Michaella Thornton
@kellathornton.bsky.social
Seeker, writer, curious | Midwestern | Patty & Selma in a trench coat | wholesome and horny | "the most fun, overwhelmed person I know" | she gets a long letter, sends back a postcard 💌🏳️🌈
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Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine
Join us to celebrate Lingering Inland, an expansive anthology edited by Andy Oler. 73 original short essays explore locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary […]
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Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers?
Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13
Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers?
Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13
I'm exceedingly grateful to the incredible editorial team @trampset.bsky.social for a Best Microfiction nomination for "Green" 💚 thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible kindness 💚
Please help us congratulate our @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees! @ladiwoods.bsky.social @robinwilder.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @kellathornton.bsky.social & @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm exceedingly grateful to the incredible editorial team @trampset.bsky.social for a Best Microfiction nomination for "Green" 💚 thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible kindness 💚
Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine share.google/YFRZmrZAfs8k...
Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers?
Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13
Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers?
Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13
Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine
Join us to celebrate Lingering Inland, an expansive anthology edited by Andy Oler. 73 original short essays explore locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary […]
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December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine share.google/YFRZmrZAfs8k...
Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers?
Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13
Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers?
Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13
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"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down one’s throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out."
@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
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@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
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Green
by Michaella Thornton
trampset.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down one’s throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out."
@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
trampset.org/green-b178ab...
@kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green"
trampset.org/green-b178ab...
Baby's first published prose-poem in @trampset.bsky.social, just in time for Halloween: "Green" trampset.org/green-b178ab...
October 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Baby's first published prose-poem in @trampset.bsky.social, just in time for Halloween: "Green" trampset.org/green-b178ab...
So honored to be included in this dream publication. This Friday will mark my first-ever prose-poem publication 💚 a beautiful ode to the color green sparked by a writing prompt by the incredible writer and teacher @kathyfish.bsky.social in Casperia, Italy last fall (thank you, Kathy!)
The Oct issue drops Fri! Featuring @kellathornton.bsky.social @halfmoonmocha.bsky.social @hellbends.bsky.social @connorharding.bsky.social Ridwan Fasasi, @sainttangerine.bsky.social @mmkaufman.bsky.social @abhii106.bsky.social Genaro Aguilar, & Sara Kaplan-Cunningham
Mark those calendars!
Mark those calendars!
October 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
So honored to be included in this dream publication. This Friday will mark my first-ever prose-poem publication 💚 a beautiful ode to the color green sparked by a writing prompt by the incredible writer and teacher @kathyfish.bsky.social in Casperia, Italy last fall (thank you, Kathy!)
Sending love from Iceland 💓🇮🇸🌌
October 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Sending love from Iceland 💓🇮🇸🌌
I'm super excited to be in this gorgeous anthology writing about one of my literary heroes, Kate Chopin, and about making art as a single parent when the world is falling apart
Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Lingering Inland
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June 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I'm super excited to be in this gorgeous anthology writing about one of my literary heroes, Kate Chopin, and about making art as a single parent when the world is falling apart
One of my favorite poems and poets:
"Enough" by Suzanne Buffam | The Poetry Foundation share.google/kRNpFRjNO0FZ...
"Enough" by Suzanne Buffam | The Poetry Foundation share.google/kRNpFRjNO0FZ...
Enough
I am wearing dark glasses inside the house To match my dark mood. My rage is a kind of domestic rage. I learned it from my mother Who learned it from her mother before her And so on.
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June 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
One of my favorite poems and poets:
"Enough" by Suzanne Buffam | The Poetry Foundation share.google/kRNpFRjNO0FZ...
"Enough" by Suzanne Buffam | The Poetry Foundation share.google/kRNpFRjNO0FZ...
I'm teaching a five-week humor writing course beginning this week, and while there's an abundance of chaos and tragedy all around us, now, more than ever, we need to also employ humor to satirize, challenge, protest, ridicule, and illuminate what's happening in our country 💓
June 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I'm teaching a five-week humor writing course beginning this week, and while there's an abundance of chaos and tragedy all around us, now, more than ever, we need to also employ humor to satirize, challenge, protest, ridicule, and illuminate what's happening in our country 💓
This weekend I helped a friend move some of their belongings out of their apartment in the Central West End. I won't share any of the photos I took, and I teared up driving to their apartment off Union.
If you can, please help the St. Louis tornado relief efforts: www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
If you can, please help the St. Louis tornado relief efforts: www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
St. Louis tornado relief and recovery: How to get and give help
In the face of devastating loss, the St. Louis community shows grit and support.
www.stlmag.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This weekend I helped a friend move some of their belongings out of their apartment in the Central West End. I won't share any of the photos I took, and I teared up driving to their apartment off Union.
