Constance Malloy
@theburninghearth.bsky.social
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Announcing the Launch of Purple & Green Stone Press
Welcome to The Burning Hearth! Whether you are new to TBH or are a returning reader, I’m happy you are here. Much has been happening in my corner of the universe lately. Happenings that have …
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Hi All! I've busy lately preparing to launch my new imprint Purple & Green Stone Press. (Strictly for self-publication purposes.) My first book to launch is Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch. 🎃👨🌾 🧙♀️🧹
Written by me, illustrated by my daughter Hannah! Check it out!
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Written by me, illustrated by my daughter Hannah! Check it out!
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“If I am peaceful in this discomfort, is not peace,/ is getting used to harm.”
Dionne Brand
Land to Light On
Dionne Brand
Land to Light On
February 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
“If I am peaceful in this discomfort, is not peace,/ is getting used to harm.”
Dionne Brand
Land to Light On
Dionne Brand
Land to Light On
I LOVE this interview!
This is such a powerful conversation
"I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power."
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
February 7, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I LOVE this interview!
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A classic from the archives, re-released in anticipation of Jake Skeets second collection, HORSES, coming in March from @milkweededitions.bsky.social
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
From the Archives : Jake Skeets : Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers | Milkweed Editions
Today’s episode is a classic from the archives, a conversation from 2019 with current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets about his debut poetry collection Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flow...
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February 6, 2026 at 11:57 PM
A classic from the archives, re-released in anticipation of Jake Skeets second collection, HORSES, coming in March from @milkweededitions.bsky.social
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...
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Reposted by Constance Malloy
Hi there, fellow white people (especially my fellow white dudes)! It's Black History Month, and all of us who have lived in the privilege bubble our entire lives should get educated! Every day this month, 28daysofblackhistory.com drops a new story in your inbox. Every single one of them is amazing.
28 Days of Black History
28 days of Black history delivered in your inbox each day of February.
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February 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Hi there, fellow white people (especially my fellow white dudes)! It's Black History Month, and all of us who have lived in the privilege bubble our entire lives should get educated! Every day this month, 28daysofblackhistory.com drops a new story in your inbox. Every single one of them is amazing.
Just depressing.
While analyzing our 2025 submission data, I noticed that the US is now the primary producer of slop submissions (which includes fully and partially-generated/assisted/whatever). Congrats. You're #1. Happy? You should be embarrassed. Please stop.
(In 2023 and 2024, the US wasn't in the top three.)
(In 2023 and 2024, the US wasn't in the top three.)
January 29, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Just depressing.
So excited for Between the Covers new home!
Excited to share the 1st episode of my new partnership with @milkweededitions.bsky.social, with the remarkable Sangu Iyer, about her memoir Governing Bodies: A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed
Audio👂🌱: milkweed.org/between-the-...
@literaryanimal.bsky.social @whitingfoundation.bsky.social
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Sangamithra Iyer : Governing Bodies : A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed | Milkweed Editions
“When I tell you a story about my body, I cannot separate it from a story about water. And a story about water is also a story about family. And a story about family is rooted in the earth…,” opens Sa...
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January 28, 2026 at 8:17 PM
So excited for Between the Covers new home!
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We cannot cross until we carry each other.
January 20, 2026 at 4:05 PM
We cannot cross until we carry each other.
He has the tattoo. Pretty sure he's committed to this message.
Reposting myself, in case you missed it.
If I can make something that helps someone else create the space I have when I read a book or whatever I'm doing to rest, then I have to do that. I can't not do that, especially when what I do feels pointless.
January 11, 2026 at 6:55 PM
He has the tattoo. Pretty sure he's committed to this message.
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Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Excited to share this conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah about her remarkable new novel DISCIPLINE. A book about language, silence, complicity, solidarity and so much more
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/rand...
Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline - Tin House
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians there, one in media and one in academia, where each has to confront qu...
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January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair,
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced
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Happy New Year everyone. What better way to ring it in than with a conversation about writing and transformation? Don't miss today's episode with @lilydunn.bsky.social!
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@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
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Lily Dunn : Into Being : The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform - Tin House
In Into Being Lily Dunn explores the ways in which writing one’s life has the potential to transform it; how writing, if done well, can produce “symbolic repair.” We look at Virginia Woolf’s notion o...
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January 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Happy New Year everyone. What better way to ring it in than with a conversation about writing and transformation? Don't miss today's episode with @lilydunn.bsky.social!
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
tinhouse.com/podcast/lily...
@manchesterup.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social
Outstanding letter!!! Yes, to human beings and the human children we are responsible for raising.
This summer, I took myself to the beach for two days & wrote a letter to my fellow educators about “AI.”
My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”
Welp.
I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
My mom asked to read it; I told her, “Not yet. Let me get another draft done.”
Welp.
I should have let her read the first draft because she’s not here to read this one.
“Human Beings! Human Beings!” An Open Letter to Educators on the Dangers of AI
A high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor denounces AI as a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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January 7, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Outstanding letter!!! Yes, to human beings and the human children we are responsible for raising.
Started 2026 off by reading and loving Playground by Richard Powers. Now it's time to go back and listen to this interview with @davidnaimon.bsky.social. Loved Overstory as well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJcf...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJcf...
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January 3, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Started 2026 off by reading and loving Playground by Richard Powers. Now it's time to go back and listen to this interview with @davidnaimon.bsky.social. Loved Overstory as well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJcf...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJcf...
I saw this in the late 90s and early 2000s with my dance students. I've been on about this for years. So glad to see it being talking about.
youtube.com/shorts/gr4ND...
youtube.com/shorts/gr4ND...
NEVER Send Your Kid To Daycare? 😳
YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO
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January 2, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I saw this in the late 90s and early 2000s with my dance students. I've been on about this for years. So glad to see it being talking about.
youtube.com/shorts/gr4ND...
youtube.com/shorts/gr4ND...
2026 is a good time to start a new podcast and @wilwheaton.net It's Storytime is a great one!
I've been reading my editor's selections for upcoming episodes of It's Storytime. I expected them to be great (they are) but what I didn't expect was how *different* they would all be.
Y'all, if these authors say yes, we're gonna bring you such a wonderful variety of speculative fiction in 2026!
Y'all, if these authors say yes, we're gonna bring you such a wonderful variety of speculative fiction in 2026!
December 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
2026 is a good time to start a new podcast and @wilwheaton.net It's Storytime is a great one!
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the transcript is up for the conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
Between the Covers Randa Abdel-Fattah Interview - Tin House
David Naimon: You’re reading a 400-page manuscript. This is your job. But when, 200 pages in, a bunch of clowns mysteriously show up, the plot goes off the rails. It’s your job to fix this manuscript....
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December 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
the transcript is up for the conversation with Randa Abdel-Fattah: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
Looking forward to this! It sounds so compelling...and the cover!
Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm...
@twolinespress.com
Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords - Tin House
Jorge Luis Borges called her the “Tolstoy of Mexico” and César Aira the “greatest novelist of the 20th century,” so why is it likely that you haven’t read or even heard of Elena Garro before now? And ...
tinhouse.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Looking forward to this! It sounds so compelling...and the cover!
Yay! to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for landing on another Best Writing Podcasts. So well deserved. If my vote counts, he is the most knowledgeable. 😊
December 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Yay! to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for landing on another Best Writing Podcasts. So well deserved. If my vote counts, he is the most knowledgeable. 😊
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LOOKING forward to reading this !!!
I hope you will stop by TBH for my final interview of the year in honor of Native American Heritage Month, I feature Kimberly Blaeser, former WI Poet Laureate.
"Nights we lie on the ledge rock and lose ourselves in the sky..."
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"Nights we lie on the ledge rock and lose ourselves in the sky..."
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month with Wisconsin Poet Kimberly Blaeser
Constance and Kimberly Blaeser at the Write On, Door County “Writing the World” conference, May 2025 Hello, and welcome to The Burning Hearth! I’m so excited to share my interview…
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December 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
LOOKING forward to reading this !!!
