pete the Cat and you say it’s weird and sad how you grow up with these books but they don’t keep growing with you. Like, Pete the Cat doesn’t…
okaydonkeymag.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Love it when poems reference #kidlit such as this one by Emily Dressler in @okaydonkeymag.com
okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/12/p...
okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/12/p...
"placing unfinished or untested writing in front of the eyes of other experienced and respected writers actually takes courage...takes trust to believe, never mind accept, another writer’s critique of one’s own work. We’re all such guardians of our words." -Beverly Gologorsky
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shorturl.at/0Oe0Z
How Writing in Community Can Forge Friendships and Evoke Change
Phillip Roth once said that only a fool would sit in a room for thirty years doubting himself. Writers are indeed fools grateful for the gift of creativity despite the constant doubt. We commune m…
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September 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"placing unfinished or untested writing in front of the eyes of other experienced and respected writers actually takes courage...takes trust to believe, never mind accept, another writer’s critique of one’s own work. We’re all such guardians of our words." -Beverly Gologorsky
shorturl.at/0Oe0Z
shorturl.at/0Oe0Z
Happy to see my very short fiction "Laconic" up @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social -- a beautiful issue!
leonliteraryreview.com
leonliteraryreview.com
LEON Literary Review
leonliteraryreview.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Happy to see my very short fiction "Laconic" up @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social -- a beautiful issue!
leonliteraryreview.com
leonliteraryreview.com
I love this one so much
we have a micro by Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social !
i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out
xraylitmag.com/late-to-work...
i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out
xraylitmag.com/late-to-work...
LATE TO WORK by Benjamin Drevlow
This morning I’m hauling ass across the intersection across from the Krispy Kreme opposite the Kum & Go so I don’t get steamrolled by one of the yokels in their jacked-up pickups when some old lady in...
xraylitmag.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I love this one so much
Reposted by Wendy BooydeGraaff
Don’t let them take your books! - www.bookbanpetition.us
August 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Don’t let them take your books! - www.bookbanpetition.us
Look at this beautiful cover!
GS 16 is now available for pre-order! ALSO: COVER REVEAL!!! gigantic-sequins.square.site/product/GSis...
August 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Look at this beautiful cover!
I’m Going to Cover My Heart and Open My Mouth blackbird.vcu.edu/im-going-to-...
Beautiful poem by Adam Grabowski in Blackbird
Beautiful poem by Adam Grabowski in Blackbird
I’m Going to Cover My Heart and Open My Mouth
blackbird.vcu.edu
August 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I’m Going to Cover My Heart and Open My Mouth blackbird.vcu.edu/im-going-to-...
Beautiful poem by Adam Grabowski in Blackbird
Beautiful poem by Adam Grabowski in Blackbird
Reposted by Wendy BooydeGraaff
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
August 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
“you cannot control the response to your work, and so you must weather the criticism, the rejection, and even the praise, and just keep on with the writing”
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Douglas Stuart interview: ‘I don't think working-class people can afford to write’ | The Booker Prizes
Five years after winning the Booker for Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart reflects on the pressures of being a prize winner, the queer canon, the politics of dialect, and how the arts have become less acce...
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August 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“you cannot control the response to your work, and so you must weather the criticism, the rejection, and even the praise, and just keep on with the writing”
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Excellent episode connecting us to nature—“nothing is single in this universe“ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive?
Podcast Episode · Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · 06/27/2025 · 2h 12m
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July 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Excellent episode connecting us to nature—“nothing is single in this universe“ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Reposted by Wendy BooydeGraaff
I've got an ask, but please only respond if you can answer it as I'm asking.
I'd love to look at *zines* that target *teen readers*. They can be written by teens or adults, and I need to either access them online or find 'em via libraries.
Any topic is cool.
But ZINES for TEENS is the ask.
I'd love to look at *zines* that target *teen readers*. They can be written by teens or adults, and I need to either access them online or find 'em via libraries.
Any topic is cool.
But ZINES for TEENS is the ask.
July 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I've got an ask, but please only respond if you can answer it as I'm asking.
I'd love to look at *zines* that target *teen readers*. They can be written by teens or adults, and I need to either access them online or find 'em via libraries.
Any topic is cool.
But ZINES for TEENS is the ask.
I'd love to look at *zines* that target *teen readers*. They can be written by teens or adults, and I need to either access them online or find 'em via libraries.
Any topic is cool.
But ZINES for TEENS is the ask.