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sagetyrtle.bsky.social
Award-winning storyteller, writer, and workshop wizard. Moth GrandSLAM champ. NPR/CBC/PBS contributor. Taught 150+ workshops for Second City, Clarion West, and Afghan Women’s Assoc. Work in Apex Mag, The Offing. Helps writers dig up stories that stick.
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submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

One of the magazines already offered an open call for Iranians in diaspora, palestinians and antizionist Jewish writers. Stay tuned for their announcement and mine, and please, spread the word. #writingcommunity

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Happy Friday! We have a real treat for you. Quiet your inner critic and free your creativity with this exercise using constraints led by Sage Tyrtle, award-winning storyteller. #authors #creativity youtu.be/f-lIMNpk0XM

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

When I was 19 I wanted to read more Harlan Ellison (I know, I know, but it was 1991, the sci-fi options were LIMITED) and they didn't have any at the library or the bookstore. I called information for Harlan Ellison and got a number. I thought it would be his publishing company but (1/2)

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Don't miss this gut-wreching piece by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social. Ow. Ow ow ow. fracturedlit.com/boys-in-boxes/ #FlashFiction #FlashLit

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Apex Jeopardy time! A: A leader of 150+ workshops worldwide at places like Second City, Toronto Storytelling Festival and Reach Your Apex. . . . . Q: Who is professional storyteller and RYA instructor, Sage Tyrtle? Catch Sage's next workshop June 20. #authors reachyourapex.com/product/writ...

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Remember turning a cardboard box into a spaceship as a kid? That’s constrained creativity. This workshop is your grown-up box. Fewer tools, WILDER possibilities. What will you build when ‘less’ becomes your most powerful tool? Join me for this #WritingWorkshop: reachyourapex.com/product/writ...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Remember turning a cardboard box into a spaceship as a kid? That’s constrained creativity. This workshop is your grown-up box. Fewer tools, WILDER possibilities. What will you build when ‘less’ becomes your most powerful tool? Join me for this #WritingWorkshop: reachyourapex.com/product/writ...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I was 14 in the 80s, so mine was a truly awful story of a vampire (yeah, Anne Rice) named MIDNIGHT (jesus) who was in love with a vampire named Basil. It was in italics, because Word Perfect in DOS could do italics (very exciting) and when I sent it to my writer grandfather his only comment (1/2)

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

So exited to be back in @bendinggenres.bsky.social! This flash fiction piece begins, "After the last episode of The Sweet Family, after the SNL guest spot, after the dystopian young adult movie lead. After the snowboarding knee injury..." bendinggenres.com/jacob-barrer... #FlashLit #FlashFiction

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Sushi Rejection Project Update! Since my last update, I've gotten two acceptances and am back up to 5/100. I'm weirdly crushed by the 5, partly because these were all litmags I thought I'd at least get a personal rejection from, but (1/4) #WritingCommunity #WritersSupportingWriters #Litmags

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It's time for the #GoodNewsRoundup. Here's to Los Angelenos. Stay safe. Stay neighborly. Here's to all the neighbors standing up for each other against masked kidnappers across the country in small towns and big cities. You are the leadership we need right now. You are the heroes. 1/n

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Sushi Rejection Project Update! Since my last update, I've gotten two acceptances and am back up to 5/100. I'm weirdly crushed by the 5, partly because these were all litmags I thought I'd at least get a personal rejection from, but (1/4) #WritingCommunity #WritersSupportingWriters #Litmags

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Marisca's writing has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Pushcart, Best of the Net, Rhysling, Utopia, and Dwarf Stars awards. Everyone, EVERYONE, struggles with rejections. (And how cool that writers are willing to keep talking about it, even after they find success.) #WritersSupportingWriters

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Staring at a blank page? Your creativity isn't lazy, it's just a sleepy cat waiting for the right toy. Constraints are the jingle ball that gets it pouncing. Wake up your words with playful limits in this #WritingWorkshop - use code caged10 for $10 off. reachyourapex.com/product/writ...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

If you're in Eastern Time and love writing first thing in the morning, this happens at 5 AM! Hooray!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I really recommend submitting to Fictive Dream - it’s a great place to be published, and Laura is so supportive and works so hard to publicise stories on social media and find beautiful images for them

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Staring at a blank page? Your creativity isn't lazy, it's just a sleepy cat waiting for the right toy. Constraints are the jingle ball that gets it pouncing. Wake up your words with playful limits in this #WritingWorkshop - use code caged10 for $10 off. reachyourapex.com/product/writ...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Have you seen this reposted again and again? There's a good reason. This piece should be read by EVERYONE. (It is harrowing, there are content warnings.)

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Here's today's writing prompt: (Also the answer is NO. NO NO NO NO NO. NOT FOR LOVE. NOT FOR MONEY. (For a new U.S. administration, yes. Obviously.))

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I don't want to 'utilize' AI. I don't want to become 'more efficient'. I don't want to outsource the process of actual thought to a machine. I want to struggle with my words and chip away at my own soul until something shining and glorious and mundane and fucking human emerges. That's being alive.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Absolutely LOVE this stunning photo by photographer Yang Sui, it's a thrill when I know what people see is exactly what I was hoping they would. This is me, performing at True Stories Told Live Toronto. I'll be performing this story again in August, so please keep an eye out. #StorytellingShow

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

This long CNF piece is SO immersive. I was on the subway reading it, but I was also in Beiruit, and in Brooklyn, and on the sidewalk in the dark. Read, read, read!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

*happy dancing all over the apartment* (Also, follow @lindzmcleod.bsky.social who is an amazing writer and also an absolute FORCE in the writing community who is always, always looking for opportunities to support other writers in any way she can.)

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments