Jessica Ann Hill
@jessicaannhill.bsky.social
🫀 big feelings girlie
✍🏻 poet & low fantasy/soft sci-fi writer
📚 bookworm
✨ jessicaannhill.substack.com
✍🏻 poet & low fantasy/soft sci-fi writer
📚 bookworm
✨ jessicaannhill.substack.com
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👋🏻 i’m not great at intro posts, but here goes!
✍🏻 speculative fiction writer (low fantasy, mostly)
✨ poet—some of which i share: jessicaannhill.substack.com
📚 bookworm reading fantasy, horror, poetry, and waaay more
📷 into nature walks and nature photography
👻 quite possibly watching supernatural
✍🏻 speculative fiction writer (low fantasy, mostly)
✨ poet—some of which i share: jessicaannhill.substack.com
📚 bookworm reading fantasy, horror, poetry, and waaay more
📷 into nature walks and nature photography
👻 quite possibly watching supernatural
after an 8-week break from it, i’m sitting down to read my witchy novel from start to finish like a real book!! 😭
(this is my read-through to make sure it doesn’t need any more developmental work before i start line edits) #writingcommunity
(this is my read-through to make sure it doesn’t need any more developmental work before i start line edits) #writingcommunity
December 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
after an 8-week break from it, i’m sitting down to read my witchy novel from start to finish like a real book!! 😭
(this is my read-through to make sure it doesn’t need any more developmental work before i start line edits) #writingcommunity
(this is my read-through to make sure it doesn’t need any more developmental work before i start line edits) #writingcommunity
october in the midwest 🍂 #poetrycommunity
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
october in the midwest 🍂 #poetrycommunity
“Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.”
- Stephen King, On Writing
- Stephen King, On Writing
September 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.”
- Stephen King, On Writing
- Stephen King, On Writing
woke up early this morning and forced myself to sit at the computer despite swearing i’m not an early-morning writer and finished three poems that have sat incomplete in my drafts for seven months. i will learn nothing from this. #writing
September 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
woke up early this morning and forced myself to sit at the computer despite swearing i’m not an early-morning writer and finished three poems that have sat incomplete in my drafts for seven months. i will learn nothing from this. #writing
i’m not here right now, but you can find me / elsewhere. most notably / in the forest 🌿
read the whole #poem: open.substack.com/pub/jessicaa...
read the whole #poem: open.substack.com/pub/jessicaa...
elsewhere
i’m trying to find my way back
open.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
i’m not here right now, but you can find me / elsewhere. most notably / in the forest 🌿
read the whole #poem: open.substack.com/pub/jessicaa...
read the whole #poem: open.substack.com/pub/jessicaa...
Reposted by Jessica Ann Hill
OKAY
I've been slacking on re-transcribing my craft threads, so gonna bang one out today
COMMON QUERYING/WRITING MISTAKES I SEE IN THE SLUSH
(for the new chickadees around here, I've worked as a lit agency assistant for 9 years, so I have read . . . a LOT of slush. Like approx. 60,000 queries)
I've been slacking on re-transcribing my craft threads, so gonna bang one out today
COMMON QUERYING/WRITING MISTAKES I SEE IN THE SLUSH
(for the new chickadees around here, I've worked as a lit agency assistant for 9 years, so I have read . . . a LOT of slush. Like approx. 60,000 queries)
August 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
OKAY
I've been slacking on re-transcribing my craft threads, so gonna bang one out today
COMMON QUERYING/WRITING MISTAKES I SEE IN THE SLUSH
(for the new chickadees around here, I've worked as a lit agency assistant for 9 years, so I have read . . . a LOT of slush. Like approx. 60,000 queries)
I've been slacking on re-transcribing my craft threads, so gonna bang one out today
COMMON QUERYING/WRITING MISTAKES I SEE IN THE SLUSH
(for the new chickadees around here, I've worked as a lit agency assistant for 9 years, so I have read . . . a LOT of slush. Like approx. 60,000 queries)
i have a hard time sitting down to write but if i open my manuscript & stare at it long enough, i’ll find something to tweak & once i do that, i’ll think of a new sentence & maybe a paragraph or even a whole page so the takeaway is i need to sit down to stare at my manuscript more #writingcommunity
August 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
i have a hard time sitting down to write but if i open my manuscript & stare at it long enough, i’ll find something to tweak & once i do that, i’ll think of a new sentence & maybe a paragraph or even a whole page so the takeaway is i need to sit down to stare at my manuscript more #writingcommunity
how long before i realized / i was wielding him like a knife
🪶 a #poem: open.substack.com/pub/jessicaa...
🪶 a #poem: open.substack.com/pub/jessicaa...
like a knife
see how willing i am
open.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
how long before i realized / i was wielding him like a knife
🪶 a #poem: open.substack.com/pub/jessicaa...
🪶 a #poem: open.substack.com/pub/jessicaa...
the tension between wanting to share my work and wanting to write in a vacuum until the day i die 💀
July 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
the tension between wanting to share my work and wanting to write in a vacuum until the day i die 💀
Reposted by Jessica Ann Hill
Absolutely gorgeous! Check out the cover reveal for @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's new poetry collection A Suit or a Suitcase due out next year.
maggiesmith.substack.com/p/cover-reveal
maggiesmith.substack.com/p/cover-reveal
Cover Reveal
You know I have a thing for clouds
maggiesmith.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Absolutely gorgeous! Check out the cover reveal for @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's new poetry collection A Suit or a Suitcase due out next year.
maggiesmith.substack.com/p/cover-reveal
maggiesmith.substack.com/p/cover-reveal
💙📚 top six (because i couldn't narrow it down to five!) reads of 2024 (not including rereads):
✨loneliness & company–charlee dyroff
✨the warm hands of ghosts–katherine arden
✨the night parade–jami nakamura lin
✨magdalene: poems–marie howe
✨shark heart–emily habeck
✨memorial drive–natasha trethewey
✨loneliness & company–charlee dyroff
✨the warm hands of ghosts–katherine arden
✨the night parade–jami nakamura lin
✨magdalene: poems–marie howe
✨shark heart–emily habeck
✨memorial drive–natasha trethewey
December 31, 2024 at 4:58 PM
💙📚 top six (because i couldn't narrow it down to five!) reads of 2024 (not including rereads):
✨loneliness & company–charlee dyroff
✨the warm hands of ghosts–katherine arden
✨the night parade–jami nakamura lin
✨magdalene: poems–marie howe
✨shark heart–emily habeck
✨memorial drive–natasha trethewey
✨loneliness & company–charlee dyroff
✨the warm hands of ghosts–katherine arden
✨the night parade–jami nakamura lin
✨magdalene: poems–marie howe
✨shark heart–emily habeck
✨memorial drive–natasha trethewey
i only have a few chapters left to finish this first draft which means i am dragging my feet and writing so slowly because i don’t know how to ~let go~ #writingcommunity
December 19, 2024 at 11:03 PM
i only have a few chapters left to finish this first draft which means i am dragging my feet and writing so slowly because i don’t know how to ~let go~ #writingcommunity
📖 a thousand mornings by mary oliver
December 6, 2024 at 5:42 PM
📖 a thousand mornings by mary oliver
Reposted by Jessica Ann Hill
A favorite morning love poem by @taraskurtu.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 3:15 PM
A favorite morning love poem by @taraskurtu.bsky.social
Reposted by Jessica Ann Hill
November 23, 2024 at 4:34 PM
anyone else unable to write a scene until they've visualized it in their head like a movie or is that just me? #writingcommunity
November 22, 2024 at 2:51 PM
anyone else unable to write a scene until they've visualized it in their head like a movie or is that just me? #writingcommunity
file under: poems that keep me awake at night (from olivia gatwood's collection, life of the party)
![a poem that reads: [i am sorry to do this to you. i know you’ve been hanging on so long. i did not get a final phone call. i saw her face on the internet and i knew it was a tribute. do you ever think about which picture they’d use? if you’re reading this, please choose the one of me in a t-shirt the color of burnt sienna, my hair in a single braid laid over my shoulder & across my chest. it is not my favorite photo but the one where my mother says i look most like myself. alec too it. ask him for it. the babysitter died in the hospital where my mother works. no, the babysitter died in the bathroom of my favorite restaurant. then was taken to the hospital where my mother works & died again. i hate telling people how it happened. there is a difference between fact & truth. the fact is that she overdosed. the truth is that he killed her.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5g7ofxebpxku4lmngxsq4vex/bafkreiatba235gzys52xkzaobrsueaiexql6ratgnc4hviaipi24pkgxha@jpeg)
November 22, 2024 at 2:47 PM
file under: poems that keep me awake at night (from olivia gatwood's collection, life of the party)
Reposted by Jessica Ann Hill
This poem.
by Ellen Bass
by Ellen Bass
November 17, 2024 at 2:21 PM
This poem.
by Ellen Bass
by Ellen Bass
she’s a 10 but might lash out violently (though let’s be real, they probably deserved it)
#writerchat Describe your main character of your WIP with the, "They're a 10 but..." format.
He's a 10 but the smell of cooking bacon sends him into a panic attack.
He's a 10 but the smell of cooking bacon sends him into a panic attack.
November 14, 2024 at 6:30 PM
she’s a 10 but might lash out violently (though let’s be real, they probably deserved it)
👋🏻 i’m not great at intro posts, but here goes!
✍🏻 speculative fiction writer (low fantasy, mostly)
✨ poet—some of which i share: jessicaannhill.substack.com
📚 bookworm reading fantasy, horror, poetry, and waaay more
📷 into nature walks and nature photography
👻 quite possibly watching supernatural
✍🏻 speculative fiction writer (low fantasy, mostly)
✨ poet—some of which i share: jessicaannhill.substack.com
📚 bookworm reading fantasy, horror, poetry, and waaay more
📷 into nature walks and nature photography
👻 quite possibly watching supernatural
November 13, 2024 at 10:19 PM
👋🏻 i’m not great at intro posts, but here goes!
✍🏻 speculative fiction writer (low fantasy, mostly)
✨ poet—some of which i share: jessicaannhill.substack.com
📚 bookworm reading fantasy, horror, poetry, and waaay more
📷 into nature walks and nature photography
👻 quite possibly watching supernatural
✍🏻 speculative fiction writer (low fantasy, mostly)
✨ poet—some of which i share: jessicaannhill.substack.com
📚 bookworm reading fantasy, horror, poetry, and waaay more
📷 into nature walks and nature photography
👻 quite possibly watching supernatural