Olga Katsovskiy
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Writer/Editor/Educator EIC:
@jmwwjournal.bsky.social
Website: theweightofaletter.com
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is awesome 😎
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5 days ago
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Fantastic braided essay on the writing life and the art of flash fiction by
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✨
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8 days ago
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15 days ago
"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going." ~ Tennessee Williams
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This piece has all the feels.
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15 days ago
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Get to know
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16 days ago
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Join me on Zoom this weekend if you'd like to get back in journaling or build on your practice:
www.writersinprogress.com/writing-work...
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Journaling Like a Writer, with Olga Katsovskiy — Writers in Progress
In this half-day session, writers will discover how keeping a commonplace book can elevate their writing practice.
https://www.writersinprogress.com/writing-workshops/p/journaling-like-a-writer-olga-katsovskiy
about 1 month ago
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Loved this!
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about 1 month ago
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"Being a writer is not just a side thing. It is who you are — so own it." ✨
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WRITING LIFE: Balancing Passions as an Author and College By McKenna Graf | Hippocampus Magazine
"How could a 21-year-old publish two books? Surely that’s not enough time to know what you’re doing." -- McKenna Graf
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/writing-life-balancing-passions-as-an-author-and-college-by-mckenna-graf/
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"You never jump first. You need to see someone survive." Wow, a great story.
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River Shoes — Ghost Parachute
We come to the bend in the river that I promised would look like an alien landscape and you say it looks more like the bones of a massive dinosaur, being slowly revealed by the eroding earth. Somethin...
https://ghostparachute.com/issue/october-2025-issue/river-shoes/
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"People often mistake my humor for denial. They think I’m not feeling anything, when really, I’m feeling too much, just not where anyone can see it."
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Incredible essay 💔
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about 1 month ago
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Lots of food for thought in Brad David Waters' craft essay. Highly recommend you check it out and send us your creations! 🌊
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about 1 month ago
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Congrats to our '26 nominees and thank you everyone for your continued submissions throughout the year–you make our journal great!
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about 2 months ago
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We are still accepting applications through September 30th.
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about 2 months ago
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Looking for a fiction editor to lead a team.
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2 months ago
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Looking for folks passionate about reading creative nonfiction and working with a volunteer team.
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2 months ago
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"Writing isn't therapy. Therapy is therapy. And I would encourage writers to do the work of taking care of yourself off the page." ~ Leah Johnson
3 months ago
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"I need to decide what leaving means losing" 💛 beautiful piece
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3 months ago
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So excited my essay found a home with Reckon. I don't like trigger warnings and here's why if you'd like to read it:
reckonreview.com/content-warn...
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3 months ago
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Psssst...
www.unleashlit.com/p/psssst-are...
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"Psssst, Are You Listening?" by Olga Katsovskiy
Prose
https://www.unleashlit.com/p/psssst-are-you-listening
3 months ago
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Joseph Fasano
3 months ago
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
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4 months ago
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams." ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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5 months ago
“I think the hardest part about writing is writing." ~ Nora Ephron
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Beautiful flash essay by
@wendyfontaine.bsky.social
and so timely with back to school around the corner.
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3 months ago
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Join me for the last Community Writing Workshop this summer, August 3rd 9:30-12:30pm Eastern:
www.writersinprogress.com/writing-work...
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Community Writing Workshops — Writers in Progress
Join us for a morning of writing among peers! Our Community Writing Workshops run like all of our generative writing workshops do, with a brief warmup, inspiring prompts, and plenty of time to write a...
https://www.writersinprogress.com/writing-workshops/p/community-writing-workshops?rq=community%20writing
4 months ago
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audrey em ✨
4 months ago
loved this.
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JMWW Journal
4 months ago
We are looking for a few good creative nonfiction editors!
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/c...
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Creative Nonfiction Editors Wanted!
We’re growing again, and we’d like to add another associate creative nonfiction editor!
https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/creative-nonfiction-editors-wanted/
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"I learned more about myself writing [memoir] than I had learned from fiction, than I had learned from my entire life. And life presents us with moments when our world changes, and we need to keep track of what is happening, of who or what we are becoming." ~ Abigail Thomas 💛
4 months ago
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The worst thing about being a writer
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The worst thing about being a writer
I can’t write anymore. What I really mean is I don’t want to write because it hurts. I rather hurt in private. Write about it afterwards, after I’ve lived through the hurting part…
https://theweightofaletter.com/2025/05/30/the-worst-thing-about-being-a-writer/
6 months ago
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I am so thankful to have found my community. Thank you to Dinty and the Brevity team for publishing my reflection on AWP.
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8 months ago
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JMWW Journal
9 months ago
We are thrilled to receive two additional Pushcart nominations for jmww courtesy of the Pushcart Prize Editorial Committee!
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/a...
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Additional Pushcart Nominations!
We are thrilled to receive two additional Pushcart nominations for jmww courtesy of the Pushcart Prize Editorial Committee
https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/additional-pushcart-nominations/
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National essay day 📖
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9 months ago
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JMWW Journal
9 months ago
"Writing collaboratively is much faster than writing solo." Today at jmww, Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross talk to Curtis Smith their collaborative collection, Don’t Take This the Wrong Way.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/c...
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Come Together: An Interview with Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross by Curtis Smith
Writing collaboratively is much faster than writing solo.
https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/come-together-an-interview-with-kim-magowan-and-michelle-ross-by-curtis-smith/
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Still so honored and pleased my essay was nominated last year in Pithead Chapel. It was surreal seeing my name alongside
@amorak.bsky.social
, whose Bill Murray essay I have shown to students in my nonfiction workshop in the past.
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9 months ago
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Lindz McLeod - THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is out now!
9 months ago
This needs to have more eyes on it, it's the funniest thing I've read all week 🤣
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“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
9 months ago
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JMWW Journal
10 months ago
"I look for a strong voice more than anything else. If a narrator is confident and curious, I will follow them anywhere." Behind the Scenes, featuring a jmww editorial team member. This week, get to know Sr. CNF Editor Juliet Way-Henthorne.
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/g...
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Get to Know: Juliet Way-Henthorne, Senior Creative Nonfiction Editor
Behind the Scenes, featuring a jmww editorial team member. This week, get to know Sr. CNF Editor Juliet Way-Henthorne.
https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/get-to-know-juliet-way-henthorne-senior-creative-nonfiction-editor/
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JMWW Journal
10 months ago
We’re pleased to welcome our newest Associate Flash Fiction Editors, Jacqueline Parker and Lisa Thornton!
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/w...
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Welcome Jacqueline Parker and Lisa Thornton to our Flash Fiction Team!
We’re pleased to welcome our newest Associate Flash Fiction Editors, Jacqueline Parker and Lisa Thornton!
https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/welcome-jacqueline-parker-and-lisa-thornton-to-our-flash-fiction-team/
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10 months ago
Description in memoir and fiction is not just facts and details. Description is plot and theme. And if done well — each descriptive element contains the story itself.
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Writers! Add More Horns!!!
The Power of Context, Movement, and Desire in Literary Description By Dinty W. Moore In writing workshops, our fellow writers will inevitably tell us to “Add more detail!” Okay, but isn’t that a …
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/add-more-horns/
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Loved this flash essay!
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11 months ago
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"what is done in love is done well." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
12 months ago
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Some thoughts on publishing: Creative nonfiction comes from an incredibly vulnerable place and publishing an essay can be very exposing. Make sure the magazines where you send your work align with your moral compass. Read the the rest:
wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/publishing...
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Publishing 101: The How & Why of Nonfiction in the World of Literary Magazines
A guest post from Olga Katsovskiy
https://wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/publishing-101-the-how-and-why-of
12 months ago
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12 months ago
"Essayists are perpetually having an internal conversation among the three selves: writer, narrator, editor. The hardest part is learning how to lean into the narrator more than the writer, and to avoid eye contact with the editor." ~ Olga Katsovskiy
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The Nonfiction Trio: Writer/Narrator/Editor
By Olga Katsovskiy I recently walked through a beautiful Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. One of the galleries featured a recreation of her art studio: jars of pain…
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/the-nonfiction-trio/
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Short Reads
12 months ago
And here's Olga's (very short) Short Reads essay where she remembers the things left behind in search of a new beginning.
www.short-reads.org/i-have-only-...
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I Have Only Seen Papa Cry Once
by Olga Katsovskiy | The things we leave behind.
https://www.short-reads.org/i-have-only-seen-papa-cry-once/
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