Kelly Caldwell
@kkc212.bsky.social
Writer; dean of faculty @GothamWriters. she/her I live in NYC but still say gapers' block.
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Kelly Caldwell
@kkc212.bsky.social
· Jun 9
Personal Essays Galore, PLUS Some Great Workshops and Calls for Submissions...
Including: Workshops from Writing Co-Lab, Alexander Chee, Narratively Academy, and Melissa Petro; and calls for submissions from Blaise Allysen Kearsley and Literary Liberation.
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I'm super psyched to say one of my essays is included in this week's @memoirland.bsky.social roundup! Especially given the impressive company I'm in.
Read them all (and especially Robin Pickering's "The Fuckitall." So good.)
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Read them all (and especially Robin Pickering's "The Fuckitall." So good.)
open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...
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WHY DON'T YOU WRITE SOMETHING PEOPLE READ!? God help us all today. Happy Thanksgiving, Literary Writers!
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
WHY DON'T YOU WRITE SOMETHING PEOPLE READ!? God help us all today. Happy Thanksgiving, Literary Writers!
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The latest essay greatness at HOW I LEARNED, "Smarter Than Blood" by Heather Hawk.
Blaise Allysen Kearsley (@blaiseallysen)
“The goal is to go undetected, to not get caught having a period. Even other girls can’t know. She’s on the rag, they’ll say,despite the fact that any of them may also be bleeding.” — @Heather Hawk at...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The latest essay greatness at HOW I LEARNED, "Smarter Than Blood" by Heather Hawk.
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See also Ryan Lizza for sitting on this because it could make his personal life more complicated.
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
See also Ryan Lizza for sitting on this because it could make his personal life more complicated.
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everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
This review by @lyz.bsky.social of Cheryl Hines' new memoir is not only an excellent essay about culpability and power, but it underscores the problem of much celebrity #memoir — the writers' lives remain, 200+ pages later, unexamined.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This review by @lyz.bsky.social of Cheryl Hines' new memoir is not only an excellent essay about culpability and power, but it underscores the problem of much celebrity #memoir — the writers' lives remain, 200+ pages later, unexamined.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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We have a winner, folks
After six rounds of voting, you’ve finally chosen Literary Twitter’s greatest icon! Congratulations to Joyce Carol Oates.
What Was Literary Twitter? *The Champion*
I wish I could say it was close, dear reader, but with 72.6% of the vote, Joyce Carol Oates won our bracket by a wide margin. We sensed that this was coming watching the returns—JCO was putting up …
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November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We have a winner, folks
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My story "The Gospel of Malachi Slim" is out now in Stygian Lepus Magazine Edition 29, page 89. A supernatural noir tale from River City Gospel. www.stygianlepus.com/edition-29/ #SupernaturalNoir #PublishedAuthor #DarkFiction
Edition 29 - OUT NOW
This issue is dedicated in part to the memory of Dennis McFadden—whose final story appears within—celebrating a voice that shaped the magazine’s dark heart.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My story "The Gospel of Malachi Slim" is out now in Stygian Lepus Magazine Edition 29, page 89. A supernatural noir tale from River City Gospel. www.stygianlepus.com/edition-29/ #SupernaturalNoir #PublishedAuthor #DarkFiction
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“I wrote [MY NAME MEANS FIRE] for the ones who had to change something about themselves in order to stay whole. The ones who needed to leave their mother tongue in order to find their true voice.”—Atash Yaghmaian @literaryhub.bsky.social
A Different Side of the Self: On Finding Freedom By Telling My Story in English
When it came time to write my memoir, My Name Means Fire, I chose to write it in English. There’s irony in that, of course. I wrote in English, but my name, “Atash”—which means “fire” in Persian—is…
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November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“I wrote [MY NAME MEANS FIRE] for the ones who had to change something about themselves in order to stay whole. The ones who needed to leave their mother tongue in order to find their true voice.”—Atash Yaghmaian @literaryhub.bsky.social
Did I vote for Guy In Your MFA, just so I can watch JCO crush him in the final?
You bet I did.
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You bet I did.
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What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Day 5*
Day five and only four remain! Pour out a cold plum for yesterday’s runner-ups, including “This Is Just To Say,” bad art friend, and the transparency and advocacy campaign #PublishingPaidMe The fou…
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November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Did I vote for Guy In Your MFA, just so I can watch JCO crush him in the final?
You bet I did.
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You bet I did.
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Way more entertaining, and without all the ethical ick.
if you’re gonna pay $8 a month to read way too much about someone’s sexual past i think you should pay it to me. and it doesn’t even have to be $8! it can be as little as $1!
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November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Way more entertaining, and without all the ethical ick.
She’s been on a reputation rehab tour for months.
Is she walking away from that? Doubtful.
GA gov filing deadline is March 6th.
Is she walking away from that? Doubtful.
GA gov filing deadline is March 6th.
She can stay until 2027 without running again. But she’s leaving early.
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
She’s been on a reputation rehab tour for months.
Is she walking away from that? Doubtful.
GA gov filing deadline is March 6th.
Is she walking away from that? Doubtful.
GA gov filing deadline is March 6th.
Deadline to file to run for governor in Georgia is March 6th.
Okay but why not serve out the rest of her term? Why leave a year early? Not that I’m complaining…
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress. Her last day in office will be January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Deadline to file to run for governor in Georgia is March 6th.
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Okay but why not serve out the rest of her term? Why leave a year early? Not that I’m complaining…
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress. Her last day in office will be January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Okay but why not serve out the rest of her term? Why leave a year early? Not that I’m complaining…
FINAL HOURS!
If you’re a woman journalist or writer in the greater NYC area, and you’re proud of something you produced in the last year, you still have time to enter the Front Page Awards.
Celebrate your work! Enter before midnight!
www.newswomensclubnewyork.com
#journalism #writingcommunity
If you’re a woman journalist or writer in the greater NYC area, and you’re proud of something you produced in the last year, you still have time to enter the Front Page Awards.
Celebrate your work! Enter before midnight!
www.newswomensclubnewyork.com
#journalism #writingcommunity
THE NEWSWOMEN'S CLUB OF NEW YORK
Established in 1922, The Newswomen’s Club of New York is the only professional organization exclusively for women journalists in the New York metropolitan area.
www.newswomensclubnewyork.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
FINAL HOURS!
If you’re a woman journalist or writer in the greater NYC area, and you’re proud of something you produced in the last year, you still have time to enter the Front Page Awards.
Celebrate your work! Enter before midnight!
www.newswomensclubnewyork.com
#journalism #writingcommunity
If you’re a woman journalist or writer in the greater NYC area, and you’re proud of something you produced in the last year, you still have time to enter the Front Page Awards.
Celebrate your work! Enter before midnight!
www.newswomensclubnewyork.com
#journalism #writingcommunity
Joyce Carol Oates did best Bad Art Friend!
I kinda thought that scrappy little kidney might bring her down. Shows what I know.
Don't forget to make your picks today, #WritingCommunity!
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I kinda thought that scrappy little kidney might bring her down. Shows what I know.
Don't forget to make your picks today, #WritingCommunity!
lithub.com/what-was-lit...
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Joyce Carol Oates did best Bad Art Friend!
I kinda thought that scrappy little kidney might bring her down. Shows what I know.
Don't forget to make your picks today, #WritingCommunity!
lithub.com/what-was-lit...
I kinda thought that scrappy little kidney might bring her down. Shows what I know.
Don't forget to make your picks today, #WritingCommunity!
lithub.com/what-was-lit...
"Any story can be told over & over & over again. The newness is in the questions you’re asking, even if you don’t have an answer.” — @theoffingmag.bsky.social EIC Vonetta Young on what reading the slush pile taught her about good writing.
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#WritingCommunity
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#WritingCommunity
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"Any story can be told over & over & over again. The newness is in the questions you’re asking, even if you don’t have an answer.” — @theoffingmag.bsky.social EIC Vonetta Young on what reading the slush pile taught her about good writing.
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#WritingCommunity
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#WritingCommunity
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Scoop: Rep. Eugene Vindman knows what Trump said on a 2019 call with the Saudi Crown Prince about Jamal Khashoggi's killing, and his effort to make it public is about to rachet up.
Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript
Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript
Exclusive: Congressman Plans New Push For Trump-MBS Transcript
Rep. Eugene Vindman will appear with Jamal Khashoggi's widow to push for release of a "shocking" transcript between Trump and MBS
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November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Scoop: Rep. Eugene Vindman knows what Trump said on a 2019 call with the Saudi Crown Prince about Jamal Khashoggi's killing, and his effort to make it public is about to rachet up.
Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript
Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript
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November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Is anyone surprised Joyce Carol Oates made it to the Retweeted Eight, after smacking down American Dirt and Kathleen Hale?
Of course not! Look what she just did to Elno, and is now doing to MTG.
Today, tho, she's up against Bad Art Friend.
Only one can survive. Who will it be, #WritingCommunity?
Of course not! Look what she just did to Elno, and is now doing to MTG.
Today, tho, she's up against Bad Art Friend.
Only one can survive. Who will it be, #WritingCommunity?
Only eight remain in our What Was Literary Twitter? bracket. What will the final four look like? Vote here to find out!
What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Day 4*
It’s day four, and only 8 out of original 64 are left after yesterday’s voting! The polls today will determine who wins their quadrant (or is it “region”? Or “zone”? We’re not sports people) …
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November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Is anyone surprised Joyce Carol Oates made it to the Retweeted Eight, after smacking down American Dirt and Kathleen Hale?
Of course not! Look what she just did to Elno, and is now doing to MTG.
Today, tho, she's up against Bad Art Friend.
Only one can survive. Who will it be, #WritingCommunity?
Of course not! Look what she just did to Elno, and is now doing to MTG.
Today, tho, she's up against Bad Art Friend.
Only one can survive. Who will it be, #WritingCommunity?
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Jamal Khashoggi's widow: I did feel disappointed by Trump describing my husband in this way and justifying the crime. There is nothing to justify the crime. And he's taking away, as well, the freedom for journalists to ask a question. What is the difference then between the US and any dictatorship?
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Jamal Khashoggi's widow: I did feel disappointed by Trump describing my husband in this way and justifying the crime. There is nothing to justify the crime. And he's taking away, as well, the freedom for journalists to ask a question. What is the difference then between the US and any dictatorship?
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Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer
On day three of our What was Literary Twitter? bracket, some top seeds remain in the game, but the upsets haven’t stopped. Vote here to help your favorite literary internet moments keep climbing!
What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Day 3*
Welcome to the third day of voting! We’re down to just 16, and it’s getting harder for me to discern how this thing will shake out, to be honest. Unsurprisingly, a few top seeds remain—bad art frie…
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November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM