Lenore Hart (she/her)
@lenorehartauthor.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, Night Bazaar series creator. Historical Novel Society grand prize winner; Shirley Jackson Award & Exeter Novel Prize finalist. IWU/AG member. Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat faculty. Serving 3 cat overlords. https://www.lenorehartbooks.com/
Art director Naia Poyer's cover design for Northampton House Press author Amanda Cockrell’s ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN? is shortlisted for Rakuten Kobo’s cover contest! PLEASE VOTE (hopefully for Naia's!🤭) in Fiction/Nonfiction category by Dec 8. #bookcoverdesign
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December 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Art director Naia Poyer's cover design for Northampton House Press author Amanda Cockrell’s ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN? is shortlisted for Rakuten Kobo’s cover contest! PLEASE VOTE (hopefully for Naia's!🤭) in Fiction/Nonfiction category by Dec 8. #bookcoverdesign
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IT'S UNBOXING DAY FOR AMANDA COCKRELL'S ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER? A NOVEL OF THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST -- and we are all very excited for this book to meet the world! #unboxingday #newnovels #hollywoodblacklist #historicalnovels #hollywoodclassics #moviestars
November 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
IT'S UNBOXING DAY FOR AMANDA COCKRELL'S ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER? A NOVEL OF THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST -- and we are all very excited for this book to meet the world! #unboxingday #newnovels #hollywoodblacklist #historicalnovels #hollywoodclassics #moviestars
"Follow your dreams -- ideally in a field that will still require humans when you graduate." (from The New Yorker)
August 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"Follow your dreams -- ideally in a field that will still require humans when you graduate." (from The New Yorker)
IF YOU GO TO DENVER, DON’T MISS THE RINO DISTRICT. In River North has cool old renovated buildings, strange deconstructed new ones, and over 80 huge outdoor murals. Also fantastic coffee shops and a big vintage indoor market full of food vendors and restaurants.! #outdoorart #muralart #RiNo #denver
August 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
IF YOU GO TO DENVER, DON’T MISS THE RINO DISTRICT. In River North has cool old renovated buildings, strange deconstructed new ones, and over 80 huge outdoor murals. Also fantastic coffee shops and a big vintage indoor market full of food vendors and restaurants.! #outdoorart #muralart #RiNo #denver
My life is a real (cat)balancing act. Here with Marlingspike Finn, who never met a shoulder he didn't make into a perch, leaping up in one go from the ground. I warn visitors to brace for impact, and to avoid bending over and becoming an easier target! #catsofbluesky #writerscats #literarycats
June 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
My life is a real (cat)balancing act. Here with Marlingspike Finn, who never met a shoulder he didn't make into a perch, leaping up in one go from the ground. I warn visitors to brace for impact, and to avoid bending over and becoming an easier target! #catsofbluesky #writerscats #literarycats
SOME DAYS THE WORLD is just too extra for Nemo. I can totally relate. #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #writerscats #needamentalhealthday
June 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
SOME DAYS THE WORLD is just too extra for Nemo. I can totally relate. #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #writerscats #needamentalhealthday
IN OTHER NEWS, PEAFOWL MATCHMAKING DAY. Daisy's new family took her up to live with cousin Alistair in a nice 1-bedroom henhouse. Their awkward-blind-date expressions didn't last; recent reports say they're very happy! (photo: Tatum Sumners Ford) #peafowl #peahens #peacocks #lovematches #firstdates
May 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
IN OTHER NEWS, PEAFOWL MATCHMAKING DAY. Daisy's new family took her up to live with cousin Alistair in a nice 1-bedroom henhouse. Their awkward-blind-date expressions didn't last; recent reports say they're very happy! (photo: Tatum Sumners Ford) #peafowl #peahens #peacocks #lovematches #firstdates
ORANGE CATS AND PAPER RAIN. Why my office can never have nice things. 🐱 #catsofbluesky #officecats #writerscats #marmaladecats #gingercats #homeofficelife
May 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
ORANGE CATS AND PAPER RAIN. Why my office can never have nice things. 🐱 #catsofbluesky #officecats #writerscats #marmaladecats #gingercats #homeofficelife
April 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I was very excited to learn this weekend that my speculative historical novel in progress, The Alchemy of Light, has advanced to the finalist stage for this UK-based novel prize -- the winner will be announced in May!
April 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I was very excited to learn this weekend that my speculative historical novel in progress, The Alchemy of Light, has advanced to the finalist stage for this UK-based novel prize -- the winner will be announced in May!
