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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 2d

"My poetry began as a father’s sly growl, became a spectacle on a rickety stage washed in limelight, and now is a 70-year-old woman’s walk back into a thousand yesterdays." Read this excerpt from @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social's memoir THE INTENTIONS OF THUNDER

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 3d

Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages

Nobody—and I mean NOBODY—warned me about my pubic hair. It glistened for years, springy and sprite, an Ivory Soap-scented welcome mat for lucky episodic visitors. I never gave it much thought, certainly didn’t see a need to clock in every

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Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 14d

We treat our chapbooks just like our full-length titles—the same commitment to cover design, production, editorial care, and publicity. Whether you're a new, emerging, or established writer, send us your chapbook! We can't wait to read your work.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you @dehardy.bsky.social and @claudineliterary.bsky.social for your generous review of my flash chapbook THE MISSING GIRL (@blacklawrence.bsky.social)! Take a look at the stellar microprose and glowing review of @kazbarwrites.bsky.social's chapbook as well!

Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 3d

Check out our review of The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle. 🫥👧🏻🐈‍⬛

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The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle | A Review

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 29d

"Because all you have now is paper and pencil. Because no one says anything about your pages, shaded entirely black."
Absolutely stunning @dawnsteffler.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Because all you have now is paper and pencil." Why You Start Drawing Again by Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/08/m...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI "In his pockets: loose change, a book of matches, and the ace of spades. The card is grimier than when I saw it earlier." Read this stunning flash by @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social
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The Ace of Teeth by Claudia Monpere

My brother and I attempt awkward conversation at a Chinese restaurant near the dive motel where he lives. I try not to stare at his teeth: gray, chipped, missing. Dark, square caves in his mouth. H…

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 3d

MCSWEENEY'S: We, the GOP, Don’t Want a Government Shutdown, But... www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...

We, the GOP, Don’t Want a Government Shutdown, But…

We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but Democrats are dangerously close to keeping health insurance costs from spiking. We, the GOP, don’t want a s...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans.

U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.

Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.

This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.

It was always about cruelty.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to your review too! ❤️

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 6d

So cruel and barbaric. "Family separation is one of several ways in which the US government is, increasingly, moving immigrants around the country – shuffling detainees through a vast, chaotic system that advocates say is intentionally cruel."
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Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 7d

"Remembering can be a burden, just as final preparations for a loved one are a weight. That planning for the service is the last thing you will ever do for them while they are here on earth." Love this new essay by @edenroyce.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 7d

“Laying someone to rest is the final act of care that leaves a lingering impression, not only on the dead, but on you.” @edenroyce.bsky.social on the importance of funerary details in the face of grief.

What My Grandmother’s Death Folder Taught Me About Love and Duty

My grandmother showed me her death folder when I was eight years old. She was a practical woman, born on a farm in upstate South Carolina, married to a Gullah man from Johns Island when she was ba…

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 7d

Heartbreaking flash essay by Helen Collins Sitler via @short-reads.org. 💔 www.short-reads.org/i-want-a-do-...

I Want a Do-Over

by Helen Collins Sitler | The limits of change.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 7d

Check out my interview in CRAFT with @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social, who's judging our Flash Prose Prize. www.craftliterary.com/2025/10/01/i...

Interview: Grant Faulkner - CRAFT

Grant Faulkner, who will serve as our guest judge for the CRAFT 2025 Flash Prose Prize, recently told me that he dislikes conventional bios and prefers to find something odd on the internet about writ...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 9d

Friends are getting emails from "agents" full of AI-generated praise. When my writer-husband was contacted by a fictitious book club in DC, I did some digging. Have any of you been contacted by one of these scammers?
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Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams - Writer Beware

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a rising and extremely prolific marketing scam that I’ve been able to trace back to operators in Nigeria. Using highly personalized (AI-generated) email solicitations th...

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 22d

Our first acceptances started going out this week! Disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, we'd love to read your work!

Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · Sep 1

Nerve to Write is a new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!

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Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social · 19d

Are you a disabled, chronically ill, or neurodivergent writer with a recent or forthcoming book? If so, query us about our new book review and interview series. We'd love to celebrate your work!

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 20d

Heather Cox Richardson on the First Amendment, September 17, 2025 (Wednesday) open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

September 17, 2025 (Wednesday)

This evening, John Koblin, Michael M.

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 20d

"Democratic House member Ro Khanna said 'this is perhaps the first administration to make comedy illegal.'"

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‘Censoring you in real time’: suspension of Jimmy Kimmel show sparks shock and fears for free speech

ABC decision over Kimmel comments comes hours after Trump-appointed chair of US media regulator threatened broadcaster’s affiliate stations’ licenses

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Alizabeth Worley @alizabethworley.bsky.social · 28d

Wonderful to wake up to this publication this morning! CRAFT is an incredible journal, and it's a delight to have my work there.

Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 28d

"…now I’m wondering, why have I refused myself the gravel of this memory until now, when I can remember so little of it all?" Beautiful flash-length meditation on a childhood experience by @alizabethworley.bsky.social at CRAFT: www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/10/w...

What I Want to Know by Alizabeth Worley - CRAFT

One day when I was little, I trespassed the aluminum gate that was next to our little orchard in search of a Frisbee or Nerf ball or some such thing that we had sent flying, accidentally, over the bar...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 21d

"Los Angeles is pelted by torrential rains the same week my father is admitted to the hospital with too much fluid in his legs." Beautifully woven CNF by @aimee-bender.bsky.social in the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social
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Organs - SmokeLong Quarterly

Los Angeles is pelted by torrential rains the same week my father is admitted to the hospital with too much fluid in his legs. You cannot safely empty them slowly, explains the doctor, as they hook hi...

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 21d

The same administration that refuses to release the Epstein files.

"By March, Reuters reported that “scores of agents” who specialize in child sexual exploitation investigations had been reassigned to immigration enforcement."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Revealed: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation

Experts say decades of progress are under threat; Trump officials say administration remains committed to fighting trafficking and sex abuse

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Emma Roller @emmaroller.bsky.social · 22d

Just gonna pretend the flags at half mast are for Robert Redford

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 27d

“My favorite compliment that I got from a writer early on was, ‘you leave out all the right things.’” ~ Amy Hempel

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 24d

Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White.
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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 26d

“We just move around them, as if they are not the most important objects in the room, as if they are not the reason we are here doing this in the first place.”

Navigating My Mother’s Eviction, and My Own - Electric Literature

I ask the social worker what my mother’s options are. He tells me there is a seven-year waitlist for Section 8 housing

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 24d

Can’t wait to teach “Creative Constraints: Invitations to New Flash”! Asynchronous. Online. October 18-20. SIGN UP BY TOMORROW, September 15, for a 15% discount (code FLASH15)!
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Creative Constraints: Invitations to New Flash with Jacqueline Doyle - Flash Fiction Institute

In this three-day, asynchronous workshop, you'll generate new flash fiction and flash creative nonfiction using a variety of creative constraints.

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