Shane Mitchell

Writes stuff for a living. she/her/🤦🏻‍♀️ Also Editor at Large for @SAVEURMAG

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@BoyceUpholt @BitterSouth @voxmedia @emergence_zine @NYTmag Thank you for the shoutout Boyce.

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truth

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How to become a writer: you just start calling yourself one! This amazingly dumb trick 100% works! There is no literary world! They will 100% let any jackass in. There's no one in charge, the whole thing is an illusion, you can change the rules at any point because there are none

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@JamilaRobinson Bravo.

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@nicmillerstale @BitterSouth Thank you, Nicola. (Blushing.)

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After 431 wordles, my start word finally hits. That’s enough writing for today.

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A visual history of watermelon in America. My latest @BitterSouth story traces the evolution of this symbolic fruit, in abundant times and terrible times. Got to spit some seeds, too. https://t.co/F3mRawZglO

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My mother saved up to buy me an absurdly expensive fountain pen years ago and I didn’t appreciate it at the time. Today, I used it to sign with a literary agency. Never question mothers.

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My sister had a talking Pee-wee Herman doll as her car mascot. In heavy traffic we’d roll down the windows pull the string and let it cackle. While chanting “I know you are but what am I?” Never failed to crack us up.

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Whoosh goes 9,065 words. Might quit early and go fishing.

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I wrote six sentences today. This counts as two of them.

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Missed seeing Mavis Staples four times during pandemic concert chaos but last night I finally got to hear a legend live on stage.

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@kittenwithawhip It’s hellish up here in northern NY.

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Here’s a link to the story. This man took a risk to stand up and speak out. Apologies, I should have done this sooner. https://t.co/0IfyhYmWIH

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This is my kind of bling bag. Still a bit shocked, but maybe this will amplify the voice of a whistleblower who hoped that his story brings change to a broken agricultural system.

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@darth Food history nerd here, @darth. They’re attributed to Jean-Louis Françoise Collinet (disputed). Should you need a pommes puff fix in New Orleans, they are served with a big side of béarnaise sauce.

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Brown oyster stew for the mothers. Sorry there’s no smell-o-vision on here. Recipe by @ExcuseMyFly

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Sit your mothers and nanas down and make them tell you how to make those things they make. For Mother’s Day weekend, here’s to celebrating matriarchs everywhere. Miss @ExcuseMyFly gives tribute and shares her gorgeous brown oyster soup for @SAVEURMAG https://t.co/kIYz0Q8tGk

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@benharnett We live valley adjacent so perhaps I’m biased.

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@ExcuseMyFly The journey out is the journey in. So there’s that.