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ASKEW (March, 2022) is 6th book, Cowboy Jamboree. EIC @BendingGenres Journal: we offer Workshops, Roundtables, occasional writing Retreats.

Milwaukee, WI

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Robert Vaughan

2 months

@BendingGenres May/June, issue 39, is LIVE! Exciting hybrid CNF, poems, and flash, an amazing achievement due to our editorial staff!!! Congratulations to these fantastic writers!!! And to all who submitted but are not in this issue, please try again! HAPPY PUB DAY!!!

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Robert Vaughan

11 months

Can we start a thread of cute couples that AREN’T divorced/breaking up??? All this celebrity divorce news is upsetting me & my homegirls. Here we are recently off to our 20th, in July, to Curacao. Happy Anniversary, my sweetheart. XO

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

Shhh. Quiet those voices. I spent the past three days assembling my 6th book- a full collection of poems. It's been 4 years!! I'm breathless, giddy, scared!!! Mostly grateful for all of you, writing community. You steer me on my course, daily. #writing #WritingCommnunity #poetry

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Robert Vaughan

7 months

Yes, we were duped @BendingGenres . In our last issue, this poem... by the alleged John Kucera was plagiarized. Here is the original poem by Dorsia Smith Silva: . Thanks @loki_writes for shedding light on this, and also writer Richard

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Birthday libations!!! Xoxo

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Nothing like last minute! Our nominees for ⁦ @bestmicrofic ⁩ 2023. Thanks, editors! ⁦ @megtuite ⁩

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Robert Vaughan

5 years

I'm so stinking proud to be included among so many talented writers in the @BestSmFictions 2019. Thanks guest editor @Bud_Smith and the good folks at @hobartpulp for this opportunity. I'm so jazzed. WOW. Plus, an absurd one!!! #writers #writing

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

It's my birthday, so I'm playing Donna Summer "I Feel Love" because I do, and the birds are dancing with me, and I'm eternally grateful for you all. Thanks for making life so magical.

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

Friends, it's been 5 long years since Funhouse. But thanks to @gritvanwinkle and @CowboyJamboree my 6th collection of hybrid prose/ poetry is coming in March, 2022!!! I am SO EXCITED!!! Cover art by @dcarterspa . @megtuite @DMOCONNORWRITES @LenKuntz

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Cowboy Jamboree Press (subs open for Texas Wind)

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3 years

Coming next month from CJ Press, ASKEW, outstanding lyrics and hybrid flash from @rgvaughan ✊🔥

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

My tweet, with a photo of my bf and I, celebrating 19 years together, was taken down my Twitter. Who knowns why? But a day of celebration and joy, and fuck TW. We have this all over you!!!

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Robert Vaughan

6 years

Today, I have five flash stories up at Hobart!!! Thanks a ton, Bud Smith, guest editor, and the great folks at the dream zine. These are all pieces of mine from early chapbooks, and originally published in terrific zines...

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Robert Vaughan

1 month

Wigleaf Top 50 and Long List 2024 is OUT!!! Super thrilled to see not 1, or 2... but 5 pieces on the Long List from @BendingGenres !!! Congratulations to all, and to our editors, BRAVO!!! Also thanks to @Wigleaf and @laughingyeti and editors, also!!!

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

My piece, "Summer of '66" is live at @nationalflashfd and I am eternally grateful for this third-times-a-charm and the editorial dedication to make this celebration of flash happen. Also... LOVE @nocontactmag :

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Our all new @BendingGenres Issue 27 is live today!!! 30 new wondrous pieces of CNF, flash fiction, and hybrid poems!!! Take in this incredible work by so many talented writers! @megtuite @Decolonialheart @samueljfox @DMOCONNORWRITES @katanerd @CLBpoetry @CardewjCardew

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Happy PUB DAY, ASKEW!!! Thanks, @gritvanwinkle and @CowboyJamboree . Thanks, @dcarterspa for an amazing cover art. Superb editor, @DMOCONNORWRITES ! Blurbs (linked below) by a dream team!!!

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Robert Vaughan

8 months

Bending Genres November/ December, issue 36, is LIVE! Exciting hybrid flash, poems, and CNF, a spectacular achievement due to our fantastic editorial staff!!! Congratulations to these stellar writers! And to those who submitted and are not in this issue, please try again! HAPPY

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Bending Genres Issue 28 is now live! Chock full of super talented writers: CNF, flash and hybrid poems!!! Thanks contributors, and BG editors!!! Consistently dazzling and innovative!!! @DMOCONNORWRITES @katanerd @samueljfox @megtuite @Decolonialheart @CLBpoetry @CardewjCardew

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

What a lovely surprise, and thanks so much, @AtlasAndAlice ! Best to all of the nominees!!! Makes me so happy to be included in this season of mirth! @woodardwriter

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2 years

Announcing our nominees for @bestmicrofic 2023!

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Our @BendingGenres Issue 33 has launched today! Chock full of amazing hybrid work! Thanks terrific editors!!! But mostly, you! The writers who make our lit world so unusual and fun! THANKS!!! #writers #WritingCommmunity 📷

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Robert Vaughan

8 months

I just had my quickest, and first acceptance for 2024 from @GooseberryPie99 ! A fun, micro journal run by the fantastic Jeff Harvey, with pieces in six sentences. My piece, "Easy Like A Sunday Morning," was generated in a @BendingGenres weekend workshop, and will air this March,

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

It's my birthday!!! Dancing in the buff. Party trays.

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Robert Vaughan

10 months

Bending Genres September/ October, issue 35, is LIVE! Exciting hybrid poems, CNF, and flash, truly an achievement due to our fantastic editorial staff!!! Congratulations to these amazing writers! To those who submitted and are not in this issue, please try again!

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Our latest issue of @BendingGenres is LIVE! Issue 31 is full of goodness and a variety of hybrid imaginative winners!!! Take a dive, into the brilliance in this issue!!! Thanks contributors, and editors! @megtuite @Decolonialheart @samuelfox @CLBpoetry @CardewjCardew

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Today we launch our 26th issue of @BendingGenres !!! We have 32 new innovative pieces of hybrid poems, flash and CNF. Come bathe in this pool of WONDROUS LITERATURE!!! @megtuite @DMOCONNORWRITES @samueljfox @CLBpoetry @katanerd @Decolonialheart @rgvaughan

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Robert Vaughan

5 years

Teaser: it's OFFICIAL! We will have our first Bending Genres Anthology!!! Over 100 authors, and the best of the hybrid CNF, Fiction, and Poetry that we've published since our first issue in January, 2018. Soon, we will...

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

I'm proud to have my new flash, "The Moth" up in the April issue of @GhostParachute !!! Thanks, @brettpribble and also @nyarloka and her @BendingGenres February weekend workshop for inspiring this short ditty!!!

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1 year

The April 2023 issue is here! Cover illustrated by @GirlGoneQuiet

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Our all new @BendingGenres Issue 32 has launched today!!! Thanks editors, and @KeithJ_Powell for the expert IT!!! Mostly, you! The writers who make our lit world so exciting and lovely! THANKS! #writers #WritingCommmunity #poetrycommunity #PoetryMonth

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

So excited to have an acceptance for @nationalflashfd - "The 5% Nation of Pay-per-vew" will publish at 11 am (BST) on Saturday, the 18th of June! I am thrilled to appear in this day of celebrating flash for the 3rd time!!! Thanks, editors! #nffd #writers #WritingCommunity

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

YAY!!! Many thanks for your submission to FlashFlood, the National Flash Fiction Day journal. We’re delighted to say that we enjoyed your flash, "Summer of ’66", and would like to publish it, on the FlashFlood journal at around 17:20 (BST) on Saturday, the 24th of June 2023

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

At AWP Seattle, @bendinggenres launched GET BENT: our new anthology in which amazing authors interpreted the phrase. Huge thanks to co-editor @megtuite and Adam Robinson ( @pubgen ) who designed/layout and is our all around guru!!!

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

Bending Genres Issue 24 has launched. Twenty-four solid pieces of CNF, poetry and flash! Thanks contributors, and stellar editors for another rapturous issue!!! @megtuite @CardewjCardew @DMOCONNORWRITES @samueljfox @Comito_writes @CLBpoetry @Decolonialheart @katanerd

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

So excited that my triptych Wrestling with Genetics/ Planes, Trains and Automobiles/ The Graffiti Maze will be published at 1:00 am (BST) on 26th June for @nationalflashfd !!! Thanks, editors! Really appreciate this and look forward to the entire DAY OF FLASH FICTION!!!

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Bending Genres July/ August, issue 34, is LIVE! Exciting hybrid CNF, poems, and flash, truly an achievement due to our exceptional editorial staff!!! Congratulations to these talented writers! To those who submitted and are not in this issue, try again!

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Robert Vaughan

2 months

Happy PRIDE, friends!!! Hope your June is filled with LOVE and LIGHT!

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Civic Duty done! Remember to vote. Your life depends on it. #vote #civicduty #america2023

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Robert Vaughan

10 days

Deep thanks to @nancystohlman and @kathyfish for their hard work and dedication, this Grand Lake Retreat was a blast, inspiring, and fabulous! WRITE ON, friends!

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

I think I made the "short list" of the @FracturedLit 2021 contest. My title was included among the post missing names? So, I guess I'm like the runner-up, and that still makes me HAPPY!!! Congratulations to all of the 14 selected winners. YOU ARE BRILLIANT!

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Robert Vaughan

2 months

At 17. Prolly stoned.

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ITS NOT A PHASE MOM — me at 17

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Robert Vaughan

4 months

@BendingGenres Mar/Apr, issue 38, is LIVE! Exciting hybrid flash, CNF, and poems, an amazing achievement due to our stellar editorial staff!!! Congratulations to these fantastic writers! And to all who submitted but are not in this issue, please try again! HAPPY PUB DAY!

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

As of now, we only have two more rooms left at Devonfield Inn, Lee, MA. for our first @BendingGenres Retreat, May 7- 12, 2023. @megtuite and I would love to share the fun, regenerate your writing, and commune in the Berkshires!!!

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

⁦ @BendingGenres ⁩ sunset at Synergia Ranch with my homies!!! Deep family. ⁦ @megtuite ⁩ ⁦ @rgvaughan ⁩ ❤️❤️❤️

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Today, my short fiction, "Candy Crushes" is up at @AtlasAndAlice !!! Thanks so much, editors @woodardwriter and @loki_writes !!! This was added to ASKEW ( @CowboyJamboree ) the week prior to publication in March. First drafted in @CardewjCardew workshop @BendingGenres . THANKS all!!!

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Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine

2 years

NEW TODAY! Fiction from Robert Vaughan ( @rgvaughan ): "Candy Crushes" "You didn’t need me at all. Your eyes were a room. Your lower body was a suggestion. It was like cats in water—they’ll sit in the sink waiting for you to turn on the faucet."

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

If you see this, drop a photo of you that looks like an album cover.

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Adrian Dallas Frandle

1 year

If you see this, drop a photo of you that looks like an album cover.

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

Great News!!! @PushcartPrize nomination for @lfchristianson for her @BendingGenres CNF piece in our Nov/Dec issue: . All of our editorial team wishes you success!!! WHOO HOO!!! @megtuite @ConstanceMall13 @katanerd @AdamRobinsonMD

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Robert Vaughan

5 years

Bending Genres Issue 9 is now LIVE!!! Filled to the brim with innovative poems, flash fiction, and creative non-fiction. Thanks writers, for trusting us with your amazing work. Also to the best editors in the world: David O'Connor, Davon Loeb,...

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Robert Vaughan

11 months

@PeterTwinklage Love this!!! Only in NYC.

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Robert Vaughan

7 months

We're so excited to announce our February 23- 25 @BendingGenres weekend workshop with @saralippmann - The Intimacy of Unknowability: A Character Workshop!!! Join us while you still can!!! This one is going to FILL FAST!!!

