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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · 19h

Some thoughts on structure in writing and pottery. substack.com/home/post/p-...

4. Tracing the outlines

Or: Missing making while the pottery studio was closed

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 3

Writers! The incomparable @jessicajlee.bsky.social and Lauren Camp are hosting two separate workshops beginning this October, and we’re accepting your applications until Sept 15. We can’t wait to read them.

Learn more and apply here: orionmagazine.org/events-works...

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wrote a bit about putting our reader's feet on the ground, slowing down, and eating ice cream. jessicajlee.substack.com/p/2-on-ice-c...

2. On Ice Cream and Expectations

Or: On parenting and slowing down

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Sep 2

My @orionmagazine.bsky.social workshop on environmental book proposals is currently open for applications! If you'd like to write your book proposal with a like-minded group of writers while gaining some industry insights, do take a look. orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...

From Proposal to Page Workshop: A nonfiction writing workshop with Jessica J. Lee. - Orion Magazine

The Course: The More-Than-Human World from Proposal to Page This nonfiction course will center on a wealth of contemporary work inspired by the more-than-human world,...

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Aug 27

So glad you could join us!!

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Aug 27

Thank you!!

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Philli Milne @phillimilne.bsky.social · Aug 26

Fruit tree haul made a perfect pairing for our office book club today. Loved this by @jessicajlee.bsky.social. 🍃

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Aug 15

You will be so incredible on this, I'm sure of it! :D

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · Aug 7

Writing on Nature Course? Looking forward to tutoring this for @grantamag.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social, directed by the brilliant @jessicajlee.bsky.social. It’s going to be an exciting & busy autumn! Applications open now: workshops.granta.com/courses/natu... #naturewriting #booksky

Writing Nature Course | Granta Writers’ Workshop

Explore the art of nature writing with Granta’s online course. Led by acclaimed authors, this course delves into the craft of capturing the natural world in prose.

workshops.granta.com

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Sigrid Wallaert @sigridwallaert.bsky.social · Mar 17

I guess I wasn’t expecting nonfiction about plants to make me cry, but the last essay in @jessicajlee.bsky.social’s Dispersals did just that 🪻

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Mar 17

If it helps, I cried a lot writing that one. 😅 Thank you for reading!

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Mar 4

Beautiful!! I often find the explaining in toddler terms completely helps me get to the core of something.

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Mar 4

So if you see my wrangling a three-year-old up a mountain or into a wetland or whatever, I guess that's just my life now.

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Mar 4

Which is to say: I was always unsure about writing my kid into a story. But I equally don't want to write in the (often male) mode that ignores having left my kid home to go into the field. There is a middle path here somewhere and I am trying to walk it.

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Mar 4

Thinking about nature writing & parenting. How quickly the childcare/workdays pass. Later in spring I'll bring my toddler into the field with me to see critically endangered fish. As I write about the future of the world, doesn't it only make sense that I bring her along? It's her future, anyway.

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Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social · Feb 24

CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS!

Seed/Spore/Rhizome: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice - a new anthology with fieldnotes collective, edited by @pairedaeza.bsky.social, Jessica J. Lee, @alycia.bsky.social & Nina Mingya Powles.

Deadline 30/04/25. Guidelines here: www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/c...

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Feb 26

what company! 😍

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Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social · Jan 31

Please share: Last chance! Register for the 2-day nature poetry course tomorrow, including a workshop with fieldnotes collective (@alycia.bsky.social,
@jessicajlee.bsky.social, @pairedaeza.bsky.social and Nina Mingya Powles) scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/our-time-is-...

Our Time is a Garden v. 2

SBWN is excited to announce our first of a series of short courses: a 2-day programme on the theme of nature poetry.

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Dec 17

I'd add all the work in The Willowherb Review. :) www.thewillowherbreview.com

THE WILLOWHERB REVIEW

Publishing new non-fiction, fiction, and poetry on nature, place, and environment by emerging and established writers of colour.

www.thewillowherbreview.com

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Dec 16

Ohhhh thank you!!! 🤩

Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · Dec 12

"These are essays written for a world in motion. Plants that, in dispersal, might teach us what it means to live in the wake of change."

Loving this beautiful and engaging new book, DISPERSALS, by @jessicajlee.bsky.social

The cover of DISPERSALS, showing a variety of different plants against a black background.

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Dec 12

No just insta/youtube/tiktok/here. Trying to avoid having to write a newsletter on top of my books lol!

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Dec 11

Oh thanks for this!

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Dec 10

I hope you and your students enjoyed it!

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Jessica J. Lee @jessicajlee.bsky.social · Dec 6

Respectfully: I'm quite happy to be winding up Zoom calls for the season, but for no one to get to see my now festive backdrop feels wrong. 🎄

A woman (Jessica) at her desk with a Christmas tree in the corner, colourful stockings on the wall, and a dog on the chair behind her.

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