Hardy
@hardygriffin.bsky.social
Fiction writer, Turkish translator. Follows back if you're not a bot. He/Him.
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Check out Brad Shurmantine’s first book of poetry, Tramp, coming out June 27. Shurmantine, a Chestnut Review Mexico ’25 alum, is a retired English teacher who now writes full time.
You can pre-order Tramp on the Finishing Line Press website by May 2. Find Shurmantine at bradshurmantine.com
You can pre-order Tramp on the Finishing Line Press website by May 2. Find Shurmantine at bradshurmantine.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Check out Brad Shurmantine’s first book of poetry, Tramp, coming out June 27. Shurmantine, a Chestnut Review Mexico ’25 alum, is a retired English teacher who now writes full time.
You can pre-order Tramp on the Finishing Line Press website by May 2. Find Shurmantine at bradshurmantine.com
You can pre-order Tramp on the Finishing Line Press website by May 2. Find Shurmantine at bradshurmantine.com
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Beltaine, also known as May Day (1st May), marks the beginning of summer in pagan & Gaelic calendars. It's marked with Maypole dancing, bonfires, fertility rituals (👀) & by making posies & leaving them at the doors of those you love.
Merry May Day 🌿-some May posies my daughters made 8 years ago:
Merry May Day 🌿-some May posies my daughters made 8 years ago:
May 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Beltaine, also known as May Day (1st May), marks the beginning of summer in pagan & Gaelic calendars. It's marked with Maypole dancing, bonfires, fertility rituals (👀) & by making posies & leaving them at the doors of those you love.
Merry May Day 🌿-some May posies my daughters made 8 years ago:
Merry May Day 🌿-some May posies my daughters made 8 years ago:
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Testimonials from our January 2025 writing retreat will give you an inside feel for Chestnut Review retreats. Swipe ➡️.
We are offering ONE scholarship spot for our next retreat in Riga, Latvia.
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We are offering ONE scholarship spot for our next retreat in Riga, Latvia.
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February 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Testimonials from our January 2025 writing retreat will give you an inside feel for Chestnut Review retreats. Swipe ➡️.
We are offering ONE scholarship spot for our next retreat in Riga, Latvia.
chestnutreviewauxiliary.submittable.com/submit
We are offering ONE scholarship spot for our next retreat in Riga, Latvia.
chestnutreviewauxiliary.submittable.com/submit
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People can make beautiful things. We don’t have to bomb and shoot. Let’s make beautiful things.
February 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
People can make beautiful things. We don’t have to bomb and shoot. Let’s make beautiful things.
Translators -- we are putting together the next issue of Cable Street (cablestreet.org), and would love to feature your work. We especially love short excerpts of longer work to give a little taste of what's to come like a spoonful of stew (apologies, that was a bit much).
February 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Translators -- we are putting together the next issue of Cable Street (cablestreet.org), and would love to feature your work. We especially love short excerpts of longer work to give a little taste of what's to come like a spoonful of stew (apologies, that was a bit much).
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We’re busy working on our jam-packed Spring issue, dropping on April 1st. Go, go, go editors @hardygriffin.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social and @janschmidtwriter.bsky.social 💙📚
February 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
We’re busy working on our jam-packed Spring issue, dropping on April 1st. Go, go, go editors @hardygriffin.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social and @janschmidtwriter.bsky.social 💙📚
If Stephen King says something is horrible, you can bet it really, truly is.
USAID is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk wrote on Sunday in a social media post that many aid workers saw as confirmation the agency would soon be absorbed into the State Department and that some viewed as a potential threat to their personal safety. “Time for it to die.”
THIS HAS TO STOP.
THIS HAS TO STOP.
February 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
If Stephen King says something is horrible, you can bet it really, truly is.
View from the top of Ek Balam, in the Yucatan Peninsula. Magical place!
February 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
View from the top of Ek Balam, in the Yucatan Peninsula. Magical place!
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The print issue of @commonweal.bsky.social just dropped and Wow!—my book, Sweet Hunter, has a 2-page review by Sharon Mesmer. Delighted, honored, and grateful. Take a look: www.commonwealmagazine.org/mesmer-teres... 💙📚 Thank you @monkfishpublishing.bsky.social and @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social
Rapture in the Vernacular
In her poetry, St. Teresa of Ávila insisted on using the vernacular to explain transcendent realities.
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January 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The print issue of @commonweal.bsky.social just dropped and Wow!—my book, Sweet Hunter, has a 2-page review by Sharon Mesmer. Delighted, honored, and grateful. Take a look: www.commonwealmagazine.org/mesmer-teres... 💙📚 Thank you @monkfishpublishing.bsky.social and @dominicpreziosi.bsky.social
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Powerful! 💙📚 Translations from Turkish by @hardygriffin.bsky.social of novel excerpts by Ayfer Tunç in the new Cable Street: cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...
Photo by Abdullah Al Mallah at Unsplash
#Booksky #fiction #translation
Photo by Abdullah Al Mallah at Unsplash
#Booksky #fiction #translation
December 7, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Powerful! 💙📚 Translations from Turkish by @hardygriffin.bsky.social of novel excerpts by Ayfer Tunç in the new Cable Street: cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...
Photo by Abdullah Al Mallah at Unsplash
#Booksky #fiction #translation
Photo by Abdullah Al Mallah at Unsplash
#Booksky #fiction #translation
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Check out the amazing writers and visual artists in our current issue—like Ayfer Tunç translated by @hardygriffin.bsky.social. Prose at: cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...
January 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Check out the amazing writers and visual artists in our current issue—like Ayfer Tunç translated by @hardygriffin.bsky.social. Prose at: cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...
The latest issue is out! Awesome writing...
The honor is ours @janinalapapita.bsky.social ! These poems are wonderful! cablestreet.org
December 6, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The latest issue is out! Awesome writing...
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"...a dove leaving behind a hollow
within two fists not meant for war..."
'Where They Move Like Angels' by Vikki C.
Sharing my 2nd poem in the latest issue of Cable Street. With thanks again to Editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social ❤️
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...
within two fists not meant for war..."
'Where They Move Like Angels' by Vikki C.
Sharing my 2nd poem in the latest issue of Cable Street. With thanks again to Editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social ❤️
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...
December 4, 2024 at 8:33 AM
"...a dove leaving behind a hollow
within two fists not meant for war..."
'Where They Move Like Angels' by Vikki C.
Sharing my 2nd poem in the latest issue of Cable Street. With thanks again to Editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social ❤️
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...
within two fists not meant for war..."
'Where They Move Like Angels' by Vikki C.
Sharing my 2nd poem in the latest issue of Cable Street. With thanks again to Editor @danadelibovi.bsky.social ❤️
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
cablestreet.org/issue-7-tabl...
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🚨🚨🚨 Enormous news: the Constitutional Court of Romania has unanimously decided to cancel the presidential elections, G4 Media reports.
The electoral process for the election of the Romanian president has to be re-run in its entirety, with the government setting a new date.
The electoral process for the election of the Romanian president has to be re-run in its entirety, with the government setting a new date.
December 6, 2024 at 1:13 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Enormous news: the Constitutional Court of Romania has unanimously decided to cancel the presidential elections, G4 Media reports.
The electoral process for the election of the Romanian president has to be re-run in its entirety, with the government setting a new date.
The electoral process for the election of the Romanian president has to be re-run in its entirety, with the government setting a new date.
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Hope you will join us—it’s going to be a great conversation and reading with @djvorreyer.bsky.social 💙📚 To join, you’ll need to register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 12, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Hope you will join us—it’s going to be a great conversation and reading with @djvorreyer.bsky.social 💙📚 To join, you’ll need to register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...