So honored! Thank you @doesithavepockets.bsky.social and congrats to my fellow nominees! #writesky #writing #creativenonfiction 🍾 🎉

So honored! Thank you @doesithavepockets.bsky.social and congrats to my fellow nominees! #writesky #writing #creativenonfiction 🍾 🎉
✨ Need a writing exercise?
Check out Roman Hughes’s River Teeth Revisited essay: “Confronting the Self: Second Person Confession in Timothy J. Hillegonds’s ‘How to Tell the Truth About Recovery’” from RT issue 25.2
#RiverTeeth #CreativeNonfiction #RiverTeethRevisited #WritingExercises
"just because today might be harder or seem more lonely, doesn’t mean tomorrow will be the same thing."
check out my newest substack post!
#substack #writing #hope #mentalhealth #journaling #creativenonfiction #depression
This story (nonfiction piece?) was beautiful, brutally honest, and hit very close to home for me.
"What Is the Point of Literature If It Can't Bring People Back From the Dead" by @debbieurbanski.bsky.social
I revisited Renato Rosaldo's ethnographic work on grief and rage, and surprised myself. This is part of my broader ongoing project to reexamine aspects of modern life through the lens of anthropology. #academicsky #anthropology #creativenonfiction
“Endearing, humorous, and witty “
Peek inside 📒😊🌻
read.amazon.com/sample/B081Q... #Booksky #amreading #memoir #creativenonfiction
Everything She Ever Wrote Me by Tammy Sharp
I picked up my phone. The news today was not good. Annie Dillard had died....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
https://bit.ly/4B5vI4v
Is AI killing creativity? 🤖 Margaret Atwood says: “You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan—we come with it.” What do you think? 📚✍️
#literarymagazine #fiction #poetry #creativenonfiction #writingcommunity #ai
Love leaves memories. Loss changes them. And sometimes reflection helps us understand what remains. 💙 Message From a Blue Jay is a memoir-in-essays about the experiences that shape a life.
Poetry category has reached capacity and is now closed.
Submission window remains OPEN for flash fiction and creative non-fiction through October 24.
Hot and Sour Soup by Lila Feldman
I still remember preparing the soup with my mom. She’d take me up to Poughkeepsie, to an Asian grocery store tucked away behind the Price Chopper Plaza....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
https://bit.ly/4yj8OUW
🪄 And when she feels her own eyelids drooping, Bess leans close to Harry’s photograph, “I’m sorry, my dear, ten years is long enough to wait for any man. Good night. Harry, it is finished,” and extinguishes the red light. 🏮
My story is live today:
a eulogy to a what if that has been dead for a long while. check out my most recent substack piece!
#substack #writing #creativenonfiction #mourning #whatif #melancholy #darkacademia #sad #sadwriting
The landscapes we remember often hold pieces of the people we used to be. 🌿 Message From a Blue Jay explores memory, nature, love, and loss through deeply reflective essays.
#Memoir #NewRelease #Healing #CreativeNonfiction #LiteraryNonfiction #Creative
just finished: The Land and Its People by David Sedaris
💙📚
#booksky #fiction #currentlyreading #librarybook #creativenonfiction
In his brief excerpt of the new book Astonished by Beauty, Thomas Lowe Fleischner says both solitude and sangha have their own power.
https://www.terrain.org/2026/nonfiction/solitude-and-sangha/
#excerpt #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #essay #seaofcortez #beauty #joy #sangha #solitude #community
🛋️ Hello Friends! 🛋️
Lamp Lit has been live one year, let’s look at how we’re doing . . .
🧵1/5
#inktober #drawtober #poetry #prose #fiction #creativenonfiction #art #submissionsopen #lamplitmag
Perambulating the Labyrinth by Sarah Boon
It was January of 2024. I was in a deep bipolar low and struggled just with getting out of the house. But I knew I had to get outdoors....
#Writingcommunity #essay #cnf #creativenonfiction #writers
https://bit.ly/4jMLWcA
A big thank you to all the brave and excellent #writers and #artists who sent work our way for the Hide/Seek issue 🫶 Stay tuned! #flashfiction #microfiction #creativenonfiction #prosepoetry #creativenonfiction #shortfiction
Submissions are open for our winter issue!
We publish work that explores what it means to be human. Check out the link in our bio to read the full guidelines!
#literaryjournal #submissioncall #fiction #creativenonfiction #flashfiction #shortstory #literature #submissions #literarymagazine