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Kelly Caldwell
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Writer; dean of faculty @GothamWriters. she/her I live in NYC but still say gapers' block.
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Hey, #WritingCommunity! If you know any young writers (ages 13 to 18), we @gothamwriters.bsky.social have the contest for them!

Tell us a story about a scar.

v2.writingclasses.com/contests/got...
Aerosol paint can with black paint dripping down the side, "Leave Your Mark" written graffiti style in rainbow colors.
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Omigod, Cyndi! Your dog and mine are related, I think!
Pops, adorable gray dog with wavy curly hair and floppy ears, climbing onto a weathered park bench.
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Love how neither of them consider she was really saying, "I just don't like you, Larry."
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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An outrage.
A screenshot of Spelling Bee refusing to accept "Giraffy" as a word, as if it's not a perfectly acceptable adjective for people with giraffe-like qualities
October 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Pops enjoying the sunshine and morning breeze, just as Katie and Lucky prescribed. Just before I trim his bangs.
Adorable gray dog, whose bangs need a trim, sitting on a front porch, with dappled sunlight on a slate-gray wall behind him, a green lawn in the distance.
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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When we think of book bans, we think school libraries, classrooms.

But as this @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social chart shows, more than *half* are aimed at public libraries.

They're aimed at the whole community.

Check a targeted book out today! pen.org/banned-books...

#BannedBooksWeek
October 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Describe your Bluesky account with a single image.
October 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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These maps by @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social illustrate, if you've felt like books are under siege, it's because they ARE.

Remember, most bans are now initiated by pressure groups & politicians.

Anyway, read a banned book this week! Reading is resistance!

#BannedBooksWeek
Map showing the frequency of book banning attempts state-by-state, with most states exepriencing fewer than 50 censorship attempts. Map showing book banning attempts in 2023, where most states are experiencing hundreds, with Texas and Florida under siege.
October 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Stand up for banned books! Check one out from your library, read it, talk it up, rate it on Amazon or Goodreads or Storygraph, and then return it. Repeat.

My fave banned book today is Camp by Lev Rosen, a book I wish I'd been able to read as a teen.

bookshop.org/p/books/camp...

#BannedBooksWeek
Chart from the American Library Association showing that 72 percent of book bans in 2024 were initiated by pressure groups or governmental entities.
October 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson is mine today.

I'd add to this to-do list, write and post a positive review of your fave #BannedBooks on Goodreads, Amazon, @thestorygraph.com. Let's raise them up, wherever we can!

bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org/all-boys-are...

#BannedBooksWeek
The cover of the YA memoir All Boys Aren't Blue—featuring a Black teenage boy wearing a crown of yellow roses, birds of paradise, and white lillies— is sandwiched between red banners noting that it's the No. 1 most challenged book of 2024, with links to the American Library Association's website of banned books, and why this book matters.
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Pops ignoring Buttermilk Falls.
October 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Donna Talarico is the founder of @hippocampusmag.bsky.social & a content-strategy genius, and she has three suggestions for writers who need to improve their SEO. Which is pretty much all of us.

blogs.gothamwriters.com/2025/09/16/m...
#WritingCommunity
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Coolcoolcool. Yay, #FreeSpeech!

Now do @karenattiah.bsky.social.
September 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Aww, #WritingCommunity! @literaryhub.bsky.social made us a flow chart! With books! And it's not even our birthday.

lithub.com/which-big-fa...
Crazy gorgeous flow chart, back-to-school themed, with a graph paper background, and Fiction on the left and Nonfiction on the right.
September 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Sports Night!
September 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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I can't make it make sense!
September 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Got back from out of town last night at midnight, and Pops compelled me to throw his manky tennis ball for 10 minutes before I could go to bed. As penance, I think.
Adorable gray dog with disgusting yellow tennis ball.
September 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Every scene is a beautiful mess.

blogs.gothamwriters.com/2025/08/12/t...

#WriteTip #WritingCommunity
Dark-haired woman in full throes of vulnerability hangover. She's lying in bed wearing a white long-sleeved tee, head on a white pillow, covering her eyes and face with her hands.
September 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Love this pic of Lola, wearing her best "What, me?" face in front of an overturned basket of dog toys!

Here's Pops, ignoring a sunset.
August 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Happy International Dog Day to all who celebrate!

That's everybody, right?
August 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Omigod, I really am a dumbass today. ***ConnectionsBot!
August 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I love how #Wordle Bot never says, "Ha-HAH you fell for my red herring, dumbass!" but just compliments you for totally falling for said red herring. It's kind of sweet, really.
Extremely complimentary WordleBot comment on a guess where the player totally fell for the red herring.
August 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Pops enjoying one of the last weekends of summer. Hope you all can, too!
Adorable gray dog in profile, in a park, ignoring some sticks on the ground in front of him because nearby someone opened a bag of chips, with green Adirondack mountains in the background.
August 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM