Gretchen Tessmer

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Poet-girl who lives in the deep woods. Beside a lake. And a River. And another Lake (the kind that buries the woods in feet of snow all winter). Poems/stories in Nature, Bourbon Penn, F&SF, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Asimov’s and others.

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Bourbon Penn 33 is live with brand new stories by Alex Jennings, Steve Toase, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Françoise Harvey, Gretchen Tessmer, Zachariah Claypole White, Adriane Hanson, and J. Ashley-Smith.

Bourbon Penn 33www.bourbonpenn.com Stories by Alex Jennings, Steve Toase, J. Ashley-Smith, Gretchen Tessmer, Adriane Hanson, Françoise Harvey, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, and Zachariah Claypole White. Cover art by Jing Zhiyong.

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Check out the latest issue of Eye to the Telescope, with a wonderfully unique and magical "Strange Mixology" theme, edited by @gretchentessmer.bsky.social. It contains a wistful little poem of mine, inspired by my time living in NY.

Attention friends and fam of SFF Poetry land! The latest issue of SFPA’s Eye to the Telescope (“Strange Mixology”) is up for your reading pleasure. Click here and pick your potion: eyetothetelescope.com/index.html @sfpoetry.bsky.social Cheers!🥂

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Find my “Serenity Potion” on tap in this tasty mixology-themed issue edited by @gretchentessmer!🥂💛

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Including a poem by me! 🫖🌧️

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My alcohol + space date poem "Darkside Speakeasies" is now live and free for viewing as part of SFPA's lastest theme issue, Strange Mixology. #WritingCommunity

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To round out this month's issue, we have a bit of time travel for you. We will "See You on the Other Side" by @gretchentessmer.bsky.social "I'm dying today. It's happening. It's okay. I didn't have any plans for the weekend anyway." smallwondersmag.com/piece/see-yo...

See You on the Other Side - Small Wonderssmallwondersmag.com I'm dying today. It's happening. It's okay. I didn't have any plans for the weekend anyway.

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Bourbon Penn 33 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!

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Discover what’s waiting just beneath surface in @gretchentessmer.bsky.social and Anatoly Belilovsky’s poem “Hide & Skin.” kaleidotrope.net/spring-2024/...

Writers, post something random from your backlist. Don’t think, just do it. www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/22/the... #ThrowbackTuesday

Gretchen Tessmer > The House of Spades and Sorrows > Bourbon Pennwww.bourbonpenn.com On her original mortgage application, they ask her for a last name. At first, she writes nothing at all, sitting back with her arms crossed over her chest and an expression somewhere between confusion...

A story/poem is never late nor is it early, it arrives precisely when it means to (and might mean everything to someone, even if only on the 100th repost) ❤️

Writers: please do posts a week, two weeks, and a month after your story drops. Create anniversaries for your creativity. Don't just share them on launch day. A small percentage of friends on socials see any post and we don't want to miss your stuff.

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Such a cool poem "Hide & Skin" by @gretchentessmer.bsky.social and Anatoly Belilovsky in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/spring-2024/...

“Hide & Skin” by Gretchen Tessmer & Anatoly Belilovskykaleidotrope.net

Oh rare and magical sightings of Northern Lights last night, you say? 🤩💞 Well, just in case (like me) you live under cinder skies 70-80% of the time, I’ve got you covered, friends (with the help of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social 💜): www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/half...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Half-Spent Was the Night by Gretchen Tessmerwww.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com There’s trust between them that few others can claim. But it’s a trust that Jonah feels he failed earlier in the day, through the simple act of not answering her question about Leah and all those othe...

My Asimov’s contributor copies arrived in the mail rather unexpectedly yesterday (this poem has been sitting in the wings for a year now 😂). But “Granny Gardener” is finally free to whisk through time, dynasties and dirt! @asimovssf.bsky.social

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Okay poet-friends, I’m two weeks late in announcing this but I’m guest editing ETTT #53 @sfpoetry.bsky.social on the theme of “Strange Mixology” and subs are currently OPEN. If you have anything that fits the theme, please send it in! 🥂 Full guidelines are here: eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html

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Gamut #3 is now up! Includes work by @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @gretchentessmer.bsky.social @jawmccarthy.bsky.social @mariadahvana.bsky.social Brian Evenson @ozarkmisfit.bsky.social & more. To read, get a yearly subscription for $45 or pay $5.50 for 1 month/issue. houseofgamut.com/magazine/

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And theree's poetry by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social, @mariness.bsky.social, @aimeeogden.bsky.social, Yuliia Vereta, Alexis Renata, @gretchentessmer.bsky.social and Anatoly Belilovsky, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans!

So for the last several years, I give up any public facing social media for Lent and I rarely mention it (because it’s personal and, let’s face it, I’m pretty much a ghost on here/Twitter/Insta anyway 👻). It’s cleansing and a lovely reset and sometimes even restores my faith in humanity 😂 1/3

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The poem Silt and Soot by @gretchentessmer.bsky.social blossoms beautifully out of the darkness. 🌹 You can read it on our website today! apparitionlit.com/silt-and-soot/

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Hey folks!! We have exciting news to share, in just a couple weeks are next volume of the Sprawl Mag will be free to read on our website.

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Self-help by Matt Haig

Lol so I just logged onto Bluesky to repost my Christmas-ish BCS story, “Half-Spent Was the Night” from last year and this is the first post I saw on my feed 🥰 Great minds, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ❤️ Merry Christmas to those celebrating!!🎄🎁💞

From the BCS Archives: "Half-Spent Was the Night" by Gretchen Tessmer, BCS #371: "The lights fill the northern half of the celestial dome. So many colors. She doesn’t know all their names. And they move and flicker and bleed into each other, creating more shades with every fold and shimmer."

Confession: I may be a secret fairy princess and I def live in the Land of Moss & Tree 😍🤩

November fields and fairy treehouses 😍

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i read this a few days ago. @gretchentessmer.bsky.social does a terrific job mixing humor and surprise and atmosphere in this perfect story in Burbon Penn. “Oslo in the Summertime” by Gretchen Tessmer

Gretchen Tessmer > Oslo in the Summertime > Bourbon Pennwww.bourbonpenn.com When the French nanny, Danielle Charbonnet, leaves the house at quarter past 5 in the morning, she’s already late for dance class. Saturday at 5 a.m. is an ungodly hour for anything other than sleep...

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TOM PETTY: I won't back down TOM OPEN-MINDED: I'd consider backing down

Oh hello my pretty 💀💞💀 @thedeadlands.com

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Our October issue is finally ready for subscribers and contributors, and just take a look at that TOC! Work by: @arfrederiksen.bsky.social, @jamesparenti.bsky.social, @gretchentessmer.bsky.social, and more! Support: patreon.com/HavenSpecMag...

Sometimes I don’t submit…but sometimes I submit ALL THE THINGS 😂 #FlyMyPretties