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Wendy BooydeGraaff

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Reader, writer, sporadic gardener, fair-weather biker, Can/Am, SALAD PIE pb author, THE HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA contributor, fiction & poems in various literary mags wendybooydegraaff.com

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Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · 14d

Receive this lovely gem in the mail today! Thank you @giganticsequins.bsky.social including my flash fiction within your beautiful pages

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Salamander @salamandermag.bsky.social · 10d

Our upcoming Issue 60 marks the end of an era: Salamander is parting ways with Suffolk University after two decades.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we take a hiatus from reading new submissions during the 2025-2026 reading period, and stay connected with us for updates.
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Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · 10d

Last chance! Registration closes in a few hours. 5 seats left
#kidlit #middlegrade #YoungAdult #SCBWI

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Receive this lovely gem in the mail today! Thank you @giganticsequins.bsky.social including my flash fiction within your beautiful pages

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Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · 15d

7 spaces still available with @shadras.bsky.social for the Critique Carousel www.scbwi.org/events/criti...

#kidlit #Picturebooks #illustration #kidlitart

SCBWI-MI Critique Carousel 2025 Register for event

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators provides the resources, professional networking, and community-building opportunities that support writers, illustrators, and translators throug...

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Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · 15d

9 spaces still available with @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social for the Critique Carousel www.scbwi.org/events/criti...

#middlegrade #YA #kidlit #Picturebooks #illustration #novel-in-verse

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Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · 15d

10 spaces still available with @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social for the Critique Carousel www.scbwi.org/events/criti...

#middlegrade #YA #kidlit

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · Sep 8

Issue 32 is LIVE NOW! We can’t get over this amazing lineup!
Mikki Aronoff
Amy Bates
Andrew Bertaina
Andy Bodinger
Wendy BooydeGraaff
Claire Breslow
Chelsea Hanna Cohen
Elina Kumra
Tali Libenstein
Elaine Maguire O’Connor
Cheryl Pappas
Fergus Sinnott
Francine Witte
Elena Zhang
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LEON Literary Review

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Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · 17d

Excellent interview with @cincinnatireview.bsky.social

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The Art of Editing with The Cincinnati Review

Podcast Episode · Page Count · 09/09/2025 · 51m

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Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · 24d

Love it when poems reference #kidlit such as this one by Emily Dressler in @okaydonkeymag.com

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Pete the Cat: All Grown Up & Alone In His Car by Emily Dressler

with help from my daughter At the library, we walk past Pete the Cat and you say it’s weird and sad how you grow up with these books but they don’t keep growing with you. Like, Pete the Cat doesn’t…

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Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · Sep 5

"placing unfinished or untested writing in front of the eyes of other experienced and respected writers actually takes courage...takes trust to believe, never mind accept, another writer’s critique of one’s own work. We’re all such guardians of our words." -Beverly Gologorsky
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How Writing in Community Can Forge Friendships and Evoke Change

Phillip Roth once said that only a fool would sit in a room for thirty years doubting himself. Writers are indeed fools grateful for the gift of creativity despite the constant doubt. We commune m…

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Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy to see my very short fiction "Laconic" up @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social -- a beautiful issue!
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LEON Literary Review

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Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social · Aug 28

I love this one so much

X-R-A-Y Literary Press @xraylitmag.bsky.social · Aug 28

we have a micro by Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social !

i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out

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LATE TO WORK by Benjamin Drevlow

This morning I’m hauling ass across the intersection across from the Krispy Kreme opposite the Kum & Go so I don’t get steamrolled by one of the yokels in their jacked-up pickups when some old lady in...

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · Aug 20

Don’t let them take your books! - www.bookbanpetition.us

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