Shelby Switzer
somethingwithwords.bsky.social
Shelby Switzer
@somethingwithwords.bsky.social
Writer | Baltimore | they/them
2024 Lambda Literary Fellow
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Join Tin House Workshop for creative inspiration as a 2026 Winter Online Workshop Lecture Pass participant!

Our scholarship lottery will be held on December 2nd!

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November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My lover and I read poetry to each other on roadtrips and Jane Wong's How Not To Be Afraid of Everything is a gorgeous car companion.
April 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I guess there's one perk of #AWP25 being in LA
March 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Prompt idea: Personify the worst thing you can think of and write a scene in which it crawls into bed with you.

Inspired by Raul Palma at #AWP25
(for his character, it's debt)
March 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Next Thursday I'll be at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse talking with Vivian Blaxell about her very cool book WORTHY OF THE EVENT, now available from @littlepuss.net

Get your copy today, and then come out to celebrate effervescent trans literature!!!

redemmas.org/events/vivia...
March 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
when you say something, the cosmos shifts
season your psyche
audic astrology
poetry is about crossing eras
cede cognitive control: transcending or transgression
bio-geo poetry
we're all script here necromancy board
two-headed time
science is amazing

Still Surreal: Poetics of Revolution #AWP25
March 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Takeaways from Disaster Gays & Messy Femmes:

1) Have your characters make decisions you're afraid to make - @nicanstett.bsky.social

2) If someone thinks your character is unlikeable, it says more about them than your character - @riggstah.bsky.social

#AWP25
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Tonight, tonight! Don't sleep on Brevity's offsite reading, ✨ The Future is Transgender ✨ 5-7pm at KISO DTLA (107 4th St) feat. contributors from our special issue. brevitymag.com/category/iss...
March 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Mitch J's 50ks at #AWP25!
(@kenyonreview.bsky.social '24)
March 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"I like meta. I like writing that shows itself for what it is." -- @anandalima.bsky.social at #AWP

Me too! Totally guilty of using parentheticals, foot notes, and "breaking the fourth wall" in my fiction. We all know that this is, why try to pretend otherwise?
March 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Hello LA but really can't wait for next year #AWP
March 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM