Cass Lewis
@writercasslewis.bsky.social
Award-winning writer. Creative #writing instructor. Lover of empathy and critical thinking skills. CassandraLewis.com.
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Cass Lewis
@writercasslewis.bsky.social
· Mar 27
The Prison and Justice Writing Program is delighted to announce winners of the 2024 L’Engle Rahman Prize for Mentorship: Geneva Phillips, Cass Lewis, Jerry Metcalf, Lily Brooks-Dalton, Jeanne Anne-Marie Bossier, Ash Holland, Mark Altenhofen, and his mentor. pen.org/announcing-t...
Announcing the 2024 PEN America/L’Engle Rahman Prize for Mentorship Honorees - PEN America
The Prison and Justice Writing Program is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 PEN America/L’Engle Rahman Prize for Mentorship.
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Thank you so very much for this tremendous honor!
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🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
November 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
It was inspiring to witness Garth Greenwell and Ocean Vuong in conversation with Cressida Leyshon at The New Yorker Festival.
#writing #writingcommunity #NewYorkerFest
#writing #writingcommunity #NewYorkerFest
October 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It was inspiring to witness Garth Greenwell and Ocean Vuong in conversation with Cressida Leyshon at The New Yorker Festival.
#writing #writingcommunity #NewYorkerFest
#writing #writingcommunity #NewYorkerFest
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Reminder that submissions for the next issue of Third Coast are currently OPEN! Submit your works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using the link in our bio. Submissions close Oct. 31. Don’t miss out on the chance to get your writing published!
#literarymagazine #writers
#literarymagazine #writers
October 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Reminder that submissions for the next issue of Third Coast are currently OPEN! Submit your works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using the link in our bio. Submissions close Oct. 31. Don’t miss out on the chance to get your writing published!
#literarymagazine #writers
#literarymagazine #writers
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Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!
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“I am convinced that most people do not grow up … our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.”
Maya Angelou on home, belonging, and (not) growing up www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/16/m...
Maya Angelou on home, belonging, and (not) growing up www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/16/m...
Maya Angelou on Home, Belonging, and (Not) Growing Up
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up … our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.”
www.themarginalian.org
October 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up … our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.”
Maya Angelou on home, belonging, and (not) growing up www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/16/m...
Maya Angelou on home, belonging, and (not) growing up www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/16/m...
I'm honored to have a personal essay featured in this collection that includes work by Nick Flynn, Cheryl Strayed, Deesha Philyaw, and many other writers I admire.
📵 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 📵 We are so excited to share the cover of NO CONTACT: Writers on Estrangement, edited by Jenny Bartoy! Cover design by the fabulous Nicole Caputo ⭐
NO CONTACT will hit bookstores on April 28th and is available to preorder now:
books.catapult.co/books/no-con...
NO CONTACT will hit bookstores on April 28th and is available to preorder now:
books.catapult.co/books/no-con...
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I'm honored to have a personal essay featured in this collection that includes work by Nick Flynn, Cheryl Strayed, Deesha Philyaw, and many other writers I admire.
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So happy to have a story in this #spooky #anthology! Perfect for #Halloween or any time you want to feel a cold shudder… #BookSky
Silent Screams is out now.
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
October 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
So happy to have a story in this #spooky #anthology! Perfect for #Halloween or any time you want to feel a cold shudder… #BookSky
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ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT to Submit to TWFest & SASFest Writing Contests!
Submit to our poetry, fiction, very short fiction, and one-acts contests by October 15th for the chance to win cash prizes, publication, and more!
tennesseewilliams.net/contests/
#writingcontests #writers #submittable
Submit to our poetry, fiction, very short fiction, and one-acts contests by October 15th for the chance to win cash prizes, publication, and more!
tennesseewilliams.net/contests/
#writingcontests #writers #submittable
October 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT to Submit to TWFest & SASFest Writing Contests!
Submit to our poetry, fiction, very short fiction, and one-acts contests by October 15th for the chance to win cash prizes, publication, and more!
tennesseewilliams.net/contests/
#writingcontests #writers #submittable
Submit to our poetry, fiction, very short fiction, and one-acts contests by October 15th for the chance to win cash prizes, publication, and more!
tennesseewilliams.net/contests/
#writingcontests #writers #submittable
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Less than a week left to send us something for our themed folios and/or general submissions! Find all the details about the folios and guidelines on our website. Do you have something precarious to send us?
kenyonreview.org/submit/
kenyonreview.org/submit/
September 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Less than a week left to send us something for our themed folios and/or general submissions! Find all the details about the folios and guidelines on our website. Do you have something precarious to send us?
kenyonreview.org/submit/
kenyonreview.org/submit/
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Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉
I was so happy to see this awesome piece by the brilliant @jackiedwrites.bsky.social published in one of my favorite publications. Congrats, Jackie!
For quite some time, it’s been a writing goal of mine to have a piece in @riverteeth.bsky.social’s Beautiful Things. Proud to have made it in with this little essay about my mom, who’s still my best friend.
“I’ll wait in a grown-up chair in the main office with my bigger-than-me backpack, my legs swinging in anticipation of what the rest of the day could bring.”
-from "Sick Day,” this week's Beautiful Things essay by Jackie Domenus
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
-from "Sick Day,” this week's Beautiful Things essay by Jackie Domenus
Read the rest: riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...
September 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I was so happy to see this awesome piece by the brilliant @jackiedwrites.bsky.social published in one of my favorite publications. Congrats, Jackie!
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Find inspiration and community at the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop!
Join us for this fully remote experience to enhance your craft and build writing community!
Apply today: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...
Join us for this fully remote experience to enhance your craft and build writing community!
Apply today: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...
September 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Find inspiration and community at the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop!
Join us for this fully remote experience to enhance your craft and build writing community!
Apply today: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...
Join us for this fully remote experience to enhance your craft and build writing community!
Apply today: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...
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🎉SHE'S HERE!!🎉 Hugely excited to reveal the beauticious cover of my debut collection COLD TOAST feat. the artwork of renowned 70s artist Tim Mara 🔥
Out on 15th May! Preorders now available at www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold...
#flashfiction #shortstories #popart #printmaking
Out on 15th May! Preorders now available at www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold...
#flashfiction #shortstories #popart #printmaking
April 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
🎉SHE'S HERE!!🎉 Hugely excited to reveal the beauticious cover of my debut collection COLD TOAST feat. the artwork of renowned 70s artist Tim Mara 🔥
Out on 15th May! Preorders now available at www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold...
#flashfiction #shortstories #popart #printmaking
Out on 15th May! Preorders now available at www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold...
#flashfiction #shortstories #popart #printmaking
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Congratulations to the winners of this year's American Book Awards! 🎉 🎉 🎉 www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com
![The 2025 American Book Award Winners
Kaveh Akbar
Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf)
Amy M. Alvarez
Makeshift Altar: Poems (The University Press of Kentucky)
Marie-Helene Bertino
Beautyland: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Percival Everett
James: A Novel (Doubleday)
Marcela Fuentes
Malas: A Novel (Penguin Books)
Fady Joudah
[...] Poems (Milkweed Editions)
Stacey Levine
Mice 1961 (Verse Chorus Press)
Sarah Lewis
The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pmct542tz3grqn6nrpm62hl3/bafkreiaja4khdoqqt56ys4trsnjxwbbstyul3ox6zfa67czvsy3t72odtu@jpeg)
September 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Congratulations to the winners of this year's American Book Awards! 🎉 🎉 🎉 www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com
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At the link, this week's oasis of selected sanities in a single place — Virginia Woolf on love, Arundhati Roy on the deepest measure of success, and my new children's book: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
September 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
At the link, this week's oasis of selected sanities in a single place — Virginia Woolf on love, Arundhati Roy on the deepest measure of success, and my new children's book: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
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Come work with us!
We are looking for a qualified Machine Learning (ML) Engineer to join ICIJ’s technology team, working closely with our ML engineer in coordination with full stack and system engineers as well as a UX/UI designer.
Learn more:
We are looking for a qualified Machine Learning (ML) Engineer to join ICIJ’s technology team, working closely with our ML engineer in coordination with full stack and system engineers as well as a UX/UI designer.
Learn more:
Help fill this desk! ICIJ is hiring - ICIJ
Our small but highly ambitious team is growing. Are you our next employee?
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September 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Come work with us!
We are looking for a qualified Machine Learning (ML) Engineer to join ICIJ’s technology team, working closely with our ML engineer in coordination with full stack and system engineers as well as a UX/UI designer.
Learn more:
We are looking for a qualified Machine Learning (ML) Engineer to join ICIJ’s technology team, working closely with our ML engineer in coordination with full stack and system engineers as well as a UX/UI designer.
Learn more:
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"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." ~ Kurt Vonnegut
September 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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Books by Garth Greenwell, Sally Rooney, Joe Sacco, and more are out in paperback this September!
Garth Greenwell! Sally Rooney! Joe Sacco! 24 books out in paperback this September.
Fall is here, a season with a name rather suggestive in the unsettling times we find ourselves in—but art can always help us navigate the strangedark. To that end, I come bearing new books to consi…
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August 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Books by Garth Greenwell, Sally Rooney, Joe Sacco, and more are out in paperback this September!
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📣 This only happens once a year! 📣 The Yale Review is now open for general submissions through September 30. Send us your poems, stories, essays, and translations.
For full guidelines and to submit: yalereview.org/about/submis...
For full guidelines and to submit: yalereview.org/about/submis...
September 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
📣 This only happens once a year! 📣 The Yale Review is now open for general submissions through September 30. Send us your poems, stories, essays, and translations.
For full guidelines and to submit: yalereview.org/about/submis...
For full guidelines and to submit: yalereview.org/about/submis...
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I wrote about the immolation of the CDC
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RFK Jr. Is Making His Bid To Become One Of American History's Biggest Killers | Defector
True to the spirit of America, the most catastrophic thing to happen at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month was not the attempted mass shooting in Atlanta of the agency’s public ...
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August 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I wrote about the immolation of the CDC
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defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...
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One of the greatest storytellers of our time on the 3 essential elements of great storytelling www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/03/b...
August 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
One of the greatest storytellers of our time on the 3 essential elements of great storytelling www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/03/b...
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This poem is needed these days:
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart by Ada Limón
www.divasofverse.com/2025/08/whil...
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart by Ada Limón
www.divasofverse.com/2025/08/whil...
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart by Ada Limón
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart In the Union Square subway station nearly fifteen years ago now, the L train came clanking by where ...
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August 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This poem is needed these days:
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart by Ada Limón
www.divasofverse.com/2025/08/whil...
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart by Ada Limón
www.divasofverse.com/2025/08/whil...
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Scenes are the building block of most narrative fiction… You can master (more like “learn a lot about”) scene-writing with a scene a week for four weeks in Chaitali Sen’s @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class. Four classes, Zoom, starts September 4!
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
Four Weeks, Four Scenes, One Story with Chaitali Sen - StoryStudio Chicago
In this four-week generative class, you will be guided through exercises designed to develop one scene a week using a single premise and set of characters.
www.storystudiochicago.org
August 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Scenes are the building block of most narrative fiction… You can master (more like “learn a lot about”) scene-writing with a scene a week for four weeks in Chaitali Sen’s @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class. Four classes, Zoom, starts September 4!
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...