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Robert Vaughan

5 years

@ambernoelle Anais Nin and Samuel Beckett. Babysitter Virginia Woolf (she only read to me- no conversation allowed).

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

I’m so thrilled to have two new pieces in @nocontactmag February issue. Thanks editors, Gauraa & Elliott! So many innovative writers!

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No Contact

3 years

Issue Seventeen is now live! Featuring work from @rosshowalter , @malsmart , @Aaron__Burch , @clairehopple , @ashleynassarine , @chellacouringto , @nadafaris , @rgvaughan , @adam_voith , @jackbedell , @C_C_Russell , @taralikestea , @NathanielJBerry , and more:

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

Congratulations to Bending Genres nominees for Best of the Net 2021! Thanks, editors. Best of luck to all of you!!!

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

So excited to reveal @BendingGenres Issue 22!!! Our July/ August issue is stocked with dazzling poetry, arresting CNF and flash fiction that will STOP TRAFFIC! Thanks contributors and editors for another spell-binding issue!!! #writers #journal #writing

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Had may annual physical. Normal body stuff good. Shingle shot (ouch)! Blood drawn (labs). Numbers coming in, already. Where can I hide? Can be overwhelming.

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture that YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. #naturelovers

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1 year

I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture that YOU took. Just a pic. No description. The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. #naturelovers Copy the text, quote retweet your picture. Here's mine 📷

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Want also to recognize that @francinewitte , @the_sour_potato and @MarcTweed6 all had their amazing pieces pieces selected from @BendingGenres Journal in the @Wigleaf Top 50 Long List!!! Thanks, lead editor @kathyfish for this honor, and the entire selection committee!!! 😍

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Robert Vaughan

4 years

So excited to be taking part in @nationalflashfd on June 6th. Thanks to the editors, @LunchOnTuesday @tinoprinzi @scooterwriter my piece, "Ten Notes to the Guy Studying Jujitsu" will go live at 22:00 BST. So excited to read superb FLASH all day long!!!

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Today we announce our ⁦ @BendingGenres ⁩ nominees for Best Small Fictions!!! Best of luck, everyone! ⁦ @megtuite ⁩ ⁦ @abairrud2021 ⁩ ⁦ @nancyfreund ⁩ ⁦ @laceyrco ⁩

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

AWP22 Book Haul and Paraphernalia!!! My world is made better with your words, all of you! Thanks for your books, Philadelphia! #writer #writing #AWP22 #AWPbookfair #awp

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

It’s a Launch!!!

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Robert Vaughan

5 years

HOLY MOLY!!! Bending Genres, issue 10 has launched! So full of literary goodness, hybrid weirdness, strange stories, poetic prose, and odd CNF! Read and share your favorites!!! Thanks to our glorious BG staff: David O'Connor, Meg Tuite, Davon Loeb,...

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

Well, that was transformative, magical, breathtaking! The first @BendingGenres reading for @FairSmol . THANKS, @megtuite for superb co-hosting! Also @nyarloka , @AimeeParkison , @saralippmann , @itsdbouts , @TommyDeanWriter , @kimmagowan , @kajtanaka , @nancystohlman !!!

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Behold: Bending Genres Issue 25!!! Chock full of hybrid nuggets, this issue is a milestone! Thanks, genius editors and masterful writers!!!! CHECK IT OUT! @megtuite @DMOCONNORWRITES @CardewjCardew @CLBpoetry @SaraFitzAuthor @Decolonialheart @katanerd @CardewjCardew

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Robert Vaughan

5 years

Thanks so much to @Bud_Smith and @21045Nathan @hobartjournal for making this exceptional experience happen. Talk about gratititude!!! So happy to be included.

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

I got another rejection this morning, and at first I was all "awww." Then I looked back and since January I've had 5 acceptances and 4 rejections. So, I made a new vow, once again, to not get so down with each rejection. Little steps, big leaps. #writer #WritingCommnunity #write

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Robert Vaughan

6 years

So grateful to have a Pushcart Nomination from Ghost Parachute for my piece, “Disneyland.” Thanks EIC Brett Pribble and staff!

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Robert Vaughan

5 months

I have a new piece, Easy Like a Sunday Morning, in @GooseberryPie99 issue 8 along with several amazing writers: . @francinewitte @lumchanmfa Thanks, @jeff__harvey and team! #writers #WritingCommmunity @BendingGenres

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Gooseberry Pie Issue 8 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi on Unsplash Issue 8 Stories: April Is National Gooseberry Month. In celebration, our first writing contest Is launching April 1, 2024. Here are the submission guidelines...

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Robert Vaughan

5 years

As of today, @BendingGenres is now an LLC. A company in progress. A movement. And a three-prong identity: the Bending Genres Journal (ongoing submissions!); our monthly weekend workshops (check them out!); and the BG retreats (please come!).

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Robert Vaughan

7 years

Had my first poem acceptance in MONTHS!!! Always so exciting to receive this news. Thanks Ian, and Eunioa Review for making this an awesome day!

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

What’s one song from your teen or young 20s years that takes you right back to that moment in time? Mine is “Nothing Compares 2 U!”

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Another DREAM COME TRUE!!! A launch date, and soon to be held. Thanks, @CowboyJamboree and @gritvanwinkle for this beautiful book. I am AGOG!!!

@CowboyJamboree

Cowboy Jamboree Press (subs open for Texas Wind)

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2 years

It's almost here. Get ASKEW, a new collection from @rgvaughan , next Tuesday from CJ Press 🔥🔥🔥

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

Behold: @BendingGenres Issue 23. Full of the very best hybrid, original fiction, poetry and CNF. Thanks to all of our editorial team, as well as the contributors. So grateful for our BG family! Enjoy, please share! #writer #writing #WritingCommnunity

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Robert Vaughan

4 years

Bending Genres Issue 15 has launched! We are so excited to share this issue of over 30 hybrid CNF, poems, and flash fiction! Thanks BG editors and @AdamRobinsonMD for all of your hard work!

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Trees are giving it today!!! Happy Spring!

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11 months

Such a fun evening, Sunday evening, reading in the Sunday Salon Chicago, hosted by the amazing @ignatius2u !!! Read with @megtuite @ToyaWolves Ann Keniston and David Allen Sullivan. So inspiring! Thanks for hosting the terrific literary evening, @RoscoeBooks !!!

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

I rarely write essays. So I'm truly grateful that @MISTERBULLBULL published "Pandemic Plummets" today. Deep gratitude to @thedrevlow who helped me shape this piece. And to so many close friends who consoled me during these months of early 2022.

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Huge congrats to talented writers @jeff__harvey and @kimmagowan for making the @Wigleaf 2023 Longlist with their @BendingGenres flash from Nov/Dec 2022 issue. Thanks, @VenitaBlackburn and editors, and also @laughingyeti for putting this all together! And to @megtuite ... BRAVO!!!

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Huge congrats to our @BendingGenres Fiction editor @megtuite !!! Her piece, "Make No Mistake, Fortaste of Loss" (Flash Boulevard @francinewitte ) made the @Wigleaf Top 50!!!

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

Let's list the various journals/ magazines we have edited. A re-cap of sorts. Will be interesting to see how many are around? Here's mine: Thunderclap, Lost in Thought, JMWW, Smokelong (guest ed.), Bath Flash Fiction (guest ed.), (b)OINK, Bending Genres. Yours?

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

“Go to any bookshelf in your house. Second shelf from top, 6th book from the right. Which is it?’

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1 year

Been ravaging this beauty all day on and off. The beautiful language, the ache, pain, cross-merge of storytelling. It’s dazzling. It’s got me all weird in the most wondrous way.

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

Today, in 1948, J.D. Salinger's short story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker magazine.

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Just opened the best email: My flash piece, Candy Crushes, will be published in the current issue of @AtlasAndAlice !!! Wrote this in @CardewjCardew 's February @BendingGenres weekend workshop! Thanks, @woodardwriter !!! #Writer #flashfiction #workshop

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8 years

It's OUT!!! (You can be, too!) FUNHOUSE, where the rides are endless. Thanks kahuna extraordinaire Bud Smith at...

