Bernadette Roca

Writer | VCCA Fellow '23, Idyllwild Writer's Week Fellow '23, Bread Loaf ‘22, Banff award ‘22 | Here only occasionally, but working on it :)

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

My first published piece is out now in The Audacity. It is taking a minute for this to really sink in. Thank you so much @rgay @megpillow for treating my work with such care.
https://t.co/UVcD68Rxc6

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

@trubrian out here just casually killing it… can’t wait to read this!!! 💖💖🔥🔥

[Brian Truong @trubrian]

I AM PUBLISHING MY FIRST ESSAY!! IN THE @GEORGIAREVIEW!!!! AND I WON THE INAUGURAL PROSE PRIZE!!!!!!! I’m floooored 🥺😭😭🥰

https://t.co/AMQ4HhNuf7

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

@MimiManyin @CraftLiterary @CourtneyHarler1 Woooooot!

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

Too real 😅

[Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks]

Is this draft I’m trying to write any good? No. Will it be any good? Also no.

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

Just got out of a webinar where the chat had at least 400+ messages in 1.5 hours. How can anyone pay attention to the chat AND the person speaking?! 🤯

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

Motto

In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.

-Bertolt Brecht, tr. Willett

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[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

THIS 👇🏼🙏🏼

[Mitchell S. Jackson @MitchSJackson]

Wrote some words on Tyre Nichols. 🙏🏾

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

“You become the writer who can write the book you want to write by writing the book you want to write.”

👆🏼maybe the most surprising—and wonderful—thing I discovered this past year. Grateful to have found @mdbell79’s substack today.

https://t.co/cmWX24rwhi

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

What a lovely thing to read today. Thank you for a wonderful blog post and shoutout! 🤗

[samia a. @by_samiabbasi]

In this blog post, I quote one of my favorite substack essays, “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” by @beunscripted in The Audacity newsletter (@rgay). Thank you for writing this wonderful piece, Bernadette!✨

https://t.co/06krf0SsXB

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

@trubrian @alexmlwrites @PeriplusCollect So, so happy for you! CONGRATS B!!!

[stony morrison, PhD @rrandolphjr]

That third beer quote 😭😭

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

The questions I’ve been thinking about all day. Thank you @jamiattenberg

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

@trubrian Lol omg the inspo 🤩

[SarahFawn Montgomery @SF_Montgomery]

In memoir the gaps, silences, absences, and erasures say as much as the memories. Text isn't the only way to tell your story.

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

Joy, not fear

“That, in my view, is an artist: someone who purposely gets in over her head in a worthy cause, and, once there, to survive, summons forth new resources that even she didn’t know she had.”

https://t.co/wdgPs8gMrt

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

Stuck in a rewriting process that was going nowhere (read: staring at pages in utter despair, zero actual writing), I read each of these essays about 100 times each. Read to the bottom, scrolled up, read again. After a few days of this, I am finally—finally!—writing again 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

“You are tenebrescent. You were made to deepen in light. In joy. In humor, connection, and play.

You are tenebrescent. OK? So run toward your light.” - @annasproul

https://t.co/65dlODY3cX

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

Gorgeous

[Anna Gazmarian @anna_gazmarian]

@adalimon ruining me in the best way.

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

Lol my whole life rn

[Aiko @aikohwrites]

You know what sucks? Writing. You know what I love? Writing. You know what I wanna do? Write. You know what I don't wanna do? Write.

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

Wow, thank you ❤️

[Bernadette Roca @beunscripted]

This inscription, wow ✨💛 @CPhillipsPoet