I hope you will stop by TBH for my final interview of the year in honor of Native American Heritage Month, I feature Kimberly Blaeser, former WI Poet Laureate.
"Nights we lie on the ledge rock and lose ourselves in the sky..."
constancemalloy.com/2025/11/30/c...
"Nights we lie on the ledge rock and lose ourselves in the sky..."
constancemalloy.com/2025/11/30/c...
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month with Wisconsin Poet Kimberly Blaeser
Constance and Kimberly Blaeser at the Write On, Door County “Writing the World” conference, May 2025 Hello, and welcome to The Burning Hearth! I’m so excited to share my interview…
constancemalloy.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I hope you will stop by TBH for my final interview of the year in honor of Native American Heritage Month, I feature Kimberly Blaeser, former WI Poet Laureate.
"Nights we lie on the ledge rock and lose ourselves in the sky..."
constancemalloy.com/2025/11/30/c...
"Nights we lie on the ledge rock and lose ourselves in the sky..."
constancemalloy.com/2025/11/30/c...
Just reposting an old piece. Sadly, I recently overheard a high school student talking about how over scheduled they are. I wonder if their parents are listening.
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Whose Nightmare Is It? (Constance Malloy)
cw: suicide The beauty of the internet is that you can find a tutorial to aid in your own demise. That’s what 15 year-old Sally Baker did. In a minute forty-four flat she learned how to tie a slip …
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November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just reposting an old piece. Sadly, I recently overheard a high school student talking about how over scheduled they are. I wonder if their parents are listening.
rejection-letters.com/2021/06/11/w...
rejection-letters.com/2021/06/11/w...
This sounds so amazing!
Don't miss today's episode with poet extraordinaire @robincostelewis.bsky.social about Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy. We look across her 3 books, across time from Ancient Greece to modern Alexandria, across her life and Cavafy's
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/robi...
Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire - Tin House
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy began as a collaborative multidisciplinary project between the poet Robin Coste Lewis, the composer Vijay Iyer, the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and ...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This sounds so amazing!
So excited to see Farmer Ted and Helga the Witch visiting Mocha and Melissa!!
I do so hope you'll check it out! It's the most fun mother-daughter project we've every done!
I do so hope you'll check it out! It's the most fun mother-daughter project we've every done!
“”If I’m unhappy at Halloween,’ she said, tapping the wart on her nose, ‘then everyone should be unhappy. Especially Farmer Ted…’”
Mocha & I are spending this rainy morning with the delightful FARMER TED’S PUMPKIN PATCH by @theburninghearth.bsky.social! Check it out, friends!📚🤎🍁🎃🐶
Mocha & I are spending this rainy morning with the delightful FARMER TED’S PUMPKIN PATCH by @theburninghearth.bsky.social! Check it out, friends!📚🤎🍁🎃🐶
October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So excited to see Farmer Ted and Helga the Witch visiting Mocha and Melissa!!
I do so hope you'll check it out! It's the most fun mother-daughter project we've every done!
I do so hope you'll check it out! It's the most fun mother-daughter project we've every done!
Purple & Green Stone Press launches first children's book Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch at Wonderland Bookshop in Shorewood, WI. Constance and Hannah Malloy wrote and illustrated the book, featuring the long-time beloved Helga the Witch.🧙♀️🎃
www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...
www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...
October 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Purple & Green Stone Press launches first children's book Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch at Wonderland Bookshop in Shorewood, WI. Constance and Hannah Malloy wrote and illustrated the book, featuring the long-time beloved Helga the Witch.🧙♀️🎃
www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...
www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...
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A kids' book in time for Halloween from the ever brilliant @theburninghearth.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...
Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch
Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch [Malloy, Constance, Malloy, Hannah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Farmer Ted's Pumpkin Patch
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October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A kids' book in time for Halloween from the ever brilliant @theburninghearth.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Farmer-Pumpk...