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Writer + Filmmaker + Professor | THE YEAR OF THE MONSTER ( @UnsolicitedP 2022) | THEY MORE THAN BURNED (ELJ 2023) | notable BAE 2022 | she/her

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Tara Stillions Whitehead

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1 year

I posted a link to the 4k version of the book trailer for THEY MORE THAN BURNED on Sunday, but Vimeo doesn’t preview on Twitter. Sharing the HD version here. This book releases 3.15 from @EmergeJournal ! Preorder now (see link below), and get some swag. 🔥

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11 months

My husband and I have been renting together for 15 years. For the last 10 years, we have raised our kids in the same house. Today, our offer on a home we really want was accepted. ❤️

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I am six years sober today. September is national recovery month, and I think this card from a dear friend explains what recovery can mean for many.

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3 years

Ashley Biden talking about her dad, and out of nowhere, I’m in tears. To have a president who is described as empathetic and loving and understanding of pain—I am hopeful and grateful that my kids will see him as their president.

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3 years

I just got the call: Tara Stillions Whitehead Assistant Professor of Film, Video, and Digital Media 😭🙏🏼🤍😱

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2 years

I signed a book contract on this fine Saturday morning.

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7 months

My 83 yo grandmother tried to end her own life last Thursday. She is in pain. She is alone. She can hardly see or walk. The doctors were able to “bring her back to life.” “She will live,” they said. There’s a spot in my heart that keeps a secret wish for her. I’m so sad.

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A good friend of mine died of alcoholism at the age of 38 a few weeks ago. I can’t stop thinking about him and how he would message me in the middle of the night, asking how I got sober. We last spoke on 9/30. I had no idea it would be the last time. I’m deeply heartbroken.

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2 years

Dear writers: Sigh. No. You will NOT remember that phrase or line or image or bit of dialogue or plot solution or metaphor AFTER you do the thing you are in the MIDDLE of doing right NOW. STOP everything. Write that shit down. NOW. On your phone. Your hand. The wall. Trust me.

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3 years

Good morning. Today, I celebrate four years of sobriety. 🤍🤍🤍🤍

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2 years

Oh my God. My @fairytalereview essay about Anne Sexton, Kurt Vonnegut, Cinderella, and my alcoholism made notable Best American Essays for 2021. 😭😭😭

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3 years

I have not written since May. I have given myself time over the past few months…nothing. Blankness. I am 150% okay with this. Just sharing in case anyone else is in a similar place. It’s hard to ignore the culture of productivity—for me, anyway. But it’s okay to not write.

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2 years

Today is the day! After 14 years…my debut full-length collection of stories has finally been released by the incredible @UnsolicitedP ! 😭😭😭 Many more tweets to come! SORRY NOT SORRY!

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Filmmaker Tara Stillions Whitehead Releases a Prosaic-Script Hybrid with Feminist PNW Publisher, Unsolicited P...

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2 years

Fourteen years after writing the first story, the physical book is in my hands. Thank you to all of the editors who published earlier versions of these stories. And thank you to @UnsolicitedP for working tirelessly to ensure that every page, from cover to cover, is my best work.

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Cover reveal! I started The Year of the Monster in 2009. It is my first full-length collection and will be published by @UnsolicitedP in 2022. Dreams come true.😭

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1 year

Attendant on my flight to San Diego this morning: Please do not conjugate in the aisle or in front of the bathroom. Me: Are we talking verbs or…???

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4 years

The Year of the Monster was accepted for publication. My first book. I'm...you GUYS!

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3 years

I don’t mean to blow up the feed with good news. But I made first-round interviews for a TT position.

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2 years

I am 5 years sober today. I never thought I could live without alcohol. The obsession was so great. I was pretty sure it would kill me. This morning, I can’t imagine a different life. I don’t have to miss out on living anymore. And I’m damn grateful to be here. 🤍

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3 years

Publisher: We just went into a second printing of your chapbook. I've never had that happen before a release. 😱

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4 years

IDK who needs to hear this, but it's okay to spend months...even years...on a single story. It's okay to take a decade to write your collection or novel. When my book comes out in 2022, it will contain stories spanning 11 years. One of those stories took three years to write.💚

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Publish what you want where you want however often you want. Use an agent, don’t use an agent. Get an MFA, don’t get an MFA. At the end of the day, just fucking write your heart out, edit hard, and be a decent human—whatever that looks like for you.

