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Brian Gresko
@briangresko.bsky.social
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writer, illustrator, educator; co-founder Writing Co-Lab; co-host Pete’s Reading Series; words all over the place; weird & genderqueer & poly
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Grateful to Nita Noveno at the Sunday Salon Zine for interviewing me about YOU MUST GO ON, and how to remain writing and creative in these challenging times

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Pull quote that reads “creativity is an essential part of being human. Capitalism is dehumanizing and so we’ve lost connection with that. If we could take the quest for money and profit out of the question, what might that open up for us? I can’t even begin to imagine.”
June 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Grateful to literary mensch Courtney Maum for these warm words about YOU MUST GO ON. Supplies are limited & this is a totally DIY book—to get a copy & support me & my work, slide into my DM’s or follow the link

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Graphic with a blurb from Courtney Maum about Brian Gresko’s YOU MUST GO ON which reads “for anyone out there who is lacking confidence about their writing and/or is feeling in this current moment that they can’t justify making time or headspace for a pastime that they don’t seem to be “succeeding” at (by whatever rubrics they judge “success”), please let me recommend my friend Brian Gresko’s new guidebook for writers YOU MUST GONON. … basically, if you’re feeling you need a daily cheerleader and a confidante, that will happen with this book.”
June 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Thrilled to have an excerpt of my new book YOU MUST GO ON: 30 INSPIRATIONS ON WRITING & CREATIVITY up on @memoirland.bsky.social today about how only you have the power to call yourself a writer, even if you haven’t published a word

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Photo of a typewriter with the words What Does It Mean to Be A Writer? An excerpt from YOU MUST GO ON: 30 INSPIRATIONS ON WRITING & CREATIVITY
May 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Only 2 spots left in the writing retreat I’m co-running via @writingco-lab.bsky.social ! Come to Crete with us, where we’ll spend the days writing and the evenings in community, learning from one another and enjoying local food and drink. Plus we’re right by the sea for swims and naps on the sand!
May 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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In NYC? Please come out to see me read as I go on tour to support my book YOU MUST GO ON: 30 INSPIRATIONS ON WRITING & CREATIVITY.

If you’re not in town and want to learn more about the book (and order one), check out my site:

www.briangresko.com/you-must-go-on
You Must Go On Tour graphic, with dates of four readings in New York City: May 12 at Franklin Park, May 14 at Patchwork Literary Salon, May 28 at Ditmas Lit, and June 8 at Sunday Salon.
May 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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That’s a wrap on @writingco-lab.bsky.social 100 Days of Creative Resistance project. Much love and gratitude to the contributors and readers. Here’s the entire archive of incredible pieces

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April 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Today, 100 days after the inauguration, T Kira Māhealani Madden on Listening to the Past

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from T Kira Māhealani Madden which reads “From where I sit, flip phone in my pocket, I’m looking back. And around. I don’t want an algorithm or sleight of hand to tell me how to move forward, to tell me what’s next, to staunch my imagination from dreaming outside a fixed pattern.”
April 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Day 99 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: Melissa Rivero on Turning the Page

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Melissa Rivero which reads “We cannot linger in sadness or despair. We cannot let the fire die. You and I—we can turn the page together.”
April 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Day 98 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: Bryan Washington Has Thirty-One Questions

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Bryan Washington which reads “…if all politics are inherently local, then I think it’s worth considering how we engage with the self, checking-in regularly; the goal, to loosely quote Jun Li’s Queerpanorama, is to work deeper, love harder, live longer, die slower.”
April 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Day 97 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance:
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social on Keeping the Faith

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Celeste Ng which reads “None of this feels like enough because none of it IS enough. And yet. You keep the faith. You keep putting words down on the page. You keep doing what you can, where you are, with what you have. You try, every day, to do the work and trust that one day it will become enough.”
April 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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On day 96 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance, @smathewss.bsky.social: Look Your Terror in The Eye

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Sarah Thankam Mathews which reads “Each one of us has different capacities, ideas, abilities to participate in resistance to brute fascist power. HOW to act will be a different answer for everyone. But the decision to be OPEN TO ACTION is a worthwhile, and crucial, first condition.”
April 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Day 95 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @kristenarnett.bsky.social on Finding New Ways to Write About Hard Places

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Kristen Arnett which reads “I want you to write about what hurts, uncover how the narrative that damages our most vulnerable citizens continues unchallenged because it is easier to write about what is pretty rather than interrogate what is ugly and confusing.”
April 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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On day 94 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance, @alexanderchee.bsky.social: Let’s Go

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Alexander Chee which reads “Don’t forget to be powerful like you are when you sit down to read or write. Don’t forget the bright dream inside, the need you feel to partake of it or to add to it, the point of it all. Of being alive, of being free, of loving. Somewhere you are someone’s shelter, somewhere someone is yours. Let’s go find each other.”
April 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Day 93 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @mirajacob.bsky.social Wants You to Join Her Cult

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Mira Jacob which reads “Their cruelty, their intimidation thrives on our isolation, our fear of ourselves and of each other. But when we decide… to love each other anyway, to organize marches and teach-ins and regular degular check-ins, to ask what our communities need and access our own power to provide it, we become the best kind of ungovernable.”
April 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Day 92 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: Joseph Osmundson on Resistance as Food for the Revolution

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Joseph Osmundson which reads “….especially when I know the food I am making will be shared with my partner or with friends, I imagine myself, even in this time of such pain, like a tree: capable of budding no matter the world around it. This pleasure, this care, this fuel for the work of the day, is a small part of how I resist. Such a simple thing, really.”
April 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Day 91 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: Carmen Maria Machado on Making Art in History

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Carmen Maria Machado which reads “We make art to create connection across time and language and circumstance, to find our shared humanity, to wrestle others from their sleep, to wrestle ourselves from our own sleep, like a thick, unplanned afternoon nap.”
April 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Day 90 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: Yiming Ma on the Privilege of Resistance

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Yiming Ma which reads “Recognizing different privileges has helped me give myself more grace in this political climate, when my efforts feel woefully inadequate.”
April 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Day 89: Hannah Beresford on Looking and Intention

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Hannah Beresford which reads “Some vertical potential I am not sage enough to name or describe is thick in the work I am luckiest to read—work that holds exaltation and desecration, each, as evident possibilities of life. More than anything, I want the writers I work with to trust that their feeling is a power, regardless of their subject.”
April 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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On day 88 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance, @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social: Death to Civility, or, I Am Not the Bigger Person

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Deesha Philyaw which reads “The country’s long history of debating and denying Black people’s humanity and worthiness shows that civility gets us nowhere. So I will not be civil. I will not agree to disagree. I will not perform unity at the expense of truth and justice.”
April 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Hell yes, readings are the lifeblood of literary community! If you’re in NYC, there are so many (Franklin Park, Ditmas Lit) but I’m fond of Pete’s since I’m a co-host
April 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Day 87 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: Irvin Weathersby Jr. on Tending to Your Art

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Irvin Weathersby Jr. which reads “All our passions can rise to artistry if we pursue them with discipline and purity. By day’s end, and all the days that have been gifted to you hereafter, ask yourself, how have I tended to my art today?”
April 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Day 86 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @sbfeldman.bsky.social on Feeling Lost

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Stephanie Feldman which reads “Our creative visions may be inexplicable, unquantifiable—we may not be able to articulate their contribution to the world—but the ideas and characters and images and words are calling for a reason. It doesn’t matter if you can name the reason right now. Someday you’ll figure it out… your heart will feel some relief.”
April 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Day 85 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: Sarah Chihaya on Revisitation

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Sarah Chihaya which reads “Experience again, if only for a moment, what you believed the world was like, and what it could be like, for better or for worse. …Just for a moment, be someone you used to be and draw some strength and energy and faith from that younger self.”
April 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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On day 84 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance, @crivera.bsky.social: This Is Not The End of the Story…

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Christina Rivera which reads “Let’s reject shame. Grip joy where we find it. Let’s survive and fight, love and die—like it’s the fucking beginning.”
April 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Day 83 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @likethediner.bsky.social on The Brick We All Carry

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100 Days of Creative Resistance graphic featuring a quote from Denny which reads “I believe that the brick we all carry is simply anticipation of the moment the scales tip over and we say ‘enough is enough.’ And the level of documentation we have today will create resounding proof that the history we’re living in cannot be rewritten nor mythologized.”
April 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM