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Deirdre Sugiuchi
@djsugi.bsky.social
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Author of UNREFORMED (Vine Leaves Press, 2027), contributing writer at Electric Literature, '23 Barbara Deming memorial grant for feminist nonfiction, lapsed librarian, essays in Literary Hub, Action Spectacle, & more, Pilates instructor, she/hers
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I loved this quote from @kiese.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Hands off our future! #handsoff
Hands off our future
April 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Celebrated my birthday by signing my contract with @vineleavespress.bsky.social 🥳🥳 UNREFORMED: A CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE will be published in February of 2027. Sign up for updates at djsugi.substack.com
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March 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Starlings in Athens, Georgia at sunset
March 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Right??? I wrote about that here—

djsugi.substack.com/p/its-the-en...
January 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I had fun writing this— djsugi.substack.com/p/its-the-en...
I didn't have time to celebrate my win because I was thinking about the text calling out the bishop who dared ask for mercy. About the pardons issued for even the most violent of the January 6ers. About how the man who promised to lower the price of eggs, locked his followers out in the literal cold, so he could be sworn in in a room full of billionaires.
January 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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So this week was a dumpster 🔥🔥🔥BUT in related news, my white evangelical captivity narrative, UNREFORMED, was a finalist in a contest @vineleavespress.bsky.social
Picture of Deirdre Sugiuchi, author of UNREFORMED: A CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE in Creative Nonfiction Competition Unreformed: A Captivity Narrative by Deirdre Sugiuchi Unreformed is a captivity narrative that recounts how Deirdre Sugiuchi endured her adolescence in a White evangelical reform school in the Dominican Republic. Despite the oppressive environment, she survived and thrived, channeling her resilience into a mission as an adult: to speak out against the systemic abuse within America's troubled teen industry. Sugiuchi's powerful story sheds light on a dark reality, advocating for justice and the protection of vulnerable children.
January 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM