Jeané D. Ridges
@jdridges.bsky.social
Poetic storyteller nourished by presence, soul-filling food, truthful stories, among other delights. Voodoonauts, S.E.E., & R.W.W. alum. SISTORIES LEI fellow. khōréō magazine copyeditor. To peruse my tales/verse & connect: jeanedridges.carrd.co.
Trying an eligibility post for the first time. I'm grateful to myself for showing up this year to tend myself, the work, and community. Thankful for everyone I've met, deepened bonds with, and/or collabed to realize something wondrously meaningful.
With and wishing care always, Jeané 🫂
With and wishing care always, Jeané 🫂
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Trying an eligibility post for the first time. I'm grateful to myself for showing up this year to tend myself, the work, and community. Thankful for everyone I've met, deepened bonds with, and/or collabed to realize something wondrously meaningful.
With and wishing care always, Jeané 🫂
With and wishing care always, Jeané 🫂
My shortest pub to date but still with feeling/wonder/breath. Thank you, SoM 💐: stoneofmadnesspress.com/jeane-d-ridges
Issue 31 - Jeané D. Ridges — Stone of Madness Press
stoneofmadnesspress.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My shortest pub to date but still with feeling/wonder/breath. Thank you, SoM 💐: stoneofmadnesspress.com/jeane-d-ridges
If you didn't get a chance to attend the symposium for SISTORIES's Fluid By Nature, the replay is now live and access can be purchased for $2: www.sistories.org/fluid-by-nat... (vid description has timestamps for happenings and an accompanying resource packet of materials/notes used)
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October 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
If you didn't get a chance to attend the symposium for SISTORIES's Fluid By Nature, the replay is now live and access can be purchased for $2: www.sistories.org/fluid-by-nat... (vid description has timestamps for happenings and an accompanying resource packet of materials/notes used)
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🐉I'll be not only delightedly attending but on the program for Flights of Foundry Sep 26-28:
flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/ 🪶
flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/ 🪶
Program – Flights of Foundry
flights-of-foundry.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
🐉I'll be not only delightedly attending but on the program for Flights of Foundry Sep 26-28:
flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/ 🪶
flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/ 🪶
Wooh dat full tired 😌. Yesterday was a dream realized from what happens when you move and claim your work with intention, with whole care.
If ya couldn't tune in, here's Issue V in all its glory--you can read online now and preorder a free-ninety-nine physical:
www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...
If ya couldn't tune in, here's Issue V in all its glory--you can read online now and preorder a free-ninety-nine physical:
www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...
August 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Wooh dat full tired 😌. Yesterday was a dream realized from what happens when you move and claim your work with intention, with whole care.
If ya couldn't tune in, here's Issue V in all its glory--you can read online now and preorder a free-ninety-nine physical:
www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...
If ya couldn't tune in, here's Issue V in all its glory--you can read online now and preorder a free-ninety-nine physical:
www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...
(Fun Fact: I pictured posting this but didn't 😬.) Anyhow, SISTORIES is having a closing, celebratory hybrid symposium tomorrow, Aug 8, 11-6 for my LEI cohort and the issue we nurtured into being. Reg here (those who do will be first to receive hard copies of the issue)🤎🏞🧵: linktr.ee/fluidbynature
August 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
(Fun Fact: I pictured posting this but didn't 😬.) Anyhow, SISTORIES is having a closing, celebratory hybrid symposium tomorrow, Aug 8, 11-6 for my LEI cohort and the issue we nurtured into being. Reg here (those who do will be first to receive hard copies of the issue)🤎🏞🧵: linktr.ee/fluidbynature
Reposted by Jeané D. Ridges
We're celebrating 5 years of khōréō by sharing essays & interviews!
In "Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda", @jdridges.bsky.social interviews two authors featured in khōréō's very first issue: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
In "Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda", @jdridges.bsky.social interviews two authors featured in khōréō's very first issue: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
July 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
We're celebrating 5 years of khōréō by sharing essays & interviews!
In "Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda", @jdridges.bsky.social interviews two authors featured in khōréō's very first issue: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
In "Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda", @jdridges.bsky.social interviews two authors featured in khōréō's very first issue: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
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Grab you a tall glass of water and come rest on the porch awhile: theseventhwave.org/publication/...
(also be sure to explore the neighborhood: theseventhwave.org/publication/..., and get ready for spotlights on contributors June 11-18: www.instagram.com/seventhwavem...)
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Grab you a tall glass of water and come rest on the porch awhile: theseventhwave.org/publication/...
(also be sure to explore the neighborhood: theseventhwave.org/publication/..., and get ready for spotlights on contributors June 11-18: www.instagram.com/seventhwavem...)
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June 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Grab you a tall glass of water and come rest on the porch awhile: theseventhwave.org/publication/...
(also be sure to explore the neighborhood: theseventhwave.org/publication/..., and get ready for spotlights on contributors June 11-18: www.instagram.com/seventhwavem...)
🗣️⚙️🫂
Grab you a tall glass of water and come rest on the porch awhile: theseventhwave.org/publication/...
(also be sure to explore the neighborhood: theseventhwave.org/publication/..., and get ready for spotlights on contributors June 11-18: www.instagram.com/seventhwavem...)
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April 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Apr 6 2 pm EST/1 pm CST/11 am PST: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Apr 6 2 pm EST/1 pm CST/11 am PST: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Here with first quarterish updates and [spare *hugs*] ⬇️
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1️⃣ Concluding this issue's filling narrative menu, on a 🌑-orbiting world, "Recipes for the Course of Living" follows its narrator's luay to luay a recipe at a time.
www.juliarios.com/the-february...
🥧🥔🥕🌶🫘💊🥣🧀🧈🫚
1️⃣ Concluding this issue's filling narrative menu, on a 🌑-orbiting world, "Recipes for the Course of Living" follows its narrator's luay to luay a recipe at a time.
www.juliarios.com/the-february...
https://www.juliarios.com/the-february-2025-issue-of-worlds-of-possibility/
February 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Here with first quarterish updates and [spare *hugs*] ⬇️
🥧🥔🥕🌶🫘💊🥣🧀🧈🫚
1️⃣ Concluding this issue's filling narrative menu, on a 🌑-orbiting world, "Recipes for the Course of Living" follows its narrator's luay to luay a recipe at a time.
www.juliarios.com/the-february...
🥧🥔🥕🌶🫘💊🥣🧀🧈🫚
1️⃣ Concluding this issue's filling narrative menu, on a 🌑-orbiting world, "Recipes for the Course of Living" follows its narrator's luay to luay a recipe at a time.
www.juliarios.com/the-february...
I'll be reading at Fellowship of the Griots' Community Reading this Sunday, December 8. The event starts at 4 pm EST/3 pm CST: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... . 🤗 to this community for not only the prompt that prompted 😆 these words but for the space, for everyone's incredible being.
December 5, 2024 at 3:35 AM
I'll be reading at Fellowship of the Griots' Community Reading this Sunday, December 8. The event starts at 4 pm EST/3 pm CST: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... . 🤗 to this community for not only the prompt that prompted 😆 these words but for the space, for everyone's incredible being.
If ya relished the friens, the noms, the vistas in "Prep Luay", the story where the world first unfolded, "Recipes for the Course of Living", will also find a home away from home in Worlds of Possibility next year. 💌 to @omgjulia.bsky.social and Rivers Misfits for y'alls enthusiasm for these words.
June 23, 2024 at 1:49 AM
If ya relished the friens, the noms, the vistas in "Prep Luay", the story where the world first unfolded, "Recipes for the Course of Living", will also find a home away from home in Worlds of Possibility next year. 💌 to @omgjulia.bsky.social and Rivers Misfits for y'alls enthusiasm for these words.
The readings for Roots.Wounds.Words' 2024 Retreat are open to the public. I'll be the penultimate reader on Jan 11 (rdgs start at 8 pm EST). The registration links to attend are here--at the bottom of newsletter: mailchi.mp/rootswoundsw...
Announcing the 2024 RWW Writers' Retreat for Storytellers of Color Fellows!
mailchi.mp
December 31, 2023 at 1:59 AM
The readings for Roots.Wounds.Words' 2024 Retreat are open to the public. I'll be the penultimate reader on Jan 11 (rdgs start at 8 pm EST). The registration links to attend are here--at the bottom of newsletter: mailchi.mp/rootswoundsw...
Continuing my gratitude, it's been bout a year since I was presented the opportunity for [i\e\i\e\i\e] to spill from me: apparitionlit.com/inhaleexhale...
inhale\exhale\inhale\exhale\inhale\exhale - Apparition Literary Magazine
apparitionlit.com
December 11, 2023 at 2:52 PM
Continuing my gratitude, it's been bout a year since I was presented the opportunity for [i\e\i\e\i\e] to spill from me: apparitionlit.com/inhaleexhale...
Meeting this lap's close, I'm grateful-glad: I was printed in my 1st antho and the story that's joy evoked it was an award finalist; I've already signed a contract for a poem to be pubd nxt round; & for all the spaces that offered me chances to connect while leaning into creation for its own sake.
December 9, 2023 at 8:59 PM
Meeting this lap's close, I'm grateful-glad: I was printed in my 1st antho and the story that's joy evoked it was an award finalist; I've already signed a contract for a poem to be pubd nxt round; & for all the spaces that offered me chances to connect while leaning into creation for its own sake.
Even though it's been several years since I read Han Kang's Human Acts, the end of this passage still surfaces clearly when I'm haunted by/overcome processing such violence. (content awareness: graphic imagery)
December 4, 2023 at 11:04 PM
Even though it's been several years since I read Han Kang's Human Acts, the end of this passage still surfaces clearly when I'm haunted by/overcome processing such violence. (content awareness: graphic imagery)
Proud my work is among this thoughtful compilation of possibility. Thanks to @omgjulia.bsky.social & my fellow contributors--storytellers, storytelling artists--for imagining then nurturing what became this.
November 8, 2023 at 8:20 PM
Proud my work is among this thoughtful compilation of possibility. Thanks to @omgjulia.bsky.social & my fellow contributors--storytellers, storytelling artists--for imagining then nurturing what became this.
My reads stack continuing to be abundant with thought-provoking indie, highly melanated, &/or queer stories is something that will never not bring me joy and solace.
October 11, 2023 at 6:37 PM
My reads stack continuing to be abundant with thought-provoking indie, highly melanated, &/or queer stories is something that will never not bring me joy and solace.