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Morning!
Be careful of that mosh pit, looks like the robots have invaded.
Hardcore 64 is live. Gather your assortment of metalheads.
#WritingCommunity
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*looks around* who? Us??
OMG THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! This is a wonderful surprise and sincere honor. Love that you’re digging the vibe, and happy to be a place to hang your word hats. Shout out to
@chillsubs
for putting this together! ❤️
ITS TIME. Congratulations TOP 5 LITMAGS OF 2023💫
@TBQuarterly
@SmokeLong
@HooghlyReview
@press_roi
@StanchionZine
And thank you to EVERYONE that celebrated these spectacular journals this week🖤
⬇️ Why won & how to submit
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Well, well, well. In this, the era of our Twitter discontent, we have somehow managed to grow our following to 6k+!
THANK YOU! As always, please use this as a thread to connect with each other. Say hi, share a bio or link, give us your hot cereal takes. Mingle away, kiddos!
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Good morning!
Can you believe it's been 2 years since we dropped into your timeline with WORDS? We sure can't. From all of us to all of you, thank you for everything. We love you.
Happy birthday, Roi Fainéant. Cheers to the future of a band of lazy kings.
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*ahem* If I could have your attention, please:
RF is proud to announce their 2022 Best of the Net nominations.
Congratulations to:
@TravisCravey
@GarethGreer3
@newburywrites
@FBereaud
@Fijo_Frenchie
@victoriapunch_
@teedistrict
@folkheartpress
RF thanks you!
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Happy birthday to the E.I.C. of the R.O.I.
@msladybrute
. Sooo much love coming your way today and all others.
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Good morning! Today we are celebrating the person who brought this little press into being. She's a hardworking, creative, brilliant EIC and a kind and supportive friend with a wicked sense of style and humor! Please join us in wishing
@msladybrute
a very happy birthday!
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A lil drum roll, please!
RF is proud to announce our 2023 Best of the Net noms! If you see Achi Mishra,
@GTurnerwriter
,
@crankypacifist
,
@SuperHeavy666
,
@Matt_Johnson_D
,
@jenwithwords
, Jordan Joe,
@gempet69
,
@thorntonforreal
,
@maud_lavin
, or
@SadeeBee
today, congratulate them!
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Well well well. 5,000 of ya, huh? That's wild. Thanks for hanging out with us, buds!
As always, we like to take these milestones to get to know you better. Leave a comment below, tell us who you are and what you're about, and note your favorite fruit flavor. Let's lift ya'll up!
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Sometimes we get together.
Smile! RF ❤️s You!
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Mornin!
Just in case we're celebrating your 50th publication this year. Or your 51st.
Hot Slop 62 is live. Grab your muck boots.
#WritingCommunity
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Good morning!
Here’s to 50 issues so far and to the next 50. Thank you for your words, always.
Fifty 50 is live!
#WritingCommunity
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HO HO HO!
From our RF fam to yours, happy holidays! Additionally, if you don't have a fam or your fam sucks, you always have ours! Archie bites sometimes but the rest of us are nice.
TOMORROW: Pour Eux 54 goes live. Get stoked.
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Hello! A drum roll, please, if you don’t mind. *ahem*
If you happen to see
@Red_dirt_poet
@RobinAKinzer
@LotusTongue
@AmBusyPoeming
&
@pleomorphic2
, congratulate them on their Pushcart nomination! 🎉🥳👏🎊🙌🍾
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Morning!
One year ago today, RF opened for submissions for the first time.
I know, I know, I said a lot of sappy stuff on Conception Day back in April. So today, I would like to direct you to our blog instead: the RF editors have penned you a letter.
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Team RF: present and accounted for. You at
#AWP24
? Come find
@melissacuisine
&
@FBereaud
for some fun and games! Beware of Archibald, he bites.
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Laughing through these strange times and my even stranger hand positioning in this photo. What am I doing? Ah well. RF OG in the wild!
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*ahem* Apropos of nothing....
Hot Slop 62 goes live 4/14. Tell your resident farmhand.
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If I may have your attention, please:
The time has come to announce RF’s 2022 Puschart nominations!
Big congrats to:
@SuperHeavy666
@CassellsSherry
@yoemmyteague
@Mel_the_puma
@voidskrawl
@thedrevlow
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Hi there hey there!
From the entire RF family -
@msladybrute
@KellieScottReed
@sky_barett
@melissacuisine
@FBereaud
@MargotStillings
- we thank you for an incredible year of work, and we wish you the happiest of 2023s. Knock 'em dead. Slap 'em around and all that.
RF Loves You!
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Can I get a lil drum roll, please?
In honor of our 2nd birthday, RF is proud to present the opening of its online store, La Petite Bête! Got a little merch up with more to come. Why not go shopping in our closet?
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Please welcome the one and only Melissa Flores Anderson
@melissacuisine
to the RF team! Melissa is a Reader/Editor with the press, is a wonderful human being with an incredible skill set, and I haven't scared her away yet. Welcome aboard, buddy!
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The second addition to the RF family is ready to roll.
It's rare to find a wealth of kindness, support, and endless enthusiasm for what you do, much less to find them in one person. That's what the literary community has in François Bereaud
@FBereaud
& now we have him, too!
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Morning. Looks like it’s time to power up.
RF Press proudly presents power: An Ode to BIPOC Excellence (in association with
@HowardU
)
#WritingCommunity
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Baby’s first book fair! The Rochester Small Press Book Fair was a smashing success, I’d say. Also, if you look close, you might spot your book - we grabbed some indie authors to dress up the table and promote ya to our local audience!
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Morning!
We've got a few new followers around here, so I thought we'd start the day with something a little different: why don't ya'll introduce yourselves? Tell us who you are, what you write, what your favorite cake is. whatever. Let us lift you up a little!
#WritingCommunity
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If you see this lady today, she might be in some type of yoga headstand, or dancing her ass off at a show, or asleep on a beach chair in the sun, or listening to my babble and saying "Hmm, interesting!" Whatever she's up to, wish our AEIC
@KellieScottReed
a happy birthday!
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Well, it’s time to see what our Californian bandits shoveled up during their East Coast winter takeover.
@melissacuisine
&
@FBereaud
present: Cold
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Well hello there, 3,000+ followers!
Thanks so much for hanging out with us. As always, we like to use these milestones to get to know you. So, drop a comment. Who are ya? What do ya write? What's your favorite iteration of potato? Use this thread to socialize!
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Mornin!
Time to check your mirrors and see what’s being reflected there.
Expression 47 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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Morning! Your girl slept in.
But now it’s time to dig around in our bag of tricks, see what kinda magic gets drummed up.
Bag of Tricks 56 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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Hey there. Got any plans a week from Friday? Now you do.
Freshly shaken with six whole editors, we are bringing back Six Prompts Cocktail Hour. Friday 3/24, 7pm EST. Zoom. Writing, fun, and me all dressed up for sure. Comment, DM, or email for the link. Serve on the rocks.
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Howdy!
Well well well. Looks like we just cracked 4,000 followers! Blows my mind. Thank you so much!
As usual, let's use this as a way to get to know each other. Introduce yourself in the thread! Tell me who you are, what you write, what you do with your Saturday afternoons!
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Tomorrow. Dawn. Take a dive. Wear nautical navy. Drop anchor. Let the waves lap at you. Peer down. Be present. Hold your breath. Shiver. Release the helm. Let the flow pull you. Sail. Shipwrecks can always be recovered.
Deep Sea 43 goes live.
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And last, but certainly not least, our third RF addition.
Have you ever met somebody and just thought "Yup!" It sounds nondescript, but it's an acknowledgement that they belong somewhere in your sea of everything? It happens rarely, but here we are. Welcome,
@MargotStillings
!
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Morning!
Plenty of other machines can’t drive 45 either.
I Can’t Drive 55 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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Bonjour.
Not a bad morning to get caught in the rain, hmm?
Umbrella 31 is up.
#WritingCommunity
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Hey! What are you up to? Do you have a hot new piece in your dream journal? Got a book out? Something forthcoming? Let's make a plug thread so folks can scroll through and find ya. Like a vending machine for our brains. Free Plug Friday, I just made it up!
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May I have your attention, please!
Following a team-up with creative writers studying at Howard University, our own
@FBereaud
has facilitated a special BIPoC issue featuring those writers and members of our own community. Subs open 4/1. Guidelines posted; get ready! Can't wait!
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Pssst. If you happen to encounter a one
@KellieScottReed
out in the wild today, please be sure to wish her a very happy birthday! We ❤️ you, KSR! 🥳 🎂 🎉
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Today, we got to spend a little time with the wonderful
@BethMulcahea
who happened to be in our neck of the woods. If you don’t know her yet, you should!
Smile! RF loves you!
(Also, the queen of “cannot take a decent group shot to save her soul” is BACK YA’LL!)
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Good morning!
Looks like it’s time to come completely undone.
Undone 51 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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Hey! Today, we're taking a moment to celebrate the most unassuming of the Lazy Kings. She is our "no" girl, prob the most grounded and thorough among us, and has the absolute sharpest comedic timing. Today is her birthday, so if you see
@sky_barett
around, wish her a happy, yeah?
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Heeeeyyy! Two years ago today, I sat down and registered the Gmail/socials for the press “for when we needed it.” I didn’t use it for another two months, but hey. Now we’re here. Wild.
#MyTwitterAnniversary
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Hey buddies.
Weird day, am I right?
So, while no one is exactly happy about the news, one thing remains clear: the literary community on Twitter is invaluable. As such, RF will continue to be a little home here for you as long as you’ll have us.
💙
T
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God, we’re cute.
Can you believe we’re a year old in two days?
Shout out to my toilet in the background. The real scene stealer.
RF 💙s You!
CC:
@KellieScottReed
&
@sky_barett
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Hello hello and welcome to Sunday!
Hope you packed your sass.
Moxie 53 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!
The biggest party in indie lit since the last big party in indie lit.
7pm ET. Zoom. Six prompts. Time to write/share. An overdressed EIC. What will ensue? Find out.
Comment, email, or DM for the link. If I missed you in the last round let me know, yo!
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Mornin’!
Hope you got your lasso ready. Bad Men 57 (yeah it kinda rhymes I think) is live.
#WritingCommunity
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Guess what, guess what?
RF is proud to present the digital publication of another novella! This time, it's "Me, I Call Myself Girl" by Francine Witte
@francinewitte
First drop is Sunday, 2/18. Get pumped.
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A few stats for all you spreadsheet types:
In our first year, we have published 425 authors over approx. 650 individual pieces. Our website has over 24,000 hits, our blog has been viewed 18,907 times, & we've amassed over 3,500 Twitter followers. Holy shit.
#thankyou
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What did 1/2 of RFP do today, you ask?
Break some laws. Maybe.
Smile! RF ❤️s you!
CC:
@KellieScottReed
@sky_barett
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Ho ho ho!
Just wanted to take a moment this evening to wish everyone celebrating a Happy Merry today! I hope your parties were filled with so much cheer. On behalf of myself,
@KellieScottReed
,
@sky_barett
,
@melissacuisine
,
@FBereaud
, &
@MargotStillings
, remember: RF loves you!
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Well! We snowed ourselves in with Cold yesterday (officially) and it's thank you time! To our writers, thank you for taking part in this beautiful mammoth issue. And to our own
@melissacuisine
&
@FBereaud
, thank you for bringing it right to us! Cheers to Cold.
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I'd love to tell you that this is just another of my random issue titles, but there are way too many birds interjecting themselves into my consciousness lately for that to be the case. I went with it. Next Sunday. Dawn. Mind your peckers.
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Hey, better late than never!
