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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 1d

also @tursulowepress.bsky.social @oldstermag.bsky.social

Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 1d

In sharing my new novel with the dear book club members of Pennswood Village, I experienced an otherworldly embrace. That story in today's @oldstermag.bsky.social oldster.substack.com/p/zooming-wi... #Philadelphia #novel #bookclubs #retirementvillages #writingcommunity #SariBotton #PeggyMandell

Zooming with the Readers of Pennswood Village

Author Beth Kephart pays a virtual visit to writer Margaret Mandell's retirement village.

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 2d

How lucky am I to be joining the great paper expert Helen Hiebert for her Paper Year. I’ll be teaching, in a single session, home as memory and literature and prose, and also the ways in which paper and color can help tell our story. This is Helen. #paperart helenhiebertstudio.com/the-paper-ye...

Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 3d

Thoughts on writing toward our ghosts, on today's Substack. #writingcommunity #memoir #craftessay thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/on-writing...

On Writing the Haunted: A Craft Essay

What do our ghosts wish us to make of their lives—and of our own? With Ocean Vuong, Olivia Laing, Doireann Ni Ghriofa, Judith Kitchen, and J. R. Moehringer

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 4d

Philadelphia area writers and Penn alum — an upcoming event that I'm looking forward to. #writingcommunity #Philadelphiawriters #UniversityofPennsylvania #KellyWritersHouse

Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 6d

We seek the universal in our art. I think that is a political act, a gesture of civic possibility. My thoughts here. #writingcommunity #universal #civicart thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-univer...

The Universal Is a Binding Agent

not a technique, not a plan, but a discovery that un-strangers strangers

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 7d

Come see us in the 8400 Block of Germantown Avenue. #chestnuthilfallforthearts

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 9d

Art, writing, ambition, hope, frustration, and art again. My thoughts on Vincent Van Gogh. #VincentVanGogh #ambition #art #writingcommunity thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/ambition-i...

Ambition is a Multitudinous Word

thoughts on Vincent Van Gogh and the dilemma of us makers

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 10d

You are so dear. I have been following your journey (and I am SO happy for you). I thought about your story ... And so.

Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 12d

The question becomes, in these tumultuous days, what do we actually know? A question cascade that begins with an umbrella and leads to questions of good and evil. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/give-your-...

Give Your Bedroom Door a Voice

a question cascade that begins with the particular and moves toward the profound

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 15d

Thoughts on the beauty of the book, a great new indie, and the founding mothers of fairy tales, @janeharrington.bsky.social's, beautiful new book. #johnupdike @50watts.bsky.social #bookbeauty #illustratedbooks thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-beauty...

The Beauty of the Book

books are never words alone, plus the founding mothers of fairy tales

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 18d

grateful ...

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 18d

Encountering the dream-sleep of the exquisitely haunting I Could Read the Sky. #writingcommunity #remarkablebooks #johnberger #ICouldReadtheSky
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The Unsaid, the Unsayable

inside the quiet hour

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 21d

Tomorrow: Best Beginnings with CraftTalk. #writingcommunity #writinglife #writingworkshop #beginnings

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 21d

What is an obsession, and how does it fuel our literary lives? An epic conversation with @kelceyervick.bsky.social, whose invitation to write letters to dead authors and artists is quickly becoming a phenomenon on Substack. #letters #writingcommunity thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/obsessions...

Obsessions, Letters, Seeds

Beth Kephart and Kelcey Ervick's live video; words from Naomi Cohn

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 22d

#Philadelphia #Philadelphiastories #SchuylkillRiver @tursulowepress.bsky.social @templeunivpress.bsky.social #novel #memoir #Philadelphiaphotography

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 25d

On making more with less, as we do. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/street-sce...

Street Scene in Less than Thirty Words

From essay to prose poem to color and shred

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · 28d

If you don't understand the poem, do you understand the poem? That's the question I approach in today's Substack, while also announcing an offer of art to paid annual subscribers. thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/if-you-don... #readingpoetry #Writingpoetry #poems #monotype #paperandthread

If You Don't Understand the Poem

do you understand the poem? (and a one-month offer of original art)

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · Sep 13

What do we mean when we say "beautifully written?" I explore the question and return with a manifesto of one. #writingcommunity #bookreviews #beautifullywritten thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/beautifull...

Beautifully Written, They Say

but what does that mean? (a manifesto of one)

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · Sep 10

So entirely grateful to you! Thank you, @lithub.com.web.brid.gy !

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Sep 10

@bethkephart.bsky.social meditates on the art of constructing fiction from facts.

Connecting the Dots: On Creating Fiction from Facts

I was a mud on the knees girl, a tadpole seeker, a Pogo Sticker, a kid who took off at every speed—by foot, in roller-skates, on whatever bike that fit me. Speed was my thing. But hand me a dot-to-…

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · Sep 10

What if the world was made up of fond, found friends at a coffee shop? I wonder and I wish that, here. #coffeeshop #foundfriends #goodneighbors #worldpeace #GryphonCafe #artshow thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/the-world-...

The World Could Be Like This

found friends at the local coffee shop

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you, you extremely kind soul.

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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · Sep 10

What does a story's beginning need to do? Inspiring words from @bethkephart.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b... #writingcommunity #authorcommunity #writinglife #authorlife #creativewriting #skywriters

Best Beginnings

By Beth Kephart Years ago—in an entirely different century—I sat in the back of a room in a steadfast stone building in the Italian hill town Spoleto, listening to Rosellen Brown and Reginald Gibbo…

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Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · Sep 9

But what is a beginning, and how does one write one? In an upcoming CraftTalk I'll share a baker's dozen of beginnings and associated prompts This essay featuring the words of the great Rosellen Brown introduces the program. #writinglife #beginnings brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

Best Beginnings

By Beth Kephart Years ago—in an entirely different century—I sat in the back of a room in a steadfast stone building in the Italian hill town Spoleto, listening to Rosellen Brown and Reginald Gibbo…

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