Shareen K. Murayama
@AmBusyPoeming
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poet.educator. HOUSEBREAK Bad Betty Press & HEY, GIRL, ARE YOU IN THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP Harbor Editions ('22).
Wilhelmina Rise, Honolulu, HI
Joined January 2015
It’s never too late to be a writer! Said fifty-five year old Murayama. Proud of my age, proud of my blossoming. And there’s hella more coming, people! ⚡️🌱 Grateful to be one of the five debut authors featured here. 🙏🏾🥰
It is never too late to be a writer and share your story with the world! Join us in celebrating five debut authors over the age of fifty who you’ll want to know: @WriteMadhushree @saribotton David Santos Donaldson @AmBusyPoeming and @JaneCam69010810. https://t.co/Y06bgj9KpE
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How does a woman be in her body after tonight? Asking for a friend 💔
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I have a few spaces left in my pop up prompt session this Thursday, November 7 at 7 pm eastern. Dm me if interested
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Submit Submit Submit! Just a reminder that the reading period for Chestnut Review’s Spring Issue is open. Submissions are free in most categories. We respond in 30 days We pay $120. https://t.co/B1sbwQD85j
#chestnutreview #poetry #opensubs #literarymagazine #litmag
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Erin Vachon reviews Joseph Young's new collection, The Thing I was Trying to Tell You for SmokeLong! Spoiler: It's amazing. @josephayoung ://www.smokelong.com/review-joseph-youngs-the-thing-i-was-trying-to-tell-you
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Thrilled to have a story on this list.
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Thank you so much for all the support you've given my piece, @FracturedLit! ❤️ Congratulations and good luck to all the nominees.
We are so excited to nominate the flash from these writers! Congrats to you all! @MarioAliberto3 @DeeshaPhilyaw @pdforan @sarahillswrites @hannahoeko
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The best thing about a lit mag acceptance, is the endorsement of your writing, the validation that you are on the right track. Following yesterday's acceptance, I am full of confidence and energy again. Onwards and upwards! ✍️
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with Joe Aguilar, @chloe_alberta, @lucysky, @rebeccaibernard, @pdforan, @AmBusyPoeming, Adam Peterson, @megpokrass, @hannahsmothers_ , @EricScotTryon, @warther_natalie, and @Dango_Ramen
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Huge congratulations to our 2024 Novella in Flash winners selected by judge @JohnBrantingham. First prize @sfreligh & runners up @authorsudha & @JoWithers2018, highly commended @jupiterjonz & @ThomasMcColl2
bathflashfictionaward.com
Huge congratulations to the winners and highly commended writers in our 2024 Novella in Flash Award, selected by John Brantingham. Read their bios below. Ad Hoc Fiction is publishing, Hereafter the…
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"maybe unearthing more Okinawan sweet potatoes in the next round, maybe less violence and victims of war..." --Shareen K. Murayama, from @wigleaf's SOLSTICE PLAYLIST (listen as well! It's a good mix 😊): https://t.co/vaLMhXYHy0
@AmBusyPoeming
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Entries to our micro competition (up to 100 words, no theme), are open until 15 Feb! First prize is £150, second £100 and third prize £50 plus 7 x £20 Highly Commended. More details here:
nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
National Flash Fiction Day Microfiction Competition Submission Guidelines Submissions for our 2025 Microfiction Competition are now CLOSED. Submissions for the 2026 Microfiction Competition will be…
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Pull up your stash of micros and submit to @nationalflashfd:
Entries to our micro competition (up to 100 words, no theme), are open until 15 Feb! First prize is £150, second £100 and third prize £50 plus 7 x £20 Highly Commended. More details here:
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We're back, baby! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
*clears throat* OH, WRITERS, YOU'RE SO FINE YOU'RE SO FINE, YOU BLOW OUR MINDS HEY WRITERS HEY WRITERS (Guess what? We're open. Free sub option always available. We pay $25/piece. We want what you've got.) https://t.co/oXmt86k2R7
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"Gather with writing friends. By Zoom. With green eggs and ham. Fill your phone notes with news and funny words and interstate sign names. Fill your bedside table with dream memories that make no sense in the morning." Big ❤️for @amygcb's latest column.
“Celebrate people with words and commiserate with those that have none.” @amygcb tonight with a new column on the last year and looking forward to the next.
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"I think we needed the panicky, angry, injustice-driven rush of the long sentence because there’s so much surging inside our narrator there’s no room for the breath of a full-stop" @kiklodge's micro "Mother Tongue" won 3rd prize in #TheMikey 2023
smokelong.com
One of the things I admired in this piece was that it was all one long sentence. Why did you decide to structure it that way? I think we needed the panicky, angry, injustice-driven rush of the long...
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