Kristine
@vaguelyastute.bsky.social
Hopeful Human. Writer of Words.
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind.
• Payment is one contributor copy
• We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize
• We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet
Link in comments 👇
• Payment is one contributor copy
• We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize
• We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet
Link in comments 👇
February 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind.
• Payment is one contributor copy
• We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize
• We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet
Link in comments 👇
• Payment is one contributor copy
• We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize
• We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet
Link in comments 👇
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We're back! 📚 No agent? No published book? Our editors can’t wait to hear from you!
Our submission period for debut novels will take place next month, Jan 11–12!
Learn more about what we are looking for and how to submit your work: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...
Our submission period for debut novels will take place next month, Jan 11–12!
Learn more about what we are looking for and how to submit your work: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...
December 9, 2024 at 6:15 PM
We're back! 📚 No agent? No published book? Our editors can’t wait to hear from you!
Our submission period for debut novels will take place next month, Jan 11–12!
Learn more about what we are looking for and how to submit your work: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...
Our submission period for debut novels will take place next month, Jan 11–12!
Learn more about what we are looking for and how to submit your work: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...
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Heartbreaking and infuriating.
Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵
December 7, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Heartbreaking and infuriating.
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Our fourth annual poetry contest, the West Trade Review Prize for Poetry, opens January 15th. The grand prize is $1000 and publication in West Trade Review. Don't miss this. Get prepared and send us your best work.
See details at the link below:
https://buff.ly/4g8RbOM
#writingcommunity
See details at the link below:
https://buff.ly/4g8RbOM
#writingcommunity
December 5, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Our fourth annual poetry contest, the West Trade Review Prize for Poetry, opens January 15th. The grand prize is $1000 and publication in West Trade Review. Don't miss this. Get prepared and send us your best work.
See details at the link below:
https://buff.ly/4g8RbOM
#writingcommunity
See details at the link below:
https://buff.ly/4g8RbOM
#writingcommunity
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#Permaculture is probably the most empowering practice/way of life I can think of for those wanting to make positive changes at the individual and family scale.
@koreen.bsky.social is offering a free "Introduction to Permaculture" Sat Dec 14 9:30AM EST.
www.eventbrite.com/e/introducti...
@koreen.bsky.social is offering a free "Introduction to Permaculture" Sat Dec 14 9:30AM EST.
www.eventbrite.com/e/introducti...
Introduction to Permaculture
Explore how to design gardens that work with Nature, not against her. Learn how to grow your own food, reduce waste, and live sustainably
www.eventbrite.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:24 PM
#Permaculture is probably the most empowering practice/way of life I can think of for those wanting to make positive changes at the individual and family scale.
@koreen.bsky.social is offering a free "Introduction to Permaculture" Sat Dec 14 9:30AM EST.
www.eventbrite.com/e/introducti...
@koreen.bsky.social is offering a free "Introduction to Permaculture" Sat Dec 14 9:30AM EST.
www.eventbrite.com/e/introducti...
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We're open for submissions til the end of December - #poems, #flashfiction, #fiction, #cartoons, #art, #illustrations, #wips, #scripts and #photography
Get in touch!
#subsopen #submissions
Get in touch!
#subsopen #submissions
December 5, 2024 at 2:33 PM
We're open for submissions til the end of December - #poems, #flashfiction, #fiction, #cartoons, #art, #illustrations, #wips, #scripts and #photography
Get in touch!
#subsopen #submissions
Get in touch!
#subsopen #submissions
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Back from leave and inbox is open (although catching up will take some time). Looking for: researched pitches for long form narratives [an arc! a story! characters! intrigue!]; essays [searing, searching, funny]; stories about gray areas and hard choices; people that give us hope; a sense of place.
December 2, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Back from leave and inbox is open (although catching up will take some time). Looking for: researched pitches for long form narratives [an arc! a story! characters! intrigue!]; essays [searing, searching, funny]; stories about gray areas and hard choices; people that give us hope; a sense of place.
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University of Oregon Creative Writing MFA applications due December 15.
Writing tip: Write a book you can sell to publishers for a lot of money. You can then use the money to buy the things you want.
December 1, 2024 at 4:16 AM
University of Oregon Creative Writing MFA applications due December 15.
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I imagine one of the reasons
people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain - James Baldwin
people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain - James Baldwin
December 1, 2024 at 1:30 PM
I imagine one of the reasons
people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain - James Baldwin
people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain - James Baldwin
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We are open for journal submissions! Get your work in as soon as possible--we hit our cap early!
December 1, 2024 at 2:10 AM
We are open for journal submissions! Get your work in as soon as possible--we hit our cap early!
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It's ok to take care of yourself.
It's ok to get some rest.
It's ok to become a lonely lighthouse keeper and spend your days cursing the sea and your nights gently going mad as you write an unending novel about ghost cats.
It's ok to get some rest.
It's ok to become a lonely lighthouse keeper and spend your days cursing the sea and your nights gently going mad as you write an unending novel about ghost cats.
November 30, 2024 at 8:37 PM
It's ok to take care of yourself.
It's ok to get some rest.
It's ok to become a lonely lighthouse keeper and spend your days cursing the sea and your nights gently going mad as you write an unending novel about ghost cats.
It's ok to get some rest.
It's ok to become a lonely lighthouse keeper and spend your days cursing the sea and your nights gently going mad as you write an unending novel about ghost cats.
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"kindness in poetry is an act of rebellion" -- I stumbled about these words I said to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social in an interview pre-election. It's funny your own word speak to you...
November 30, 2024 at 2:46 PM
"kindness in poetry is an act of rebellion" -- I stumbled about these words I said to @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social in an interview pre-election. It's funny your own word speak to you...
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If you don’t want to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein together by the fireplace whilst sharing a vintage bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in an abandoned château in the French countryside during a raging snowstorm, then please don’t tell me you’re “down for a good time”.
November 26, 2024 at 11:26 PM
If you don’t want to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein together by the fireplace whilst sharing a vintage bottle of Sauvignon Blanc in an abandoned château in the French countryside during a raging snowstorm, then please don’t tell me you’re “down for a good time”.
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This moment in Bluesky is a great example of how joy itself can be defiance and resistance.
We are just hanging out, shitposting, being silly, happy, and normal. It is being treated as if it is transgressive, opting out of the endless negativity. Because in a way, it is.
Joy is my favorite weapon.
We are just hanging out, shitposting, being silly, happy, and normal. It is being treated as if it is transgressive, opting out of the endless negativity. Because in a way, it is.
Joy is my favorite weapon.
November 24, 2024 at 10:34 PM
This moment in Bluesky is a great example of how joy itself can be defiance and resistance.
We are just hanging out, shitposting, being silly, happy, and normal. It is being treated as if it is transgressive, opting out of the endless negativity. Because in a way, it is.
Joy is my favorite weapon.
We are just hanging out, shitposting, being silly, happy, and normal. It is being treated as if it is transgressive, opting out of the endless negativity. Because in a way, it is.
Joy is my favorite weapon.
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📚We're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us.
November 20, 2024 at 10:17 AM
📚We're reopening to unagented manuscripts in January. We really encourage LGBTQ+ folk, marginalised and underrepresented writers, disabled, non-London based authors, authors over 40, and writers from working class backgrounds to submit to us.
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Hi! I’m a narrative editor at The Guardian. I’m on leave now but starting December I’ll take pitches (by email plz) for long form (esp w/ narrative arc) and personal essays. I’ll write a pitch guide soon so add me and stay tuned ✌🏼
November 18, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Hi! I’m a narrative editor at The Guardian. I’m on leave now but starting December I’ll take pitches (by email plz) for long form (esp w/ narrative arc) and personal essays. I’ll write a pitch guide soon so add me and stay tuned ✌🏼
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I’m trying to round up the book publishers as they join Blue Sky, please tag any I’ve missed in the comments and I’ll add daily 💙📚
go.bsky.app/LFrEmFR
go.bsky.app/LFrEmFR
November 15, 2024 at 4:17 PM
I’m trying to round up the book publishers as they join Blue Sky, please tag any I’ve missed in the comments and I’ll add daily 💙📚
go.bsky.app/LFrEmFR
go.bsky.app/LFrEmFR
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Another starter pack, this time for anyone in the lit mag submission space. 🤗 #WritingCommunity
bsky.app/starter-pack...
bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 15, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Another starter pack, this time for anyone in the lit mag submission space. 🤗 #WritingCommunity
bsky.app/starter-pack...
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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something adorable about the flurries of intro posts… like we’re going around saying stuff about ourselves with the free associative enthusiasm of kindergarteners. i’m a poet! i like trains when they go fast! when i grow up, i want to see the end of the neoliberal industrial-capitalist empire! hi!!!
November 15, 2024 at 7:24 PM
something adorable about the flurries of intro posts… like we’re going around saying stuff about ourselves with the free associative enthusiasm of kindergarteners. i’m a poet! i like trains when they go fast! when i grow up, i want to see the end of the neoliberal industrial-capitalist empire! hi!!!