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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Apr 24

Excited to have this piece about my sister Jody and cooking with my children published today at One Potato! Link in bio. And thank you to @penparentis.bsky.social for their support of artists who parent.

onepotato.substack.com/p/the-solace...

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Mar 14

I had not heard of this book but now I am going to read it tonight.

Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · Mar 14

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":

"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?”

So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Mar 4

Join us and @taracampbell.bsky.social as we get weird with micros! www.smokelong.com/product/lets...

“Let’s Get Weird!” with Tara Campbell - SmokeLong Quarterly

Unleash the unreal in your writing, both in fiction and creative nonfictions. We’ll explore multiple ways of stretching reality to turn common experiences into uncommon stories. Date: March 9 Time: 8p...

www.smokelong.com

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Feb 21

I loved being in workshop with you, Helen!

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Feb 21

It’s the end of Tin House Winter Workshop and I feel like my mind and spirit have been magnified by 10.

So grateful for an amazing instructor; generous cohorts; @almajor.bsky.social and everyone @tinhouse.bsky.social who work hard to make the amazing place it is. I feel utterly changed. 💕

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Feb 17

It’s so cute! New obsession.

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Feb 16

Just Nugget and I enjoying @tinhouse.bsky.social karaoke night! 🎤

Woman with brown hair and glasses, and a striped cat cuddled in her arms

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Stacy @stacy31.bsky.social · Feb 11

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Jan 25

99.99% of the time you're going to be the first and last person to read it. If it ever gets in front of another human, it has already survived the insurmountable odds of your own self-rejection, and the odds become much more grim after that. Just go ahead and write whatever you want!

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Jan 11

Going to think about this poem for a long time.

Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · Jan 11

NEW POEM #197: "Greyhound" by Caroline Shea (@therealcshea.bsky.social)

"I run for no other
reason but the running. Long since lure-
wise, I play at predation.
Clockwork jackrabbit. Gear-blooded hare.
The aim is not capture (impossible
always) but pursuit."

stonecirclereview.com/greyhound

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Jan 8

So thrilled to be part of the Tin House Winter Workshop in February, working with Vanessa Angélica Villarreal!

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Jan 8

Posting my 2024 reads, a bit late.

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James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · Dec 17

‘And then I saw it—what everyone not saying.’

Such a brilliantly written story from Banchiwosen Woldeyesus in @smokelong.bsky.social, all those things unsaid… 🐕

www.smokelong.com/stories/thes...

These Things We Not Saying - SmokeLong Quarterly

At the church’s gate, until the town people surrounded them, the women not spoke the horrible truth. They not talked about the man’s wives who, when they saw him, dropped on the ground at his feet lik...

www.smokelong.com

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Dec 15

Great read — hilarious and devastating.

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Nov 13

Wow—every beautiful, haunting sentence.

“You know then that she will have learnt the dual trick of ignoring her pain,
and knowing that she deserves it.”

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social

epistemiclit.com/current-issu...

FIBROMYALGIA IS A DIAGNOSIS OF EXCLUSION -

Widespread Pain Index (WPI) ≥ 7 and Symptom Severity Score (SSS) ≥ 5, or WPI 3-6 and SSS ≥ 9

epistemiclit.com

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Oct 26

A great evening at Brazos Bookstore — looking forward to reading Mark’s new book, starting this weekend.

•Mark Haber
•Lesser Ruins

Collage of three photos: one of a book titled Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber; one of two people in conversation; one is a flyer with the book event information on it.

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Oct 1

He makes working difficult but he’s cute while doing it.

Photo of a grey striped tabby cat resting his head on a person’s arm. This person — me— is trying to type on a computer keyboard.

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Sep 26

My sweet cat, Pippin ❤️

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you, Matt!

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Rachael Holliday 💖💜💙 @reeholliday.bsky.social · Aug 22

I am thrilled that my CNF piece found a home at Motherwell Magazine!

We just finished getting our oldest to college today, and so this feels like a great marker to the day. 💗

motherwellmag.com/2024/08/22/h...