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A "vibe shift" is when a personal essayist ends a paragraph about their father, hits enter three times, then starts telling you about some species of tree.
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zzz
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∧__∧ Every book is a ghost
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Ahhh, finally.
∧_∧ Nothing like curling up
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just want to be at a book event stuck in the crowd at the back, holding a plastic cup of the worst wine known to humanity, too hot in my coat, openly weeping at what's being read while strangers pretend not to notice
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Sorry our editors had to cut three thousand em dashes from your piece. The supply chain, you see.
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It's our great pleasure to announce today that
@nicole_soojung
has been named Web Editor in Chief of Catapult.
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"It’s to the credit of the women of Korea who have been risking everything to speak up, to demand more equitable treatment, to stand up for themselves."
@gi_aae
on Irene from Red Velvet, KIM JIYOUNG BORN 1982, and feminism:
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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board?
Dad: *nudge* should've been you
Me: Not now Dad
Dad: Not asking for a writer, are they?
Me: Dad, there's an emergency happening!
My real Dad, from the other room, sadly: Are you in there pretending you can afford to fly again?
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Your homework this long weekend is to remember for once in your dumb life that writing anything at all makes you feel better than not writing so just do it already.
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Gender reveal party but inside the cake the knife stops.
The sheepish father tries but can't cut through.
They eventually scrape cake away to reveal... a book.
The child will be a writer.
The room falls silent but for the sound of someone weeping in a corner.
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Huge congratulations to
@MorganJerkins
, who has just been named Associate Editor of Catapult magazine! Morgan has been and continues to be an essential editorial voice for us. You can read some of her own writing for Catapult here:
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My hot take about literature is that we shouldn't put people in concentration camps.
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When the workshop comes for that one sentence with all the clauses.
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I read a whole three pages
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We're very excited to announce two new additions to our Catapult / Counterpoint / Soft Skull team: Rachel Fershleiser [
@RachelFersh
] joins us as Associate Publisher, Executive Marketing Director; Alyson Forbes joins us as Associate Publisher, Head of Sales.
Help us welcome them!
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When the personal essay has a line break and then cuts to facts about clouds.
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📚✨ We're seeking applicants for two paid full time remote internship positions for the spring! ✨ 📚
Help shape publishing!
People of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply. College degree not required.
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When the writing is about your heart so you add some facts about, like, Antarctica or comets to protect it.
There’s a coyote outside. You know what that means: coyote vest time!
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When you open the folder where you keep
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁.𝗱𝗼𝗰
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁𝟬𝟭.𝗱𝗼𝗰
𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹_𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁𝟬𝟭.𝗱𝗼𝗰
and 43 docs just called 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀.
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The hot new trend in 2020 is supporting strangers as they try out brave new things with words, and knowing their success isn't your loss, pass it on.
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all i wanna do is
*gunshots*
*gunshots*
*gunshots*
and
*click*
*cash register noise*
float unknown or under-read voices, support complex narrative, make a space for marginalized voices, and help to sustain the literary ecosystem
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We're open to fiction submissions! We read flash, short stories—maybe you even have illustrated fiction? Show us! We take anywhere from 500 to 4000 words, sometimes more. We pay $200. See more details in the link.
@WritersOfColor
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How publishing feels:
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I swear to god I will find this bookseller and shake their hand if it takes me the rest of my life.
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To the tune of Eleanor Rigby:
Writer on deadline
Suddenly needing to sort tupperwares
And clean all these chairs
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wait... hold on
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ヽ ⊂二/
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I LIKE YOUR WRITING AND THE WORLD IS BETTER WITH YOUR WORK IN IT
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Pouring one out for every relationship that flourished from places like Xanga/Livejournal/Tumblr/Reddit/Neopets (you'd be surprised)—and made us, for a brief moment, whole.
A beautiful comic from
@AngrygirLcomics
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At Catapult, we believe there’s a better--or at least less lonely--way to write. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new channel: DON’T WRITE ALONE.
#DWA
is intended to be a resource for writers at every stage of their careers. Please check it out here:
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All I want in this life is for a bookseller to make an interested noise when they see the book I’m buying.
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It's our great pride to announce that
@MeghaMaj
has been named as the new Editor in Chief of Catapult. Please join us in welcoming her to to the role!
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"No woman writer can write 'too much.' No woman has ever written enough.”―bell hooks
#InternationalWomensDay
http://t.co/w819MEAUlb
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How can you know someone loves you? Is it in the hands? A hard essay on family and abuse from Amara Nicole Okolo.
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If you haven't destroyed a paperback or two by shifting them between purses and beach bags and totes and fannypacks and armpits, is it really even hot girl summer?
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Let's try something: reply with a photo of the closest book to you right now. NO CHEATING. Harass a stranger or coworker to photograph their book if you have to. That's the point!
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"I never really thought of peaches as a Chinese fruit, until I did. I never really thought of myself as a Chinese person, until I did."
@sawdustbear
on the history and mythology of peach cultivation in the US, and what it means to them to eat a peach:
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Buying Buying
indie farmer's
press market
books onions
🤝
spending
money
to cry in new
and interesting ways
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Haha no no jk the worst part about publishing is the institutional racism and class bias that still runs through the industry root to leaf.
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We're seeking an Editorial Assistant to help shape the future of the Catapult list. Join us!
People of color, LGBTQIA people, and disabled people are especially encouraged to apply.
Details here:
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Literature is good again.
Congratulations to Alex Morgan for the all time best use of a New Yorker tote bag - transporting two gigantic golden bottles of champagne on a yacht in the middle of a three day post World Cup winning bender
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We're starting an ASMR channel but it's just quiet recordings of writers as they write. Watch for:
- A full hour of someone sighing through their nostrils over and over again.
- 30 minutes of someone typing as they whisper 'ah shit ah shit oh no oh no hmmm'
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"Billie Joe Armstrong was saying what I was thinking—what I hoped and imagined so many of us were thinking: that we’re all queers."
@nikostratis
on the unsung queerness of Green Day's lyrics:
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Little-known publishing fact: every editor has a word from which they draw their power, like Rumpelstiltskin.
If you can guess it, you win, and they have to let you use 43 em-dashes in one sentence.
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STOP taking publishing work for granted!
Agents are DRIVEN
Editorial are BRILLIANT
Publicity are INDEFATIGABLE
Production are MAGICIANS
Design are GENIUSES
Social media
Marketing are SAVVY
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Seems like a good time for a thread in support of indie bookstores! Who are your fave indies? Shout them out, let's get some links to their sites going!
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Good morning to everyone except the concept of linear time.
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Today's tea:
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A reminder that if, following the collapse of net neutrality, sites have to pay to reach the broadest number of users, small indie web magazines focusing on empathy and personal essay are not likely to be among those most widely available.
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Cover reveal!
Today we're proud to show you THE WHITE MOSQUE, a new book from Sofia Samatar.
Cover design is by Dana Li, with
@nlcaputo
as art director.
The White Mosque will be in stores and libraries October 25th, 2022.
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When you send a friend that early draft.
"My friend made it. I have no idea why she did it."
Introducing: The clam chowder popsicle.
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Remember watching the Mister Rogers doc and thinking, wait, tell me more about Officer Clemmons, this guy is INCREDIBLE?
. . . We have a treat for you.
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I love supporting work by new and emerging writers.
That’s the whole tweet.
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sometimes
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Today's tea:
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When you put your real trauma into an otherwise fictional scene.
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On struggling to eat. On misogyny. On thinking of giving up writing. On unpaid internships. On turning thirty with $8.25 in a bank account and your biological father calling on a burner phone. On a life that keeps happening. Must read work from
@AWolfeful
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When an editor sees their shadow it means six more weeks of cutting all your favorite flowery sentences. Buckle up.
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We're so excited to welcome
@nicole_soojung
as our new managing editor! To celebrate, get to know Nicole better:
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Publishing:
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Were looking for free-lance copyeditors and proofreaders to ad to our roster . If this post made you wince outof your skin drop us an email!
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Our offices in New York, Berkeley, Minneapolis and Portland have begun taking Halloween... too seriously. So let's make it a contest again this year.
AND YOU, DEAR INTERNET SHALL BE THE JUDGES.
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We're looking for a paid full-time editorial and marketing intern in our New York office. Spread the word. Diverse applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.
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I'm sorry but this is too 😭 not to share
@Danez_Smif
Once a first grader asked me how long a poem had to be and when I said it could be just one word he wrote a poem that was just his best friend’s phone number. 💖
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Are you a queer and/or trans fiction writer with publications but little to no teaching experience? You could be the first teaching fellow for our online 12-month novel generators for queer and trans writers! No novel, MFA, or U.S. residency required.
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Might fuck around and
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read a book without feeling jealousy over the success of the author
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"slut era" I whisper quietly to myself as I peel the dust jacket off of a book and toss it onto the floor.
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Worst part about publishing is being so so excited for books that nobody else gets to read for like a damn year.
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📢 CALL FOR INSTRUCTORS 📢
We're looking for more instructors to teach online creative writing classes with us this June and July. Interested? Check out details here:
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"Poetry offers clarity on our current circumstances. A poem can explain something about the world and mesmerize us."
@Ruth_Joffre
talks with
@RubenQuesada
about editing LATINX POETICS:
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Catapult magazine is accepting short stories and flash fiction via Submittable for the next three days. We are open to submissions from today to Monday, 9pm ET. Submit here:
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Can we get some 👏 going for everyone who got any writing done this week? Celebrate yourselves here!
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⠀ (•ㅅ•) Me confronting anxiety
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( (三ヽ人 / |
| ﾉ⌒＼ ￣￣ヽ ノ
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｜( 王 ﾉ〈 (\__/)
/ﾐ`ー―彡\ (•ㅅ•) me IRL
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"And Cobra Kai makes the mistake that most white-driven shows make: It ties nostalgia to whiteness."
@bichminhnguyen
on The Karate Kid, Cobra Kai, Mr. Miyagi, and anti-Asian racism:
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My favorite thing is in a book when the author ends a scene and then they give you a little white space just for yourself before they start up again on the next page.
Like thanks, bub, I did need a little breather, please carry on!
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