Ashley Elizabeth | writer & educator

I hope I can stay awake 😩

Welp, didn't get the Hodder. Maybe next year!

Not sure, but I think it has to do with pronunciation due to differing accents

Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online reading to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. December 13, 2025 Featuring: Jared Beloff Barlow Adams Dan Murphy upfromsumdirt Gregory Crosby J-T Kelly https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY

Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org

It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!

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Who wants these banger poems? 👀👀

There is such irony in building a microchap about ****** *********.

And then they doubled down on it today!

Someone just tried to make the argument that writing isn't work.

Like um... hello, are you unwell?

There's something reflective about this fall.... or is it just me?

This means so much. Thank you!

If we don't use our small poetry presses, we'll lose them. This is why I refuse to flinch or shy from asking you to purchase a copy of Whatever You Do, Just Don't, my second full collection.

Here's a sample poem from the book. Just drop me a DM and I'll sort out a signed copy for you...

And I hope so!!

Someone who runs events in Baltimore (who I've read with before) reached out!

Booked my first AWP offsite today 🥹

Need a slice of humble pie as a writer? Open some documents you wrote in middle or high school.

Completely understandable!

I got so much stuff done during those sessions! If y'all can't (or don't want to), I understand, but know they were loved!

I miss the @barrelhouse.bsky.social write-ins!

a woman in a white shirt is standing in front of a mirror in a room . ALT: a woman in a white shirt is standing in front of a mirror in a room .

So I just realized that I have been sitting on a just about complete full-length draft that matches my current writing project for 2 YEARS??

Share if you can! Let's get this project funded by tonight!

If anyone needs some books for the Sealey challenge, I have 5 you can add, and one of them is now free!

I almost cried!

Met two of my literary icons, Sarah Kay and Clint Smith, tonight after driving from Baltimore to Bethesda, and my word, for also being a writer, I could not get words to formulate when talking to them. Grateful to be in their presence. What a great night.

#OtD 17 Jul 2014 Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man, was choked to death by white NYPD officers while arresting him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. The event sparked protests across the US as part of the #BlackLivesMatter movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8896...

Maybe THIS is what my next book should be about

The research I'm doing for my WIP is intense and eye-opening and scary

Finally watching all of Hamilton, and I can understand the hype.

This is a poem I needed to read today.