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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Closed @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 1d

"A Circus of Songs" by Shome Dasgupta--a quietly moving non-fiction giving us a poetic peek into the author's internal world. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

#namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 1d

I was interviewed by Ruby Hillsmith from The Suburban Review. She asked about my Elegy for the Southern Beaches, listening & frogs!

thesuburbanreview.com/2025/intervi...

Q&A with Kathryn Reese • Ruby Hillsmith • The Suburban Review

Our Associate Editor Ruby Hillsmith chats to Kathryn Reese, whose poem, ‘Elegy for the Southern Beaches’, was published in #39: CLIMATE.

thesuburbanreview.com

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 2d

Smokelong has prompt-tember coming up? (Free, I enrolled)

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 2d

The trick is to remember it’s a poem a day not a -good- poem a day…more a practice of showing up than anything else.

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 2d

Free stickers -and- merch!

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 2d

Free stickers!

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 22d

Check out our Store!
We've got FREE STICKERS.
Also added some Print On Demand T-shirts. We wanna experiment w POD in the hopes that maybe their sale can help provide for: (1) a fund used to pay each contributor, (2) a poetry contest next yr w $ prize, or (3) expanding into print.
Gotta dream big!

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 2d

My #WritingCraftArticle for September is all about feedback and editing skills. It got quite lengthy so I had to split it into two. This is part one, focusing on my four feedback Es, writer intention, and stars, wishes & mirrors:

🏝️⭐🧞🪞

prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/no-writer-...

No Writer is an Island - Part 1

As an editor I have the privilege of working with writers at all stages of their writing journeys.

prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 2d

In September I (try to) write a poem a day. Of course, it’s ridiculous. One gets nonsense, some poems & some words that could be poems one day.

This year I somehow wrote a microfiction that’s just been accepted by Pithead Chapel 😱😱😱

(💛 to @pleomorphic2.bsky.social for encouragement to sub)

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 2d

@pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @claudineliterary.bsky.social …there’s enough 🔥🔥🔥 in this piece to obliterate a Dunedin winter

Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 2d

Chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social with my CNF “Friday Night Is”. Thanks to @nomad-sw18.bsky.social for the beta (if we’d been at uni together you would totally have been Shell or Kez, babe)
Thanks @dehardy.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡
www.claudineliterary.net/sumitrasingam

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 5d

Love it! Congratulations!

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 7d

I have 3 small poems in this issue of Shot Glass Journal 🥃

www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/ka...

Thanks @musepiepress.bsky.social !

Shot Glass Journal - Kathryn Reese

www.musepiepress.com

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 7d

Can report: after three biscuits, re-heating a bag of wheat and posting here, I slept ok the rest of the night 🤣

Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 7d

Are choc chip cookies a cure for insomnia? Idk but I’m about to find out…

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 7d

Are choc chip cookies a cure for insomnia? Idk but I’m about to find out…

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 8d

None of us had breathing issues today but none of us are particularly prone to that and we didn’t go down to the sand, partly because of the foam, partly because of the rain.

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 8d

Oh god ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹
This piece from @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social is good medicine.

Mizuki @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social · 25d

Inviting you for a brief 🌿 respite from these times with my little story that's out today at @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

Thank you to the editors for letting it share space in this issue. And thnx @smokelong.bsky.social where I drafted this piece 💞

literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

Beyond the Chattering Flush by Mizuki Yamagen

Here’s how you do it. Sit on the ledge, where the ivy climbs, threading dark green rivulets over the old stone wall. Place your hand here where the slate is firm and constant. See the little dip, wher...

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 8d

Visited this beach today. The foam is due to the algal bloom.

Read my Elegy for the Southern Beaches here: thesuburbanreview.com/2025/new-con...

Or Helena Fox’s Elegy for a Living Sea here: redroompoetry.org/poets/helena...

Cry a bit.
But also: the way these kids care. Hold that.

Henley beach, South Australia. The sea is choppy, thr sky clear with some distant cloud.

The same beach as the previous pic. The sea is dark, there is a brownish foam left on the sand, marking where the waves were.

A closer pic of the foamy debris left on the sand.

Two teenagers, roughly the same size. The girl in double denim is carrying the boy in a black hoodie on her back along a roadside footpath. They’re both laughing.

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 8d

“Yours has become a musty coat, child, rumpled and moulding. It needs to breathe,”

Love this sensuous transformation story by @emmikhor.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social !

PS go yeah nah crew!

Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote a teensy thing 🥹
Thanks @fictivedream.bsky.social for taking it in and the Yeah Nah team hosted by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social for the feedback that helped make this little piece 💖

#microfiction #speculative #flashfiction #specfic #literary #litfic #writesky

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 9d

"The old coat is gone, shed for something entirely new." Shedding by Emmi Khor @emmikhor.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/09/29/m...

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 9d

“Before there was a search bar, there were other ways to go looking…Search: how to write a eulogy”
@ryantpozzi.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social 🔥

Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 6: Nostalgia now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 9d

“Mostly, I learned to wait and wonder, to imagine. Before computers and search bars, the space between not knowing and finding out was a wide, quiet place.”

I miss that space. #Nostalgia

A reflection on our digital record, asking questions, searching:

Fossil Record by @ryantpozzi.bsky.social

FOSSIL RECORD -

Anyone could excavate my search history and find a fossil record. Each layer holds everyquestion I ever asked about everyone and everything I couldn’t hold

epistemiclit.com

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 9d

Looking forward to hosting Yeah Nah, a zoom gathering of flash writers (& poets) this Thursday. Want to join? Here’s the rego link. A bit scared of people? Yeah, me too 🤣 but writing community is worth it.

Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah Nah is on again next week! Thurs 2 Oct 7pm Melb time, hosted by the amazing @kathrynreese.bsky.social this time. Rego link in quote skeet 🧡

Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · Sep 4

YEAH NAH FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7PM MELBOURNE TIME
Meet, chat, read online w me and other flashy people!
Zoom registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 9d

Look, some of us would have understood the first one 🤣

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 14d

See you there?

Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah Nah is on again next week! Thurs 2 Oct 7pm Melb time, hosted by the amazing @kathrynreese.bsky.social this time. Rego link in quote skeet 🧡

Good Friend Lion (writing as Sumitra Singam) @pleomorphic2.bsky.social · Sep 4

YEAH NAH FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7PM MELBOURNE TIME
Meet, chat, read online w me and other flashy people!
Zoom registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks for the share 💚

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 21d

I wrote an Elegy for the Southern Beaches. It’s in the new issue of The Suburban Review.

thesuburbanreview.com/issues/39-cl...

(Sorry, paywalled. If you’re in the US/UK exchange rates are prob in your favour and this issue is Worth It.)

If you’re outside SA, this poem may need some explanation.

The Suburban Review • #39: CLIMATE

What’s the forecast? The Suburban Review is heating up for issue #39: CLIMATE.

thesuburbanreview.com

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks!

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 21d

(I did work in a lab testing lead levels in children, once…steelworks are not clean and green).

Anyway. This coast will never be the same. This is not a thread of research, it’s just me talking. Go read my poem. Grieve with me.

“The minister for the ocean adjusts her scarf as if for prayer.”

Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 21d

The algal bloom is driven by warm ocean temperatures. The gulf waters retain the heat more than other geographies, I think. The algal bloom is likely enabled by high-nutrient floodwater and urban run off. I speculate also metal/smelter waste. We’ve been poisoning our air and soil for years…

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