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rgvaughan.bsky.social
Astilbes flame on, August we adore you! #writers #writing #retreats #bendinggenres @bendinggenres.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
shaunmcmichael.bsky.social
Read my full review of @rgvaughan.bsky.social 's Askew (published by @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social ) here:

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#robertvaughan
#askew
#bendinggenres
#poetry
#creativenonfiction
#flash
#cowboyjamboree
#poets
#poetrycommunity
#shaunanthonymcmichael
December 24, 2024 at 11:29 AM
karenc.bsky.social
Happy to be here! Thank you @KeithJPowell for the invite!  I write #Flash and thought I’d share a quirky teeny piece from @bendingGenres April Issue 32 🚊
https://bendinggenres.com/getting-even-on-the-flushing-express/fbclid=IwAR2vABU9lKg4Vpj7cokKORk1O5hkTs_2heFRxPJX63elmKJoIaz519iyNsE
Getting Even On The Flushing Express
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August 17, 2023 at 5:37 PM
rgvaughan.bsky.social
Our
@BendingGenres Issue 33 launched recently! Chock full of amazing hybrid work! Thanks terrific editors!!! But mostly, you! The writers who make our lit world so unusual and fun! THANKS!!! https://bendinggenres.com #writers #Writers #writingcommunity
Current Issue
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July 24, 2023 at 2:11 PM
rgvaughan.bsky.social
Join us October 17- 19 with Len Kuntz for our next @bendinggenres.bsky.social weekend workshop! Len is the author of 6 books, and he's course is called BRAVE INK... more here: bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...
#writers #workshops #bendinggenres
Writing Groups
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September 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
amygcb.bsky.social
I’m not often speechless. @FBereaud’s review of Child Craft at @BendingGenres has done just that. Insightful. Beautiful writing in itself. A huge thank you to both! 😍 I love he mentions a favorite flash of mine that didn’t find a home, except in the collection. bendinggenres.com/review-of-am...
Review of Amy Barnes’ Child Craft by Francois Bereaud
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November 8, 2023 at 6:28 PM
swethaamit.bsky.social
My interview with Beth Winegarner up in @bendinggenres.bsky.social thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social 🙏 x.com/rgvaughan/st...
Robert Vaughan (@rgvaughan) on X
Today on our @BendingGenres blog, @AmitSwetha0627 interviews poet/ author Beth Winegarner about her new collection, Swim Poems: https://t.co/oJQ4jh4Taw
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September 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social
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Happy to land again in @BendingGenres, with my short surreal piece about lying.
She’s Becoming More Transparent
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June 15, 2026 at 1:09 PM
And thank you, Bending Genres (@bendinggenres) and Ben Niespodziany (@neonpajamas) for the workshop in which I wrote this, and also, thank you so much Rogan Kelly (@jerzypoet) for publishing it in @starbassoon! I see a lot of folks I know on these lists. Be proud! Do something fun to celebrate!
June 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
rgvaughan.bsky.social
In three weeks or so, @BendingGenres will host our 5th year at Synergia Ranch on the high desert outside of Santa Fe, NM. Join Meg Tuite and me with roughly 15 other writers. We have two spots open! AUGUST 22- 28. Contact me for more details!!! Morning sessions (image below) in Geodesic Dome!
July 24, 2023 at 3:03 PM
susanbarryschulz.com
Sharing this one published a while ago in @bendinggenres for no reason other than it still feels so recent. Like somehow the last five years have warped into one long year?

bendinggenres.com/two-dogs/
Two Dogs
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January 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
amymarques.bsky.social
I wrote a piece hoping @BendingGenres would want it. They did. And (1) It's out! (2) They're amazing to work with!! (3) Gorgeous pieces in the issue! (4) Thanks, @helenrye for prompting us to research animals in @SmokeLong fitness! (5)...
