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Here’s the thing I want my coffee strong (as in the coffee flavor profile) AND sweet/creamy but not like a hot/cold milkshake. Is that too much to ask? 😩

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‘Received an ARC of Carrie R. Moore’s short story collection “Make Your Way Home” publishing with Tin House, and debuting on 7/15/25!💚 ‘Pitched to write a review with a Mississippi press, they said YES! I’m so excited. This will be my first time ✨formally✨ writing a review. This COVER, ya’ll! 🙌🏽

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any awp panels in search of Baltimore authors to join their team? I have some cool outfits I could wear

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We're open for subs for only a month. Send us your work before July 3, 2025. We're very much looking forward to reading. 💜 #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

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🚨SALE!🚨I noticed a certain retailer is selling my book for less than $5 and thought I should offer copies for the same price! So, if you've been wanting to read DRESSING THE BEAR, l'd love to send you it! $5 INCLUDES SHIPPING, until I run out! DM me! And thank you in advance! 💙 @triohousepress.org

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Are there any fellowships, grants, scholarships that I should be aware about? I didn’t apply for the NEA for obvious reason so if there’s other options? I would so appreciate knowing and sharing! 💚

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It takes a lot of work, and not just on our end, in order for a book to become. Let’s remain diligent, excited, patient, proud, and preserved. ☺️💚✨

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“I Feel For You”! ♥️

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Didn’t they say the Annabelle doll was making its way to DC soon? 🤔🧐🍀🤞🏽

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Proudly so.

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Got some away time coming soon! What books should I pick up from the library? Currently reading and almost finished with “On Earth…” x Ocean. I also got: “James” x Percival and For research: “Gone With The Wind” and “Delta Wedding”. Anything else? Anything that will take my BREATH away?

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Happy World Goth Day, B👻👻s! #WorldGothDay #HappyWorldGothDay #Goth

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You mean to tell me if I handwrite in my own edits and revisions, I gotta be the one to type them up, too? 🥴

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Hey there night owls…got a full-length poetry manuscript you want two editors to read? Send it our way between now and June 31! riverriverbooks.org

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I use ALL of the pet names for friends and associates, and have just now adopted “Dollface” and “Darling”, and I’m running out of unique pet names for the significant other to be? What I’m supposed to call him? The Sun of My Existence? Moonlight? Sweetest of Non-Artificially-Sugared Sweethearts? 😂

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No matter how old I get, writing and mailing letters (and seeing those letters get to their person) will never cease to amaze me. It’s basic but it’s so miraculous to me. 😍

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This stunning write-up from CRAFT editors for my essay “Black Tax: The Back-to-Back-to-Back Breaking of Black Hair, Black Bank Accounts, and Black Beauty Salon Culture”! 🪮💚🪮 Read here: www.craftliterary.com/2025/05/14/b...

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Aye, World Goth Day is Thursday, deepest and darkest darlings…. 💁🏽‍♀️🖤

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See, I act a fool with cold coffee and end up using too much creamer. Back to hot coffee, for now, until I learn to be more disciplined. 🙇🏽‍♀️

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The way 2024 and 2025 bleed together. I have to constantly remind myself of the month and year we’re in. 🫠

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“Will I have to cross an entire ocean just for someone to try with me? Succeed with me? That shame of excitability at the spark of See, see, they (non-Black folks) like us, they really, really like us!” Ex ❤️ @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social in Craft Literary www.craftliterary.com/2025/05/14/b...

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"There’s a YouTube video of a Black American woman in China, at a Chinese hair spa, and for the Chinese hairdresser her texture of hair is all and everything alien, but my goodness is she gentle, and she tries." @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social | Craft Literary www.craftliterary.com/2025/05/14/b...

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Hey BCP fam! We're excited to share that our summer chapbook open reading period begins TODAY, 5/15. Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, we want to read it ALL! The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (linked in our bio).

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Gonna reshare for the evening crowd! 👇🏽New Ex Essay dropped, today! ✨✨✨

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New Creative NonFiction Situation with the beloveds CRAFT, today. ☺️ ‘Hope ya’ll enjoy “Black Tax: The Back-to-Back-to-Back Breaking of Black Hair, Black Bank Accounts, and Black Beauty Salon Culture” 💚 Read Here: www.craftliterary.com/2025/05/14/b...

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Today's the official pub day for Human/Animal: a bestiary in essays @wlupress.bsky.social I will lean into the joy—Celebrate with me! The brilliant @carolinehagood.bsky.social interviewed me: open.substack.com/pub/caroline... AND It was excerpted in @msmagazine.com! msmagazine.com/2025/04/21/w...

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New Creative NonFiction Situation with the beloveds CRAFT, today. ☺️ ‘Hope ya’ll enjoy “Black Tax: The Back-to-Back-to-Back Breaking of Black Hair, Black Bank Accounts, and Black Beauty Salon Culture” 💚 Read Here: www.craftliterary.com/2025/05/14/b...

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Would love to take some acting classes. Some dancing classes. Ice skating is a big one for me! Wouldn’t mind another degree. Singing classes! Whew, so many! And I wonder if I’m just made to be a student, if we all are? That ain’t good news for my pocketbooks, I tell’ya… 😅🙈

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Just heard my little sister say “hot diggity dog” if anybody needs a pickmeup! 🤭

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