Poems & small fiction | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press, 2025) | A Mollusk w/o a Shell: Essays on Self-Care for Writers
Akron, Ohio
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doing reconstructive surgery on a single sentence for an hour like I can sell the novel off its back alone
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I hate editor Halloween, what do you mean you're going as an italicized period??
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So embarrassing to be reading the first page of a novel in public. That's why I always also carry a pile of books I've finished so people know I'm serious
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Nominations for @BestSmFictions are due tomorrow, end of day, EST, 9/30!
Looking for noms from 1/1-7/31, '26, but also all of '25, back-noms: 1.5-year issue. 5 noms from each, 10 total.
Editors should nominate, throw your authors' hats into the ring!
blacklawrencepress.submittab…
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Does this block quotation spark joy? If not, it doesn't need to be in your paper
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Two weeks ago today, we lost Dolly. These photos posted in remembrance from the Hawaii State Archives are beautiful. I'm grateful they shared them.
#Dolly #DollyParton
Mary Biddinger retweeted
It's actually autoautofiction. It's about a character who resembles me writing a novel about a character who resembles him
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“My roommate stacks the bar jukebox with do-me-wrong songs, leaves the alcohol out of my alcohol. Angry-irons pleats into my work pants. Conducts research on bath bombs that cause urinary tract infections” —@marybid, “Battle of Little Italy” @EL_DIAGRAM thediagram.com/21_5/biddinge…
Mary Biddinger retweeted
Ever since I was a boy I knew I wanted to be the number 3 raised hand in a teams meeting
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if only someone had taken the time to put together a list of all the lit mags open in august so that you could send your writing somewhere asap…
oh wait, we did.
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Writing about writing is like an appetizer I allow myself before the meal of writing about myself
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Excellent interview about the power of hybrid writing.
Thanks to assistant poetry editor @rkalagayanpoet for this interview w/ hybrid writer Beth Gilstrap:
<I could not fathom working on a long project. Or even a traditional short story. But I could get 500 words down most of the time and I kept going>.
south85journal.com/2026/07/f…
Mary Biddinger retweeted
A classics professor is clearly not qualified to evaluate a movie. To correctly appreciate the medium of film, you need a degree in English literature
