Stephanie Vanderslice
@stephvanderslice.bsky.social
Writes,teaches,reads. Partner: John V., Proud parent: Jackson, Wilson. Huge Bluey Fan. Fiction: See above, NF: Teaching Creative Writing: The Geek's Guide to the Writing Life; Rethinking Creative Writing & more. Memoir & novel ip, taking their sweet time.
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When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult because I imagined that adulthood would be a time when no one would interrupt me when I was trying to read.
If I could go back in time, I would tell that little girl she has never been more wrong about anything in her life.
If I could go back in time, I would tell that little girl she has never been more wrong about anything in her life.
July 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be an adult because I imagined that adulthood would be a time when no one would interrupt me when I was trying to read.
If I could go back in time, I would tell that little girl she has never been more wrong about anything in her life.
If I could go back in time, I would tell that little girl she has never been more wrong about anything in her life.
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"If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Man, I’d really love to get a camper, pack up my stuff, and head into the Canadian wilderness with my two cats,” then Karen Babine’s new book is going to speak to you with stunning specificity."
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Fake Unicorns and Real Llamas, Open Mike Eagle, Pickup Truck Opera: The Week's Best Events - Racket
Plus a rebranded and expanded Pillsbury House.
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July 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Man, I’d really love to get a camper, pack up my stuff, and head into the Canadian wilderness with my two cats,” then Karen Babine’s new book is going to speak to you with stunning specificity."
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March 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Must say I'm so happy to be connected with All the wonderful women from all over the world here on BlueSky.... ❤️
Wishing you a Happy International Women’s Day !!!
#womensday #InternationalWomensDay
#HappyInternationalWomensDay
Wishing you a Happy International Women’s Day !!!
#womensday #InternationalWomensDay
#HappyInternationalWomensDay
March 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Must say I'm so happy to be connected with All the wonderful women from all over the world here on BlueSky.... ❤️
Wishing you a Happy International Women’s Day !!!
#womensday #InternationalWomensDay
#HappyInternationalWomensDay
Wishing you a Happy International Women’s Day !!!
#womensday #InternationalWomensDay
#HappyInternationalWomensDay
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We are not alone!
Stand Up for Science
Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
March 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We are not alone!
Watching Love, Meghan on Netflix. I like it! It’s no more or less awkward than Barefoot Contessa which I also like. There, I said it. Could we lay off the Sussexes?
March 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Watching Love, Meghan on Netflix. I like it! It’s no more or less awkward than Barefoot Contessa which I also like. There, I said it. Could we lay off the Sussexes?
New way to think about stress dreams: the opportunity to wake up and think, well whatever happens to me today, it probably won’t be as bad as that.
February 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New way to think about stress dreams: the opportunity to wake up and think, well whatever happens to me today, it probably won’t be as bad as that.
Me: Friday’s going to be such a productive day! 30 degree temperature drop induced headache: Not so fast!
February 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Me: Friday’s going to be such a productive day! 30 degree temperature drop induced headache: Not so fast!
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On days you feel low, organizing and cuddling your old work can feel good. You will see personal growth and remember how you felt actually writing some things. You will also find writing you have zero memory of ever writing. The mystery of YOU is real. #writingcommunity #writers #inspiration
January 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
On days you feel low, organizing and cuddling your old work can feel good. You will see personal growth and remember how you felt actually writing some things. You will also find writing you have zero memory of ever writing. The mystery of YOU is real. #writingcommunity #writers #inspiration
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Tech bros: “So we stole creatives’ IP on a grand scale to train our AI. So what?”
Also tech bros: “DeepSeek stole our IP! Waaaaaah!”
Karma, baby. It’s DELICIOUS. ☺️
💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity
Also tech bros: “DeepSeek stole our IP! Waaaaaah!”
Karma, baby. It’s DELICIOUS. ☺️
💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity
January 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tech bros: “So we stole creatives’ IP on a grand scale to train our AI. So what?”
Also tech bros: “DeepSeek stole our IP! Waaaaaah!”
Karma, baby. It’s DELICIOUS. ☺️
💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity
Also tech bros: “DeepSeek stole our IP! Waaaaaah!”
Karma, baby. It’s DELICIOUS. ☺️
💙📚 #BookSky #WritingCommunity
This!
For years I (erroneously) believed no one could teach me about writing. it's now clear that EVERYONE can teach me about writing (be it characters, situations, motivations, etc) and suddenly I find myself surrounded by great wisdom, if only I allow myself to see it.
#writinglife #amwriting
#writinglife #amwriting
January 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This!
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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 1.29.25 from Nora Roberts www.nancychristie.com/my-books-for... #writingprocess #writingadvice
January 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 1.29.25 from Nora Roberts www.nancychristie.com/my-books-for... #writingprocess #writingadvice
I needed this. Maybe you do too. Seize joy.
Reckoning With This Vicious World
Don’t let it make you anxious or merciless or indifferent. This moment requires balance, compassion, and love from each and every one of us.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I needed this. Maybe you do too. Seize joy.
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Check out @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social's interview in CRAFT on the lyric essay: "all of these different lyric elements…sound or visual images, smell, or doing strange things with time…engage with the reader in a different way than a more traditional linear narrative would."
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Interview: Heidi Czerwiec - CRAFT
I started writing lyric essays long before I knew the language for what I was doing. Working at the intersection of poetry and prose, I wrote about big emotions (love, grief) because I wasn’t sure how...
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January 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Check out @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social's interview in CRAFT on the lyric essay: "all of these different lyric elements…sound or visual images, smell, or doing strange things with time…engage with the reader in a different way than a more traditional linear narrative would."
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Listening to podcast with an artist I admire. How she's stayed true to her art in her long career. Unmentioned: her partner's income stability & health ins. Asking again, could we PLEASE be upfront about this? For those of us who ARE the partners with the health insurance etc.w/out such flexibility.
January 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Listening to podcast with an artist I admire. How she's stayed true to her art in her long career. Unmentioned: her partner's income stability & health ins. Asking again, could we PLEASE be upfront about this? For those of us who ARE the partners with the health insurance etc.w/out such flexibility.
New substack: Sources to help you determine what it would cost to live in France.
How: The Cost of Living
Looking at sample French budgets from around the web
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January 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New substack: Sources to help you determine what it would cost to live in France.
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Writing Tip:
Consider drawing your world. You don't have to be an epic artist to do this, just create a rough map of where things are geographically. A visual representation can really help iron out the details of your worldbuilding, and you can update it as you go.
#writing #writingtips #writesky
Consider drawing your world. You don't have to be an epic artist to do this, just create a rough map of where things are geographically. A visual representation can really help iron out the details of your worldbuilding, and you can update it as you go.
#writing #writingtips #writesky
January 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Writing Tip:
Consider drawing your world. You don't have to be an epic artist to do this, just create a rough map of where things are geographically. A visual representation can really help iron out the details of your worldbuilding, and you can update it as you go.
#writing #writingtips #writesky
Consider drawing your world. You don't have to be an epic artist to do this, just create a rough map of where things are geographically. A visual representation can really help iron out the details of your worldbuilding, and you can update it as you go.
#writing #writingtips #writesky
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Unmoored
Jane Eyre would dig a good packing cube. In fact, she’d probably identify with one. Compact and useful, the cube is neither fussy nor proud. Its task-directed presence, quietly doing its duty, contain...
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January 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
Writing.
2. your initial major?
English
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
Human Development (Psych, Eng. minors)
4. what do you do now?
Writer, Writing prof. Creative writing pedagogy scholar
1. what was your career goal when you started?
Writing.
2. your initial major?
English
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
Human Development (Psych, Eng. minors)
4. what do you do now?
Writer, Writing prof. Creative writing pedagogy scholar
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. become a chemist
2. Logic (thru Philosophy dept)
3. stayed
4. Write SFF stories and sometimes consult on tech strategy/marketing
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. become a chemist
2. Logic (thru Philosophy dept)
3. stayed
4. Write SFF stories and sometimes consult on tech strategy/marketing
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. learn to treat diseases like my mom's (ME/CFS)
2. pharmacy
3. plant science
4. Scientific Director at an org advocating for #MECFS
1. what was your career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. learn to treat diseases like my mom's (ME/CFS)
2. pharmacy
3. plant science
4. Scientific Director at an org advocating for #MECFS
January 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If you went to college
1. what was your career goal when you started?
Writing.
2. your initial major?
English
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
Human Development (Psych, Eng. minors)
4. what do you do now?
Writer, Writing prof. Creative writing pedagogy scholar
1. what was your career goal when you started?
Writing.
2. your initial major?
English
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
Human Development (Psych, Eng. minors)
4. what do you do now?
Writer, Writing prof. Creative writing pedagogy scholar
I have already preordered and cannot wait for this book to come out in May. But look! We get a sneak peek!!!
January 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I have already preordered and cannot wait for this book to come out in May. But look! We get a sneak peek!!!
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I'm proud to have a new story in this splendid issue of @literarymama.bsky.social, which left us for a brief time, but has returned just when we need it most, as we face -- as editor @ajfields.bsky.social says -- "the hard, often uncomfortable work we need to do."
NEW ISSUE: We're BACK with a beautiful January/February 2025 issue. "Enjoy this latest issue. It is both a return, and a gesture of love." @ajfields.bsky.social literarymama.com/issues/janua...
January/February 2025
I didn’t fully realize the power of this journal until everyone thought it was gone for good.
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January 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm proud to have a new story in this splendid issue of @literarymama.bsky.social, which left us for a brief time, but has returned just when we need it most, as we face -- as editor @ajfields.bsky.social says -- "the hard, often uncomfortable work we need to do."
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I need everyone in the world to STOP what they are doing and look at this dog's markings! 🖤 Her name is Bridgette, and she deserves to be someone's Valentine. Available at Best Friends of Baker in Baker City, Oregon. #dogs #ValentinesDay
January 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I need everyone in the world to STOP what they are doing and look at this dog's markings! 🖤 Her name is Bridgette, and she deserves to be someone's Valentine. Available at Best Friends of Baker in Baker City, Oregon. #dogs #ValentinesDay
Life giving interview.
Missed this yesterday:
Tressie McMillan Cottom and Eddie Glaude reflect on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate King on the same day that President Donald Trump is sworn into office.
Tressie McMillan Cottom and Eddie Glaude reflect on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate King on the same day that President Donald Trump is sworn into office.
Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. as an 'organizer of the people'
Scholars Tressie McMillan Cottom and Eddie Glaude reflect on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate King on the same day that President Donald Trump is sworn into office.
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January 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Life giving interview.
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"Writing a little bit each day is akin to leaving the faucets dripping on a cold January night; while the ideas are flowing the creative pipes won’t freeze." ~ @marthasilano.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"Writing a little bit each day is akin to leaving the faucets dripping on a cold January night; while the ideas are flowing the creative pipes won’t freeze." ~ @marthasilano.bsky.social
Because it’s awesome and you should read it!
Just in case you missed this fabulous news... Mimi Herman's THE KUDZU QUEEN is one of the BEST-SELLING BOOKS OF 2024 among @electriclit.bsky.social readers! electricliterature.com/the-best-sel...
The Best-Selling Books of 2024 Among Electric Literature's Readers - Electric Literature
Discover the most purchased titles of the year
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January 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Because it’s awesome and you should read it!