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The Unexpected Shape Café

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TUS Writing Academy

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Poetry recs
yes hello calling writers who read poetry. Song lyrics, epics welcome. Surprise me. (I'll comment mine monthly, but you go first 🐽👀🫴🙏)
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“Ask the Brindled” by Noʻu Revilla, “Letters to a Young Brown Girl” by Barbara Jane Reyes, “The Worlds Wife” by Carol Ann Duffy, “The Darker Fall” and “The Galleons” by Rick Barot— all so so important books
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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Introductions ⭐
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Hi everyone :) happy to be here. ➡️ What is your name (preferred pronouns as well, if you don't mind) My name is Dejan (pronounced: Day-on) Perez and I use she/her pronouns, currently living in Washington state and am originally from Hawai’i Island AKA Big Island, Hawai’i. ➡️ Why did you decide to join The Unexpected Shape Café? I am in a strange point in life! I pursued an MA and have been on writing my thesis for about two years over the recommended time. I used my MA as the opportunity to do a portfolio in creative writing and recently decided to begin shifting my attention to creative nonfiction. I don’t have a bunch of writing friends, so having some company during the lonelier parts of being a student graduating outside of my own graduated cohort is appreciated :) I joined shortly after finishing “The Collected Schizophrenias” and would love to learn how to create a work I’m proud of. ➡️ What is your favorite book? Recent Reads that became Favorites: “Ask the Brindled” by No’u Revilla “Abandon Me” by Melissa Febos (and anything by Febos) “The Night Parade” by Jami Lin Nakamura For fun: Ali Hazelwood’s romances! Helps me heal from my academia pain Forever Favorites: “A Cup of Water Under My Bed” by Daisy Hernandez “Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls” by T Kira Madden “This is Paradise” by Kristiana Kahakauwila (especially “Wanle”) Not a book, but is a beautiful album of story is Rina Sawayama’s “Hold the Girl.” The whole album is actually the wish I have for my future writings. You can feel how writing that album transformed her, and what a justice to the world it was to share that art that came of her journey. ➡️ What are you interested in writing about? I don’t have a lot of work so far, still very early in developing my portfolio. The themes I usually gravitate towards as a reader are coming of age stories, the act of understanding the bringing of inner child to inner preteen to inner post-teen to inner early-twenties. I am interested in automythography, the act of using mythologies and mythological creatures, gods, and using it as a way to tell ones own story, like Lorde, like Kingston, like Nakamura. I’m all over the place. To be honest, I might be at the stage where I need encouragement to finish a page!
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@Ainna Flaminia AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH all the people are so great and so amazing and I can’t believe I get to exist the same time as artists it’s such a privilege I swear
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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The daily pet thread
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I’ve raised screen children help
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Dejan Perez
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@dejan-perez-7807
Mixed API, femme queer, working on a auto-mythography project. Aspiring writer, mythology enthusiast, oracle card consulter, and educator/grants

Active 12d ago
Joined Feb 21, 2024
ENFP
Seattle
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