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New story out today in @orangesjournal . If you have a chance check it out! It’s one of my favorite pieces. #WritingCommunity #story

Girlhood Lessons by Lydia Mathis — oranges journal

‘She didn’t have that tenderness for me that the boys got in abundance.’

www.orangesjournal.com

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@Kswizz_ The way this was phrased i almost thought the Dixie chicks were racist to Beyoncé.

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@StorySorcery That’s exactly what I thought when she said that smh…

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WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE USE THE WORD WEARY WRONG??!?!? Babe, you mean WARY! I’ve been seeing it so much I had to look it up to make sure I’m not crazy 😭😭😭 if you are being cautious/careful about something you’re WARY!

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Lol I give up on this manuscript #amquerying #writingcommunity

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I got this really great query rejection a couple weeks ago. It super hurt but was so nice. Listen my book is good y'all and not just my mom thinks so! #amquerying #writing

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@annathropoIogy Don’t forget she’s not even his first baby mother

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I’ve docusigned. It’s official. I have an agent. 😭 #amquerying no longer. I’m freed from the trenches. All the glory goes to GOD. Truly, he’s been answering my prayers. Now Rep’d by Mariah Stovall @trellislit

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@korysverse “Sorry hoes hate me cause I’m the it girlllll. I ain’t never asked to be the shit girl. Don’t call me sis cause I’m not your sisterrrrr” like come on now.

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8 months

@bookgirlie_ ROMANCE BOOKS SHOULD STOP AT 300pgs FOR THIS EXACT REASON!!!!

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2 years

@ideaaaahlism @teaareads I would *not* call that a snow redemption arc . It’s basically seeing how an evil entity is born.

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8 months

@FromAerin I thought it was that Korean curse word for a hot minute.

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1 year

Attention Writers! I will be taking prose submissions related to the epistolary form from 7/11-7/25 through a special open call with A Public Space! Guidelines Here:

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@mburland @Kartos @alex_shephard Let’s see it then. Also you wouldn’t have been able to “write it” without the actual writers who wrote The Mandalorian. What I would be more convinced is a completely original show you wrote using ChatGPT

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@TheFatKenDoll @xogabbyelle_ But see if he wasn’t trying to film people’s reaction for content he wouldn’t have even seen it. He’s was just reacting to a person who wouldn’t have otherwise seen it.

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5 months

This month I’ve been writing at least 500 words a day and I hit 10,000 yesterday. I don’t think I’ve ever written so many words so fast. Proud of me🥹Slow and steady as they say.

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2 years

@BlepBork @rgay The thing is I think a lot of his fans may not be transphobic (or that may be too nice… maybe microaggressively transphobic… idk) but there’s a tendency to ignore transgressions in order to enjoy a thing they like or once liked (and yes that is still problematic)

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@mukumuks My heart. This really humanizes the deaths so much. It's almost flippant in the movies, but here I'm really understanding that man was a MURDERER, A SERIAL KILLER

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@SomaKazima That’s so funny. Usually celebs are all noooo no don’t send me money. She said I WILL be back.

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1 year

@CiaranDold Study abroad was great b/c I enjoyed my classes and didn’t try too hard to feel like I should be flying all over. I studied in Ireland, took a short trip to scotland and really enjoyed the books I read for class. I loved just going to bookstores near my uni. It’s what you make it

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@makaylam45 The hair dresser saying oh my killed me

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@ReidRomance I wouldn’t say this is true for all people but I definitely respect it’s need for the people who need it

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@corrinaishii @hazectrl Don’t forget Ms Candace owens

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@KaylaAncrum Thank you for this. I'll make sure to do that!

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@ShoukaRo I got this one and it genuinely was the best thing I could have ever received (besides an offer of course). It was like getting feedback from a reader rather than an agent rejection.

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1 year

@mburland @Kartos @alex_shephard This is vague, rife with cliches, the characters know each others backgrounds while only have known each other for a few lines of narrative, and it has poor pacing. YOU could write a better story than this if you tried. But then studios wouldn’t pay you well for it.

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@FnBusch @evornithology Actually I believe if I were to put your post besides theirs it would appear that actually in fact you said that.

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3 months

@guiltyassinlor After some tone-deafness in this most recent album and her silence in everything that matters (after releasing her docu finally making her politics known🙄) I just had to block her on socials and Spotify. She was my most listened to artist but so what in the face of mass death

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@vinn_ayy This is why I like getting the aisle seat I don’t mind getting up for people but I do hate bothering people

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3 months

Seeing @theestallion tonight and finished my writing just in time😮‍💨 #1000wordsofsummer

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@jasebyjason The leaders in France just forgot about Marie and them, huh.

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7 months

@giordkat "we all have words the people we love can't say to us" I am stunned.

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3 months

@Morgan_J_Talty Lol this is funny to me because when I leave bad reviews on goodreads it’s because the book upset me to such a degree I’m literally burning inside and it’s the only way I can restrain myself from berating the author personally for their slight against me.this would make me spiral

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@MJHuntsgood Tell an agent to represent me and a publisher to publish me 😭 (but also some of the stories have been published, check out some here: )

lydiamathisbooks - Publications

"Precious." North American Review. Forthcoming. "A Body Walks into Public Safety." Torch Literary Arts (2024). Online. "Sweet Chicken." Stanchion (2024). Print. "Let the Church Say." Southeast Review...

www.lydiamathisbooks.com

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@JMartinAuthor1 It has. It really, truly has.

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5 months

Doing at least 500 words a day for April. I AM DOING IT! 💁🏾‍♀️💅🏾

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9 months

@cathyparkhong 20000 murdered in two months.

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@ItsPaxton @ihatejoelkim PXTN!!! I still listen to your version of break every chain !!!! Love your voice!

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@tatianatothe @selahxselahx SMH more firebender colonization

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4 months

I ended April sticking to my goal of writing at least 500 words a day. I hit 21,000+ words. I hate that consistency works 😭 but I’m super proud of myself for doing it. Now I’m taking a week or so break 😮‍💨

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@BellaKoKo @MrsJellySantos He said IDC, I don’t care

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@whoyeah57 Wary is more like suspicious or cautious

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We love a physical rejection. Makes it more special somehow 😌

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@EveryDayJiayou Once you see it, you won't stop seeing it.

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6 months

Woo. Look at me. First non-fiction publication. Pre-order now for just 10 dollars.😌

Stanchion

@StanchionZine

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Honored & privileged to have these fantastic contributors in Issue 15! Their rich, textured stories & powerful poetry, along with my own black & white photographs, are spread out over 92 uncoated pages. Please pre-order for just $10, for a limited time.

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@kimichkis Y’all gotta start READING

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3 months

1337 words for today and I finished a first draft for a new short story. This is the first short story I've finished in a year. 😌 #1000wordsofsummer

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@KindaHagi See, I never liked her and my spirit knew why. Yuck.

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@kima_jones I’ll send it now!

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2 years

@namataayi @ideaaaahlism @teaareads Yes. And you realize just how awful he is. In the original trilogy he’s the “bad guy”. But in this you see that he’s an opportunist traitor who figure out how to capitalize and further his position on human suffering and death. Not to mention he’s the reason the games didn’t end.

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@HunterBonner @mrsbriggle The thing is if a male wanted to go into a restroom to harass your wife or daughter then he would. Barring trans people from using the restroom that aligns with their gender identity doesn’t stop men who are criminals from being criminals.

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@AbbyManzella Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed Both are Shakespeare retellings

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I love books so much. All authors feel extremely famous to me. An author follows me or like my tweet? I squeal and scream! Like you are a celebrity and I’m but a humble reader.

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@penguinusa The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

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2 years

I just got my first encouraging type of rejection letter. It’s crazy that I’m smiling and giggling so hard over a rejection, but it does feel really nice. Thanks @uncharted_mag_ ! #writingcommunity #submissions

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@ADK_Kelsey The Sparrow - Marie Doria Russell The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin

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@KosokoJackson It’s going to be like the end of Yellowface by R.F Kuang. The tell all memoir is coming.

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6 months

@painbuiltt I really hope it was a different strainer he was using in the bathroom and in the kitchen

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4 months

Okay. I am officially a short story writer again (for now), we are (maybe) on a brief break from the novel.

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6 months

So today I got a fellowship rejection… and a lit mag rejection …and then I dropped my chicken strips on the ground…………………

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@JulianneHannes Weary is tired

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Book mail from @TwoDollarRadio !!! Everyone should be buying their books!

