Jenny Shank
@jennyshank.bsky.social
Representing Jenkind. Writer, reader, eater. Books: MIXED COMPANY & THE RINGER. Teach: Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Words: The Atlantic, Washington Post, McSweeney’s. Newsletter: The Tumbleweed, jenny.shank.substack.com
Jokić scores 55 against the Clippers by #nbapaints. I think I would like this in a plush doll. www.instagram.com/nbapaints/?h...
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Jokić scores 55 against the Clippers by #nbapaints. I think I would like this in a plush doll. www.instagram.com/nbapaints/?h...
Northern lights in my front yard in Boulder, Colorado.
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Northern lights in my front yard in Boulder, Colorado.
Pacers’ Jay Huff looks not just physically, but also spiritually from Indiana.
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Pacers’ Jay Huff looks not just physically, but also spiritually from Indiana.
A chicken went to see a fortune teller, got this prediction and had no idea what it meant: “In the afterlife, you will be transfigured into the shape of a head of a bronco.”
November 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A chicken went to see a fortune teller, got this prediction and had no idea what it meant: “In the afterlife, you will be transfigured into the shape of a head of a bronco.”
I thought it was a good year to bring back my Little Dumpster Fire pumpkin.
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I thought it was a good year to bring back my Little Dumpster Fire pumpkin.
Okay, Kroger. Pomegranates on sale for $3.49. Regular price $3.50. (Read tiny print). Pretty cheeky to boast of a sale for a one cent discount.
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Okay, Kroger. Pomegranates on sale for $3.49. Regular price $3.50. (Read tiny print). Pretty cheeky to boast of a sale for a one cent discount.
I'll be teaching a new class starting October 20 for Lighthouse Writers Workshop on one of my favorite topics, short stories! We'll draw inspiration from the Best American Short Stories 2024, edited by @legroff.bsky.social. Register for online or in-person attendance in #Denver.
bit.ly/3WrL9B2
bit.ly/3WrL9B2
October 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'll be teaching a new class starting October 20 for Lighthouse Writers Workshop on one of my favorite topics, short stories! We'll draw inspiration from the Best American Short Stories 2024, edited by @legroff.bsky.social. Register for online or in-person attendance in #Denver.
bit.ly/3WrL9B2
bit.ly/3WrL9B2
I can’t control much in this crazy world, but I never wanted to fight with a flimsy 4 dollar 3 hole punch again so I got myself this Cadillac of perforation: the Bostitch EZ Squeeze 40. Now I’m just going to sit back and watch my whole life slide into place.
October 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I can’t control much in this crazy world, but I never wanted to fight with a flimsy 4 dollar 3 hole punch again so I got myself this Cadillac of perforation: the Bostitch EZ Squeeze 40. Now I’m just going to sit back and watch my whole life slide into place.
Something on the menu for everyone here.
October 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Something on the menu for everyone here.
Jane Goodall was one of a kind, a messenger for peace and respect for all creatures. I'm so glad my kids and I got to see her when she visited Boulder in 2015. And we brought some monkey stuffies.
October 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Jane Goodall was one of a kind, a messenger for peace and respect for all creatures. I'm so glad my kids and I got to see her when she visited Boulder in 2015. And we brought some monkey stuffies.
Fall colors in Keystone, Colorado and a brilliant story collection, “Hellions” by @juliaelliott.bsky.social, makes for an epic Sunday morning.
September 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Fall colors in Keystone, Colorado and a brilliant story collection, “Hellions” by @juliaelliott.bsky.social, makes for an epic Sunday morning.
My favorite gardening problem, and how I’m solving it.
August 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My favorite gardening problem, and how I’m solving it.
Happy birthday James Baldwin! Here are two portraits of the great writer by his friend Beauford Delaney at the “Paris Noir” exhibit at the Centre Pompidou.
August 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Happy birthday James Baldwin! Here are two portraits of the great writer by his friend Beauford Delaney at the “Paris Noir” exhibit at the Centre Pompidou.
Come to the Short Form Fest at Lighthouse Writers Workshop tomorrow! I'll interview the accomplished Samantha Hunt during "Hauntings--An Onstage Reading and Conversation." Sunday, I'll share my best insights for crafting strong endings for short fiction and essays. bit.ly/46tRJ0a #writing
July 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Come to the Short Form Fest at Lighthouse Writers Workshop tomorrow! I'll interview the accomplished Samantha Hunt during "Hauntings--An Onstage Reading and Conversation." Sunday, I'll share my best insights for crafting strong endings for short fiction and essays. bit.ly/46tRJ0a #writing
This morning’s harvest from my garden: raspberries and an Anaheim pepper. #gardening
July 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This morning’s harvest from my garden: raspberries and an Anaheim pepper. #gardening
Sustenance from Paris, for all of you! Everyone seems like they deserve a little treat right now.
June 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Sustenance from Paris, for all of you! Everyone seems like they deserve a little treat right now.
In Paris today, I shared these patisseries with my daughter. They were divine.
June 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
In Paris today, I shared these patisseries with my daughter. They were divine.
Now Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding reads from his new novel, apologizing about it being “Protestant,” at Lighthouse Lit Fest. #writers
June 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Now Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding reads from his new novel, apologizing about it being “Protestant,” at Lighthouse Lit Fest. #writers
“My mother is my favorite immigrant. After her, the sonnet.” - Eduardo Corral, reading his gorgeous poetry at Lighthouse Lit Fest. #poetry
June 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“My mother is my favorite immigrant. After her, the sonnet.” - Eduardo Corral, reading his gorgeous poetry at Lighthouse Lit Fest. #poetry
Next at Lighthouse Lit Fest it’s @ingridrojasc.bsky.social reading from her memoir about the case of a missing skull. #writing
June 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Next at Lighthouse Lit Fest it’s @ingridrojasc.bsky.social reading from her memoir about the case of a missing skull. #writing
At Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop’s Lit Fest, Steve Almond is reading a story he promises will be “filthy.”
“Remember when we used to do in the kitchen?”
“I don’t need another toe infection.” #writing
“Remember when we used to do in the kitchen?”
“I don’t need another toe infection.” #writing
June 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
At Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop’s Lit Fest, Steve Almond is reading a story he promises will be “filthy.”
“Remember when we used to do in the kitchen?”
“I don’t need another toe infection.” #writing
“Remember when we used to do in the kitchen?”
“I don’t need another toe infection.” #writing
I believe @matjohnson.bsky.social said that the essay he read was going to be in a forthcoming nonfiction book--and you're going to want to get it when it comes out because the essay based on the idea in this tweet was an amazing and beautiful tribute to his mother.
June 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I believe @matjohnson.bsky.social said that the essay he read was going to be in a forthcoming nonfiction book--and you're going to want to get it when it comes out because the essay based on the idea in this tweet was an amazing and beautiful tribute to his mother.
Next up at Lit Fest is the magnificent @elizmccrack.bsky.social , who confesses she doesn’t have a go-to karaoke song. “The subtext of all my writing is: love me.”
June 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Next up at Lit Fest is the magnificent @elizmccrack.bsky.social , who confesses she doesn’t have a go-to karaoke song. “The subtext of all my writing is: love me.”
“It has never felt right for me to undergo a knife just so people won’t think a thing.” - Alex Marzano-Lesnevitch, who shares a new work of “haunted nonfiction.”
June 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“It has never felt right for me to undergo a knife just so people won’t think a thing.” - Alex Marzano-Lesnevitch, who shares a new work of “haunted nonfiction.”