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Caitlin Annette Johnson
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poet | novelist | orb

fiction editor for Tendon Magazine
production editor for MAYDAY

www.caitlinannettejohnson.com
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Caitlin Annette Johnson @caitlinannette.bsky.social · Nov 20
I’m one of those people that looks like my dog
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It’s beginning to look a lot like soul crippling rejection!!

Happy end of fall submission season to all those who celebrate! And just know that for every NO in my inbox, there’s a big fat YES in my heart. ❤️
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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feelin cute might delete l8r 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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great news for broke babes! we’re fee free all weekend! send me & @tendonmag.bsky.social your work on care 💉
A grid-style illustrated poster reads “Politics & Poetics of Care — Fee-Free Weekend, 10/17–10/19, tendon issue 08.” The grid contains drawings of various care-related objects: a threaded needle, a potted plant, a lit candle, two pills, a syringe, an open pair of cupped hands, and a small cauldron. Blue check marks appear along the bottom row. The color scheme is mostly blue, beige, and green.
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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I'm unforgivably late to this bc everything is on fire, but Issue 10 of @bicoastalreview.bsky.social [BICOASTAL REVIEW] is one brilliant glimmer of solace in a world that is otherwise pretty fucking wrekt.

Order her here--> buff.ly/ShzZ22d
A copy of Bicoastal Review Issue 10 lying on a colorful quilted blanket. The magazine cover features an abstract mixed-media artwork with layers of pink, teal, black, and cream tones in an expressionistic style. The publication title appears in clean serif typeface at the top, with 'ISSUE 10' in the bottom right corner
October 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I've been reading poetry for @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social for the last couple issues, and I just have to say that the submissions we get are so stunning and strange and inspire me so much. Never stop submitting, my poet loves. It makes my world go round. <3
October 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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PERSUASION x SUCCESSION but make it LESBIAN.
Annie: black sheep hidden away for a decade, now her Senator Dad's newest prop. Freddie: her dreaded ex and the campaign's progressive savior. Politics meets second chances. And Annie just might meet herself in the process.
#DVPit #A #CR #OWN #LGBT #DIS
Promotional image for "Lesbian Persuasion" featuring a bird in a classical painting with an ornate gold frame containing a book excerpt.
October 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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sitting on my hands because I want to like everyone's #DivPit posts SO BAD 😭 y'all are so brilliant and cool and talented!!!!

#AmWriting #Querying #WritingCommunity
October 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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AUSTEN x VEEP

Sober disaster Annie gets dragged into her Senator dad's campaign as the token queer daughter. Then her ex Freddie shows up as their progressive savior. Performance politics meets second-chance romance—and Annie's failing, obvs.
#DVPit #A #CR #OWN #LGBT #DIS #DisasterQueer
Promotional graphic for "Lesbian Persuasion," a sapphic Austen retelling. A vibrant parrot with red and blue plumage is superimposed on a classical Dutch still life painting featuring fruit, flowers, and a seascape. Green arrows and text labels highlight themes: "Austen retelling," "late blooming lesbian," "disaster queer," "sapphic anti-capitalism," "second chance romance," and "eat the rich." An ornate gold baroque frame centers an excerpt describing Annie Elliot watching a panicked starling trapped on a train, its desperate flapping mirroring her own heartbeat.
October 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Annie Elliot is too queer, too blunt, too messy for politics. When her Senator father forces her to join his newest campaign and her (in)famous ex reappears, she has to decide what redemption really looks like in this toothy Austen retelling.
#DVPit #A #CR #ownvoices #OWN #LGBT #DIS #DisasterQueer
Here's alt text for this image: "A promotional image for a book titled 'Lesbian Persuasion' featuring an ornate gold baroque frame centered on a classical still life painting with a parrot. Inside the frame is an excerpt describing a scene where character Annie Elliot encounters a trapped starling on a train. Green text labels around the frame indicate story themes including 'Austen retelling,' 'sapphic anticapitalism,' 'late blooming lesbian,' 'disaster queer,' 'second chance romance,' and 'eat the rich,' connected by fluorescent green arrows.
October 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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what's the witchiest thing you do? I'll go first. I write down all my biggest dreams and bury them in my plants with some of my fingernail clippings to make it happen. so far so good.
October 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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me after somehow flooding my landlord's apartment + basement last night, but still up and at these deadlines bc I'm a PROFESSIONAL
October 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 189:
There are many different ways to be a writer. Being a professional writer is only one of them. All are valid.
October 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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5 days left to get your applications in to join us!
anmlymag.bsky.social ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · Sep 29
ANMLY is looking to add some new members to our all-volunteer team! Come make cool stuff with us! All roles are 1-3 hours/week.

- Comics Editor
- 2 Fiction Readers
- 2 CNF Readers
- Features & Reviews Co-Editor

Email editor@anomalouspress.org w/ a brief statement of interest & a CV/resume to apply
Haunted swimming pool
October 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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whenever someone asks me what day it is
October 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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ogre.red
Time for a poetry spotlight!

Check out Kara Knickerbocker's "When I Ask Siri: What Am I Doing With My Life?" from our newest issue:

ogre.red/issues/2025-...

Who hasn't asked Siri a cheeky question or two?
Text to the poem "When I Ask Siri: What Am I Doing With My Life?" by Kara Knickerbocker from Issue 32, October 2025.
October 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I love how wistful my kid’s Halloween ghoul looks this morning
A creepy Halloween skull decoration looks out a Brooklyn window with a surprising amount of emotion
October 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Calling all FICTION baddies! I'm super psyched to tell you all that I am the new Fiction Editor for @tendonmag.bsky.social and I want to see YOU ALL in our subs for Issue 8! Share this widely! Tell your friends!

Submit---> tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
A light blue, hand-drawn illustration of a gently open hand against a textured white background. Text in blue script and sans-serif font reads: "tendon," "issue 08," "care," "call for submissions," and "deadline nov 1st."
September 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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THAT’S MY MAYOR
September 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Now the season of mists & mellow fruitfulness (or rain, wind & gas-pipe replacement down our way) is here, I've recorded a piece, Autumn, published in Eunoia Review last Spring. As I read it, I noticed its #winged dimension @eunoiareview.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social #promptcombo #poetrycommunity
September 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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I've always believed that poetry exists to make the world appear larger, more beautiful, and more mysterious.

-- Charles Simic
September 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America
IV. THE GENERAL STRIKE How the Civil War meant emancipation and how the black worker won the war by a general strike which transferred his labor from the Confederate planter to the Northern invader, in whose army lines workers began to be organized as a new labor force When Edwin Ruffin, white-haired and mad, fired the first gun at Fort Sumter, he freed the slaves. It was the last thing he meant to do but that was because he was so typically a Southern oligarch. He did not know the real world about him. He was provincial and lived apart on his plantation with his servants, his books and his thoughts. Outside of agriculture, he jumped at conclusions instead of testing them by careful research. He knew, for instance, that the North would not fight. He knew that Negroes would never revolt.
August 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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best advice I was ever given

full poem here: poets.org/poem/white-f...

#poetry #poetrycommunity
#poem #quotes #poetrylovers
#writing #AmReading
August 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Oh god am I going to always remember where I was when Taylor Swift got engaged?
August 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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if people were really interested in making sports more equitable, they would start at income inequality-- after all, healthy bodies typically have a lot more resources. But that's not what they care about. get fucked, Pete
July 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM