aliceanna stopher

aliceanna stopher

@itwillbeloud.bsky.social

she/her: a judy hale type, short story writer, essayist, not nice, not your wife ✨🌈 aliceannastopher.com

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back to school is one of my all-time favorite times of year, it's when everything feels possible ✨ today I sent all my kid's grandmas first-day-of-school pictures and I really missed (and miss) my moms, wishing they were still part of the grandma gaggle

I'm kind of always (mostly privately) whining about not writing and have assumed, post-parenthood, it was just not having free time, and exhaustion, and parenting occupying all my thinking and creative brain space, but I'm realizing for me it's also grief

it's felt hard to make anything (even, at times, a good life) in the world they don't live in, don't get to be a part of of course there are bigger griefs, especially now, but this one is mine, and is omnipresent, and despite changing shape never feels all that much smaller

if you like movies or hot dads or gemini moons or engaging with scorching takes that still evidence media literacy or any combo of the above, follow @sherwoodwatches.bsky.social he's got the goods 🔥

I was in a nonprofit townhall with about 800 other folks all joint-panicking about this memo and recent EOs, whew THE RELIEF when the moderator announced this was rescinded. a tidal wave these past few days- uncertain about my org's funding future and worried for the families and kids we serve

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

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this year a residency opportunity fell through, I read a ton of pages and showed up for my writing group, brainstormed with friends, started reading fiction again, but despite doing the "writerly" things, I didn't write and don't feel like a writer

short fiction folks RISE

Amy Stuber@amystuber.com

Because tedious tasks are my therapy right now: are you a short fiction writer (flash or short stories only, please) publishing in litmags or aspiring to? I'd like to make a starter pack of short story and flash people! Comment here and please share for visibility #writingcommunity

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