I'm in the midst of really reading across subgenres of short stories. What are your favorite horror stories to teach/read? Especially contemporary ones?
02.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks so much, Claudia! I am glad you enjoyed it.
20.09.2025 02:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you!!!
18.09.2025 12:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks, Kathleen!
17.09.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks, Dan! I plan to be writing some flash!
17.09.2025 19:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you!!!
17.09.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That is great to hear!
17.09.2025 19:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m happy to announce that I have been awarded a fellowship to stay at Porches Writing Retreat to work on my nonfiction! I’m looking forward to getting back to Virginia for a little bit in 2026!
17.09.2025 15:59 — 👍 78 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0
I'm always glad to read more about the Dust Bowl! Thanks for sharing!
12.09.2025 23:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Oh! And the book is brand new!
12.09.2025 21:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you! I will check these out!
12.09.2025 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I will certainly check them out! Thanks!
12.09.2025 20:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm always glad to read more flash! Thanks!
12.09.2025 20:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks, Christine!
12.09.2025 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What are some great historical short stories you'd recommend? (Meaning that they are in the subgenre of historical fiction, not old). I'm hoping to bring some recent pieces into a new class I'm building, and they need to be stories not novels. Particularly interest in any fun craft elements.
12.09.2025 17:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 2
Yep to all of this! I particularly like pulling up "more barking."
07.09.2025 12:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In “In Search of Delight at the Art Museum: A Writing Exercise with Pen in Hand” Manzella invites students to claim space, both mental and physical, by exploring “delight” through a hands-on exercise in a campus art museum using pen and paper.
Read it here: buff.ly/fz5OjQP
#Pedagogy#SchoolResource
11.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats! My short story collection is coming out the same month! Hope to see you out there!
31.07.2025 20:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, I guess I really meant that you're already missed on the socials! But I'll keep reading on Substack!
31.07.2025 20:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's a great substack! You'll be missed here.
31.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It was a true pleasure, Karen!
30.07.2025 22:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hybrid Interview: Karen Babine - CRAFT
Essay by Abby Manzella • In Karen Babine’s latest memoir, The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo (Milkweed 2025), the author preps her Scamp camper and drives from her home in Minnesota to th...
It was gratifying to talk to @karenbabine.bsky.social about her new memoir THE ALLURE OF ELSEWHERE. Check it out! shorturl.at/0rvdX For this book she thought about "history, and stories, and landscape and at what point the California Babines just stopped telling stories of who they were..."
30.07.2025 16:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hybrid Interview: Karen Babine - CRAFT
Essay by Abby Manzella • In Karen Babine’s latest memoir, The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo (Milkweed 2025), the author preps her Scamp camper and drives from her home in Minnesota to th...
It was gratifying to talk to @karenbabine.bsky.social about her new memoir THE ALLURE OF ELSEWHERE. Check it out! shorturl.at/0rvdX For this book she thought about "history, and stories, and landscape and at what point the California Babines just stopped telling stories of who they were..."
30.07.2025 16:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I am all about book jewelry! Perfection!
28.07.2025 19:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hope you feel better soon!
20.07.2025 15:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks for this piece. I will look forward to the next one.
20.07.2025 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What current book publishers seem to like essays that are paired with a photo? Big or small publishers welcome.
16.07.2025 21:44 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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