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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you so much for reading! 💕

Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jul 17

Super proud an essay of mine, “Invisible“, set in a Berlin sauna, was published in @underthesunonline.bsky.social. Thank you Under the Sun, especially editor Miriam Mandel Levi!
#cnf #creativenonfiction #writing
@writingcommunity.bsky.social
#essay #memoir
underthesunlitmag.com/invisible-sa...

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Mar 15

SO excited to hear that a story of mine will be published in @pangyrus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Feb 27

As I write in this blog, it's lovely to have a piece published given all else that has happened for me this year. Especially in the very special The Selkie."https://sandrajensen.net/2025/02/26/the-four-types-of-conditionals/ #writingcommunity

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Feb 21

Hard to believe that I’m actually posting a photograph of something that isn’t Ronan, i.e. within the four walls of our apartment. Got out this week 😁David treated us to a sauna. This is what greeted us as we left…. All wonky but that is how it is these days.

Photo of Brighton’s i360 Tower, clouds and blue sky

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Feb 18

A little story of an ordeal with late stage Lyme treatment…https://sandrajensen.net/2025/02/17/the-untellable-tale/ #chronicillness

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Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com · Jan 30

Do you have a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, ideas, and you think you have enough to turn it into a book?

If it seems scattered and overwhelming—and you’re not sure what will fit where—here are ideas for organizing your material and moving forward, from Lara Lillibridge.

Turn Your Short Pieces Into a Finished Nonfiction Book | Jane Friedman

If you’ve amassed a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, and ideas, here’s a step-by-step guide to shaping them into a book.

janefriedman.com

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jan 16

It’s too late in the evening for me to answer this one but I suppose I could say that the very fact that I, a *completely* unfunny person, has written a comic novel makes me laugh 😅 #pretendpanel #writingcommunity #writers #authors #writingprompts

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · Jan 16

The answers to the last #pretendpanel question were beautiful! Such genuine humanity and soulful art coming out. Please hold onto that special spark at the heart of your writing 💖

January 16th: Does any part of your book/story/WIP make you laugh?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

#pretendpanel
a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social
January 16th: Does any part of your book/story/WIP make you laugh?
Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts!

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · Jan 14

For clarity on upcoming pitch events, here's a graphic.

#Bluepit #P2Ppit #2025pit #YouDeservePit #MiseryPit #QuestPit #CuPit

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jan 12

Wolf moon…

Photo of a nearly full moon and some houses

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Jan 11

A stacked list of highly anticipated books by women of color to look out for this year electricliterature.com/48-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2025

48 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2025 - Electric Literature

Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Laila Lalami, Andrea Long Chu, Angela Flournoy, and EL's own Denne Michele Norris are among the most anticipated

electricliterature.com

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jan 11

That time of year again…. Brrrrr. So hard to imagine the tragic fires in California. We have very dear friends who have had to evacuate. I love Los Angeles. I can’t bear that this has happened. I feel very privileged to simply be cold

Photograph of women in her 60s outside wearing a hooded coat with lots of fake fur around the edge

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jan 9

Snip from my WIP, A Force of Nature, a hybrid memoir in essays....

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips

Snip from my WIP, a hybrid memoir in essays titled A Force of Nature:

"Frida wore plaster corsets for most of her life and being Frida Kahlo she painted them: drawings of birds, tigers, a blood-red hammer and sickle. In one, an open circle is carved into the plaster near the heart like a skylight.
My mother did not paint the plaster cast that encased her after the accident, nor did she carve into it. I doubt she could have if she’d tried, as the cast restricted movement in her arms. Think of Kahlo’s painting, The Two Fridas. Think of the white, stiff-collared dress worn by the Frida on the left. Not a plaster cast no, but it is strangely similar in design to my mother’s cast."

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · Jan 4

ANNOUNCEMENT

In interest of saving characters for your pitch, I've realized that WIPSnipsPit is really long, so WIPSnipsPit is now going to use the hashtag

#WSPit

This leaves more room for other tags and your pitch!

Full tags list and details coming soon.

Mark your calendars for Feb 26!

Hashtag Change

#WIPSnipsPit is now #WSPit
An author hype event
February 26, 2025
If it's Feb 26 in your time zone it counts. I'm not the time zone police.

Mark your calendar. Full guidelines coming soon.

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Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · Dec 29

#pretendpanel is coming up in a couple of days! Join me to practice answering writers panel type questions, and maybe make some friends along the way ✌️

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #AmWriting
#Writers #Authors #WriteSky #WritingPrompts

#pretendpanel calendar with 31 days of prompts

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Carolyn Page @jacuzzitubbs.bsky.social · Jan 8

For those evacuating with pets in LA: Hilton’s Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton, Tru and Canopy brands are all 100% pet friendly. Even cats! And a lot of hotels are waiving pet fees atm. Good on u Hilton! Pun intended: that’s hot.

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · Jan 3

🎉Happy New Year!

Our submission period for 📚 debut novels opens next Saturday 1/11/2025 at 12:01 a.m. PT and stays open until Sun 1/12/2025 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

See full guidelines, FAQ, and how to submit your work here: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jan 8

everyone excused themselves from all activities due to Baster fatigue so we'll never know what happened next.

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jan 8

Not sure I've EVER said or written "maniacal". Plenty of maniacs, though 😅

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jan 8

Snip from the Bridport Prize winning novel I'm shopping around "At Least We're In This Together":

#AmWriting #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #writers #authors #WritingCommunity
#WIPSnips #bridportprize

Snip from the Bridport Prize winning novel I'm shopping around, titled "At Least We're In This Together":

"Normally Mum asks me for a list of what I want for Christmas but the only lists going from my direction to hers are grocery lists. Other lists just go in one direction, from Mum to Mum. Lists for what needs to be built/torn down here and at the craft centre and lists for things needed to buy to do all this. Mum’s been driving like a maniac back and forth to the craft centre to keep an eye on the builders. The bloody builders, she always calls them, as if this is actually what they’re called. A special construction outfit, The Bloody Builders."

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nicole cunningham @nicolecunningham.bsky.social · Jan 3

#mswl send me some literary fiction! family & relationship stories, stories about sex, identity, belonging, colonization, betrayal, friendship, romance. make me fall in love at the level of the line, let me deep dive into amazing character work. would love some #litfic for the new year #amquerying

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jan 6

Very moving piece!

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jan 5

Definitely worth a read!

Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social · Jan 1

Quite new here, so please mind my first-ever shameless hee-haw: I was lucky to have this little piece published in the one and only @jmwwjournal.bsky.social just before the year's end. It has Barack Obama, Jackson 5, and Judge Judy in it all at once—now do what you will with that. 👀

JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · Dec 18

"Even when she smiles back, my wife’s face hardens like a henge of little rocks, her cheeks a pair of imploded sinkholes. But she looks as beautiful as ever."

Today at jmww, new ficton from Sarp Sozdinier:

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/f...

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Sandra Jensen @sandrajensen.bsky.social · Jan 5

Amazing piece

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Jan 5

My new novel, The Best of Everything makes the list! Yippee!

40 of the best new books in 2025

Here's our guide to some of the best books to be discovered in bookshops this year – January to June edition! We've got long-awaited literary masterpieces by bestselling authors; romance, thriller...

www.nationalbooktokens.com

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