Bristol Vaudrin (she/her)
@bristolvaudrin.bsky.social
#writer #reader #buffalowingeater
From #AK now in #PDX #litfic
2025: AFTERWARD (flawed person, messy life, dark humor), Tortoise Books
2027: Man meets Alaska
From #AK now in #PDX #litfic
2025: AFTERWARD (flawed person, messy life, dark humor), Tortoise Books
2027: Man meets Alaska
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More press for The Weight of Snow and Regret, my novel about the closing of the last poor farm in Vermont in 1968. #litfic www.theconcordinsider.com/2025/11/25/w...
New book by Liz Gauffreau explores Vermont's poor farm - The Concord Insider
Discover 'The Weight of Snow and Regret' by Elizabeth Gauffreau, a poignant novel about the closure of Vermont's last poor farm in 1968.
www.theconcordinsider.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
More press for The Weight of Snow and Regret, my novel about the closing of the last poor farm in Vermont in 1968. #litfic www.theconcordinsider.com/2025/11/25/w...
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✍️ The submission window is OPEN at ELA Literary Magazine ✒️📚
Check out our website for details: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509
We can't wait to see what you come up with! ❤️🔥❤️🌶️
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #ShortStory #Writer #Romance #litfic #SubmissionsOpen #litmag
Check out our website for details: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509
We can't wait to see what you come up with! ❤️🔥❤️🌶️
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #ShortStory #Writer #Romance #litfic #SubmissionsOpen #litmag
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
✍️ The submission window is OPEN at ELA Literary Magazine ✒️📚
Check out our website for details: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509
We can't wait to see what you come up with! ❤️🔥❤️🌶️
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #ShortStory #Writer #Romance #litfic #SubmissionsOpen #litmag
Check out our website for details: ela-literary-magazine.squarespace.com/729158575509
We can't wait to see what you come up with! ❤️🔥❤️🌶️
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #ShortStory #Writer #Romance #litfic #SubmissionsOpen #litmag
November 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Have you read this? It's pretty amazing... what did you think?
#litfic #Alaska #Arctic #SethKantner #OrdinaryWolves
#litfic #Alaska #Arctic #SethKantner #OrdinaryWolves
Ordinary Wolves
In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents …
www.goodreads.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Have you read this? It's pretty amazing... what did you think?
#litfic #Alaska #Arctic #SethKantner #OrdinaryWolves
#litfic #Alaska #Arctic #SethKantner #OrdinaryWolves
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Check out our Literary Fiction Panel at Books on the Banks at 1:30 pm on Sat. Nov. 15 in Room 1SB. Join @katherinehowe.bsky.social Lynne Hugo, Esinam Bediako, me, & our moderator Isa Fernandez. It’s sure to be a lively talk!
#bbtbcincy #booksbythebanks #bookfestival #literaryfiction
#bbtbcincy #booksbythebanks #bookfestival #literaryfiction
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Check out our Literary Fiction Panel at Books on the Banks at 1:30 pm on Sat. Nov. 15 in Room 1SB. Join @katherinehowe.bsky.social Lynne Hugo, Esinam Bediako, me, & our moderator Isa Fernandez. It’s sure to be a lively talk!
#bbtbcincy #booksbythebanks #bookfestival #literaryfiction
#bbtbcincy #booksbythebanks #bookfestival #literaryfiction
"It's funny, ferocious, and full of gravel. The story ends with a truthful reveal that I don't find often in writing today."
- review of AFTERWARD
Thank you!
#litfic
- review of AFTERWARD
Thank you!
#litfic
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"It's funny, ferocious, and full of gravel. The story ends with a truthful reveal that I don't find often in writing today."
- review of AFTERWARD
Thank you!
#litfic
- review of AFTERWARD
Thank you!
#litfic
October 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
Someone I followed about a month ago, who has posted many times since then, just messaged me to ask why I unfollowed them.
I was kind of surprised they even noticed, but the truth is I did it because they didn't follow me back. That's fine, no sweat, but I'm here for something more mutual.
✌️
I was kind of surprised they even noticed, but the truth is I did it because they didn't follow me back. That's fine, no sweat, but I'm here for something more mutual.
✌️
October 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Someone I followed about a month ago, who has posted many times since then, just messaged me to ask why I unfollowed them.
I was kind of surprised they even noticed, but the truth is I did it because they didn't follow me back. That's fine, no sweat, but I'm here for something more mutual.
✌️
I was kind of surprised they even noticed, but the truth is I did it because they didn't follow me back. That's fine, no sweat, but I'm here for something more mutual.
✌️
"Unputdownable..." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5 stars)
Thanks, Karen of Boys' Mom Reads, for the wonderful review of Afterward! It means a lot that you enjoyed it so much.
#litfic
Thanks, Karen of Boys' Mom Reads, for the wonderful review of Afterward! It means a lot that you enjoyed it so much.
#litfic
Book Review: Afterward by Bristol Vaudrin
Afterward by Bristol Vaudrin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Unputdownable tale of the aftermath of a man’s attempt on his life and the impact on his partner.Afterward by Bristol Vaudrin is a riveting tale…
karensiddall.wordpress.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Unputdownable..." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5 stars)
Thanks, Karen of Boys' Mom Reads, for the wonderful review of Afterward! It means a lot that you enjoyed it so much.
#litfic
Thanks, Karen of Boys' Mom Reads, for the wonderful review of Afterward! It means a lot that you enjoyed it so much.
