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Pen Parentis is up for an Anthem Community Voice Award! Help us get to first place by searching for our organization and showing your support at celebrate.anthemawards.com #AnthemAwards

ATTENTION: @PenParentis is in 9th place to win an Anthem Community Voice Award! 👏 Rally the troops to celebrate now!: celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting... #AnthemAwards #writers #writerparents #readatpenparentis #writercommunity #parentwriters

Join Pen Parentis on November 11 in conversation with Helen Philips, Scott Elliott, David Ebenbach, and Anca L Szilágyi, discussing artificial intelligence. www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial... #writerscommunity #writing #writercommunity #parentwriter #writerparent #events #readatpenparentis

You can have your pretty nature walks, I love my October skyscrapers. (Okay I love my nature walks too, damn you Fall!)

Gotta hand it to this guy, he didn’t let the season fester. #halloween2025 #preseason #NYC #newyorkcity

ATTENTION: @PenParentis is in 10th place to win an Anthem Community Voice Award! 👏 Rally the troops to celebrate now!: celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting#/…#AnthemAwardsd#writersr#writingcommunityt#writererscommunityt#authorsrs pleas#sharer#reposts#amplifyf#parentst#creativewritingng

E.E. Cummings once had a collection of poems rejected by 14 publishers. When he eventually got it published as "No Thanks" in 1935, he dedicated it to those 14 publishers in a visual poem shaped like a funeral urn

I’m hosting a deep dive conversation with 3 authors who variously connect to this theme on Oct 14 online with co-host Christina Chiu. Any authors who have kids are very welcome to tune in to the livecast and chat in questions on this topic. RSVP for the link www.eventbrite.com/e/1626784439...

Sometimes life kicks you in the nuts and you don’t even have nuts.

In case you feel your life could use a change: www.tanzerben.com/blog/this-po...

Things you find in the back alleys of NYC —

Fun Pen Parentis event tonight at BKBF

Do you follow the accounts of posts you share? Let’s find out. #science

Come see me and Ben Tanzer in Chicago tonight!! Tickets are free www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

I wrote this! Let me know what you think! #fantasy #newwork #goodmarket #writingcommunity #recommended open.substack.com/pub/workspro...

GET INTO GEAR THIS SUMMER - Pen Parentis INTRODUCING – THE SUMMER SPRINT! Stuck on a writing project that just won’t budge? You’re not alone—and you don’t have to push through it on your own #writing #parentingdonewrite #writercommunity #parentwriter #writerparent

Hella good time in #cleveland and you bought books! Thanks for turning out!! Shots of local Krupnikas were the best!

Hey! Are you in #cleveland and love #books? Want to go to a weird event? Wednesday July 2 I am reading from A FLASH OF DARKNESS at the #lithuanian club! Program entirely in English and will be quirky - I hear there will be “Vings” (not joking: Vendesday Vings. Come meet me. My stories are weird too!

It happened - a @penparentis.bsky.social public event in NYC — open to all book lovers. Headlined by V Efua Prince and Ethan Rutherford. Attended by many authors - a great time was had by all. Photos and write up attached penparentis.org/manhattan-20...

Join me Tuesday - www.eventbrite.com/d/ny--new-yo...

I am in Copenhagen and that’s my last stop. I did Zagreb, Prague, Vienna and Vilnius. Everywhere is identically demanding I explain what happened to America. Here’s vilnius where no one is armed and everyone is enjoying themselves responsibly because they know how to be happy adults. #travel

Traveling in Zagreb after signing my separation agreement (a 30 year marriage I thought solid was actually made of paper). Drifted into the Museum of Broken Relationships and the cashier said “how many?” I just looked at her. #walkwithme #zagreb #travel #croatiatravel @brokenships.bsky.social

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So proud to have been part of so many authors’ lives 🩷

The Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents: $2000, a year of mentorship, and the opportunity to read online at a Pen Parentis Literary Salon. Deadline: April 17th @penparentis.bsky.social @mmdevoe.bsky.social penparentis.org/fellowship/

Stop doom scrolling - come watch four authors Discuss Addictions/Compulsions at the Next Pen Parentis Salon - tonight at 7pm Eastern - online! www.pw.org/literary_eve...

So this happened in my neighborhood: #fidi #nyc #newYorkCity #travel #tourism #destination #shopping #funny medium.com/@mmdevoe/we-...

literarymama.com/blog/archive... @mmdevoe.bsky.social

Are you a writer who has kids? Are you going to #AWP25 ? I would like to invite you to the #PenParentis Party at the JW Marriott downtown 5-7pm Thursday March 27. Local to #losangeles #writers who have kids are also invited! Free but please RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/penpa...

From Book to Screen: Pen Parentis authors take you behind-the-scenes - join us - meet 4 authors who have done it - chat your q's during the livecast (I dunno how to post links here) #writing #books +https://www.pw.org/literary_events/from_book_to_screen_pen_parentis_authors_take_you_behindthescenes

Imagine naming your kids Oscar and Emmy.

This platform makes me nervous. It’s like going to a stranger’s house party where you really want to impress everyone but you’re not even sure if you’re wearing clothes. (this amazing image was in a short film I saw this weekend)

'The Last Days of Good People' available now for pre-order: https://buff.ly/3DosLTy #speclit

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I was thinking about repainting my apartment but no one carries "ironic beige."

Missing the days when the electronics would tell you to go to bed by shutting off. Now they create makework. (Anyone else ever send an older version of a story because when you checked to make sure it's the latest, the computer changed the last-opened date so you think it's the newer version?)

Just a reminder...

Hello! Sorry I’m late to the party! Who’s talking #books #authors #publishing #philosophy #poetry #scifi #specfic #amwriting #writingcommunity #coffee #NYC #games or #puzzles — if I can figure out how to follow back on this platform I will! Me: mmDeVoe.substack.com

It is very exciting to realize there is a whole social network you completely forgot existed. Like hey, there’s this wardrobe full of coats and oh my god a lamppost and Spare Oom and hey is that a faun? #sorry #helloagain

#BrooklynAuthorReadingSeries @mmdevoe.bsky.social reading @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social #AuthorsOfBluesky #HorrorCommunity

Thanks to @locusmag.bsky.social for the shout out of Brooklyn Books & Booze's 3rd anniversary with a photo of our fabulous May readers @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social #christinacooke @mmdevoe.bsky.social and @matthewkressel.net ! locusmag.com/2024/07/phot...

Rockstars, the word is "GRANTED." You are not taking anything for granite. Ever. This public service announcement brought to you by a Zoom meeting with more than 200 listeners in which most of us are wincing over and over and over. Meeting isn't about geology or that would have been funny. #grammar

Friends, this is happening TOMORROW NIGHT! Join me, @mmdevoe.bsky.social, @matthewkressel.net, and Christina Cooke at 7 PM Tuesday at Barrow's Intense NY Tasting Room in Industry City, Brooklyn! There will be readings, book signings, and cocktails! What's not to love?

Are you in NYC? A writer who has kids? This is an event for you! Free—and in person! #oldschool #literary #NYC

“Thank you. I hope you are insured.” —RoombaCop? #nyc

Traveling

Hello. I am an online presence today. Want a donut? This is not my dog. This is, however, my photo of not-my-dog. #nyc

Strange Horizons - Caribbean issue! strangehorizons.com/issue/30-oct...