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3 years

Just talked with my son's first grade class about writing, and not only did they have the BEST questions (what is your favorite pen? why do you wake up one hour after the Devil's hour to write?), but a kid in the front row LOST A TOOTH in the middle of our discussion.

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1 year

Ahhh!! Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award! Holy smokes! Thank you! 🤍

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3 years

Just signed my offer for Assistant Professor of Film, Video, and Digital Media Production. 98 three-credit courses, 2 forthcoming books, 65 episodes of asst. directing, 1.5 yrs working in prime time, & 1 web series as producer later: I cried when they said, “You deserve this.”

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I didn’t drink. Which means I celebrated six years sober. I also bought my first house, published my second book, had a kickass book tour, and spent lots of time loving on my awesome kids and spouse. I feel very, very grateful to have this life today.

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BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

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Last semester, I had a student write that I place women and minorities on a pedestal and “marginalized” him because I “advocate so hard against [his] demographic of white men.” He said I need humility and should work on being inclusive so that he could “feel safe” in class. (1/2)

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How I love being a young woman in higher ed

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@The_Big_Quiet With those children, he thought, that woman must lead a life of terror. 1984

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3 years

Happy New Year to me! Just got an acceptance from the insanely beautiful @PitheadChapel !!! WHERE IS THE CAKE???

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3 years

Hi, 37. I’m excited to be you today.

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3 years

Just finished resolving my publisher's brilliant line edits on The Year of the Monster and sent it off for the first stage of proofreading. 😱 Y'all, I am so proud. This book took 11 years to write and will be released the weekend of my 5-year sobriety anniversary. (!!!)

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3 years

OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD! My story, "Seven Bodies I Didn't Leave Behind," originally published in @havehadhavehad made THE @Wigleaf TOP 50!!! Thank you so much to the editors, to the other top 50 writers, and to @housleydave , who selected this piece for HAD!

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The @Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2021 is up on the main page! Congratulations to all! A million times over, many thanks to the Guest Selecting Editor @mollygaudry and the Wigleaf Top 50 Crew! Such lovely writing here:

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2021 was the best year for me creatively. I published my first book, produced a film, landed a TT position teaching film production, received 8 noms for a Pushcart—two for best of the net & 1 best small fiction—and was included in the Wigleaf Top 50…

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3 years

I’ve been struggling with burnout since June, and I’m full of shame because a deluge of “great” things have happened for me. But the truth is, I’m barely handling my parenting anxiety, book doings, health issues, and the massive pressure of this new TT job. I’m not enough.

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2 years

Local bookstore: Can you drop off more signed copies of The Year of the Monster to tide us over until we get the next shipment from Ingram? We have SOLD OUT of the 75 copies we ordered and need more for the weekend. Me: 🫠

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1 year

Today is official pub day for THEY MORE THAN BURNED. I cannot begin to express my gratitude to everyone who made this book possible, everyone who supported me through the years of bringing this protest to life.

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My kids’ school district canceled Maulik Pancholy’s anti-bullying talk because he is gay. 8-0 vote by the school board. The Moms of Liberty are achieving their agenda, and I’m furious as hell.

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Pennsylvania school board reinstates gay author's anti-bullying speech after public outcry

“My ‘activism’ is to let all young people know that ... they matter,” actor Maulik Pancholy responded. “I wonder why a school board is so afraid of that?”

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2 years

I have 335 words about Y2K up @hobartpulp today. 🤍 Happy New Year, friends. Remember to take it one day at a time.

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1 year

I HAVE SOLD OUT! ALL OF MY BOOKS HAVE SHELVES!

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2 years

Five days until I get my galleys…and begin making requests for blurbs. Equal parts excitement and dread. 🤩😱

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3 years

I have officially been invited to campus to provide a teaching demo and film screening for the Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media position. This means I am one of two final candidates. I am so excited...and so nervous. I will be teaching and screening for students. 😱

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4 years

Three years ago today, I drank my last drink. I don’t remember what it was. If I had known it was my last, I might never have stopped. Today, I can be the mother, spouse, friend, writer, and teacher I was created to be. I’m forever grateful for the chance to get better. ❤️

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3 years

I did not write today or yesterday or last week or the week before that. I entertained my kids and paid bills and slept in and answered some work emails. I read some things. I cleaned my house. I did not write. And, guess what? That’s okay because I’m still a writer.

