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Stanley Stocker
@stanleystocker.bsky.social
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He/Him. PEN America/Dau Prize, Creative Power Award, Finalist Best Spiritual Award - Fiction. “Writing is an act of patient endurance; it is a spiritual pursuit, and curiosity is the god that oversees it all.” - Paisley Rekdal
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · May 17
Delighted to have a story "The Hunt" in the latest issue of African American Review. Thank you to editors Aileen M. Keenan and Nathan L. Grant. @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social

"The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 1d
This is wonderful 🌕
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 3d
Honored that my piece Moon Boots found the best home in @thesunmagazine.bsky.social

It's about the mayhem and magic of being a single mother. I hope you'll read it

www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/moo...
Moon Boots
Our baby could not yet hold his head up. I lay on my parents’ living room floor next to my son, wondering how I was going to afford and overcome everything by myself, thinking I was too clumsy to take...
www.thesunmagazine.org
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泣鬼虫A R T🌻🎸 @nakimushiart.bsky.social · May 12
EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS! Round 2. I got urgent medical bills cause my physical health has been declining. I’m a disabled, black artist and feel like I don’t have to explain how hard that’s been over the last years. Please share and consider buying. Thank you everyone and sorry. 🥲💖 #commissions #art
A commission sheet page with my commission rules and prices, Full Body prices: $110, Background Detailed: $100-$200+, Simple: $15-$25, Additional character: $50+, Replicate any Art Style: $25 A commission sheet page with my commission rules and prices, Half-body prices: $80-$85, Background Detailed: $85-$90+, Simple: $15-$20 A commission sheet page 3 with my commission rules and prices, Bust prices: $65, Background Detailed: $85, Simple: $10-$15 A commission sheet page with my commission rules and prices, chibi prices: $45-$65, Background Detailed: $45+, Simple: Free. Will do: NSFW, Furries, gore Won’t do: Loli/Shota, SA/R*pe
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Jul 12
My plan is to chillax as much as possible.
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Jul 12
I did an interview about keeping notebooks / diaries / journals in @kellymcmasters.bsky.social newsletter. Thanks again, Kelly, for allowing a member of the journaling tribe to share.

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SHOW ME YOUR DIARY
featuring writer Stanley Stocker
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Jul 12
Wow. That really is beautiful. For a second, I wondered if it was art and made of paper.
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Jun 13
www.lazuliliterarygroup.com/practical-me...
PRACTICAL MEDICAL ADVICE FOR FEMALE SUBJECTS OF THE CAPE COLONY by Karen Jennings
Should you find yourself as one of the enslaved in a private home at the Cape, beaten for insolence, or for burning the beans, or any other such infraction, take care to call on the snuff shop of free...
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Joris Lombaert @j357l.bsky.social · May 8
The kids are ok.
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Lwo tew a @levisatyrane.bsky.social · May 8
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · May 21
I see what you did there, Tim-Tim. Bravo.
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · May 20
I have it on great authority that a villanelle is a villainous, nay, traitorous sonnet.
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · May 17
Delighted to have a story "The Hunt" in the latest issue of African American Review. Thank you to editors Aileen M. Keenan and Nathan L. Grant. @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social

"The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · May 17
Wonderful. I love the line about you and the caterpillar being appalled.
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · May 17
Yes, indeed. I loved that. Thank you for sharing.
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · May 5
An invaluable guide to applying for writing residencies from Prince Shakur.

Also, if you are member of the global majority, please consider applying for the Baldwin for the Arts fellowship.

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How to Master The Writing Residency Application
An ESSENTIAL Checklist for fine tuning your application every time to make the process faster and to get more acceptances
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Apr 28
People on meds need love too, broski
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Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social · Apr 24
Please, please, please, I need your help!
(it's for next year's rankings...)
Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024?
If not, could you please retweet?
Thank you so much! 🙏
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Mar 24
okay. that made me laugh out loud.
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Mar 24
grow up.
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Mar 22
Same. It looks fantastic, but I just can't buy another streaming service until I cancel another one.
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Mar 16
"Through the peep hole I saw a harried-looking white woman. Though she appeared younger than me, her hair was brittle and frizzed and her cheek bones stuck out painfully. She was curled over a package buried against her chest. It was wrapped in a blanket and had the form of a human."
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Harli James @harlijames.bsky.social · Mar 16
New story out now! A postpartum woman struggles to believe what she knows is true about her child. ghostcitypress.com/february-202...

Thanks to Ghost City Review for publishing it.
February 2025 — Ghost City Press
Ghost City Review February 2025
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Mar 16
Congratulations, Harli!
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Mar 15
I have given in to that urge. Saturday morning writing from bed is now my thing. Which is where I came across the below. Thought of your work when I saw it. Grants for visual arts journalism.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Mar 15
Thank you. I suspected as much. I shall now go kick nonpet rocks.
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Eliane Boey 🎲🚀CLUB CONTANGO out now @elianeboey.bsky.social · Mar 11
Here goes nothing. CLUB CONTANGO is eligible for the Hugo awards (novel) if you're so inclined. 🎲🔥 Single mum on a corporate-owned space station has three jobs and zero fucks left to give until murder, and union scabbing, breathe too close for comfort.
‪Thomas Ha‬ ‪@thomasha.bsky.social‬ · 43m *whispering under breath* also included in UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES coming Sept. 2025 from @undertow.bsky.social and available for preorder and may be an important keystone/throughline story that links with others. *cough* undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta... Uncertain Sons and Other Stories (PRE-ORDER) — Undertow Publications Sept. 2025 Cover art by Ove Tøpfer Trade paperback (284 pages) Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; ... undertowpublications.com ‪ZD Dochterman‬ ‪@zddochterman.bsky.social‬ · 55m From 2022, but my favorite story I've read this year. An eerie, almost spectral, minimalist prose. It builds suspense not around the question of "what will happen?" but rather "what is happening?" A land of intangibility & memorylessness. From @thomasha.bsky.social & @bourbonpenn.bsky.social Thomas Ha > House Traveler > Bourbon Penn The five of us were gathered on the floor of one of the last houses, trying to decide which of the group would be the one to go outside. Sitting around an electric camping lantern, our legs crossed li... www.bourbonpenn.com Reposted by you ‪Ivy Grimes‬ ‪@ivygrimes.bsky.social‬ · 10h The new bookstore @eveninghouse.bsky.social run by @johnchrostek.bsky.social and Amanda is great for book-hunting! Check out the helpful curated lists. I ordered two fascinating books from here that I hadn't heard of before visiting the site. eveninghousebooks.com Evening House Books eveninghousebooks.com Reposted by you ‪Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf‬ ‪@eliaseells.bsky.social‬ · 1d It's #MAR10Day! And also six months of COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES out in the world. I'm sipping a Mariogarita this evening to celebrate and I hope you will to!! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elias... Self-portait with COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES and a Mariogarita ALT The reference photo for the illustrat…
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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · Mar 9
Please ask her if I'll ever get back my pet rock that my college girlfriend never gave back after we split up.
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