Thoughts on the beauty of the book, a great new indie, and the founding mothers of fairy tales, @janeharrington.bsky.social's, beautiful new book. #johnupdike @50watts.bsky.social #bookbeauty #illustratedbooks thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-beauty...

Encountering the dream-sleep of the exquisitely haunting I Could Read the Sky. #writingcommunity #remarkablebooks #johnberger #ICouldReadtheSky thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/not-sleepi...

Tomorrow: Best Beginnings with CraftTalk. #writingcommunity #writinglife #writingworkshop #beginnings

What is an obsession, and how does it fuel our literary lives? An epic conversation with @kelceyervick.bsky.social, whose invitation to write letters to dead authors and artists is quickly becoming a phenomenon on Substack. #letters #writingcommunity thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/obsessions...

#Philadelphia #Philadelphiastories #SchuylkillRiver @tursulowepress.bsky.social @templeunivpress.bsky.social #novel #memoir #Philadelphiaphotography

On making more with less, as we do. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/street-sce...

If you don't understand the poem, do you understand the poem? That's the question I approach in today's Substack, while also announcing an offer of art to paid annual subscribers. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/if-you-don... #readingpoetry #Writingpoetry #poems #monotype #paperandthread

What do we mean when we say "beautifully written?" I explore the question and return with a manifesto of one. #writingcommunity #bookreviews #beautifullywritten thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/beautifull...

@bethkephart.bsky.social meditates on the art of constructing fiction from facts.

What if the world was made up of fond, found friends at a coffee shop? I wonder and I wish that, here. #coffeeshop #foundfriends #goodneighbors #worldpeace #GryphonCafe #artshow thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-world-...

What does a story's beginning need to do? Inspiring words from @bethkephart.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b... #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writinglife #authorlife #creativewriting #skywriters

But what is a beginning, and how does one write one? In an upcoming CraftTalk I'll share a baker's dozen of beginnings and associated prompts This essay featuring the words of the great Rosellen Brown introduces the program. #writinglife #beginnings brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

A one-woman show at the Gryphon Cafe in Wayne, PA. #originalart #monotypes #collage #paperandthread #artshow

What, precisely, is a prose poem? A question I pursue on today's Substack. #writingcommunity #prosepoem #writinglife thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/what-in-th...

A prose poem of morning, a juxtaposition of sound, 40 seconds of remembering Anapra. #Juarez #sound #morning #writingcommunity #prosepoem thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/still-morn...

An end-of-season prose poem, in which the hawk and I deliver dawn. #writingcommunity #prosepoem #August #hawk #fox thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/morning-de...

An end-of-season prose poem, in which the hawk and I deliver dawn. #writingcommunity #prosepoem #August #hawk #fox thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/morning-de...

Writing a memoir in fragments? So am I. Here’s @bethkephart.bsky.social to get us off to a good start this morning. #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #creativewriting #womenwriters thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/what-might... #skywriters

In the thwarting days of August, I have turned to books. A sampling in this Substack: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/counting-t...

Reflections on my mother's beauty, and the beauty I have found in words. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/in-the-end...

New in my Etsy shop. Bojagi art, applied to paper, with my handmade prints. A hugely time-consuming and soothing process. www.etsy.com/shop/BINDbyB... #bojagi #originalart #monotypes #papercraft

A poem in art. As we do. #writersasartists #artistsaswriters #artpoem #visualpoem #artwithwords thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/quaver

Micro Stories. New Art. #art #flashfiction #flashstories #microstories #bojagi #collage

Flash memories and Seamus Deane. What we can learn, as #writers about the making of the great classic, Reading in the Dark. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/on-the-fla...

Getting ready for the Gryphon Cafe (Wayne, PA) show, beginning September 7, ending October 4. #artshow #paperart #coffeeshopart #onewomanshow

New in the Etsy shop—a new kind of print—shadows and shades—and a color I mixed out of the most unexpected hues. www.etsy.com/shop/BINDbyB... #monotype #summherhues #originalprints

In an industry rife with disappointment and no's, it's inspiring to turn toward the career and ideals of @kelceyervick.bsky.social. A celebration of her here, today: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-unafra...

The joy of proxy grandmothering when a new picture book arrives. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/on-not-bei...

Our stories don't need a thousand readers. They don't even need a publishing contract. Thoughts on this this morning. #writingcommunity #publishing #whale #picturebook thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-whale-...

Can we explain our art? Must we? Should we be more, or should we be less? Thoughts on the life and doings of an artist. #cyanotypes #artistlife #elementalart thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/turning-to...

I've added a number of original, stitched-into cyanotype prints and collages to my Etsy shop. www.etsy.com/shop/BINDbyB... #cyanotypes #originalart #papercraft #wallart

Sometimes one of your small books shows up among the mighty books, and you are, in the early morning hours, grateful.

On writing through tumult and finding your style. A #writingworkshop as a Substack post. With nods to #VirginiaWoolf, #NickCave, #ChloeDalton, #DarienGee, #LuluMiller, and others. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/be-who-you...

Making new things for the Etsy shop and upcoming artisan/farmers markets shows. #cyanotypes

Reading aloud from a prose poem about a lisping childhood. #prosepoem #lisping #monoprint thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/sorrow

Climate change is real. Paper art collage. The summer of 2025. #climatechange #globalwarming #collage

Working and re-working and the risk of losing meaning. I wrestle with this all the time in my writing. Thanks for this clear-eyed examination, Beth.

On Substack I write primarily about craft and share micro prose poems long in the making. In this post, I combine the two—a behind-the-scenes look at a prose poem in the making. (And a memory of a drive-in theater, of long ago.) #microprose #editing thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/iterative-...

With so many prices rising, I am lowering most prices in my Etsy shop, where I sell #handmadejournals, #booklets, #paperart, and #bookmarks. Here, at www.etsy.com/shop/BINDbyB...

A page from the forthcoming "The Land of Faraway," illustrated by Olga Dugina, written by me, published by Creative Editions. #picturebooks #agelesspicturebooks #OlgaDugina #Creative Editions

On the jewelry we wear and the ways we hope to love and be loved. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/wishing-to...

Kephart Keepers in the making. It's like being a fashion designer, but with paper. #paperart #WinterthurMuseumArtisanFair #KephartKeepers

The exquisitely talented Michael Wheaton of @autofocusbooks has produced an anthology of selected pieces from his beautiful magazine. IF I CAN BE HONEST is out now. I'm so lucky to have a piece within. Congratulations, Michael! @wheaton3000

On the spectacular, uninterrupted power of #MarilynneRobinson and #Housekeeping. A book of certain, sustained grace and beauty. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/what-is-go...

How do we write through this now? What do we learn from the past? How do we turn a lived moment into a polished flash essay through iterative revisions? .https://cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/327475/beth-kephart-transcending-the-tumult-write-right-now-july-27-2025

Perhaps it is time to reinvent time. An illustrated color journal, in which the days, weeks, and months are yours to claim, this one featuring my husband's fantastical illustrations: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH9L2933 #diary #journal #notebook #originalart #fantasticalcreatures

Perhaps it is time to reinvent time. An illustrated color journal, in which the days, weeks, and months are yours to claim, this one featuring my monotype collages: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH9HW2PD #journal #diary #time #sketchbook

So very grateful to Foreword Reviews for these words about the forthcoming picture book, The Land of Faraway #childrensbooks #picturebooks #picturebooksforadults #OlgaDugina

An invitation to join me at the Cleaver Master Class on July 27.https://cleavermagazine.submittable.com/submit/327475/beth-kephart-transcending-the-tumult-write-right-now-july-27-2025 #writingworkshop #writingthroughtumult #virginiaWoolf #NickCave #LuluMiller

"A rare and lovely thing." The extraordinary generosity of Sara Beth West, who looks back over my writing career and reviews TOMORROW WILL BRING SUNDAY'S NEWS here: www.sarabethwest.com/post/on-time... #writinglife #philadelphia #indiepress @tursulowepress.bsky.social