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3 years

I officially have a book birthdate! Galileo Press will release my debut chapbook on July 14, 2021! I could NOT be happier. @_BarrettWarner ‘s insight and guidance have been invaluable during the revision process, and I thank him and the entire press team for this opportunity.

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3 years

Oh, my...IT'S REAL NOW! My debut chapbook (album), BLOOD HISTORIES, has a cover and is available for PREORDER at Galileo Press. Due out 7.14.21, the cost includes shipping. Hot damn. My first book.

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2 years

Omg! Omg! My favorite piece this year just got nominated for Best of the Net! Thank you, beautiful editors of the @trampset ! ✨🤍🔥

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BofN filed! Poetry: ⁦ @RitaFeinstein ⁩ @SamuelSamba10 ⁦ @SymplyTaiwo ⁩ ⁦ @LukeWortley ⁩ ⁦ @tiesto_eliot ⁩ ⁦ @ashleynassarine ⁩ Nonfiction: ⁦ @missg3rd ⁩ ⁦ @funnywishes ⁩ Fiction: ⁦ @MrsWhitehouse74 ⁩ ⁦ @ANickRees ⁩

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One of the greatest moments in my film school career was when I ran into Henry Winkler and his son (my classmate) Max at Pink's Hot Dogs, and Henry not only recognized me but told me how much he loved the film I directed. Class. Act.

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The end of a perfect day !!

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Being the parent of a transgender kiddo is so hard right now. Every day they walk out the door, I’m overcome with fear for my kind, intelligent, beautiful, funny child.

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2 years

13 more days until my first full-length collection drops with @UnsolicitedP . After 14 long years, I can’t believe it’s almost here…

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I’ve written virtually nothing since book edits at the end of last year. With a full-time job, kids, book tour, and other life changes, I have little time to even think my way into writing. But last night, I wrote one sentence. A single sentence. That I still like this morning.

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3 years

Wow. What a 180. I am thrilled to have just received a Best of the Net nomination from @xraylitmag for my CNF “Undertow,” which also appears in my hybrid chapbook, Blood Histories. Huge thanks to the editors, especially @JoVarnish1 !

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We pinned their name tags to our knitted sacks. Reynolds. Solomon. Childs. Kennedy. We wrote their room numbers on our wrists and waited for them on the cement benches near the commandant’s office....

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Our first porch-sit at our first house. Lightning bugs and robins and my best friend. Still doesn’t feel real.

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2 years

Finally. Got. Permission. From Penguin Random House. For the Vonnegut epigraph in my forthcoming collection, The Year of the Monster.

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3 years

I am most grateful for my sobriety today. I don’t ever have to miss out on life again if I stay this path. I don’t have to die drunk like I planned to once upon a time. I can live today.

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3 years

I've never had a piece accepted for publication faster than this one. This CNF appears (in slightly different form) in my forthcoming chapbook, Blood Histories. Thanks to @JoVarnish1 and @xraylitmag for publishing it today.

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UNDERTOW by Tara Stillions Whitehead

We pinned their name tags to our knitted sacks. Reynolds. Solomon. Childs. Kennedy. We wrote their room numbers on our wrists and waited for them on the cement benches near the commandant’s office....

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2 years

Ah!! I made the @Wigleaf Top 50! Thank you so much to @kathyfish @garson_scott @laughingyeti & the Top 50 readers! “Flashover,” the seminal story from THEY MORE THAN BURNED ( @EmergeJournal 2023) was originally published in @still_journal .

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The @Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022 & the Longlist are here! Congratulations! Please join us in celebrating writers, editors, journals, & very short fictions—many thanks to our Selecting Editor @kathyfish , the Top 50 Masthead, & @garson_scott : ! ❤️

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2 years

I am so honored to have my forthcoming collection, The Year of the Monster, be one of these four nominated books! ❤️✨🙏🏼

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Here are our nominations for the Maya Angelou Book Award. This year, the category was fiction.

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2 years

The Year of the Monster will be released by @UnsolicitedP three months from today!

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4 years

Welp, there it goes. Three weeks of total immersion in Sexton, suicide, Vonnegut, and Cinderella have come to an end. Just sent "The Mother Must Die and Other Lies My Fairy Tales Told Me" off for submission, and regardless of the outcome, I'm pretty proud of what I wrote!

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I am 40 today. My family sent me off with a gift card to @MidtownScholar by myself. This decade is very good so far.

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An older man approached me after the reading and said, “I don’t know much about writing or readings, but you were wonderful. I’ve never experienced that before. Thank you.” That is what “success” looks like for me. Getting a man in his late 70s excited about literature. 😭🫠

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Today is the day! Thank you to everyone who reads this book, who supports Galileo Press @FreeStateReview which has been championing art since 1979. I hope this book encourages us to embrace Other Stories, to tell them, to make space for their brilliant shapes and vision.

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First day of class as Assistant Professor of Film, Video, and Digital Media. I’m grateful to have this opportunity, these students…it took nine years to get here, and every curve in the road taught me something—from grace to humility.

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What if she wrote the book. And that was it. No $100,000. No deal at all. Just wrote a novel on her lunch break. Like thousands of people ACTUALLY do. Would he be upset? Would he even know?

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I have waited so long to send out something I thought would be a fit at @xraylitmag and so I am BEYOND grateful to have received word from @JoVarnish1 that my CNF, "Undertow," has found a home there. Thank you, Jo! 🤍🖤

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I’ve been married to this amazing human for 13 years today.

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Just submitted my application for the Assistant Prof of English and Director of First-Year Courses that opened today 😱 at the university where I teach English and Film. I applied for the Assistant Prof of Film position last week. Send glitter and cat GIFs please.

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It’s here. And I’m shaking. Thank you to @trampset for publishing this dispatch from my forthcoming book, THEY MORE THAN BURNED.

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12 years after I published the first story in this collection… and 2 years after I signed the contract with @UnsolicitedP … I have received the galleys to my first full-length collection. And they are beautiful! ✨📚🤍

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Yay! My husband just found out he is getting the J&J vaccine tonight! He teaches in-person high school, so this is such a relief!

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The glitter you wonderful people sent me a month ago was mighty powerful. I have been invited to participate in final round interviews for a tenure-track position. Thank you! 🤍✨🙏🏼

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2 years

This me! This me!

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PREORDER: THE YEAR OF THE MONSTER by Tara Stillions Whitehead. The book encourages close examination of how American media and our complicity in its marriage of violence and culture perpetuate the human and environmental crises. #books #Reading

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Final print pass before I send my first book baby off to the editors. There’s a lot of ME and a lot of YEARS in them pages...Woosh! Wish me luck!

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AHHH! This is so exciting! Thank you to @PitheadChapel and the editors for this INCREDIBLE HONOR.

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We are excited to announce our 2020 Best of the Net Nominations! Congratulations to Allison Palmer, @t_mcallister , @BettySueBlue , Di Jayawickrema, @MrsWhitehouse74 , @shiremy , and @brotzel_fiction , and thank you for trusting us with your excellent work.

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Me: It’s time for bed. 10 yo: Okay, but I have to write a haiku first. Me: What? For homework? 10 yo: No, for me. Me: …😭

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2 years

I got COVID 4 weeks ago and had emergency surgery yesterday, and my writer friends sent flowers, texts, cake, challah, donuts, mystery boxes…chocolate. I am so lucky to have these humans in my life. I’ve never been loved this hard. Thank you my loves—you know who you are. 🤍✨

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Just found out that I’ll be headed to Knoxville for a Sundress Academy for the Arts Residency this summer. ✨

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My utter joy over making Berry College my last stop on a year of book(s) touring. Almost 100 people humbled me with their presence in the gorgeous campus chapel. What a privilege it has been to travel and talk writing this past year. Thanks to all who have supported the journey.

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Two years ago today, I signed my first book contract. Seven months and nine days from now, it will be released into the world by @UnsolicitedP 🤍🤍🤍 It has been worth the wait so far.

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Thank you to @PitheadChapel for publishing my nonfiction dispatch "2001" today. I cannot wait to read the whole issue.

