Excited to have this piece about my sister Jody and cooking with my children published today at One Potato! Link in bio. And thank you to @penparentis.bsky.social for their support of artists who parent. onepotato.substack.com/p/the-solace...

I had not heard of this book but now I am going to read it tonight.

Join us and @taracampbell.bsky.social as we get weird with micros! www.smokelong.com/product/lets...

It’s the end of Tin House Winter Workshop and I feel like my mind and spirit have been magnified by 10. So grateful for an amazing instructor; generous cohorts; @almajor.bsky.social and everyone @tinhouse.bsky.social who work hard to make the amazing place it is. I feel utterly changed. 💕

Just Nugget and I enjoying @tinhouse.bsky.social karaoke night! 🎤

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

99.99% of the time you're going to be the first and last person to read it. If it ever gets in front of another human, it has already survived the insurmountable odds of your own self-rejection, and the odds become much more grim after that. Just go ahead and write whatever you want!

Going to think about this poem for a long time.

So thrilled to be part of the Tin House Winter Workshop in February, working with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal!

Posting my 2024 reads, a bit late.

‘And then I saw it—what everyone not saying.’ Such a brilliantly written story from Banchiwosen Woldeyesus in @smokelong.bsky.social, all those things unsaid… 🐕 www.smokelong.com/stories/thes...

Great read — hilarious and devastating.

Wow—every beautiful, haunting sentence. “You know then that she will have learnt the dual trick of ignoring her pain, and knowing that she deserves it.” @pleomorphic2.bsky.social epistemiclit.com/current-issu...

A great evening at Brazos Bookstore — looking forward to reading Mark’s new book, starting this weekend. •Mark Haber •Lesser Ruins

He makes working difficult but he’s cute while doing it.

My sweet cat, Pippin ❤️

I am thrilled that my CNF piece found a home at Motherwell Magazine! We just finished getting our oldest to college today, and so this feels like a great marker to the day. 💗 motherwellmag.com/2024/08/22/h...

Twelve years of Girl Scouts. Alex has graduated up to adult scout. Very proud of all they’ve accomplished.

Eclipse 2024

Home at last! 💖

Still driving…hopefully home tomorrow ❤️

So Great to catch up with Jonathan! And excellent dinner at Ripplewood Whiskey & Craft. A much appreciated repast after a long day.

Made it to my first stop in Ardmore on the long drive home. Missing the Vermont people and looking forward to being home at the same time.

Goodbye Vermont! I know it’s the Green Mountain State, but I’ll always remember it in shades of grey blue and gold. #vermontstudiocenter

Goodbye Studio Goodbye Room Goodbye Friends Goodbye Houdini (okay, that didn’t rhyme) Leaving tomorrow, thankful for this time and space, but most thankful for everyone here 💖

Bonfire, brews, and s’mores tonight 🔥

Gorgeous day here and the pussy willows are beginning to bloom.

I just saw an Easter ad so it's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter....

Decided to enjoy the sunshine today. Drove around and photographed covered bridges.

As chosen by Judge Adele Evershed @adlibby.bsky.social The FFF Competition Twenty Winning Flash Fiction! The Tree Wife by Charles Prelle @charlesprelle.bsky.social cprellewriter.wordpress.com freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...

Snowy Day ❄️ Not as dramatic as forecasted but still a novelty to me after living by the Gulf Coast for many years.

More Houdini—and a forecast I’m not looking forward to 🥶🥶🥶

Beautiful sunset tonight…

Missing my cats, but fortunately there is this amazing guy here.

It snowed during the night—first time my car has experienced it. ❄️

View for the next two + weeks. Last fall I was awarded a fellowship to attend a residency at Vermont Studio Center but I really thought something would happen to keep me from going. Glad I was wrong!

Road trip this week—my oldest and I took the long way (Texas to Philly) as I head to my upcoming fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. They are flying back home while I continue onward.

"What a thing each year how the green shimmies / itself from the ground. Sap-spurred, seeds / syllable themselves into viridescent / sentence." Jory Mickelson's "How the Green Shimmies" Read now: psalteryandlyre.org/2024/03/04/h...

"Be merciless with your words. Write in a way that the readers feel your words poke and prickle under their skin." Great advice from Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar, as I start focusing on my micro for #NFFD microfiction competition!

Happy New Year! We are OPEN for electronic submissions, through January. Send us your fiction, poetry, essay, comics, and translations. We pay between $100 and $500 depending on length. epoch.submittable.com/submit

In March, 2020, locked down in Montevideo, Uruguay, I wrote: "I now have 76 colored pencils! So, what should I do with them? Can I possibly learn to draw or cartoon?" Now finishing my graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL which will be published by @fieldmousepress.bsky.social ial this coming year.

Hello, Blue Sky! We're "welkin on sunshine" to be in this new place. Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting... #FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting

A thousand years ago this Chinese gentleman went from pragmatic cat employer to doting cat slave with no regrets.

I’m working at a coffee shop and am sitting by a window in the third floor. Looking out, I see a little visitor.

I have a new story up at Northwest Review! Many thanks for Sabrina Orah Mark and Sara Lippmann, in whose workshops I drafted this piece, and to editor Dawn Raffel. nwreview.org/flash/kathy-...

It’s a beautiful day to go vote!

Looking forward to seeing this tonight!

Writer friends! There's a new @barrelhouse.bsky.social call for submissions, via my class at Temple Univ. (who will be reading and deciding what to publish).

Halloween is nearly here, so here's a rerun of my Oct. '21 newsletter on ghost stories with prompts and terrific recommended reading! Enjoy! 🧡🍁👻 artofflashfiction.substack.com/p/harnessing...