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Caitlin Annette Johnson
@caitlinannette.bsky.social
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poet | novelist | orb

fiction editor for Tendon Magazine
production editor for MAYDAY

www.caitlinannettejohnson.com
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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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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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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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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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whenever someone asks me what day it is
October 3, 2025 at 9:49 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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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 Andrea. You will be so missed. What a blessing to have had you for as long as we did. #WritingCommunity #AndreaGibson #Poetry
Book of poetry that reads: SPELLING BEE WITHOUT STINGER I LOVE MYSELF IS OFTEN SPELLED G-O-O-D-B-Y-E
July 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I’m not a creep I just hate crowds. Got to see @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and yes he’s just as cool in person it’s wild
July 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Every edit I make is co-signed by a small dog who once ate a whole bottle of olive oil and lived to tell the tale.
You’re in good hands.

#EditorSupport #DogEditor #WritingCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky
cute white dog looks over the screen of a computer on a bed in a colorful room
July 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I’ve been helping writers shape wild first drafts into manuscripts with real momentum. Fiction, poetry, hybrid work! I’ll meet your work where it's at! Let’s talk.
#ManuscriptMentor #AmRevising #WritingLife #QueerLit #LitEditing
July 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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July is wide open for manuscript editing! Poets, novelists, and queers with something freaky and/or risky: let’s work.
I bring 15+ years of publishing experience, a no-bullshit editorial eye, and a real love for helping good work get better.
Comment or email!
#AmEditing #WritingCommunity
July 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Don’t know what you can do right now? Consider donating to some upcoming community-building projects in your area!
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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get bent, capitalists
June 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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🌈 Queer. Emerging. Unfiltered.
If that’s you, this Pride giveaway is calling.
I’m looking for bold, freaky, beautiful writing that refuses to behave.
Submit here: forms.gle/o4YSkdqksMTt...
#LGBTQWriters #IndieLit #Pride2025
June 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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🏳️‍🌈 PRIDE GIVEAWAY FOR QUEER WRITERS 🏳️‍🌈
Got a feral little queer story clawing to get out?
Send me your wildest, gayest work. ZERO chill required.
👉 forms.gle/o4YSkdqksMTt...
#QueerWriters #Pride2025 #WritingCommunity
June 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 PRIDE GIVEAWAY FOR QUEER WRITERS 🏳️‍🌈
Are you an emerging queer writer with a freaky story to tell?
Send me your gayest work. Make it wild.
👉 forms.gle/o4YSkdqksMTt...
#QueerWriters #WritingCommunity #Pride2025
June 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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finishing a poem

#AmWriting #poetry #WritingCommunity
Woman dressed as Marie Antoinette smokes a cigarette and walks in slippers
May 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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me entering a poem (could be interpreted as erotic)
man with rockin mustache opens a white door wearing coveralls and a tool-belt (ready to work)
May 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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for my vision board
May 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM