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Amanda Roth
@helloamandaroth.bsky.social
560 followers 790 following 41 posts
🖊️ Poet, CNF Developmental Editor
🤍 Sci-fi, Folklore (Modern, Fairy tales, Food)
📍 Seattle
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That glorious and terrifying moment when the poet prints her manuscript...
A book manuscript is printed and taped page-by-page on two walls. Beneath them is a bed, a plant, and an air filter.
February 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Book banning is real and is terrorizing teachers, librarians & students from marginalized identities now. It is worse than it has ever been. If you’re remembering your quaint “Celebrate Freedom. Read a Banned Book” T-shirt, adjust your perspective. You’ve brought an umbrella to a hurricane.
January 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
January 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
helloamandaroth.bsky.social
I might be on a contrapuntal kick right now. Thank you to the kind editors at Hoxie Gorge for giving this piece such a good home!

The whole issue is now live at HoxieGorgeReview.com
Labor, by Amanda Roth. A five column contrapuntal poem.
January 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
helloamandaroth.bsky.social
Created a starter pack for the insanely talented members of my writing group. Let me know if I missed anyone?

go.bsky.app/PtNE3bv
January 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
helloamandaroth.bsky.social
I'd dump all social media right now, but I'd miss the poets so much. 😭
January 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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okaydonkeymag.com
OKD's #3 most-viewed poem of 2024:

"A Poem Buried Under the Floorboards" by @helloamandaroth.bsky.social
A Poem Buried Under the Floorboards by Amanda Roth
Link to PDF: A Poem Buried Beneath the Floorboards. Amanda Roth (she/her) is a mother, writer, and folklorist living in Central Texas. Her work can be found in Portland Review, Hayden’s Fer…
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December 31, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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grousehollow.bsky.social
Would any French-fluent mutuals be up for translating two short sentences from English into French for me? I don’t trust Google. DM if so! 🫶
December 15, 2024 at 6:22 PM
helloamandaroth.bsky.social
Y'all! A Pushcart nomination!!
December 7, 2024 at 12:54 AM
helloamandaroth.bsky.social
Sci-fi nerds of Bluesky:

Any recommendations for introducing a 9yo to the genre? Books, TV, movies, games are all welcome.
December 6, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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I have a new poem published today at @hfr.bsky.social

"Can’t I have what I’ve been promised? Amen and amen and so forth? I just wanted the hem of your robe. If not, closure."

heavyfeatherreview.org/2024/12/04/d...
Poetry for Haunted Passages: “Doxology (Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen)” by Amanda Roth
My ghosts and I have it backwards—I do all the haunting and they want to be left alone. Can’t I have what I’ve been promised? Amen and amen and so forth? I just wanted the hem of your robe. If not,…
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December 4, 2024 at 6:44 PM
helloamandaroth.bsky.social
Sharing my published pieces from 2024!

First up: The Bear published by @literarymama.bsky.social and inspired my childrens' obsession with the book We're Going on a Bear Hunt.

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The Bear By Amanda Roth “We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. Oh, no! We’ve got to go through it!” - Michael Rosen I cannot tell my kids that we are on a bear hunt. I can only muster lies by omission: It’s a beautiful day. Don’t be scared. I show them how to walk through walls of grass. We laugh when it sticks to our hair, but at the river, that deep, cold river, even they begin to see: the world is not a safe place. What kind of mother brings her children to the river? We are still wet when the forest swallows us whole. Hand in hand we stumble, trip, break our knees open, wash our blood in the snow. * How do I keep them safe? I don't know the way under the dark, wet earth. If I shake the nails loose from my throat, would it be enough to build a bridge? * What kind of mother brings her children to the bear? Shows them how to reach into the dark mouth of its cave, thick with rot and scat and fear? This is the world, I want to say. The nose and fur and teeth of it. This is how we hold our hands out for the world.
December 4, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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I launched my Substack (finally!)

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The Compost Heap | Amanda | Substack
A collection of inspiring scraps, mixed with fertile soil, and left to ferment. Sprinkle generously into your own creative endeavors. Click to read The Compost Heap, by Amanda, a Substack publication....
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December 3, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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I'm late to the Becky Chambers Fan Club, but y'all... Monk and Robot! What hopepunk/cozy sci-fi should I read next?
December 1, 2024 at 7:15 PM
helloamandaroth.bsky.social
I never really joined Twitter, and I'm not convinced I want/need more social media, but the FOMO is winning today.

So, hi! Hello!
November 14, 2024 at 5:30 PM