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Just another great Monday morning @www.sneakerwavemag.org meeting 🤓 I love getting to run a nonfiction magazine with my dream team of fellow editors. Check it out! sneakerwavemag.org #nonfiction #cnf #personalessay #memoir #litmag #amwriting #truestory

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This is so cool! I love the work @fullstopmag.bsky.social does to make English-language readers more aware of books being published in languages other than English #bookreview #literarycriticism #literatureintranslation

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Nothing like receiving a Jim Shepard story—printed off of JSTOR—in the mail, along with a typewritten letter. This is why I love #snailmail, which I hope never goes away.

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Too much screen time today. Not enough scream time.

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BLADE BY BLADE by the incomparable @danushalameris.bsky.social is in my backpack right now. And when I walk back downtown and sit in the sun, it will be in my hands. (And The Tradition by #jerichobrown is on my bedside table!) #readlivingpoets

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Here at @www.sneakerwavemag.org we keep it real — let’s talk about work and money and labor and love. Read my essay below about the costs of running a lit mag and what kind of funding structure/business model we decided on. #litmags #fundthearts

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My essay about the business model of lit mags is live today, in #litmagnews! So grateful to @BeckyLTuch for sharing her platform and allowing me to explore ways of funding this writing thing we do #litmags #publishing #readingfees #artworkiswork @www.sneakerwavemag.org

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Inside of you are two wolves #mwatsonmade

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Check out this week’s story in @www.sneakerwavemag.org ! Kind of like a #Valentine story, but more so about the choices we end up making when the old plan falls apart. Gina’s such a fabulous storyteller #nonfiction #cnf #personalessay

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Phew. Feeling overwhelmed today about trying to build a platform and reach an audience and engage readers… grateful for a little encouragement from @annasplat.bsky.social via #howtoglowinthedark

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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

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Yes! Love seeing @www.sneakerwavemag.org in #memoirmondays AGAIN! Especially featured alongside stories from @thecut.com. Great nonfiction writing in our little magazine, every Sunday morning. #cnf #creativenonfiction #personalessay

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This piece from @glasstire.bsky.social is reminding me how much I love the work of Gustave Caillebotte. Who’s got a favorite #caillebotte painting and where can I go see it?? #gustavecaillebotte #goseesomeart glasstire.com/2025/01/22/s...

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The day I put in my two weeks at my day job, I received the first corporate sponsorship for the #thunderdomeconference. Leaving this here as an encouragement for myself: Leap, baby, leap.

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I absolutely cannot stop thinking about this incredible piece by Emma Copley Eisenberg about All Fours. I want to read it over and over until it fully soaks into my brain. All Fours also had me down bad. #allfours #literarycriticism open.substack.com/pub/emmacopl...

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Kymberlee Rosen’s story makes me glad there weren’t possums on the road where I grew up! “I can still hear Mr. Clements yelling from the back of the Driver’s Ed room when I braked for the simulated rabbit on the screen. “Miss Egan, you’re dead!”” #cnf #truestory #narrativenonfiction

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My first book review of 2025 is live! Incidentally, it’s about those who choose to collaborate with and benefit from authoritarian regimes. Immerse yourself in a very different perspective on the French Occupation during WWII via Cécile Desprairies’ provocative historical novel, The Propagandist.

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Working with these folks to launch @www.sneakerwavemag.org has been one of the best parts of my year! Look at all our cute smiling faces 🤩 #litmags #masthead

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Just made a whole pot of coffee and forgot to add coffee beans. Welcome to the new year, folks.

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Even if we stop loving parties, my husband and I can never stop hosting our annual New Year’s Eve party. Our house hasn’t been this clean since last New Year’s Eve. He’s currently mopping the bathroom.

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So honored and humbled to see that my essay, “The Problem with the Evangelical Story Structure” is one of the TOO FIVE MOST READ essays this year at Write or Die magazine! Hoping to overthrow the internal tyranny of the testimonial, one moment of quiet reflection at a time. #evangelical #testimony

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Fell down a several-day rabbit hole of research trying to learn more about my local Parks & Open Space-managed artist residency in a historic homestead that was also checks notes a famous recording studio, a silver mine known for blue stones, and Colorado’s first Arabian horse ranch. #caribouranch

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Like Love by @maggienelson12.bsky.social is a masterclass in criticism.

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Check out this week’s story from sneaker wave! A moving mediation about religion, traditions, and family. #personalessay #truestory #memoir #writingaboutreligion #judaism #sukkot #hannukah

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