D.E. Hardy

Excellent literature and hand-sewn volumes. 🤯 Friends, when I tell you the tactile and brain joy I’m feeling!

Interview with Patricia Q. Bidar about her forthcoming book, Pardon Me for Moonwalking

"One of the benefits of getting older is the perspective it brings. I have many things I want to express, hopefully in a way that touches or changes others in some way." Terrific interview b/w @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @swethaamit.bsky.social
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For those who like to keep up with the @claudinelitmag interns: Bubbles has found a home! 💚 As have Pickles and Moose. 💚Buttercup still waits tho. 🥺 Bay Area, humans, if you’re looking for a quality literary kitten, she’s at the peninsula humane society in Burlingame. 🤞🏼🤞🏼

“She used to be afraid of them, those unswerving cars, but she likes them better than the ones that stop, the ones that idle with their hazards blinking awaiting her slow approach.”

I must say, writer friends, reading your submissions has been the absolute best part of my year. What a gift! 💚🐈‍⬛💚

Have you gotten yours?

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Get in!

Mackinac

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Do it! The SmokeLong Fellowship not only helped improve my writing, but it also made my hair glossier and my skin better*!

*some statements may not be factual.

👻 “Eventually, and predictably, nudity doesn’t cut it. You can only look at so many boobs, so many butts, so much genitalia before you want to raise the stakes.” 👻

@jekwriter.bsky.social: “I peer out the front window and see a couple of neighbors waterskiing in the street and some kids playing Marco Polo.”

New micro CNF by Heather Emmanuel: “You blink at her. Wonder whether you should lie, or risk torpedoing the moment built from fraught fingers.”

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@pleomorphic2.bsky.social 🌟🐈‍⬛🌟: “Friday night is open-toed heels, purpling toes peeping at the beer-soaked floor of the Captain Cook.”

@ezhang77.bsky.social: “When the left hand pointed a plastic finger to the horizon, I followed it.”

“Enough cannot be said about Aldridge-Morris’s ability to pin an era. She is simply a wizard of time-and-place vibe.”

“Doyle stands by our side, asking us why we’re so willing to trust a good story, why we’re so primed to believe.”

✨🌟✨: “I always thought I’d see you again. But the words are tumbleweeds, rolling across the desert.”

I am so excited for this to come out!

Our October issue drops on Monday!! 🎉

This month we’ll feature reviews of two phenomenal chapbooks—by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris and Jacqueline Doyle.

These are must-reads, humans!

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@jacqdoyle.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social

Would you look at this lineup? So chuffed to be in this issue of @claudineliterary.bsky.social - @dehardy.bsky.social is so brilliant to work with! Can't wait for you to read my Dunedin story 💔. Congrats @jekwriter.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social Heather and Elizabeth!

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This phenomenon feels doubly true when the scene is being conspicuously and visibly filmed, illegally filmed moreover, without the consent of people in the room. Ryan may have been aware that Sebastian was videotaping—his goofy smile, nearly a smirk, before he imbibes the beer bong is indicative.

Two amazing micro pieces by two amazing writers!

@lumchanmfa.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social You are both so splendid and these stories are perfect compressions!

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Send your beloved out of print subs to @abigailoswald.bsky.social! We want to print your book! ✨

Excited to talk about InkFoundry at the Sheep meeting this week! @erincairns.bsky.social has put together a great resource for finding stories to read. I love the tagging system. It's as easy as finding exactly what you want to read at AO3, but populated with top-notch original specfic!

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Cannot wait!