Jennifer Savran Kelly
Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran Kelly1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran KellyThe staffer thing is so funny, like an entirely white nationalist administration has to be like oh no, there’s one of us who’s more racist that the rest of the ethnic cleansers
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran Kellynevermind spanish, some of you have three days to learn how to dance
- Writers: The DAG Foundation is offering a $20,000 prize for literature: www.dagfoundation.org/literary-app...
- I've been working on this essay for more than a month. And I've been writing around the point the whole time. Today I've finally gotten to a place where I can't escape it anymore. I have to figure out how to say clearly what this thing is about.
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran KellyPretty disheartening to see just how many men are in the Epstein files. Has me thinking about the 72 men who raped Gisele Pelicot. 72! There sure are a lot of men who line up to rape & harm women & girls. It’s a fact we as a society need to reckon with.
- "I don’t know what to do with these names." @maris.bsky.social grapples with the questions on all our minds 🖤
- I wrote about the Epstein Files and the (incredibly unhealthy) need to monitor, to bear witness. lithub.com/finding-the-...
- "As Jewish clergy, we write to affirm—unequivocally—the dignity, belonging, and sacred humanity of transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people." Amen. www.keshetonline.org/jewish-clerg...
- We're hiring a new *remote* director of editorial, design, and production @cornellupress.bsky.social! Come work with us! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran KellyFor so long Amazon has had a monopoly on selling self-published books. Good to see that @bookshop.org is ready to compete in the space! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran KellyA handful of people doing so much damage to so many, and for what? More. Just more. What a sad existence, to have so much, to never have enough, and to care about others not at all.
- "There needs to be evidence-based and sport-specific guidelines instead of “one-size-fits-all rules”. “Blanket bans on transgender women in sport are not supported by the best available evidence . . . fairness and inclusion can coexist”.
- A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
- Evidence of criminal behavior on the new stovetop 🐾
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran KellyI know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by Jennifer Savran KellyStarting in April, I’m teaching a six-week writing workshop at the wonderful Writers & Books in Rochester, NY. If you live in the area, please join me.📚💚 wab.org/event/bright...
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- I was late for #5amWritersClub, but I just finally remembered a word that's been on the tip of my tongue for a week! Insidious
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran KellyThis is not the kind of country we want. What happened to basic decency and humanity? These are children!
- Catherine O'Hara, I hope you're resting in peace. Thank you for sharing your enormous talent with us 💜💫
- Good morning #5amWritersClub. It's been a rough week courtesy of back problems, but I made it for one morning of early writing. Happy Friday, everyone.
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- "We'll take a stand for this land and the stranger in our midst."
- The Boss is singing about ICE on the Streets of Minneapolis. You won't hear this played at the Kennedy Center or on Fox News. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...
- That’s not a lot of degrees
- My inflatable dad novella just floated off to readers for the first time! Yikes!!
- We just had to pull our oven away from the wall for the first time in 18 years. Holy heck it's a madhouse back there.
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran Kellykeep calling your senators daily about ice ☎️ each call gets tallied & is useful you can reach them through @5calls.org or 202-224-3121
- Good morning #5amWritersClub. It feels like day 30,000,000 of Jen vs. essay. Who will win?
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- A sweet little pep talk for those of us in this non-writing-wanna-be-writing boat 💞
- ok i wrote a little pep talk for everyone who isn't writing right now but wants to be <3 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/for-when-y...
- Still calling my reps in the Senate to demand that they vote to defund ICE!
- Since Saturday afternon, I've been down for the count with a particular sassy back spasm.
- Handsome menace 😻
- It's crazy that things are so fucked up, this isn't the biggest headline of the day. The White House DIGITALLY ALTERED an image of demonstrator Nekima Levy Armstrong and shared it on social. And "her skin appears to have been darkened." Seriously WTF
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- You said it, NPR. ICE is definitely more hazardous than snow. Stay safe, everyone 🫶
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran KellyIt’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran Kelly"Liam, age 5, was the fourth child in the district to be detained by immigration agents in the past two weeks, school officials said. "Two of them are high-schoolers. "One is a 10-year-old girl who was apprehended on her way to school..." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
- We love to see it!
- Reposted by Jennifer Savran KellyI will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
- Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
- OOBLECK is too a word, spelling bee!
- "The right to protest and speak freely are fundamental American rights, protected by the United States Constitution. Too often, though, nonviolent protest and civil disobedience is being met with violence." I would take this further, but happy to see it. www.rabbinicalassembly.org/story/jewish...
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- Yes! And my first thought exactly: "...Book bans in the age of Trump have had a chilling effect on LGBTQ+ stories; publishers don’t want to take a risk on books that might be vulnerable to bans. I hope 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘙𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘺’s presence on bestseller lists reminds publishers that’s a bad business decision."
- I wrote about how Heated Rivalry is just the latest case of how publishers, with all their data, are still not able to predict what will be the next sensation. lithub.com/get-ready-fo...
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- Reposted by Jennifer Savran KellyThis is a list of businesses across Minnesota that are closing tomorrow in solidarity with the economic shutdown. Huge thanks to every one of them for stepping up. If your business is also closing, drop it below.
- I'm too much of a luddite to figure out how to embed a GIF in an email, so I just described a little scene for someone to imagine instead. Now I want to write a whole story that way: as a string of GIF descriptions.
- Ahahahaha! 😭