Tara Stillions Whitehead That was the year before El Niño, when Joe enlisted on the 10th of September and the towers fell the next day. He would never come back to us. And we would never sta…

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2 years

Since we likely won't be here in December when I had originally planned it, and since I'm dying to share more about my book, coming from ELJ Editions ( @EmergeJournal ) in March 2023, I've decided to do the cover reveal NOW...because it's AWESOME... & I love this book so hard! 1/3

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I have not forgotten how to write so much as I am at a loss for how to start.

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2 years

I am 38 today & the Queen is 96! To celebrate our birthdays, I'm sharing the preorder link for my debut full-length collection, releasing 9.27.22! If you can't or don't want to preorder, make my day by reading the dust jacket summary! Thank you!

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4 years

Y’all...after three years, this story just found a bitchin’ home in a print zine. 👀

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4 years

I think I'm on rejection #20 for one of my favorite stories I've ever written, and I know that its length (6,500 words) is a factor, but I also think the rejecting editors secretly hate Prince, and if that is the case, so be it.

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2 years

I did it. I sacrificed thirty minutes of my life to complete the obstacle course that is submitting to Ploughshares.

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4 years

Let it be known that at 9:57am EDT I submitted the final draft of my book to my publisher. If I still drank, I'd be drunk by now, but instead, I'm going for a long run, and I'm going to listen to @JasonIsbell and @the400Unit , and I'm probably going to eat Skittles when I'm done.

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I can’t wait to turn 40 tomorrow so that people stop asking me what I’m doing for my 40th and I can stop disappointing them by saying absolutely nothing because I’m so tired of doing things, that sounds like the best gift of all—total lack of responsibility!

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I’m having the worst semester in my 12 years teaching higher ed. I worked so hard to get this term-tenure position, but every day since 10/23 has been a nightmare. It is taking everything in me not to quit because I carry the health insurance and make 60% of our income.

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1 year

Does anyone else get debilitating anxiety before travel? Intellectually, I know flying is safe and I’ll enjoy myself once I get to my destination. Emotionally, I am consistently overwhelmed before leaving my family.

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3 years

I just taught my LAST ENGLISH class at the community college. I learned a lot during my 8 years there. And I’m grateful. However....I’m CRAZY excited to create art and grow—exponentially?—in my new position as Assistant Professor of Film, Video, and Digital Media Production!

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4 years

Just found out my chapbook, “blood histories” is one of five shortlisted for publication with @FreeStateReview (Galileo Press)!

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3 years

Reverse angle of my beautiful office. I’ve been teaching for ten years, and I can’t believe this space, this new position, and this huge opportunity to create and teach are mine!

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2 years

It has long been a dream to publish in @fairytalereview , and I could not be more humbled and ecstatic about this Pushcart nomination. Huge thanks to all of the editors, and special ✨❤️ to the incandescent @katebernheimer .

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We are so pleased to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for our 2021 Gold Issue. For prose: "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, "The Gold Key" by Sabina Murray, and "The Mother Must Die and Other Lies Fairy Tales Told Me" by @MrsWhitehouse74 .

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2 years

Oh my god. There is a box on the porch. With my name on it. From @UnsolicitedP . My books are here. 😭😭😭

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3 years

Guys. I have an office. With a window. This is my before photo. I don’t know how long it will take to finish nesting, but please note my super sparkly lamp purchase. 💕

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4 years

I appreciate editors working so hard during this time! I've never had writing rejected any faster in my eleven years of submitting work! 😂

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2 years

I am extremely excited to be working with ELJ, who will release my full-length collection, They More Than Burned, in 2023! Special thanks to 2023 Acquisitions Editor @LannieStabile , and congratulations to my fellow press mates!

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Please give a warm welcome to our 2023 family: @Read_Instead @TravisCravey @TerenaBell @MrsWhitehouse74 @raniqualee @anhvubuchanan & Shawna Mayer.

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2 years

After seven months of no new writing or publications, I will have a teeny tiny end-of-the-year (end-of-times?) prose piece coming out in Hobart next week.

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2 years

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. -Joan Didion

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2 years

Writing a synopsis of one's own book is a good exercise in wtf, omg, smh, I can't even.

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2 years

I’ve got a micro coming out with @hobartpulp tomorrow, and it’s the first thing I’ve published since June (not including Blood Histories), and I could not think of a better way to kick off the New Year. 🤍✨🎉

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