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Jacqueline Doyle
@jacqdoyle.bsky.social
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Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF editor, CRAFT Literary Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
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AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!
January 22, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Only one more week to enter the Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest at CRAFT! Roxane Gay judges this year. See details here: www.craftliterary.com/craft-memoir...
January 18, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Thank you NUNUM for nominating "Your Perfect Day" for BEST MICROFICTION 2026, along with works by Dawn Miller @dawnwriter.bsky.social, Cole Beauchamp @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and others. Congrats to all!
January 4, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Not sure how to describe my piece in @bendinggenres.bsky.social today. A haunting maybe. A hybrid medley incorporating Poe's music, his murderers, his lovers, his women. Most of them come back.
bendinggenres.com/some-come-ba...
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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SF and Bay Area friends! Looking forward to reading with @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social and these great writers on Tuesday, Dec 9, at the Sycamore in the Mission.
December 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I’m bursting with good news I can’t disclose yet. In the meantime, our Thanksgiving cactus has bloomed. Have a happy Thanksgiving!
A Thanksgiving cactus with magenta blooms on a wood table with two bowls of fruit in the background, one with green grapes, one with an apple and bananas.
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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The inspiration for my flash:
September 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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The inspiration for my flash
September 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Surprised and thrilled to find my name on the longlist for the WIGLEAF TOP 50! Big thanks to Francine Witte, who published my micro in FLASH BOULEVARD, and to @laughingyeti.bsky.social, @samanito.bsky.social, and the @wigleaf.bsky.social readers! Lots of great flash to read here: www.wigleaf.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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It's here! Just picked up @sfmontgomery.bsky.social's ABBREVIATE (@smallharborpub.bsky.social) from my local indie bookstore. Can't wait to read this collection of flash creative nonfiction.
Slender paperback book held up in front of green plants with magenta flowers: lavender and orange and pink cover with figures of women and title ABBREVIATE and author's name Sarah Fawn Montgomery.
June 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I finally saw "American Symphony." Such a beautiful movie!
movie poster for A Netflix Documentary AMERICAN SYMPHONY showing Jon Baptiste conducting in Carnegie Hall and a vignette of Jon Baptiste with his wife Suleika Jaouad.
May 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Hooray! Woke up to an acceptance this morning!

#writing #writsky

photo: Unexpected Catalonia on Unsplash
A brown horse lying on its back on green grass, wiggling in delight.
May 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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If you happen to be in the vicinity of Santa Monica on Sunday, stop by the launch reading for the SANTA MONICA REVIEW from 5-7pm. Take a look at the great new issue, which includes a story by my husband Steve.
April 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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"How was your AWP?" Well, since you ask: www.jacquelinedoyle.com/whats-new/ho...
I limited my book acquisitions to what I could carry, and here they are: The new PAST TEN anthology, books by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, and Len Kuntz. There were so many more I wanted to buy!
four books displayed on a couch: THINGS I CAN'T EVEN TELL MYSELF by Len Kuntz with a pale gray cover and two dark figures, THE PAST TEN: AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Donald Quist, Kali White VanBaale, and Bailey Gaylin Moore, with an orange abstract design of overlapping sticks on the cover; OTHER EMERGENCIES by Sarah Freligh, a night sky with a blue moon and some clouds on the cover; and THESE WORN BODIES by Avitus B . Carle, with a collage on the cover with eyes and hands and magenta and black shapes against a white and aqua background.
March 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Celebrate International Women's Day before someone bans it in the U.S.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY in white and red lettering. #BreakTheBias in small black lettering against a purple background with three drawings of women's profiles in different colors.
March 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The new change to the Washington Post opinion pages announced by Jeff Bezos today is unconscionable.
February 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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ESSAYS! Two collections I’ve been reading for a while, and two in the mail today from Orison Books and @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social's EYES MOVING THROUGH THE DARK and @andrewbertaina.bsky.social’s THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE.
4 books: colorful cover of Best American Essays 2025, editor WESLEY MORRIS's name prominent at the bottom; orange, green, and yellow cover or Ross Gay's The Book of (More) Delights, with DELIGHTS and ROSS GAY visible; white cover with black lettering and a black train with THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE in caps, Andrew Bertaina's name below; and a black and white photo of the woods, with EYES MOVING THROUGH THE DARK in caps, William Wolfitt below.
February 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Two pubs today! Both in magazines that I love! Pleased to appear for the first time in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social with a CNF microflash sequence, "Teachers' Pets." A great issue. (Also, nice graphic for my piece.) Thank you Camille Griep !
www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/jacqueli...
Picture of largely empty classroom with empty orange floor and chairs against the wall. Writing on blackboard on far wall JACQUELINE DOYLE TEACHERS' PETS FIVE MICROMEMOIRS DOES IT HAVE POCKETS CREATIVE NONFICTION. And on the bottom of the photo in script: "My mother told me on the phone about the suicide, an offhand do-you-remember-so-and-so? It figures that I'd be drawn to the teacher harboring darkness inside."
February 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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This might be important to someone you know. Please pass it on.
January 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Last few days! CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest closes January 15.
www.craftliterary.com/craft-memoir...
January 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Finally bought CRAFTING THE LYRIC ESSAY by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social! And there's A ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING THE LYRIC ESSAYAbook, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social and @artichokeheart.bsky.social ,to look forward to next winter.
Book held up to a window that shows greenery outside: title at bottom is Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord, author's name at top Heidi Czerwiec, picture of a dark-skinned goddess with a lyre, fist raised, surrounded by art nouveau designs
January 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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So pleased to be included in @fictivedream.bsky.social's upcoming "Flash Fiction February" this year! Looking forward to a grand party with a flash a day all month.
abstract art in blue with multi-colored dots of varying sizes and a banner reading FLASH FICTION FEBRUARY 2025 in topsy-turvy letters
January 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Our Christmas cactus has started to bloom! The plant is old and should be repotted so I’m always surprised and uplifted when it blooms anyway.
Christmas cactus with red buds and a couple of blooms in a brown, beige and white pottery pot. On a white windowsill with glimpse of another plant in a green pot behind it and green vegetation visible through the window.
December 13, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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Hard NOT to feel this way as a writer now…

(Not sure where this meme originated. Post in comments if you know.)
Meme in two parts. Upper frame a city on fire, labeled "The world:" Lower part: a man cupping his mouth and shouting: "Do you need any poems?"
December 9, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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2024: Some Year-End Thank Yous

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(photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash)
closeup of an old-fashioned typewriter with a piece of paper inserted with the words: DANNK! THANK YOU! MERCI! GRAZIE! GRACIAS! DANK JE WEL! (photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash)
December 8, 2024 at 12:50 AM