GRAND THEFT AUTHOR! In or near Dublin on this date? Please try to attend! The Irish Writers Union will be there to remind the government of the intellectual property rights of Irish writers. #metatheft #AIplagiarism #irishwritersunion #AontasScribhneoiriEireann #scrapingcopyrightedmaterialistheft
April 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
GRAND THEFT AUTHOR! In or near Dublin on this date? Please try to attend! The Irish Writers Union will be there to remind the government of the intellectual property rights of Irish writers. #metatheft #AIplagiarism #irishwritersunion #AontasScribhneoiriEireann #scrapingcopyrightedmaterialistheft
Thanks to Brittany and Sara of the Carterhaugh School for reminding me about this LeGuin quote.
April 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thanks to Brittany and Sara of the Carterhaugh School for reminding me about this LeGuin quote.
KING OF THE PORCH. You know winter is really over when Spike is back full time at his front door observation post. Nothing and nobody gets past Admiral Marlingspike! #catsofbluesky #watchcats #guardians #catsecuritysystems
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
KING OF THE PORCH. You know winter is really over when Spike is back full time at his front door observation post. Nothing and nobody gets past Admiral Marlingspike! #catsofbluesky #watchcats #guardians #catsecuritysystems
THE SPRING OSSABAW ISLAND WRITERS RETREAT? FANTASTIC. We had unspoiled forests. Beaches w/bone-white trees reaching for the moon. Alligators. Wild hogs. Donkeys to pet. Inside, serious workshops of MSS by up and coming & established writers, and delicious meals day & night. Success! #writersretreats
March 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
THE SPRING OSSABAW ISLAND WRITERS RETREAT? FANTASTIC. We had unspoiled forests. Beaches w/bone-white trees reaching for the moon. Alligators. Wild hogs. Donkeys to pet. Inside, serious workshops of MSS by up and coming & established writers, and delicious meals day & night. Success! #writersretreats
VIEW THRU back window of The Clubhouse on Ossabaw, where Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat met for a retreat (year 14!) led by me, novelist David Poyer, poet Juliana Gray, & director/poet Danelle LeJeune. Missing & missed: director Tony Morris, poet/novelist (& his guitar!) #ossabawislandwritersretreat
March 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
VIEW THRU back window of The Clubhouse on Ossabaw, where Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat met for a retreat (year 14!) led by me, novelist David Poyer, poet Juliana Gray, & director/poet Danelle LeJeune. Missing & missed: director Tony Morris, poet/novelist (& his guitar!) #ossabawislandwritersretreat
All Yucatán iguanas seem to have earned a PhD in impersonating rocks. This one kept morphing into various stones, rubble, or piles of pebbles every time I got him in focus! #yucatanwildlife #yucataniguanas #yucatanmexico
March 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
All Yucatán iguanas seem to have earned a PhD in impersonating rocks. This one kept morphing into various stones, rubble, or piles of pebbles every time I got him in focus! #yucatanwildlife #yucataniguanas #yucatanmexico
IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH, here’s one favorite classic work by a Black writer, and a newer work I’m currently reading. Feel free to post your favorites in comments! #blackwriters #blackhistorymonth #africanamericanliterature #zoranealehurston #internationalblackliterature #daughtersofafrica
February 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH, here’s one favorite classic work by a Black writer, and a newer work I’m currently reading. Feel free to post your favorites in comments! #blackwriters #blackhistorymonth #africanamericanliterature #zoranealehurston #internationalblackliterature #daughtersofafrica
Our last Mayan pyramid temple in Yucatán, Ekbalam’. Only my brother-in-law Bob made it to the very top — as befitting a world-renowned archeologist! #beautifulyucatan #mayanhistory #yucatan
February 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Our last Mayan pyramid temple in Yucatán, Ekbalam’. Only my brother-in-law Bob made it to the very top — as befitting a world-renowned archeologist! #beautifulyucatan #mayanhistory #yucatan
February 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Working our way through the great eating spots in Merida, Yucatán this week and next! #merida #yucatan #mexicancuisine
February 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Working our way through the great eating spots in Merida, Yucatán this week and next! #merida #yucatan #mexicancuisine
Good morning, humans of Bluesky. I am now in control of this account — and tomorrow, the universe! #catsofbluesky #cattakeover #catsrule #cataverse
February 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Good morning, humans of Bluesky. I am now in control of this account — and tomorrow, the universe! #catsofbluesky #cattakeover #catsrule #cataverse
How many ways can we keep saying ‘duh’? Then again, it’s not as if they will listen.
February 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
How many ways can we keep saying ‘duh’? Then again, it’s not as if they will listen.
I'm a novelist, poet, and series editor of The Night Bazaar fiction anthologies; 3 volumes so far (dark fantasy, horror, sci fi, magical realism) and a 4th in the works. I've a starter pack of Speculative Fiction authors pinned to my profile, with room for more. Stop by!
January 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm a novelist, poet, and series editor of The Night Bazaar fiction anthologies; 3 volumes so far (dark fantasy, horror, sci fi, magical realism) and a 4th in the works. I've a starter pack of Speculative Fiction authors pinned to my profile, with room for more. Stop by!