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AWP22 Book Haul x2!!! So many great reads, so little time. Thanks ⁦ @awpwriter ⁩ for the many genius nuggets of words. I am so grateful. #writer #writing #awp ⁦ @megtuite ⁩ ⁦ @thedrevlow ⁩ ⁦ @Chelsea_Stickle ⁩ ⁦ @otroedgargomez ⁩ ⁦ @MrsWhitehouse74 ⁩

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Thanks, John, and friends! This is such a honor to be included among such amazing, talented writers!!! @CowboyJamboree and @gritvanwinkle are the best publishers in the entire world.

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John Madera

1 year

Delighted to announce the finalists for the 2022 @BigOther Book Award for Fiction today! #writingcommunity

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

Our @BendingGenres Fall season is kicking off with @sfreligh teaching "Beyond What the I Can See" on September 16- 18!!! We are so excited to host this workshop. More information/ registration here: @megtuite @katanerd @DMOCONNORWRITES @CardewjCardew

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Robert Vaughan

2 years

I had a pretty damn good year, best of the epidemic thus far. Had three flash and one essay (my first) published. Thanks editors! Also "Candy Crushes" was nominated for Best Microfictions. And how @BendingGenres just continues to teach us all. BREATHTAKING!!! Thanks, everyone.

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Robert Vaughan

4 years

Can I share a little secret on this all-important day? We have our next @BendingGenres weekend workshop on February 19- 21. And guess who is teaching it? One clue- she taught one already for us. Second clue? Her book is being reprinted: Doll Palace! More forthcoming!!!

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Swing by our @BendingGenres Booth 1608 to get your @Chelsea_Stickle books!!! #AWP23 #Writer #flashfiction

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Robert Vaughan

4 years

Our new @BendingGenres Anthology! Over 100 authors culled from our first two years, 12 issues. We'll have copies at AWP. Or you can get yours here:

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Highlight from our @BendingGenres Ojai Retreat 2022: wine and cheese in the clearing below with @LoriSambolBrody @megtuite @mundell_ly4602 @GayDegani and @Jayne_Martin !!! Such relaxing, fun times! #writer #retreat #WritingCommunity

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

Anybody else been crying a shit ton lately?

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

For @FairSmol we are hosting a reading @BendingGenres - Friday, March 5, 9:00 pm EST. Readers include @nyarloka , @AimeeParkison , @RustWriter1 , @itsdbouts , @kajtanaka , @TommyDeanWriter , @kimmagowan and more. DM hosts @megtuite or @rgvaughan for R.S.V.P. ZOOM!!!

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

Black and white selfie train. Share your selfies without color. …

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Robert Vaughan

11 months

Amy Winehouse would have turned 40 today. So, in her honor, we played her throughout dinner and onward into the evening. HBD star! ❤️ @megtuite

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Robert Vaughan

1 year

RIP Milan Kundera. Memory- 1984 road trip in vast snowstorm, NYC to Rochester, Greg and James and me. Discovered we were all reading Unbearable Lightness of Being simultaneously. Kismet and kindred souls. #writers #WritingCommunity @BendingGenres

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Robert Vaughan

6 years

Announcing our all new Bending Genres 50MM Microfiction Contest: April 14- April 27. Winners announced on April 30th. Our judge is the fabulous Jayne Martin! Read the guidelines and use the...

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Robert Vaughan

4 years

I'm so grateful to the NFFD for publishing my piece among so many incredible reads today. To all the talented editors, as well as the writers... WOWSER!!! @nationalflashfd

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Robert Vaughan

4 years

To everyone who visited us at #AWP20 ... thanks! And to those who did not attend, here is our new @BendingGenres Anthology, and BG editors @megtuite and @LenKuntz at our table 2168.

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Robert Vaughan

3 years

This new hermit crab flash is so, so FANTASTIC by @sarahillswrites up at @xraylitmag :

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Robert Vaughan

6 years

Excited and grateful to have two pieces in this NEW MICRO anthology, edited by Robert Scotellaro and James Thomas.

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