Jill McCabe Johnson
@jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social
Writing about nature, science, history, & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief. TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems) last year. LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir) next year. EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press. Here for lit community & Caturday.
DIY writing retreat and cat-sitting gig Day7.
Starting to get cabin fever. Bought flowers to make the place feel more festive and get in the holiday spirit.
Starting to get cabin fever. Bought flowers to make the place feel more festive and get in the holiday spirit.
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
DIY writing retreat and cat-sitting gig Day7.
Starting to get cabin fever. Bought flowers to make the place feel more festive and get in the holiday spirit.
Starting to get cabin fever. Bought flowers to make the place feel more festive and get in the holiday spirit.
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Are you hunkered down getting your manuscript ready to submit for the Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Book Awards?
We're eager to read full-length mss of *literary* fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. One submission fee ($30USD) -- up to four prize winners published.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
We're eager to read full-length mss of *literary* fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. One submission fee ($30USD) -- up to four prize winners published.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Are you hunkered down getting your manuscript ready to submit for the Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Book Awards?
We're eager to read full-length mss of *literary* fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. One submission fee ($30USD) -- up to four prize winners published.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
We're eager to read full-length mss of *literary* fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. One submission fee ($30USD) -- up to four prize winners published.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
Day 6 of diy writing retreat / cat-sitting gig. Is it Day 6 already?
We’ve gone from complete indifference to meowing nonstop till I let him sit in my lap.
If my editor over at @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social complains that I’m late proofing the galley, please don’t out me.
Cats are a priority!
We’ve gone from complete indifference to meowing nonstop till I let him sit in my lap.
If my editor over at @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social complains that I’m late proofing the galley, please don’t out me.
Cats are a priority!
December 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Day 6 of diy writing retreat / cat-sitting gig. Is it Day 6 already?
We’ve gone from complete indifference to meowing nonstop till I let him sit in my lap.
If my editor over at @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social complains that I’m late proofing the galley, please don’t out me.
Cats are a priority!
We’ve gone from complete indifference to meowing nonstop till I let him sit in my lap.
If my editor over at @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social complains that I’m late proofing the galley, please don’t out me.
Cats are a priority!
Day 5 of my diy writing retreat / cat-sitting.
In this foggy weather, I finished proofing galleys for my memoir. Just the dedication and acknowledgments left to write, then it’s back to the publisher and fingernail biting time!
In this foggy weather, I finished proofing galleys for my memoir. Just the dedication and acknowledgments left to write, then it’s back to the publisher and fingernail biting time!
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Day 5 of my diy writing retreat / cat-sitting.
In this foggy weather, I finished proofing galleys for my memoir. Just the dedication and acknowledgments left to write, then it’s back to the publisher and fingernail biting time!
In this foggy weather, I finished proofing galleys for my memoir. Just the dedication and acknowledgments left to write, then it’s back to the publisher and fingernail biting time!
Reposted by Jill McCabe Johnson
Our annual contest opens today for literary #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry manuscripts. Up to 4 books published with Wandering Aengus Press and our imprint, Trail to Table Press.
Would love to see some short fiction &/or #flash fiction collections this year!
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
Would love to see some short fiction &/or #flash fiction collections this year!
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Our annual contest opens today for literary #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry manuscripts. Up to 4 books published with Wandering Aengus Press and our imprint, Trail to Table Press.
Would love to see some short fiction &/or #flash fiction collections this year!
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
Would love to see some short fiction &/or #flash fiction collections this year!
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
DIY writing retreat and cat-sitting gig Day 4.
I give the cat affection every time I get stuck. A lot of kitty snuggles today.
I give the cat affection every time I get stuck. A lot of kitty snuggles today.
November 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
DIY writing retreat and cat-sitting gig Day 4.
I give the cat affection every time I get stuck. A lot of kitty snuggles today.
I give the cat affection every time I get stuck. A lot of kitty snuggles today.
Day 3 of my diy writing retreat/cat-sitting gig in southern France.
Won’t you come read with me for a bit? I’ll make you some tisane or un café. ☕️
Won’t you come read with me for a bit? I’ll make you some tisane or un café. ☕️
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Day 3 of my diy writing retreat/cat-sitting gig in southern France.
Won’t you come read with me for a bit? I’ll make you some tisane or un café. ☕️
Won’t you come read with me for a bit? I’ll make you some tisane or un café. ☕️
Can't help but think "Black Friday" in the lit world means a slew of rejections as editors knock down their slush piles.
Not that I've been getting rejections today. No, not me. Not a steady stream of them. Never.
Not that I've been getting rejections today. No, not me. Not a steady stream of them. Never.
a boy holds up a sign that says " never no "
Alt: a boy holds up a sign that says " never no "
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Can't help but think "Black Friday" in the lit world means a slew of rejections as editors knock down their slush piles.
Not that I've been getting rejections today. No, not me. Not a steady stream of them. Never.
Not that I've been getting rejections today. No, not me. Not a steady stream of them. Never.
Our editorial team is so proud of these authors and their 2025 Pushcart nominations, we could burst!
Please join us in congratulating them!
Please join us in congratulating them!
Our Pushcart Noms!
Barret Baumgart: The Refusal to Be Useful
L. Annette Binder: The Residents of the Second Floor
@majda.bsky.social: Ode to One Thousand
@jessicagigot.bsky.social: Territory
Amanda Hawkins: Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands
Daniel Meltz: Intrinsic Marimbas
Barret Baumgart: The Refusal to Be Useful
L. Annette Binder: The Residents of the Second Floor
@majda.bsky.social: Ode to One Thousand
@jessicagigot.bsky.social: Territory
Amanda Hawkins: Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands
Daniel Meltz: Intrinsic Marimbas
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Our editorial team is so proud of these authors and their 2025 Pushcart nominations, we could burst!
Please join us in congratulating them!
Please join us in congratulating them!
Day 2 of my DIY writing retreat and cat-sitting gig in southern France.
Slowly reviewing galleys for my memoir, Learning to Spar, to be released in a year. It’s exciting to see how the book will appear in printed form.
@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social does beautiful work, y’all.
Slowly reviewing galleys for my memoir, Learning to Spar, to be released in a year. It’s exciting to see how the book will appear in printed form.
@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social does beautiful work, y’all.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Day 2 of my DIY writing retreat and cat-sitting gig in southern France.
Slowly reviewing galleys for my memoir, Learning to Spar, to be released in a year. It’s exciting to see how the book will appear in printed form.
@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social does beautiful work, y’all.
Slowly reviewing galleys for my memoir, Learning to Spar, to be released in a year. It’s exciting to see how the book will appear in printed form.
@unsolicitedpress.bsky.social does beautiful work, y’all.
Day 1 of my DIY writing retreat / cat-sitting gig at a friend’s home in southern France.
Happy T-Day to friends back home!
Happy T-Day to friends back home!
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Day 1 of my DIY writing retreat / cat-sitting gig at a friend’s home in southern France.
Happy T-Day to friends back home!
Happy T-Day to friends back home!
Hi all! Here are a few more pics from yesterday’s outing to Albi in southern France…
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hi all! Here are a few more pics from yesterday’s outing to Albi in southern France…
From today’s explorations…
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
From today’s explorations…
From yesterday’s walk…
(Second time to visit this Paleolithic site of Magdelenian cave paintings. Incredible.)
(Second time to visit this Paleolithic site of Magdelenian cave paintings. Incredible.)
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
From yesterday’s walk…
(Second time to visit this Paleolithic site of Magdelenian cave paintings. Incredible.)
(Second time to visit this Paleolithic site of Magdelenian cave paintings. Incredible.)
From yesterday’s walk (in southern France)…
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
From yesterday’s walk (in southern France)…
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
Just thinking about a Mensa conference I put on 40 yrs ago. One speaker was a strategist from Microsoft talking about AI, how it was going to replace human intelligence. The arrogance! All AI can do is steal and mimic, not think or create. It was a techboy fantasy then & it’s a techboy fantasy now.
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Just thinking about a Mensa conference I put on 40 yrs ago. One speaker was a strategist from Microsoft talking about AI, how it was going to replace human intelligence. The arrogance! All AI can do is steal and mimic, not think or create. It was a techboy fantasy then & it’s a techboy fantasy now.
Summers will “step back from public commitments” only because no one will want him anyway. This is not accountability, it’s protection.
When will those in authority finally protect the vulnerable instead of protecting others in authority?
When will those in authority finally protect the vulnerable instead of protecting others in authority?
Update from The Harvard Crimson on Summers: he’ll step back from public commitments, but remain in the classroom, continue his directorship of a center, & keep his University Professorship. How is this in any way holding him accountable for his actions? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawerence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement...
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Summers will “step back from public commitments” only because no one will want him anyway. This is not accountability, it’s protection.
When will those in authority finally protect the vulnerable instead of protecting others in authority?
When will those in authority finally protect the vulnerable instead of protecting others in authority?
Reposted by Jill McCabe Johnson
Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative.
Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.
Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative.
Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.
Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation.
From today’s hike…
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
From today’s hike…
From today’s walk…
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
From today’s walk…
From yesterday’s walk…
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
From yesterday’s walk…
Look who’s signing books at the #PortlandBookFest! The brilliant and inimitable poet, Amanda Hawkins, with their book, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones.
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Look who’s signing books at the #PortlandBookFest! The brilliant and inimitable poet, Amanda Hawkins, with their book, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones.
Check out @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social representing at #portlandbookfestival!
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Check out @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social representing at #portlandbookfestival!
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM