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Robert Vaughan
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Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com
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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 28d
All new @bendinggenres.bsky.social Issue 47 is now live! Our Sept/ Oct issue is filled with hybrid CNF, flash and poetry, an incredible feat! Congratulations to all our Bending Genres editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #writer #writerslife #writerscommunity
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Truly grateful for this wonderful review of THIS IS HOW THEY MOURN by @cardewjcardew.bsky.social included on the @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog today.
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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I thoroughly enjoyed this collection by @kristintenor.bsky.social Highly recommend!
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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On our @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social reviews @kristintenor.bsky.social This is How They Mourn. And a nod to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social for inspiring our new BG logo with her bald cypress hybrid tree photo:

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Review of Kristin Tenor’s This is How They Mourn by Jonathan Cardew
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November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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two new little micro #littlepoemsunday poems today from Adrian Dallas Frandle!

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November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"Okay, so this man used to be a YouTuber, but then he made a video where he went to a Japanese suicide forest, and people got mad at him. He sucks. Then he pivoted to like, boxing? And he has a brother who also sucks."
Explaining to Your Parents Why Certain Celebrities Are Famous
This lady’s video went viral after she tasted kombucha and made a weird face, and now she has a podcast and a YouTube talk show. It’s just like a n...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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post you from a different era. This is me and Andrea (bestie) from my first time around, 1980s, in NYC!!!
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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2024 Overview 🧵:

In 2024, I published 42 books:

28 books written by me: 27 children's books, 1 adult book

14 translations: 6 into English, 7 into Spanish & 1 into both English + Spanish (my first translation from French)

#kidlit #amwriting #amtranslating

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A selfie with most of the books I published in 2024, as an author (on left) or translator (the stack on the right). I am still missing copies of a few titles, both written by me and translated by me. A photo of most of the children's books written by me that were published this year around the world, including both new titles and translations of older titles. There are books in Changana, Sena, Macua, Urdu, Bulgarian, Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and English, among others. The one adult book by me published this year: A BEARD PARADOX, translated by Sandra Kingery (Rebel Satori Press), a collection of 100 erotic flashfiction stories originally written in Spanish. A photo of many of the books I translated this year: on the left, books I translated into English, on the right, books I translated into Spanish, and in the middle, one book I translated into both English and Spanish (my first published translation from French).
December 30, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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Cover reveal! Excited to share this upcoming anthology I'm in, edited by @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social and featuring a slew of brilliant essayists!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816934...
Living, Together: 9780807021293 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
21 writers and organizers on found family, hacking adulthood, and other lessons communal living can teach us about the future of housing in America Featuring Kristen Arnett, Rhaina Cohen, Kim Stanley ...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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thorntonforreal.bsky.social
I have a story in Ghost Parachute today alongside this beautiful artwork by Brett J Barr. Will be reading the whole September issue on my back porch for the next hour with coffee.

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September 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Hybrid-gene trees!!! Who knew?!! Thanks, @maureenlangloss.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social
maureenlangloss.bsky.social Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 9d
Did you know about the Bald Cypress? I did not & was so shocked when I came upon this magnificent tree bc it’s got needles but also turns colors! It’s a deciduous conifer! It’s a hybrid-genre tree! Like the larch. It gets its cool name bc it goes bald in winter, dropping its needles.
Huge bald cyprus tree that has turned vibrant orange. Blue sky
November 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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mattkendrick.bsky.social
"And probably because she always wore some floral fragrance, lilac or periwinkle, or fucking frangipani"

Brilliant evocation of anger and voice from @rgvaughan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
rgvaughan.bsky.social
We are going back to Synergia Ranch, August 16- 22, 2026. Please join us?!!!
lisaalletson.bsky.social Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · Nov 12
It's been over a year since our Bending Genres retreat in New Mexico but I still think about this dizzying moment in a desert sunset, surrounded by the love of these magical writers @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social @rgvaughan.bsky.social Kathryn Silver-Hajo, Kristen Henderson.
lisaalletson.bsky.social Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social · Sep 6
Is there anything better than meeting, in-person, writers you've long admired? I love this sunset moment with @rgvaughan.bsky.social @dianegotauthor.bsky.social @claudiamonpere.bsky.social Kristen Henderson, Kathryn Silver-Hajo at the @bendinggenres.bsky.social retreat. Unforgettable week.
November 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I'm so excited to teach this class. It's beyond time to share the stage with the More-Than-Human beings who live with humans on this watery blue planet. Online, asynchronous; I'll be there, encouraging, commenting, cheering, suggesting, making the fertile soil for you to create.
rgvaughan.bsky.social Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 15d
Up next- @ninaschuyler.bsky.social will lead our @bendinggenres.bsky.social weekend workshop, Dec. 12- 14, a new focus, Writing the More-than-Humans!!! Dip into the other species or surroundings we share this amazing planet with!!! More here: bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...
Writing Groups
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October 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
rgvaughan.bsky.social
Up next- @ninaschuyler.bsky.social will lead our @bendinggenres.bsky.social weekend workshop, Dec. 12- 14, a new focus, Writing the More-than-Humans!!! Dip into the other species or surroundings we share this amazing planet with!!! More here: bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...
Writing Groups
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October 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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join me and my fellow locke-chinned and wolf-cheeked and stubble-lipped bards to raise a bunch of money for Trans Lifeline while hearing poems too
Flyer for the Bearded Bards of Bluesky online reading series to raise funds for Trans Lifeline November 8 Featuring Todd Dillard Brian Spears Matthew E. Henry James McConachie David J. Bauman Jonathan Everitt register at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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New issue DIAGRAM 25.3 LET'S GOOOO thediagram.com/25_3/index.h...
September 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.
Copy of the Best American Short Stories 2025, edited by Celeste Ng
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Helicopter view of Chicago #NoKings in Grant Park via @cbschicago.bsky.social
View from the sky of tens of thousands gathered in Chicago's Grant Park for the No Kings protest
October 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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ambersparks.bsky.social
My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...
October 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
rgvaughan.bsky.social
All new @bendinggenres.bsky.social Issue 47 is now live! Our Sept/ Oct issue is filled with hybrid CNF, flash and poetry, an incredible feat! Congratulations to all our Bending Genres editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #writer #writerslife #writerscommunity
October 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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My interview with @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social up in @bendinggenres.bsky.social thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/interview-wi...
Interview with Patricia Q. Bidar about her forthcoming book, Pardon Me for Moonwalking
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October 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Read!
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Issue 36 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Louella Lester, Find More of her work Here Stories Monarch is a new awards anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses.  G...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Bookshop is having a sale to counter Prime Day! What a great opportunity to buy this cool new book I heard about.

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First Kicking, Then Not
Check out First Kicking, Then Not - <p>A young woman transforms after an unspeakable loss. A recent divorcee discovers a new life. An aging mother fears losing everything she loves, while another aban...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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pizamapress.bsky.social
"This is what Disintegration does over and over again, pairs truth against humanity."

Really insightful & thoughtful review of Kiik's book is up on @bendinggenres.bsky.social today!

Thanks to Yetta Stein & @rgvaughan.bsky.social

bendinggenres.com/review-of-ki...
October 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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‘The quick-scut, the dew-flirt,
the grass-biter, the goibert,
the home-late, the do-the-dirt.
The starer, the wood-cat,
the purblind, the furze cat…’ ~ The Names of a Hare, trans from Middle English by Heaney. #BookWormSat
🖼️ From Cocharelli Codex, c.1330, Genoa, Italy, Brit. Library, 28841, f. 6v
From a medieval manuscript, The artwork depicts two hares, a beetle-like insect, and a moth in a field of flowers and other plants
October 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM