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author, THE FALLS & FEED 📚
writes BE WHERE YOU ARE 🌱
teaches @madwomenintheattic💥
co-hosts @assinchaircollective 🪑

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I have some book mail to share, and it felt like fall this morning so I broke out this cardigan before the temps climbed back up. Thank you to the authors and publishers who sent these gorgeous books my way!
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- The Falls by Emily Mohn-Slate
- Motherhead by Nicole Zwolinski
- Sea Legs: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of Caring, Wonder, and Whales by Eleanor & Oona Dooks
- Cloud Runner by Joy Harjo
- The Highland Witch by Susan Fletcher
- Bogland: The Secret World that Defies Death and Protects Life by Merritt R. Turetsky
- Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales by Elizabeth Alexander
- A Brief History of Accidental Inventions by Dorsey Craft
- Snails of the Apocalypse by Martha Zweig
- Register the Missing by Ansley Moon
- CACTI FUR COLLECTIVE Vol 2 featuring Alexandra Gilliam, Darren C. Demaree, and Patrick Meeds
- REDWORK by Lauri Ann Guerrero
- Poem Fire: New and Selected by Frank X. Gaspar
- Birth Language by Aimee Suzara
- Mud on the Moon by Nita Noveno
- This Far North by Susan Campbell
- The Laughing Barrel by DeeSoul Carson
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Swipe for a look at these beautiful covers! ➡️
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Which ones are y’all reading?

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💀🧙🏼@assinchaircollective is rolling into October with our usual weekly meet-ups! We meet Mondays from 12-1 EST on zoom. Come hang with us and make your art alone/together with the weirdest, warmest bunch of creative humans on the block! And bring a friend! 💀🧙🏼

🎉Our monthly FREE session is Oct 19th, so bring a friend who might need some good vibes and community to get going on their project again! 🎉

🪄Plus, we have TWO exciting bonuses this month for paid community members: Christina Rivera (@christinarivera.writer ) will be our Guest Host on Oct 26th! First, Christina Rivera is a Pushcart Prize–winning essayist whose debut, MY OCEANS (Curbstone Books, 2025), won the Silver Nautilus and Gold IPNE Book Awards. Her work has appeared in Orion, The Kenyon Review, The Cut, Terrain.org, HuffPost, and elsewhere. She will be sharing about the craft of her work-in-progress, THE RIB: (A Short *Magical* Story Letter Club) Exhuming & Rewilding missing POVs of the bible. Her work is so cool and is sure to set off sparklers in your brain for your own project. 🪄

📅Aaaand, our Fall Daily Creative Challenge runs from Mon, Oct 12th- Mon, Oct 26th! If you want to commit to doing small creative acts each day with community support, this is a low-key way to do it! Here’s how it works: I’ll share a daily prompt via email in the morning, and everyone on the thread checks in in big ways and small throughout the day, from a finished poem to a little thumbs up to say you did your thing on your own. It’s a great accountability booster with plenty of inspiration! If you’d like to join, sign up at the link in the post! 📅

🔗Details + links to sign up at The Long Pause and Be Where You Are! 🔗

🗒️🎨If you want to come weekly you just need to pay to subscribe to ONE of our newsletters ($5 a month or $50 a year) That unlocks your chance to come to Ass in Chair every week + access our workshops and all the upcoming stuff @erinnbatykefer and I are creating for you! 🗒️🎨 @mohnslate

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🍁Ass in Chair Collective is rolling into September with our usual weekly meet-ups! We meet Mondays from 12-1 EST on zoom. Come hang with us to write/make your art alone/together with the warmest, coolest bunch of creative humans on the block! And while you’re at it, bring a friend! 🍁

🎉Our monthly FREE session is Sept 21st + we’ll celebrate the Fall Equinox and raffle off Ass in Chair stickers and subscription giveaways to boot! It’s definitely one to bring a friend to! 🎉

🔗Details + links to sign up at The Long Pause and Be Where You Are! 🔗

🗒️🎨If you want to come weekly you just need to pay to subscribe to ONE of our newsletters ($5 a month or $50 a year) That unlocks your chance to come to Ass in Chair every week + access our workshops and all the upcoming stuff we’re creating for you! 🗒️🎨 @erinnbatykefer @mohnslate

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Proud to edit another anthology with Nina Padolf in this
dismal political climate. Please pre-order wag the dog anthology published by Main Street rag including poets:
Jan Beatty
Tony Medina
Liz Rosenberg
Michael Sims
Bob Walicki
Denise Duhamel
Emily mohn Slate
Joan Bauer
Janette Schafer
And many more! https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/wag-the-dog-a-main-street-rag-anthology/?fbclid=IwdGRjcATgGmdmdHNoBN7WvXBkb2YFZmRpZBZQvTmzV3rqvvUB_SwlHtcwOiNmq1KtZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHs_kkDu7hFGnPhUXB_rLQf8ZuaWd3iKpvnFh3Efa4fMsmJZiJIJUhBNWoAE4_aem_KUI1BI2Uw1NFvkZQg-wZ6g

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Thank you @lekasugar for writing this incredibly brilliant book using forms in many different ways to construct a profound narrative. And thank you to @mohnslate for introducing me to this book.

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@mohnslate describing a series of thoughts that move through my mind at least once a week. About dishes, sunscreen, or any domestic task. Maybe you too?

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Join us for our Fall 2026 online Madwomen creative writing workshops! Registration opens June 15th. Complete details at https://bit.ly/fa26mad.

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speaks for itself

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We had 35 humans at @assinchaircollective yesterday! So many beautiful new faces! Do you know how much of an energy burst this is every damn week? Such creative forces gathered together making our art though the ups and downs together ❤️🤩⚡️❤️⚡️

We talked about the benefits of tracking your creative efforts in some way— to give yourself a way to SEE the progress you’re making tanigbly and intangible even when you feel like a 🐌

@assinchaircollective peeps: share your good news with us so we can amplify it! See you next week to keep holding the thread together 🧵❤️ We love you!!! @erinnbatykefer @mohnslate @kata_bolical @nancy.o.reddy @chitalmehta @chinginchen @cathy_witt_poet @dcarly121 @ellenjunewrites @cafecitowithjas @martinspitznagel @shenandoahjewels @avorashills @journalyourpath @jovidolls @seamoomoos @krystianora let me know if I didn’t tag you! Trying 😅😭

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She’s mine. You can’t have her. jk… 😅 Please LOVE HER!

Y’all, I *finally* have a full draft of my poetry manuscript that does what I want it to do & she’s 🔥🔥🔥 Yes, it’s the same “Gertie” manuscript I’ve been working on for the last 5 or 6 years. 🦥 Yes, I’ve been completely obsessed. Yes, I feel too old to still be chasing my debut collection. (Doing it anyway!)

I’ve sent three or four prior versions of the manuscript to presses over the years. Despite getting finalist nods from some really dreamy places in the process, the ultimate answer was always “no.”

And I’m grateful.

I’ve heard people say that before & thought it was BS. But now that I’ve seen what this book can do/what it can be, I’m so glad a prior version did not get picked up because then this one wouldn’t exist.

AND IT’S SO EXCITING & ENERGETIC! 💃 😎 🏃🏽‍♀️

It steps fully into that space under the guidance of @kellygracethomas. Ironically, I’d been taking a pensive, quiet approach to a concept that was about daring to be bold. 🤷‍♀️ In at least one version, I actively edited the boldness out. 🤦‍♀️

I sought Kelly’s help because one part of me knew it but the other part was holding back & didn’t fully dare to execute on the vision. We pushed through that anxiety (which manifested as fear, resistance & doubt re: if the concept is too wild or if I’m a good enough poet to get it done).

BUT I F*CKING CRUSHED IT.

A huge thank you, also, to the amazing poets, pals & humans who have worked alongside me to model their own processes, share confidence when I had none & workshop the poems in this manuscript: @jilly_loves_books, @sfreligh, @mohnslate, @violeta.garcia.mendoza, @carolynroliver & the @madwomenintheattic. Writing community is EVERYTHING. I hope I support you all in the same way you show up for me ❤️

She’s coming to book contests & open reading periods near you starting 04.30 & we’ll all be holding her up to the sky & shouting HELL YEAH before we know it. 🏆👏🥂

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⚡️This Monday’s AIC is open to anyone! Perfect time to try it out! It’s also time to think about which creative friend you have who might need some more encouragement and collective fun along their creative path.⚡️

🙌🏼 @nancy.o.reddy said it perfectly this week:

“Every time I’m like, I could just write on my own and then I log in anyway, I’m reminded of what a difference it makes to know there’s a whole bunch of people all working away together.” 🙌🏼

What a difference it makes! If we had our own jingle, this might be it. 🎶

💥 READY TO GET ON THE LIST for Monday??💥 comment ASS and we’ll send you the link! Or you can always find it at the link in bio ⚡️ @erinnbatykefer @mohnslate

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