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Elizabeth Burton
@eburtonwrites.bsky.social
Writer with words in Chautauqua, Split Lip, Good River Review, SoFloPoJo, The MacGuffin, JMWW, and others. Lover of books, words, dogs, horses, cats, and pretty much any other animal. English professor is my day job.
Anybody else querying? My latest newsletter: Finding Gratitude in the Query Trenches. Sometimes the waiting teaches us more than the destination. I'm learning what mindful waiting actually means: and why my animals might be the best teachers I have: writingeverything.substack.com/p/finding-gr...
Finding Gratitude in the Query Trenches
What Waiting Is Teaching Me about Being Present
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August 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My latest newsletter, about fiction and memoir, and why writing memoir helped me with my novel: writingeverything.substack.com/p/hannah-pit...
Hannah Pittard Was Right
On Truth-Telling Across Genres
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July 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
What if success was on how well you sleep at night (insomniacs exempt from this one)?
June 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My June newsletter, where I talk about finishing my novel, working with an editor, and starting the search for an agent, is here! Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQP1...
June 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This article explains very clearly why cuts to the Pell Grant program will only hurt our poorest and often, most hardworking, students: www.ccdaily.com/2025/05/stan...
Standing up against proposed higher ed cuts - Community College Daily
For the past few months, America’s most prestigious universities have been under attack by a president intent on chastening “woke elites” and flexing his political muscle to show that not even the wor...
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May 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Here's my latest newsletter, about my "origin story" as a writer. What's your origin story?

Link: writingeverything.substack.com/p/plastic-ho...
May 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I'd be honored if you'd check out my latest newsletter: "What I Learned from an Abused Horse: And What Vision Boards Have to Do with Hope"
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April 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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THE KENDRICK SUPER BOWL CURRICULUM!! 🔥

by Linda J.M. Holloway, Ed.D., NCC & April T. Berry, Ph.D.

Legit great stuff here, teachers / professors:
Class is in Session with Kendrick Lamar- Curriculum Study Guide.pdf
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February 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I'd be honored if you would check out my latest newsletter on revising individual poems: writingeverything.substack.com/p/revising-t...
Revising Those Poetry Drafts
From Start to Finish
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February 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Contributor ‪@eburtonwrites.bsky.social‬ has new flash fiction in South Florida Poetry Journal! It's a flash with a haiku inside! Read "To the Woman Talking to Her Therapist on Speaker at Waffle House" here: https://buff.ly/49bloKJ
November 28, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Here's my newest newsletter, where I talk about why we need to write a great deal badly in order to write a few things well: writingeverything.substack.com/p/when-okay-...
When Okay Is Good Enough:
Why You Need to Write Badly
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November 24, 2024 at 9:58 PM
My latest flash fiction piece, "To the Woman Talking to Her Therapist on Speaker at Waffle House," is up at South Florida Poetry Journal. It includes alternate timelines, imagined conversations, and even an embedded haiku! Link: www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-35-nov...
November 23, 2024 at 9:47 PM
My fiction chapbook is ready for preorder at Appalachia Book Company! Set in western China, it features flashbacks to Eastern Kentucky and is about love lost, resilience, and the healing power of horses. Link: www.appalachiabook.co/store/p/of-l...
November 15, 2024 at 10:24 PM
See my latest piece, a micro memoir, up at Good River Review: goodriverreview.com/post/elizabeth-burton
Water
by Elizabeth Burton
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November 8, 2024 at 8:53 AM
📝 🌟
Ever feel like your creativity well has run dry? In my latest newsletter, we dive into:

Why dry spells are normal (even Maya Angelou had them!)
How switching genres can reignite your spark
10 unique prompts to kickstart your writing

#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritersBlock #WritingTips
August 10, 2024 at 10:52 PM
📚✍️ Calling all writers! Dive into the craft with 'Writing Everything' newsletter. This month: we're looking at fiction and the art of 'show, don't tell,' with a unique writing prompt to sharpen your skills. Subscribe now and let's write! #WritingCommunity"
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Writing Everything | Elizabeth Burton | Substack
As a writer who enjoys writing and publishing in multiple genres, this newsletter covers every aspect of the writing life, from switching gears from poetry to fiction to burnout and rejections. Join ...
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July 22, 2024 at 2:29 PM
My husband bought me an early birthday present: a one of a kind necklace of sodalite and copper. I love it!
April 5, 2024 at 11:48 PM
I have a new flash memoir up at Bending Genres today. Thanks so much to the editors and to @avitusbcarle.bsky.social for helpful edits! Here's the link: bendinggenres.com/dark-but-nev...
February 14, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Out at JMWW today, my flash cnf, "The Mortality of Giants." Thanks to @avitusbcarle.bsky.social for her excellent editing help! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/c...
October 26, 2023 at 7:52 PM
Out today, in JMWW, a journal I love, is my flash creative nonfiction piece, "The Mortality of Giants." Thanks to the Editors and to Avitus B. Carle for her excellent editing help!https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/creative-nonfiction-the-mortality-of-giants-by-elizabeth-burton/
October 26, 2023 at 7:46 PM