Shane Mitchell
@shanegoesforth
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Writes stuff for a living. she/her/š¤¦š»āāļø Also Editor at Large for @SAVEURMAG
None of your beeswax
Joined May 2009
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How to become a writer: you just start calling yourself one! This amazingly dumb trick 100% works! There is no literary world! They will 100% let any jackass in. There's no one in charge, the whole thing is an illusion, you can change the rules at any point because there are none.
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After 431 wordles, my start word finally hits. Thatās enough writing for today.
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A visual history of watermelon in America. My latest @BitterSouth story traces the evolution of this symbolic fruit, in abundant times and terrible times. Got to spit some seeds, too.
bittersoutherner.com
Shane Mitchell traces the visual evolution of watermelonās status as the bravura of still life to its weaponization as a racial trope to the triumph of artists who are reclaiming it from infamy.
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My mother saved up to buy me an absurdly expensive fountain pen years ago and I didnāt appreciate it at the time. Today, I used it to sign with a literary agency. Never question mothers.
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My sister had a talking Pee-wee Herman doll as her car mascot. In heavy traffic weād roll down the windows pull the string and let it cackle. While chanting āI know you are but what am I?ā Never failed to crack us up.
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Whoosh goes 9,065 words. Might quit early and go fishing.
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I wrote six sentences today. This counts as two of them.
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Missed seeing Mavis Staples four times during pandemic concert chaos but last night I finally got to hear a legend live on stage.
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Hereās a link to the story. This man took a risk to stand up and speak out. Apologies, I should have done this sooner.
bittersoutherner.com
For the eighth installment of the āCrop Cycleā series, Shane Mitchell peels back layers of historic abuse in the fields of southeast Georgia.
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This is my kind of bling bag. Still a bit shocked, but maybe this will amplify the voice of a whistleblower who hoped that his story brings change to a broken agricultural system.
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Brown oyster stew for the mothers. Sorry thereās no smell-o-vision on here. Recipe by @ExcuseMyFly
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Sit your mothers and nanas down and make them tell you how to make those things they make. For Motherās Day weekend, hereās to celebrating matriarchs everywhere. Miss @ExcuseMyFly gives tribute and shares her gorgeous brown oyster soup for @SAVEURMAG
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A women-led dinner in Charleston celebrates the life-affirming recipes passed down by generations of maternal role models.
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Bravo to all the nominees. So many excellent journalists and authors acknowledged for their work.
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Oh my word. This is for Blood Sweat & Tears, my @BitterSouth story about Vidalia onions and forced labor in the fields. Just about broke my heart to bear witness, so all I ask is for people to be the change.
Congratulations to the 2023 Media nominees for the James Beard Awards presented by @CapitalOne! The Media Awards cover outstanding achievements in Book, Broadcast Media, and Journalism. Learn more about this year's #jbfa nominees:
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RIP Miss Emily. She taught me how to make breakfast shrimp. May she shine among the stars.
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If you have a new book on food and want to us to know about it, reach out. Iām all ears.
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We back, baby. We were never really gone. But some have always taken delight in predicting the demise of @SAVEURMAG and, unlike them, staying part of the continuing conversation is better than hot takes. More voices, more stories TK.
A love letter to SAVEUR, from new owner and EIC Kat Craddock
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Green eyes and a love of old books by chatty authors. Thatās what I got from my Irish family. Go bragh.
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With all due respect, why are authors still being told we wonāt ever make any money, so just do it for the art? Iām so utterly tired.
"You're never going to make me any money, so just write what you want to write." . 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award-winner Percival Everett recalls what his agent Melanie Jackson told him when they started working together 30 years ago. #PENLitAwards
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