Kelly Caldwell

@kkc212

Writer; dean of faculty @GothamWriters. she/her I live in NYC but still say gapers' block.

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Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· 29d

For some reason, I can't get U2's "I'm stuck in a moment, and I can't get out of it" out of my head.

Two images stacked atop each other. The top is a map of the United States set against a blue background, and states with the highest concentration of cases of cyclosporiasis are shaded in brown—the darker the brown, the more cases a state has. The lower image is a map of the United States against a white background, with a brown swoosh over the upper Midwest and East Coast, showing the concentration of wildfire smoke currently clogging the air of various states. Again, the darker the brown, the worse the news for that state.

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· 29d

What better time than the mushy middle of the year to talk about the mushy middle of stories? If you're in one, first, don't panic. It's just your brain doing brain things. More wisdom and remedies, from people much smarter than me: blogs.gothamwriters.com/2026/07/12/m... #writingcommunity

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jul 14

Hey there #NYC! This Friday, the NYPL St. Agnes branch will let teens pick up YA books for free—for keeps! Starts at noon! This is the branch in Manhattan, on Amsterdam and 81st! #WritingCommunity #books

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jul 14

I'm increasingly distressed at the way the #cyclospora outbreak is being reported right now, with people citing lettuce as the possible source when the facts are that NOBODY REALLY KNOWS. Look at this doctor's VERY careful phrasing here! She is not saying they've found it in lettuce!

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Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jul 10

Pops will again be chilling under table of the egg guys at the USQ greenmarket, who give out treats.

Adorable grey dog peeks out from under a table with a blue, yellow, red and white geometric leaf pattern.

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jul 10

This "only famous people sell memoir" line is becoming such a thought-terminating, creativity-smothering cliché, and it makes me crazy because it is NOT TRUE! Thank you @Jasonprokowiew for pushing back on it! #WritingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jul 7

Did everyone else know about the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social vintage READ poster fundraising auction?! I just found out, and what FUN this is to browse! So much nostalgia, so many '90s hairstyles, so many surprising book choices! movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

The animated Simpsons characters in their iconic living room, all reading. Marge, Homer, baby Maggie, and Bart (upside down) are seated on the brown sofa, each reading their own book (Maggie's just has a duck on the cover); Lisa and her dog Santa's Little Helper are reading on the green carpet; a stack of books stands beside Lisa displaying the author names "Homer, Dickens, Plato, Voltaire, and Flannery O'Connor"; the black cat is reading a newspaper; to the right of the sofa, a grey mouse peeking out of her mouse hole is reading a book of matches; and in the upper-right corner is a portrait of Grandpa, reading a green book titled "How to Write a Letter of Complaint."

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jul 4

NYC @mayor.nyc.gov, July 3: America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal. Patriot Front, July 4th: Let's prove that Muslim guy right! (Photo @theguardian.com)

Masked white men from the neo-fascist Patriot Front group march with confederate and American flags (at least one of which is upside down) in a photo by the Guardian.

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jul 4

Oh! Lilliann Hellman makes a cameo, reminding us all that she was a heroic bad ass. ❤️

The playwright and author Lillian Hellmann in a white blouse, seated at a table, talking and gesturing with her left hand, a pack of cigarettes and a note book in front of her. Kicking ass and taking names, as usual.

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jul 4

Settling in to see Are You Now or Have You Ever Been @citycenter.bsky.social tonight, I thought, "Do we need to revisit this ugly chapter in US History?" I mean, I get it. When JD Vance on down to Mike Arnold, former mayor of Blanco, TX, are hounding people out of their livelihoods for ... 1/

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jun 28

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jun 26

What it means to write with restraint, or how a sentence about soap landed me in hot water: blogs.gothamwriters.com/2026/06/16/r... #writingcommunity

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jun 13

Debut novel from author of Fresh Off the Boat!

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jun 10

Now. Now is good. #WritingCommunity

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jun 8

I 💙🧡 NYC

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Jun 4

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· May 29

Kerry Kennedy on her way to Home Depot for that pickaxe...

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· May 29

Pops is psyched for a non-rainy weekend in NYC, and so am I, tbh.

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· May 18

More excellent reporting from @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social, this time about a House committee voting to make EV cars less affordable. In the middle of an oil crisis. open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... #gas #GasPrices

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Apr 26

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif.

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Apr 24

Pops, now 11, still runs to the door when I walk in, and, truly, nothing feels quite like that!

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Apr 17

Pops loves the beach, but wasn't sold on that thick Florida grass...

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Apr 17

BIG congratulations to @gothamwriters.bsky.social's own @scottalexanderhess.bsky.social, whose novel Drought won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction last night! Well deserved, Scott! 🎉 📚 🥂 📚 🎊 📚 🏆 Y'all go read his book now! www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... #WritingCommunity

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Apr 16

Tell me about it, Bluesky.

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Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Mar 29

He not only "well, actually"-ed an obvious joke, he did it on a post celebrating a pretty successful protest, a post written by a Yale Professor and former FBI counterintelligence agent, who is also a woman.

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Mar 27

Pops senses something's up in NYC.

Adorable gray dog with floppy ears, big black nose, and curly white fur at his throat, lyaing on a light-brown hardwood floor, gazing inscrutably at the camera.

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Mar 24

These two stories are the same story. #Iran www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... thehill.com/newsletters/...

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Mar 24

Freitag graph. Save the cat. Rashomon. Hero's Journey. Inverted pyramid. There are so many methods for structuring a good story. Here's another one, introduced to me by Theresa Okokon, (author of "Who I Always Was,"): Sankofa structure. blogs.gothamwriters.com/2026/03/17/s... #writing

Illustration of Sankofa, a bird turning its head toward its back, a pearl in its beak, with a red eye and red, blue, gold, and purple striping.

Kelly Caldwell@kkc212· Feb 27

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.