Chloe Paige

Thank you! 🥳

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]

🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga

Gobsmacked that I’ve placed first in BOTH rounds, and now I’m off to the finals! 🏆

Francois Gilot was a glorious woman who pioneered her art career despite years of abuse. She died only recently in 2023, aged 101. 🎨

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives The Australian state of Victoria has taken a historic step towards reconciliation, passing the nation’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners. After two days of debate, the upper house of Victoria’s parliament passed the statewide treaty bill without amendment by 21 votes to 16, just before 9pm on Thursday. Continue reading...

Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria

Can you hear the sound of everyone frantically checking their stories now?

Hand-Me-Downs - 101 Words When Mother passes the quilt to me at age seven, it’s too heavy. My tiny bones crack under its weight. […]

I have a micro published today! I wrote this almost a year ago and forgot about it. It felt fitting to dust it off and find it a home 💛
#101words

101words.org/hand-me-down...

It fell into my inbox at the perfect time. I should've taken it as a sign and gotten a headstart 😅

The Tyranny of “Show, Don’t Tell”: How Fiction Workshops Killed the Mind What we lose when we banish thought from the page

An incredible article👇

“Easier to flag "telling" than ask if the prose actually works. Some of the best fiction ever written is mostly telling. Voice-driven, consciousness-centered, interiority-obsessed. ”Show don't tell" avoids the real difficulty-
writing mind, writing precision.”

Most, if not all, classic male writers would not be published or known today if not for their wives. Their works only exist because the Zelda Fitzgeralds, Sophia Tolstoys, Véra Nabokovs, and Anna Grigoryevnas of the world kept the mens’ lives in order or straight up wrote their manuscripts for them.

Love a good critical thought on punctuation.

Although I’m gleefully rubbing my hands together like a fly at getting historical fiction as my assigned genre, I see a lot of scarily talented names also in my group. Might be the end of the road for me 🫡

Thank you! It’s on the NYCM forum master list if you can find it amongst the hundreds of others 😅

First place, baby! 🏆 I’m stoked to get another group win with my bittersweet ghost story “Living, Baby!”

‘I overheard one esteemed editor at the edge of our group ask another what they thought of the latest Rebecca Yarros novel. Both of them had read—and enjoyed—the entire juggernaut trilogy. They spoke with neither irony nor surprise, and although their delight wasn’t entirely uncritical (they are editors, after all), it was genuine—and unabashed.’ – Kate Whitfield

Senior book editor @KateWhitfield.bsky.social on the rise of romantasy.

Read more: buff.ly/j4ygSMk

Managed to crack the top 10 for the first time in @twistinthetale.bsky.social for my third round story “Are You a Parking Ticket?”, which got a clean sweep of ’most heartfelt‘ trophies, amongst others. ❤️
Also clawed my way onto the final leaderboard—20th overall! 🥳
#twistedtournament

Congrats! 🥳

CYCLES — VOLUME 3 | PDF to Flipbook Volume 3 of Juniper Zine's Issue #02.. PDF to flipbook converted using heyzine.com

A story I wrote a while back for @twistinthetale.bsky.social is now published over a gorgeous three page spread in Juniper Zine!
“A Well-Travelled Gardener’s Guide to Native Australian Flowers” is a subtexty 300 word story that got me lost in 1800s floriography archives to pull it all off. 🌸🌼

My story "Bodega Cats" made that sweet, sweet longlist! Thank you @twistinthetale.bsky.social for liking my little story about Muffin the pickpocketing cat 😸

Today another person called my writing "delicious". I might have to trademark the phrase.

Can confirm. #librarians #booksky

Film criticism is an environment where straight, white, cisgender, and male voices have dominated for over a century. Now we FINALLY have an influx of diverse voices who offer more context, expertise and analysis! And now, of course, people say critics are worthless now. What a fucking coincidence.

Part of Florida's school book law ruled unconstitutional Siding with publishers and authors, a federal judge Wednesday ruled that a key part of a 2023 Florida law that has led to books being removed from school library shelves is “overbroad and unconstituti...

So, so good!

When we started FFTRP during the 21/22 SY, we were hoping our research efforts would lead us to ruling (or law) that would affirm students’ First Amendment rights.

While we expect an appeal, the judge’s 50-page order offers freedom strong footing.

www.wuwf.org/florida-news...

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Green tea - The Page Gallery | Literary Magazine, Creative Exhibits & Digital Art Gallery for Brave New Voices Come read, explore, and feel your way through The Page Gallery—a digital literary magazine and online gallery of poetry, short stories, and original artwork. Every piece is part of a themed exhibit, c...

Hello again strangers on the internet, I have a story published in The Page Gallery today. It's a dense little story that was longlisted way back in December's #FuriousFiction and now it has found a home. 🍵
Here's 'Green Tea for the Heart Valleys': pagegalleryjournal.com/july/green-tea

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