“Six months before you publish, start figuring out what your goals are. If you hire a publicist, you can bring everything you’ve learned about who your audience is. That’s really helpful to publicists.” — Natalie Obando #awp #awp26 #writer #publishingtips #panel
“I think about the audience and use the tool that will help you reach your particular audience for your book. Don’t do everything. Just do the things that will work. Don’t be afraid to try something for a little bit and see if it works and then pivot.” — @cristinadeptula.bsky.social #awp #awp26
Lana one of our social media team superstars is interning at @autumnhouse.org and she couldn’t have ended up in a more welcoming and generative space. This is why we need indie publishing in the world! Check them and their fantastic catalogue out! #awp #awp26 #autumnhousepress #writers #intern
This was one of the most fun nights out I’ve had in a while! Fabulous conversation, food, laughter, and profound insight into being women in academia. Thank you, Bahareh Alaei, Dawn Formo, Kimberly Robinson Neary, Lauren Springer, and Shannon Baker, for such a delightful evening! #4C26 #CCCC
Our #4C26 impromptu Cultural Rhetorics reunion was too quick, but delightful all the same! Maria Novotny, Marilee Brooks-Gillies, Trixie Long Smith, and Rachel Robinson are amazing human beings and I’m grateful they inhabit my academic world! #CCCC #TeamRhetoric @ncte.org
Why should you come to #CCCC? Because you can run into fabulous old friends whose work you admire to boot! Wonderful to get to spend a few happy minutes together, Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Donnie Johnson Sackey, and Ada Hubrig! We’ll make it longer next year! #4C26 #TeamRhetoric @ncte.org
Women rhetorician filmmakers unite! #4C26 Stay tuned for our musings on YouTube and its many possibilities and challenges at next year’s conference. #WomeninFilm #WomenWriters #CCCC #TeamRhetoric @ncte.org
Now that’s some girl power at #4C26! #CCCC #TeamRhetoric
@anetv.bsky.social
Yes, I talk with my hands. Here’s photographic evidence exquisitely captured by Bahareh Alaei! Thank you to everyone in the audience for our #4C26 panel for being so warm and insightful! And thank you to the Substack authors whose brilliant work and insight I featured on my presentation! @ncte.org
How many perspectives can you have on the ups and downs of having a #Substack? At least three! Colin Brooke, Annette Vee, and I presented three different yet complementary takes on our Substack publications at one of my favorite panels I’ve ever done! Thank you to Bahareh Alaei for the photos! #4C26
So much fun to meet Kiki Montufar, a fellow Latina who’s also interested in studying love and connection! Loved getting to have lunch with her and share stories! #4C26 #CCCC #TeamRhetoric @ncte.org
My students have a knack for making me feel hopeful about the future, and I didn’t know when I went to #4C26 that the group who call themselves the “Long Timers” would make me just as hopeful. What do academics do after they retire? They keep making the world better! @ncte.org #CCCC #TeamRhetoric
It is always, always, always (three for emphasis) marvelous to see Casey McAardle. I was so lucky to work with him and to be his friend at Michigan State, and I’ve enjoyed watching him soar ever since. #4C26 #CCCC #TeamRhetoric @ncte.org
One of the great gifts of being an #editor-in-chief? Getting to meet the authors whose work you were fortunate enough to #publish and deeply admire. Such a joy to see Felicita Arzu Carmichael, who we published in constellations. She’s as luminous in person as she is in her #writing. #4C26 #CCCC
In his #4C26 Chair’s Address, Kofi J. Adisa, exquisitely blended his family history, the music his loves, and the lessons he’s learned from years in the #classroom to deliver a spellbinding call for us to listen to our #students and let them speak in their own voices. Absolutely stunning! @ncte.org
Now that #RobThomas’s #VeronicaMars starring #KristenBell is now on #Netflix, we found #Season2 to take darker and twistier turns, sharply exploring how boys are shaped by society while balancing mystery with the wit, friendship, love, and romance at the show’s core. youtu.be/bCbYVse1-Q8?...
#EmmaStone’s last #Oscar win was from her role in #PoorThings. Have she and #YorgosLanthimos recreated that magic in #Bugonia to get her another Best Actress Award at the Oscars this year? Only time will tell!
New @constellationsjrnl.bsky.social post—Negotiating Impossibilities: An Introduction to Issue 8 #badbunny #BadBunnySuperBowl #halftimeshow #teamrhetoric #latinamerica #venezuela
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The first season of a #tvshow is hard to pull off. There’s so much to set up for the future, but #AmyShermanPalladino set up all the main conflicts and joys of #GilmoreGirls, starring #LaurenGraham and #AlexisBledel, in those first 22 episodes. youtu.be/69hT3_5137g?...
This year was a great year for animated features, and it looks like it’s going to be a tough race for that #Oscar. Are you team #KPopDemonHunters, or team #Zootopia2? Or are you rooting for something else? Perhaps #Elio? #theoscars
"There’s a way to counter loneliness (there are many ways), but this post is about holding on to those who matter to you, even when you no longer live near each other. Relationships grow over time if we continue to hang out digitally and in person."
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Now that #VeronicaMars is officially on #Netflix, we had to finally watch this iconic show. Veronica (#KristenBell) is brilliant, funny, and smarter than almost everyone around her. The #LillyKane (#AmandaSeyfried) murder mystery does exactly that. youtu.be/ob2R6N5y7lg?...
New Substack Post: Sustaining Love Across Time and Distance
How do we lose people? Not just any people, but the ones who shaped us and populated our days. This essay reflects on #friendship, #Venezuela, and the ache of #lovingacrossborders.
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Both prequel and sequel, #HeartTheLover by #LilyKing returns to Casey Peabody from #WritersAndLovers and the great love story that shaped her. A story of first love, timing, and the ache of loving someone who never quite knew how to say.
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In this video, I explore #Hamnet, one of the most emotionally ambitious #Oscars2026 contenders.
Co-written by #ChloéZhao & #MaggieOFarrell, starring #JessieBuckley & #PaulMescal a love letter to #WilliamShakespeare’s wife and their children
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Thank you, #CatherineO’Hara, for making us laugh for decades with ice queens with hearts, if not of gold, at least of some appealingly vulnerable material we should remember to keep at hand from time to time. I hope you keep them laughing wherever you go from here. #memorial #womeninfilm
What happens when art becomes the language a family relies on? In this video, I reflect on #JoachimTrier Sentimental Value, an Academy Award contender about creativity, inheritance, and emotional distance
#AwardsSeason #StellanSkarsgård #RenateReinsve #ElleFanning #SentimentalValue
“Our lives are a first-person narrative, but the world is a collective one. So even though it’s only a tiny piece of this ongoing, devastating saga, here’s my individual recollection of my first encounter with the political regime that has been decimating #Venezuela, my motherland, since 1999"
This video discusses becoming a #novelist, shaping my novel Ori and Rima, studying writers like #EmilyHenry, and learning to receive feedback with care special thanks to @rowancoleman.bsky.social and @billbowbaggins.bsky.social #Writing is solitary, but strongest through collaboration.
The #NeverEndingStory, directed by #WolfgangPetersen, is a childhood classic inviting us all to let our #imaginations and our love of #stories roam free. That message was vital when it came out in 1984 but it’s even more so now. #Bastian #Atreyu @billbowbaggins.bsky.social youtu.be/QMllf6RR9Vw
