Picking winners for our #GIVEAWAY TONIGHT so you still have time to comment with your favorite (or most hated, why not!) required reading. BONUS: If you win, I'll read the book/essay/poem you commented with. As someone who hated required reading... this raises the stakes.

Was hoping someone would pick this so I can call them out in mine! "Desmond Child, who produced the album, got the idea for the title after hearing the Bush song "Glycerine". Child misheard the title as "Kiss the Rain". When he was told the correct title, he decided to use "Kiss the Rain"..."

To enter: reply with your favorite assigned reading. Was it a novel, poem, essay? Two winners will be randomly selected around July 30. One winner will get a prize package from me & one will get a prize package from @allisonwrites.bsky.social cc: @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

Giveaway alert! 2 autographed copies of GREEN LIGHT + postcard, sticker, & a Gatsby page to create found poetry. Reply with your favorite assigned reading. Multiple entries allowed on different platforms (FB, IG, Twitter, BlueSky). Two winners will be randomly selected 7/30

Pulling out my middle school diaries for this one

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😍 OBSESSED with this photo!!! @thesisterjanet.bsky.social

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“The idea of an American Dream feels warped to me”: An Interview with Janet Dale and Allison Renner Jay Gatsby thinks he has achieved it all by reinventing himself and becoming rich, but he is lonely, still yearning for the past, and after he is murdered, no one wants to attend his funeral.

If you missed my story at @paragraphplanet.bsky.social, you can now read it from the archives! Click my name and read "Last Time" paragraphplanet.com/authors_r_z....

“Last Time” by Allison Renner @AllisonWrites.bsky.social is today’s 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet www.paragraphplanet.com

HOW IS THERE NOT A SECOND SEASON???? 😭 #ZWatch

No one has ever measured (not even poets) how much the heart can hold #ZWatch

Love the tow truck reveal! #ZWatch

Zelda and F Scott turned into Bonnie and Clyde at that motel #ZWatch

Yankee Bed Bunny #ZWatch

None of it means anything! #ZWatch

Drive until the wheels fall off! #ZWatch

Uh oh... #ZWatch

"Need me to write this up in my diary for ya?" 🔥 #ZWatch

In law shot that emptied the bottle #ZWatch

Pretty sure there were two off-camera in law shots #ZWatch

IN LAW SHOT... ongoing shot... Gulp? #ZWatch

Zelda's mom after a few drinks is all of us #ZWatch

Wow, Tana REALLY does it all! So handy with the little towel to cover a bare booty #ZWatch

Another shot! #ZWatch

In-laws? Take a shot, F Scott #ZWatch

"Where's your novel?" Another relatable moment #ZWatch

F Scott not having any new writing to show Zelda despite spending all of his time "writing" is the most relatable thing #ZWatch

F Scott telling off the professors 🫢 "We are absolutely not sorry!" #ZWatch

Great NPR article from 2017: www.npr.org/2017/03/26/5... #ZWatch

Zelda and Scott are the influencers of the 1920s via this montage #ZWatch

Getting ready for night two of #ZWatch!

Please read MAGIC CAN'T SAVE US by Josh Denslow because you will laugh (& we all need laughter right now) and then we can talk about it. Check out my review, then get a copy: www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm...

What a great halfway point! Can't wait to watch the rest tomorrow at 7pm Central #ZWatch

Love the critic takedown #ZWatch

"You can't take my drunken word for it" #ZWatch

"You used my words...?" #ZWatch

WE SEE YOU BUCKY! WE'RE GONNA TELL YOUR MAMA! #ZWatch

"You can find something to love about every man if you put your mind to it." "I don't wanna put my mind to it!" #ZWatch

The first look! PERFECT end to the first episode! #ZWatch

"That's Zelda Sayre, and she's no saint, Goldilocks" 🤣 #ZWatch

"Bless your heart for your concern" - so Southern! #ZWatch

"Mama says conflict develops the character." #ZWatch

Just water for me, but she sure loved whatever was in that flask! Whatchu drinkin? #ZWatch

In love with Zelda from the first scene. And Christina Ricci #ZWatch

Almost time! #ZWatch

Prewatch Party Facts: Zelda Sayre was born on July 24, 1900, in Montgomery, Alabama. She was the youngest of AL Supreme Court Justice Anthony Dickson Sayre & Minnie Buckner Machen Sayre. #ZWatch

We had SO much fun with our Bluesky watch party of the 2000 A&E Gatsby w/ Paul Rudd that we're doing it again! Tonight and tomorrow, @thesisterjanet.bsky.social and I are watching Z: The Beginning of Everything. Tonight: Episodes 1-5 @ 7pm CST!