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Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

@kjfitzsimmons.bsky.social

#Queens Writer, College Essay Writing Instructor, and producer of the switched-up storytelling series No, YOU Tell It! Visit kellyjeanfitzsimmons.com and noyoutellit.com for more!

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3 months until our Prom Queens anthology from Poets of Queens Press comes out!!! Save the date May 8 to come celebrate at our book launch. More updates @noyoutellit.bsky.social

#amwriting #anthology #Queens #queenswriters #WriterSky

08.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Save the date: 9/17! @noyoutellit "Prom Queens" is a little over a month away at Grove 34 in Astoria.

Here is some of the excitement you can expect.

Stay tuned for ticket information and more at noyoutellit.com

#amwriting #storytelling #WriterSky #Prom #BKBF

06.08.2025 16:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Two weeks left to submit your prom poem or story to our PROM QUEENS anthology!

Submit and spread the word to the Queens writers in your life: www.poetsofqueens.com/submissions

#amwriting #submissions #Queens #WriterSky

17.07.2025 21:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Meet our next "My Place" storyteller, Francisco Delgado!

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with him and story coach Chenda Bao reading this Saturday at @kewandwillow.bsky.social

Read about @delgadoquinata718.bsky.social and grab tickets to our show here: www.noyoutellit.com/2025/05/19/m...

19.05.2025 14:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Meet (and wish a Happy Birthday to!) our first "My Place" storyteller, Mary Lannon!
Her unpublished novel, Tide Girl, was a finalist for the 2023 PEN\Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Read more about her and grab tickets to our show here: www.noyoutellit.com/2025/05/15/m...

15.05.2025 18:25 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm a 2025 Queens Arts Fund recipient!

This project-based grant enables me to offer "Prom Queens: Prom Story and Portrait Trading Workshops" connected to a forthcoming anthology. More info at
www.kellyjeanfitzsimmons.com/prom-queens/

Thank you @nyfacurrent and @nyculture! bit.ly/QAF_2025 #QAF2025

13.05.2025 18:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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THIS WEDNESDAY join @kjfitzsimmons.bsky.social & Zach Rothman-Hicks at The World's Borough Bookshop for an evening of writing and portrait trading. Head to the link below for more info, and stay tuned for an exciting announcement coming this Wednesday 😏 www.kellyjeanfitzsimmons.com/prom-queens/

12.05.2025 14:43 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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We had a great time at our first story meeting last night!!! Get tickets to our next show in 3 weeks from today at Grove 34 here: www.grove34.com/event-detail...

07.05.2025 20:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Today at 2!!

03.05.2025 13:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Give a 🎶!!

02.05.2025 19:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited for Saturday's workshop with Greater Astoria Historical Society @noyoutellit.bsky.social @queensmemory.bsky.social

RSVP here! Register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

30.04.2025 21:22 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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New College Essay KJ: Please read and share.
collegeessaykj.substack.com/p/what-would...

#collegeessay #collegeadmissions
#DEI #highered

29.04.2025 14:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New project coming soon! First, who want to come with on Sunday?

28.04.2025 18:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Next Sat! Come share your Queens story with this free workshop at @qplnyc.bsky.social Broadway branch in partnership with @queensmemory.bsky.social and the Greater Astoria Historical Society!! Register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#writing #amwriting #WriterSky #writingcommunity

26.04.2025 15:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Give a listen 🎶!!

26.04.2025 15:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Next show! May 28!!

23.04.2025 21:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sign up for the next Sunnyside Arts Sip & Scribe on 5/2 at 7pm. Hop to it!!

www.sunnysideartsnyc.com/service-page...

21.04.2025 20:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wrote a piece that judges and praises Taylor Swift for HiLobrow's DEFER YOUR ENTHUSIASM series, so everyone can come after me.
www.hilobrow.com/2025/04/17/d...
Thank you for the opportunity, @adammcgovern.bsky.social

#swiftie #swifties #taylorswift #WriterSky

17.04.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hope to see you on May 3!
Register here: forms.gle/tdVrFFRo8i34...

16.04.2025 15:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to be working with Zach Rothman-Hicks on my upcoming PROM QUEENS project. More soon!

14.04.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Free workshop! May 3!! Come write with us in Queens

#storytelling #WriterSky

09.04.2025 16:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
blue background with yellow & gold highlighting. Text: Electric Lit Submissions Call: The Commuter & Personal Narrative. Open 4/21 - 4/27 or until cap is reached. Each capped at 750 submissions. More info on EL's Submittable page

blue background with yellow & gold highlighting. Text: Electric Lit Submissions Call: The Commuter & Personal Narrative. Open 4/21 - 4/27 or until cap is reached. Each capped at 750 submissions. More info on EL's Submittable page

The Commuter and Personal Narrative are opening for submissions on April 21! Send us your flash pieces, your poetry your graphic narratives, and your longform creative nonfiction. We can't wait to read your work!

Head to our Submittable for more details: buff.ly/1nd67zJ

07.04.2025 19:02 — 👍 18    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1

Happy #NationalPoetryMonth

07.04.2025 18:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Big plans for my birthday month. Save the dates!!

03.04.2025 20:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First day went great!!

03.04.2025 20:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New year at Madison Junior School working with the 7th graders to find, draft, and revise personal narratives. Then I edit and publish them in an anthology! Would you like a memoir-writing residency at your middle or high school to turn your students into published authors? Reach out!
#memoir

03.04.2025 16:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Big news!! @noyoutellit.bsky.social received TWO @flushingtownhall.bsky.social grants in support of our Queens programming in partnership with Greater Astoria Historical Society and @queensmemory.bsky.social plus Queens student shows!

More info at www.noyoutellit.com/2025/04/02/b...

02.04.2025 19:10 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Big news!!! Grateful to @flushingtownhall.bsky.social and can't wait to work with Greater Astoria Historical Society & @queensmemory.bsky.social on our upcoming workshop and show!

Learn more about our upcoming events, the grants, and other 2025 awardees here: www.noyoutellit.com/2025/04/02/b...

02.04.2025 19:04 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Last day to donate! Help us reach our goal!!

31.03.2025 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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$1770 to go to support @noyoutellit.bsky.social student programming!
DONATE HERE: app.thefield.org/home/donatio...

Help provide:
- Free student tickets for high school juniors
- Pre- and post-show college essay writing workshops
- Student story swaps

Photo credit: @russrow.bsky.social

30.03.2025 15:39 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0