December 1, 2024 at 10:51 PM
lumchanmfa.bsky.social
The 15 Lists to Add to Your Apocalypse Bullet Journal -originally published in @bendinggenres.bsky.social
The 15 Lists to Add to Your Apocalypse Bullet Journal Originally published in Bending Genres / @BendingGenres _ 1. Possible sperm donors for repopulating the earth. 2. Locations of running water. You know for drinking, cooking, and maybe a bath if you are lucky. 3. Remember the times you swam in the ocean and how much you miss it. The freedom of drifting on your back, the water both warm and cool, caressing your skin, wondering how the sky could be that blue. You think about why you don’t really look at the sky anymore. You never really had to worry that you could be killed. Sharks are much safer than people. 4. Locations of canned food. You really miss tuna but would eat cat food in a pinch. Don’t eat the expired mayo no matter how much you want to. 5. Possible people you wouldn’t mind surviving the end of the world with. Never include any of your exes. You will never be that desperate. 6. Locations of farm animals. Hopefully, cows, goats, or sheep because you miss milk. A lot. 7. Remember the times you ate all the cheese in one sitting. It happened much more often than you’d like to admit but it’s good to remember, because unless you are making it, you aren’t having cheese for a very long time. Your first live-in boyfriend really loved to make cheese. He had a special fridge for curing you weren’t allowed to open even though cheese was your absolute favorite. He probably left you because you binged a whole wheel of cheddar while watching people react to videos all day. 8. Locations of easy to defend places. Caves are best but watch out for bears. They don’t like to share. No one does these days. Even you. 9. Possible celebrity sightings. Not only normal people would survive. You bet you run into someone famous one day, maybe someone you actually like who doesn’t turn out to be an absolute dickhead you might have to kill if they try to steal your stuff or rape you. Like Tom Hanks. You’d even settle for his son, Colin. 10. Locations of medication. You really miss ibuprofen. You can’t remember what plant aspirin comes from but you’d give anything for pain relief some days. 11. Remember the times you could just roll out of bed and get some pills for whatever ailed you. Ibuprofen for the time your legs swelled so much you thought your skin would pop because you actually got sunstroke. Aleve for the wonderful privilege of being born with female genitalia. Benadryl for the time you wanted to scratch your eyes out of your head because plants decided it was time for sex. Now you are lucky if you don’t have a sneezing fit while you are hiding in your cave waiting for some asshole to pass. 12. Locations of pads, tampons, menstrual cups, underwear. No one ever talks about how to take care of your menstruation during an apocalypse. What’s up with that? 13. Possible books you want to read when you aren’t trying to survive daily. Maybe some post-apocalyptic fiction for inspiration. Might need to re-read One Second After or Children of Men. 14. Locations of weapons. Guns and ammo would be nice but knives or axes would be easier to upkeep than guns. Practice throwing whenever you can. Stealth kills are always better. Maybe you could get a bow. 15. Remember the times you didn’t believe the end of the world would ever happen, sitting, eating, fucking on the futon you refuse to throw away because it was the very first piece of furniture you ever got, a side-of-the-dumpster find, left there for anyone who didn’t care where it had been and what it had been used for. Some days, you really miss it.
March 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
markantonyowen.com
Need receipts? The internet's awash with Kucera's bullshit. Start with this from @OneArtPoetry1, then talk to @rgvaughan at @BendingGenres. There have been many victims. Not least, the plagiarised poets who've been robbed of their rightful credit.
http://bit.ly/3U6KBkg
Page not found – ONE ART: a journal of poetry
(Write it!)
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December 11, 2024 at 1:31 AM
alinaetc.bsky.social
"Her latest orchid was stolen from the corner store. It sits beside the sink looking dainty and pretty, and I can’t help wondering — what did it sacrifice?"
This haunting flash by @JenTod_ in @BendingGenres
https://bendinggenres.com/2018/06/11/pretty-things/
December 6, 2024 at 4:13 AM
alinaetc.bsky.social
Recover from the terminal bathos of v-day with this generative prose poetry workshop you can do in your pajamas while cursing silently into the screen. I ❤️ @BendingGenres + their interactive, flexible, fantastic workshops. Join me. Let's do this....
December 5, 2024 at 8:26 PM
alinaetc.bsky.social
Of COURSE it feels awesome to study the magic in prose poems by @JennGivhan @amorak and Terrance Hayes today. Thank you @BendingGenres for letting me read and explore with so many incredible humans.
December 5, 2024 at 7:51 PM
alinaetc.bsky.social
I love how Paul Beckman reviews "Shame" by Iris N. Schwartz on the @bendinggenres blog. In my ideal world, book reviews bend genres too.
https://bendinggenres.com/2019/05/29/shame-by-iris-n-schwartz-reviewed-by-paul-beckman/
December 5, 2024 at 1:39 PM
alinaetc.bsky.social
❤️being in the @BendingGenres workshop where Sabrina Orah Mark shared this wonder by @anne_boyer. "I am not writing a new constitution for the republic of no history."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58316/not-writing
Not Writing
I am not writing a scandalous memoir. I am not writing a ...
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December 5, 2024 at 12:58 PM
alinaetc.bsky.social
Oh how I'm enjoying reading @neonpajamas' amazing hybrids in the @BendingGenres workshop today. It's sooo cool to sit behind the scenes of a page with writers you love to read and learn from.
December 5, 2024 at 12:58 PM
alinaetc.bsky.social
I submitted a short story after what feels like forever, and I have @megtuite and the @BendingGenres Roundtable for that.
December 5, 2024 at 4:50 AM
alinaetc.bsky.social
A flash written in a @BendingGenres workshop was accepted for publication. ❤️ @megtuite! It's the fainting one!
December 5, 2024 at 4:25 AM
alinaetc.bsky.social
Super excited to be teaching some fabulous @natiniacos poems this weekend for @BendingGenres. I'm consistently inspired by Natasha's approaches and angles into poems.
December 5, 2024 at 12:52 AM
alinaetc.bsky.social
If you won't make it to the AWP @BendingGenres table, you can still get a copy of this amazing new anthology featuring some of the best micro fiction happening. And some of my beloved-most mammal friends.
https://bendinggenres.com/product/the-bending-genres-anthology-2018-2019/
December 5, 2024 at 12:42 AM
alinaetc.bsky.social
Other books I'm hoping to read during this quarantine: @ChoiceLitAction, the @BendingGenres anthology (!!), @catrachxs's poetry collection, @jdsctt's fiction collection, and @VChangPoet's poetry collection later next month.
December 4, 2024 at 11:09 PM