Angela
@TheWakingTulip
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Grateful daughter, hungry writer, Type 1 diabetic, INFJ, relentless rejoicer, merry friend, wild moonflower, chaplain of sorts at a cat sanctuary, Jesus' girl
between the ocean and the moon
Joined March 2010
At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love. - St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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Immensely grateful to share my weird little story "In Our Nature" in the gorgeous @witnessmag! https://t.co/zuGU6q0jDm
witness.blackmountaininstitute.org
by Angela Townsend It’s no use. I know it before I tuck my hatchback between the sport utility megafauna. Their bumper stickers say 26.1 and Not All Who Wander Are Lost. Mine says Jersey Girls Don’t...
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Filled with joy to be part of this life-giving issue, among such graceful artists. Thank you, @witnessmag!
Head to https://t.co/uUXDZ96UcR to check out our NEW winter issue! Featuring.... Cover art by Reiner Heidorn
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Thank you, dear @matchbooklitmag ... ! I am humbled to see my name among such beautiful artists as @mcarphil and @NoraNadj 🥰💜
Congrats to our Best of the Net noms this year: "Tether" by Meghan Phillips "Queen" by Nora Nadjarian "Meditation on Immigrant Moraine" by K Anand-Gall "The Theory of Infinite Hurrahs" by Angela Townsend @mcarphil @NoraNadj @TheWakingTulip
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Congrats to all! I'm humbled and beyond grateful to be in the company of these artists who inspire me immensely.
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Publishing "The People Persevere" in @trampset was a highlight of my creative year ... and this nomination has me giddy, grateful, and a little tearful too. What an honor to join @rtigernyc (whose "Dissection" is astounding). Thank you, @jedwardkruft!
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“I wish you the kind of life's work in which you can use the greatest part of who you are, and I wish you the kind of life's love that will enhance all that you do, as well as all that you are.”
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“You’re certainly somebody that people can love.” —Fred Rogers
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Oh my goodness, thank you @ShadowDogPress! 🥰💜
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I may have done a cartwheel when I saw this. (In my soul.) It's humbling to see my name nestled among artists I admire so intensely, in a journal that is a living treasure. Thank you, @SmokeLong! 💜🥰
Congratulations and much success to our Best of the Net Nominees!
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I'm grateful to join these gifted artists in the ever-stunning @ExpoReviewLit. Please don't ever "quit" ... this world needs your words and light!
“The submitted works surprised me by packing glittering complexity into their tiny molds.” Read Francesca Spiegel’s #Flash405: “Quitting” winners with pieces by Paul Arenson, Suzanne C Martinez, Charlie Rogers & @TheWakingTulip: https://t.co/1yQfrMjzjZ.
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Oh my goodness! This is the sweetest surprise, from one of my all time favorite journals. And to appear beside the luminous @1funnyfarmAdams ...! Thank you, beautiful @rawlitmag!
Best of the Net 2026 Nominations - CNF I Should Write the Letter by Tracie Adams @1funnyfarmAdams
https://t.co/7UlCMpfZtq Send Bread by Angela Townsend @TheWakingTulip
https://t.co/gnPZ0ifPYX
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Beyond grateful to be part of this life-giving issue. @PsmokeJournal is a dream journal, and I am doing heart-cartwheels to join these graceful artists!
Our Summer 2025 Issue is HERE! https://t.co/xXQhWneTfo FLASH: ☀️@rachanapathak99 ☀️@thewakingtulip ☀️Andrea Bishop FICTION: ☀️Gabriella Paz Hoggatt ☀️Sarah Bess Jaffe ☀️Caroline Okello ART: ☀️Rollin Jewett ☀️Brooke Walker ☀️Lindsay Liang ☀️Jennifer Lamb ☀️Subarna Talukder Bose
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Utterly grateful to share "The People Persevere" in one of my all time favorite journals, the matchless @trampset.💜
"I can’t give up on humanity, because when I drive by Taco Bell at ten p.m. on a Wednesday, the chalupa line wraps around the building twice." @TheWakingTulip's "The People Persevere" https://t.co/5JZsO5cBvz
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I'm so grateful to share "Send Bread" in @rawlitmag, and humbled that my words would accompany Rachel Turney's breathtaking photo!
On Raw Lit - Issue 7 White Church by Rachel Turney & Send Bread by Angela Townsend @TheWakingTulip ‘The cream has a single carbohydrate per serving, and if you spray it directly into people’s mouths, they laugh like chimpanzees.’ https://t.co/gnPZ0ignOv
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Utterly overjoyed to be part of this tender, courageous, breathtaking issue of @rawlitmag. I am in awe of these artists and so grateful to @FBereaud and @DelGeo14 for including me among them!
Raw Lit - Issue 7 is live! Editor - François Bereaud @FBereaud Cover: Katharine Weinmann https://t.co/cVJW4DpaEy
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I'm grateful to share "The Other Sanctuary" in the stunning "Good Trouble" issue of @coachellareview 💙💜 https://t.co/Q8iOGKC2Vg
thecoachellareview.com
When you work for the cat sanctuary, you have everything you need. You may not be able to afford the organic yogurt with its own sidecar of muesli topping. You should lay down any lust for handbags...
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“There is only one like you in the whole world. There’s never been anyone exactly like you before, and there never will be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.”
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Thank you, wonderful @Berlin_Review_, for publishing "Service Call," my little story about a stern plumber and the ways none of us looks quite like our photograph: https://t.co/yvqcF9eYWC
theberlinliteraryreview.com
ANGELA TOWNSENDService CallThe stern plumber does not look like his photograph. There was a time when he looked like his photograph, but that was back before they invented the internet or spray che…
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“It’s important to give up—maybe daily—the longing to be perfect...what a heavy burden. Thank God we don’t have to earn every bit of love that comes our way.”
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My heart is doing cartwheels to share "The Theory of Infinite Hurrahs" in @matchbooklitmag!💙
"I need your help. Someone is spreading the theory of ordinary days." New CNF: "The Theory of Infinite Hurrahs" by Angela Townsend aka @TheWakingTulip
https://t.co/88j1H0SePt
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