Jacqueline Doyle
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social
Author of The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF editor, CRAFT Literary Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
Can you participate? No spending for a week, starting today, November 25. Small businesses only, local businesses only, cash only. We can make a difference.
‘We Ain’t Buying It’ — anti-Trump groups call for a full economic boycott over Thanksgiving weekend, urging consumers to skip Target, Amazon & Home Depot from Black Friday through Cyber Monday.
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Can you participate? No spending for a week, starting today, November 25. Small businesses only, local businesses only, cash only. We can make a difference.
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Happening Wednesday! Thank you @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social and @rosaliascalia! #literaryreading #writer #writers #writerssupportingwriters #author #authorlife #writerslife
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Happening Wednesday! Thank you @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social and @rosaliascalia! #literaryreading #writer #writers #writerssupportingwriters #author #authorlife #writerslife
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In a twist of fate, my first full collection and a new member of our family are due on the same day--December 2nd!
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In a twist of fate, my first full collection and a new member of our family are due on the same day--December 2nd!
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On 22 Dec at 5pm CET, I will run a small online event on how to use my lit mag rankings for submitting to journals. This event is for those: (i) new to submitting; and/or (ii) not comfortable with spreadsheets.
The event will be FREE but there are only 10 spots - sign up below!
The event will be FREE but there are only 10 spots - sign up below!
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
On 22 Dec at 5pm CET, I will run a small online event on how to use my lit mag rankings for submitting to journals. This event is for those: (i) new to submitting; and/or (ii) not comfortable with spreadsheets.
The event will be FREE but there are only 10 spots - sign up below!
The event will be FREE but there are only 10 spots - sign up below!
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What a gorgeous flash essay by Beverley Stevens via @short-reads.org.
www.short-reads.org/out-the-fron...
www.short-reads.org/out-the-fron...
Out the Front Door
by Beverley Stevens | Making a fuss.
www.short-reads.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What a gorgeous flash essay by Beverley Stevens via @short-reads.org.
www.short-reads.org/out-the-fron...
www.short-reads.org/out-the-fron...
A posthumous letter. A Japanese island filled with life-sized dolls of the dead. A dizzying workplace attraction. Check out these great micros by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @pangyrus.bsky.social
My two short works featured today. Many thanks, Pangyrus editors!!
Susie, Do I Write You a Letter? and Siren | Pangyrus
Susie, Do I Write You a Letter? Susie, do I write you a letter, the way you did to Tom after he died? You asked me if I minded if you wrote him a letter and ...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A posthumous letter. A Japanese island filled with life-sized dolls of the dead. A dizzying workplace attraction. Check out these great micros by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social in @pangyrus.bsky.social
Read Joseph Gross's beautiful micro "Jumping In Leaves" in @riverteeth.bsky.social's "Beautiful Things" today. (You can listen to it too.) riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
Jumping In Leaves
By Joseph Gross Somewhere after the turn of the millennium I slid from leaf jumper to leaf raker, and so on this smoky November afternoon I hold down my job for the boy in front of me during what w…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Read Joseph Gross's beautiful micro "Jumping In Leaves" in @riverteeth.bsky.social's "Beautiful Things" today. (You can listen to it too.) riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
Wowed by Paul Crenshaw's essay "Choke" (from his first book THIS ONE WILL HURT YOU) on his Substack today. Really brilliant. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Choke
*I’ve been under the weather the last few days and in the few minutes I’ve been able to write I’ve been working on fiction.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Wowed by Paul Crenshaw's essay "Choke" (from his first book THIS ONE WILL HURT YOU) on his Substack today. Really brilliant. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
This will make you laugh whether you're over 65 or not. R.L. Maizes is great.
A bingo card for those navigating life as an older writer (by R.L. Maizes the Elder @rlmaizes.bsky.social)
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Where's My "5 Over 65" Award? - Electric Literature
“Senior Writer Bingo,” a graphic narrative by R.L. Maizes the Elder
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November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This will make you laugh whether you're over 65 or not. R.L. Maizes is great.
"'Do you sense anything?' the dentist asks, pricking at my gums with her tiny metal sickle. I shake my head no, but honestly, I’m never sure what I feel." Love this essay by Linda Button via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/numbing/
Numbing
by Button | Who would choose pain?
www.short-reads.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"'Do you sense anything?' the dentist asks, pricking at my gums with her tiny metal sickle. I shake my head no, but honestly, I’m never sure what I feel." Love this essay by Linda Button via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/numbing/
Another amazing graphic story by @jesselkercheval.bsky.social. Love it!
Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Another amazing graphic story by @jesselkercheval.bsky.social. Love it!
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‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
Lovely "Beautiful Things" post from Karen Skalitzky in @riverteeth.bsky.social today. ❤️
✨“I go back to that fateful day in mid-September. Was the morning air swollen with heat? Did you slip through the hospital doors unnoticed?”
-from “Toward Love,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Karen Skalitzky
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
-from “Toward Love,” this week’s Beautiful Things essay by Karen Skalitzky
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Lovely "Beautiful Things" post from Karen Skalitzky in @riverteeth.bsky.social today. ❤️
ICYMI Inuk Canadian throat singer @tanyatagaq.bsky.social's book SPLIT TOOTH sounds like a fascinating blend of memoir, fiction, and folklore. Definitely on my TBR list. Read this excerpt published in @thewalrus.ca
thewalrus.ca/split-tooth/
thewalrus.ca/split-tooth/
Split Tooth | The Walrus
We pile our hair as high as it will go, even though the wind destroys our hairdos to the point that every time we come in from outside, the girls’ bathroom is a haze of Final Net
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November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ICYMI Inuk Canadian throat singer @tanyatagaq.bsky.social's book SPLIT TOOTH sounds like a fascinating blend of memoir, fiction, and folklore. Definitely on my TBR list. Read this excerpt published in @thewalrus.ca
thewalrus.ca/split-tooth/
thewalrus.ca/split-tooth/
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TELEKINESIS by Hope Smith LeGro and Andy Fogle is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
August 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
TELEKINESIS by Hope Smith LeGro and Andy Fogle is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Love this new essay by @budsmith.bsky.social
Here is an essay I wrote for @parisreview.bsky.social about building a desk for a pickup truck
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November 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Love this new essay by @budsmith.bsky.social
You'll definitely start an inventory of your past kisses after you read this flash essay by Kristina Patterson via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/kissings/
Kissings
by Kristina Patterson | XOXO.
www.short-reads.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
You'll definitely start an inventory of your past kisses after you read this flash essay by Kristina Patterson via @short-reads.org. www.short-reads.org/kissings/
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Happy Best American Essays Day to everyone but especially to ME because I have a Notable this year!!!
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Happy Best American Essays Day to everyone but especially to ME because I have a Notable this year!!!
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Must-read column by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social about the deaths caused by Trump's ICE and CBP agents. Things are going to get much worse.
Commentary: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse
One shudders to think what Bovino thinks is excessive for la migra. With his powers now radically expanded, we're about to find out.
www.latimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Must-read column by @gustavoarellano.bsky.social about the deaths caused by Trump's ICE and CBP agents. Things are going to get much worse.
Commentary: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: Bodies are stacking up in Trump's deportation deluge. It's going to get worse
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Celebrate the election today, and this great braided flash by @nikwalk.bsky.social in CRAFT.
www.craftliterary.com/2025/11/05/s...
www.craftliterary.com/2025/11/05/s...
Still. Life. by Nicole Walker - CRAFT
Max was two. Zoe, seven. I was forty, when the nurse called and told me I needed to come in for a follow-up mammogram and ultrasound. My manners couldn’t catch up with my physical reaction. I started ...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Celebrate the election today, and this great braided flash by @nikwalk.bsky.social in CRAFT.
www.craftliterary.com/2025/11/05/s...
www.craftliterary.com/2025/11/05/s...
Thanks @assayjournal.bsky.social for posting my article on Judith Ortiz Cofer today. (And thanks to CRAFT editorial assistant extraordinaire Amy Cook for letting me know!)
We’re highlighting Jacqueline Doyle’s essay “Shuffling the Cards: I Think Back Through Judith Ortiz Cofer” from Assay issue 4.1. In this piece, Doyle invites educators to re-deal the deck of narrative inheritance.
Read more here:
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#Pedagogy #Nonfiction #TeacherResources
Read more here:
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#Pedagogy #Nonfiction #TeacherResources
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thanks @assayjournal.bsky.social for posting my article on Judith Ortiz Cofer today. (And thanks to CRAFT editorial assistant extraordinaire Amy Cook for letting me know!)
" I finally crafted language describing my beginnings—'The compulsions, as automatic as breathing, began in childhood.'" Read DW McKinney's rich consideration of the influence of Maya Angelou on her memoir about OCD. memoirland.substack.com/p/writing-in...
Writing into the Truth about Black Mental Health
DW Mickinney on finding the courage to write her memoir about her OCD, and finding inspiration in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
" I finally crafted language describing my beginnings—'The compulsions, as automatic as breathing, began in childhood.'" Read DW McKinney's rich consideration of the influence of Maya Angelou on her memoir about OCD. memoirland.substack.com/p/writing-in...