Went to #scbwimetrony ‘s first in-person event since the pandemic! @betsycornwell.bsky.social is a fantastic teacher and gave us so fun ways to get more deeply into our characters. #TBR alert - Betsy has a #memoir out now called Ring of Salt. www.betsycornwell.com/ringofsalt @lisaanchin.bsky.social

This October Geraldine Walsh guides to through the art of Self-Editing, Mark Hennigan teaches the tools of structure, Betsy Cornwell tends to your first draft & Nandi Jola inspires new voices, not only to literature, but also to Ireland. Explore our courses here irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

After fleeing an abusive marriage with her child, Betsy Cornwell transformed a historic knitting factory on the rugged coast of Ireland into a residency for writer-mothers like herself. @simonandschuster.bsky.social

NYC folks--Want to write a children's book with characters that leap off the page? Join this workshop at 92Y on Saturday, 10/11 Taught by NYT bestselling YA author Betsy Cornwell and multi-award-winning picture book author-illustrator Lisa Anchin www.scbwi.org/events/scbwi...

Happy happy publication day to @betsycornwell.bsky.social on "Ring of Salt"! Just got the email that my copy is in! Worcester and central Mass, come to hear Betsy talk about her amazing new book at Tidepool Bookstore on October 8 at 6 PM! (still can't believe she's coming to Massachusetts!!)

I have been full of exhausting anxiety about my trip to the US but today it occurred to me that it’s going to be worth it because I can eat a corn dog

Preordering books is both free and an absolute good. Not free in terms of money, probably — economists are divided on that point. But if you can do it, you should.

got this interesting 1970s children’s book of Halloween symbols and it whips so much ass

5. Make food for friends and not just yourself. It will make the experience more joyful and will push you to try to perfect your recipe and processes 6. Make what you like, not what you think you should like.

Pause a while, and read... • Elizabeth Jennings •

Just saw a post of a tshirt that read "A coward friend is as good as an enemy" and I need y'all to marintate in that. Maybe write it on your bathroom mirror. At minimum admit if you're the coward in your connections.

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

A big OGOM thank you to @betsycornwell.bsky.social for her insight into the Selkie myth and how it can be adapted into fiction and memoir #SeaChanges. A beautiful and memorable reading for everyone attending the online day. So glad you could stay for days 2 & 3 Betsy!

If I found my child dead by suicide and this Chat GPT response on his computer, Sam Altman would have to worry about a lot more than a lawsuit.

"dark academia" do you mean middle school

I just read Lolly Willowes and fell totally in love.

"That the universal doctrine of the inferiority of woman has ever caused her to distrust her own powers, and paralyzed her energies, and placed her in that degraded position from which the most strenuous and unremitting effort can alone redeem her." --19th c. Suffs calling out imposter syndrome

Preorders are pretty much the best thing you can do for an author, and I am grateful for every one. waterstones.com/campaign/jul...

Be gentle. They haven't grown up facing the the constant criticism, failure and persistent mental recovery involved in actually making an effort to develop artistic skills over a lifetime, so the precious flowers don't have the thick skin that naturally comes with the skills they've bypassed.

The Brazilian government should penalize the entire Baptist church, because the church itself condones this, and going after individual preachers won't stop the problem.

😆 Isabella Rossellini www.watermillcenter.org

he is a pivotal archvillain in every Maligned Women of the Nineties narrative the misogyny he normalized poisoned entire generations. he made Monica Lewinsky, Anita Hill, the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit, Lorena Bobbitt, Tonya Harding, and so many more into punchlines they never shook off

nobody is scarier than a longtime reply guy who’s had you up on a pedestal after you fail a secret purity test he was running in his mind

There are so many things to love about Brigadoon.

Well done to @betsycornwell.bsky.social talking on Galway Bay FM this morning about @copegalway.bsky.social & her experience with the amazing work they do helping women affected by domestic abuse. Maith thú, Betsy!

Edgy writers: when I portray [historical period] as being full of [awful shit] I’m just being honest. History: in the 6th century the Roman Empire went to war against a whale.

My friend Mary McGraw came to the knitting factory to take some photos for me. Teapot makes me look a little like Dr. Evil but I love him for it.

Anyone who wants one of these should be forced to live next to an ai data center

Pastries and delicacies.

I got some quality book mail from @avidreaderpress.bsky.social — my car is very sandy but please read that as a badge of living near the ocean and not personal slovenliness (it’s both). I can’t get over the company I’m in with Ring of Salt.

Live your life so you do not have to fear being on the Jumbotron

Two Native American nations have gifted a handwoven rug to the people of Ireland to recognise the "kindness" shown to them during the Covid-19 pandemic

The witch walks for practicalities – field edge and hedge are pharmacy, a calendar telling the slow turn of the year in what may be seen and plucked. The witch walks for magic – treading paths as ritual conversation with the land. There are no dull navigations. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

"Teacher departures are fundamentally reshaping how kids learn, they say. As educators relocate across state lines or even abroad to find professional environments free from political persecution, it’s the students who suffer the most." newrepublic.com/article/1967...

"Lady Peel and I are here quite alone—in the loveliest weather—feasting on solitude and repose, and I have every disposition to forgive my enemies for having conferred on me the blessing of the loss of power." Sir Robert Peel

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

Morning. 🖼️ Vanessa Cooper

Moon dreaming

You have to build heaven on earth with your own two hands. And as long as you're up you can refill my wine glass.

He sold vaccine cards and injected kids with saline so they thought they were vaccinated. There are no rules anymore

Babbling in sign language to her deaf grandparents: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

Rose O’Neill, creator of the Kewpies, was born on June 25, 1874. Her Kewpies made her, for a time, the highest-paid female illustrator in the US, and the Kewpies were the country’s biggest cartoon characters until Mickey Mouse.

Second pass pages, or the time when you accept the book has mistakes and you are too tired to change them

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