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Amie Souza Reilly
@amiesouzareilly.bsky.social
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she/her/hers. writer, artist, mom. lecturer & writer-in-res. sacred heart university. free Palestine 🇵🇸

Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays out April 2025, Wilfrid Laurier U Press

More info at http://amiesouzareilly.com/
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so excited to run this workshop @ Black Rock Books 9/25. All ticket sales benefit @maketheroadct.bsky.social
Local CT friends, I hope you can come! Non-local friends, if you make a donation & DM me the receipt & email address, I'll send you the readings and prompts!
www.maketheroadct.org/donate
tan poster with green lettering: Writing as Resistance: A Reading + Community Event. $10 Donation to benefit Make the Road CT. Thursday 9/25 from 7-8pm. Attendees will read from several works, from Toi Dericotte's poems to Jenny Boully's essays, then after a discussion, all participants will write to prompts. Drafts shared and celebrated in our community space. Tan poster reads "For the past decade, Make the Road Connecticut (MRCT) has stood with immigrant and working-class communities, building power, demanding justice, and creating lasting change. Your ticket supports MRCT's vision of a Connecticut where every person, regardless of immigration status, race, or income, has access to affordable housing, quality education, fair wages, and healthcare. To learn more about their mission, visit maketheroadct.org reserve your spot at blackrockbooks.com/events ticket sales to benefit Make the Road CT
September 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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tinfoil hat/crown
No kings protest sign featuring foil crown
June 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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rocking my @havehashad.com swag at #nokings
Selfie, two white women and white man at a protest
June 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Way to go, New Haven!
Large crowd at the New Haven no kings protest Large crowd at the New Haven no kings protest
June 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Just started @jackiedwrites.bsky.social's NO OFFENSE, and by the second essay "Of Dogs and Men," I have become a pool of tears.
Jackie Domenus's essay collection NO OFFENSE, which has a purple cover and two rows of purple and pink speech bubbles
May 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I forgot to post Book Launch pics! So cool to pack our local cafe with people I love! My art is (still) hanging on the walls! We sold out of books, almost sold out of art prints, and raised $200 for the local domestic violence resource center! Amazing. @cassmannes.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social
collage of photos of a reading at a cafe. Writer is a white middle aged woman in a black dress. She has brown hair and glasses. The photos are of her and various family and friends, food, and wine.
May 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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For 3/4. (HBD @mjackreilly.bsky.social!)

News: "Experts have said this overriding of the Endangered Species Act is probably illegal" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Beauty: a favorite Solmaz Sharif poem lithub.com/beauty-a-poe...

Beauty: this is the underground trail of a lightning bolt
photo of the underground trail of a lightning bolt (taken at the Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT.
March 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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two beauties and a piece of news for 3/3:

News: check your vax status and get updates where needed www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

Beauty: I’m a bit behind, but Hélène Cixous was on Between the Covers tinhouse.com/podcast/hele...

Beauty: This book is, so far, awesomely strange.
Photo of Olga Ravn's book The Employee. The cover has a watercooler overflowing with black ink.
March 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Sir Gregory sits in his old blue chair
Three-legged brown dog sitting in a blue chair in a room with blue wallpaper
December 24, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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celebrating page proof day! @wlupress.bsky.social @freshlookediting.ca
Two champagne splits on a white shelf against a blue wallpaper background
December 19, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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Just in time for a long weekend—I can't wait to read this, @avitusbcarle.bsky.social!
Avitus B Carole's book THESE WORN BODIES
November 27, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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book cover for Human/Animal: A bestiary in Essays. Wolf mask over a yellow background and a white picket fence
November 18, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Head of Marketing: How do we make sure people know this soap is for men?

Marketing Team: Mountains? Muscles? A big weapon? Maybe orbiting severed heads? A crotch-eating skull belt? Oh, and definitely shoulder spikes and a stump head.

Head of Marketing: YES! All of that. Plus…EYEBALL NIPPLES.
advertisement for soap. The label has a man's body holding a very large weapon. He has spikes coming out of his shoulders, and cartoonish severed heads orbit the man's stump-head, which says "Liquid Death." He is wearing tight leather pants, a skull belt appears to be eating his crotch. He has eyes where his nipple should be.
November 14, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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sweet greg-o went to the vet this morning and they told him he needs to lose 5lbs and then they took blood. He is very, very sad.
Brown dog asleep on a gray couch, paw on my leg, snout buried.
September 13, 2023 at 2:53 PM
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happy national dog day to greg, who always sleeps like this ❤️
Photo: Three-legged brown dog asleep belly up on a pile of blue and yellow pillows
August 26, 2023 at 5:20 PM
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Look at how excited he is! At a gas station! On a very hot day!
Selfie of a white woman with brown hair wearing sunglasses in a car with her brown dog
August 15, 2023 at 1:16 PM
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here, I grew this poem for you ❤️
Red and white dahlia in a small glass vase
August 12, 2023 at 1:10 PM
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the reason for my cute aggression
Brown dog with yellow eyes on a hardwood floor, looking up
August 11, 2023 at 11:57 PM
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love being part of this, love reading all the other essays. And the bios & notes!! Endless thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social

(you can order yours here: https://www.autofocuslit.com/books/p/how-to-write-a-novel)
Cover of essay collection HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL white cover with light blue skull First page of essay titled "Laundry"
August 8, 2023 at 8:19 PM