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Steve Edwards

@the-big-quiet.bsky.social

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Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · Dec 4

Sharing this piece of mine from @yalereview.bsky.social last spring so I can pin it. Also as a way of saying hi to the new community here.

Steve Edwards: "Yellow Band"

An autism diagnosis in adulthood changes the writer's relationship to his work and to himself.

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 2d

Do you like writing the whimsical in your short fiction? Do you amuse your readers, or make them muse? If so, send me a story at Necessary Fiction! I'm guess editing this month: necessaryfiction.submittable.com/Submit

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 1d

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social rounds up the most banned books of 2025.

Here are the most banned books of 2025.

As we round out #BannedBooksWeek, it’s time to observe a grim new tradition. PEN America has announced its annual most-banned-books-of-the-year list. This year’s crop of “objectio…

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 2d

16 now 🫠

Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 2d

I really don’t know much about how it works either! 😂

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 2d

I can play this one! It’s so, so beautiful in every way.

Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to share!

Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 2d

Moonrise

The full moon over distant trees on the horizon

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 5d

Correct

Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 6d

Dystopian thought of the morning: book publishers will use AI to remove the so-called offensive & inappropriate aspects of banned books so they can still be taught.

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Adam M. Sowards @adamsowards.net · 7d

Some reflections on Wounded Knee in my weekly essay.

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A Time for Silence

Encountering Wounded Knee

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 7d

Haha! Acton has its gems.

Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 7d

Deepest condolences. 💔

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Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely thrilled to have been Highly Commended in one of my favourite literary journals!! Huge thanks to the judge Tim MacGabhann, and to @the-big-quiet.bsky.social & @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social for reading and commenting on first drafts 😍

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Elsa Williams @elsawilliams.bsky.social · 11d

‘Real friendships felt mythical to me’: On autism, reading and growing up

Some people liken autistic girls to an iceberg. Personally, I prefer the analogy of a rotten log: overturn any one of us and there’ll be…

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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 10d

My conversation about She's Under Here, with NPR's Courtney Collins at KERA / THINK, is up. She asked thoughtful questions about disappearance and identity, root causes and consequences. Also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and Radio Public.

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In this true crime story, the victim survived

Podcast Episode · KERA's Think · 09/26/2025 · 47m

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 11d

a man is making a funny face while wearing a black shirt and a chain around his neck .

ALT: a man is making a funny face while wearing a black shirt and a chain around his neck .

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 11d

My teenager said, “Dad, your pretty intimidating. Except for your dad bod & those jeans you always wear & your weird beard.”

I’ll be over here crying now.

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 13d

🙌🙌🙌❤️

Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 13d

Indeed!

Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 13d

We still have this.

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Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social · 13d

I’m happy to say my first poem ever is in the Writers Resist Fall 2025 issue. Thanks to @kbgressitt.bsky.social and the entire WR staff for making the biggest wish of teenage-me-poet come true. Thanks also to @smokelong.bsky.social where this story (and pretty much every story of mine) was drafted.

They Tell Us – Writers Resist

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 14d

I learned SAD GROWNUPS was removed from consideration for Kansas Notable Books (along w other books the deciders worried might endanger future federal funding). This isn't a bitter post. More sad that libraries feel compelled to make choices like these in these censor-y times.