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Teaching Students to Write Garbage with Maura Jortner Podcast Episode · Professors Talk Pedagogy · 07/02/2025 · 43m

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All new furniture this summer means I’m packing things up and storing them in various places for the summer. Remembering where they are is a problem for Future Amanda. End of Year Amanda just wants them moved.

Charlie had two teeth pulled today and is the World's Saddest Chiweenie. No picture as he is tucked safely in Callum's bed enjoying early bedtime.

The Library of Curiosities

Carey C, this amazing adventure is on its way to you! Much gratitude to @jennylundquist.bsky.social‬ and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social ‬ for sharing with #bookposse

A couple years ago, I went to urgent care with a panic attack. Thinking it might be my heart, they ran an ECG. I wasn’t having a heart attack, but the doctor said, “You have a weird ECG.” When I asked what that meant, he just shrugged.
Anyway, I think about that every day.

#anxiety

Aww..

P.S. I can’t wait to order your book! Let me know as soon as it’s available!

Creating a Myth: A Writer’s Task, a guest post by Maura Jortner It took many drafts to get the Alligator Witch of West Bay right; mythmaking takes time and energy.

Love this take on mythmaking and storytelling by @maurajortner.bsky.social!

“My book, Keepers of the Marsh, might have a smaller scope than, say, Middle Earth, but it still contains a myth, and I had to learn how to create a myth to write it.”

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#booksky

Thanks, Patrick!

Thanks for posting!

Creating a Myth: A Writer’s Task, a guest post by Maura Jortner It took many drafts to get the Alligator Witch of West Bay right; mythmaking takes time and energy.

Creating a Myth: A Writer’s Task, a guest post by Maura Jortner

It took many drafts to get the Alligator Witch of West Bay right; mythmaking takes time and energy.

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Ahh! Thank you. ❤️❤️

A woman in a large coat with her back to the camera stands at the green railing of a ferry deck overlooking a sparkling blue sea.

Had a good weekend. #WSFerrys

Looks amazing!

#Writers #Educators #Librarians
I'd love to get the chance to attend/present at a conference this year to talk about #teaching #pedagogy or #CreativeWriting
Does anyone know of a conference with calls for papers/a submission deadline still open?

Thanks, Cindy!

Is it me, or is AI hallucinating more often?

Warning to all students out there: I think AI is starting to want you to get caught cheating. It might just be a little sentient and a little evil now.

Cat in a box… in case you need it

Maybe they could feature you in an episode!

Thanks, Julie! I hope so.

Episode 661-With Maura Jortner - The Functional Nerds The latest podcast from the Functional Nerds. New episodes every Tuesday!

I got to be a guest on a podcast. So exciting! I loved talking to @tracyatownsend.bsky.social and @atfmb.bsky.social about my #new #book, Keepers of the Marsh, which comes out in two weeks. Give it a listen, and send Patrick and Tracy cookies.

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Ooooh! That should be a good listen!

I got to chat with @tracyatownsend.bsky.social and @patrickhester.bsky.social today about “Keepers of the Marsh” (out May 20). So fun!

Publishers Marketplace deal report for THE SEA-GLASS SHORE, a midlife selkie story set in a mythic, contemporary Pacific Northwest that weaves through stages of marriage and parenting twins against the call of the sea, to Laura Stanfill at Forest Avenue Press.

Looking real!

Shiloh is keeping my box of books safe. What a good boy!
KEEPERS OF THE MARSH comes out May 20.

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KEEPERS OF YHE MARSH comes out May 20.
Thank you @smorgridge.bsky.social

Looking forward to rea sing this! Those eyes on the cover, they scare me a little!
#bookposse @maurajortner.bsky.social @holidayhouse.bsky.social

Keepers of the Marsh

Are you ready to join the Keepers, @jenniferhalbur.bsky.social @maurajortner.bsky.social's Keepers of the Marsh is dropping in the mail to you today! Thank you to Holiday House Books for sharing with #bookposse

Look at all the people in the audience! #TLA

Thanks! So glad to hear!