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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · 2d

I never imagined I’d see the day that I could say I’ve won a Pushcart Prize. Enormous thanks to @storyquarterly.bsky.social for their amazing support and championing of this story 🤩

storyquarterly.bsky.social @storyquarterly.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Marie Goyette, who won a Pushcart Prize (as well as the SQ Fiction Prize) for her story "Freefall" from Issue 56!

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · 3d

The amazing Maggie Smith is on the fiftieth episode of This Mama Is Lit! 😍 Check it out!

Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 3d

We're celebrating our 50th episode of This Mama Is Lit!

@hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Amanda get a pep talk from the inimitable @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social!

"I have one wish for humans: it's for humans to be less afraid because being afraid makes you live small":

Maggie Smith: My Work is Play

Holly and Amanda chat with Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer, about applying poetic license to writing and beyond, embracing the beginner's mind, and aging in reverse through creativity.

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · 17d

Huge congrats to @susanperabo.bsky.social and Edith-Nicole Cameron on the nomination of their stunning stories! 👏👏

Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 17d

Our Best of the Net nominees for fiction:

@susanperabo.bsky.social and Edith-Nicole Cameron!

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Fiction:

Your Sixty Seconds by Susan Perabo

How to Bake Without Eggs by Edith-Nicole Cameron

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 17d

Our Best of the Net nominees for poetry!

Caedra Scott-Flaherty
@katehasthoughts.bsky.social
Sally Anderson Boström
Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
Claudia Kessel
Chantelle Lynn

Poetry

Ars Poetica
Kate Lewis

Chapel of Bones
Caedra Scott-Flaherty

Colonoscopy
Sally Anderson Boström

Our Children
Nicole Desjardins Gowdy

Menorrhagia
Claudia Kessel

On a day so bright the snow is blue,
Chantelle Lynn

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 17d

Our Best of the Net nominees for creative nonfiction:

Laura Mullen and Jill Finnessy!

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Creative Nonfiction

Fault Lines
Laura Mullen

Slicing Peppers
Jill Finnessy

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · 24d

"As Cam rounds the bases and makes it home, I tell myself over and over: he’s okay, he’s okay, he’ll be okay." Read "Left Field," a beautiful story by Kristen Moraine, in the Sept/Oct issue of @literarymama.bsky.social literarymama.com/articles/dep...

Left Field

It’s the bottom of the sixth inning and I’m sweating in my beach chair. My son’s team is losing, and I’m cursing the obnoxious opposing team with their excitable coaches in tight pants. Calm down,...

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · 24d

The stunning September/October issue of @literarymama.bsky.social is out today. Senior Editor @rudribhattpatel.bsky.social suggests we “read and reflect on what these mother-writers are all showing us: different ways to carry hope for our children.” ❤️ literarymama.com/issues/septe...

September/October 2025

Literary Mama

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Sep 3

I love that you’ve been there, too! It was a pretty amazing experience 😍

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Aug 18

Bread Loaf is everything I hoped and more ❤️

A yellow Adirondack chair sits in a grassy field, trees and mountains in the distance

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Jul 30

Cute chonks on some milkweed

Photo taken with a macro lens of two fat Monarch caterpillars on a swamp milkweed leaf

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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social · Jul 17

Want more weirdness? I have some! "Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was strong. Passionate. Because he was too big for the car, too big for the house, too big for an office job. Mom married Hurricane Gerald because she loved the lazy swirl of his clouds..."

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Fighting Wind

Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was strong. Passionate. Because he was too big for the car, too big for the house, too big for an office job. Mom married Hurricane Gerald because she loved the...

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Jul 16

"Now she wanted that son even more than she had months ago. And she remained convinced he could prevail... his heart was strong, the doctor had said. The heart of a sekitori, the top-level wrestlers who possess the strength and endurance to win." Read a moving piece by @notsureaboutthat.bsky.social

Basho

It was five months into her pregnancy when her doctor presented her with an ultrasound image that revealed a complex story. A competition between her fetus and a rapidly growing tumor right next to hi...

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Jul 16

"Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was powerful. He can protect us, she said, scrubbing a pot in the sink. I said, I can protect you, and she laughed until she cried and had to redo her mascara before Hurricane Gerald came home." Read the haunting "Fighting Wind" by @sagetyrtle.bsky.social

Fighting Wind

Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was strong. Passionate. Because he was too big for the car, too big for the house, too big for an office job. Mom married Hurricane Gerald because she loved the...

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Jul 16

IT'S HERE! This is such an amazing issue! 🥰

Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · Jul 16

It's here! We hope you enjoy the abundance of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary reflections, profiles, and reviews in our July/August issue!

May/June 2025

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Jul 8

So excited to receive this beauty in the mail today, and so honored to be named runner-up in Meridian’s 2025 Short Prose Prize. 😍 Visit readmeridian.org to read this gorgeous issue

Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Jun 26

12 is out of town visiting relatives. They went to an aquarium yesterday, where she took this amazingly hilarious pic (of a what? I don’t know). Now she uses it to express her disapproval

Photo taken at an aquarium of the underside of some type of sea creature (a type of stingray, maybe?). What looks like eyes and a mouth give it a distinctly unamused expression

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Jun 19

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · Jun 19

@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.

kottke.org @kottke.org · Jun 19

A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Jun 19

Post-vet pup cup. Adorbs pic by 12

My tri-color corgi in the backseat of my car, gazing longingly, tongue protruding, at a Starbucks pup cup in my daughter’s hand

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Jun 18

OMG 🤬

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · Jun 18

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

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Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov · Jun 12

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · Jun 11

We interrupt the American house of horrors to remind you thay June is DeafBlind awareness month. Here are some of my recommendations of writing by DeafBlind folks for your #DeafShelf!

cc @snarkbat.bsky.social @habengirma.bsky.social

ID: graphic with books drawn alongside top and bottom of square. Title text: 5 Book Recs by Deafblind authors.
Bulleted list:
Haben, memoir by Haben Girma
Being Seen, memoir by Elsa Sjunneson
Life at my fingertips, memoir by Robert Smithdas
How to Communicate, poetry by John Lee Clark
Swishing, children's lit by Victoria Monroe

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Jun 5

"Solid writing advice" —my dogs

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · Jun 1

Just fantastic storytelling, too. Loved this book

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · Jun 1

Would you like to read a book?? Vogue calls Woodworking, my debut novel, “A testament to the power of intergenerational trans stories . . . dazzling.” I don’t know, that sounds great to me!!

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Woodworking

Check out Woodworking - "Big-hearted and hilarious, an ode to authenticity and a must-read in our current times." --Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bri...

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Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social · May 30

Me: [distraught that Costco has discontinued my favorite non-dairy milk]

12: “Soy for your loss.”

This kid 😂

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · May 24

"My fantasy of subverting the patriarchy by raising a tender and empathic young man would be more difficult to realize than I thought. If he didn’t give, would he just take and take?"

from "Better Off," a story by Claire Fantus, in our May/June issue

Better Off

Summer ends abruptly. The tarns have finally warmed. Ari and I laze in the backyard beneath the protracted sunlight, relishing the bite in the air, the plump tomatoes tumbling off the vine. An open bo...

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