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The Unexpected Shape Café
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Nov '23 in
Just published my book!
Still Moving is published! This is my memoir of my first 3 years of Long Covid. (Appropriately enough, my proof copy of the paperback arrived when I was dealing with a migraine. I know y'all can understand that detail differently than most folks.) I arranged distribution through Ingram, so you should have options wherever you live. My site has more details + excerpts: https://skyeris.art/still-moving I hope the book illuminates ways to face pain, grief, and illness, that more deeply connect you to love.
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Congrats!
Sep '23 in
Introductions ⭐
This is the introduction thread. Say hi, tell us where you’re from and what your writing is all about! In your introduction, answer these 4 questions: ➡️ What is your name (preferred pronouns as well, if you don't mind) ➡️ Why did you decide to join The Unexpected Shape Café? ➡️ What is your favorite book? ➡️ What are you interested in writing about? We can’t wait to meet you! If you'd like to share anything else as well, feel free! And welcome!
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I’m Kristen (she/they) and I’m an internationally known writer on urbanism and urban planning, with bylines or features in most of the main publications in that vein (CityLab, Next City, etc). I currently am a contributing editor to a DC based urbanism publication and finishing my memoir-manifesto on urbanism from the perspective of a Black queer disabled feminist. I’m here because I believe in this work and I need more writer friends writing around limitations. Right now I’m recovering from having massive fibroids and have a complex trauma Dx with some fibromyalgia mixed in. Also still COVID conscious because I’m not trying to add anything and my partner has stage 4 thorastic endometriosis. I have so many favorites in books but my current favorite is One Last Stop:
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@Essence Scott Greensboro native over here! Always happy to see NC folks, even though I’ve been in and around the DMV since 2016.
Oct '23 in
Trusting your very personal work with an external editor/publisher
Y’all, I alluded to this in another thread, but I need help with releasing my work to a publisher. With all my intersectional identities, I am very wary that I would get what I wanted in a traditional process, but I keep seeing similar (but whiter, maler, straighter, and more abler) so ok, not similar besides our nerdy interest (in this case urban planning) getting deals. I appreciate any and all encouragement. And yes, I do plan to join the academy as soon as I can scrape some extra funds because I know it will help me just like this space, but in a deep way.
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@Alex Venet Feel free to DM. Thanks for your support!
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Update #2 — they invited me to submit a proposal and I’m having my monthly meeting with my internal editor to help with putting that together this afternoon. I already wrote a good bit of my new chapter outline and I already feel so much better about this process this time. Even if they pass, I’ll have a better outline and actually publish this book. I had published a version about a decade before that attracted their attention, along with my newsletter and years of bylines and speeches, but I didn’t want to sanitize how radical I’ve become.
Oct '23 in
What workshops would you like to see?
I’d like to have a live workshop soon and was wondering if there were any workshops that you’d love to see made available. Classes about pre-writing, writing, or publication are probably what I’d be teaching, but I’m open to your ideas! Please let me know what you want. ❤️✌🏽🍁
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@Esme Wang Steps to self publishing after I’m happy with the final draft.
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@Esme Wang At this point I’m leaning toward releasing a workbook, then use that and a course I’ve created to drum up a contract for an essay collection. I need to control the majority of at least one of my nonfiction books to feel safe giving one to the full editorial market process
Sep '23 in
The daily pet thread
I thought it might be nice to have a daily pet thread. Here's Daphne, whom some of you might already know about. She's about 11 years old and an incredible sweetie (unless you're another dog or the USPS).
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We may adopt this pet, this was our trial with them. He is a rescue and my friend is working to get him ready for us. We also need to get our apartment and budget ready. This will be my first cat and her second. (I’m on the left).
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@kristen-jeffers-5578
Creative nonfiction essayist and newsletter writer and editor. DC based/NC native. Black queer disabled feminist urbanist . And yes, I crocheted it!
Active 345d ago
Joined Sep 19, 2023
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