Chloe Lutts Jensen
@cljensen.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | Tall Person
Social Media Manager at Hayden’s Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social
Social Media Manager at Hayden’s Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social
Reposted by Chloe Lutts Jensen
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 26, 2026 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
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February 5, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...
"We continue to have terrible judgment, flawed communication, a fondness for incapacitating agents, and a violently eroticized contempt for the feminine."
S.C. Cornell on sex beyond consent, in the @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
S.C. Cornell on sex beyond consent, in the @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex
The idea is legally vital, but ultimately unsatisfying. Is there another way forward?
www.newyorker.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
"We continue to have terrible judgment, flawed communication, a fondness for incapacitating agents, and a violently eroticized contempt for the feminine."
S.C. Cornell on sex beyond consent, in the @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
S.C. Cornell on sex beyond consent, in the @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder.”
When retraining doesn’t last, by Brian Groh:
When retraining doesn’t last, by Brian Groh:
An essay of mine appeared in The New York Times today, related to a book project I’m working on. You can read it here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
Opinion | When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder.”
When retraining doesn’t last, by Brian Groh:
When retraining doesn’t last, by Brian Groh:
I have a new book review up for the @coloradoreview.bsky.social – check it out! coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/fore...
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange - Center for Literary Publishing
$27.99 Buy Book About the Book Author: Katie GohReviewed By: Chloe Lutts JensenGenre: NonfictionPublisher: Tin HousePublished: 2025Pages: 240 Book ReviewEarly in Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of t...
coloradoreview.colostate.edu
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I have a new book review up for the @coloradoreview.bsky.social – check it out! coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/fore...
✨ "sparking surprise and delight in your average human brain" ✨
Elliott Kalan explains to the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Craft of Writing newsletter why three-part jokes are the funniest:
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Elliott Kalan explains to the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Craft of Writing newsletter why three-part jokes are the funniest:
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December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
✨ "sparking surprise and delight in your average human brain" ✨
Elliott Kalan explains to the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Craft of Writing newsletter why three-part jokes are the funniest:
manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription...
Elliott Kalan explains to the @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Craft of Writing newsletter why three-part jokes are the funniest:
manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription...
Tender and page-turning new fiction from Eliza Gilbert in @adroitjournal.bsky.social October issue. Read for free:
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
Eliza Gilbert
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November 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tender and page-turning new fiction from Eliza Gilbert in @adroitjournal.bsky.social October issue. Read for free:
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
Ben Austen on community colleges as essential sponsors of American is both well researched and moving: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...
How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Ben Austen on community colleges as essential sponsors of American is both well researched and moving: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes by Homa Mojtabai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes
Homelessness in America has reached crisis levels, and I am determined to do everything in my power to fix the problem as long as it doesn’t involv...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I Will Do Anything to End Homelessness Except Build More Homes by Homa Mojtabai www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...
Reposted by Chloe Lutts Jensen
Our story of the week is Agnes and the Cemetery Bus by Susan Rose April.
Agnes and the Cemetery Bus - The Forge Literary Magazine
Agnes and the Cemetery Bus, flash fiction by Susan Rose April
forgelitmag.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Our story of the week is Agnes and the Cemetery Bus by Susan Rose April.
"Phil, whose long curls catch auburn in the light, thinks the Bible is not specific on Mary’s hair color, but Pastor Bob knows it was harlot red. And Pastor Bob is tight with God." ❤️🔥
Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
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Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
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Little Death Born Again — Split Lip Magazine
The whole congregation, apart from a few noobs recruited at last night’s street-preach, knows the story of Mary Magdalene washing Christ’s feet with her tears. How on bended knee she wiped them clean ...
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June 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"Phil, whose long curls catch auburn in the light, thinks the Bible is not specific on Mary’s hair color, but Pastor Bob knows it was harlot red. And Pastor Bob is tight with God." ❤️🔥
Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0325...
Short Fiction by @eleanorfuller.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0325...
Quite enjoying this weird little online issue by @barrelhouse.bsky.social , especially stories by @elizabethendicott.bsky.social and @sashabrown.bsky.social
www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...
www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...
New Online Issue: The Pornhub Literary Supplement — Barrelhouse
Our new online issue is tailored for the sophisticated consumer of online smut and similar, interested in elevating their online browsing habits to the highest level.
www.barrelhousemag.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Quite enjoying this weird little online issue by @barrelhouse.bsky.social , especially stories by @elizabethendicott.bsky.social and @sashabrown.bsky.social
www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...
www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...
Sylvia Chan's "Never Stay Still," out now in HFR Issue 76, is a beautifully vulnerable and layered essay about the challenges of centering your own experience in a family narrative, and I was honored to ask her a few questions about the writing process for the HFR blog:
New on the blog: Chloe Jensen @cljensen.bsky.social asks 3 questions of Sylvia Chan, author of "We Remain Traditional" and an essay in our latest issue
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3 Questions with Sylvia Chan — HFR
Sylvia Chan is an amputee-cyborg writer, educator, activist, and author of We Remain Traditional (Center for Literary Publishing, 2018). Her poetry and essays appear in Poetry, Zócalo Publ...
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May 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sylvia Chan's "Never Stay Still," out now in HFR Issue 76, is a beautifully vulnerable and layered essay about the challenges of centering your own experience in a family narrative, and I was honored to ask her a few questions about the writing process for the HFR blog:
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“Primed for hard-core jungle combat in a pencil skirt [she now] finds herself in a womblike bouncy castle where women are invited not just to have orgasms but also to have important conversations about their orgasms.”
Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex
In an era plagued by sex negativity, only one generation seems immune: mine.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Primed for hard-core jungle combat in a pencil skirt [she now] finds herself in a womblike bouncy castle where women are invited not just to have orgasms but also to have important conversations about their orgasms.”
Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
Great article by @mireillesilcoff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/m...
"shooting for 100% is the equivalent of pointlessly straining to lift a dumbbell you can’t possibly lift, then usually giving up, resolving that when you try again tomorrow you’ll magically be strong enough."
@oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better:
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@oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better:
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The Imperfectionist: Seventy per cent
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February 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"shooting for 100% is the equivalent of pointlessly straining to lift a dumbbell you can’t possibly lift, then usually giving up, resolving that when you try again tomorrow you’ll magically be strong enough."
@oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better:
ckarchive.com/b/wvu2hghk5m...
@oliverburkeman.com on seeing imperfection as better:
ckarchive.com/b/wvu2hghk5m...
In a delightfully contrarian article for @newyorker.com , Daniel Immerwahr argues (persuasively!) that our panic over attention spans is just the latest episode in a long history of hand-wringing over what people are paying attention TO. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?
From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.
www.newyorker.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In a delightfully contrarian article for @newyorker.com , Daniel Immerwahr argues (persuasively!) that our panic over attention spans is just the latest episode in a long history of hand-wringing over what people are paying attention TO. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"DisasterAssistance.gov" by Nicholas Montemarano in
@electriclit.bsky.social
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@electriclit.bsky.social
electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...
My Mother's Death Is a Government Disaster - Electric Literature
Two poems by Nicholas Montemarano
electricliterature.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"DisasterAssistance.gov" by Nicholas Montemarano in
@electriclit.bsky.social
electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...
@electriclit.bsky.social
electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...
Reposted by Chloe Lutts Jensen
HFR’s Fiction & Poetry Contest opens February 1!
Regular submissions are $23, but if you subscribe to our newsletter by February 3rd, you'll be the first to know when we're offering a free submissions window! Sign up now, and get your work ready: haydensferryreview.substack.com
Regular submissions are $23, but if you subscribe to our newsletter by February 3rd, you'll be the first to know when we're offering a free submissions window! Sign up now, and get your work ready: haydensferryreview.substack.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
HFR’s Fiction & Poetry Contest opens February 1!
Regular submissions are $23, but if you subscribe to our newsletter by February 3rd, you'll be the first to know when we're offering a free submissions window! Sign up now, and get your work ready: haydensferryreview.substack.com
Regular submissions are $23, but if you subscribe to our newsletter by February 3rd, you'll be the first to know when we're offering a free submissions window! Sign up now, and get your work ready: haydensferryreview.substack.com
“Like a chess pawn or kangaroo, I biologically lack the capacity to backpedal.”
A fun, funny, and philosophical essay about butt muscles from Amy X. Wang:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
A fun, funny, and philosophical essay about butt muscles from Amy X. Wang:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
Fix Your Glutes. Fix Your Life.
I didn’t appreciate their utility — and paid for it.
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“Like a chess pawn or kangaroo, I biologically lack the capacity to backpedal.”
A fun, funny, and philosophical essay about butt muscles from Amy X. Wang:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
A fun, funny, and philosophical essay about butt muscles from Amy X. Wang:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
Reposted by Chloe Lutts Jensen
“Facebook launched its fact-checking program after Donald Trump was first elected. Now that resistance appears out of fashion, the company has decided to end it.” The head of our fact-checking department writes about Meta’s decision to stop checking facts.
Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Abandon Fact-Checking
From the daily newsletter: Facebook and Instagram’s new approach to the facts. Plus: Jimmy Carter rests; why Justin Trudeau had to step down; and the view from the limo driver.
www.newyorker.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
“Facebook launched its fact-checking program after Donald Trump was first elected. Now that resistance appears out of fashion, the company has decided to end it.” The head of our fact-checking department writes about Meta’s decision to stop checking facts.
“I thought I would live here for a year, maybe two.”
Alex Cocotas on the eternal appeal of Berlin, and how it’s changing, in @thebaffler.com
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Alex Cocotas on the eternal appeal of Berlin, and how it’s changing, in @thebaffler.com
thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
Breaking Glass | Alex Cocotas
The cosmopolitan creative class has exhausted their bohemian version of Berlin.
thebaffler.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“I thought I would live here for a year, maybe two.”
Alex Cocotas on the eternal appeal of Berlin, and how it’s changing, in @thebaffler.com
thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
Alex Cocotas on the eternal appeal of Berlin, and how it’s changing, in @thebaffler.com
thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
My favorite books of the year included novels by @rkr.bsky.social and @colsonwhitehead.com and story collections by Leigh Newman and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Here are 11 of my favorites, and why you might like them too: substack.com/home/post/p-...
December 31, 2024 at 5:10 PM
My favorite books of the year included novels by @rkr.bsky.social and @colsonwhitehead.com and story collections by Leigh Newman and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Here are 11 of my favorites, and why you might like them too: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Read @novicsara.bsky.social on signing in @thebaffler.com
"Just as spoken languages evolve according to the necessities of a given group, a signed language develops organically within a given deaf populace and reflects that community’s era and expectations."
thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
"Just as spoken languages evolve according to the necessities of a given group, a signed language develops organically within a given deaf populace and reflects that community’s era and expectations."
thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
December 28, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Read @novicsara.bsky.social on signing in @thebaffler.com
"Just as spoken languages evolve according to the necessities of a given group, a signed language develops organically within a given deaf populace and reflects that community’s era and expectations."
thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
"Just as spoken languages evolve according to the necessities of a given group, a signed language develops organically within a given deaf populace and reflects that community’s era and expectations."
thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Reposted by Chloe Lutts Jensen
Are you a past HFR contributor with something to celebrate? Send us a message – we'd love to help you spread the word! #writingcommunity
December 11, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Are you a past HFR contributor with something to celebrate? Send us a message – we'd love to help you spread the word! #writingcommunity