@jen-bryant.bsky.social
Writer, runner, stray cat whisperer. Midwestern transplant with Southern roots. Words in The Sun, Ms., BUST, Cleaver, JMWW, Matter News, & more. 2025 Ucross Fellow. Editor @muthamagazine, book reviewer @publisherswkly, & CNF reader @mudseasonreview.
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Issue 80 of Mud Season Review is here! Featuring art by Roger Camp, poetry by Julie Shulman, fiction by Sally Cunningham, and creative nonfiction by Emily Alice Katz.
📸: "Light Music 19" by Roger Camp.
📸: "Light Music 19" by Roger Camp.
December 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Issue 80 of Mud Season Review is here! Featuring art by Roger Camp, poetry by Julie Shulman, fiction by Sally Cunningham, and creative nonfiction by Emily Alice Katz.
📸: "Light Music 19" by Roger Camp.
📸: "Light Music 19" by Roger Camp.
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ICE is making its way through Columbus. CRIS (Community Refugee and Immigration Services) is giving gift cards to families to keep them home and fed.
If you want to join in giving, here is the link to the specific area and team handling it: crisohio.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...
If you want to join in giving, here is the link to the specific area and team handling it: crisohio.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...
CC - small appeals link
CC - small appeals link
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December 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ICE is making its way through Columbus. CRIS (Community Refugee and Immigration Services) is giving gift cards to families to keep them home and fed.
If you want to join in giving, here is the link to the specific area and team handling it: crisohio.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...
If you want to join in giving, here is the link to the specific area and team handling it: crisohio.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/c...
Thrilled to have a new essay up at JMWW today. Please give it a read if you like stories about love and friendship and growing up. ✨
Creative Nonfiction: Field Trip by Jen Bryant
Claire and I don’t talk much on the bus ride to DC. Sitting beside each other feels more like muscle memory than conscious choice.
Claire and I don’t talk much on the bus ride to DC. Sitting beside each other feels more like muscle memory than conscious choice.
Creative Nonfiction: Field Trip by Jen Bryant
Claire and I don’t talk much on the bus ride to DC. Sitting beside each other feels more like muscle memory than conscious choice.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Thrilled to have a new essay up at JMWW today. Please give it a read if you like stories about love and friendship and growing up. ✨
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“Do I research pre-K options? Or places to flee?”
New from KC Councilor.
#comics #graphicmemoir #transfamilies
New from KC Councilor.
#comics #graphicmemoir #transfamilies
What Happened
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December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Do I research pre-K options? Or places to flee?”
New from KC Councilor.
#comics #graphicmemoir #transfamilies
New from KC Councilor.
#comics #graphicmemoir #transfamilies
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ICYMI Enjoy some thoughtful, possibly fist-pumping #creativenonfiction from @jen-bryant.bsky.social and Judith Shapiro in the #Trouble issue, out now.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
ICYMI Enjoy some thoughtful, possibly fist-pumping #creativenonfiction from @jen-bryant.bsky.social and Judith Shapiro in the #Trouble issue, out now.
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"Sometimes he curls his nicotine-stained fingers around mine and squeezes until I squirm."
Time to root for the raptors in new #creativenonfiction from @jen-bryant.bsky.social in our #Trouble issue, out now.
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Time to root for the raptors in new #creativenonfiction from @jen-bryant.bsky.social in our #Trouble issue, out now.
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The Raptors by Jen Bryant | The Woolf
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November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"Sometimes he curls his nicotine-stained fingers around mine and squeezes until I squirm."
Time to root for the raptors in new #creativenonfiction from @jen-bryant.bsky.social in our #Trouble issue, out now.
thewoolfx.com/the-raptors-...
Time to root for the raptors in new #creativenonfiction from @jen-bryant.bsky.social in our #Trouble issue, out now.
thewoolfx.com/the-raptors-...
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So excited to have a new CNF piece up at @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social! 🔗
Time for #trouble - because Issue 9 is now live!
Dig into new #microfiction, #flashfiction, #creativenonfiction and #poetry from 15 fabulous writers, including @shivpreet.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social & @moomoocamus.bsky.social
Enjoy the read: thewoolfx.com
Dig into new #microfiction, #flashfiction, #creativenonfiction and #poetry from 15 fabulous writers, including @shivpreet.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social & @moomoocamus.bsky.social
Enjoy the read: thewoolfx.com
The Woolf
Sometimes we howl.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
So excited to have a new CNF piece up at @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social! 🔗
Spending the past two weeks as a fellow at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming was a dream come true. Thank you for the gift of space and time! #ucross
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Spending the past two weeks as a fellow at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming was a dream come true. Thank you for the gift of space and time! #ucross
My home state showed up and showed out at the polls. Sic semper tyrannis! 🌊
Damn, Virginia. Good job electing Spanberger (the first female VA governor!) and Hashmi (first Indian-American & Muslim elected official in VA!). Happy for my home state. ♥️
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My home state showed up and showed out at the polls. Sic semper tyrannis! 🌊
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Your donations to Matter News are doubled through the end of the year.
Here's a letter from our editor as we kick off our biggest fundraising campaign yet.
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Here's a letter from our editor as we kick off our biggest fundraising campaign yet.
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Donate to our NewsMatch campaign today and support nonprofit news – Matter News
A letter from our editor as we kick off our year-end fundraising campaign, where your donations to Matter News are doubled through the end of December.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Your donations to Matter News are doubled through the end of the year.
Here's a letter from our editor as we kick off our biggest fundraising campaign yet.
matternews.org/community/do...
Here's a letter from our editor as we kick off our biggest fundraising campaign yet.
matternews.org/community/do...
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“The real horror comes not from the specter of witches among us, but from the fact that people who can become pregnant have found themselves transported back to the 15th century…”
Excerpted from @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social’s GRAPHIC RAGE: COMICS ON GENDER, JUSTICE, AND LIFE AS A WOMAN IN AMERICA. 🌙
Excerpted from @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social’s GRAPHIC RAGE: COMICS ON GENDER, JUSTICE, AND LIFE AS A WOMAN IN AMERICA. 🌙
A History of Witches
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October 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“The real horror comes not from the specter of witches among us, but from the fact that people who can become pregnant have found themselves transported back to the 15th century…”
Excerpted from @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social’s GRAPHIC RAGE: COMICS ON GENDER, JUSTICE, AND LIFE AS A WOMAN IN AMERICA. 🌙
Excerpted from @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social’s GRAPHIC RAGE: COMICS ON GENDER, JUSTICE, AND LIFE AS A WOMAN IN AMERICA. 🌙
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If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
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“And then it came, the realization that—at least in my mind—79 years old was so young for a famous rich white woman in America like Diane Keaton and that 78 years old was practically a miracle for a black trans woman like Miss Major.”
Diane Keaton, Miss Major, D'Angelo...
Who gets to live a "long" life in America?
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October 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“And then it came, the realization that—at least in my mind—79 years old was so young for a famous rich white woman in America like Diane Keaton and that 78 years old was practically a miracle for a black trans woman like Miss Major.”
Ever wonder what it would be like to attend a wedding with an ex? I wrote 100 words about it for Five Minutes. Thanks for the opportunity, @fiveminutelit.bsky.social ! ✨
"Plus One" by @jen-bryant.bsky.social, a Southerner living in the Midwest. Her work has appeared in Ms., BUST, The Sun, Matter News, and elsewhere.
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Ever wonder what it would be like to attend a wedding with an ex? I wrote 100 words about it for Five Minutes. Thanks for the opportunity, @fiveminutelit.bsky.social ! ✨
Last month, I interviewed Heather Marie Cline about memoir writing, cycle breaking, and storytelling as reclamation. Read it here and check out @hmcline.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous essay in Issue #79 of Mud Season Review!
#essays #interviews
#essays #interviews
Transforming Pain into Purpose: An Interview with Heather Marie Cline - Mud Season Review
The title “A Way Out of Nowhere” references your mother physically leaving your stepfather but also invokes larger themes like breaking cycles. How did you choose this title, and what does it mean to ...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Last month, I interviewed Heather Marie Cline about memoir writing, cycle breaking, and storytelling as reclamation. Read it here and check out @hmcline.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous essay in Issue #79 of Mud Season Review!
#essays #interviews
#essays #interviews
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“If there’s a legislative agenda we should have, it should be to eradicate houselessness in our city,” Upchurch said. “And I don’t understand why we don’t have that bigger, shared vision of liberation in our community.”
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Residents express fear, uncertainty as Kaleidoscope prepares to end youth housing program – Matter News
Kaleidoscope Youth Center announced in mid-September that it would be closing its housing program for queer youth after the Ohio Department of Health declined to renew the Columbus-based nonprofit’s g...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“If there’s a legislative agenda we should have, it should be to eradicate houselessness in our city,” Upchurch said. “And I don’t understand why we don’t have that bigger, shared vision of liberation in our community.”
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LOOK AT THE MOON!!!!!!!!!
October 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
LOOK AT THE MOON!!!!!!!!!
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“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”
By Larkin Cleland.
By Larkin Cleland.
Trans youth react to Nationwide Children’s Hospital ending gender-affirming care – Matter News
A Republican-led crackdown on trans healthcare is impacting local hospitals and both minor and adult patients, driving some towards community-based alternatives for care.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“There aren’t a lot of legal alternatives for minors who need HRT [or] even just hormone blockers.” Embi also lamented the loss of access to therapy and mental health support in the absence of THRIVE. “It’s going to be a huge loss for a lot of trans youth across Central Ohio.”
By Larkin Cleland.
By Larkin Cleland.
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Mud Season Review is open for submissions from 10/1-10/31! Send us your best art, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. To review the full guidelines, please visit mudseasonreview.com/submit.
October 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mud Season Review is open for submissions from 10/1-10/31! Send us your best art, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. To review the full guidelines, please visit mudseasonreview.com/submit.
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Our workshop participants slay us! More than 30 publications reported to us in September! We couldn't be prouder. Congratulations, trousers! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...
SmokeLong Workshop Celebration — September 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Our workshop participants slay us! More than 30 publications reported to us in September! We couldn't be prouder. Congratulations, trousers! www.smokelong.com/smokelong-wo...
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Issue #79 marks 10 years of Mud Season Review! 🎉 Featuring artwork by Jennifer Follman, poetry by Eli Karren, fiction by Summer Hammond, creative Nonfiction by Heather Marie Cline, and letters from MSR co-founders Rebecca Starks and Danielle Thierry.
September 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Issue #79 marks 10 years of Mud Season Review! 🎉 Featuring artwork by Jennifer Follman, poetry by Eli Karren, fiction by Summer Hammond, creative Nonfiction by Heather Marie Cline, and letters from MSR co-founders Rebecca Starks and Danielle Thierry.
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As always, support your local station. They need it more than you know. And, if you can swing it, adopt a station in another state: adoptastation.org
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
As always, support your local station. They need it more than you know. And, if you can swing it, adopt a station in another state: adoptastation.org
So excited that my little flash essay found a home in issue #51 of Cleaver Magazine! This issue is incredible - it’s an honor to be in such good company.
Jennifer Bryant: SHELTER • Cleaver Magazine
Writing by Jennifer Bryant has appeared in The Sun, Ms., BUST, Anodyne Mag, and elsewhere. She is an editor at MUTHA Magazine.
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September 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
So excited that my little flash essay found a home in issue #51 of Cleaver Magazine! This issue is incredible - it’s an honor to be in such good company.