Leanne Phillips

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Story: The Jetty
Essay: Beheaded
Essay: Ghosts on the Page: Alice Cary’s “Hagar: A Story of To-Day” and Other Lost Books
Book Review: Slouching Towards Los Angeles
Book Review: The Witches Are Coming
“Evening, McAbee Beach”

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Hey fiction writers! @kelp_journal is accepting fiction submissions through November 15th! @lindzjamieson22 and I are thrilled to be the fiction editors for the winter issue of Kelp Journal, and we can’t wait to read your work. I’d love to see some stories from marginalized voices. Go to kelpjournal.com/about for details and send us your best stories. Special attention is given to oceanic and surf themes, but most importantly, we love love love work that has clearly been fussed over.
🌊🏄‍♀️🎣🐠⛱ 🐳🐬
#callforsubmissions #writinglife #shortstories #amwritingfiction #writingcommunity #amwritingshortstories #amwriting #callsforsubmissions #fictionwriters #marginalizedvoices #diversewriters #womenwriters #womenwritingfiction #marginalizedwriters #bipocwriters

leannebythesea

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Hey fiction writers! @kelp_journal is accepting fiction submissions through November 15th! @lindzjamieson22 and I are thrilled to be the fiction editors for the winter issue of Kelp Journal, and we can’t wait to read your work. I’d love to see some stories from marginalized voices. Go to kelpjournal.com/about for details and send us your best stories. Special attention is given to oceanic and surf themes, but most importantly, we love love love work that has clearly been fussed over.
🌊🏄‍♀️🎣🐠⛱ 🐳🐬
#callforsubmissions #writinglife #shortstories #amwritingfiction #writingcommunity #amwritingshortstories #amwriting #callsforsubmissions #fictionwriters #marginalizedvoices #diversewriters #womenwriters #womenwritingfiction #marginalizedwriters #bipocwriters

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Hey writers! @kelp_journal is accepting submissions of non-fiction through November 15th! Go to kelpjournal.com/about for details and send your best work! Special attention is given to oceanic and surf themes, but most importantly, Kelp Journal loves work that has clearly been fussed over. #callforsubmissions #writinglife #amwritingcreativenonfiction #amwritingnonfiction #writingcommunity

leannebythesea

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Hey writers! @kelp_journal is accepting submissions of non-fiction through November 15th! Go to kelpjournal.com/about for details and send your best work! Special attention is given to oceanic and surf themes, but most importantly, Kelp Journal loves work that has clearly been fussed over. #callforsubmissions #writinglife #amwritingcreativenonfiction #amwritingnonfiction #writingcommunity

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Hey writers! @kelp_journal is accepting submissions of true paranormal horror stories through November 15th! Go to kelpjournal.com/about for details and send your scariest true tales! 🏄‍♀️ Special attention is given to oceanic and surf themes, but most importantly, Kelp Journal loves work that has clearly been fussed over. #callforsubmissions #writinglife #truehorror #paranormal #writingcommunity #amwritinghorror #amwritingtruestories

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Hey writers! @kelp_journal is accepting submissions of true paranormal horror stories through November 15th! Go to kelpjournal.com/about for details and send your scariest true tales! 🏄‍♀️ Special attention is given to oceanic and surf themes, but most importantly, Kelp Journal loves work that has clearly been fussed over. #callforsubmissions #writinglife #truehorror #paranormal #writingcommunity #amwritinghorror #amwritingtruestories

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Hey poets! @kelp_journal is accepting submissions of poetry (and prose) through November 15th! Go to kelpjournal.com/about for details and send your loveliest poems! Special attention is given to oceanic and surf themes, but most importantly, Kelp Journal loves work that has clearly been fussed over. #poetry #callforsubmissions #writinglife

leannebythesea

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Hey poets! @kelp_journal is accepting submissions of poetry (and prose) through November 15th! Go to kelpjournal.com/about for details and send your loveliest poems! Special attention is given to oceanic and surf themes, but most importantly, Kelp Journal loves work that has clearly been fussed over. #poetry #callforsubmissions #writinglife

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Repost from @gxrlpod • We’re back friends! How did your summer go? Was it fast? Did you need content? Are you starving for the new, the old, the somewhere in between!? Well, we’ve got a new piece up! A beautiful book review for THE BOYS OF MY YOUTH by Jo Ann Beard from our new Books Editor @leannebythesea head to the GXRLpod.com now. #newblogpost #joannbeard #gxrl #bookstagram

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Repost from @gxrlpod • We’re back friends! How did your summer go? Was it fast? Did you need content? Are you starving for the new, the old, the somewhere in between!? Well, we’ve got a new piece up! A beautiful book review for THE BOYS OF MY YOUTH by Jo Ann Beard from our new Books Editor @leannebythesea head to the GXRLpod.com now. #newblogpost #joannbeard #gxrl #bookstagram

4 weeks ago

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“I am still writing a show that was born from some BIG “if they say ‘this script won’t work because she’s not likable’ one more time I’m going to burn something down” energy.” Repost from @seragamble • Writing tip for your Friday (this one’s everyone who reached out about all the rejection.)

WRITE FROM A PLACE OF VENDETTA.

Don’t get zen. Don’t try to feel better. Don’t try to like it that people don’t understand you. Don’t ignore the indignation you feel when someone tells you that what you love isn’t cool or important. Definitely don’t ignore the indignation you feel when you watch a show and your brain is like THAT IS NOT WHAT THOSE WRITERS SHOULD HAVE DONE AND THEY JUST RUINED THIS. (And for fucksake don’t waste that impulse complaining on the internet.)

That hot energy is GOLD. I wrote a show for 5 seasons born in no small part from a place of getting pissed at other fantasy stories. (Based on a book that was too.) I am still writing a show that was born from some BIG “if they say ‘this script won’t work because she’s not likable’ one more time I’m going to burn something down” energy. Don’t waste your strength trying to get voices out of your head - go sit at your computer and use it to write an angrier, dirtier, sharper, braver, more specific, less apologetic thing that will really annoy the critics because when it hits the air no one will be able to shut up about it. At the very least I can tell you you’ll feel so much better that you’ll look at the thing that made you furious and feel this new little impulse to laugh. ‘Cause you broke its power. High five. 😘😘

Art by @steeleism

leannebythesea

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“I am still writing a show that was born from some BIG “if they say ‘this script won’t work because she’s not likable’ one more time I’m going to burn something down” energy.” Repost from @seragamble • Writing tip for your Friday (this one’s everyone who reached out about all the rejection.)

WRITE FROM A PLACE OF VENDETTA.

Don’t get zen. Don’t try to feel better. Don’t try to like it that people don’t understand you. Don’t ignore the indignation you feel when someone tells you that what you love isn’t cool or important. Definitely don’t ignore the indignation you feel when you watch a show and your brain is like THAT IS NOT WHAT THOSE WRITERS SHOULD HAVE DONE AND THEY JUST RUINED THIS. (And for fucksake don’t waste that impulse complaining on the internet.)

That hot energy is GOLD. I wrote a show for 5 seasons born in no small part from a place of getting pissed at other fantasy stories. (Based on a book that was too.) I am still writing a show that was born from some BIG “if they say ‘this script won’t work because she’s not likable’ one more time I’m going to burn something down” energy. Don’t waste your strength trying to get voices out of your head – go sit at your computer and use it to write an angrier, dirtier, sharper, braver, more specific, less apologetic thing that will really annoy the critics because when it hits the air no one will be able to shut up about it. At the very least I can tell you you’ll feel so much better that you’ll look at the thing that made you furious and feel this new little impulse to laugh. ‘Cause you broke its power. High five. 😘😘

Art by @steeleism

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My favorite stoop in Pismo Beach.

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My favorite stoop in Pismo Beach.

1 month ago

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I was reading a short story by my friend Ioannis Argiris and glanced up at this chair, and my mind was suddenly filled with memories of my grandparents’ farm house just south of Soledad, California. It was right above the riverbank where Of Mice and Men was set. Misty-eyed on all three counts. #fiction #shortstory #nostalgia #steinbeckcountry

I was reading a short story by my friend Ioannis Argiris and glanced up at this chair, and my mind was suddenly filled with memories of my grandparents’ farm house just south of Soledad, California. It was right above the riverbank where Of Mice and Men was set. Misty-eyed on all three counts. #fiction #shortstory #nostalgia #steinbeckcountry

leannebythesea

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I was reading a short story by my friend Ioannis Argiris and glanced up at this chair, and my mind was suddenly filled with memories of my grandparents’ farm house just south of Soledad, California. It was right above the riverbank where Of Mice and Men was set. Misty-eyed on all three counts. #fiction #shortstory #nostalgia #steinbeckcountry

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About Leanne

Leanne Phillips is a writer based on California's Central Coast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kelp Journal, GXRL, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and The Coachella Review.

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Story: The Jetty
“Hagar: A Story of To-Day” Featured on NeglectedBooks.com
New Piece Published at LARB: “Beheaded”
Essay: Beheaded
Essay: Ghosts on the Page: Alice Cary’s “Hagar: A Story of To-Day” and Other Lost Books

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