Michelle (she/her)
@mhn-hello.bsky.social
Writer of short things. Creative Writing PhD student at UNB. Covered in cat fur.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/michellehoeckelneal
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/michellehoeckelneal
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October 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Thrilled to have participated in my first Poetry Weekend! So many inspired poets, so much stunning verse. I love being here. If you're local, come!
No plans this weekend? The 22nd annual Poetry Weekend festival is happening at Memorial Hall on UNB campus! Here’s the schedule! (The poets marked in red are poets with chapbooks I published.)
October 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thrilled to have participated in my first Poetry Weekend! So many inspired poets, so much stunning verse. I love being here. If you're local, come!
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UNB Reading Series Presents:
Anuja Varghese, Author of Chrysalis and winner of the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, with an opening reading by Alessandra Naccarato
OCT 2nd 2025
7:30 PM @ UNB Art
Centre - Memorial
Hall (9 Bailey Dr.)
(An accessible venue)
FREE OF CHARGE AND ALL ARE WELCOME!
Anuja Varghese, Author of Chrysalis and winner of the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, with an opening reading by Alessandra Naccarato
OCT 2nd 2025
7:30 PM @ UNB Art
Centre - Memorial
Hall (9 Bailey Dr.)
(An accessible venue)
FREE OF CHARGE AND ALL ARE WELCOME!
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
UNB Reading Series Presents:
Anuja Varghese, Author of Chrysalis and winner of the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, with an opening reading by Alessandra Naccarato
OCT 2nd 2025
7:30 PM @ UNB Art
Centre - Memorial
Hall (9 Bailey Dr.)
(An accessible venue)
FREE OF CHARGE AND ALL ARE WELCOME!
Anuja Varghese, Author of Chrysalis and winner of the 2023 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, with an opening reading by Alessandra Naccarato
OCT 2nd 2025
7:30 PM @ UNB Art
Centre - Memorial
Hall (9 Bailey Dr.)
(An accessible venue)
FREE OF CHARGE AND ALL ARE WELCOME!
Update from our new home in Freddy: I am writing, I am running, I am biking, I am cooking, I am reading, I am learning, I am I am I am
September 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Update from our new home in Freddy: I am writing, I am running, I am biking, I am cooking, I am reading, I am learning, I am I am I am
On Thursday I visited our bike shed only to find that my bike was stolen! Ah, well. Now I'm "officially" a Freddy resident. Plus, it offered the perfect writing prompt for that day's session!
August 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On Thursday I visited our bike shed only to find that my bike was stolen! Ah, well. Now I'm "officially" a Freddy resident. Plus, it offered the perfect writing prompt for that day's session!
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Our contests are OPEN until November 1st!
Learn more in the thread & submit today! fictioncollective2.submittable.com/submit
Learn more in the thread & submit today! fictioncollective2.submittable.com/submit
August 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Our contests are OPEN until November 1st!
Learn more in the thread & submit today! fictioncollective2.submittable.com/submit
Learn more in the thread & submit today! fictioncollective2.submittable.com/submit
I figure now would be a good time to actually establish a consistent writing practice (mere days before my PhD program begins). I'm at 2 hrs/day, 4 days running. About 5k words. Better late than never! 💪🖋️💪🖋️
August 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I figure now would be a good time to actually establish a consistent writing practice (mere days before my PhD program begins). I'm at 2 hrs/day, 4 days running. About 5k words. Better late than never! 💪🖋️💪🖋️
This was terrific! Aimee Bender discusses noticing and defamiliarizing 🦋🦋
You weren't able to join us yesterday for our interview and reading with Aimee Bender, our first Master Series guest? You can now watch the interview on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/DH71B3XUIx0?...
SLQ Master Series - Aimee Bender
YouTube video by SmokeLong Quarterly
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August 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This was terrific! Aimee Bender discusses noticing and defamiliarizing 🦋🦋
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August 9th! Aimee Bender! www.smokelong.com/august-9th-m...
August 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
August 9th! Aimee Bender! www.smokelong.com/august-9th-m...
We're here!!!! Happy New Brunswick Day to all who celebrate!
August 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We're here!!!! Happy New Brunswick Day to all who celebrate!
I move to Canada in a week. My home is in shambles. The walls are freshly spackled. Our chairs are gone. My cat is missing amongst the cardboard. I am 🐝 buzzing 🐝
July 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I move to Canada in a week. My home is in shambles. The walls are freshly spackled. Our chairs are gone. My cat is missing amongst the cardboard. I am 🐝 buzzing 🐝
I forget about this platform sometimes, but I should share this here: I was honored to host a workshop titled "Creative Activist Approaches to Archival Research" with an incredible team of scholars & writers at #FemRhet2025. Thanks to all who attended & offered their insights!
July 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I forget about this platform sometimes, but I should share this here: I was honored to host a workshop titled "Creative Activist Approaches to Archival Research" with an incredible team of scholars & writers at #FemRhet2025. Thanks to all who attended & offered their insights!
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If you're still buzzing from #FemRhet2025, consider submitting to Peitho's upcoming special issue, Academia in Crisis: How Feminist Rhetorical Scholars Respond. As our time together at the conference made clear, the value of feminist rhetorics is higher now than ever.
CFP: tiny.cc/PeithoSummer...
CFP: tiny.cc/PeithoSummer...
July 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
If you're still buzzing from #FemRhet2025, consider submitting to Peitho's upcoming special issue, Academia in Crisis: How Feminist Rhetorical Scholars Respond. As our time together at the conference made clear, the value of feminist rhetorics is higher now than ever.
CFP: tiny.cc/PeithoSummer...
CFP: tiny.cc/PeithoSummer...
I am overjoyed to share that I was accepted into the University of New Brunswick's English/creative writing PhD program! Now that the study permit is approved, I can finally allow myself to believe it's real ✨🤗
June 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I am overjoyed to share that I was accepted into the University of New Brunswick's English/creative writing PhD program! Now that the study permit is approved, I can finally allow myself to believe it's real ✨🤗
I'm honored to be included among this group of incredible, innovative writers! 🫣 And a huge congratulations to the Sukenick Prize winner, Radhika Singh ✨
Congratulations to our finalists in this year's Sukenick Contest!
April 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm honored to be included among this group of incredible, innovative writers! 🫣 And a huge congratulations to the Sukenick Prize winner, Radhika Singh ✨
Sunday! Summon Spring with us 🌷☀️
April 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Sunday! Summon Spring with us 🌷☀️
Our fifth annual Tax Fort was our best one yet! We finished our taxes and cozied up for a movie & snacks 🤗
April 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Our fifth annual Tax Fort was our best one yet! We finished our taxes and cozied up for a movie & snacks 🤗
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I tell you what, it was pretty simple and easy to explain the existence of trans people to my kid (at age 5) and it is going to be WAY harder to explain to him why masked and hooded people grabbed a Tufts student off the street in a neighborhood he's in often
March 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I tell you what, it was pretty simple and easy to explain the existence of trans people to my kid (at age 5) and it is going to be WAY harder to explain to him why masked and hooded people grabbed a Tufts student off the street in a neighborhood he's in often
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This morning, the Israeli military deliberately targeted and killed beloved Palestinian journalists Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour.
March 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This morning, the Israeli military deliberately targeted and killed beloved Palestinian journalists Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour.
Looking forward to digging up some tales to share at Smitty's Book Cellar this weekend!
Join if u dare :o)
S/o to @toriiellen.bsky.social for organizing yet another event for local writers! 🌠
Join if u dare :o)
S/o to @toriiellen.bsky.social for organizing yet another event for local writers! 🌠
March 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Looking forward to digging up some tales to share at Smitty's Book Cellar this weekend!
Join if u dare :o)
S/o to @toriiellen.bsky.social for organizing yet another event for local writers! 🌠
Join if u dare :o)
S/o to @toriiellen.bsky.social for organizing yet another event for local writers! 🌠
"Prone to environmental embrittlement" could be a nice new slogan for the company and it's...associates
March 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Prone to environmental embrittlement" could be a nice new slogan for the company and it's...associates
Really proud of my wife, Beatrice June (@b3a4real.bsky.social), for showing our county's Probate Office what queer joy looks like at her name change hearing! Even the Register teared up a bit 🥹
March 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Really proud of my wife, Beatrice June (@b3a4real.bsky.social), for showing our county's Probate Office what queer joy looks like at her name change hearing! Even the Register teared up a bit 🥹
At a busy intersection in Quebec City this weekend, a woman (chewing loudly on a pastry) knocked on my car's window and said in English: "I heard what your governor said to that bully! Good woman!"
March 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
At a busy intersection in Quebec City this weekend, a woman (chewing loudly on a pastry) knocked on my car's window and said in English: "I heard what your governor said to that bully! Good woman!"
Celebrating her 30th in Quebec City, where she proposed over 7 years ago. Love of my life!
February 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Celebrating her 30th in Quebec City, where she proposed over 7 years ago. Love of my life!