Sue Repko
@suerepko.bsky.social
Writer. Book Coach. Teacher. Binder. Essays in The Manifest Station, Hippocampus, Brevity Blog, The Independent, Hazlitt, MicroLit Almanac. https://linktr.ee/suerepko
Huge gratitude to @jenpastiloff and @manifest-station for publishing my latest essay, "What To Do With The Bodies?"
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What To Do With The Bodies? | The Manifest Station
I was fourteen years old and The Firefighter was twenty-three when I got lost in his smoldering ash eyes. I don’t remember how it started.
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February 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Huge gratitude to @jenpastiloff and @manifest-station for publishing my latest essay, "What To Do With The Bodies?"
www.themanifeststation.net/2025/02/22/w...
www.themanifeststation.net/2025/02/22/w...
What does it really mean to a local economy if the National Park Service staff is no longer available to issue backcountry permits this summer?
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What if there's no one to issue backpacking & rafting permits this summer?
Colorado adventure guide explains the ripple effect on local businesses
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February 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What does it really mean to a local economy if the National Park Service staff is no longer available to issue backcountry permits this summer?
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did on J6
February 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did on J6
Hey writer friends! Here are some thoughts on quickly orienting readers to the worlds you are recreating in your flash nonfiction. Spots still open in my six-week online flash memoir class starting Jan. 27 through Project Write Now. #amwriting #cnf #flashmemoir projectwritenow.org/writers-inst...
Flash Memoir: Using Markers of Time and Place to Ground Readers - pwn wi
Learn three powerful techniques for grounding readers in your flash memoir: time-specific titles, strategic scene-setting, and anchoring.
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January 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Hey writer friends! Here are some thoughts on quickly orienting readers to the worlds you are recreating in your flash nonfiction. Spots still open in my six-week online flash memoir class starting Jan. 27 through Project Write Now. #amwriting #cnf #flashmemoir projectwritenow.org/writers-inst...
Just freshened up my website! I am an editor, book coach, and award-winning essayist, offering trauma-informed feedback to other writers working on personal narratives. Please reach out if you think I can help. Wishing you all the right words, in just the right order, in 2025!
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January 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Just freshened up my website! I am an editor, book coach, and award-winning essayist, offering trauma-informed feedback to other writers working on personal narratives. Please reach out if you think I can help. Wishing you all the right words, in just the right order, in 2025!
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ot sure I can make this in person--because lunch with friends!--but I am signing up for this. Definitely need some support in organizing my (writing) life at this moment!
"Small steps. Doable steps. Use a verb. Pick a time. Set your tools. And…forgive yourself. You’re writing a book, not coal-mining."
Join me Jan 15th for Organize Your Writing Life - How to Balance Structure and Creativity, and get your writing year in gear!
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Join me Jan 15th for Organize Your Writing Life - How to Balance Structure and Creativity, and get your writing year in gear!
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Organize Your Writing Life with Allison K Williams | Jane Friedman
Learn how to set manageable goals and stay focused on your project despite the demands of work, family and home.
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January 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
ot sure I can make this in person--because lunch with friends!--but I am signing up for this. Definitely need some support in organizing my (writing) life at this moment!
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Readers crave vivid description, but details that don’t advance the emotional river of a story can clog the reader’s mind with unneeded flotsam. Wednesday at 3 PM EST, learn how details, when done carefully, can gain power, & become the story itself. #memoir #fiction
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All Details Are Not Equal: The Power of Movement and Desire in Literary Description - CRAFT TALKS
Readers crave vibrant descriptions of people and places, but all details are not equal! Active, emotion-based details can advance your story’s deepest, most compelling currents.
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January 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Readers crave vivid description, but details that don’t advance the emotional river of a story can clog the reader’s mind with unneeded flotsam. Wednesday at 3 PM EST, learn how details, when done carefully, can gain power, & become the story itself. #memoir #fiction
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We are now accepting submissions for our Short Nonfiction Contest. We are fortunate and excited to have Lucy Ives as this year's final judge!
Find all the guidelines here:
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Find all the guidelines here:
kenyonreview.org/submit/short...
November 20, 2024 at 5:40 PM
We are now accepting submissions for our Short Nonfiction Contest. We are fortunate and excited to have Lucy Ives as this year's final judge!
Find all the guidelines here:
kenyonreview.org/submit/short...
Find all the guidelines here:
kenyonreview.org/submit/short...
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” - James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 12:08 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” - James Baldwin
November 19, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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In this week's Short Reads, Dinty W. Moore (@dintywmoore.bsky.social) remembers the sounds of his childhood in just 183 words.
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#flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir
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#flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir
There Was a Time in My Life When I Knew
by Dinty W. Moore | The soundscape of a childhood.
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November 13, 2024 at 5:23 PM
In this week's Short Reads, Dinty W. Moore (@dintywmoore.bsky.social) remembers the sounds of his childhood in just 183 words.
www.short-reads.org/there-was-a-...
#flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir
www.short-reads.org/there-was-a-...
#flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir