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Courtney Bambrick
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Writing instructor; poet; aspirational gardener.

I drink both coffee and tea. I wish I could travel more.

My chapbook World Without is available from Bottlecap Press!

For more information: https://tinyurl.com/66yxa3z6
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Maybe a yuppie cousin shoe?
One dress shoe on a bench at a rest stop off 95 on the way to Maine!
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Illustration of a "sexy lady" in a bandeau-bra too holding her arms forward. There is a large gem in each hand: one says "grateful to be here" and the other says "what the actual fuck."
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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From the film Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar: Kristen Wiig, Jamie Dornan, and Annie Mumolo as Barb, Star, and Edgar are just waking up after a night of drinking, dancing, and doing it. They are stacked on one another like a sexy lasagna. A small purple throw pillow is perched on Barb's backside.
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Whenever I saw my car in the wild, I'd wave! And if I could park next to another green Mazda 2, I was delighted! I have a few pictures like this!
Two green Mazda 2s parked next to one another in an industrial park/ parking lot sometime between 2014 and 2017.
October 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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This passage is so refreshing. Weird how rare it is to see this sentiment articulated!

Thinking about getting it tattooed on my back.

Also, this book, OUR SONG by Anna Carey is super charming! I hope it becomes a movie or a tv series!
The cover of Anna Carey's OUR SONG, features an illustration of a man in a red, open shirt over a white t-shirt and a woman in jeans and a pink top holding a yellow notebook. There is a teal electric guitar with a pink amp next to them. He's leaning flirtily towards her! A quote from Anna Carey's OUR SONG: I take a sip of wine. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be saying all this if I weren't slightly high and slightly drunk but I can't stop now. "It feels like the only women without kids i ever see in media are the ones who never wanted to have them anyway, or the ones who did want to and couldn't and never got over it. Why don't I see women who wanted to, but it didn't happen, and they were sad, but eventually they were fine? I know I'm not the only one!"
August 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Pick one record in your collection that has saved your life.
Cover of Jimmy Cliff's soundtrack to the film THE HARDER THEY COME. Features an illustration of a 1970s gangster at center in a yellow cap and striped trousers brandishing two pistols! Then Jimmy Cliff is depicted singing in a blue top. A white convertible is situated below a multistory building on the left.
July 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Good morning from me and this Great Gat-fly.
Fly floating in a full cup of tea...
July 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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"This would be a nice place for a good cry" I think, dipping my toes in an unfamiliar body of water.
Ridiculous sunny day over a lake in Monaghan. Blue sky and fluffy clouds are reflected on the water's surface. Grasses and wildflowers grow along the edges. Green, gray, white, and blue.
July 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Just had a little weepy moment reading Jess Callans charming, poignant OLLIE IN BETWEEN!

There is a point where Ollie says that adults often say that younger people have it so easy, but these adults must have forgotten how awful it feels to be 12! Ugh! My heart!
Photo of book, OLLIE IN BETWEEN by Jess Callans with a Main Point Books bookmark and a mug of coffee! All on my patio. The cover of the book features an illustration of a young person in shorts and a red t-shirt writing in a notebook. The hair on their legs and arms and upper lip is pronounced and stylized in the illustration. There is a picture of a mushroom on their t-shirt. Their expression is solemn and focused on what they are writing.
May 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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bottlecap.press/products/wit...

I have been a promotional slacker, but I have a book with Bottlecap Press! I will be reading on Sunday, June 8 at 2pm at Fergie's with some other folks selling recent books! Come out for Poetry and day drinking! 🩷
Cover of chapbook, WORLD WITHOUT. Four illustrated trashcans are at the edge of some sort of cliff. There are bits of refuse and trash on the ground. Lots of green and teal and grey tones. My face. I am a white woman with dark hair. My bangs fall over my eyebrows and my hair just passes my shoulders. My eyes look at the camera directly. My features are a bit doughy, but I like this photo. I am wearing light colored stone earrings that look almost like pearls. And my dress is navy with polka dots.
May 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Well, Liz Moore's GOD OF THE WOODS was VERY satisfying!
The cover of Liz Moore's novel, God of the Woods. A scene of painted trees with a drip of bubblegum pink paint down the middle.
February 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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December 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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This is me crying to the middle of side 2 a couple years ago...
November 14, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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Delaware, December 2023.
A Delaware beach in December, looking north. Half the image is sand and half is ocean. Mostly clear sky with some low clouds. One cloud looks a bit to me like a mermaid or a manatee swimming down to the left.
November 11, 2024 at 5:11 PM