#durham peeps! Story Connection is coming your way! Find your voice, make new friends, feel better about the world in a live storytelling class. Sign up now--class starts Sept 2!! www.writingisjoy.com/story

"For the better part of a year, Monet got up at 3:30 am and painted haystacks." A writer walks through the Art Institute of Chicago and this is only one of the insights we get. I'm bookmarking this Substack for return visits. from @juliafgreen.bsky.social writingisjoy.substack.com/p/my-kind-of...

I was thrilled to be invited to talk craft with some of my favorite writers about one of my favorite short stories: "Housewifely Arts," by Megan Mahew Bergman. Thanks so much for this wonderful chat, @juliafgreen.bsky.social and @ralphwalker.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Good news: every clumsy embarrassing fumble forward counts towards writing

It's still pretty dang hot, and today's podcast episode has some love stories that won't quell the fire. Thanks for listening! writingisjoy.substack.com/p/story-conn...

Can't wait to watch the new season of The Bear, which is why I yakked about the pilot episode on the podcast with @ralphwalker.bsky.social

Summer in the city means cleavage cleavage cleavage (cannot be the only person whose skull this lyric has been knocking around in the last few days)

HEARD! The new episode of Writing in the Dark is all about The Bear and what prose writers can learn from it. Had a lot of fun deep dishing with @ralphwalker.bsky.social on character, conflict, and Chicago. Thanks, as always, for listening-- open.substack.com/pub/writingi...

New podcast episode--2 great stories about the ways in which families make us crazy :) writingisjoy.substack.com/p/story-conn...

School's pretty much out for the summer, which makes writing hard! Some thoughts on how to keep going amid the chaos: open.substack.com/pub/writingi...

Such a great story jam last night. Lots of laughs, a few tears too. Gathering with friends and sharing stories is the best. If you haven't tried it, you can join us next month. Sign up to receive updates on (FREE) story jams & events. story-connection.kit.com/d68b1e341f

Feeling low? Got a great story up your sleeve? Come to Chapel Hill Public Library tmw night for a Story Jam! Hear stories and make friends and what more could you ask for from a Tuesday night?! story-connection.kit.com/posts/story-....

So happy to see these gorgeous displays of queer joy in the city that raised me. Happy pride y'all !!!! apnews.com/photo-galler...

I hope everybody CRUSHES #1000wordsofsummer and also I wrote about why I won't do it again. Keep writing friends 💜 writingisjoy.substack.com/p/against-wo...

Last night a bunch of people got together in a room to share and witness stories and I'm pretty sure I'll never meet an AI that made my heart swell with its honesty and vulnerability. Stories 4eva 💜

Tonight's the night!!! Amazing storytellers on stage at the Carrboro ArtsCenter!!!! SO EXCITED!!!!!

Tomorrow night's storytellers are hard at work practicing & we can't wait for you to hear their stories. Come for the laughs, stay for the feels! artscenterlive.org/may-22nd-sto...

Looking for some writing accountability in June? Highly recommend Allison Kirkland's June Writing Circle - weekly meetings in the evening on Zoom. Keep writing even as the summer blows up life! open.substack.com/pub/allisonk...

Wanna know what Story Connection is all about? Give our podcast a listen! open.substack.com/pub/writingi...

Thursday night! Story Connection returns to the Carrboro ArtsCenter! Come hear great stories & feel better in your heart!! artscenterlive.org/may-22nd-sto...

I'm so excited to share the newest episode of WRITING IN THE DARK with you. It was a joy to chat with @ejwenstrom.bsky.social and @juliafgreen.bsky.social about the Charles Yu story OPEN. Come check it out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

A student called me Master Splinter today which gave me way more joy than I was expecting on a Monday in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-five

To all the moms, "moms" & people who give care and nurturing to other humans: we see you and we celebrate you. And since you can't get paid parental leave or subsidized childcare or a shred of fucking respect as a parent in this country, I hope you at least got a nap and 20 minutes of alone time.

I feel sad about this apnews.com/article/sing...

Some One Sentence Book Reviews Would be curious to hear your thoughts on any of these! writingisjoy.substack.com/p/one-senten...

There is so much in America I don’t want to see. And I don’t mean the suffering. I mean the entertainment, the consumerism, the success, the celebritism, the sickness disguised as having it all.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Screaming Screaming Screaming AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel that if you are a working mother, you should not have to submit a ton of shit to apply for a residency, you should just have to check a box that says: please, I have a child, please let me write

What's in your revision toolbox? Ours has a machete writingisjoy.substack.com/p/mean-girls...

The way I SCREAMED A SCREAM upon reading scanned lines of prose. This made my poet-heart so happy, and is also proof that time heals all wounds (thousands of lines of AP Latin scansion homework.) I read this short story then listened to the podcast and then read the story out loud to myself again.

best advice i have for starting your day right is to sign up for newsletters/journals that send poems to your inbox

Approx one hundred times a day I wonder what the world would look like if EVERYBODY KEPT A JOURNAL

Loving the birds rn. You wanna hear an angry bird? Stand near a tree in NC in April. These birds got something to SAY

Everyone is dealing with something. EVERYONE. Be kinder. 💕

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

got asked again during a Q&A what led to me becoming a poet, and this time i decided to answer completely honestly: "being a weird person"

It's Wednesday. Put on pants (or don't) and shine your light into this dark, dark world. We need you 💜

If you need me I'll be on my bike (her name is Shirley) yelling at undergraduates recklessly riding scooters in all/no directions as if they had a hundred wild and precious lives

Missing rotary telephones today

It's a whole thing living in this world right now. Be kind to yourself, to others, as much as you are able. And make a little art if you can. A two minute doodle, a little haiku, some plunked piano keys--it all will make the world a brighter place 💜

Are you ready to take your writing to the next level? The Journey to Jupiter Writing Retreat is for fiction and memoir writers who are hungry for the time, community, and craft they need to advance their projects to the next level. writingisjoy.substack.com/p/are-you-re...

when your brain is ugh and your heart is blah

I hope you find bloom and abundance today. Bloom and abundance exist—they exist.

Hey look at me I've been here for years and I still have zero books out. You can just be a writer! No qualifications! No clue what you're doing! Just making things and telling other people about it all day who barely care! That's all I do!

Jupiter … if writing is your thing, this is the thing to thing at. Experts, encouragement, camaraderie, and neato-keen cool #5amwritersclub peepages (yes, like you see here daily). Apply. Trust me, we stay crunchy. Even in milk.

Still a few spots left in FREE live storytelling class for underrepresented voices in #carrboro NC. All the info is here: writingisjoy.substack.com/p/a-free-sto...

And we've got guest faculty too! Wanna learn from the best? @ralphwalker.bsky.social @juliafgreen.bsky.social @pennyzang.bsky.social and Caroline Manring! Click back to the OP, fill out the form, block your calendar and LFG to Jupiter! #5amWritersClub #WritersRetreat

Are you not feeling much existential dread these days? Do you have psychic room to feel more pessimism about the fate of the planet? Are you in the mood for 900 pages of well written doom? Then Stephen Markley's DELUGE is for you! (I loved it, actually, but it's A LOT)

First round acceptances sent. There are still seats on this spaceship. Get your Journey To Jupiter applications in! forms.gle/j4ZZbqtSw5Ao... #writingretreat #5amwritersclub @juliafgreen.bsky.social