If you can, please help the St. Louis tornado relief efforts: www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
If you can, please help the St. Louis tornado relief efforts: www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...
Success sometimes looks like eating red beans & rice on the porch of my brick bungalow while pale pink peonies bloom, Ani singing through the window, & I just finished meeting with my childhood library system, where I will be facilitating a workshop with a publisher whose work elevates the Midwest 🩷
May 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Success sometimes looks like eating red beans & rice on the porch of my brick bungalow while pale pink peonies bloom, Ani singing through the window, & I just finished meeting with my childhood library system, where I will be facilitating a workshop with a publisher whose work elevates the Midwest 🩷
Wound by Larry Levis
I've loved you
as a man loves an old wound
picked up in a razor fight
on a street nobody remembers.
Look at him:
even in the dark he touches it gently.
I've loved you
as a man loves an old wound
picked up in a razor fight
on a street nobody remembers.
Look at him:
even in the dark he touches it gently.
April 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Wound by Larry Levis
I've loved you
as a man loves an old wound
picked up in a razor fight
on a street nobody remembers.
Look at him:
even in the dark he touches it gently.
I've loved you
as a man loves an old wound
picked up in a razor fight
on a street nobody remembers.
Look at him:
even in the dark he touches it gently.
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Human beings are not an “administrative error”
April 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Human beings are not an “administrative error”
Hey Kansas City writers! I'm facilitating a Micro Essay Writing in-person workshop in collaboration with The New Territory Magazine & The Story Center of Kansas City, Missouri on May 31, 2025 from 10 AM-4 PM Central.
To register for this free workshop, please visit: www.mymcpl.org/events/10615...
To register for this free workshop, please visit: www.mymcpl.org/events/10615...
Plein Air Micro Essay Writing | Mid-Continent Public Library
Join The New Territory magazine and The Story Center for a full-day intensive on the micro essay form.
www.mymcpl.org
April 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Hey Kansas City writers! I'm facilitating a Micro Essay Writing in-person workshop in collaboration with The New Territory Magazine & The Story Center of Kansas City, Missouri on May 31, 2025 from 10 AM-4 PM Central.
To register for this free workshop, please visit: www.mymcpl.org/events/10615...
To register for this free workshop, please visit: www.mymcpl.org/events/10615...
How to be roasted by my 8yo right before bed this evening: read a graphic novel about dinosaurs, and she dead-eyed looked at me and smiled as she asked me: "So, these dinosaurs were around in the '80s right?"
Sis, 65 million years ago dinosaurs died out. Not the '80s, not when I was a child 😭😂😉
Sis, 65 million years ago dinosaurs died out. Not the '80s, not when I was a child 😭😂😉
April 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
How to be roasted by my 8yo right before bed this evening: read a graphic novel about dinosaurs, and she dead-eyed looked at me and smiled as she asked me: "So, these dinosaurs were around in the '80s right?"
Sis, 65 million years ago dinosaurs died out. Not the '80s, not when I was a child 😭😂😉
Sis, 65 million years ago dinosaurs died out. Not the '80s, not when I was a child 😭😂😉
Reposted by Michaella Thornton
💖 While you are at #AWP25, please make sure to pick up a copy of SCREAM QUEEN by our own @cdeskilson.bsky.social from @acrebooks.bsky.social & THANKS FOR THIS RIOT by @janellebassett.bsky.social from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social 💖
March 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
💖 While you are at #AWP25, please make sure to pick up a copy of SCREAM QUEEN by our own @cdeskilson.bsky.social from @acrebooks.bsky.social & THANKS FOR THIS RIOT by @janellebassett.bsky.social from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social 💖
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I could not be at AWP this year because of work. I'm sad to miss all the good talk about reading & writing. Also, as someone with a new-ish book out, I guess I'm missing the opportunity to spread the word - so here goes: I hope you'll consider ordering SAD GROWNUPS: bookshop.org/p/books/sad-...
Sad Grownups
Check out Sad Grownups - <p><strong>For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>A neighborhoo...
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March 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I could not be at AWP this year because of work. I'm sad to miss all the good talk about reading & writing. Also, as someone with a new-ish book out, I guess I'm missing the opportunity to spread the word - so here goes: I hope you'll consider ordering SAD GROWNUPS: bookshop.org/p/books/sad-...
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In a world full of cowards, I’m begging all of us to be fearless. To dig deep. To find someone or something to stand up for. To make things with our whole heart. To care about the most vulnerable. To write as if our lives depend on it. To do the right thing despite the cost. Now is the time.
March 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In a world full of cowards, I’m begging all of us to be fearless. To dig deep. To find someone or something to stand up for. To make things with our whole heart. To care about the most vulnerable. To write as if our lives depend on it. To do the right thing despite the cost. Now is the time.
Who are the five writers that made you?
Toni Morrison
Dorothy Allison
Mary Gaitskill
Jo Ann Beard
Sei Shōnagon
❤️
Toni Morrison
Dorothy Allison
Mary Gaitskill
Jo Ann Beard
Sei Shōnagon
❤️
Who are the five writers that made you?
William Faulkner
Anton Chekov
Percival Everett
Shirley Jackson
Kurt Vonnegut
William Faulkner
Anton Chekov
Percival Everett
Shirley Jackson
Kurt Vonnegut
who are the five writers that made you?
Stephen King
Kelly Link
Angela Carter
Octavia Butler
Russell Edson
Stephen King
Kelly Link
Angela Carter
Octavia Butler
Russell Edson
March 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Who are the five writers that made you?
Toni Morrison
Dorothy Allison
Mary Gaitskill
Jo Ann Beard
Sei Shōnagon
❤️
Toni Morrison
Dorothy Allison
Mary Gaitskill
Jo Ann Beard
Sei Shōnagon
❤️
Ever read a line in a book you want to commit to memory, it's so beautiful and true? I just began Raven Leilani's novel Luster, and swoon 💜
March 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Ever read a line in a book you want to commit to memory, it's so beautiful and true? I just began Raven Leilani's novel Luster, and swoon 💜
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We're going to pay $150 for prose, poems, art, and beyond, for TBQ8, which will also be in print and released in the fall. We open 4/20. Official call and guidelines coming soon! Follow us, read all of our back issues online for free, and live más!
March 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
We're going to pay $150 for prose, poems, art, and beyond, for TBQ8, which will also be in print and released in the fall. We open 4/20. Official call and guidelines coming soon! Follow us, read all of our back issues online for free, and live más!
Peak girlhood is eating Girl Scout Cookies (s'mores is auh-mazing) while watching Alive Australia (also peak disassociation with everything going on) 😜
March 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Peak girlhood is eating Girl Scout Cookies (s'mores is auh-mazing) while watching Alive Australia (also peak disassociation with everything going on) 😜
I keep thinking about our public school system & how gutting the DOE, which is on Trump's agenda, is going to hurt so many children in so many long-lasting, irreparable ways
As the mother to a child with a 504 plan, I'm furious & ready to fight so hard for basic human decency in our government
As the mother to a child with a 504 plan, I'm furious & ready to fight so hard for basic human decency in our government
February 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I keep thinking about our public school system & how gutting the DOE, which is on Trump's agenda, is going to hurt so many children in so many long-lasting, irreparable ways
As the mother to a child with a 504 plan, I'm furious & ready to fight so hard for basic human decency in our government
As the mother to a child with a 504 plan, I'm furious & ready to fight so hard for basic human decency in our government
Reposted by Michaella Thornton
More magical micros of up to 100 words have been added to this thread over the last week, including stories from @jaredpovanda.bsky.social, @uksherka.bsky.social, @francesgapper.bsky.social, K. S. Dyal, @chriscottom.bsky.social, @kellathornton.bsky.social and @kazbarwrites.bsky.social ✨
UNDER A MONTH TO GO! 🤩
You have until 15 Feb to enter @natflashfictionday.bsky.social’s Micro Fiction Comp 🌟
No theme, up to 100 words, judged by @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social @uksherka.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social and me.
Every day, I’ll be posting a dazzler to get you inspired ✨
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You have until 15 Feb to enter @natflashfictionday.bsky.social’s Micro Fiction Comp 🌟
No theme, up to 100 words, judged by @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social @uksherka.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social and me.
Every day, I’ll be posting a dazzler to get you inspired ✨
Thread 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
More magical micros of up to 100 words have been added to this thread over the last week, including stories from @jaredpovanda.bsky.social, @uksherka.bsky.social, @francesgapper.bsky.social, K. S. Dyal, @chriscottom.bsky.social, @kellathornton.bsky.social and @kazbarwrites.bsky.social ✨
Pick a selfie. Turn it black and white.
Still here, still present, still hopeful.
Still here, still present, still hopeful.
February 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Pick a selfie. Turn it black and white.
Still here, still present, still hopeful.
Still here, still present, still hopeful.