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Jude Jones (they/them)

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Non-binary former academic, current creative writer. Newsletter “Everything is Temporary” at https://noneverything.substack.com Editor of forthcoming lit mag “Tiny Memoir” at https://tinymemoir.substack.com

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jun 18

Help! I’ve newly joined bluesky and I don’t know anyone on here. I’m looking for writers and readers of memoir and autofiction. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Sep 1

Tiny Memoir lit mag submissions are open as of today. Submit your 50-200 word memoirs here!

#WritingCommunity #litmag

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Submissions are now open!

submit your 50-200 word memoirs here

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 7

Tiny Memoir #litmag submissions will open in September. Here’s the info. Is anything missing?

#WritingCommunity

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Submissions will open in September 2025

Genre: We are looking specifically for memoir—that is, “an intimate look at a moment in time” (Jessica Dukes, Celadon Books).

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geriscape.bsky.social @geriscape.bsky.social · Aug 30

It's already been composed and edited, an hour after reading the Call for Submissions.

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Aug 30

That’s amazing!!! Can’t wait to read it.

Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Aug 16

I am allergic to my mother.
#WIPSnips

I am allergic to my mother. This is a discovery I make in my late 20s,

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Aug 7

“I bore witness to what he grew up with—the frying pans across the forehead from his mom—when I stayed at his sister's house and saw her doing it to my step-neices. It really was as brutal as it sounds, and much more methodical and frequent than his one-time racket smash with me.”
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · Aug 7

The #WIPSnips word for August 7th is "frequent"

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
August 7 - frequent
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
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Robert Macmillan @robfmac.bsky.social · Aug 7

Once again:

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Aug 5

What do you expect of Memoir?

#amwriting #WritingCommunity

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What I expect of memoir

Yesterday I picked up the book handling the truth: on the writing of memoir by Beth Kephart.

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 28

“She” also appears to have made an account on here and just followed me. Can’t wait for the DM.

Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 28

A grotesque autofiction parody followed by an attempt to define autofiction

#amwriting #WritingCommunity

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French autofiction made me do it

Imagine me wearing a T-shirt that reads “I went to a French autofiction class and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”, and then the following text is printed on the back:

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 28

Today’s #WIPSnips word is “trash”

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky

“…there’s no danger to conjuring up happiness, joy, or even sadness, grief, loss - you can write through grins and tears, but you probably shouldn't write through a psychotic episode unless you're going to trash the writing after…”

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · Jul 28

Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips

The word for July 28th is "trash"

It's Monday and I have to go back to the dentist so I'm feeling very Oscar the Grouch vibes for today. TRASH! 😂

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
July 28 - trash
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
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The image behind the text is a border that is black with stars with a light blue rectangle highlighted by a fuchsia line. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 24

The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir

#amwriting #WriteSky

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Five more minutes

forgive me for not loving water after this

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 21

That was a tough read, I’m not gonna lie. The way his death is only all about her…

Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 19

This piece is about trying / failing to break assumptions.

Each person is living a life filled with all sorts of good and bad and exciting and horrifying experiences. If I just go by their buns and their outfits, I'll never learn anything interesting.

#amwriting

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Assumptions

People, gender, and tattoos

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 19

#WIPSnips July 19 word is “search”

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Text that reads “I circled the coffee shop in search of a stranger's object worth writing about. Next to every customer I saw the same things: phone, computer, coffee. Headphones, charger, bag. Finally, something different: a fat notebook, in my imagination brimming with exciting words. The cover off-white with an intricate lilac flower pattern, I wanted so much to open it and read. I hoped it wasn't just an agenda full of boring to do lists. In my head, I filled it with a writer's dreams.” with the word “search” highlighted.

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 15

“My view on suicide is contingent upon a system that doesn’t exist. I believe that everyone should have a choice, but that there should be a system in place that counsels people through that choice and offers a humane way to follow through with it.” —Rey Somatics

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Somatics & suicide grief changed the course of my life

An interview with Rey Somatics

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 11

Not only did the Alpha give me a different way to approach writing, but it also reignited my passion for writing itself.

Thank you, @adriannanine.bsky.social, for interviewing me about this handy gadget!

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Does the Freewrite Alpha actually facilitate distraction-free writing?

An 'inter-review' with Jude Jones, author of the newsletter Everything Is Temporary.

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 10

It’s particularly unpleasant for me since I’m allergic to everything (but more specifically, sesame seeds)

Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 8

I decided it was silly to hide my face. The people I’m trying to hide from would recognize me anyway.

Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 8

One thing I’d write more about if I had permission is how I’ve never figured out mothering. But I'm afraid of hurting people...

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#motherhood #amwriting #ElissaAltman #permission

Text, superimposed on a photo of a book open to show defaced pages, reads as follows: "Bad mothering: permission to write. I'm reading Elissa Altman's Permission - a book that is both about memoir and a memoir in and of itself - and I feel bad defacing the book so much with my own writing, but it has me inspired and at least I'm writing pencil."

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 7

Tiny Memoir #litmag submissions will open in September. Here’s the info. Is anything missing?

#WritingCommunity

open.substack.com/pub/tinymemo...

Submissions will open in September 2025

Genre: We are looking specifically for memoir—that is, “an intimate look at a moment in time” (Jessica Dukes, Celadon Books).

open.substack.com

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 5

Awww, thank you! It is a story about the overwhelmingly chaotic bohemian house that I grew up in, back in England in the 1990s. Thank you for being my biggest cheerleader!

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 5

So excited to have a piece in this forthcoming anthology!!

Procrastinating Writers United @pwritersu.com · Jul 4

COVER REVEAL!!!

We hope you're as excited as we are for the final version of THE YELLING CONTINUES! Anthology preorders will be available soon - stay tuned (ha!)

Learn more: pwritersu.com/TYC

Cover illustration for THE YELLING CONTINUES. Precariously stacked radios tower over the title and a soundboard. Below are contributor names:

KIRK ASTROTH ⏵ ROBERT BEVERIDGE ⏵ R C BIRCHLEY ⏵ CEILIDH BIRKHAHN ⏵ BRYTTON BJORNGAARD ⏵ LENI CHECKAS ⏵ JENNY CHU ⏵ EVA CLARK ⏵ DORIAN CRAWFORD ⏵ LISA DAILY ⏵ ANGEL T. DIONNE ⏵ LYNSEY FRANCE ⏵CONRAD GARDNER ⏵ DUANE L HERRMANN ⏵ JANNETT HIGHFILL ⏵ MARTHA HIPLEY ⏵ CAMILLA JOFFREY ⏵ JUDE JONES ⏵ NICHOLAS DE MARINO ⏵ MAXACRE ⏵ MONA MEHAS ⏵ ROBERT O'BANNER ⏵ GLORIA OGO ⏵CHANDRA PERSAUD ⏵ CHARLOTTE POITRAS ⏵ FRANK PODMORE ⏵ PAULA PRAEGER ⏵ JAKE PRICE ⏵ A. RIEL REGAN ⏵ VICTORIA C. ROSKAMS ⏵ KAILA SCHWARTZ ⏵ RL SELDEN ⏵ J. J. STEINFELD ⏵ DOUG STOIBER ⏵ UDAYA TUSHARA SUDANAGUNTA ⏵ KURN SUNDARAM ⏵ CJ THE TALL POET ⏵ ANTHONY DAVID VERNON ⏵ KRISTIN CAMITTA ZIMET

In-progress draft of the cover - radios mostly complete, but missing detail and color.

More incomplete version of cover. Missing around half of the radios, and the sketch layer is visible in the background.

Sketch version of TYC cover. There's a big blank space at the bottom that says [ CONTRIBUTOR NAMES HERE ]

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 5

Fitting In: A 190-word memoir

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What’s a Tiny Memoir?

This forthcoming lit mag will feature tiny memoirs of 50-200 words.

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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jul 4

I hereby admit to failing the @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge…somewhere along the way I lost track of days and skipped one, then another. I see we’re on day 10 when I haven’t posted day 8 yet, so I submit to failure. Thank you for the opportunity to read so many great pieces of writing!