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ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social · Jun 25

Employing lyrical prose, @littlemissbleah.bsky.social's Em’s River explores the fall of the Weimar Republic and rise of fascism during Germany’s Third Reich through the lens of personal turmoil and privilege as it explores class, compulsive heterosexuality, and nationalism.

Em's River | ELJ Editions

Vera, Em, and Stefan live intertwined, tangled in damp sheets and interpersonal complexities of life under the oppressive gaze of their government. Employing lyrical prose, Em’s River explores the fal...

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jun 24

Grateful and excited to have eight poems coming out so far this year between Grist, Boudin, Waxing & Waning, The Laurel Review, and Pinch! <3 stay tuned for new stuff!

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jun 9

If someone says they love your work say OMG THAT IS SUCH A RELIEF!! I AM SO GLAD!! If someone wants you to sign your book they purchased, write hearts! exclamation marks! say you love them!! Like what the fuck is this work even for if we aren't authentic and joyful

Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'm exhausted by fake posturing and stoicism and deadpan professionalism in academia and the lit world. If someone invites you to a reading and sells your books and takes you to lunch GUSH AND CRY AND HUG AND THANK THEM!!

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · Mar 23

“Immediately captures readers’ attention with a unique voice that encapsulates what it is to feel at home in a place like the South.”

@littlemissbleah.bsky.social reviews @rayehendrix.bsky.social’s What Good is Heaven (Texas Review Press).

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Feb 27

omg thank you, my love!!

Kimberly Wolf @kimberlywolf.bsky.social · Feb 25

@littlemissbleah.bsky.social blowing me away with this poem

A poem by Bleah Patterson:

A poem in which I am one of the worms wriggling around my grandmother's dead body

she's still warm, you wouldn't believe it but of course
she's
still warm, that spot on her stomach, where I at fifteen
still
nestled between
her lush arms holding the
the bouquet of me
kissing the crown of my
sweat damp head
still I was surprised crawled through her once
jolly belly, wriggled through the button of it up into her booming diaphragm stunned by the warmth of her all of the years
since I told a room full of her favorite
and
least favorite people and said of her field of needy cows, of women
yes, I still dream of her imagined as literal cows, who need her, because god said so
and I wonder
if it's
my job to feed them now, the cows, remembering
that I don't even like
cows and as I swing
on the monkey bars of her ribcage back and forth back and forth still wonder if she'd be mad that I'm dancing on her grave
or just glad
that after
all of these years
she's still
feeding me.

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Feb 24

So excited to have SIX poems coming out this spring/early summer that I'm so excited to share with you!!!

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Feb 20

I got an acceptance from my favorite phd and I just like wanna tell everyone but also no one because I'm so scared that I dreamt it? what?

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Feb 13

This anthology is my baby! And I am so thrilled to have been able to work with all of the amazing contributors in this PACKED collection. Please stay tuned, I can't wait to get this book into all of your hands.

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Feb 5

you are your favorite poet's favorite poet if your favorite poet is me.

Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jan 23

My novella that came out last summer! Please consider buying a copy and reviewing it :) www.amazon.com/Ems-River-Bl...

Em's River

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jan 23

thesis update almost two weeks into the semester: 55k words. 187 pages. And I am tapped out with easily 20k to go. Could definitely use some advice for working through blocks and self-doubt.

Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jan 7

Thesis writing day 28 with six days before my deadline! Today I wrote 9 pages. We're at 175 pages and 48,742 words. I am expecting 75-100 more pages, maybe 30-40k more words. Obviously I have to... grind my heart out.

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jan 6

A new poem out with @poetrysouth.bsky.social

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jan 6

Thesis update day 27: After writing 38 pages in one sitting, I needed a break. Didn't write for the whole weekend. Am attempting this morning and successfully finished a scene. at 162 pages, 45,771 words.

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Jan 2

Thesis writing update day 24: 133 pages, 38,166 words.

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Dec 31

Thesis writing update day 22: 30,624 words, 104 pages. Wrote completely out of order today, filling in some chapters that are further down the line. But it's starting to come together.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Dec 31

Happy New Year! Everyone accomplished everything again this year except for you who accomplished nothing and now we have to get through the long dark winter. It's fine. Just write through it

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Dec 31

This story got published last summer but I'm trying to find my footing in fiction again so I thought I'd share <3 www.tracefossilsreview.org/water-is-thi...

Water is Thicker than Blood, Bleah Patterson — Trace Fossils Review

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Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Dec 30

Thesis update day 21, 26,527 words and 89 pages. Wrote four pages today.

Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Dec 30

new years resolutions: take a break from writing if needed, without shame. read things that comfort me as often as challenge me. don't cut length off my hair/learn to be comfortable with things not constantly changing/embrace stability. make cooking a creative outlet again.

Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Dec 30

Thesis writing day 20ish... absolutely stalled. Have written nothing. Tomorrow the grind starts again. We have two weeks to churn this thing out and 2/3 of a book to write still.

Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Dec 26

Ocean Vuong dropping a new novel next summer is exactly the news I needed to push me through to the new year. I'm so excited.

Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social · Dec 23

Didn't write for a couple of days. Thesis writing update day 13(ish, I think): Currently working through a really hard scene I've been avoiding rewriting. 85 pages. 25,126 words.

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