ICYMI, @bookriot.bsky.social READ OR DEAD podcast is launching a book club & FIEND is going to be its inaugural read! Thank you @kdwinchester.bsky.social & @kt-librarylady.bsky.social Lmk if there's anything I can do to help!

🎧 5 Audiobooks for #DisabilityPride Month from @kdwinchester.bsky.social #AudiobooksAreReading

Dylan adores his library. 📚

Loved doing this “Day in the Life” post for Books Forward. ✨ booksforward.com/a-day-in-the...

From South Arts: that they terminated ArtsHERE, one of the most substantial nonmatching grants I've ever seen. Millions of dollars stripped from orgs who were already depending on it. Call your reps & tell them to restore the (broad bipartisan!) commitment to funding the NEA in next year’s budget.

The latest from Winchester Ave: open.substack.com/pub/kendrawi...

NEW EPISODE! In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Raye Hendrix. Have a listen wherever you get your podcasts! www.readappalachia.com/blog/ep-38-p...

Love hosting poetry corner. Poets, in general, def deserve more love.

My dad and I are very similar in a lot of ways, but we struggle to find common interests to talk about. So here is an ongoing list of random topics I’ve brought up and their success rate.

The closest I could get to having them pose together. But I’ll take it.

Happy pub day to TO BELONG HERE edited by Rae Garringer ✨

If you'd rather subscribe to the blog on the main website, you can subscribe to the RSS feed here: www.readappalachia.com/blog?format=...

Some of you have asked for a newsletter to receive updates—so here we are! readappalachia.substack.com

I finally took down my Christmas decorations. Please clap.

For @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE. electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...

Baby girl has been sick for days, but she finally seems to be on the mend. ❤️‍🩹

Back home. Today I returned to my favorite table at my local cafe. ☕️ I’m so behind on all of my journaling. 😅

An update from the chaos that is my life ATM 😅 open.substack.com/pub/kendrawi...

Weekend Reading 📖

Happy Saturday!

The states proposing anti-book ban legislation so far in 2025. If you live in any of them, write and/or call in support. bookriot.com/anti-book-ba...

Poll: is a bath mat a type of towel OR a type of rug?

Happy Tuesday! Next up on my reading list, Charlotte Wood’s STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL. 🤓

This is such a well crafted verse novel. It uses a football image system so powerfully. And it's timely, too. Set during the first Trump administration's Muslim ban.

I recently published this infographic on #MG Verse Novels. Below the infographic I have a list of every single Middle Grade novel-in-verse I have been able to find, the earliest from 1990, along with the wordcounts of all I could locate. I'm always looking to add to the list! #KidLit #Writing #poet

painting the walls all one color kilz integrity bleeds through #Haiku #HaikuSaturday #poetry Photo from January 30, 2025 NYT

As someone with a high risk of breast cancer, I’m always reminding folks to get their yearly mammograms. And if you are also at high risk, see if your hospital has a cancer prevention program. Mine does, and I had my first appointment today. ✨

New stationary. 🐾

It’s an all hands on deck sort of day. ☔️

Happy Monday ☕️

Today’s newsletter is all about the everyday impact of memory loss. open.substack.com/pub/kendrawi...

Bath Time Disapproval

my best girl 🖤

Today’s pages. Tea latte today. ☕️

My newsletter is about living with disability. I have chronic daily headaches and migraines that make it difficult to write and almost impossible to read text. So I’m working on a migraine Q&A post. What questions do you have about living/working with migraines/chronic illness?

I have the best barista. She wanted to try a berries and cream latte, and I was like, go for it! Working on daily pages and planning today. 🖊️

Time for Weekend Pages 📓

Over the course of the last six months, I’ve been working on being able to write again. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes at what that looks like. open.substack.com/pub/kendrawi...

One of my most anticipated cookbooks finally arrived. ✨

In my latest post, I share all about the new anthology I’m in, which comes out in April. I also share what I’ve been working on lately. ✨ open.substack.com/pub/kendrawi...

How can I take down the tree when he loves it so much?

Brought them all today. 📓 ☕️

Trying for my daily pages, but it’s a slog. 😵‍💫

Timeline Cleanse: Baby Gwen figures out how to climb stairs for the first time. Dylan has known no peace ever since. 😅😂

My favorite planner and how it helps me with memory loss ✨ open.substack.com/pub/kendrawi...

Starting Monday out right with my daily pages. I’m a huge fan of both the Hobonichi Techo Cousin and the original A6. The cousin case is from their 2025 lineup and the A6 is one I hunted down on eBay (not sure what year it is from). Pencil case was made by a friend. ☺️

Finished my first nonfiction book of the year. ✨ [ID: a photo of More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for “Enough” by Emma Specter]

Gwenllian loves the snow. ❄️ [ID: a photo of Gwen, a black and white Cardigan Welsh Corgi, standing in the snow.]

Here are my 2024 favorites ✨ kendrawinchester.substack.com/p/a-few-of-m...

Starting the week off right. Any other #HobonichiTecho fans out there?