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Jude Jones (they/them)
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Non-binary former academic, current creative writer.
Newsletter “Everything is Temporary” at https://noneverything.substack.com
Editor of forthcoming lit mag “Tiny Memoir” at https://tinymemoir.substack.com
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Jude Jones (they/them) @authorjude.bsky.social · Jun 18
Help! I’ve newly joined bluesky and I don’t know anyone on here. I’m looking for writers and readers of memoir and autofiction. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Tiny Memoir lit mag submissions are open as of today. Submit your 50-200 word memoirs here!

#WritingCommunity #litmag

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Submissions are now open!
submit your 50-200 word memoirs here
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September 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Tiny Memoir #litmag submissions will open in September. Here’s the info. Is anything missing?

#WritingCommunity

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Submissions will open in September 2025
Genre: We are looking specifically for memoir—that is, “an intimate look at a moment in time” (Jessica Dukes, Celadon Books).
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July 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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It's already been composed and edited, an hour after reading the Call for Submissions.
August 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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I am allergic to my mother.
#WIPSnips
I am allergic to my mother. This is a discovery I make in my late 20s,
August 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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“I bore witness to what he grew up with—the frying pans across the forehead from his mom—when I stayed at his sister's house and saw her doing it to my step-neices. It really was as brutal as it sounds, and much more methodical and frequent than his one-time racket smash with me.”
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August 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Once again:
August 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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What do you expect of Memoir?

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What I expect of memoir
Yesterday I picked up the book handling the truth: on the writing of memoir by Beth Kephart.
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August 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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A grotesque autofiction parody followed by an attempt to define autofiction

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French autofiction made me do it
Imagine me wearing a T-shirt that reads “I went to a French autofiction class and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”, and then the following text is printed on the back:
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July 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Today’s #WIPSnips word is “trash”

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky

“…there’s no danger to conjuring up happiness, joy, or even sadness, grief, loss - you can write through grins and tears, but you probably shouldn't write through a psychotic episode unless you're going to trash the writing after…”
wipsnips.bsky.social ✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · Jul 28
Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips

The word for July 28th is "trash"

It's Monday and I have to go back to the dentist so I'm feeling very Oscar the Grouch vibes for today. TRASH! 😂

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#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag July 28 - trash Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine. Support others on the #WIPSnips tag! Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social The image behind the text is a border that is black with stars with a light blue rectangle highlighted by a fuchsia line. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner
July 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir

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Five more minutes
forgive me for not loving water after this
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July 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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This piece is about trying / failing to break assumptions.

Each person is living a life filled with all sorts of good and bad and exciting and horrifying experiences. If I just go by their buns and their outfits, I'll never learn anything interesting.

#amwriting

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Assumptions
People, gender, and tattoos
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July 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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#WIPSnips July 19 word is “search”

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Text that reads “I circled the coffee shop in search of a stranger's object worth writing about. Next to every customer I saw the same things: phone, computer, coffee. Headphones, charger, bag. Finally, something different: a fat notebook, in my imagination brimming with exciting words. The cover off-white with an intricate lilac flower pattern, I wanted so much to open it and read. I hoped it wasn't just an agenda full of boring to do lists. In my head, I filled it with a writer's dreams.” with the word “search” highlighted.
July 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“My view on suicide is contingent upon a system that doesn’t exist. I believe that everyone should have a choice, but that there should be a system in place that counsels people through that choice and offers a humane way to follow through with it.” —Rey Somatics

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Somatics & suicide grief changed the course of my life
An interview with Rey Somatics
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July 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Not only did the Alpha give me a different way to approach writing, but it also reignited my passion for writing itself.

Thank you, @adriannanine.bsky.social, for interviewing me about this handy gadget!

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Does the Freewrite Alpha actually facilitate distraction-free writing?
An 'inter-review' with Jude Jones, author of the newsletter Everything Is Temporary.
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July 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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One thing I’d write more about if I had permission is how I’ve never figured out mothering. But I'm afraid of hurting people...

Read more: noneverything.substack.com/p/bad-mother...

#motherhood #amwriting #ElissaAltman #permission
Text, superimposed on a photo of a book open to show defaced pages, reads as follows: "Bad mothering: permission to write. I'm reading Elissa Altman's Permission - a book that is both about memoir and a memoir in and of itself - and I feel bad defacing the book so much with my own writing, but it has me inspired and at least I'm writing pencil."
July 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Tiny Memoir #litmag submissions will open in September. Here’s the info. Is anything missing?

#WritingCommunity

open.substack.com/pub/tinymemo...
Submissions will open in September 2025
Genre: We are looking specifically for memoir—that is, “an intimate look at a moment in time” (Jessica Dukes, Celadon Books).
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July 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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So excited to have a piece in this forthcoming anthology!!
pwritersu.com Procrastinating Writers United @pwritersu.com · Jul 4
COVER REVEAL!!!

We hope you're as excited as we are for the final version of THE YELLING CONTINUES! Anthology preorders will be available soon - stay tuned (ha!)

Learn more: pwritersu.com/TYC
Cover illustration for THE YELLING CONTINUES. Precariously stacked radios tower over the title and a soundboard. Below are contributor names: KIRK ASTROTH ⏵ ROBERT BEVERIDGE ⏵ R C BIRCHLEY ⏵ CEILIDH BIRKHAHN ⏵ BRYTTON BJORNGAARD ⏵ LENI CHECKAS ⏵ JENNY CHU ⏵ EVA CLARK ⏵ DORIAN CRAWFORD ⏵ LISA DAILY ⏵ ANGEL T. DIONNE ⏵ LYNSEY FRANCE ⏵CONRAD GARDNER ⏵ DUANE L HERRMANN ⏵ JANNETT HIGHFILL ⏵ MARTHA HIPLEY ⏵ CAMILLA JOFFREY ⏵ JUDE JONES ⏵ NICHOLAS DE MARINO ⏵ MAXACRE ⏵ MONA MEHAS ⏵ ROBERT O'BANNER ⏵ GLORIA OGO ⏵CHANDRA PERSAUD ⏵ CHARLOTTE POITRAS ⏵ FRANK PODMORE ⏵ PAULA PRAEGER ⏵ JAKE PRICE ⏵ A. RIEL REGAN ⏵ VICTORIA C. ROSKAMS ⏵ KAILA SCHWARTZ ⏵ RL SELDEN ⏵ J. J. STEINFELD ⏵ DOUG STOIBER ⏵ UDAYA TUSHARA SUDANAGUNTA ⏵ KURN SUNDARAM ⏵ CJ THE TALL POET ⏵ ANTHONY DAVID VERNON ⏵ KRISTIN CAMITTA ZIMET In-progress draft of the cover - radios mostly complete, but missing detail and color. More incomplete version of cover. Missing around half of the radios, and the sketch layer is visible in the background. Sketch version of TYC cover. There's a big blank space at the bottom that says [ CONTRIBUTOR NAMES HERE ]
July 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Fitting In: A 190-word memoir

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What’s a Tiny Memoir?
This forthcoming lit mag will feature tiny memoirs of 50-200 words.
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July 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I hereby admit to failing the @smokelong.bsky.social Archive Challenge…somewhere along the way I lost track of days and skipped one, then another. I see we’re on day 10 when I haven’t posted day 8 yet, so I submit to failure. Thank you for the opportunity to read so many great pieces of writing!
July 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The places I’ve lived — a partial list with occasionally humorous one-line descriptions
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What are some memorable places you’ve lived?

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The places I’ve lived
a partial list
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July 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The Archive Challenge @smokelong.bsky.social | Day 7

Theme: Bipolar motherhood

Journal: Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social

1) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/a... Autophagy by Justin Lawrence Daugherty

2) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/r... Running After Her by Meg LeDuc
July 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The Archive Challenge @smokelong.bsky.social | Day 6

Theme: Stormy weather

Journal: Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social

1) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/m... Mountain Milk by Shubha Venugopal

2) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/f... Foundation by Paul Crenshaw
July 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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In today’s interview with author Barb Natividad 🇵🇭🇺🇸 we talk about redefining success in the face of psychiatric disability
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Get in touch if you'd like to be interviewed about illness, identity, and the writing process.

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The definition of success
an interview with Barb Natividad
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June 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The Archive Challenge @smokelong.bsky.social | Day 5

Theme: Creepy-crawlies

Journal: Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social

1) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/t... Trespassers by Angus Woodward

2) brevitymag.com/nonfiction/d... Driver Ants by Sari Fordham
June 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Oh, this is really, really good.
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jun 29
It's our last ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY of the month so we're starting it with nonfiction! 😍 Contributor Elisa Gabbert published the essay "30 Ideas About Writing Nonfiction" in @thecreativeindependent.com. Get your coffee and read it now: buff.ly/LNJMygD
June 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM