Lindsey Pharr
@lapharr.bsky.social
I loved this, thank you, Maureen!
Thanks so much, @saralippmann.bsky.social for this kind post! 🧡
“You have to be flinchable … That’s being human. We flinch all the time.” READ the stunning, soulful @maureenlangloss.bsky.social on Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews—and well, all of us. www.maureenlangloss.com/you-have-to-... @newyorker.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I loved this, thank you, Maureen!
I just signed up and can't wait to see y'all there!
We're holding a month-long write-in in the awkward time between November and December, and we'd love for you to join us. It's free. Tell your friends. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
Join SmokeLong for a mysterious month between November and December we’ve christened Promptember! We’ll be meeting several times a week online with live write-in and open mic events at various times to suit participants around this spinning globe, 100% free.
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www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I just signed up and can't wait to see y'all there!
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"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature
October 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"
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Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."
I love this!
“I don’t tell you you’re my muse; that will come later, after we’ve left this adobe house in the New Mexico mountains, where you’re gracious to let me stay.”
-from “Letter from the Same Room,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Lauren Fath
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
-from “Letter from the Same Room,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Lauren Fath
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
September 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I love this!
So excited to see all y'all at AWP in Baltimore! It's been a helluva year and I'm looking forward to laughing with writer friends.
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
So excited to see all y'all at AWP in Baltimore! It's been a helluva year and I'm looking forward to laughing with writer friends.
"Essays that dwell in uncertainty are in many ways closest to the truth of the human experience." Thank you @sfmontgomery.bsky.social for this inspiration today. Needed it.
fourthgenre.org/interview/es...
fourthgenre.org/interview/es...
Essaying as Empowerment - An Interview with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Jody Keisner
Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Jody Keisner sit down to discuss essayistic empowerment in their new collections, "Halfway from Home" and "Under My Bed and Other Essays."
fourthgenre.org
September 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Essays that dwell in uncertainty are in many ways closest to the truth of the human experience." Thank you @sfmontgomery.bsky.social for this inspiration today. Needed it.
fourthgenre.org/interview/es...
fourthgenre.org/interview/es...
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oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇
September 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇
Read "Lark Song" written by @jennystalter.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.
"I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth."
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"I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth."
tinyurl.com/45maxd3c
Lark Song — Ghost Parachute
I emerge from us as a lark from depression-nest. You punched a hole in the wall near my head, breath full and chewy as wine, dangerous words through drunk teeth. I take flight under pink spring sunris...
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September 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Just fantastic, Cole!!
Thank you to the editors at @trampset.bsky.social for publishing this story. It's from a @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness prompt where the only requirement was that people get naked...
@patiencemackarness.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @pennypriddy.bsky.social
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@patiencemackarness.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @pennypriddy.bsky.social
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June 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Just fantastic, Cole!!
I love these wild micros
New Micro Series by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social
"The house slept while I stayed up stretching, trying to fit my body into this world, knowing
something ancient lives inside me and needs to ease into sleep. It worms its way through my
bloodstream."
fracturedlit.com/coyote-bones...
"The house slept while I stayed up stretching, trying to fit my body into this world, knowing
something ancient lives inside me and needs to ease into sleep. It worms its way through my
bloodstream."
fracturedlit.com/coyote-bones...
Coyote, Bones, Howl - Fractured
CoyoteThe house slept while I stayed up stretching, trying to fit my body into this world, knowingsomething ancient lives inside me and needs to ease into sleep. It worms its way through mybloodstream...
fracturedlit.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I love these wild micros
Thank you @assayjournal.bsky.social !
This throwback Thursday we’re revisiting Assay issue 10.2 with Lindsey Pharr’s “Brave Person Drag: Identity, Consciousness, and the Power of the Cyclical in Gamebook-Formatted Memoir.”
Read it here:
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#ThrowbackThursday #CreativeNonfiction #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #ExperimentalForm
Read it here:
buff.ly/FT94BfT
#ThrowbackThursday #CreativeNonfiction #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #ExperimentalForm
June 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Thank you @assayjournal.bsky.social !
Well, here's a great birthday present: my essay "On Being Still and Knowing" in Appalachian Review was given the Denny C. Plattner Award from Beara College. Thank you!
June 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Well, here's a great birthday present: my essay "On Being Still and Knowing" in Appalachian Review was given the Denny C. Plattner Award from Beara College. Thank you!
It's a strawberry full moon in my moon house of the archer. My birth day falls on Friday the 13th within this full moon cycle. And all I want for my birthday is for you to say it with your full chest: FUCK ICE.
June 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
It's a strawberry full moon in my moon house of the archer. My birth day falls on Friday the 13th within this full moon cycle. And all I want for my birthday is for you to say it with your full chest: FUCK ICE.
Thanks for my badge @bathflashaward.bsky.social !
June 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Thanks for my badge @bathflashaward.bsky.social !
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I have a new speculative, climate story and interview in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. I hope you check it out!
As always, thank you also to @smokelong.bsky.social for being my ride-or-die. And thank you to @lunchontuesday.bsky.social who discombobulated my brain enough to shake this story loose!
As always, thank you also to @smokelong.bsky.social for being my ride-or-die. And thank you to @lunchontuesday.bsky.social who discombobulated my brain enough to shake this story loose!
‘What Moon Wouldn't Give’ by Dawn Tasaka Steffler
Flash Fiction
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June 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I have a new speculative, climate story and interview in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. I hope you check it out!
As always, thank you also to @smokelong.bsky.social for being my ride-or-die. And thank you to @lunchontuesday.bsky.social who discombobulated my brain enough to shake this story loose!
As always, thank you also to @smokelong.bsky.social for being my ride-or-die. And thank you to @lunchontuesday.bsky.social who discombobulated my brain enough to shake this story loose!
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my honest answer to “what radicalized you”
June 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
my honest answer to “what radicalized you”
Look, Ma! I'm a rerun! It was a truly bewildering experience to pull up my podcasts today and stumble across my own mug. Thank you Pop of Culture at Indiana Public Radio and @riverteeth.bsky.social ! Listen to S2 E21 here: indianapublicradio.org/popofculture/
May 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Look, Ma! I'm a rerun! It was a truly bewildering experience to pull up my podcasts today and stumble across my own mug. Thank you Pop of Culture at Indiana Public Radio and @riverteeth.bsky.social ! Listen to S2 E21 here: indianapublicradio.org/popofculture/
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I’m not saying we should flood this line with UFO reports but I’m not NOT saying that either.
I know I should take this seriously but this ICE tweet genuinely made me laugh.
May 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’m not saying we should flood this line with UFO reports but I’m not NOT saying that either.
I love this!
If you want to join me in this daily practice, here’s what I’m trying: www.maureenlangloss.com/in-the-bee-l...
In the Bee-Loud Glade - Maureen Langloss
A daily practice, like doing musical scales, to add to your writing routine.
www.maureenlangloss.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I love this!
Winning the SmokeLong Summer CNF prize is one of the highest honors/achievements in my life because it landed me in the pages of my #1 Dream Mag, SmokeLong Quarterly. Only workshop participants are allowed to enter, so this is your chance!
Also included in A SmokeLong Summer are THREE MORE EPIC FREE CONTESTS?
NARRATIVE POETRY PRIZE
$200 + publication in September's SmokeLong Quarterly
FLASH FICTION PRIZE
$200 + publication in September's SmokeLong Quarterly
FLASH CNF/ESSAY PRIZE
$200 + publication in September's SmokeLong Quarterly
NARRATIVE POETRY PRIZE
$200 + publication in September's SmokeLong Quarterly
FLASH FICTION PRIZE
$200 + publication in September's SmokeLong Quarterly
FLASH CNF/ESSAY PRIZE
$200 + publication in September's SmokeLong Quarterly
May 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Winning the SmokeLong Summer CNF prize is one of the highest honors/achievements in my life because it landed me in the pages of my #1 Dream Mag, SmokeLong Quarterly. Only workshop participants are allowed to enter, so this is your chance!
Thank you @dintywmoore.bsky.social for loving one of the only non-depressing things I've ever written. Here's to @toriamos.bsky.social, old trucks, spring peepers, and self-acceptance.
Sure, sex is great, but have you ever clocked out of a waitress shift on a night when everything went right instead of wrong and at the exact moment you’re pulling out of the parking spot someone yells “I love your truck!” @lapharr.bsky.social
brevitymag.com/current-issu...
brevitymag.com/current-issu...
The Night Chorus | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
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May 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Thank you @dintywmoore.bsky.social for loving one of the only non-depressing things I've ever written. Here's to @toriamos.bsky.social, old trucks, spring peepers, and self-acceptance.
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New sestina-flash for you in the queer epistolary issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social! I’ve been making a series for years now. This is the first out. I am trying to love better, despite it all. Give a read (and a listen.)
Also, lovely. If you see this, hello. I hope you're fucking thriving out there.
Also, lovely. If you see this, hello. I hope you're fucking thriving out there.
Erin Vachon – ANMLY
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May 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New sestina-flash for you in the queer epistolary issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social! I’ve been making a series for years now. This is the first out. I am trying to love better, despite it all. Give a read (and a listen.)
Also, lovely. If you see this, hello. I hope you're fucking thriving out there.
Also, lovely. If you see this, hello. I hope you're fucking thriving out there.