Ana Maria Spagna
@amspagna.bsky.social
Reader (of everything!) Writer (of Pushed, Uplake, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus, Reclaimers, and other books) I'd rather be outside
Intimacy, as Lopate wrote, is the hallmark of the personal essay. Such a generous analysis of my work from The Humble Essayist www.the-humble-essayist.com
Personal Essay | The Humble Essayist
Personal Essay | The Humble Essayist is devoted to the personal essay and the reflective memoir, forms that use the personal to illuminate a larger truth. Our main feature is the “Paragraph of the Wee...
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May 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Intimacy, as Lopate wrote, is the hallmark of the personal essay. Such a generous analysis of my work from The Humble Essayist www.the-humble-essayist.com
Look at Maybelle advocating for transit!
Our next #TransitCat for #Caturday is Maybelle, who is annually a #FerryCat on the Stehekin ferry on Lake Chelan.
Maybelle’s on her annual ferry commute from Stehekin to Wenatchee. She stays pretty close to the life jackets. Safety first!
May 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Look at Maybelle advocating for transit!
This is crucial to our region .. and to actual hard working humans and many friends. Thanks to @repkimschrier.bsky.social
I've called on the administration to rescind their U.S. Forest Service workforce cuts because, in Washington State, we treasure our public lands and know that keeping our forests healthy is vital both for recreation and for preventing catastrophic wildfires.
www.nbcrightnow.com/national/sch...
www.nbcrightnow.com/national/sch...
Schrier, colleagues ask for rescinding of forest service termination
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Congresswoman Kim Schrier (D-WA) asked for terminated U.S. Forest Services to be reinstated and for the the Trump Administration to hold off on other workforce cuts.
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March 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is crucial to our region .. and to actual hard working humans and many friends. Thanks to @repkimschrier.bsky.social
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Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’
February 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Yay!! A federal judge in California sided with a coalition of unions, temporarily barring the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, stating that the firings were ‘illegal, should be stopped, and rescinded.’
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Writer friends, I hope you're getting your current manuscript polished and ready to send to Wandering Aengus and Trail to Table Press by 1/31.
10 days to submit literary #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry.
The editors are reading subs and eagerly awaiting yours!
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10 days to submit literary #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry.
The editors are reading subs and eagerly awaiting yours!
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
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January 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Writer friends, I hope you're getting your current manuscript polished and ready to send to Wandering Aengus and Trail to Table Press by 1/31.
10 days to submit literary #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry.
The editors are reading subs and eagerly awaiting yours!
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
10 days to submit literary #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry.
The editors are reading subs and eagerly awaiting yours!
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
Gopnik: “A crowd can become a mob;a crowd can even become an army. To turn a crowd into a community? Ah, that’s the hard work.”
Go bluesky go.
Go bluesky go.
November 28, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Gopnik: “A crowd can become a mob;a crowd can even become an army. To turn a crowd into a community? Ah, that’s the hard work.”
Go bluesky go.
Go bluesky go.
Teaching this course 2 years ago was one of the most magical experiences of my life. Please join me and our amazing more-than-human kin in the San Juan Islands.
WRITING THE NONHUMAN - Freeflow Institute
A rich, multidimensional journey across genres and species, and a dreamy midsummer exploration of the Salish Sea by kayak
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November 27, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Teaching this course 2 years ago was one of the most magical experiences of my life. Please join me and our amazing more-than-human kin in the San Juan Islands.
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"Stories are holy and nutritious and crucial. Stories change lives; stories save lives.... They crack open hearts, they open minds." ~ Brian Doyle
November 22, 2024 at 12:16 PM
"Stories are holy and nutritious and crucial. Stories change lives; stories save lives.... They crack open hearts, they open minds." ~ Brian Doyle
Maybelle’s on her annual ferry commute from Stehekin to Wenatchee. She stays pretty close to the life jackets. Safety first!
November 17, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Maybelle’s on her annual ferry commute from Stehekin to Wenatchee. She stays pretty close to the life jackets. Safety first!
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I think the best thing we can do for the moment is get together and make a plan. One plan might be submitting a proposal for NonfictioNOW. Proposals are due November 15th. We'll all get together in June and celebrate writing and community.
www.nonfictionow.org/new-page-1
www.nonfictionow.org/new-page-1
Call for Proposals Coming Soon — NonfictioNOW 2025: University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
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November 11, 2024 at 2:47 AM
I think the best thing we can do for the moment is get together and make a plan. One plan might be submitting a proposal for NonfictioNOW. Proposals are due November 15th. We'll all get together in June and celebrate writing and community.
www.nonfictionow.org/new-page-1
www.nonfictionow.org/new-page-1
Some jobs I’ve done besides what I do now:
Independent author-editor-teacher
Trail crew worker
Park ranger
Wildland firefighter
Dispatcher
Housekeeper
Lifeguard
Newspaper reporter
Camp counselor
Oldest daughter holding everything together (or trying)
Independent author-editor-teacher
Trail crew worker
Park ranger
Wildland firefighter
Dispatcher
Housekeeper
Lifeguard
Newspaper reporter
Camp counselor
Oldest daughter holding everything together (or trying)
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
Ditch digger/sprinkler installation
carpenter
photographer
stonemason's assistant
teacher
TA/lecturer/postdoc
technical writer
science writer
Ditch digger/sprinkler installation
carpenter
photographer
stonemason's assistant
teacher
TA/lecturer/postdoc
technical writer
science writer
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
abortion clinic receptionist
french patisserie morning girl
new orleans bartender
nanny
formal chinese food waitress / one handed fish filleter
union bargainer
November 11, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Some jobs I’ve done besides what I do now:
Independent author-editor-teacher
Trail crew worker
Park ranger
Wildland firefighter
Dispatcher
Housekeeper
Lifeguard
Newspaper reporter
Camp counselor
Oldest daughter holding everything together (or trying)
Independent author-editor-teacher
Trail crew worker
Park ranger
Wildland firefighter
Dispatcher
Housekeeper
Lifeguard
Newspaper reporter
Camp counselor
Oldest daughter holding everything together (or trying)
Deactivated the Other. Looking for connection here. Onward. ❤️
November 8, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Deactivated the Other. Looking for connection here. Onward. ❤️
Did you all know it costs $500 to place a 150 word obit in a local paper? And they don’t even say so straight up? Labyrinthine upsell websites for those mourning is no way to save local journalism.
August 15, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Did you all know it costs $500 to place a 150 word obit in a local paper? And they don’t even say so straight up? Labyrinthine upsell websites for those mourning is no way to save local journalism.
Talked about my latest book PUSHED, xenophobia in the West, made-up massacres, and why writers should be audacious and humble always over at LitCit
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LitCit: Antioch's Literary Citizen Podcast: Antioch LitCit #47 Ana Maria Spagna
On this episode of , Caren McDonald chats with guest a writer, teacher, and former backcountry trails worker. They discuss Spagna’s newest book, , and the power of reframing narrative and honoring ot...
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May 29, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Talked about my latest book PUSHED, xenophobia in the West, made-up massacres, and why writers should be audacious and humble always over at LitCit
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Happy Earth Day! www.terrain.org/2024/nonfict...
April 22, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Happy Earth Day! www.terrain.org/2024/nonfict...
This cannot be said often enough.
This is really only an issue with elite privates (Ivy, sub-Ivy liberal arts colleges) and super-selective public flagships (U. of California, U Michigan). There are literally hundreds of colleges- good ones, just not elite- dying to have any student with a high school diploma and/or 1000 on the SAT.
November 27, 2023 at 4:01 PM
This cannot be said often enough.
Next week in Salt Lake City!
October 18, 2023 at 10:36 PM
Next week in Salt Lake City!
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Audre Lorde on poetry as the artform of working class consciousness: "Of all art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the most secret, requires the least physical labor, the least material, and can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper."
September 27, 2023 at 3:54 PM
Audre Lorde on poetry as the artform of working class consciousness: "Of all art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the most secret, requires the least physical labor, the least material, and can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper."
The wall? Honest to god …
October 6, 2023 at 4:03 AM
The wall? Honest to god …
Yes yes yes!
How can we rectify shifting baselines syndrome? By telling stories. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
August 30, 2023 at 2:23 AM
Yes yes yes!
Smoky weather (AQI 250 this morning down from 440 yesterday in #Stehekin) means more reading. This week's recommendations: CARRY by Toni Jensen, THE SENTENCE by Louise Erdrich, TALES of a DISTANCE poetry by Andrew. C Gottlieb.
August 21, 2023 at 4:19 PM
Smoky weather (AQI 250 this morning down from 440 yesterday in #Stehekin) means more reading. This week's recommendations: CARRY by Toni Jensen, THE SENTENCE by Louise Erdrich, TALES of a DISTANCE poetry by Andrew. C Gottlieb.
I've just landed here in Blue Sky land, hoping for good connections in writing (creative nonfiction, esp.), the environment, social justice, music (always music), and yeah, cats. Here's Maybelle on the workbench, pondering her next project:
August 11, 2023 at 10:10 PM
I've just landed here in Blue Sky land, hoping for good connections in writing (creative nonfiction, esp.), the environment, social justice, music (always music), and yeah, cats. Here's Maybelle on the workbench, pondering her next project: