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Sarah Shotts (they/them)
@sarahshotts.com
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Artist. Author. Zinester. ✂️
Erstwhile Academic. 📖
Nonbinary. Autistic. Bi-romantic Ace. 🏳️‍🌈

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Two new books for the holiday season! Entwined is an anthology of creativity & motherhood. Ember is an art journal to help parents kindle their creative sparks. Free ebooks available to those in financial hardship. shop.sarahshotts.com/category/par...
Two books and a teal green typewriter. Entwined’s cover is a collage of vintage photographs and painted vines. Ember is a burned wood texture.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Open Call for Genderqueer / Nonbinary / Trans Parents

Please share or tag a parent below.

Deadline Oct 30 (TOMORROW)

ONE DAY LEFT 🔥

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Book cover: Ember an art journal for parents. Design is burned wood layered with transparent white paint in drips and drops.
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This was such a cool zine project to be a part of! abigailschleifer.substack.com/p/free-zines... #ZineSky #Zinester
Digital collage zine cover: Wayward, Wonky & Wandering: a zine by two librarians for any and all researchers. Title is handwritten and letter cut outs on a circle being held by a photocopied hand.
October 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Our first time growing gourds of any kind. ✨
Birdhouse gourds growing up gazebo of green pipes (a greenhouse without the plastic cover added) and a white metal house planter I thrifted beyond with morning glory leaves twining through.
August 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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My zine this month is Art for Social Change. It also comes with a postcard you can send your elected reps.

Read it online for free:

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Art for Social Change zine and typewritten postcards. Vintage buttons are on the cover including a yellow Buzzy Bee "be a helper", "try a little kindness", a retro earth pin that says "Don't blow it." an infinity symbol on an outer space badge, "bread not bombs" with a red flower", "yeah rights" in rainbow colors, "I'm on earth duty" and "I'm for wildlife" with a bird and wildflowers.
August 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This is the best dress code I’ve ever heard. I would have worn my gleeman’s cloak.
August 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

Amie McNee. I’m golden.
Screencap of IG stories. Amie McNee in a vintage arts and crafts style orange robe with large letters on the back spelling We need your art.
August 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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I digitized my zine about neurodivergence so anyone can read it. 🌈 sarahshotts.com/2025/06/spec... #Autism #Neurodivergence #Zines
Spectrum: a zine about neurodivergence on a wooden table. The title is made of letters cut from a magazine. The center is a color wheel made of watercolor washes bleeding into each other.
July 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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I’m bad at social media, but good at snail mail. I make zines and write blog posts about creativity and neurodivergence. What kind of hashtags are good for art, zines & autism these days? #Zines #Autism #NeurodivergentArtist
Two zines and magazine clippings on a wooden desk with scissors, gluestick and pencils. Both zines titles are cut out magazine letters: Chaos Gardening with leaf rubbings and Spectrum with a hand painted watercolor color wheel.
June 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Entwined postcards going out to the book launch team! 🌿
Postcards of Entwined book cover - a collage of textures with a vintage photograph of mother and child overlaid with illustrated vines
January 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I've been waiting 26 years for this. 😲: https://sarahshotts.blog/2025/01/06/ive-been-waiting-years-for.html
From the Compost Heap header. A pencil style illustration of a compost heap with flowers and plants growing around it. A bee buzzes by and a white rabbit hops by. Green crayon shaped Crayola time capsule with robot and clock stickers. Printed images in a pile on my desk including maps, trees, spirals, artifacts, hag stones, reflections, etc. My typewriter and antique keys are also on the table.
January 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Spent an hour cutting images for my novel’s mood board today. ✂️
Printed images in a pile on my desk including maps, trees, spirals, artifacts, hag stones, reflections, etc. My typewriter and antique keys are also on the table.
January 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Foraging walks are our new favorite. 🍂
December 29, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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My creative ecosystem needs more unstructured time to dream.

So reverie is my word for 2025.

Here’s a wallpaper I made to remind myself.

This is Boreas by John William Waterhouse. It is named for the Greek God of the North Wind.
Wallpaper featuring John William Waterhouse’s Boreas. A figure is buffeted by the wind and looking deep in thought. They are wrapped in a swathe of gray cloth over their clothing which billows out in the wind.
December 28, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Amie McNee gets it. I can’t wait to read her book.
Author Amie McNee holds a large hand lettered sign that says “Artist, build a community not a following.” She is smiling dressed in cozy black sweats with a royal blue scarf draped around her neck. Beyond Amie you see the English countryside blanketed in fog.
December 28, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Merry Christmas to me! Made it across the pond just in time. #Hadestown 🌹
Hadestown Live from London Vinyl record. Orpheus kneeling to Eurydice and rose petals fluttering as album art
December 24, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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You will be visited by three spirits.
#WotSkies
Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne in white dresses holding lanterns
December 24, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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Foraging walk.
Leaves and seed pods on a wooden bench. A small pale hand points at a yellow leaf.
December 16, 2024 at 11:55 PM
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Discover Your Creative Ecosystem is a holistic reframe for artists & makers of all kinds. There’s also an illustrated workbook. www.sarahshotts.com/books
Discover Your Creative Ecosystem by Sarah Shotts. The book has a landscape shown in the silhouette of a swallow. Autumn leaves surround the book on a wooden table.
December 12, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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Date yourself. Post your first computer.

P.S. Don’t forget alt text.
1980s IBM computer. Small off white monitor with black and green screen spelling IBM sitting on a gray box with floppy disk drives (the big floppy floppies - not the smaller rigid ones) and a white and gray keyboard.
December 2, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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It turns out Grandpapa Tolkein was a discovery writer after all.
I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlórien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforeseen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystified as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on September 22. J. R. R. Tolkien, in a letter to W. H. Auden, 7 June 1955 Photograph of a book page.
December 1, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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Bluesky’s open. Share with one artwork to connect with other artists. #art 🧶

This textile piece is from my interdisciplinary art series My Brain on Motherhood.

You can see more here: www.sarahshotts.com/thisismybrai...
Two photographs of my textile piece front and back of an embroidery hoop on a stand. The front says “I’m fine” in an intricate font. The back is a mass of knots.
November 27, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Decorated the studio for Christmas today. 🎄
A narrow Christmas tree with wooden ornaments and bells in the corner of a white artist studio. There is a self with trucks, trees, a holden orb, and children's books. On the wall is a hobbit watercolor. In the window are gingerbread houses. A bird mobile hovers above.
November 27, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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Caught up on my novel writing.
Silhouette of a small mug held in front of an illuminated laptop screen. A word processor is open.
November 25, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Portrait of the artist by their child.

The overalls are printed with the leaves of a giant papaya that self seeded in our compost heap.

Autumn of 2023
I'm a nonbinary human with pale skin, green glasses, and short brownish hair caught on camera laughing by my then four year old. I am wearing hand printed overalls with giant white leaves and a black shirt. My hands are in my pockets and my gray green art studio is behind me.
November 25, 2024 at 2:17 PM