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The Loft Literary Center
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The Loft, a nonprofit arts org, advances the artistic development of writers, fosters a thriving literary community, and inspires a passion for literature.
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Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.bsky.social · Aug 12
Sherrie Fernandez-Williams (she/her) earned her MFA in Writing from Hamline University. She was a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a 2021 Black Voices in Children’s Literature winner. Author of Goddess of the Whole Self and Soft: A Memoir. Fernandez-Williams has published…
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The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social · Jul 24
Did you see the Loft's video from our activity at Youth Pride Night at ‪@twincitiespride.bsky.social? It is pretty heartwarming to hear these joyful, fierce, proud young voices. ‬https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcX71HayXv0
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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · Jul 17
There’s still a few spaces left in @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social ‘s summer youth writing intensive, for ages 14-18, the week of July 28! 🙌🏽✨ Access funds are available.
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · Jun 23
There are still some spots left in my half-day online workshop this Saturday on The Power of Retelling for @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social. If you're working on a retelling, thinking of working on one, or you just think they're neat, come join us!
The Power of Retelling in Fiction | The Loft Literary Center
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Cassie Premo Steele @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social · Jun 22
Columbia, SC, will be a #poetry vortex this week! And I’m teaching poeTRYhealing for @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social too! Check out my Green Ink Substack and *bonus points* for reading to the end: a photo of my wife and me on our tenth wedding anniversary! 💜🏳️‍🌈🥰

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Columbia, SC will be a poetry vortex this week!
Join me for the Soda City Poetry Festival and poeTRYhealing with The Loft Literary Center
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The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social · Jun 20
We have some rush pay-what-you-can tickets now available for Tuesday night's recording of the Writing Excuses podcast. This is a rare opportunity—join us! loft.org/events/writi...
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Kelly Van Sant @agentkellyvansant.bsky.social · Jun 19
There are twelve spots left in my online From Page to Publication class through @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social this summer! This thread explains more about what we’ll be covering (hint: everything!) loft.org/classes/8-we...
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Jeneé Skinner @jskin94.bsky.social · Jun 8
If anyone has novel excerpts in need of tender love and care, consider joining my virtual workshop w @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social starting Wednesday, June 18. The link's in the comments. DM me if you have any questions. And if you can, please spread the word 😊
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Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social · May 24
I stopped writing poetry for years, then began online classes thru @hugohouse.bsky.social & @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social & elsewhere. In 2022 Ice Floe Press published my debut. Last nite I headlined a reading series w one of those teachers, poet @amiewhittemore.bsky.social. A wow moment for me!
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The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social · Jun 6
Just announced: Two free storytelling workshops on June 29 and July 7 at Pillsbury House in remembrance of the five-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder.

June 29 with @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social
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July 7 with @therafaeljohnson.bsky.social
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July 7 storytelling event graphic featuring A Rafael Johnson and a painted image of George Floyd. June 29 storytelling remembrance event featuring image of Michael Kleber-Diggs and painted image of George Floyd.
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Kathryn Kysar @darklake.bsky.social · May 28
Saturday, June 7th 4:00 PM at Open Book in Minneapolis. Free. A bevy of brilliant readers. ASL interpreted. Join us!
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Cassie Premo Steele @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social · May 29
I’m excited to announce that I’m a Teaching Artist at @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social and I’m really looking forward to teaching this class in June! #writing #amwriting #writers #BookSky #writingcommunity #poet #poets #poems #poetry #indie #publisher #teaching #writingclass #trama #traumainformed
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Cassie Premo Steele @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social · May 27
Did you know #poetry can help you during these traumatic times? Join me for a 3 hr class with the #writing of Gloria Anzaldúa, Ellen Bass, Joy Harjo, Yusef Komunyakaa, Audre Lorde, Anne Sexton &
Ocean Vuong!
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The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social · Jun 6
Join us June 24 for this special live recording of @writingexcuses.bsky.social

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@dongwon.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @howardtayler.bsky.social ‪‪‪

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Graphic for the June 24 event featuring a live recording of the Writing Excuses podcast. Graphic has Writing Excuses and Loft logos with some audio icons including dialogue bubbles and a microphone.
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Allison Wyss @allisonwyss.bsky.social · May 21
I'm so proud of this project, so lucky to be a very tiny part of it.

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Behind the Zine: A Handmade Space for Hope with Kristy Wessel | The Loft Literary Center
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The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social · Apr 16
This emerged out of the Loft's Lit!Commons program. It is so beautiful.
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Commoners Zine @commonerszine.bsky.social · Apr 10
Our first issue is live and in the wild! Look for it wherever you get your local zines.
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The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social · Apr 10
Congratulations to Loft teaching artist @darklake.bsky.social, the 2025 George Garrett award winner at AWP!
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · Apr 6
We are here. I love that.

Thanks for this and for joining us yesterday, Amanda. 💚🙏
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Amanda Wirig @amandawirig.bsky.social · Apr 6
Had front row seats to see @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social discuss the creative process tonight, and in times like this I am more grateful for these moments than ever. Rome may burn, but we are here, and we will still create.
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The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social · Apr 5
Gearing up for the sold out @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social event tonight with Magers and Quinn.
Loft and Magers and Quinn stage ready for the event Lineup of “Dear Writer” books by Maggie Smith ready to be signed.
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The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social · Feb 16
We’re at Queer Writes today at the Machine Shop. Come say hi and spin the wheel for a blind date with a poem!
The Loft table at Queer Writes. Features multicolored envelopes with themed love poems inside. Spin the wheel to win yours! The wheel of love. Blind dates include heartbreak, transient love, complicated love, eternal love, unrequited love, love lost, first love, physical love, sacrificial love, self love
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Kathryn Kysar @darklake.bsky.social · Dec 8
Poets and Writers: Want to renew your commitment to your writing? The @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social's LIt!Commons program is an innovative online community with talented teaching artists including @allisonwyss.bsky.social, @artcoulson.com, and more. Check us out! loft.thinkific.com/courses/lit-...
Lit!Commons: Poet Season 2
This pathway, led by Kathryn Kysar, is focused on skillbuilding in your poetry practice. Live sessions will include Q&As, conversation, exercises, and shared support.
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · Nov 18
Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.
The Thing Is BY ELLEN BASS to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.
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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · Nov 23
A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)
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Rosanna @rosannaarquette.bsky.social · Nov 22
Buy all banned books as presents
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Jennifer S. Brown @jsbrown.bsky.social · Nov 22
I am excited to be teaching an online class on metaphor at @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social on Feb 1. If you're looking to improve your writing or better understand what you're reading, this one-day class is for you. Sign up here: loft.org/classes/unlo...

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On-line class on Feb 1, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Central Time/ 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern Time/11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time Class description: How to better read and write metaphors Teaching Artist: Jennifer S. Brown
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Nov 21
IT'S PERCIVAL EVERETT! Percival Everett, author of JAMES, is the winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction! "Hope is really no substitute for strategy."
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Percival Everett stands at the podium. The text "PERCIVAL EVERETT, James, Winner, 2024 National Book Award for Fiction" is overlaid. Percival Everett smiles as he's patted on the back and lit up in a spotlight.
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