Brooke White

Writer 🌈 Cowden Fellowship for nonfiction, writing about women in film, water, and fairy tales ✒️words in @superstitionrev @marchxness @honeyliterary @IHLR etc

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

It’s such a gift to find a place where your weirdness is celebrated 🌟

My oddball little werewolf 🐺 essay found a home in Not Ghosts, But Spirits: Volume IV

All sales from this volume will be donated to Crossroads for Women 💜

Many thanks 🙏 to the team at @QuerenciaPress

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

Woke up with gratitude in my heart for Issue 43 of @CleaverMagazine where my mermaid manifesto 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️🧜🌊 appears alongside a grindr villanelle, the Styx, gorgons, graveyards, confessions, and more enchanting, surprising, vulnerable work 💙

https://t.co/sXqeRpWMYK

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

On a first date with a woman who asked what my sign was, and despite my attempts at deflection, when I finally admitted🔥“Aries”🔥 her smile withered and she said “Oh,” then pursed her lips like the word was sour. Dear reader, this happened on five first dates ☠️

[Grace Jarvis @gracejarvisohno]

I went out with a girl who told me she didn’t want to see me again because “our star signs are incompatible” and we have got to start saying, “I’m just not attracted to you” because FUCK ME DEAD this is a worse system

[Mandy McHugh @WriterACMcHugh]

I love this more every time I stumble across it ❤️‍🔥

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

This list is so fascinating… I initially thought it was ‘things from nature that turn you inside out’ but both feel true for many of these list items

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

@vpelham haha wish I would’ve had this quick and easy guide to refer him to at the time 🤷‍♀️

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

For the man who asked me if I was "the guy" this incredible guide in @The_Rumpus by @R_Turkewitz 🎯🙌

https://t.co/BcYZThJA6F

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

@gabe_granillo @SuperstitionRev Loved this piece! The recording of you reading the work brought it to life, it's such a treat. One of my new favorite short stories.

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

@vahid_arefi I can’t overstate how grateful I am for your patient ear & kind suggestions as I read this piece approximately 100 times in your apartment 😂🙌

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

Many thanks to @PatriciaCMurphy and the @SuperstitionRev team for their thoughtful feedback and the care they took with this piece! 🌊💙

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

So excited to share my Sapphic sea nymph essay—w cameos from an octopus, bioluminescent algae & a truly bizarre children’s story. Peruse at your leisure or sit back as I tell you a story, find the essay & recording here: https://t.co/NTFIeTHsXz

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

I wander out into the winter.
I know what I am.

—Vievee Francis, from "I've Been Thinking about Love Again"

this poem. wow

[Candace Hartsuyker @C_Hartsuyker]

"The crickets cooed in the tall grass. My mom told me that I could join them in the pool. I was hesitant, but as the night darkened, I slipped off my suit and waded into the water with them."

@BrkTheWriter in @WhaleRoadReview

https://t.co/pflchIK0Vr

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

@C_Hartsuyker @WhaleRoadReview Thanks for the lovely post & this quote! 🦗

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

@loki_writes @WhaleRoadReview Thanks @loki_writes for this, that’s my favorite part of the piece 💙

[Cathy Ulrich @loki_writes]

"When I was a child, my mother told me that my freckles were fairy kisses. In the pool with my mother and her sisters, I wondered how many fairies must’ve kissed us, and how many times?"
@BrkTheWriter in @WhaleRoadReview:
https://t.co/0dV6gBJfwe

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

This is an essay that means a lot to me, both as a memory and as the final piece in the book I’m working on, the final note of a long story - many thanks to @iamkatmann & the Whale Road Review team for the care they took with this piece 💙

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

@WhaleRoadReview holds oranges, trees, little dimpled planets, a library inside the poet’s chest, cherry pits, skeletons, and a thread for mending– overjoyed to add crickets and fairy kisses to issue 28 with my flash piece “While Crickets Sang in the Tall Grass We Splashed” 🦗🧚‍♂️

[Brooke White @BrkTheWriter]

@vahid_arefi @HoneyLiterary rub-a-dub-dub 🛁 🫧