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1 year

Open Call Inspiration: "Dear Sister" by @DeeshaPhilyaw from The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. I love how Philyaw quickly and thoroughly gets us into the story's situation and her character's voice. Submit to my open call with @APublicSpace by 7/25

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@MowzaProduction @DefNotYourMate Some people get scholarships. I have a masters and no student loan debt

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@bookishlykayla @SenLinYuWrites There’s a series on AO3 in this vein

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@00_Buckshott @yardtalkhbcu Lol she called you LITTLE BOY because you called the woman LITTLE GIRL. You have no respect. Also you know what you’re doing with “You people”. I think if you cared which I know you don’t and it is what it is, but it’s not so much preferential treatment but an attempt to

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@BethanyJarmul Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor Head Off & Split by Nikki Finney Whereas by Layli Long Soldier Peluda by Melissa Lozada-Oliva Jane by Maggie Nelson Obit by Victoria Chang

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@not_a_heather Incorrect

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I am so exited for this omg. I loved cursed bunny with all of my internal organs. Can’t wait to start. @AlgonquinBooks @AntonHur

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1 year

Attention Writers! Just a few days left to submit to my open call with @APublicSpace . I’m accepting prose submissions related to the epistolary form. Submit by 7/25! Guidelines Here:

Open Call

apublicspace.org

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7 months

I have a new story out today with @SoutheastReview . Please give “Let the Church Say” a read if you have the time!

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@writerkayan I am starting on a novel project. Who knows how long it'll take to finish a draft, but I am working on it. It's just that this is disheartening.

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@NimrodJournal Just started reading Joe Okonkwo's ( @JoeOJazzMoon ) short story collection Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck, and I'm already a fan.

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@grog_grueslayer @Gidi_Traffic It’s just color

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@httpxsour who is this?

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Writing 500 words a day ain’t no joke. I feel like I fight for my life trying to get there! It’s only day 6 😮‍💨

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1005 words today. I felt like I was fighting for my life trying to hit 1000 words today. #1000wordsofsummer

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@writingdemons 🥲

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@moniza_hossain Extremely

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@ethannku Ppl just be saying stuff

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Magazines that don't accept simultaneous submissions. Babe, I need that decision within the week. Two if your web design is pretty and easily navigable.

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@FnBusch @evornithology You aren’t even being paid to to speak. So this is truly astounding.

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@treygatsby @immabottomSTILL @iamcardib @BIABIA This is kind very bad?

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@Ntombi @BlepBork @rgay Yes. But if we do keep in mind those distinctions, though they may not feel important to us, we know whose reachable.

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1 year

Open Call Inspiration: Jane Austen’s Persuasion. No one understands and executes honesty (and the necessity of a letter in revealing that honesty) like Austen. Submit to my open call with @APublicSpace by TOMORROW 7/25 at 11:59pm ET!

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@emmailene_ Seen an author discuss this:

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I am so so so blessed y’all. I don’t even know what to say besides all glory be to God.

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6 months

So excited for this collection! I read a story by Pemi Aguda in the 2022 O. Henry Prize Collection and have been obsessed ever since. I pre-ordered months ago. You should Pre-Order too!

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Two months! 👻🐐

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@cynfinite The Street by Ann Petry

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You know what I’m tired of only having these books with plus sized women and skinny men. Where are the fat men people?!?

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@BGWW_ I'm making my way through Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor and Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck by Joe Okonkwo. Both excellent short story collections so far.

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10 months

I only want more and more amazing things to happen for you! Such an amazing writer and person ♥️

Ucheoma Onwutuebe

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10 months

Oh my goodness!!!! Such beautiful news to wake up to. Thank you again @BLReview for giving this piece a home. Here’s a link to the essay if you haven’t read it

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Manifesting magazine acceptances and a literary agent ✨

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@KaylaAncrum I think people (I) maybe wouldn't find them so cringe if if the lists weren't mostly super popular songs/artists.

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@fatfabfeminist Like the other day I saw how low my bank account was and I wasn’t going to buy dinner but then I happened to see I had 40 in cash app that I forgot to transfer. So it was like bonus money and I bought take out. And it was basically like i didn’t spend anything at all. Girl math.

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My mother went to multiple doctors before someone finally performed the procedure to see that she had esophageal cancer. This is months of time passing. She got diagnosed because of her insistence and confidence that something was wrong. So yeah.

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The American Cancer Society is trying to find out why Black women have the highest death rate for most cancers.

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@anaisisreading Nacosta! Gets me every time!

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@laurr444 @BeeNasty_ He said that’s why gem and sag get along. Just lying to lie. As a Gemini with a Sagittarius brother we really do be lying for the fun of it.

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@MowzaProduction @DefNotYourMate Yeah but my guess is someone whose went for four degrees is most likely one of those people getting some scholarships. Or they have enough money to pay for it themselves.

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It’s my birthday 🥳 I’m 27 today so you know what that means:

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