A lot of exciting writing stuff has happened with me recently, but I haven’t talked about it on here. I thought about it, but I tend to get a little suspicious about overpromoting things. The last time a lot of exciting writing things were happening in my life I promoted them1 like crazy, partly out of …
I’m very exciting to be joining Neil Smith, Christina Brooks, and Murgatroyd Monoghan to read excerpts of our stories, answer questions, and discuss them. It’s going to be a fun event happening on Wednesday April 17th at 8:30pm for the low low price of FREE, which is always nice. You do need to reserve a spot and “purchase” a …
I am honoured and overwhelmed to announce that my short story “Peach Baby” won gritLIT’s 2024 Writing Contest! I will be reading an excerpt of my story with the other winners on the contest virtually for gritLIT on April 17th at 8:30pm for anyone interested in attending! Read “Peach Baby” Attend the virtual Writing Contest …
Incredibly excited and honoured to announce that my short story “Peach Baby” has made it to gritLit’s shortlist for their writing contest! Thank you so so much, I don’t even know what to say!
I’m very honoured to announce that my short story “Peach Baby” made gritLit’s 2024 Writing Contest Longlist! Check out the other longlist authors here.
On January 23 2024, Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk publicly offered to redesign Gypsy-Rose’s house. A fan on TikTok decided to shoot their shot at being friends with Gypsy by sending a voice note of them singing changed lyrics to “Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley. If you search “Gypsy-Rose Blanchard” on Etsy you get a variety of merchandise, from shirts and sweaters …
Where were you when you first learned about Gypsy-Rose Blanchard? Were you listening to a true crime podcast? Scrolling through Tumblr? Were you binging a new show? Were you reading a book? Did it come up naturally in a conversation with your friends, where you were trying to outdo one another with messed up true …
My sister and I were supposed to be born around Valentine’s Day 1994, but we decided to speed that up by nine or so weeks. Our mom was already in the hospital with preeclampsia, the best place to be when you suddenly go into labour. Our mom was actually supposed to be discharged the day …
As some of you may remember, each October I use a prompt list for Inktober and write a short story based on the words on the list. This month I asked my Instagram followers to send me some words and they didn’t disappoint! It’s a great list of words and I love the story that …
“Do you swallow or spit?” I’m seven the first time I’m asked this by a boy around my age at a park where I would one day play soccer. My dad brings my twin sister and I to the park during the summer to play with the Supie since the friendships we make during the …
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