Debauchery 63 is live right now so go ahead and get it before these debaucherers do, yes?
#WritingCommunity
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Tomorrow. Dawn. Pack a parka. Wear winter white. Chill. Plow out. Sprinkle salt around. Boot it. Let the fire roar. Wind howls, and so can you. Bask in blanketed silence. Let it ache. Tuck it in. Breeze leaves you fully awake. Fear no ice. Admire Roy's new hat.
Cold goes live.
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Morning!
It’s always good to know when to drop ‘em.
Microphone 28 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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Well good morning.
Today, we start you off with a little announcement: the wonderful
@melissacuisine
&
@FBereaud
have graciously teamed up to guest edit an issue for us (guidelines below). Subs open 6/1. Pub day is 6/26. Where will you be?
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Well, how hot do you want it?
@melissacuisine
&
@FBereaud
(in accordance with the lazy kings) are proud to present: Heat
#WritingCommunity
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Tomorrow. Dawn. Plumb the depths. Wear a deep purple-gray. Admit your blue-bloodedness. Lead with 3 hearts over 9 brains. Hide in shells. Appear gelatinous. Sharpen your beak. Unscrew your jar and escape. You have tentacles; use them.
Octopus 8 goes live. 🐙💙
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Good morning! It’s a Hips dance party - tag yourself edition.
Hips 36 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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Morning!
Hope everyone brought a crew neck sweater for the occasion. Crew 52 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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RF is coming up on a year of rocking your worlds. One week from today, we meet for our first annual State of the Union Summit & Ice Cream Social to talk shop. Some exciting things will follow. Stay tuned.
CC:
@KellieScottReed
@sky_barett
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Morning.
Some folks got a better sleep than others.
Fever Dream 40 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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A small..well, petite announcement for your Sunday morning, kids:
New project - an offshoot mini-pub of broken, used-up, half-done, half-right bits of work that otherwise languish in worn notebooks and computer files. Welcome to Petites! Details below:
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Well hello there.
Let’s have a blast this Sunday morning, shall we?
Firecracker 32 is up!
#WritingCommnunity
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Tomorrow. Dawn. Embrace softness. Dress up. Wear peach. Part your lips and speak. Examine the mirror. Paint it on. Avoid biting your tongue. Exhale. Smudge it off. Deck out. Decipher the beauty. You don't have to smile if you don't want to.
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Allo allo!
If you know me, you know I make a big deal about everything. I'm a big fan of big deals. In that spirit, if you see
@MargotStillings
out and about today, be sure to wish her a happy birthday!
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Mornin.
Still not really sure what kind of party this is. Better just read instead.
Supine 49 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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A friendly reminder: when the clock strikes 12 again, this begins. A submission response in 24 hours, for 24 hours. (Responses may initially be brief as we’re doing this on the fly, so don’t be offended - we’ll get back to you!) I think I’ll see you in the ole inbox! 💙
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Morning!
What are you going head to head with today?
Tête-à-Tête 48 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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Hey, what a weird thing to remind me of at 9:28pm! I registered the good ole RF account 1 year ago today!
#MyTwitterAnniversary
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Rest your eyes a minute this morning on this glorious visual art by
@SadeeBee
that appears in our POWER issue! It’s titled “The End”. See more of this incredible work here!👉
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Ahoy! Who is ready for some cross-country travel? Great, because we have good reading and a wildly inaccurate map.
Great State 58 is live.
#WritingCommunity
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They’re baaaack. “A Word?” Wednesday with Kellie Scott-Reed and
@NathanBorn2010
is up and ready to go! Kellie and Nathan sit down and talk about character writing with integrity and the dedication it takes to hone the craft. Enjoy!
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An enormous, heartfelt thank you to everyone who turned up to our Six Prompts Cocktail Hour tonight! You all did incredible work and I am straight blown away. Also, to my team
@KellieScottReed
@sky_barett
@melissacuisine
@FBereaud
@MargotStillings
you crushed it! ❤️
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