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Tracie Adams
@tracieadams.bsky.social
Book: Our Lives in Pieces (2025) and Not Finished Yet (2026)

Words in Trash Cat, Frazzled Lit, SoFloPoJo, Fictive Dream, BULL, Cleaver, Raw Lit…
2X Pushcart nominee, BOTN, and LL Wigleaf Top 50

Retired educator and playwright
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MY NEXT BOOK, NOT FINISHED YET: ESSAYS ON THE RHYTHMIC BEAUTY OF A LIFE IN FLUX, IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshop.
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Friday, November 14th at 7:30 PM Eastern
SoFloPoJo Issue 39 POETRY Launch Reading
featuring poets from our November Issue
us02web.zoom.us/.../register...
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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We were going to type, "Only three more weeks till we close for fall submissions!" but that was two days ago, so now it's only 19 days. Please send us your best by the end of November: www.vestalreview.net/guidelines
Submission Guidelines — Vestal Review
www.vestalreview.net
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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If you're looking for a spot of calm in the day's chaos, do read this micro by @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social. She writes some of the most evocative sentences. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Take my word for it!
@melruthwrites.bsky.social ❤️

“Not Finished Yet travels the span of a life without defining its ending. What’s best is the consistent metaphor for an ever-transformative existence, leading to a hopeful new beginning.”

— Melissa Ruth Rotert, Editor, Epistemic Lit and Author, The Ridders Series
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“...an exploration of trauma, grief, and healing that invites the reader to celebrate the courage to allow ourselves to be undone and the beauty of the in-between moments that precede real growth and change.”
— Barlow Adams, Writer and Essayist

Thank you @barlowadams.bsky.social ❤️
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
@melruthwrites.bsky.social ❤️

“Not Finished Yet travels the span of a life without defining its ending. What’s best is the consistent metaphor for an ever-transformative existence, leading to a hopeful new beginning.”

— Melissa Ruth Rotert, Editor, Epistemic Lit and Author, The Ridders Series
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
MY NEXT BOOK, NOT FINISHED YET: ESSAYS ON THE RHYTHMIC BEAUTY OF A LIFE IN FLUX, IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookshop.
a.co/d/hnX5Vvx
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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also i positively FORBID anyone to call this cyber feline CatGPT

i mean it 😼!!!

100footcrow.com/how-to-train...
How to Train a Cyber Cat - 100-Foot Crow
By: LM Fontanes. I trained my cyber cat to purr upon touch and now, even when I simply stretch my fingers outward, it starts to rumble. I trained my cyber cat to rub its feline replica face against my...
100footcrow.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Congratulations to Sky Island Journal contributor Tracie Adams on her book of flash memoir essays: “Our Lives in Pieces.” Our contributors are family, and we couldn’t be more proud of Tracie! You can find her beautiful—and highly reviewed—work, here:

a.co/d/2hXeZot 🌄

www.skyislandjournal.com 🌄
October 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Last week to #submit your #art, #poetry, #short fiction, & #CNF for our #integrity issue. Make sure to get submissions in by end of day October 31, 2025.

We know we can RELY on you to get them in on time and TRUST that you'll let us know if you need an extra day or two.

#litmag #submissions #theme
October 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Wondering what to submit? This week we're especially interested in: trucks, berries of all kinds, birds, quatrains, niche hobbies, survival, birds, tv shows and movies, birds, the vastness of the ocean, snowstorms, prose poems, working a 9 to 5, and birds.
October 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A bit of Wednesday Wisdom.
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
You’ll want to read this more than once. More than twice probably. 🫶🏼👇🏼
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Exciting news coming soon...🤩
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A bit of Wednesday Wisdom.
October 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
So grateful to you @melruthwrites.bsky.social for reading my manuscript and writing a blurb. Your support has meant so much to me. ♥️
A truly lovely collection. You'll want to read this one.
My second essay collection, Not Finished Yet, is coming soon…🤩
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My second essay collection, Not Finished Yet, is coming soon…🤩
October 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Big thanks to The Shallot for including my quirky CNF in this print issue.

#mentalhealthawareness
October 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Even in the darkest places, light is shining through the cracks. Beauty is everywhere all the time.
October 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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On #WorldMentalHealthDay, do take a moment to rest and read this powerful (and very appropriate for today) non-fiction by @tracieadams.bsky.social.
literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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“But the notes said look deeper, reminding me that the heart is deceptively wicked above all things, pitifully fragile and shallow.”

Love this powerful and heartfelt piece. A reminder how small things can bring big shifts. @tracieadams.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Tracie Adams is the #author of 'Our Lives in Pieces: A Collection of Flash Memoir Essays' #memoir #essays

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#amreading @tracieadams.bsky.social #goodreads #iartg #ian1
October 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
There is beauty in everything. Even brokenness. 💔
October 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@paddlerpress.bsky.social has done something special with the Faith Issue! It’s so gorgeous and inspiring. I’m thrilled to be included alongside these amazing writers/poets.
October 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM