June Gervais
@junegervais.bsky.social
Author of a joyful 🏳️🌈 tattoo shop novel, JOBS FOR GIRLS WITH ARTISTIC FLAIR (Penguin Books). New novel brewing—involves strip malls & sacred spaces, Saperavi & khachapuri 🌏🌿🍷🥖🔮🇬🇪
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June Gervais
@junegervais.bsky.social
· Nov 20
On the Impossible Encounter That Allowed Me to Write My Novel
“The impossible still happens to us, often during the work, sometimes when we are so tired that inadvertently we let down all the barriers we have built up.” –Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: R…
lithub.com
Observed: Mini-miracles happen more often when I leave my house. @literaryhub.bsky.social ✨ lithub.com/on-the-impos...
Reposted by June Gervais
🧜🏼♀️⚡New interview with author & musician
@junegervais.bsky.social on leaning into the pleasure of creative practice, & seducing herself back to the work 🧜🏼♀️⚡Seriously, this interview is such good medicine.
emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/be-open-fo...
@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
@junegervais.bsky.social on leaning into the pleasure of creative practice, & seducing herself back to the work 🧜🏼♀️⚡Seriously, this interview is such good medicine.
emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/be-open-fo...
@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🧜🏼♀️⚡New interview with author & musician
@junegervais.bsky.social on leaning into the pleasure of creative practice, & seducing herself back to the work 🧜🏼♀️⚡Seriously, this interview is such good medicine.
emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/be-open-fo...
@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
@junegervais.bsky.social on leaning into the pleasure of creative practice, & seducing herself back to the work 🧜🏼♀️⚡Seriously, this interview is such good medicine.
emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/be-open-fo...
@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
This is the most powerful, compelling op-ed I’ve read in a long time. Especially poignant as pro-democracy protests erupt throughout Georgia 🇬🇪
Once more for the weekend crowd: wrote about the phenomenon of internal exile in the wake of Trump’s win www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...
Opinion | Don’t Let Donald Trump Drive You Into Internal Exile
Focusing on your own life and disengaging from politics can be appealing. But it is a abdication of responsibility.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:29 PM
This is the most powerful, compelling op-ed I’ve read in a long time. Especially poignant as pro-democracy protests erupt throughout Georgia 🇬🇪
Yes to all the owls
November 25, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Yes to all the owls
Beautiful—
Want some hopeful Indigenous climate news? Muscogee elders are preserving a peach in Oklahoma with deep cultural significance.
My latest from Grist.
My latest from Grist.
Meet the peach that traveled the Trail of Tears and the elders working to save it
The "Indian peach" survived genocide. Can it withstand climate change?
grist.org
November 20, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Beautiful—
Observed: Mini-miracles happen more often when I leave my house. @literaryhub.bsky.social ✨ lithub.com/on-the-impos...
On the Impossible Encounter That Allowed Me to Write My Novel
“The impossible still happens to us, often during the work, sometimes when we are so tired that inadvertently we let down all the barriers we have built up.” –Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: R…
lithub.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Observed: Mini-miracles happen more often when I leave my house. @literaryhub.bsky.social ✨ lithub.com/on-the-impos...
Every character thinks they’re the main character. If you can figure out what each of them wants/fears, and render them as real humans pursuing/avoiding those things, it will 1) honor their dignity & agency, and 2) often create more interesting trouble for your protagonist.
if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)
November 20, 2024 at 4:36 AM
Every character thinks they’re the main character. If you can figure out what each of them wants/fears, and render them as real humans pursuing/avoiding those things, it will 1) honor their dignity & agency, and 2) often create more interesting trouble for your protagonist.
Writing opportunity from a wonderful editor & magazine—
Would love to publish an essay about Simone Weil in New York in 1942, something narrative, historical, but also about ideas, maybe memoir if it fits #SimoneWeil Let's hear what other CNF editors would like to see come over their transom #EditorsWishlist What about you @dintywmoore.bsky.social?
November 20, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Writing opportunity from a wonderful editor & magazine—
Reposted by June Gervais
Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,
And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
On Journeys Through the States(14-16)
And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
On Journeys Through the States(14-16)
November 18, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,
And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
On Journeys Through the States(14-16)
And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
On Journeys Through the States(14-16)