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allechallwriter.bsky.social
Author/speaker/writing instructor focused on the joy & creativity resulting from healing trauma. Novel honored fifteen times, including #1-Kindle spot: "Literary" & "Coming-of-Age."
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“Is it copying to use the same concept as another writer?” • There is a moral element. • Writing teachers ask you to use style of a great author as an exercise. • How much do you have to change to not be sued? tinyurl.com/muypbjzf 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting

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Alle responds to: "Your recommendation for the opening sentence of a query letter?" Mine could be the minority opinion. tinyurl.com/4h3ja634 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting

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"Writing is so hard." Correct. But you have power. 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting # tinyurl.com/47nk7sd6

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ALLE BOOKSTORE READING ALLE BOOKSTORE READING Final reading: winners of the Nancy Pearl Best Book Award. • Fri.,2/21 6pm. • Tickets $5 but you receive $5 credit toward purchase. • Village Books & Paper Dreams. Bellingham, WA. 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #AmReading

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Teaser! "How much should a professional editor charge?" Also: "How many beta readers should I use?" I would not go with a writer who has turned to editing unless they showed considerable success. For example, I wouldn’t hire me. 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting

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Shankar Narayan's second offering at Hugo House this quarter. (3rd is coming) South Asian Poetry Forms: Ghazalsh Online Sat 3/8 10:00am - 2:00pm PT Ghazals: “a lyrical South Asian form celebrated for elegant lyricism, sharp wit, and heartrending emotion.” 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity

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This is Monika Sengul-Jones’ third offering this quarter! Get on this train! High-Intensity Fiction Generator tinyurl.com/2x5uf2at In Person Saturday 3/1, 10:00am - 1:00pm PT "Write, write, write. Leave with 1-3 new short pieces of fiction." #AmWriting #CreativeWriting #InstaWrite #AmReading

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DiID YOU KNOW Hugo House has writing class scholarships? tinyurl.com/yc3zp3rh • Scholarships typically range from 10% to 60% off the full tuition cost; • limited number of scholarship: apply if you truly have financial need. 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritingClass

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How to Write About Friendship (without Losing Friends) with Steve Almond tinyurl.com/ytz89sde Online Saturday 3/8 1:10pm-4:10pm PT “Understand how certain friendships become both life raft and shark.” 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritingClass #FlashFiction

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READING FOR NANCY PEARL AWARD. Ridgecrest Books, Shoreline, WA. Pictured: Rebecca Holbrook, the first place winner. Thoughtful questions, lots of clapping. Wonderfully assuring, for a novel about sexual trauma. ridgecrestbookstore.com 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting

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I’ve studied with Nicole Hardy. She rocks. Memoir Techniques: Writing the Things I Don’t Remember tinyurl.com/4h3dbbfw · Online: 3/8, 1:10pm- 5:10pm PT “Build your story, even when you’re missing some pieces.” 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritingClass

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STARTS 2/12 Retracing the Steps: Writing Travel Stories with Monika Sengul-Jones “Journey inward to craft a travel essay based on your past travels.” Online: Weds, 7:10pm - 9:10pm PT 2/12 – 3/19 tinyurl.com/2mcs7w8d 💙📚 #AmWriting #writer #amwriting #creativewriting #authorcommunity #skywriters

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A deceptively simple, resonant piece by H.K. Hummel in this - just up - on Beautiful Things. tinyurl.com/3zyu3sf9 💙📚 #AmWriting #writer #amwriting #creativewriting #authorcommunity #skywriters

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2/2 I put up another post about the experience and am now engaging with all sorts of mansplainers and probable whoremongers. I am totally holding my own without losing my boundaries. IT FEELS GREAT. The best thing I wrote: "If you think I have an axe to grind: I do." Take that, rape culture!!!

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1/2 UPDATE ON THE SEXUAL ASSAULT IN BALI. The survivor took down her post, I took mine down, too, because if she is not willing to stand up for herself, I am not willing to take the risk for her. But I will stand by her.

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Hugo House workshop with Jessica GIgot! "When poets cross into creative nonfiction? Poetic Memoir: Self, Memory, Truth In Person Sats, 10:00am - 1:00pm PT March 1 – 25 Journeying between poetry and longer prose. Expect increased lyricism in your prose.” 💙📚 #CreativeWriting #WritingClass

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1/2 Yesterday, a woman in Bali, reported: during a massage, the male provider touched her vagina. Yes, it's important to get the "facts" (never devoid of previously held world views) in such cases. But it revolted me that there was not more support for what this woman "may" have gone through.

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Wishing you the best and most productive African American History Month! One of my most popular posts is my review of this surreal-great novel. Please buy it, or take a look at my review and then be inspired to buy it! allechall.substack.com/p/quick-thou... 💙📚 #BookReview #CreativeWriting

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My whole THING is the joy and creativity coming from healing trauma. Well. I got nothing on Teré Fowler-Chapman. A Generative Poetry Class - The Child Within: Healing Through Personal Storytelling - Online! Tuesdays, 7:10pm - 9:10pm 2/ 25 - 3 18, 2025 💙📚 #writingcommunity #WritingCommunity

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I liked this class because by the end, you will have your newsletter up and running. Words that Stick: The Art of the Writer’s Newsletter with Monika Sengul-Jones IN PERSON at Hugo House - -Sat., Feb. 22, 1:10PM to 4:10PM. hugohouse.org/product/word... #AmWriting #authorsofig #writersofig

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Obsessed w/repulsive protagonist? Olivia Cheng's class looks great! "Wield disgust to build tension w/o losing readers". • Online 2/11 – 3/18 • Tues nights, 5-7pm PT • 1-2 hours of writing and/or reading outside of class. 💙📚 #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #WritingClass #CreativeWriting

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Have won awards for flash/nom'ed for Best Small Fictions (toots own horn) am not yet Aimee Bender. Signed up! 2/10 & 17 online 5:30PM – 7:30PM, PT "Timeless tales can inspire fresh stories rooted in the everyday moments." 💙📚 #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #WritingClass #CreativeWriting .

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ON-LINE HUGO HOUSE CLASS I LIKE: Stop, Plot, and Roll: Revising your Novel Draft with Grace Bialecki Draft a SYNOPSIS; use it as a revision tool. Intermediate/Advanced One-Day: 2/10/25 5 - 8pm PT • Optional writing or reading outside of class hugohouse.org/product/stop...

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