Kristina Tabor Saccone
@kristinatabor.bsky.social
Writer 🏳️🌈🖋️ Working on a satirical novel. Other credits: Best Microfiction 2023, Randolph MFA candidate, editor at One Wild Ride. Microchapbook out June 1: GRIEVING HOPE https://elj-editions.com/special-projects/grieving-hope/
New post!
“Living requires that we harness joy because the body can only take so much despair. I’ve found that joy in new friendships, which, as Cicero wrote ‘improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and dividing of our grief.’”
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“Living requires that we harness joy because the body can only take so much despair. I’ve found that joy in new friendships, which, as Cicero wrote ‘improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and dividing of our grief.’”
open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
Courage in Closeness
On the necessity of new friendships
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November 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
New post!
“Living requires that we harness joy because the body can only take so much despair. I’ve found that joy in new friendships, which, as Cicero wrote ‘improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and dividing of our grief.’”
open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
“Living requires that we harness joy because the body can only take so much despair. I’ve found that joy in new friendships, which, as Cicero wrote ‘improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and dividing of our grief.’”
open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
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This Sunday at 2PM at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social! Psyched to lead a mini workshop alongside brilliant @mshatter.bsky.social, as well as reading with goddess @kristinatabor.bsky.social and the rest of the crew!
Free! Join us! All the exclamation points!
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Free! Join us! All the exclamation points!
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WWPH Presents America's Future; a Literay Salon — Solid State Books
AMERICA’S FUTURE speaks to joy and resilience amidst political turmoil in the United States…” Poets & Writers magazine, September/October 2025 Complimentary RSVPs here
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October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This Sunday at 2PM at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social! Psyched to lead a mini workshop alongside brilliant @mshatter.bsky.social, as well as reading with goddess @kristinatabor.bsky.social and the rest of the crew!
Free! Join us! All the exclamation points!
www.solidstatebooksdc.com/events/2025/...
Free! Join us! All the exclamation points!
www.solidstatebooksdc.com/events/2025/...
A new short essay on the limitations of language and our bodies open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
Naming the Body’s Quiet Betrayal
On the words that fail us & the ones we invent
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October 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A new short essay on the limitations of language and our bodies open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
New look, same writing on identity and contradictions. Join the ride at my Substack, Blue Violet: open.substack.com/pub/blueviolet
Blue Violet | Kristina Tabor Saccone | Substack
Notes on contradictions and identity. Click to read Blue Violet, by Kristina Tabor Saccone, a Substack publication.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New look, same writing on identity and contradictions. Join the ride at my Substack, Blue Violet: open.substack.com/pub/blueviolet
New post up on Blue Violet, my Substack. It’s not just about Barbie tho “Barbie was one of my earliest influences, her plastic proportioned body dressed and undressed in my hands, where I learned what arms, breasts, stomach, and thighs were supposed to look like.”
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The Weight of Dolls
On Body Image and the Stories We Inherit
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October 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
New post up on Blue Violet, my Substack. It’s not just about Barbie tho “Barbie was one of my earliest influences, her plastic proportioned body dressed and undressed in my hands, where I learned what arms, breasts, stomach, and thighs were supposed to look like.”
open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
New post up today with beginning contemplations on chronic illness and weight loss. I hope these writings help at least a few people feel less overwhelmed and alone in their own bodies, and I’d love to talk about it in the comments or 1:1.
open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
Sick, Grieving, and Suddenly Thinner
The pounds I didn't mean to lose
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September 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
New post up today with beginning contemplations on chronic illness and weight loss. I hope these writings help at least a few people feel less overwhelmed and alone in their own bodies, and I’d love to talk about it in the comments or 1:1.
open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...
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Thanks a lot @melostrom.bsky.social. Your support means a lot. So glad to be a part of this beautiful group of writers @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Charlotte Hamrick and Janet Murie with @dianegotauthor.bsky.social (Ed) @emergejournal.bsky.social
Mocha & I are spending this rainy morning reading GRIEVING HOPE, a stunning collection of micro chapbooks by Charlotte Hamrick, @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social, Kristina Tabor, & Janet Murie, edited by the wonderful @dianegotauthor.bsky.social.
Check it out, friends!🧡📚🐶
Check it out, friends!🧡📚🐶
June 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thanks a lot @melostrom.bsky.social. Your support means a lot. So glad to be a part of this beautiful group of writers @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Charlotte Hamrick and Janet Murie with @dianegotauthor.bsky.social (Ed) @emergejournal.bsky.social
So proud to be a part of this!
Grieving Hope is now available! Don't miss this five-in-one collection featuring chapbooks by Charlotte Hamrick, @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, and Janet Murie. #flashfiction #writingcommunity
Grieving Hope | ELJ Editions
Grief and hope. Two words that aren’t used together often. Yet, through stories of nature and nurture, of reckoning and coming to terms, Charlotte Hamrick, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadhyay...
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June 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
So proud to be a part of this!
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Join us for our launch: Sat at 2 p.m. ET. Link in comments. Joining me will be @charlotteham504.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social @ronita.bsky.social and Janet Murie. Five chapbooks nested within the covers of one volume. Big gratitude to editor @dianegotauthor & publisher @elj_editions_ltd.
June 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Join us for our launch: Sat at 2 p.m. ET. Link in comments. Joining me will be @charlotteham504.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social @ronita.bsky.social and Janet Murie. Five chapbooks nested within the covers of one volume. Big gratitude to editor @dianegotauthor & publisher @elj_editions_ltd.
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Launch day nears for DENATURED: STORIES OF CHANGE included in GRIEVING HOPE. Would love to see you in the virtual audience! (Link below.)
Mahalo @dianegotauthor.bsky.social.
Congrats fellow authors @charlotteham504.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social & Janet Murie.
Mahalo @dianegotauthor.bsky.social.
Congrats fellow authors @charlotteham504.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social & Janet Murie.
May 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Launch day nears for DENATURED: STORIES OF CHANGE included in GRIEVING HOPE. Would love to see you in the virtual audience! (Link below.)
Mahalo @dianegotauthor.bsky.social.
Congrats fellow authors @charlotteham504.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social & Janet Murie.
Mahalo @dianegotauthor.bsky.social.
Congrats fellow authors @charlotteham504.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social & Janet Murie.
I miss my mom all the time, but Mother’s Day was particularly special. I share some of our journey through dementia in my forthcoming microchapbook MEMORY’S EBB, out June 1, part of this beautiful collection GRIEVING HOPE from @emergejournal.bsky.social and edited by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I miss my mom all the time, but Mother’s Day was particularly special. I share some of our journey through dementia in my forthcoming microchapbook MEMORY’S EBB, out June 1, part of this beautiful collection GRIEVING HOPE from @emergejournal.bsky.social and edited by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social
Thrilled to be a part of this!
Pre-orders are live! Gratitude to @dianegotauthor.bsky.social & @adenbleyker.bsky.social & @emergejournal.bsky.social for championing this collection. Congrats to my bookmates @charhamrick.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Janet Murie, & @ronita.bsky.social.
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elj-editions.com/special-proj...
Grieving Hope
Grief and hope. Two words that aren’t used together often. Yet, through stories of nature and nurture, of reckoning and coming to terms, Charlotte Hamrick, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadh…
elj-editions.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Thrilled to be a part of this!
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Our March issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is...
Words:
@aniking.bsky.social
@olangela.bsky.social
Ben Gibbons
@olangela.bsky.social
Claire Hopple
Matthew Thomas Bernell
Cover art: Heather D Daigh
Words:
@aniking.bsky.social
@olangela.bsky.social
Ben Gibbons
@olangela.bsky.social
Claire Hopple
Matthew Thomas Bernell
Cover art: Heather D Daigh
Volume 14, Issue 3
COVER ART BY heather d haigh FICTION Nervous Thing by Ani King REHAB, TAKE THREE BY ANGELA JAMES SQUIRRELS BY BEN GIBBONS SWINGSET BIRD BY JODY HOBBS HESLER NONFICTION THAT’S ALL ANYO…
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March 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Our March issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is...
Words:
@aniking.bsky.social
@olangela.bsky.social
Ben Gibbons
@olangela.bsky.social
Claire Hopple
Matthew Thomas Bernell
Cover art: Heather D Daigh
Words:
@aniking.bsky.social
@olangela.bsky.social
Ben Gibbons
@olangela.bsky.social
Claire Hopple
Matthew Thomas Bernell
Cover art: Heather D Daigh
I’m looking for favorite short stories and flash about love ❤️. Any ideas??
March 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I’m looking for favorite short stories and flash about love ❤️. Any ideas??
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Writer friends and acquaintances: have a workshop or workshop idea you haven't figured out how to get it out there or market it? Message me. I have something brewing
February 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Writer friends and acquaintances: have a workshop or workshop idea you haven't figured out how to get it out there or market it? Message me. I have something brewing
Good advice for getting out of a writing rut.
Write something COMPLETELY different. If you're stuck on fiction, write an essay. If you're trying to write sci-fi, write historical fiction.
If it's good, you've greased the wheels and gotten your brain moving; if it's bad, so what bc it's not what you were trying to write anyway
If it's good, you've greased the wheels and gotten your brain moving; if it's bad, so what bc it's not what you were trying to write anyway
February 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Good advice for getting out of a writing rut.
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I've found that consistently being in writing spaces is really helpful. Workshops, writing groups, etc.
I’m in a writing rut. Any advice for how to get out of it?
a baby sea turtle is crawling out of a hole in the sand on the beach .
ALT: a baby sea turtle is crawling out of a hole in the sand on the beach .
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February 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I've found that consistently being in writing spaces is really helpful. Workshops, writing groups, etc.
I’m in a writing rut. Any advice for how to get out of it?
a baby sea turtle is crawling out of a hole in the sand on the beach .
ALT: a baby sea turtle is crawling out of a hole in the sand on the beach .
media.tenor.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I’m in a writing rut. Any advice for how to get out of it?
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Self-promotion thread.
What work of yours do you want to promote?
It doesn't have to be commercial. If you've painted something or done some interesting needlepoint, that counts too.
(If you don't create, post something you've enjoyed)
What work of yours do you want to promote?
It doesn't have to be commercial. If you've painted something or done some interesting needlepoint, that counts too.
(If you don't create, post something you've enjoyed)
February 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Self-promotion thread.
What work of yours do you want to promote?
It doesn't have to be commercial. If you've painted something or done some interesting needlepoint, that counts too.
(If you don't create, post something you've enjoyed)
What work of yours do you want to promote?
It doesn't have to be commercial. If you've painted something or done some interesting needlepoint, that counts too.
(If you don't create, post something you've enjoyed)
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Open for 40 pieces of writing this afternoon. 4:30pm ET.
All submission info here:
www.stanchionzine.com/submissions
All submission info here:
www.stanchionzine.com/submissions
February 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Open for 40 pieces of writing this afternoon. 4:30pm ET.
All submission info here:
www.stanchionzine.com/submissions
All submission info here:
www.stanchionzine.com/submissions
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I absolutely believe we can get @writesloud.bsky.social into a 2nd printing of First Kicking, Then Not on day 1 of pre-orders. Let's goooooooooo.
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February 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I absolutely believe we can get @writesloud.bsky.social into a 2nd printing of First Kicking, Then Not on day 1 of pre-orders. Let's goooooooooo.
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
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You’re gonna need to buy @writesloud.bsky.social book. It’ll probably be mandatory on some syllabi in fucking awesome literary studies soon
I absolutely believe we can get @writesloud.bsky.social into a 2nd printing of First Kicking, Then Not on day 1 of pre-orders. Let's goooooooooo.
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
February 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
You’re gonna need to buy @writesloud.bsky.social book. It’ll probably be mandatory on some syllabi in fucking awesome literary studies soon
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“Love is a great privilege. Real love, which is very rare, enriches the lives of the men and women who experience it.” —Simone de Beauvoir https://buff.ly/2H6haJB
February 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Love is a great privilege. Real love, which is very rare, enriches the lives of the men and women who experience it.” —Simone de Beauvoir https://buff.ly/2H6haJB
Look at this gorgeous book by @writesloud.bsky.social!!
PRE-ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT
@writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's captivating debut short story collection introduces us to women hungry to know who they are outside the expectations of others.
Pre-order one of the most anticipated books of the summer!!
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@writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's captivating debut short story collection introduces us to women hungry to know who they are outside the expectations of others.
Pre-order one of the most anticipated books of the summer!!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
February 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Look at this gorgeous book by @writesloud.bsky.social!!