Beth Kephart
@bethkephart.bsky.social
Writer, paper artist, teacher, believer in the good that will one day overcome, National Book Award finalist, and a Substacker (The Hush and the Howl). Due in April 2025, Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News, with Tursulowe Press.
What scenes will define us, hold us, remember for us? A post today, musing on those questions. #writingworkshop #memoir #scenebuilding #scenes thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/scenes-are...
Make a Scene
what are your afterwords?
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February 8, 2026 at 1:29 PM
What scenes will define us, hold us, remember for us? A post today, musing on those questions. #writingworkshop #memoir #scenebuilding #scenes thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/scenes-are...
But how do we decide? Or turn a list into a prose poem? Thoughts today, in advance of a #writersworkshop: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/on-deciding
On Deciding
a list, a prayer, a self-reckoning
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February 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
But how do we decide? Or turn a list into a prose poem? Thoughts today, in advance of a #writersworkshop: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/on-deciding
The wonderful magical literary list. And the #poets and #writers who turn them into meaningful stories.. brevity.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/t...
The Literary List and the Art of Transcendence
By Beth Kephart Decades ago, in my first writing workshop, a writer among us in that old stone building on that hilltop in Spoleto responded to nearly every prompt with a list. Lists about love. Li…
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January 28, 2026 at 12:46 PM
The wonderful magical literary list. And the #poets and #writers who turn them into meaningful stories.. brevity.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/t...
But what makes an artist? How do we recognize the artist in each other? #artist #sandwichshops #youngpeoplewisdom thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/you-could-...
You Could Be an Artist
a rare exchange in a sandwich shop about the priorities that guide us
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January 22, 2026 at 1:05 PM
But what makes an artist? How do we recognize the artist in each other? #artist #sandwichshops #youngpeoplewisdom thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/you-could-...
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Artists recognise each other. We know the signs of a person who is devoted to the creative life. Love this piece by @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/you-could-... #writinglife #authorlife #creativity
You Could Be an Artist
a rare exchange in a sandwich shop about the priorities that guide us
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January 22, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Artists recognise each other. We know the signs of a person who is devoted to the creative life. Love this piece by @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/you-could-... #writinglife #authorlife #creativity
Our June memoir workshop series, illustrated by my husband, William Sulit, is now live at Juncture Workshops. junctureworkshops.com/shop-6/#shop
January 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Our June memoir workshop series, illustrated by my husband, William Sulit, is now live at Juncture Workshops. junctureworkshops.com/shop-6/#shop
Coming this June from Juncture Workshops (with the site going live this weekend): three workshops plus one sharing session designed to elevate our understanding of this world and the possibilities of language. Art by my husband, William Sulit. #writingworkshops #memoirworkshops #artandlife
January 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Coming this June from Juncture Workshops (with the site going live this weekend): three workshops plus one sharing session designed to elevate our understanding of this world and the possibilities of language. Art by my husband, William Sulit. #writingworkshops #memoirworkshops #artandlife
Small groups of people really can change the world. Call it the power of small numbers: the unreasonable, improbable, wonderful ability of small groups of outsiders to challenge huge powers precisely because they have strengths that those powers see as weakness.
— Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger
— Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger
January 15, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Small groups of people really can change the world. Call it the power of small numbers: the unreasonable, improbable, wonderful ability of small groups of outsiders to challenge huge powers precisely because they have strengths that those powers see as weakness.
— Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger
— Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger
What do you see in your mind's eye when you look back or when you prepare to tell/write a story? I see mood and atmosphere, which become, for me now, paper and color. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/but-what-d...
But what do we see in our mind's eye?
and what if you were to speak through threads and color?
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January 14, 2026 at 2:59 PM
What do you see in your mind's eye when you look back or when you prepare to tell/write a story? I see mood and atmosphere, which become, for me now, paper and color. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/but-what-d...
On sorrow and in memory. #ReneeNicoleGood thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-day-wa...
The Day was Rain; the Mood was Mourning
legacy must be lasting
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January 11, 2026 at 1:15 PM
On sorrow and in memory. #ReneeNicoleGood thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-day-wa...
The long aftermath of love. A story of grief and honoring. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/ongoing-a-...
Grief as Honor, Not as Penance
love in the aftermath
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January 7, 2026 at 1:15 PM
The long aftermath of love. A story of grief and honoring. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/ongoing-a-...
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On walking your local streets to go far away in your mind, like Virginia Woolf. @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/she-walked... #writinglife #writingcommunity #authorlife
She Walked, and So She Knew
Virginia Woolf on the town, at night; leave where you are, and return (a prompt)
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January 3, 2026 at 8:07 AM
On walking your local streets to go far away in your mind, like Virginia Woolf. @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/she-walked... #writinglife #writingcommunity #authorlife
What do we forget when we write to remember? A conversation with my son. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/varying-de...
Varying Degrees of Whole
a conversation with my son
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December 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
What do we forget when we write to remember? A conversation with my son. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/varying-de...
Remembering a certain song on Christmas Eve — thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/keep-the-m...
#ChristmasEve #oboe #holidaymemories #piano
#ChristmasEve #oboe #holidaymemories #piano
Keep the Memory Whole
on remembering the songs of the season
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December 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Remembering a certain song on Christmas Eve — thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/keep-the-m...
#ChristmasEve #oboe #holidaymemories #piano
#ChristmasEve #oboe #holidaymemories #piano
Our lives in next acts, my appreciation for those who embrace them, on today's Substack: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/living-our...
Living our Next Acts
the hold of art and memory, and notes of gratitude
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December 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Our lives in next acts, my appreciation for those who embrace them, on today's Substack: thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/living-our...
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The sacred union of a reader's mind with a writer's. @bethkephart.bsky.social on Patti Smith thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/this-is-wh... #writingcommunity #writinglife #publishing #creativewriting
This Is What the Writer Craves
Patti Smith and the search for phantom wounds
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December 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The sacred union of a reader's mind with a writer's. @bethkephart.bsky.social on Patti Smith thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/this-is-wh... #writingcommunity #writinglife #publishing #creativewriting
Thoughts on @pattismithh.bsky.social and her new wondrous memoir, Bread of Angels. As well as a memory about a certain red coat that drew me toward her one evening following a performance. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
This Is What the Writer Craves
Patti Smith and the search for phantom wounds
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December 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thoughts on @pattismithh.bsky.social and her new wondrous memoir, Bread of Angels. As well as a memory about a certain red coat that drew me toward her one evening following a performance. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
This weekend, our final craft show of the year, at the Wayne Art Center, in Wayne, PA. Bill's clay, my paper things, and so much more. wayneart.org/events/1983/...
CraftForms 2025 Holiday Shopping Weekend — Calendar of Events — Wayne Art Center
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December 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This weekend, our final craft show of the year, at the Wayne Art Center, in Wayne, PA. Bill's clay, my paper things, and so much more. wayneart.org/events/1983/...
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We are over the moon that @bethkephart.bsky.social 's novel Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News has won a silver medal from the North American Book Awards.
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We are over the moon that @bethkephart.bsky.social 's novel Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News has won a silver medal from the North American Book Awards.
Hoping to remember my parents, long gone, the light shifts. At Valley Forge Memorial Park. Along the Grand Parade. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/on-leaving...
Upon leaving the graveyard, the light shifts
and the son knows
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December 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hoping to remember my parents, long gone, the light shifts. At Valley Forge Memorial Park. Along the Grand Parade. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/on-leaving...
Gratitude for the things that are and ... also ... for the things that might have happened, but didn't. On the sparkler that did not become the fire.https://thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-fire-that-was-not
December 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Gratitude for the things that are and ... also ... for the things that might have happened, but didn't. On the sparkler that did not become the fire.https://thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-fire-that-was-not
Thoughts on this Thanksgiving day — the sums and the subtractions of family. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/is-remembr... #Thanksgiving
Is Remembrance a Subtraction or a Sum?
Brief Thanksgiving thoughts, and some news about a new project and a remarkable prize
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November 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Thoughts on this Thanksgiving day — the sums and the subtractions of family. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/is-remembr... #Thanksgiving
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Subtractions, shufflings, new iterations, the great mystery of a family place moving out of your orbit. This post has the puzzle of passing years. Thank you, @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/is-remembr... #thanksgiving #creativewriting #writinglife
Is Remembrance a Subtraction or a Sum?
Brief Thanksgiving thoughts, and some news about a new project and a remarkable prize
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November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Subtractions, shufflings, new iterations, the great mystery of a family place moving out of your orbit. This post has the puzzle of passing years. Thank you, @bethkephart.bsky.social thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/is-remembr... #thanksgiving #creativewriting #writinglife
What to do with my gratitude? Thank you, The Porch, for honoring my new project, Conversations with Women in Blue, with your 2025 Creative Nonfiction prize. Thank you, John T. Edge, judge, for your deeply thoughtful words. www.porchtn.org/happening/po...
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What to do with my gratitude? Thank you, The Porch, for honoring my new project, Conversations with Women in Blue, with your 2025 Creative Nonfiction prize. Thank you, John T. Edge, judge, for your deeply thoughtful words. www.porchtn.org/happening/po...