Short-form writer. President of @OCWW. Bylines with @nytimes, @atticusreview, @stanchionzine & more. Word artist: #FlashCardsByKQA Your favorite willing idiot.
Joined April 2009
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1 Nov 2023
*Cracks knuckles* #amquerying a gorgeous 110-page book of micro memoir in the vein of short-form writers like @KateJBaer and @BethFennelly.
My bylines: @nytimes, @StanchionZine, @AtticusReview, and more. I’m also a word artist and President of @OCWW. #writerscommunity
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9 Nov 2024
I’m delighted to be performing a story ‘WHEN I WAS 18 AND AIRBORNE’ at @WritersTheatre
In Glencoe on 11/19 at 7pm.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can ($10 suggested). Come, come, it will be a night of creative reset and release. my.writerstheatre.org/7964/7…
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3 Nov 2024
Let's go where? Germany in the 40s? To more black and brown funerals when the police get their license to kill fully reinstated? To arrest the women trying to not die from miscarriages? To round up his enemies and political opponents? Where exactly are you trying to go?
1 Nov 2024
Trump for president!!!!!! Let’s Go!!!!!
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31 Oct 2024
Happy Halloween! I love marshmallows and hate torn ligaments.
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Hallmarks of great writing by @christi_clancy at another great @OCWW workshop. My Thursday 7:30 a.m. standing appointment.
-Fresh and inventive, not formulaic
-Immersive
-Real characters
-Universal truths
#writers #authors #writingtips #WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter
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31 Oct 2024
Ready?
I'm opening for manuscripts tomorrow, November 1st. All the details regarding page counts, previously published work, money, rights, et cetera, are on the site. No fees, ever.
Let's make some remarkable books together next year.
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28 Oct 2024
Today it’s an anti-racist flag: Division Street gateway, an official Chicago landmark and a celebration, in steel, of the city’s Puerto Rican community.
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27 Oct 2024
A small pod of paddle boarding witches at Lake Harriet. 🎃
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26 Oct 2024
I love that @GovPritzker goes all in for Halloween.
26 Oct 2024
What are you doing in my swamp?
One of our favorite traditions at the Illinois Governor’s Mansion is passing out candy to the trick-or-treaters.
Thanks for coming out early to celebrate Halloween with MK and I!
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25 Oct 2024
When they said, “democracy dies in darkness,” I didn’t expect them to be the darkness
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25 Oct 2024
Just because Donald Trump acts goofy doesn’t mean his presidency wouldn’t be dangerous. And you don’t have to take my word for it. Lately, some of the people who know Trump the best have been saying in no uncertain terms that he should not be president again.
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22 Oct 2024
For bodily autonomy, for preserving democracy, for making history, for championing gun sense legislation, and so much more, I proudly cast my vote today for @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz.
#EarlyVoting #ivoted
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13 Oct 2024
This story of the YOLO (Young & Old Lemonters Outside) has me in my feels. The dad that will run back onto the course to run his last runner in 🥺♥️😭
#ChicagoMarathon
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13 Oct 2024
Good luck to all the runners at today's Chicago Marathon.
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13 Oct 2024
Hello @ChiMarathon runners! You will do extraordinary things tomorrow. I’ll be at mile marker 11 (North & Wells) with my go-to marathon mantra: when the legs give up, run with heart.
#ChicagoMarathon #
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13 Oct 2024
And shout out to my younger sis, who will be taking on her first marathon! 💪
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13 Oct 2024
In a perfect world, this sign would have reference to @theofficetv and a race for rabies awareness including fettuccine Alfredo, a lamp bought at an estate sale, Toby’s PR, and Andy Bernard’s chafed nips. #ChicagoMarathon
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