#litfic
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Nerve to Write is open for fiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash fiction, full-length stories, and more!
October 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Nerve to Write is open for fiction submissions until November 1st! Send us your flash fiction, full-length stories, and more!
"'I know about Kyle.'
I looked at the ground. 'Yeah, I figured everyone does.'"
- Afterward, by Bristol Vaudrin
#LitFic #IndieAuthor #AmReading
I looked at the ground. 'Yeah, I figured everyone does.'"
- Afterward, by Bristol Vaudrin
#LitFic #IndieAuthor #AmReading
October 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"'I know about Kyle.'
I looked at the ground. 'Yeah, I figured everyone does.'"
- Afterward, by Bristol Vaudrin
#LitFic #IndieAuthor #AmReading
I looked at the ground. 'Yeah, I figured everyone does.'"
- Afterward, by Bristol Vaudrin
#LitFic #IndieAuthor #AmReading
I feel like this also sums up some of my past relationships.
On This Day in History: October 21, 1949
Aldous Huxley wrote to George Orwell to congratulate him on Nineteen Eighty-Four and argued the future would look more like Brave New World, with consent engineered by pleasure and habit more than fear. He was right. Orwell was, too.
Aldous Huxley wrote to George Orwell to congratulate him on Nineteen Eighty-Four and argued the future would look more like Brave New World, with consent engineered by pleasure and habit more than fear. He was right. Orwell was, too.
October 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I feel like this also sums up some of my past relationships.
Thanks to Annie Bloom's Books in Portland, Oregon, for carrying my book, AFTERWARD. Please support them for supporting small presses.
Annie Bloom's Books
annieblooms.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Thanks to Annie Bloom's Books in Portland, Oregon, for carrying my book, AFTERWARD. Please support them for supporting small presses.
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Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
n.pr
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
Our amazing local indie bookstore @powells.bsky.social is having a sitewide 20% off flash sale! Just sayin', it's a great time to pick up my book!
Afterward | Powell's Books
In an unnamed city, a young woman deals with an unspeakable tragedy, and her boyfriend's subsequent hospitalization. Torn from her normal routines--coffee, sex, barhopping, farmers markets, and disc g...
www.powells.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our amazing local indie bookstore @powells.bsky.social is having a sitewide 20% off flash sale! Just sayin', it's a great time to pick up my book!
When I started writing my book, Afterward, it came from a seed planted twenty years earlier—a partly true story. It grew out of my anguish at hearing it, as I filled in the empty spaces and asked, “What if?”
I’d be grateful if you’d take a look—buy it, borrow it, or leave a review. ❤️
#litfic
I’d be grateful if you’d take a look—buy it, borrow it, or leave a review. ❤️
#litfic
Afterward
Afterward [Vaudrin, Bristol] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Afterward
www.amazon.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
When I started writing my book, Afterward, it came from a seed planted twenty years earlier—a partly true story. It grew out of my anguish at hearing it, as I filled in the empty spaces and asked, “What if?”
I’d be grateful if you’d take a look—buy it, borrow it, or leave a review. ❤️
#litfic
I’d be grateful if you’d take a look—buy it, borrow it, or leave a review. ❤️
#litfic
Every Sunday morning at 9am! #pdx
About two dozen people in pajamas gathered with coffee and pastries outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in South Portland on Sunday morning, Oct. 5, 2025, for the Portl...
About two dozen people in pajamas gathered with coffee and pastries outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in South Portland on Sunday morning, Oct. 5, 2025, for the Portl...
www.oregonlive.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Every Sunday morning at 9am! #pdx
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Tragedy and Comedy: The Two Faces of Story Structure
If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.
darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/t...
#writingcommunity #booksky
If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.
darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/t...
#writingcommunity #booksky
Tragedy and Comedy: The Two Faces of Story Structure
If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.
darlingaxe.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Tragedy and Comedy: The Two Faces of Story Structure
If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.
darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/t...
#writingcommunity #booksky
If the protagonist is going to succeed, then you want to bring them closer and closer to failure. If they are going to fail, you want to bring them closer and closer to victory.
darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/t...
#writingcommunity #booksky
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There's still time to register for @thewriterscenter.bsky.social's free event this Friday at 7pm EDT where @samuelashworth.bsky.social, Afabwaje Kurian, & Madison Smartt Bell will be reading in tribute to Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-winning novelist Percival Everett! buff.ly/TRQgBnS
October 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
There's still time to register for @thewriterscenter.bsky.social's free event this Friday at 7pm EDT where @samuelashworth.bsky.social, Afabwaje Kurian, & Madison Smartt Bell will be reading in tribute to Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-winning novelist Percival Everett! buff.ly/TRQgBnS
😮 I can think of a few other things.
House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’
YouTube video by The Oregonian
youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
😮 I can think of a few other things.
Portlanders "put the city’s quirky & irreverent reputation on display...in an 'emergency' edition of the annual World Naked Bike Ride...Crowds have [been] donning inflatable frog, unicorn, axolotl & banana costumes as they face off w/federal law enforcement who often deploy tear gas & pepper balls."
apnews.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Portlanders "put the city’s quirky & irreverent reputation on display...in an 'emergency' edition of the annual World Naked Bike Ride...Crowds have [been] donning inflatable frog, unicorn, axolotl & banana costumes as they face off w/federal law enforcement who often deploy tear gas & pepper balls."
