Lisa Locascio Nighthawk
@senzaflash.bsky.social
author, OPEN ME (2018)
chair, Antioch MFA (@antiochmfa.bsky.social)
executive director, Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference
(@mcwconf.bsky.social)
WeHo psych mom
www.lisalocascionighthawk.com
chair, Antioch MFA (@antiochmfa.bsky.social)
executive director, Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference
(@mcwconf.bsky.social)
WeHo psych mom
www.lisalocascionighthawk.com
Wrote about solstice vibes, the yips, and Denis Johnson’s “Dirty Wedding” in my first-in-a-while Not Knowing How: lisalocascionighthawk.beehiiv.com/p/solstice-s...
Solstice Story
Darkness, light, Denis Johnson's "Dirty Wedding"
lisalocascionighthawk.beehiiv.com
December 22, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Wrote about solstice vibes, the yips, and Denis Johnson’s “Dirty Wedding” in my first-in-a-while Not Knowing How: lisalocascionighthawk.beehiiv.com/p/solstice-s...
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🚨 We are the only abortion fund open right now in the Southeast outside of Florida & we need help! We are being slammed w/requests &our budget just isn’t big enough to handle it. Anything you can contribute will help these callers get the abortion care they need.
www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund
www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund
Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)
*While we assist abortion seekers in Georgia and Alabama as well, we are located in South Carolina so we may reference South Carolina laws when discussing access to abortion.*
Right now, abortion is...
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December 10, 2024 at 6:37 PM
🚨 We are the only abortion fund open right now in the Southeast outside of Florida & we need help! We are being slammed w/requests &our budget just isn’t big enough to handle it. Anything you can contribute will help these callers get the abortion care they need.
www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund
www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund
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I posted this elsewhere but thought it important to post here, too. This is Nikki Giovanni’s recipe for butter fried chicken that she shared with the @nytimes in 2020. I hope you fry some chicken for Nikki this week. 🕊️
December 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM
I posted this elsewhere but thought it important to post here, too. This is Nikki Giovanni’s recipe for butter fried chicken that she shared with the @nytimes in 2020. I hope you fry some chicken for Nikki this week. 🕊️
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did you see the stuff online. it’s crazy
December 10, 2024 at 1:57 AM
did you see the stuff online. it’s crazy
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Here’s some news you can use if you recently installed iOS 18 and don’t want all your apps’ data used to train Apple’s AI by default. Includes an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to turning these permissions off!
Check To See What Apps Your iPhone Is Training AI On
And here's a step-by-step guide to disabling them. FOREVER WARS does some News You Can Use
www.forever-wars.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Here’s some news you can use if you recently installed iOS 18 and don’t want all your apps’ data used to train Apple’s AI by default. Includes an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to turning these permissions off!
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a pleasure to speak with critic Jane Ciabattari about HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS for Lit Hub. (out today🎉)
.@janeciab.bsky.social talks to @anitafelicelli.bsky.social about speculative fiction and how existential anxiety can build a short story collection.
Anita Felicelli on Crafting a Collection of Existential Speculative Short Stories
Anita Felicelli’s new story collection opens with a tsunami bearing down on a drought-stricken California coast, with two friends ready to party despite the incoming danger. “On the night of the bi…
buff.ly
December 3, 2024 at 4:52 PM
a pleasure to speak with critic Jane Ciabattari about HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS for Lit Hub. (out today🎉)
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Please consider supporting our handmade coastal conference this Giving Tuesday! For over 35 years, we've offered expertise, opportunity, and friendship to writers at all levels. We appreciate your support and hope to see you next summer in Mendocino!
mcwc.org/donate
mcwc.org/donate
December 3, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Please consider supporting our handmade coastal conference this Giving Tuesday! For over 35 years, we've offered expertise, opportunity, and friendship to writers at all levels. We appreciate your support and hope to see you next summer in Mendocino!
mcwc.org/donate
mcwc.org/donate
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Please consider donating to the Antioch MFA this Giving Tuesday! The Eloise Klein Healy Scholarship Fund provides students like Kenneth D. Capers with the crucial gifts of time & creative mentorship. Join us in nurturing the next generation of writers!
alumniandfriends.antioch.edu/MFA-EKH
alumniandfriends.antioch.edu/MFA-EKH
December 3, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Please consider donating to the Antioch MFA this Giving Tuesday! The Eloise Klein Healy Scholarship Fund provides students like Kenneth D. Capers with the crucial gifts of time & creative mentorship. Join us in nurturing the next generation of writers!
alumniandfriends.antioch.edu/MFA-EKH
alumniandfriends.antioch.edu/MFA-EKH
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It’s really disheartening to see trans users having to step back from Bluesky because of the influx of transphobic harassment. Trans posters built the culture of this platform and it would behoove cis allies to advocate for their safety as Bluesky expands and they get targeted
December 1, 2024 at 9:37 PM
It’s really disheartening to see trans users having to step back from Bluesky because of the influx of transphobic harassment. Trans posters built the culture of this platform and it would behoove cis allies to advocate for their safety as Bluesky expands and they get targeted
Weekend reading
December 1, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Weekend reading
Obsessed with this piece about Pinocchio’s ascendancy vis-a-vis Jordan Peterson’s weepy preoccupation with him by @reedreedreed.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/rev...
Good Boys | Reed McConnell
Pinocchio turns into a real boy at the story’s end not because he has absorbed some Kantian sense of duty, but because his slow-growing love for the blue-haired fairy and Geppetto compels him to care ...
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November 29, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Obsessed with this piece about Pinocchio’s ascendancy vis-a-vis Jordan Peterson’s weepy preoccupation with him by @reedreedreed.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/rev...
Haven’t stopped thinking about this since I read it a few days ago. From The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino, a banger newsletter everyone should be reading open.substack.com/pub/jessicad...
Post-Election, Beware 'Self-Care'
Would Audre Lorde recognize "self-care" today? Would we recognize her?
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November 23, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Haven’t stopped thinking about this since I read it a few days ago. From The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino, a banger newsletter everyone should be reading open.substack.com/pub/jessicad...
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This piece on how Lee McCarthy managed to write and publish poetry, teach full time, fight for free speech, and be the sole provider for her son is quite a read after yesterday's VF piece on Cormac McCarthy.
Kim Young considers what she learned about surviving a first marriage from Lee McCarthy in an era of divorce novels.
Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons From My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy
Like many middle-aged women I know, I spent my summer parsing the rallying calls of personhood and artmaking ringing out from the new roster of divorce books—books like All Fours by Miranda July, L…
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November 21, 2024 at 6:53 PM
This piece on how Lee McCarthy managed to write and publish poetry, teach full time, fight for free speech, and be the sole provider for her son is quite a read after yesterday's VF piece on Cormac McCarthy.
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Loved this @camillerankine.bsky.social poem in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Vigil”
“Long day’s night, the endless dream.”
www.newyorker.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Loved this @camillerankine.bsky.social poem in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Here are the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2024, according to me!
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The 11 best science fiction and fantasy books of 2024
These stories feature questions about robot personhood, journeys into enchanted forests and much more.
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November 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Here are the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2024, according to me!
Gift link: wapo.st/3YZnwRl
Gift link: wapo.st/3YZnwRl
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A lot going on in this old sign
November 19, 2024 at 2:20 AM
A lot going on in this old sign
I am an admirer of the author, and I appreciate this poem's message, but I am saddened to see shared as inspirational a poem that absolutely embodies the rampant, unsubtle fatphobia still dominant in literature. Ob*sity is a slur, not a noun. Fat bodies don't "withstand" themselves. They simply are.
November 19, 2024 at 6:17 AM
I am an admirer of the author, and I appreciate this poem's message, but I am saddened to see shared as inspirational a poem that absolutely embodies the rampant, unsubtle fatphobia still dominant in literature. Ob*sity is a slur, not a noun. Fat bodies don't "withstand" themselves. They simply are.
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I donated $25. Match my donation, or repost so that others can help out?
November 19, 2024 at 5:14 AM
I donated $25. Match my donation, or repost so that others can help out?
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“this is the sort of toxic behavior I thought we left behind on Twitter…”
— me being escorted out of Smoothie King
— me being escorted out of Smoothie King
November 19, 2024 at 3:33 AM
“this is the sort of toxic behavior I thought we left behind on Twitter…”
— me being escorted out of Smoothie King
— me being escorted out of Smoothie King
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Max is not only an amazing author, he's the Antioch MFA's beloved program assistant! Can't wait for CRAWL!
Hi bsky!!! I know it's been a minute but I have some big news: my debut short story collection, CRAWL, will be published by Graywolf Press. This is one of my wildest writing dreams come true. Still totally surreal.
November 18, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Max is not only an amazing author, he's the Antioch MFA's beloved program assistant! Can't wait for CRAWL!
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We know we're just barely scratching the surface with our Starter Pack of Antioch MFA Current Students & Alumni, because we have over 1200 alums! Please share and comment and we'll add you! Hoping to find our people & make this the first Student/Alum Starter Pack of many 🤗https://go.bsky.app/2urN99N
November 19, 2024 at 3:11 AM
We know we're just barely scratching the surface with our Starter Pack of Antioch MFA Current Students & Alumni, because we have over 1200 alums! Please share and comment and we'll add you! Hoping to find our people & make this the first Student/Alum Starter Pack of many 🤗https://go.bsky.app/2urN99N
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We made our first Starter Pack of our very own stellar faculty! Our master writing teachers make the Antioch MFA great. Comment to add yourself if we've missed you! go.bsky.app/2F7m5rD
November 19, 2024 at 2:51 AM
We made our first Starter Pack of our very own stellar faculty! Our master writing teachers make the Antioch MFA great. Comment to add yourself if we've missed you! go.bsky.app/2F7m5rD
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"Life is about decisions. Either you write 100,000 words a day or you meet people and develop ties of affection. You can’t do both."
How to Write 100,000 Words Per Day, Every Day
Most people don’t believe me when I tell them I write 100,000 words every day of my life. If I’m being totally honest, 100,000 is probably just a b...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:20 AM
"Life is about decisions. Either you write 100,000 words a day or you meet people and develop ties of affection. You can’t do both."
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Hi Bluesky! We are a writers' conference on the beautiful Mendocino Coast of California, open to writers at all levels. For 35 years, we've been a handmade, welcoming conference that offers expertise, opportunity, and friendship to writers. Announcing our 2025 scholarships & faculty soon! mcwc.org
MCWC
The Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference is a vibrant gathering that offers morning workshops in a wide range of genres, relevant to differing experience levels—from a dedicated emerging writers’ works...
mcwc.org
November 19, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Hi Bluesky! We are a writers' conference on the beautiful Mendocino Coast of California, open to writers at all levels. For 35 years, we've been a handmade, welcoming conference that offers expertise, opportunity, and friendship to writers. Announcing our 2025 scholarships & faculty soon! mcwc.org