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Tara Campbell
@taracampbell.bsky.social
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Writer, teacher, speculative fiction and flash fiction

Books, events, and classes at http://taracampbell.com

#WritingCommunity #scifi #sff #speculativefiction #flashfiction
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Thank you, Twisted Tongue Press, for publishing my contrapuntal #poem "Untold" in conversation with #ZoraNealeHurston 's Their Eyes Were Watching God about Blackness and silence and communication and understanding across the ages

twistedtonguepress.com/poetry/untold/
Black background with white text, text of poem available at the link in the post
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Drumroll please!

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social nominees for @pushcartprize.bsky.social are:

#POETRY
@dannycaine.com & @carolenekurien.bsky.social

#FICTION
Ray Wise & Yusuf Poladin

#NONFICTION
Steve Himmer & J. M. Jones

#space #balloons for all!
Astronaut in space with a star-shaped balloon and the following text: BARRELHOUSE Thanks and congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Nominees! POETRY Burning Down the Waffle House by Danny Caine Grain by Carolene Kurien FICTION Ruptures by Ray Wise Party Night by Yusuf Poladin NONFICTION The Australian Job by Steve Himmer Leafing Through Jack Gilbert's The Dance Most of All for Inspiration: An Essay of Marriage by J. M. Jones
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Check out my new #poetry #chapbook from Bottlecap Press to see what Pumpkinhead was so excited about

bottlecap.press/products/all...
Top: picture of happy orange skeleton with jackolantern head looking toward camera with caption: "When I tell him about my new chapbook "All the Wayward Angels" from Bottlecap Press Bottom: black and white photo of same skeleton looking off into the distance in the rain with the caption: "When he finds out the skeleton in it wasn't based on him"
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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#halloween lives on at Revolutions Coffee
Pumpkin painted with steaming skull mug next to goth rubber duckie (black bob, black bill, wearing crucifix) and other assorted duckies (and an octopus)
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Come hear me and 18 other #Seattle-based #writers as we read our contributions to the international multi-disciplinary game of Telephone

Sunday, Nov 16 at 1 pm Pacific
Base Camp Studios 2

Info on exhibition here www.instagram.com/reel/DPMkNnI...

Info on project here: telephonegame.art
white square with red border, list of names in tiny, faint grey letters in background, foreground the following text: TELEPHONE. SEATTLE, LITERATURE 19 authors and poets from the Seattle area will read their original and interconnected TELEPHONE works in person. FEATURING: Amy Schrader, Ken Thompson, Sarah Lippek, Austin Price, Jeanne Morel, Arlene Naganawa, MaryEllen Talley, Sierra Nelson, Tara Campbell, Maya Sonenberg, Kat Humphrey, Susan Rich, Bela Lubrosi, Paul Mullin, Scot Augustson, Pam Carter, Kerry Heckman, Brasswax, Sheryl Shapiro. Sunday, November 16th [1pm Pacific Time, 4pm Eastern Time] Base Camp Studios 2 [1901 3rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98101]
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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You have until Oct 20 to comment against requiring documentary proof of citizenship to federal voter registration forms.

Anyone who has changed names or lost their birth certificate may have to pay for new documentation to register, the equivalent of a poll tax

www.regulations.gov/commenton/EA...
blue background with a line drawing of a hand casting a vote, and the words "PROTECT VOTER REGISTRATION"
October 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Today's mantra
White coffee cup with a black silhouette profile of a squirrel; superimposed over the squirrel in white text: "Carry yourself with the confidence of a D.C. squirrel."
October 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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At the very moment this newsletter floated into my inbox, I was physically sliding cut-up scraps of paper over the surface of a card table, inserting bits of multiple stories into other stories, scribbling notes about alternate timelines into this notebook

Maybe there's hope for me yet!
black notebook with silver embossed design on cover: a stone path leading past a rickety wooden fence to a spooky little cottage in the woods, crescent moon directly overhead.
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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#oktoberfest
Woman looking over a man's shoulder with a mischievous expression on her face. Behind her a tent with Bavarian flags and a stage with an oompah band
October 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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It's time

#halloween
Orange plastic Jack-o-lantern head lit from inside atop orange skeleton body standing at a balcony over an urban intersection, looking back over its shoulder
October 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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A skull in the hand is worth...
Tiny neon yellow crocheted skull with pink facial features neatled in the palm of a hand
October 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Three of my sestinas have just arrived via Aesterion. I love the synergy between the lead artwork and my first poem "The new woman"

In this new age, the women
crawl and walk and fly from their cities,
craving rain
and lakes and moss, seeking fungal
opulence...

www.aesterion.com/fall-2025-1
Caption: "Sirena-Nasta Martyn" Image: a painting in white, black and red of a bird with a woman's head. Woman is looking at viewer, talons are prominent, woods in background
September 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Meet the newest member of the #crochet menagerie

What should I name them?
Head-on view of neon yellow crocheted mouse with gold jinfle-bell eyes, a red button nose, with ears and tail crocheted from variegated white-peach-yellow-lilac-lime yarn Side view of neon-yellow crocheted mouse with gold jinfle-bell eyes, a red button nose, with ears and tail crocheted from variegated white-peach-yellow-lilac-lime yarn
September 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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They're using "ennobling" almost synonymously w/ "accurate" in the language & we all know, in history, those two things are not necessarily the same

So read the proposal:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Then post your comment here *by October 17* www.regulations.gov/commenton/ED...

3/3
September 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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In progress

#crochet
Woman in dress posing in front of brown painting and plants with variegated dark purple/light purple/grey crocheted skull over/in place of her head Woman in dress sitting with legs crossed on tan couch with variegated dark purple/light purple/grey crocheted skull over/in place of her head Woman in dress lying on tam couch reading Poet Lore with variegated dark purple/light purple/grey crocheted skull over/in place of her head Woman in dress sprawled out on couch with variegated dark purple/light purple/grey crocheted skull over/in place of her head
September 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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My manager wanting to know why I'm not at my desk #writing
Plastic mechanical monkey with yellow hat tipped over his eyes, red shirt, blue overalls, white gloves, and yellow rollerskates, standing on the front corner of my desk holding out his hand palm up
September 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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America's Future, baby! Get yours at @wwph.bsky.social

www.washingtonwriters.org/americas-fut...
Woman with floofy dark/greying hair and glasses holding up a book with a red cover and a closeup of a crow and the title "America's Future: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow"
September 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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More fun with glow-in-the-dark #crochet skullz
Three crocheted skulls line up in the sun: a small lime green one with fuchsia features, a hot pink one with white features, and a larger lime green one with greyish-white features (actually light purple) Three crocheted skulls lined up in the dark: a small glowing lime green one with black features, a barely-visible one with glowing green features, and a larger lime green one with greyish features a hot pink crocheted skull with white features in the sun (brown fabric background) a barely visible dark pink crocheted skull with glowing white features in the dark
August 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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When felted tentacles attack!

Thanks, Vandy Hall, for the felting workshop ay @seattlein2025.org
Brown-haired woman with glasses looking in surprise at a red felted tentacle inching up her cheek
August 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Great music and amazing food with Phinney Ridge Steel Band at Pam's Caribbean Kitchen (forgive my errant finger at the start)
August 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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At the Temple

#crochet
Bamoo plant stand with three crocheted skulls on platforms amidst leafy plant tendrils. Two of the skulls are variegated pink and purple, one is red with horns
July 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Gotta love Austrian beer...
Can of beer reading "Salzburger Steigel HELL"
July 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Balcony gaaardeeeeennnn!

#flowers
Small pink hydrangea forets Two red lilies opening
June 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Protest sign reading "Our huddled masses will defeat your fascist asses"
June 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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#NoKings
Protest crowd, on the left a sign held above heads reading "NO KINGS" with a crown in a circle and strikethrough, American flag flying on the right
June 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM