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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 7h

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 10h

For real!! My kid's teacher assigned the same exact worksheet three weeks apart, not sure if it was by accident or on purpose?? And my child got stuck and had an emotional meltdown at the same problem both times. 🫠 Groundhog day level trauma, lol

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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 1d

In this new @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social w/:
@kimmagowan.bsky.social
@louellalester.bsky.social
@brettpribble.bsky.social
@cherylpappas.bsky.social
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
@joanleotta.bsky.social
@kiptain.bsky.social
Mikki Aronoff
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
Sarah Lynn Hurd
@tcboudreau.bsky.social

Issue 36 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Louella Lester, Find More of her work Here Stories Monarch is a new awards anthology recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. G...

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 11h

So excited to read this!! 🔥

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 13h

A haunted house, but it's just helping your kid with the same math homework every night in an infinite loop.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

As a writer, I don’t consider myself in competition with anyone outside of a hypothetical variant of me that lives in my head and is a better writer than me and is a fucking asshole about it

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone who doesn't know about these, Angela Deane's ghost photographs make the most incredible writing prompts. Sweet and nostalgic and haunting, and just so much fun to look at. 👻🌷

angeladeane.com/section/3335...

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 2d

Caught myself deleting an em dash from a story-in-progress so that no one would wonder if it's A.I., and—no, absolutely not, this nonsense stops here. A.I. is not stealing the em dash from us. We had it first and we'll keep using it forever. #writingcommunity #writersunite

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you @vastchasmmag.bsky.social for sharing my piece from Waxwing! So grateful for your kindness and support. Writers, consider subbing to Vast Chasm, they are so lovely to work with! Looking forward to the fall issue 🍂🍁

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much for sharing this! 🥰

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful.

www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/de...

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 8d

Love this so much, Kathy!!

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 8d

"The kid is always being a genius and he is always smiling and kind. One thing I know about people who are always smiling and kind is they’re the saddest fuckers of all."

So good!! I'm obsessed with the voice of this piece. 🔥@kathyfish.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute

Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 9d

I am beyond thrilled to have a story featured in the NINTH anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute amongst some of the best writers I know. Kudos to all. Hope you enjoy "The Saddest Fuckers of All" and the gorgeous artwork by Kaylan Friedman. ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

The Saddest Fuckers of All — Ghost Parachute

I am needing a prescription for the Pill. I can no longer use Student Health due to living in a new town and not being a student anymore. I am telling this to the kid as he is rolling out pizza dough ...

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 8d

"We learn to breathe, to talk, to sing in her. Our mothers, our aunties, our tutus, our teachers drape their hair in Pele’s tears, sparkling and shimmering like fish."

Oh, this gorgeous, haunting micro by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social!!

ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 10d

Ok, but this is genius!! 💀

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · 10d

Writers, do not reread your story after you hit submit. Repeat, DO NOT REREAD YOUR STORY AFTER YOU HIT SUBMIT. (Unless you want to magically find something you should've changed the first 20 times you read it over, and then torture yourself about it for the rest of the night.) 🫠

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hands off Madison, Wisconsin

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · Apr 2

So happy and relieved, and so proud of our state!!! 🥳

Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · Apr 2

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · Feb 6

This is so wonderful.

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · Feb 5

one of my own fave published pieces from last year was on hex!

hexliterary.com?p=2225

The Future Is Not What Was Promised But Is Almost Here Regardless by Aaron Burch

We were taking our nightly walk when I paused, looked down at the ground at my feet. Claire paused next to me, looked down where I was looking. “Don’t do it,” she said. I’m not sure I’d even had the i...

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · Feb 3

Damn, so good!! So thankful to have read this today.

The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · Jan 31

FIRST PLACE in the Welkin Mini 2025. "Nine One One" by
@sfreligh.bsky.social. Congratulations, Sarah. A micro that exists on the periphery of the real and the dream, all of it building in such a way that spoke to me on a deeply personal level:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

The Welkin Writing Prize | Nine One One

"Nine One One" by Sarah Freligh

www.mattkendrick.co.uk

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · Jan 31

Wow, this story! So stunning.

The Welkin Writing Prize @welkinprize.bsky.social · Jan 29

THIRD PLACE in the Welkin Mini 2025. "They won’t let you in" by @noranadj.bsky.social. Congratulations, Nora. A story that shifts between specific, universal, real and fairytale with so much skill; so many emotions bubbling away underneath:

www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

The Welkin Writing Prize | They won’t let you in

"They won’t let you in" by Nora Nadjarian

www.mattkendrick.co.uk

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · Jan 30

So awesome, Joel, congrats!!! 🎉

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · Jan 29

Dear friends: do whatever small things you can to guard your heart and keep doing your work. Keep writing and reading and thinking and caring and creating. All of it matters so much.

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · Jan 29

Oh, I love this so much!! I love thinking about food/drink pairings for books... I have dreams of starting a book club like this someday.

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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social · Feb 23

"Did Little Worm come from her womb, or was she also ripped apart from her body? Was Mother Worm’s grief now cut in half? Or was it doubled?"

Love this gorgeous piece by @ezhang77.bsky.social in @honeyliterary.bsky.social!! ❤️

Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · Feb 23

Thrilled to have a story in the new @honeyliterary.bsky.social issue!! (born in a @lindybiller.bsky.social workshop) https://www.honeyliterary.com/issue-7-1/animals-the-early-worm-after-many-years-finally-gets-the-bird-by-elena-zhang

Animals: “The early worm, after many years, finally gets the bird” by Elena Zhang — Honey Literary

“Little Worm, who left without a glance back and made Mother Worm question if she was ever needed at all.”

www.honeyliterary.com

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