Sandra Jensen

Thank you so much for reading! 💕

A screenshot of Under the Sun literary magazine's page/logo with Sandra Jensen's personal essay title "Invisible" and image of a sauna

Super proud an essay of mine, “Invisible“, set in a Berlin sauna, was published in @underthesunonline.bsky.social. Thank you Under the Sun, especially editor Miriam Mandel Levi!
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SO excited to hear that a story of mine will be published in @pangyrus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

As I write in this blog, it's lovely to have a piece published given all else that has happened for me this year. Especially in the very special The Selkie."https://sandrajensen.net/2025/02/26/the-four-types-of-conditionals/ #writingcommunity

Photo of Brighton’s i360 Tower, clouds and blue sky

Hard to believe that I’m actually posting a photograph of something that isn’t Ronan, i.e. within the four walls of our apartment. Got out this week 😁David treated us to a sauna. This is what greeted us as we left…. All wonky but that is how it is these days.

A little story of an ordeal with late stage Lyme treatment…https://sandrajensen.net/2025/02/17/the-untellable-tale/ #chronicillness

Turn Your Short Pieces Into a Finished Nonfiction Book | Jane Friedman If you’ve amassed a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, and ideas, here’s a step-by-step guide to shaping them into a book.

Do you have a heap of assorted essays, flash pieces, chapters, ideas, and you think you have enough to turn it into a book?

If it seems scattered and overwhelming—and you’re not sure what will fit where—here are ideas for organizing your material and moving forward, from Lara Lillibridge.

It’s too late in the evening for me to answer this one but I suppose I could say that the very fact that I, a *completely* unfunny person, has written a comic novel makes me laugh 😅 #pretendpanel #writingcommunity #writers #authors #writingprompts

For clarity on upcoming pitch events, here's a graphic.

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Photo of a nearly full moon and some houses

Wolf moon…

48 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2025 - Electric Literature Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Laila Lalami, Andrea Long Chu, Angela Flournoy, and EL's own Denne Michele Norris are among the most anticipated

A stacked list of highly anticipated books by women of color to look out for this year electricliterature.com/48-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2025

Photograph of women in her 60s outside wearing a hooded coat with lots of fake fur around the edge

That time of year again…. Brrrrr. So hard to imagine the tragic fires in California. We have very dear friends who have had to evacuate. I love Los Angeles. I can’t bear that this has happened. I feel very privileged to simply be cold

Snip from my WIP, A Force of Nature, a hybrid memoir in essays....

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Hashtag Change #WIPSnipsPit is now #WSPit An author hype event February 26, 2025 If it's Feb 26 in your time zone it counts. I'm not the time zone police. Mark your calendar. Full guidelines coming soon.

ANNOUNCEMENT

In interest of saving characters for your pitch, I've realized that WIPSnipsPit is really long, so WIPSnipsPit is now going to use the hashtag

#WSPit

This leaves more room for other tags and your pitch!

Full tags list and details coming soon.

Mark your calendars for Feb 26!

#pretendpanel calendar with 31 days of prompts

#pretendpanel is coming up in a couple of days! Join me to practice answering writers panel type questions, and maybe make some friends along the way ✌️

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For those evacuating with pets in LA: Hilton’s Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton, Tru and Canopy brands are all 100% pet friendly. Even cats! And a lot of hotels are waiving pet fees atm. Good on u Hilton! Pun intended: that’s hot.

🎉Happy New Year!

Our submission period for 📚 debut novels opens next Saturday 1/11/2025 at 12:01 a.m. PT and stays open until Sun 1/12/2025 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

See full guidelines, FAQ, and how to submit your work here: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...

everyone excused themselves from all activities due to Baster fatigue so we'll never know what happened next.

Not sure I've EVER said or written "maniacal". Plenty of maniacs, though 😅

Snip from the Bridport Prize winning novel I'm shopping around "At Least We're In This Together":

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#mswl send me some literary fiction! family & relationship stories, stories about sex, identity, belonging, colonization, betrayal, friendship, romance. make me fall in love at the level of the line, let me deep dive into amazing character work. would love some #litfic for the new year #amquerying

Very moving piece!

Definitely worth a read!

Amazing piece

40 of the best new books in 2025 Here's our guide to some of the best books to be discovered in bookshops this year – January to June edition! We've got long-awaited literary masterpieces by bestselling authors; romance, thriller...

My new novel, The Best of Everything makes the list! Yippee!

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Nice!

From all of us at The Forge, a very Happy New Year to you!
Submissions are OPEN.

Editors-of-the-month, @saracrowley.bsky.social & Sommer Schaffer are hoping for your bravest and best. More details here: forgelitmag.com/submit/
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Made me laugh! 👏

Snip from my WIP, A Force of Nature, a hybrid memoir in essays.... #AmWriting #WriteSky #Writers #Authors #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips