@benfantastika.bsky.social
Eraser, collagist, poet, fiction writer, mixed media, ceramics, printmaking, community college professor, arcade cabinet maker, roller of polyhedral dice, big-time yapper https://linktr.ee/bencartwright
I seem to have a lot to mention here! I want to remind writers of my Fit & Finish: Microwriting course, focusing on how word-by-word and sentence-by-sentence decisions affect voice, pacing, theme, etc. Two weeks online, 1–3pm CST, 3/22 & 3/29. Details here: kijjohnson.com/teacher/
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Birdhouse
Birdhouse
Birdhouse
Birdhouse
Raku-fired birdhouse with a Shou Sugi Ban roof.
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Fanny Howe (!!)
05.12.2025 20:51 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations @rblemberg.bsky.social and all the other winners and nominees!!
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For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.
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Space Unicorn!
PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb
04.08.2025 15:03 — 👍 382 🔁 372 💬 6 📌 15Ahhh!! We are 96% funded!! GO, SPACE UNICORNS, GO!!!!
01.08.2025 20:03 — 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0Newest dice tower from the kiln!
12.07.2025 18:17 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Heyyyy…how YOU Dune?”
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Unglazed mug
Floating blue and flick ketchup glazed mug
Top down view glazed mug
Decided to combine two glazes and I’m really happy with this mug!
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Raku dice tower in action!
Raku ceramic dice tower
Raku ceramic dice tower top view
Raku ceramic dice tower front
Raku ceramic dice tower
First attempt at making a Raku dice tower. I’m really happy with how it turned out!
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This might be a better link: catrambo.teachable.com/l/products
30.04.2025 22:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I believe so! Just to make sure I enrolled in one of the teachable courses I’ve been eyeing for awhile to test it for you. I have good news and good news. The good news is it works. The other good news is I’ve FINALLY enrolled in the class, thus forcing me back into writing.
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Cat Rambo’s workshops!
www.catrambo.com/academy/
Mug
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Mug
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Oh hey would you look at that.
I'm back at it again with @brendandurkin.bsky.social for three more books at @gollancz.bsky.social!
This one's got everything!
Ghosts!
Excessively virtuous knights!
A distressing tower!
A man who is also a tree?
Lots of birds!
Utopian anarchism!
It's great.
Discounted now in the Kobo store!
21.04.2025 19:42 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0I am LITERALLY making a mug with that Bartleby quotation on it. I’m going to mail it to you. I think the universe wants you to have it.
21.04.2025 01:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sister Nancy album playing, spring afternoon
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Some “ad astra per aspera” mugs for colleagues
Mugs
Mugs
Mugs
Mugs
11.04.2025 21:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is “of the first scene” an example of “in-sentence suspension?” 😂Seriously, though, my students and I love that writing exercise. Your newsletter is the best, Matt.
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RiverBank is over 100K! Please join us! We have specialty RiverBank tea... I am writing materials for stretch goals right now, and I would love to see them publishing. AND, if we do well enough, I may be able to do the campaign book that is in my mind.
06.04.2025 19:31 — 👍 28 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 4Trans rights are human rights. Trans people have always been with us and always will be.
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