Michele Christle

The Elversphere - screening of clips from work in progress & discussion at Belfast Public Library — Michele Christle | Writer Michele Christle and Eli Kao present excerpts from their documentary-film-in-progress, The Elversphere. The filmmakers will share how they became fascinated with eels, as well as highlights of their e...

Come see clips from our documentary-in-progress, the Elversphere, at the Belfast Library on Oct 16, 6:30 p.m.
There will be a Q&A. Attendees are welcome to share their own #eel stories.
This event is co-sponsored by Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition and Shannaghe Artist Residency.

About The Elversphere The Elversphere is a documentary film in production A slippery enigma–the eel–swims across history, traversing oceans, streams, and cultures. From harvesters of juvenile eels in Maine to Asian aquacu...

The Elversphere is a documentary film in production, a way of seeing/being in the world, and now, a newsletter! If you like #eels and you'd like to receive eels in your inbox, sign up today! We have eel and film news to share with you.

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Points North Institute Announces 2025 Artists Programs In Conjunction With Camden International Film Festival The Points North Institute has announced its 2025 Artists Programs in conjunction with the Camden International Film Festival.

Congrats to all the Camden International Film Festival Artist Program Fellows! Wicked excited and grateful to be part of the LEF/CIFF cohort with Eli Kao and The Elversphere film.

Audio Documentary Weekend Intensive Aug 1-3, 2025
Led by Isaac Kestenbaum, Director of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, hosted and supported by Torchlight Media. Learn more/register at torchlightmaine.com. Sliding scale.

WHERE2025 Season Launch — The Walks for Historical & Ecological Recovery Join Atlantic Black Box and its partner organizations on June 5 to launch a new season of Walks for Historical and Ecological Recovery (WHERE2025). Learn about the many moving opportunities you’ll hav...

Join us for the launch of WHERE’s 2025 season of walks for historical and ecological recovery, tonight from 6-7 p.m., online. www.walkwhere.org/events/where...

What's the Point? I was staring at this sign, the mudflats, the red winged blackbirds trilling in the sumac. I was studying the busted canoes and trying to remember why I was at Wharton Point.

The points of Maine have become my collaborators. Plus, Shirley Collins' voice as antidote to low blood sugar. Read the latest <<hells bells>>, my mostly monthly newsletter.

Passamaquoddy guide Joe Mell asleep under a blanket in his rib and plank canoe on the shore of a lake, photo by William Lyman Atwood, circa 1895

Is there a support group for writers who often turn in drafts to their editors that are over word count? Asking for a friend who consistently got in trouble in elementary school for not being able to summarize and who would like to include the story of this pic but sadly cannot. #StillGotIt #Details

My uncle has written another book and you can preorder a copy signed by her at the link below, from Charis books! Very nice uncle, very nice book.

Extra Credit You don’t get your picture on the wall until you pass away.

Normally I only write one of these a month but yesterday’s reporting trip was too good to pass up writing about while it was fresh.

Another Trip to the Convenience Store, This Time with Birds A neon palace above the bird-saturated marsh, all ensconced in fog—empirical reality?

There’s a reason they don’t have writers pen their headlines. Alas, I penned this headline and everything inside it. Thanks for reading, bots!

Two transgender girls, six federal agencies. How Trump is trying to pressure Maine into obedience. Maine said it wouldn't break state law to follow President Donald Trump's order barring transgender girls from playing girls' sports. Then came a barrage of investigations and threats.

Withholding millions of dollars in funding to Maine over two kids playing sports. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/11/m...

USDA halts funding for University of Maine programs The temporary spending pause comes two weeks after President Donald Trump threatened to cut all of Maine's federal funding following an altercation with Gov. Janet Mills over allowing transgender athl...

The USDA has halted funding for UMaine programs: www.pressherald.com/2025/03/11/u...

Maine might have the only Sea Grant program cut by Trump A letter from NOAA said Maine’s program is “no longer relevant to the focus of the Administration’s priorities and program objectives.”

A letter from NOAA said Maine’s program is “no longer relevant to the focus of the Administration’s priorities and program objectives.”

Hi, I'm Somewhere Else Now and You Are Here, Too. A monthly missive from Michele Christle

You can sign up for this newsletter for free. You can unsubscribe. You can do whatever you want! I'm sick and writing against discombobulation with no footnote function, so it's a wild world. Like you didn't know. Come join me.

Deep Time Diligence – with Tyson Yunkaporta Aboriginal scholar and author Tyson Yunkaporta illustrates how deep time thinking, born of an intimate relationship between a place and its community, can radically reshape our relationship to the cos...

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Femme with long brown hair, black winter jacket, and beanie hat, laying in snow, rolling eyes back to show the whites.

An AI eye contact technology has been created to make it look like we are making eye contact via Zoom, etc., rather than staring at our own reflections/distractions.

It's a beautiful day, *technically* so you shouldn't have any time to read this. Maybe later, though? michelechristle.substack.com/p/something-...

Photo of slide with blue shape with lines that look like typographical map or lydar mapping.

Who knows what this is? Don’t guess—it’s an otolith from an #AmericanEel What a sight to behold! Such mystery contained within. I’m not saying that staring at otoliths will stop fascism but it’s a great palate cleanser.

Are you looking for a writer? — Michele Christle | Writer Michele Christle (is a human) who offers the following services: content writing, editing, interviews, research, and transcriptions.

The "federal funding roller coaster" has led to uncertainty regarding the project I'd planned to work on for the next few months. Silver lining: my availability to write for you in the meantime. Get in touch for all projects big, small, and everything in between. michelechristle.com/services

Offer accepted! Looking forward to stitching for you, JF. ❤️

This belated December missive also contains an offer: because I enjoyed embroidering a shirt for my sister (@heatherchristle.bsky.social) I am offering to embroider a shirt for the next person who becomes a paid subscriber or gives a gift subscription.

It's time to talk about my "t" key and why technically, I no longer have a laptop. michelechristle.substack.com/p/yeah-righ

An Invitation to be Vulnerable and Honest with a Stranger by Michele Christle People have long told me that I’m good at talking to strangers. They’re not wrong — I love talking to strangers — but I still have plenty of biases. Working as a facilitator for On...

Wrote a thing for StoryCorps' blog about vacillating between skepticism and hope as I facilitated One Small Step conversations for WERU 89.9 FM over the past few years. Thanks for reading.

This month's newsletter is an ode to convenience stores I've visited at night in the past week. Subscribe for free or for $. michelechristle.substack.com/p/i-was-driv...

The story I wrote about a Passamaquoddy eel conservation initiative got a shout-out in Sam Sifton's NYT Cooking newsletter yesterday. I'm chuffed + pumped that this story—which is just as much about Wabanaki sovereignty as it is about eels—is making it to an even bigger audience.