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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
7 months
huge shoutout to them for subverting gender norms (woman holding a cigarette by her lips, man on ozempic)
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first person present tense novel with a nameless narrator and then in one of the final scenes you learn that their name is deborah? that is my shit.
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2 years
back in May my mom gifted me my late grandfather’s long lost wedding ring. i was touched. my grandfather and i were very close and i miss him every day. turns out she was mistaken and it was a Lord of the Rings prop from my brother’s 8th grade Frodo costume.
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"People write the most interesting work when they’re writing about things that interest them, not about things that they believe will interest others." @TamingofdeSchuh on the future of fiction
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i love when someone in literary fiction drains a glass of wine, runs their tongue over their teeth, and then says something not unkindly
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michelle lyn king
3 years
something no one tells you about living in new york is that there's a store "catbird" where you can buy a single earring for $258 and if you say "wait so that's for one earring and not the pair?" they will call the cops and have you arrested
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michelle lyn king
7 months
happy president's day
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michelle lyn king
2 years
i have a short story out in Recommended reading today about teens and florida. 🐊 thank you to @wynterkm , whose discerning edits helped unlock so many new parts of this story.
@ElectricLit
Electric Literature
2 years
The boundaries of teenage friendship and “just saying yes” are pushed to the edge in this week’s Recommended Reading, featuring “One-Hundred Percent Humidity” by Michelle Lyn King ( @michellelynking ), recommended by Electric Lit.
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I'm so happy to have my story "Exposure to Light" in @angelfoodmag and am even happier that there's a new literary journal in town. @miri_yam_ was a total dream to work with.
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Angel Food
6 months
“I have known that my sister thought my marriage was a mistake ever since she turned to me one day and said, I think your marriage is a mistake.” new fiction on the website from @michellelynking
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3 years
college is not for partying. college is for seeing a matinee screening of blue valentine and then going for a sad lil walk by yourself in the park.
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Have you heard? @TamingofdeSchuh wrote the best essay of year.
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9 months
very good year for debuts. i am especially excited about: - THE STORM WE MADE by @vanjchan (1.2) - WORRY by @alex___tanner (3.26) - A GOOD HAPPY GIRL by Marissa Higgins (4.2) - CINEMA LOVE by Jiaming Tang (5.7) - HOMBRECITO by @sntsnchz (6.25)
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michelle lyn king
6 months
. @alex___tanner wrote the book of the year and it is out today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you will see yourself within this book and you will be horrified by what you see.
@ScribnerBooks
Scribner
6 months
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in @alex___tanner 's WORRY, out today! Find your copy here: .
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2 years
I got to chat with Ethel Cain about trusting your instincts, knowing when a project is done, and the relationship between self doubt and the opinions of others for @thecreativeindp 💚
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1 year
make america great again hats……………kind of jenny holzer vibes
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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
2 years
our open border fiction prize opens tomorrow + our general submissions will be free from june 1-june 15. we are ready and excited to read your work!
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
2 years
Our Open Border Fiction returns on June 1 with @AlexKleeman as the judge! The winning story will receive $1,000 (US) and be published on Joyland. Two runner-up stories will also be published and will each receive $250 (US).
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michelle lyn king
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I took one of the first Catapult classes back in...'15? '14? I met some of my best friends, people who would become "my readers" for life. Years later, I had the honor of teaching there. Catapult classes supported writers in all stages of their career. What a loss.
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michelle lyn king
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Worried? @alex___tanner offers security. WORRY, the book of the year and the debut novel from Alexandra Tanner is out in a month!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pre-order your copy today or never speak to me again!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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2 years
i cannot overexaggerate what a treat this book is —satisfyingly cruel, charming, discerning. it is a complex and hilarious text. however good you think this might be, i assure you that it is way, way better. also: all books should have a one-word title! alex is a genius!
@alex___tanner
Alexandra Tanner
2 years
i wrote a novel called WORRY!!!! it’s about being worried
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michelle lyn king
1 year
just found a therapist who has a “self-disclosure” section on her website and one of the items listed is “thin-bodied”
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michelle lyn king
6 months
. @JoylandMagazine is beyond lucky to get to publish an excerpt from WORRY, the best novel of the year and quite possibly the funniest book ever written. Long live @alex___tanner . Long live South Florida. Long live injectables.
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Alexandra Tanner
6 months
Another excerpt from WORRY is online today at @JoylandMagazine ! It's set in South Florida and it's about dogs, pyramid schemes, end-times preppers, and getting fillers<3
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two things I've been totally in love with since I was 16: @alex___tanner and @NylonMag if you haven't already pre-ordered your copy of WORRY, you need to get your priorities in order asap
@laylology
layla
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WORRY heads wya! i spoke with @alex___tanner about my one of fav books of the year for @NylonMag
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michelle lyn king
1 year
tremendous gratitude to the editorial team at @TheFLReview (especially @PeterKispert ) for publishing my story "Turtle Run" in their most recent issue. i didn't think this story would ever find a home and can't think of a more a fitting one.
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9 months
yvonne rainer's "a mainfesto reconsidered" as an evergreen in/out list
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michelle lyn king
2 years
you know how williamsburg, virginia has that reenactment village for 1848? williamsburg, brooklyn is a reenactment village for the year 2013. everyone there is a paid actor. all of the food in the meatball shop is plastic.
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michelle lyn king
7 months
choose your fighter
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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
1 year
however good you think this book is, i promise you it’s even better.
@alex___tanner
Alexandra Tanner
1 year
🤑WORRY PREORDERS OPEN NOW💴 . ARRIVING 🍐03📱🧿26🎁🩻 24👁️‍🗨️ FROM @ScribnerBooks . 🐕‍🦺COVER DESIGN BY @AliciaTatone , DIRECTION BY JAYA MICELI, ART BY SHANNON CARTIER LUCY🍒 . 💳SUPPORT INDIES GET IT ON BOOKSHOP🪢
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michelle lyn king
1 year
I fell in love with @mandyberman 's writing seven years ago after reading her debut novel, PERENNIALS. Joyland is so lucky to have published her hilariously brutal short story "The Emily Problem" this week.
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
1 year
"John had promised a way of life. She used to think that was the same thing as a life itself." —from 'The Emily Problem' by Mandy Berman ( @mandyberman )
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michelle lyn king
1 year
me whenever someone learns i’m a taylor swift fan and then tries to talk to me about how the color of este haim’s nails means that 1989 is the next re-recording
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I believe in people's capacity for change. For instance, I used to not like when writers used semicolons and now I don't mind (and sometimes even like) when writers use semicolons. I wonder what else is out there for me to discover.
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michelle lyn king
2 years
feeling very, very lucky that @JoylandMagazine is the home of @formermissNJ ’s first published creative nonfiction piece. everything Shy writes blows me away and “417” is particularly special.
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9 months
2024 predication: people are going to start reading ‘i love dick’ again
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michelle lyn king
2 years
i have not annotated a book since i was 23 and lent a copy of bluets to the man i was in love with and when he gave it back he was like “did you realize that you wrote my name in there a bunch of times”
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michelle lyn king
10 months
. @andrew0blevins is a generous and astute editor. the workshop he's designed seems far better than most of the fiction workshops available, too many of which discourage exploration and risk-taking, and instead urge writers to focus on getting published.
@__drewface
andrew (in CS teacher mode) 🌹
10 months
We did it!! Fractal University: Spring '24 is official. Cheap, abundant education could be commonplace in society. We're addressing that by teaching everything we wish we knew, in-person, in NYC. Our second semester starts on Jan 27 w/ 20+ classes, and you can apply now! (...)
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michelle lyn king
3 years
when i first heard about “awp,” i assumed it stood for “agents, writers, and publishers.” frankly, i think it should.
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michelle lyn king
2 years
ok that's a series wrap on "the nap dress"
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michelle lyn king
8 months
the plot of Casablanca hinges on how much men love to call women “kid”
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michelle lyn king
8 months
okay, I have been saying for months that the Barbie movie is actually a psyop written by the people who brought us "I'm With Her"
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michelle lyn king
2 years
i loved talking with sasha and asking him all my little questions!!!!!!! sasha is so great!!!!!!
@thecreativeindp
The Creative Independent
2 years
🌿🏆 We make the work, that's all we can do. Hopefully it finds an audience, but if the work isn't up to it, the work isn't up to it. And if the audience isn't up to it, the audience isn't up to it. All we can do is just try again. — @sasha_fletcher
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michelle lyn king
2 years
i’m in love with this darkly funny and perceptive story about the new york art world and how work impacts our most intimate relationships. it made me want to read everything that @allie_kw ever writes. do yourself a favor and read it.
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
2 years
"Iris noticed herself growing increasingly more hungry, along with the other sensations that often accompanied hunger, like the sudden desire to transform into a crying baby or a city-destroying monster at any moment." —from 'The Exhibition' by @allie_kw
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michelle lyn king
9 months
read some bad books this year, some good books, and a lot of just okay books. these are the books that i will still be thinking about in 2024.
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"A pattern of behaviors comes into focus. He tastes of salt like he has in the past." new fiction by @cora and edited by @MaddieCrum today on @JoylandMagazine
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8 months
thinking about when my mom got her boyfriend a "love is love" mug for Valentine's Day
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michelle lyn king
2 years
i write for the same reason everyone else does……delusional fantasy of book being adapted into a24 miniseries starring riley keough
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michelle lyn king
1 year
it's come to my attention that some people still haven't read @bryanwoods 's banger of an essay "memory phase." big mistake.
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michelle lyn king
7 months
many years ago I met a girl who was obsessed with dating a famous person. she is now dating a very famous person. ladies, do not give up on your dreams! girls can do anything!
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michelle lyn king
2 years
flash writers: send your work to triangle house!!! @alex___tanner is the best editor—generous and exacting and endlessly brilliant.
@_triangle_house
Triangle 🏠 House
2 years
☀️🍄🏝️ CALLING ALL FLASH WRITERS — it's time!! submit your best work of <1500 words to our NOT THE NEW YORKER'S FLASH ISSUE FLASH ISSUE, launching this summer on the THR blog!! 📓 Submit flash pieces and any questions to alex @triangle .house 📅 Submissions open until 06/27/22
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michelle lyn king
2 years
can’t wait to teach this class from may 16-june 20!!! feel free to DM me if you have questions, re: whether this class would be a good fit for you.
@greatplacebooks
Great Place Books
2 years
Finally, don’t miss your chance to study with @JoylandMagazine editor-in-chief @michellelynking . King’s workshop on The Art of Character Development begins in May and will explore the crucial role of character in creating resonant fiction:
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michelle lyn king
2 years
@frances_dinger Editor of @JoylandMagazine here. Feel free to submit directly to me at michelle @joylandmagazine .com.
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michelle lyn king
9 months
january vs december
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michelle lyn king
3 years
something very funny to me is that my dad calls short stories "little stories." "do you still write little stories?" he wants to know. "how long does it take to write a little story?" a+ unintentional neg.
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michelle lyn king
2 years
person selling BLM monogrammed suitcase on eBay for $875 would like you to know that although the monogram technically stands for Bernard Lawrence Madoff, “BLM is an interesting monogram these days”
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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
8 months
ten years ago a man described the woman he was hooking up with to me as “the kind of woman you fuck, not the kind of woman you love.” he’s been married to that woman for going on three years. if you find yourself in a “situationship” this Valentine’s Day, stay in line 🌹❤️
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michelle lyn king
2 years
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@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
2 years
Our Open Border Fiction Prize is returning this summer! Submissions open June 1 and will run through July 31. We'll be announcing our judge later this week...
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michelle lyn king
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In "Bundle," Amy breathes new life into a familiar story (unwanted teen pregnancy) through psychological acuity and fine-grained detail. What could very easily have been a rote, overly plotted story is instead a shrewd and surprising one. I hope you will take the time to read it.
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
10 months
"She was a girl, uninitiated and singular. A self untethered to any other, formless as wet paper." —from 'Bundle' by Amy Milin
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michelle lyn king
9 months
“should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind” is a beautiful way to start a song
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michelle lyn king
2 years
rip princess diana you would have loved the princess diana beanie baby
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michelle lyn king
2 years
haunted by the question of whether or not my high school boyfriend has kept edge for the last fifteen years
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michelle lyn king
2 years
dm me if you want to go in on this $1,200 bernie madoff beach chair
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michelle lyn king
2 years
lmk if this is something all boys everywhere do
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michelle lyn king
2 years
this sounds good as hell and i’m very excited for it
@emmelclein
Emmeline Clein
2 years
cannot wait to write the book i’ve been dreaming of writing for years…endless thanks to @booksijustread @vrhaughton @_triangle_house @AAKnopf for believing in this project 😭
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michelle lyn king
5 months
“No person’s voice is ever one thing but an amalgam of all the other voices that they’ve been around and heard. We’re all collages of other people.”
@livingcurrency
Janique Vigier
5 months
Chris Kraus & Ann Rower in Conversation 🌹
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michelle lyn king
3 years
@Darinstrauss everything hinges on the b
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michelle lyn king
2 years
the open border fiction prize is one of my favorite parts about working on joyland. submit!
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
2 years
That short story you've been working on for the last year? We want to read it. Submit to our 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize, judged by @AlexKleeman . Submissions open through 7/31. The winning entry will receive $1,000 (US) and be published on Joyland.
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michelle lyn king
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i love this story so much and feel very lucky that we got to publish it
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grace byron
9 months
@thebafflermag I also write fiction and this story, recently nominated by @JoylandMagazine for a Pushcart Prize, is one of my favorites. It's about a trans woman who creates an app to help t-girls transition. Things go off the rails from there.
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michelle lyn king
2 years
“Sometimes you just have to shut that door.”
