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Jennifer Saunders

@magpiedays.bsky.social

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Poet, author of Tumor Moon 🌖 Co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation🩸(Querencia Press). Immigrant. Hockey fan. She / her. 🇺🇸/🇨🇭in 🇨🇭 http://www.jennifer-saunders.com https://concretewolf.com/publications/publications.htm

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 10h

I'd love to take it, but hockey season is rough

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 10h

The rare still fee-free submission opportunity, opening 1 November (@derekjgwilliams.bsky.social)

Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 12h

Authors, start your engines!

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 1d

Very bummed that my kid has so much Sunday evening hockey this season :( Next time!

European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 1d

✨ONLINE COURSE✨

Following the success of Julie’s Prose Poetry Workshop, we’re delighted to bring you our first longer course:

Exploring Poetic Concepts and Forms: A Poetry Workshop Series

Poster for course
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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling a bit better about my poetry collection Tumor Moon not being a finalist upon seeing some of the powerhouses who are finalists. Thanks to @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social for expanding the opportunity for post-publication awards.

Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 1d

That essay was pub'ed in 2019 & I STILL interrogate 1st person plural before I use it. Who is "we?" Am I being disingenuous when I use "we"? Am I really in the same community as the authors I'm discussing? Do other people really respond to this book the way I do? When, if ever, is "we" appropriate?

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to Soham Patel at the Georgia Review for making my first-ever review-essay SO MUCH BETTER. Tighter. Cleaner. Sharper. More clear.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 3d

Happy release day to @djvorreyer.bsky.social whose fourth full-length collection, Unrivered, is now available from Sundress Publications!
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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 2d

"Good art is a truing of vision, in the way a saw is trued in the saw shop, to cut more cleanly" - Jane Hirshfield

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, it adds up fast!

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations, Ali!!

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 9d

Which circle of Hell is this? 8th (Sins of Fraud) or 7th (Violence against God, nature, and art)?

Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 9d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hollywood celebrities outraged over new 'AI actor' Tilly Norwood

The AI actress is apparently in talks with Hollywood talent agencies to represent her on the big screen.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 11d

Oh this sounds like it's going to be right up my alley. Clearing some time tomorrow for a good listen.

David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 11d

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
@ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social

Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House

Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 11d

It's almost October, and @dylanwardwriter.bsky.social's got seven queer writers with experimental horror novels that will definitely unnerve you this Halloween, check 'em out below!
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/29/7...

7 Queer Experimental Horror Novels That Will Unnerve You - Chicago Review of Books

A tour through several spine-tingling queer experimental horror novels to ring in spooky season.

chireviewofbooks.com

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations!

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 15d

"—in poetry, a landscape is never only outer, it is also a portrait of a state of soul." - Jane Hirshfield, "Poetry and the Mind of Concentration"

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 16d

This is going to be super fun for US-Americans living abroad, hohoho

Forbes @forbes.com · 17d

The IRS has announced that paper tax refund checks for individual taxpayers will be phased out beginning September 30. Payments are next—but there is some breathing room.

IRS Confirms That It Will Make The Switch From Paper Refund Checks

The IRS has announced that paper tax refund checks for individual taxpayers will be phased out beginning September 30. Payments are next—but there is some breathing room.

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 16d

“This is the work of the threshold: to step into places of seeming barrenness, emptiness, or neglect and bring back an abundance new-coined” – Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 18d

Feel better soon! (And Ophelia! I reviewed Ophelia. Great collection!)

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 18d

Sometimes when my son comes home from gymi he tosses an (American) football around and the thunk of it hitting the grass is so wonderful

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 18d

I know, right?!

Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 18d

Reading back through an old notebook where I'd simply written the title of this Richard Siken poem, so I re-read it and now I'm sharing it all with you. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48158/...

Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out

Dear So-and-So, I’m sorry I couldn’t come to your party. Dear So-and-So, I’m sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing. Love on the water, love und...

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 19d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

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