Mary Grimm
@mcagrimm.bsky.social
Writer, reader, gardener, etc.
A new piece in the wonderful New World Writing: newworldwriting.net/mary-grimm-m...
Mary Grimm ~ Mother Does Not Go Gentle - New World Writing Quarterly
Under the pressure of age and illness she lost her happiness, dragging herself from room to room, the house a prison now, hers and ours. One of us had to be
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October 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A new piece in the wonderful New World Writing: newworldwriting.net/mary-grimm-m...
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We're accepting submission for Issue 22! 100 free submissions available, plus Tip Jar & Expedited options. Deadline: Oct. 31. Send us your best work & help us continue celebrating powerful voices that connect people & the planet! www.splitrockreview.org/submit
SPLIT ROCK REVIEW — SUBMIT
Split Rock Review is an online journal dedicated to publishing literature and art that explore place, environment, and the complex relationship between humans and the natural world.
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October 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We're accepting submission for Issue 22! 100 free submissions available, plus Tip Jar & Expedited options. Deadline: Oct. 31. Send us your best work & help us continue celebrating powerful voices that connect people & the planet! www.splitrockreview.org/submit
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Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series.
"In the 5th inning of the last game of the Series, I checked the telephone book to see if she {a prostitute, his 1st sexual experience] was still listed. She was still at the same address. I dialed the number."
From Vegas, by John Gregory Dunne
"In the 5th inning of the last game of the Series, I checked the telephone book to see if she {a prostitute, his 1st sexual experience] was still listed. She was still at the same address. I dialed the number."
From Vegas, by John Gregory Dunne
October 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series.
"In the 5th inning of the last game of the Series, I checked the telephone book to see if she {a prostitute, his 1st sexual experience] was still listed. She was still at the same address. I dialed the number."
From Vegas, by John Gregory Dunne
"In the 5th inning of the last game of the Series, I checked the telephone book to see if she {a prostitute, his 1st sexual experience] was still listed. She was still at the same address. I dialed the number."
From Vegas, by John Gregory Dunne
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About to do a research deep dive into a special interest so I had to take my autism pills
September 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
About to do a research deep dive into a special interest so I had to take my autism pills
I've got a new flash in the inaugural issue of Rawhead, which is political-ish?
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Mary Grimm
Mary Grimm Winner – Editor’s Spotlight Award in Prose The Ghost President Visits Our Supermarket He arrives in a white van, followed by two more white vans. When he gets out he stands i…
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September 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I've got a new flash in the inaugural issue of Rawhead, which is political-ish?
rawheadjournal.org/issue-one/ma...
rawheadjournal.org/issue-one/ma...
New substack, wherein I excavate my writing past.
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Digging up bones
These bones are metaphorical – a pile of manuscripts from decades ago, when I was a younger writer, unpublished for the most part.
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August 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
New substack, wherein I excavate my writing past.
whenimwriting.substack.com/p/digging-up...
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Top lies told on AO3:
1. I finished this draft before I started posting chapters.
2. I won't post anything else until I finish this story.
3. I'm going to update more regularly from now on, guys!
... adorable.
1. I finished this draft before I started posting chapters.
2. I won't post anything else until I finish this story.
3. I'm going to update more regularly from now on, guys!
... adorable.
August 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Top lies told on AO3:
1. I finished this draft before I started posting chapters.
2. I won't post anything else until I finish this story.
3. I'm going to update more regularly from now on, guys!
... adorable.
1. I finished this draft before I started posting chapters.
2. I won't post anything else until I finish this story.
3. I'm going to update more regularly from now on, guys!
... adorable.
Just was notified that the NEA creative writing fellowships program has been cancelled.
#morebadnews
#morebadnews
August 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Just was notified that the NEA creative writing fellowships program has been cancelled.
#morebadnews
#morebadnews
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James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves. To manage that fear, we “other” the groups we don’t belong to in order to avoid a reckoning with ourselves.
The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin
An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.
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August 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves. To manage that fear, we “other” the groups we don’t belong to in order to avoid a reckoning with ourselves.
Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series.
In this case, a phrase: "her long strawberry blonde hair clean and loose..." from The Ink Black Heart.
(I distrust a story or a novel that has a description of a female character's hair on the first page."
In this case, a phrase: "her long strawberry blonde hair clean and loose..." from The Ink Black Heart.
(I distrust a story or a novel that has a description of a female character's hair on the first page."
August 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series.
In this case, a phrase: "her long strawberry blonde hair clean and loose..." from The Ink Black Heart.
(I distrust a story or a novel that has a description of a female character's hair on the first page."
In this case, a phrase: "her long strawberry blonde hair clean and loose..." from The Ink Black Heart.
(I distrust a story or a novel that has a description of a female character's hair on the first page."
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
August 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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Sunday morning writing mantra, via DeLillo, from inside my cocoon of dimmed lights, closed doors, and noise-cancelling headphones: "A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."
August 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Sunday morning writing mantra, via DeLillo, from inside my cocoon of dimmed lights, closed doors, and noise-cancelling headphones: "A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
Sentences that enchanted me -- A Series:
"'When I carefully wipe my china cups for a long time,' she said, 'I feel myself growing old.'"
from Sido, a reminiscence of her mother, by Colette
"'When I carefully wipe my china cups for a long time,' she said, 'I feel myself growing old.'"
from Sido, a reminiscence of her mother, by Colette
August 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Sentences that enchanted me -- A Series:
"'When I carefully wipe my china cups for a long time,' she said, 'I feel myself growing old.'"
from Sido, a reminiscence of her mother, by Colette
"'When I carefully wipe my china cups for a long time,' she said, 'I feel myself growing old.'"
from Sido, a reminiscence of her mother, by Colette
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Deadline to sign up is today! Fun! Cheap! Generative!
Join us for Hopperaerobics: A Ninety-Minute Excursion into the Museum of Narrative, a playful, immersive workshop led by the brilliant Sarah Freligh 🖼️📝
📅 Sunday, July 27th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 PM EDT
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📅 Sunday, July 27th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 PM EDT
🎟️ Tickets: secure.givelively.org/event/small-...
July 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Deadline to sign up is today! Fun! Cheap! Generative!
Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series.
"In this delightfully absorbing novel, an isolated house in the middle of a menacing desert landscape serves as the backdrop of a reality-TV competition."
From a review of The Compound in the New Yorker.
"In this delightfully absorbing novel, an isolated house in the middle of a menacing desert landscape serves as the backdrop of a reality-TV competition."
From a review of The Compound in the New Yorker.
July 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series.
"In this delightfully absorbing novel, an isolated house in the middle of a menacing desert landscape serves as the backdrop of a reality-TV competition."
From a review of The Compound in the New Yorker.
"In this delightfully absorbing novel, an isolated house in the middle of a menacing desert landscape serves as the backdrop of a reality-TV competition."
From a review of The Compound in the New Yorker.
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Every day, I am reminded that I live in a society that will believe absolutely anything about a woman to ignore the obvious about men.
July 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Every day, I am reminded that I live in a society that will believe absolutely anything about a woman to ignore the obvious about men.
Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series:
"Patiently shouldering what must have been wearying domestic obligations, he remained a distant figure."
(About P D James's father having to take care of his own children, from a piece by Dinah Birch in the London Review of Books)
"Patiently shouldering what must have been wearying domestic obligations, he remained a distant figure."
(About P D James's father having to take care of his own children, from a piece by Dinah Birch in the London Review of Books)
July 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Sentences that made me stop reading - A Series:
"Patiently shouldering what must have been wearying domestic obligations, he remained a distant figure."
(About P D James's father having to take care of his own children, from a piece by Dinah Birch in the London Review of Books)
"Patiently shouldering what must have been wearying domestic obligations, he remained a distant figure."
(About P D James's father having to take care of his own children, from a piece by Dinah Birch in the London Review of Books)
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Novelist, short story writer and screenwriter Raymond Chandler, born 137 years ago today on July 23, 1888. One of the original architects of the hardboiled detective genre.
#RaymondChandler #crimefiction #detectivefiction #hardboileddetective #amreading #amwriting
#RaymondChandler #crimefiction #detectivefiction #hardboileddetective #amreading #amwriting
July 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Novelist, short story writer and screenwriter Raymond Chandler, born 137 years ago today on July 23, 1888. One of the original architects of the hardboiled detective genre.
#RaymondChandler #crimefiction #detectivefiction #hardboileddetective #amreading #amwriting
#RaymondChandler #crimefiction #detectivefiction #hardboileddetective #amreading #amwriting
Summer substacking: what we talk about when we talk about writing on vacation.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Summer substacking: what we talk about when we talk about writing on vacation.
whenimwriting.substack.com/p/free-range...
whenimwriting.substack.com/p/free-range...
New substack with complaining about writing.
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Writing is hard
This summer has been a bad writing time for me.
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July 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New substack with complaining about writing.
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New substack - why I listened to 16 covers of God Only Knows, kind of.
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God only knows
How do other people, meaning people who are not writers, justify doing things like listening to 16 different covers of “God Only Knows?”
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June 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
New substack - why I listened to 16 covers of God Only Knows, kind of.
whenimwriting.substack.com/p/god-only-k...
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New substack: sometimes you're writing and sometimes you're writing about writing.
whenimwriting.substack.com/p/revisiting...
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Revisiting/re-visioning
Today I was working on a story that’s been sitting in my computer for a long time, maybe as long as a decade.
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June 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New substack: sometimes you're writing and sometimes you're writing about writing.
whenimwriting.substack.com/p/revisiting...
whenimwriting.substack.com/p/revisiting...
