K Bien
@kristenleigh.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Dancer. Mom. She/Her.
Writing about grief and landscape, Mahler and octopuses, echoes and Texas.
Co-founder of slips slips literary journal.
Rep by Susan Canavan at WLA Books.
https://bio.site/kristenly
Writing about grief and landscape, Mahler and octopuses, echoes and Texas.
Co-founder of slips slips literary journal.
Rep by Susan Canavan at WLA Books.
https://bio.site/kristenly
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K Bien
@kristenleigh.bsky.social
· Jul 22
Hey #Writers #VisualArtists and #Photographers! Excellent news!
slips slips issue #2 is open for submissions until August 31! Please send us your work for this wonderful print arts and literary journal! details here: www.slipsslips.net or hit me up with questions!
#OpenCall #CallforSubmissions
slips slips issue #2 is open for submissions until August 31! Please send us your work for this wonderful print arts and literary journal! details here: www.slipsslips.net or hit me up with questions!
#OpenCall #CallforSubmissions
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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
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Shop Sarabande Books this holiday season. To help with your gifting, take a peek at Sarabande's mini-holiday catalog of our essential reads and what we are gifting this season. View the full catalog here: simplebooklet.com/sarabandeboo...
#shopsmall #shopindependent 🎁
#shopsmall #shopindependent 🎁
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Shop Sarabande Books this holiday season. To help with your gifting, take a peek at Sarabande's mini-holiday catalog of our essential reads and what we are gifting this season. View the full catalog here: simplebooklet.com/sarabandeboo...
#shopsmall #shopindependent 🎁
#shopsmall #shopindependent 🎁
Thanks, as always, @alexanderchee.bsky.social for this reading warmup before I get into my own writing this morning. So many gems (😉) in the language here, but one of my faves:
"autobiographical outfits"
The Clothes You Were
open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
"autobiographical outfits"
The Clothes You Were
open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
The Clothes You Were
"They were always getting ready for a world that would never be ready for them."
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Thanks, as always, @alexanderchee.bsky.social for this reading warmup before I get into my own writing this morning. So many gems (😉) in the language here, but one of my faves:
"autobiographical outfits"
The Clothes You Were
open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
"autobiographical outfits"
The Clothes You Were
open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
Just logged back in to Instagram for the first time in...I have no idea how long. More than several weeks. Maybe two months?
Anyway, I didn't recognize any of the accounts as I scrolled. It's all ads. Didn't see anything from anyone I know.
Anyway, I didn't recognize any of the accounts as I scrolled. It's all ads. Didn't see anything from anyone I know.
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Just logged back in to Instagram for the first time in...I have no idea how long. More than several weeks. Maybe two months?
Anyway, I didn't recognize any of the accounts as I scrolled. It's all ads. Didn't see anything from anyone I know.
Anyway, I didn't recognize any of the accounts as I scrolled. It's all ads. Didn't see anything from anyone I know.
Played the piano today for the first time since August. My soul has left my body. Don't bother with my remains. I'm not even here anymore.
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Played the piano today for the first time since August. My soul has left my body. Don't bother with my remains. I'm not even here anymore.
Protect the People’s Mayor!
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Protect the People’s Mayor!
I do love seeing these Gen Z fearless creative activists telling us what they’re doing out there to show us how we failed them. I do love it. All love for the young ones. Sorry for how we failed you. So new media is good for some things.
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I do love seeing these Gen Z fearless creative activists telling us what they’re doing out there to show us how we failed them. I do love it. All love for the young ones. Sorry for how we failed you. So new media is good for some things.
Thinking about how in pre-internet times trends, tools, and preferences used to cycle at a respectable tempo through social systems and how the “move fast and break things” crowd really applied their own ethos to new media.
New media feels so played out.
New media feels so played out.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thinking about how in pre-internet times trends, tools, and preferences used to cycle at a respectable tempo through social systems and how the “move fast and break things” crowd really applied their own ethos to new media.
New media feels so played out.
New media feels so played out.
The only response to anything he says or posts ever again should be Quiet, Piggy
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The only response to anything he says or posts ever again should be Quiet, Piggy
Next project: brass and glass chandelier, circa 1920s.
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Next project: brass and glass chandelier, circa 1920s.
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Impeachment does nothing. ARREST HIM.
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Impeachment does nothing. ARREST HIM.
Every morning my alarm goes off at 5:15am so I can write before work. There are about 30 seconds during which I say no, not today, I can't do it. And then I remember the coffee is set up, waiting for me. My project document is open, where I left off, and this is the only time I have to write.
Also
Also
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Every morning my alarm goes off at 5:15am so I can write before work. There are about 30 seconds during which I say no, not today, I can't do it. And then I remember the coffee is set up, waiting for me. My project document is open, where I left off, and this is the only time I have to write.
Also
Also
Long lost treasure unearthed:
Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled in Leipzig on Mon, Nov 17, in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music." The two solo organ works were written while Bach was working as an organ teacher in the town of Arnstadt in Thuringia.
Sensationsfund in Leipzig: Unbekannte Bach-Stücke entdeckt
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Long lost treasure unearthed:
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You can pick up Broccoli's magazines, books and decks now at 20% off with the code "snowflakes," including Broccoli Issue 20, ft a piece I wrote on cyberweed 💿🌿 broccolimag.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can pick up Broccoli's magazines, books and decks now at 20% off with the code "snowflakes," including Broccoli Issue 20, ft a piece I wrote on cyberweed 💿🌿 broccolimag.com
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#NYC! If you’re hungry we’re out here with free hot meals until 2pm. NW Corner of W Houston and LaGuardia Place. Chicken, beef, vegan, all halal
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#NYC! If you’re hungry we’re out here with free hot meals until 2pm. NW Corner of W Houston and LaGuardia Place. Chicken, beef, vegan, all halal
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I know we have more than enough recent examples that discredit any notion of the US being a meritocracy. But after two minutes perusing the Epstein emails its clear these “elites” climbed hierarchies through depravity, not skill or intelligence.
ok maybe the craziest thing about these epstein emails is how many of them are still emailing like this after october 2016 and the wikileaks dnc emails
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I know we have more than enough recent examples that discredit any notion of the US being a meritocracy. But after two minutes perusing the Epstein emails its clear these “elites” climbed hierarchies through depravity, not skill or intelligence.
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dionne brand on catastrophe, acknowledgement, & surviving it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
dionne brand on catastrophe, acknowledgement, & surviving it.
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BLEH!!! Zhey don't love you like I love you. BLEH!!! Zhey don't love you like I love you. Baaaats baaaats baaaaaaats baaaats
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
BLEH!!! Zhey don't love you like I love you. BLEH!!! Zhey don't love you like I love you. Baaaats baaaats baaaaaaats baaaats
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New episode of Classical Breakdown is out today, this time on the life and music of living composer Adolphus Hailstork!
We also look a little closer at 3 of his works; a symphony, piano quintet, and a choral work.
#classicalmusic
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
We also look a little closer at 3 of his works; a symphony, piano quintet, and a choral work.
#classicalmusic
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Adolphus Hailstork, an American composer writing for our time
Podcast Episode · Classical Breakdown · 11/11/2025 · 54m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New episode of Classical Breakdown is out today, this time on the life and music of living composer Adolphus Hailstork!
We also look a little closer at 3 of his works; a symphony, piano quintet, and a choral work.
#classicalmusic
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
We also look a little closer at 3 of his works; a symphony, piano quintet, and a choral work.
#classicalmusic
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
The Spider holds a Silver Ball
Some Emily Dickinson for your morning 🕸️🕷️✨
allpoetry.com/The-Spider-h...
Some Emily Dickinson for your morning 🕸️🕷️✨
allpoetry.com/The-Spider-h...
The Spider holds a Silver Ball by Emily Dickinson - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
Comments & analysis: The spider holds a Silver Ball / In unperceived Hands— / And dancing softly to Himse
allpoetry.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The Spider holds a Silver Ball
Some Emily Dickinson for your morning 🕸️🕷️✨
allpoetry.com/The-Spider-h...
Some Emily Dickinson for your morning 🕸️🕷️✨
allpoetry.com/The-Spider-h...
People who have no self-respect really are the most dangerous kinds of people.
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
People who have no self-respect really are the most dangerous kinds of people.
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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If you are in Illinois and need food, you can use this link to find free groceries or hot meals. Pass it on!
wegotyouillinois.org/find-food/#g...
wegotyouillinois.org/find-food/#g...
Find Food | We Got You Illinois
wegotyouillinois.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you are in Illinois and need food, you can use this link to find free groceries or hot meals. Pass it on!
wegotyouillinois.org/find-food/#g...
wegotyouillinois.org/find-food/#g...