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michelle lyn king
9 months
@nicky999doors i am going to rewatch the talented mr. ripley and light a candle for phillip seymour hoffman but i truly wish you a great viewing experience, as i do not believe in yucking the yums of others 🌷
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michelle lyn king
2 years
today is a good day to buy sasha’s book. already have a copy? great now you can get someone you love a beautiful gift.
@sasha_fletcher
sasha fletcher
2 years
on year ago today, BE HERE TO LOVE ME AT THE END OF THE WORLD came out with @melvillehouse and we got a @DanielHandler blurb for the cover, which @bestemiray designed the shit out of
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michelle lyn king
7 months
Dôen has really mastered the art of "Picnic at Hanging Rock Halloween costume"
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michelle lyn king
7 months
fuck, marry, kill but the options are the different multitudes i contain
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michelle lyn king
2 years
i love everything ashleigh bryant phillips edits and this story is no exception
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
2 years
Today on Joyland South, a story from the deserted Texan panhandle, where a first time mother tells their unborn baby about past traumas, future hopes, and how coyotes cry. "Boy Mom" by Andrea Harper is available now:
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michelle lyn king
2 years
i love this story, edited by @walkercapl
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
2 years
Today on Joyland: A bleak, sense-bending portrayal of a designer's isolation in San Diego in "Dark Social" by Alex Webb Wilson.
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michelle lyn king
2 years
just did one of the darkest things a person can do (chose to listen to “country strong” by gwyneth paltrow from the 2010 movie “country strong”)
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michelle lyn king
1 year
can’t believe how good this story by @maxdelsohn is
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
1 year
"I was baby-faced and short, which I couldn’t stop talking about, in my act and on first dates." —from 'Sex Is A Leisure Activity' by Max Delsohn ( @maxdelsohn )
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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
9 months
some of the very best books i read were by the people i love most, mostly unpublished manuscripts or works in progress. but one of those books was WORRY by @alex___tanner , a book that is even better than its perfect cover.
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michelle lyn king
1 year
taught my high school students the word “penultimate.” irresponsible use of my power.
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michelle lyn king
1 year
(i pay attention to the gay clues)
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michelle lyn king
3 years
working with Chelsea is always the right decision
@ChelseaHodson
Chelsea Hodson
3 years
This Friday, I'll be closing applications for my prose workshop that will take place online later this year—apply now! And if you've already applied, I'll be getting back to everyone next week 🌟
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michelle lyn king
5 months
I love this story by @ClaireOleson so much.
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
5 months
"We live together. I’m a 'girl' and you’re a girl. We dated once, but only as a long joke." —from 'Local Distance' by Claire Oleson ( @ClaireOleson ), new today on Joyland
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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
2 years
today is the last day to submit to joyland for free! (until we open up again for free submissions next month)
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
2 years
General submissions are back and are free through June 15.
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michelle lyn king
7 months
venmo me $10 and I'll tell you who the famous person is
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michelle lyn king
2 years
submissions for our open border fiction prize are now open! general submissions are free through june 15! we are excited to read your work!
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
2 years
Our Open Border Fiction Prize, judged by @AlexKleeman , is now open! The winning story will receive $1,000 (US) and be published on Joyland. Two runner-up stories will also be published and will each receive $250 (US).
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michelle lyn king
3 years
college is also for oversized sweaters the color of oatmeal or pea soup
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michelle lyn king
2 years
hope you’ll take the time to read @LoebDavon ’s vital and brilliant new essay, up today on Joyland.
@JoylandMagazine
Joyland Magazine
2 years
Today on Joyland: Davon Loeb's searingly intimate and astute essay "Glazer Ball, Gym Class, a Locker Room, and a Bathroom." ( @LoebDavon )
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michelle lyn king
3 years
@alex___tanner go lil rockstar
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michelle lyn king
2 years
what point do you think this america’s next top model contestant was trying to make when she shared that her son was “conceived to the hour on september 11th”
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michelle lyn king
6 months
@bryanwoods @aelaineo omg i love you both
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michelle lyn king
8 months
@miri_yam_ it’s the sort of story that’ll give you nightmares
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michelle lyn king
1 year
"Until recently, Taylor Swift never struck me as worth worshiping. I couldn’t imagine worshiping a woman with bangs." @___adorn
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michelle lyn king
1 year
i personally find it very unsettling to meet another taylor swift fan who doesn’t also kind of hate taylor swift.
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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
2 years
if for some reason you haven’t read sasha’s debut novel yet and you’re looking for a sign from the universe to do so……baby, this is it. this is your sign.
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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
2 years
@sasha_fletcher neither can wally :/
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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
1 year
why did they make jane goodall do barbie sponcon
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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
9 months
@jennawexler you have my @
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@michellelynking
michelle lyn king
8 months
@baby76140552 thank you baby
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