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Seeks enlightenment through irony. Wrote A FLASH OF DARKNESS - still faint from unexpectedly excellent Kirkus review. Also wrote BOOK&BABY, a guidebook to writer productivity after having kids. Mmdevoe.com explains it all

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Story of my life Keep telling yourself things

This was written.

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06.11.2025 04:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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YOU can amplify the voices that spark global change Join me in celebrating the impact of this Anthem Awards finalist.

Pen Parentis is up for an Anthem Community Voice Award! Help us get to first place by searching for our organization and showing your support at celebrate.anthemawards.com #AnthemAwards

30.10.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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YOU can amplify the voices that spark global change Join me in celebrating the impact of this Anthem Awards finalist.

ATTENTION: @PenParentis is in 9th place to win an Anthem Community Voice Award! ๐Ÿ‘ Rally the troops to celebrate now!: celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting... #AnthemAwards #writers #writerparents #readatpenparentis #writercommunity #parentwriters

28.10.2025 01:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We can not WAIT to host you! This conversation โ€” these writers!!

28.10.2025 03:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join Pen Parentis on November 11 in conversation with Helen Philips, Scott Elliott, David Ebenbach, and Anca L Szilรกgyi, discussing artificial intelligence. www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial... #writerscommunity #writing #writercommunity #parentwriter #writerparent #events #readatpenparentis

28.10.2025 02:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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You can have your pretty nature walks, I love my October skyscrapers. (Okay I love my nature walks too, damn you Fall!)

28.10.2025 03:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gotta hand it to this guy, he didnโ€™t let the season fester. #halloween2025 #preseason #NYC #newyorkcity

24.10.2025 05:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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YOU can amplify the voices that spark global change Join me in celebrating the impact of this Anthem Awards finalist.

ATTENTION: @PenParentis is in 10th place to win an Anthem Community Voice Award! ๐Ÿ‘ Rally the troops to celebrate now!: celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting#/โ€ฆ #AnthemAwards #writers #writingcommunity #writererscommunity #authors please #share #repost #amplify #parents #creativewriting

16.10.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ee cummings will outlast them all

14.10.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

E.E. Cummings once had a collection of poems rejected by 14 publishers. When he eventually got it published as "No Thanks" in 1935, he dedicated it to those 14 publishers in a visual poem shaped like a funeral urn

14.10.2025 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 84    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Beauty and Violence Within Language - a Career Salon for Literary Parents Pen Parentis delves deeply into the challenges of writing while parenting, with author readings, discussion, and your questions answered!

Iโ€™m hosting a deep dive conversation with 3 authors who variously connect to this theme on Oct 14 online with co-host Christina Chiu. Any authors who have kids are very welcome to tune in to the livecast and chat in questions on this topic. RSVP for the link www.eventbrite.com/e/1626784439...

14.10.2025 03:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sometimes life kicks you in the nuts and you donโ€™t even have nuts.

08.10.2025 05:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Seven - In Balance, starring the M. M. De Voe. This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars M. M. De Voe (A Flash of Darkness, Book & Baby, Pen Parentis). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will

In case you feel your life could use a change:

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30.09.2025 22:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Things you find in the back alleys of NYC โ€”

25.09.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fun Pen Parentis event tonight at BKBF

18.09.2025 04:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you follow the accounts of posts you share? Letโ€™s find out. #science

10.09.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Come see me and Ben Tanzer in Chicago tonight!! Tickets are free www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

07.08.2025 19:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Uncaged M. M. De Voe

I wrote this! Let me know what you think!

#fantasy #newwork #goodmarket #writingcommunity #recommended
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01.08.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GET INTO GEAR THIS SUMMER - Pen Parentis INTRODUCING โ€“ THE SUMMER SPRINT! Stuck on a writing project that just wonโ€™t budge? Youโ€™re not aloneโ€”and you donโ€™t have to push through it on your own either. Pen Parentisโ€ฆ

GET INTO GEAR THIS SUMMER - Pen Parentis
INTRODUCING โ€“ THE SUMMER SPRINT! Stuck on a writing project that just wonโ€™t budge? Youโ€™re not aloneโ€”and you donโ€™t have to push through it on your own #writing #parentingdonewrite #writercommunity #parentwriter #writerparent

07.07.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hella good time in #cleveland and you bought books! Thanks for turning out!! Shots of local Krupnikas were the best!

03.07.2025 02:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Flyer for author event at 877 East 185 street in Cleveland on July 2 open to the general public

Flyer for author event at 877 East 185 street in Cleveland on July 2 open to the general public

Hey! Are you in #cleveland and love #books? Want to go to a weird event? Wednesday July 2 I am reading from A FLASH OF DARKNESS at the #lithuanian club! Program entirely in English and will be quirky - I hear there will be โ€œVingsโ€ (not joking: Vendesday Vings. Come meet me. My stories are weird too!

02.07.2025 03:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Manhattan 2025 - Pen Parentis On June 17, 2025, New York City welcomed authors V. Efua Prince and Ethan Rutherford for an intimate in-person Literary Salon in a secret speakeasy art gallery in Lower Manhattan.โ€ฆ

It happened - a @penparentis.bsky.social public event in NYC โ€” open to all book lovers. Headlined by V Efua Prince and Ethan Rutherford. Attended by many authors - a great time was had by all. Photos and write up attached

penparentis.org/manhattan-20...

25.06.2025 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Discover Pen Parentis Speakeasy Salon Events & Activities in New York, NY | Eventbrite

Join me Tuesday - www.eventbrite.com/d/ny--new-yo...

16.06.2025 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I am in Copenhagen and thatโ€™s my last stop. I did Zagreb, Prague, Vienna and Vilnius. Everywhere is identically demanding I explain what happened to America.

Hereโ€™s vilnius where no one is armed and everyone is enjoying themselves responsibly because they know how to be happy adults. #travel

07.06.2025 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Traveling in Zagreb after signing my separation agreement (a 30 year marriage I thought solid was actually made of paper).

Drifted into the Museum of Broken Relationships and the cashier said โ€œhow many?โ€

I just looked at her.

#walkwithme #zagreb #travel #croatiatravel @brokenships.bsky.social

18.05.2025 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pen Parentis - Terrific Writers who are also Parents Bookshop Pen Parentis is a nonprofit whose mission is to keep writers on creative track after they have kids. For more than ten years we have presented readings and offered workshops to writers who are also pa...

Shop for our featured writers and support indie book sellers: bookshop.org/shop/penpare...

14.04.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So proud to have been part of so many authorsโ€™ lives ๐Ÿฉท

16.04.2025 04:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fellowship Guidelines - De Groot Foundation - Pen Parentis Join Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship - a platform for talented parent writers. Rise in your career, win 2000 Enroll now.

The Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents: $2000, a year of mentorship, and the opportunity to read online at a Pen Parentis Literary Salon.
Deadline: April 17th
@penparentis.bsky.social @mmdevoe.bsky.social

penparentis.org/fellowship/

14.04.2025 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Authors Discuss Addictions/Compulsions at the Next Pen Parentis Salon

Stop doom scrolling - come watch four authors Discuss Addictions/Compulsions at the Next Pen Parentis Salon - tonight at 7pm Eastern - online! www.pw.org/literary_eve...

08.04.2025 21:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#husband#wife#memes

31.03.2025 11:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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