Mary Winsor
@mwinsor.bsky.social
Teacher. Reader. Writer. Runner.
2025 Elizabeth George Foundation grantee. Words in / forthcoming in Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, Northwest Review, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. Best American Essays Notable, 2023.
2025 Elizabeth George Foundation grantee. Words in / forthcoming in Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, Northwest Review, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. Best American Essays Notable, 2023.
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The Northwest Review is alive and now on Bluesky. We are reviving this historically great magazine in 2026. We are now open for submissions. Send us your best fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. northwestreview.submittable.com/submit
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Thank you for your interest in the Northwest Review. We look forward to reading your work.Founded at the University of Oregon in 1957, the Northwest Review publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonficti...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Northwest Review is alive and now on Bluesky. We are reviving this historically great magazine in 2026. We are now open for submissions. Send us your best fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. northwestreview.submittable.com/submit
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We're sharing our favorite #longreads of 2025 over the next two weeks.
Bookmark our Best of 2025 page to catch up on the latest year-end essays and lists of notable editors' picks:
longreads.com/best-of-2025...
Bookmark our Best of 2025 page to catch up on the latest year-end essays and lists of notable editors' picks:
longreads.com/best-of-2025...
Best of 2025 - Longreads
Welcome to December, readers! Once again, we’re revisiting the favorite nonfiction stories that defined our year—the pieces that moved us, reframed our thinking, or even nudged us to action. Each week...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
We're sharing our favorite #longreads of 2025 over the next two weeks.
Bookmark our Best of 2025 page to catch up on the latest year-end essays and lists of notable editors' picks:
longreads.com/best-of-2025...
Bookmark our Best of 2025 page to catch up on the latest year-end essays and lists of notable editors' picks:
longreads.com/best-of-2025...
Subscribe or submit to Ploughshares! Or both! The Emerging Writers' Contest Bundle is a lasting gift for yourself or a fave reader/writer.
My experience as a contributor to Fall 2025 and past winner of the Emerging Writer's Contest was personal and literary joy. Thank you, @pshares.bsky.social!
My experience as a contributor to Fall 2025 and past winner of the Emerging Writer's Contest was personal and literary joy. Thank you, @pshares.bsky.social!
Ready to be discovered? Submit your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to the Emerging Writers’ Contest between February 1 and March 31. Winners receive $2,000, publication in Ploughshares, and a conversation with the literary agency Aevitas Creative Management! Find out more: https://pshr.us/ewc26
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Subscribe or submit to Ploughshares! Or both! The Emerging Writers' Contest Bundle is a lasting gift for yourself or a fave reader/writer.
My experience as a contributor to Fall 2025 and past winner of the Emerging Writer's Contest was personal and literary joy. Thank you, @pshares.bsky.social!
My experience as a contributor to Fall 2025 and past winner of the Emerging Writer's Contest was personal and literary joy. Thank you, @pshares.bsky.social!
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In celebration of our upcoming Winter 2025-26 issue, we're having a release reading! Join us at Trident Booksellers in Boston on January 21st, at 6 pm, for a reading from Winter 2025-26 contributors Alice Hoffman, Maggie Dietz, Shara McCallum, and Bridget Lowe. Register here: https://bit.ly/45p2CPn
January 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
In celebration of our upcoming Winter 2025-26 issue, we're having a release reading! Join us at Trident Booksellers in Boston on January 21st, at 6 pm, for a reading from Winter 2025-26 contributors Alice Hoffman, Maggie Dietz, Shara McCallum, and Bridget Lowe. Register here: https://bit.ly/45p2CPn
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"But over Patrick's shoulder and beyond the beam of the headlights was the blackest night Yvonne had ever known, and the great and lonely wilderness."
Read Mary Winsor's story, "Dasvidaniya," from the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/4933aeY
Read Mary Winsor's story, "Dasvidaniya," from the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/4933aeY
December 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"But over Patrick's shoulder and beyond the beam of the headlights was the blackest night Yvonne had ever known, and the great and lonely wilderness."
Read Mary Winsor's story, "Dasvidaniya," from the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/4933aeY
Read Mary Winsor's story, "Dasvidaniya," from the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/4933aeY
Thrilled to be in the company of these poets and writers and translators whose work I so admire. Might've been late to a couple classes or missed a call or two while I read cover to cover. Thank you, @pshares.bsky.social
Our Fall 2025 issue is out now! Read longform prose by Juliana Lamy, Eric McMillan, Youssef Rakha, Fortunato Salazar, Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell), Heather Thompson-Brenner, Andrea Thurairatnam Imdacha, Devon Walker-Figueroa, and Mary Winsor. Start reading: https://pshr.us/fall25
October 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Thrilled to be in the company of these poets and writers and translators whose work I so admire. Might've been late to a couple classes or missed a call or two while I read cover to cover. Thank you, @pshares.bsky.social
Surprise, surprise...
NEW: Several current and former staffers of AG Ken Paxton's office are trading explosive accusations in new filings, the latest of which alleges that Paxton's top deputy obstructed justice and tampered w/ witnesses during his 2023 impeachment. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/ken-paxton-staff-misconduct-20393264.php
t.co
June 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Surprise, surprise...
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czeslaw milosz, written in berkeley 1971
June 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
czeslaw milosz, written in berkeley 1971
Amidst all the ugly today, a reason to hope. I'm deeply grateful to the Elizabeth George Foundation for this generous gift. A special thank you to my recommenders whose support included guidance, encouragement, and signed, hard-copy letters directly snail-mailed! Time to get back to the desk!
January 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Amidst all the ugly today, a reason to hope. I'm deeply grateful to the Elizabeth George Foundation for this generous gift. A special thank you to my recommenders whose support included guidance, encouragement, and signed, hard-copy letters directly snail-mailed! Time to get back to the desk!
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While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.