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"An essay collection both poignant and plainspoken," writes Nick Hilbourn for Rain Taxi of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME by @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social. Read the full review: bit.ly/3UeGVM7

My review of #ThankYouForStayingWithMe by @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social is up at @raintaxi.bsky.social raintaxi.com/thank-you-fo...

Nancy, thank you so much for reading and sharing! This made my day ❤️

✨book update✨ I won an IPPY, which means I am equally parts humbled, shocked, and so excited that I will finally have a real-life gold medal I can wear nonchalantly in the privacy of my home. Forever grateful to @univnebpress.bsky.social and @court8961.bsky.social for making this book a reality.

Thank you so much for reading, Dana! I appreciate this literary friendship so much ❤️

@danadelibovi.bsky.social it was so good to see you again at Unbound!!! Hope our paths cross again soon ❤️

So grateful for @jamestatehill.bsky.social and the Writer’s Chronicle team for featuring a sneak peak of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME (@univnebpress.bsky.social). writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-apr...

Been out for a minute, but came back to celebrate the launch of my FIRST BOOK (Thank You for Staying with Me, @univnebpress.bsky.social), an amazing AWP, and a lovely conversation regarding maternal health with Jennie Case over at @oxfordamerican.bsky.social. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/writi...

Night made after coming to stumbling back onto Bluesky. Thanks so much for the words, @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social 🙏❤️

This week's Friday Five is live! Music by Destroyer, Hannah Cohen and Whatever the Weather Words by Pádraig Ó Tuama and @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social aarikdanielsen.com/blog/april-0...

News & Reviews feat. @tim-manners.bsky.social @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social @mike-stark.bsky.social and more!

One of the highlights of AWP: hearing @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social read from her new book of essays, and friends @jacqdoyle.bsky.social and @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social read from Past Ten's anthology. Today, I returned to my own Past Ten essay -- feeling proud! www.past-ten.com/single-post/...

"I realized that the biggest overarching theme was ontology . . . I think foundationally, that’s what all writers are trying to figure out," writes @baileygaylinmoore.bsky.social, author of THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME in an interview with @thesunlightpress.bsky.social.

Oh, Aarik—thank you so much for reading with such tenderness and care. Our home is complicated, beautiful, and hard. I appreciate you ❤️

So thrilled to be in this conversation over at @oxfordamerican.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️ I can’t speak highly enough of Jennie Case and her book, We Are Animals.

Was sent this earlier last week—thanks so much for words, @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social!! www.columbiatribune.com/story/entert...

Had a blast talking to @anniescholl.bsky.social about my new collection of essays, Thank You for Staying with Me. If you’re looking for a book that talks philosophy, cosmology, and navigates motherhood and mental health, you can still pre-order here: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

I had so much fun talking shop (Staedtler pens and @moleskine) with Elizabeth Austin. This interview series is softcore pornography from writers—highly recommend 💜 open.substack.com/pub/writinge...

My upcoming collection has a section navigating how to mourn a nation, written between 2016-2020. After Biden took office, I worried these essays had become dated and struggled with whether I should include them in the book. Unfortunately, my biggest fear happened: the essays became relevant again.

This fragmented [perhaps prismatic] essay means a lot to me. Thanks to @theforge.bsky.social & @saracrowley.bsky.social for selecting it as a finalist for their flash cnf competition. "I turn my head like I’m missing something. I feel that I am always missing something." shorturl.at/QlCau

So stoked to shared this 40% off QR code for my collection of essays, Thank You for Staying with Me, out with @univnebpress.bsky.social March 1st!

Thank you, @mattkendrick.bsky.social for picking this one out of the pile, to @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social who inspired this in two different classes and to @dawnsteffler.bsky.social who suggested I trim it to 100 words and enter the Mini. Thanks, everyone.

Some good stuff up at past-ten.com today! Take a gander, and look at our book while you’re at it!

01.29.15 @joemarshallauthor.bsky.social reflects on dog poo and expensive tables. www.past-ten.com/single-post/...

a constant struggle of figuring out which void to yell into

Found in the @univnebpress.bsky.social spring/summer ‘25 catalogue. Opening this bad boy felt surreal, lovely, and scary/good as hell. So many incredible books are in this lineup Pre-orders are also now available if you want to help a fellow author out ❤️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

COVER REVEAL! Big thanks to Katrina Noble for this beautiful cover, which encapsulates the themes of cosmology and loneliness in this collection. THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME comes out March 1st—a day before my birthday—and pre-orders are available now! www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

“Me, I sit up preparing interview questions for long-gone rock-and-rollers, the upward curves of these sentences forming my shrine.” Damn, go read the newest issue of Memoir Mixtapes, especially this piece by Aarik Danielson, which is. so. good. (Happy Birthday, Aarik!)

Thanks for reading and sharing, Clark! ❤️

If you haven’t checked out Past Ten you should give ‘er a little gander. We have our first anthology coming out March 2025 and are ecstatic 🥰🥰🥰

I’ve never had a book. I never expected the proofs process to feel so raw, but here I am crying on my couch in overwhelming gratitude and disbelief. THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME is set to come out March 2025, and I couldn’t thank @univnebpress.bsky.social enough for all they have done for me.

Today: My son turned nineteen, I started my period, my husband is traveling, I’m working on proofs for my first book about being a sad young mom and feeling every single word on each page, and I’ve been assaulted by every single emotion there is.

Take a gander at this guy if you’re in the mood to time travel

My cute-ass husband, @donaldquist.bsky.social, is judging CRAFT’s Memoir Excerpt and Essay contest this year. Three winners will receive $1,000, two additional writers will receive $200 for editor’s choice, and everyone who gets shortlisted will get a $1,000 scholarship to PocketMFA 👀

"he told you about finding a kitten by the road on his way there, how its legs had been run over, acting it out with his hands, the limp legs" Loved this tiny story, from which I dare not quote too much.

Scott Garson and the Wigleaf crew were so good to me for publishing this lil piece about knotted hair and roadkill grace 🖤

I’m very bad at Twitter, absolutely clueless on Threads, and I still don’t know what Blue Sky is. Let’s connect 😎

my favorite thing to do to my subconscious is accidentally fall asleep to ancient aliens