Flávia Monteiro
@flaviamonteiro.bsky.social
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Brazilian writer based in Miami, FL.
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Flávia Monteiro
Beacon Press
13 days ago
“The book is about a story that I have long since outlived…When I speak of my suicide, I am pointing to a road that no longer exists.” —
@madelinevosch.bsky.social
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I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You About My Book
I wrote a book about trying to kill myself, about surviving after, about how long I searched for the words to tell the story. When I meet new people, when they discover I wrote a book, when they as…
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about 1 month ago
attention all essayists!
@splitlipthemag.bsky.social
wants to see your best work. we publish essays under 2k in our memoir section. we are omnivorous, but i would love to see micro memoir, interesting forms, joyful essays, graphic and image/text work. but don’t count out your lovely quiet essay!
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This flash by Helen Collins Sitler completely floored me.
www.short-reads.org/i-want-a-do-...
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I Want a Do-Over
by Helen Collins Sitler | The limits of change.
https://www.short-reads.org/i-want-a-do-over/
8 months ago
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Electric Literature
10 months ago
“I can only take so many apologies, she often said. Once I give up on a person, there’s no turning back.” (
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If My Mom Was So Angry Around Me, I Must Have Been the Reason - Electric Literature
“Queen Bee” by Flavia R. Montiero
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And so I find out (slightly late as a perfect Latina/Miamera) that my work was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 😱💀 Thank you
@havehashad.com
for publishing it and
@wigleaf.bsky.social
for finding it <3
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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I wrote a funny essay, but don't trust me: there will be evil mom and there will be heartbreak. Out today in Shenandoah ✨
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This Is My Face When You Won’t Stop Talking
I let go of the handle and slowly turned my head back at Pedro, to find thick melancholy already pouring out of his mouth in the form of a teenage love tale. What kind of person would interrupt a poor...
https://www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/this-is-my-face-when-you-wont-stop-talking/
12 months ago
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So honored to see my lil crab essay included in this week's roundup 🦀 (Also stunned by another essay on the list: In the Deepest of Night, by
@judybf.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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I have four short pieces out this month about my mother's micro-abuses. This one, up in Fatal Flaw, is probably the most heartbreaking of them.
www.fatalflawlit.com/essay-pieces...
over 1 year ago
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The poet in disguise did it again.
@sgpoet.bsky.social
's new chapbook is stunning 🐅
over 1 year ago
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Thrilled to be one of the 2025 Periplus fellows 🤸🏽♀️
over 1 year ago
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