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Sandra Jensen
@sandrajensen.bsky.social
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Published in World Literature Today, AGNI, Wasafiri, Cutleaf Journal, Hobart etc. Bunch of short and long listings. Bridport novel prize winner. ME/CFS/late stage Lyme etc. http://www.sandrajensen.net
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Super proud an essay of mine, “Invisible“, set in a Berlin sauna, was published in @underthesunonline.bsky.social. Thank you Under the Sun, especially editor Miriam Mandel Levi!
#cnf #creativenonfiction #writing
@writingcommunity.bsky.social
#essay #memoir
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A screenshot of Under the Sun literary magazine's page/logo with Sandra Jensen's personal essay title "Invisible" and image of a sauna
July 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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SO excited to hear that a story of mine will be published in @pangyrus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
March 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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As I write in this blog, it's lovely to have a piece published given all else that has happened for me this year. Especially in the very special The Selkie."https://sandrajensen.net/2025/02/26/the-four-types-of-conditionals/ #writingcommunity
February 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Hard to believe that I’m actually posting a photograph of something that isn’t Ronan, i.e. within the four walls of our apartment. Got out this week 😁David treated us to a sauna. This is what greeted us as we left…. All wonky but that is how it is these days.
Photo of Brighton’s i360 Tower, clouds and blue sky
February 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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A little story of an ordeal with late stage Lyme treatment…https://sandrajensen.net/2025/02/17/the-untellable-tale/ #chronicillness
February 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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janefriedman.com
Do you have a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, ideas, and you think you have enough to turn it into a book?

If it seems scattered and overwhelming—and you’re not sure what will fit where—here are ideas for organizing your material and moving forward, from Lara Lillibridge.
Turn Your Short Pieces Into a Finished Nonfiction Book | Jane Friedman
If you’ve amassed a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, and ideas, here’s a step-by-step guide to shaping them into a book.
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January 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
sandrajensen.bsky.social
It’s too late in the evening for me to answer this one but I suppose I could say that the very fact that I, a *completely* unfunny person, has written a comic novel makes me laugh 😅 #pretendpanel #writingcommunity #writers #authors #writingprompts
karamoonauthor.com Kara Moon (the artist formerly known as Hiria Dunning) @karamoonauthor.com · Jan 16
The answers to the last #pretendpanel question were beautiful! Such genuine humanity and soulful art coming out. Please hold onto that special spark at the heart of your writing 💖

January 16th: Does any part of your book/story/WIP make you laugh?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social January 16th: Does any part of your book/story/WIP make you laugh? Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts!
January 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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rammwriter.bsky.social
For clarity on upcoming pitch events, here's a graphic.

#Bluepit #P2Ppit #2025pit #YouDeservePit #MiseryPit #QuestPit #CuPit
January 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Wolf moon…
Photo of a nearly full moon and some houses
January 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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electricliterature.com
A stacked list of highly anticipated books by women of color to look out for this year electricliterature.com/48-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2025
48 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Laila Lalami, Andrea Long Chu, Angela Flournoy, and EL's own Denne Michele Norris are among the most anticipated
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January 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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That time of year again…. Brrrrr. So hard to imagine the tragic fires in California. We have very dear friends who have had to evacuate. I love Los Angeles. I can’t bear that this has happened. I feel very privileged to simply be cold
Photograph of women in her 60s outside wearing a hooded coat with lots of fake fur around the edge
January 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Snip from my WIP, A Force of Nature, a hybrid memoir in essays....

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
Snip from my WIP, a hybrid memoir in essays titled A Force of Nature: "Frida wore plaster corsets for most of her life and being Frida Kahlo she painted them: drawings of birds, tigers, a blood-red hammer and sickle. In one, an open circle is carved into the plaster near the heart like a skylight. My mother did not paint the plaster cast that encased her after the accident, nor did she carve into it. I doubt she could have if she’d tried, as the cast restricted movement in her arms. Think of Kahlo’s painting, The Two Fridas. Think of the white, stiff-collared dress worn by the Frida on the left. Not a plaster cast no, but it is strangely similar in design to my mother’s cast."
January 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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ANNOUNCEMENT

In interest of saving characters for your pitch, I've realized that WIPSnipsPit is really long, so WIPSnipsPit is now going to use the hashtag

#WSPit

This leaves more room for other tags and your pitch!

Full tags list and details coming soon.

Mark your calendars for Feb 26!
Hashtag Change #WIPSnipsPit is now #WSPit An author hype event February 26, 2025 If it's Feb 26 in your time zone it counts. I'm not the time zone police. Mark your calendar. Full guidelines coming soon.
January 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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karamoonauthor.com
#pretendpanel is coming up in a couple of days! Join me to practice answering writers panel type questions, and maybe make some friends along the way ✌️

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #AmWriting
#Writers #Authors #WriteSky #WritingPrompts
#pretendpanel calendar with 31 days of prompts
December 29, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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For those evacuating with pets in LA: Hilton’s Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton, Tru and Canopy brands are all 100% pet friendly. Even cats! And a lot of hotels are waiving pet fees atm. Good on u Hilton! Pun intended: that’s hot.
January 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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tinhouse.bsky.social
🎉Happy New Year!

Our submission period for 📚 debut novels opens next Saturday 1/11/2025 at 12:01 a.m. PT and stays open until Sun 1/12/2025 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

See full guidelines, FAQ, and how to submit your work here: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...
January 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Snip from the Bridport Prize winning novel I'm shopping around "At Least We're In This Together":

#AmWriting #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #writers #authors #WritingCommunity
#WIPSnips #bridportprize
Snip from the Bridport Prize winning novel I'm shopping around, titled "At Least We're In This Together": "Normally Mum asks me for a list of what I want for Christmas but the only lists going from my direction to hers are grocery lists. Other lists just go in one direction, from Mum to Mum. Lists for what needs to be built/torn down here and at the craft centre and lists for things needed to buy to do all this. Mum’s been driving like a maniac back and forth to the craft centre to keep an eye on the builders. The bloody builders, she always calls them, as if this is actually what they’re called. A special construction outfit, The Bloody Builders."
January 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#mswl send me some literary fiction! family & relationship stories, stories about sex, identity, belonging, colonization, betrayal, friendship, romance. make me fall in love at the level of the line, let me deep dive into amazing character work. would love some #litfic for the new year #amquerying
January 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Definitely worth a read!
sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social · Jan 1
Quite new here, so please mind my first-ever shameless hee-haw: I was lucky to have this little piece published in the one and only @jmwwjournal.bsky.social just before the year's end. It has Barack Obama, Jackson 5, and Judge Judy in it all at once—now do what you will with that. 👀
jmwwjournal.bsky.social JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · Dec 18
"Even when she smiles back, my wife’s face hardens like a henge of little rocks, her cheeks a pair of imploded sinkholes. But she looks as beautiful as ever."

Today at jmww, new ficton from Sarp Sozdinier:

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/f...
January 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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My new novel, The Best of Everything makes the list! Yippee!
40 of the best new books in 2025
Here's our guide to some of the best books to be discovered in bookshops this year – January to June edition! We've got long-awaited literary masterpieces by bestselling authors; romance, thriller...
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January 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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#wipsnips #mechanical #amquerying #booksky #indieauthors #indiebooks #sffwriters #writingcommunity #writersky #timetravel #speclit #speculativefiction #timetravelauthors
#amwriting #authors #sff #sci-fi #thrillerwriters #writerandreader #writers
January 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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theforge.bsky.social
From all of us at The Forge, a very Happy New Year to you!
Submissions are OPEN.

Editors-of-the-month, @saracrowley.bsky.social & Sommer Schaffer are hoping for your bravest and best. More details here: forgelitmag.com/submit/
#theforge #writingcommunity #greatwriting #amreading
January 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Snip from my WIP, A Force of Nature, a hybrid memoir in essays.... #AmWriting #WriteSky #Writers #Authors #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
snip from my WIP A Force of Nature, a hybrid memoir in essays: "My mother may not have wanted a lifetime career as a sculptor, but it’s clear she needed to do things. She had the ability to write books, articles even, and did, but she did not have the inclination to pursue writing as a vocation. Not physical enough? I think of the words of Henri Moore she quoted: vitality, pent up energy, physical action. An intense life of its own. If my mother wanted an intense life, it is certainly what she got, her inner world private to everyone except perhaps myself: Feeling insecure, lonely, unloved, unsafe is something one has to accept as part of everyone’s life, she wrote to me. I suffer from those feelings ALL the time I am not being ‘busy’. My mother didn’t need to tell me she’d wake in the night weeping. It was as if it were me doing the waking and weeping for no matter how far from her I lived, her pain was palpable. Her loneliness and anger, the furious mettle of her. "
January 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Some things you just have to accept, or worry for ever …

From “The Body Politic”.

#WiPSnips
Were anyone else to call something ‘creepy’ Phibber would accept it as intended. Some would say it in a mocking sort of way, others would fiercely believe it, still others would say such a thing in off-hand fashion, as though something being ‘creepy’ was little more than the mind playing tricks with shadows and creaks of settling wood. When Pinea said it, Phibber knew that the feeling must have bordered on the utterly horrifying. Pinea was not one for hyperbole. If anything, she played down things that would drive most people to insanity. If she said it was creepy, it was creepy! Probably with an additional two or three exclamation points to further exclaim it.
January 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
Snip from my WIP "A Force of Nature", a hybrid memoir in essays
Snip from my WIP "A Force of Nature": I see my seven-year-old self curled together with my brother, my father driving, my mother beside. The seat behind holding the American, Costas my mother’s lover and the American’s girlfriend. A large car, the Volkswagen Cortina station wagon my mother bought in Dusseldorf, the one Charles drove us to Greece with. I remember the singing, Σιγά σιγά, slowly slowly. I remember the American and the line of blood along his forearm. I remember my brother saying, Don’t look. I remember the sound of crickets, the hiss of the Volkswagen’s engine. I remember the house opposite, the elderly Greek couple standing rigid in their black clothes, wailing. I was not wailing. Greeks are good at wailing, not me. Not then, not at the hospital where Manolis took me by the elbow as we navigated the stairs down, Είσαι καλά? Are you okay? I pulled away. I didn’t want to be touched, not by anyone but my mother but she was in the operating theatre. The Greeks were good at touching children. Not like that, no. But they’d reach out and squeeze my cheek, caress my hair and pet my head without hesitation or invitation, as if I was their child and not my mother’s.
January 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM