So glad this reading series exists! 🫶

1000 Words of Summer 2025 prep It’s my favorite time of year!

This is my EIGHTH #1000wordsofsummer! This year’s prep: www.thenextnovel.com/p/1000-words...

Ditmas Lit is 1 week from today, Wed. 5/28! We can’t wait to welcome @briangresko.bsky.social @shayneterry.bsky.social, Leila Taylor, and Andrew E. Colarusso!

Such an honor to talk to @ariannarebolini.bsky.social about her memoir Better, what it means to be “healed,” and the craft of writing about real life.

Spring 2025 Podcast Episode · The Lives of Writers · 04/03/2025 · 1h 27m

The Lives of Writers returns today in new form! In it, I weave together brief readings & interview clips from our spring authors:
@erindorney.bsky.social,
@shayneterry.bsky.social,
& @troseistrose.bsky.social.

Listen wherever, or here’s a link to Apple Pods: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Philly friends! I will be in your city next Thursday, talking with the one and only Jiordan Castle at H&H Books! Come out 🤗 www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

“LEAVE: A Postpartum Account” by Shayne Terry

“When there are enough mothers, there will be no more guns, I reason to myself. I want to believe.”
@shayneterry.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social

Sarah, thank you! 🙏✨

To be read this closely, this generously, especially by someone whose work you admire and deeply respect, is a gift. 🙏

YES! 🙌 So excited for this Rockford novel! 🌇

Talking to Jiordan Castle is pure joy. Thanks to The Rumpus for hosting this conversation about the craft of the postpartum account. ✨

Thirteen questions that are also writing prompts. Keep going!

Hi book friends! My book tour for Leave: A Postpartum Account 🪡kicks off on TUESDAY and I would love to see you on the road. I’ll also be at AWP — say hello! 👋

SHAYNE TERRY with Rachel León | The Brooklyn Rail Shayne Terry’s Leave: A Postpartum Account isn’t exactly a memoir, but tells of her heinous postpartum experience involving a painful obstetric anal sphincter injury. Leave isn’t Terry processing her ...

This conversation with @rachellayown.bsky.social went so many places: account vs. memoir, the birth/death portal, the failings of the American health insurance system, paid family leave, making art from life… thank you to The Brooklyn Rail for having us! 🪡 brooklynrail.org/2025/02/book...

Ooh I love this new @sfreligh.bsky.social flash 🤩

I’m in.

Yes! 🙌 I am thrilled to be part of this! Do you have a novel or short story collection coming out with a small press next year? I would love to know about it!

Waxahatchee Tiny Desk dropping just when you need it. ✨

My top 10 books of 2024 This is not a gift guide, but books do make great gifts

I read so many good books in 2024 and these were my favorites. www.thenextnovel.com/p/my-top-10-...

We’re here! 🙌

That moment when you realize the two essays you’ve been writing are actually one essay, and a simple copy and paste gets you so much closer to a full draft. ✨

I just read this and loved it. The way the body holds on, the way the body releases.

Yessss I just ordered mine the other day after listening to Kevin on Textual Healing! This cover is AMAZING.

Saw my friend Clare Needham today and I want more poets in my life. They are the best.

Oh YAY! 🙌

Okay, time to start planning. Who’s going to AWP?

I’ll be there and my AWP motto is “I’m here to make friends!” #awp25

I’ll be there! 🙌

Yes! Can’t wait! 🙌

Can’t wait to hang with you at AWP again!!! 🙌

I’ll be there! 🙌