Shayne Terry
@shayneterry.bsky.social
Leave: A Postpartum Account out now from Autofocus Books!
Work in American Chordata, Catapult, Chicago Review of Books, Triquarterly, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.
Glad to be here. ✨
Work in American Chordata, Catapult, Chicago Review of Books, Triquarterly, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.
Glad to be here. ✨
So glad this reading series exists! 🫶
June 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
So glad this reading series exists! 🫶
This is my EIGHTH #1000wordsofsummer! This year’s prep: www.thenextnovel.com/p/1000-words...
1000 Words of Summer 2025 prep
It’s my favorite time of year!
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May 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is my EIGHTH #1000wordsofsummer! This year’s prep: www.thenextnovel.com/p/1000-words...
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Ditmas Lit is 1 week from today, Wed. 5/28! We can’t wait to welcome @briangresko.bsky.social @shayneterry.bsky.social, Leila Taylor, and Andrew E. Colarusso!
May 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Ditmas Lit is 1 week from today, Wed. 5/28! We can’t wait to welcome @briangresko.bsky.social @shayneterry.bsky.social, Leila Taylor, and Andrew E. Colarusso!
Such an honor to talk to @ariannarebolini.bsky.social about her memoir Better, what it means to be “healed,” and the craft of writing about real life.
“The work continues…I’m learning better ways of managing myself in the world and managing as a parent, but it’s not a straight line.”
@shayneterry.bsky.social's interview with @ariannarebolini.bsky.social on her new book "Better" (Harper Collins) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/04/29/b...
@shayneterry.bsky.social's interview with @ariannarebolini.bsky.social on her new book "Better" (Harper Collins) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/04/29/b...
Better Doesn’t Really Exist: An Interview with Arianna Rebolini - Chicago Review of Books
Arianna Rebolini on the societal causes of suicidality, nonlinear recovery narratives, and her book, Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die.
chireviewofbooks.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Such an honor to talk to @ariannarebolini.bsky.social about her memoir Better, what it means to be “healed,” and the craft of writing about real life.
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The Lives of Writers returns today in new form! In it, I weave together brief readings & interview clips from our spring authors:
@erindorney.bsky.social,
@shayneterry.bsky.social,
& @troseistrose.bsky.social.
Listen wherever, or here’s a link to Apple Pods: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
@erindorney.bsky.social,
@shayneterry.bsky.social,
& @troseistrose.bsky.social.
Listen wherever, or here’s a link to Apple Pods: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Spring 2025
Podcast Episode · The Lives of Writers · 04/03/2025 · 1h 27m
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April 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Lives of Writers returns today in new form! In it, I weave together brief readings & interview clips from our spring authors:
@erindorney.bsky.social,
@shayneterry.bsky.social,
& @troseistrose.bsky.social.
Listen wherever, or here’s a link to Apple Pods: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
@erindorney.bsky.social,
@shayneterry.bsky.social,
& @troseistrose.bsky.social.
Listen wherever, or here’s a link to Apple Pods: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Philly friends! I will be in your city next Thursday, talking with the one and only Jiordan Castle at H&H Books! Come out 🤗 www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...
March 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Philly friends! I will be in your city next Thursday, talking with the one and only Jiordan Castle at H&H Books! Come out 🤗 www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...
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“When there are enough mothers, there will be no more guns, I reason to myself. I want to believe.”
@shayneterry.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social
@shayneterry.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
“When there are enough mothers, there will be no more guns, I reason to myself. I want to believe.”
@shayneterry.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social
@shayneterry.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social
To be read this closely, this generously, especially by someone whose work you admire and deeply respect, is a gift. 🙏
I finished writing this @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on the eve of my child’s 1st birthday. Marking the end of my first postpartum year w/ @shayneterry.bsky.social's Leave, a book about pain, intergenerational trauma, & motherhood. Thanks forever to Ellie Eberlee
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-bo...
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A Body Is Never Just a Body | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jenessa Abrams considers Shayne Terry’s “Leave: A Postpartum Account.”
lareviewofbooks.org
February 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
To be read this closely, this generously, especially by someone whose work you admire and deeply respect, is a gift. 🙏
Talking to Jiordan Castle is pure joy. Thanks to The Rumpus for hosting this conversation about the craft of the postpartum account. ✨
"Things change, the way you feel about them changes, and the way you remember them changes."
Jiordan Castle interviews @shayneterry.bsky.social about Leave: A Postpartum Account (@autofocusbooks.bsky.social).
➡️ https://buff.ly/3ESFrTg
Jiordan Castle interviews @shayneterry.bsky.social about Leave: A Postpartum Account (@autofocusbooks.bsky.social).
➡️ https://buff.ly/3ESFrTg
February 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Talking to Jiordan Castle is pure joy. Thanks to The Rumpus for hosting this conversation about the craft of the postpartum account. ✨
Thirteen questions that are also writing prompts. Keep going!
Day 36 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @shayneterry.bsky.social Has Thirteen Questions
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@writingco-lab.bsky.social
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@writingco-lab.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thirteen questions that are also writing prompts. Keep going!
Hi book friends! My book tour for Leave: A Postpartum Account 🪡kicks off on TUESDAY and I would love to see you on the road. I’ll also be at AWP — say hello! 👋
February 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hi book friends! My book tour for Leave: A Postpartum Account 🪡kicks off on TUESDAY and I would love to see you on the road. I’ll also be at AWP — say hello! 👋
This conversation with @rachellayown.bsky.social went so many places: account vs. memoir, the birth/death portal, the failings of the American health insurance system, paid family leave, making art from life… thank you to The Brooklyn Rail for having us! 🪡 brooklynrail.org/2025/02/book...
SHAYNE TERRY with Rachel León | The Brooklyn Rail
Shayne Terry’s Leave: A Postpartum Account isn’t exactly a memoir, but tells of her heinous postpartum experience involving a painful obstetric anal sphincter injury. Leave isn’t Terry processing her ...
brooklynrail.org
February 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This conversation with @rachellayown.bsky.social went so many places: account vs. memoir, the birth/death portal, the failings of the American health insurance system, paid family leave, making art from life… thank you to The Brooklyn Rail for having us! 🪡 brooklynrail.org/2025/02/book...
Ooh I love this new @sfreligh.bsky.social flash 🤩
January 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Ooh I love this new @sfreligh.bsky.social flash 🤩
I’m in.
Raise your hand if you’re joining nearly 10,000 other writers in this winter’s Mini 1000.
Starts Jan 3, 5 days of us writing 1000 words a day with letters from me (and some special guests!) It’s free and fun and it’ll kick your writing year into gear. 💪
mini1000.substack.com/p/the-next-m...
Starts Jan 3, 5 days of us writing 1000 words a day with letters from me (and some special guests!) It’s free and fun and it’ll kick your writing year into gear. 💪
mini1000.substack.com/p/the-next-m...
Announcing The Next Mini 1000
January 3-7, 2025.
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December 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM
I’m in.
Yes! 🙌 I am thrilled to be part of this! Do you have a novel or short story collection coming out with a small press next year? I would love to know about it!
Big day in #100smallpress world! I'm drafting the welcome email to our 80 reviewers & I added an author interest form to www.miriamgershow.com/100smallpress.
We have directory of 250+ presses, but now authors w small press books releasing Dec 24- Nov 25 can tell us directly.
Spread the word!
We have directory of 250+ presses, but now authors w small press books releasing Dec 24- Nov 25 can tell us directly.
Spread the word!
December 17, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Yes! 🙌 I am thrilled to be part of this! Do you have a novel or short story collection coming out with a small press next year? I would love to know about it!
Waxahatchee Tiny Desk dropping just when you need it. ✨
December 16, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Waxahatchee Tiny Desk dropping just when you need it. ✨
I read so many good books in 2024 and these were my favorites. www.thenextnovel.com/p/my-top-10-...
My top 10 books of 2024
This is not a gift guide, but books do make great gifts
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December 15, 2024 at 4:37 PM
I read so many good books in 2024 and these were my favorites. www.thenextnovel.com/p/my-top-10-...
That moment when you realize the two essays you’ve been writing are actually one essay, and a simple copy and paste gets you so much closer to a full draft. ✨
December 14, 2024 at 5:15 PM
That moment when you realize the two essays you’ve been writing are actually one essay, and a simple copy and paste gets you so much closer to a full draft. ✨
I just read this and loved it. The way the body holds on, the way the body releases.
And now for the hard stuff: wrote this essay after a lil reading with my Autofocus fam (shoutout @aaronburch.bsky.social + @hollypelesky.bsky.social) about a splinter I lodged in my body; a metaphor about publishing Snakeskin last year but also A LITERAL SPLINTER writeordiemag.com/essays/splin...
Splinter — Write or Die Magazine
Just in time for holidays with family, Kristine Langley Mahler shares on the emotional landmines of writing about people we love in this personal essay.
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December 14, 2024 at 11:02 AM
I just read this and loved it. The way the body holds on, the way the body releases.
Saw my friend Clare Needham today and I want more poets in my life. They are the best.
December 9, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Saw my friend Clare Needham today and I want more poets in my life. They are the best.
These days I think of myself as having two bodies, and I feel better when I focus on what my healthy, strong body can do than when I dwell on what my “broken” body can’t. (We are not broken!)
December 6, 2024 at 11:44 AM
These days I think of myself as having two bodies, and I feel better when I focus on what my healthy, strong body can do than when I dwell on what my “broken” body can’t. (We are not broken!)
“Despite the drawbacks, life is still the best thing going.”
We love a Mike Nagel essay where people just kind of walk around and look at stuff!
We love a Mike Nagel essay where people just kind of walk around and look at stuff!
If you like essays where people just kind of walk around and look at stuff, boy do I have one for you!
www.nocontactmag.com/closing-time...
www.nocontactmag.com/closing-time...
The Descent of Man — NO CONTACT
by Mike Nagel My dad said that in the last weeks of his life, my grandfather went from eating solid food to eating baby food to eating nothing at all. A whole life in reverse. It reminded me of a po...
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December 6, 2024 at 9:53 AM
“Despite the drawbacks, life is still the best thing going.”
We love a Mike Nagel essay where people just kind of walk around and look at stuff!
We love a Mike Nagel essay where people just kind of walk around and look at stuff!
Wrote a little about James Schuyler in my newsletter this week and it reminded me about this small gem, just 77 pages but contains such a world. #booksky
December 3, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Wrote a little about James Schuyler in my newsletter this week and it reminded me about this small gem, just 77 pages but contains such a world. #booksky
I hope someone wonderful takes over Pidgeonholes! Such a great lit mag. ♥️
Making sure the literary community over here sees this news on Twitter from Pidgeonholes, a lit mag I have always admired & enjoyed. 🧡
December 1, 2024 at 8:36 PM
I hope someone wonderful takes over Pidgeonholes! Such a great lit mag. ♥️