Angela
@TheWakingTulip
Grateful daughter, hungry writer, Type 1 diabetic, INFJ, relentless rejoicer, merry friend, wild moonflower, chaplain of sorts at a cat sanctuary, Jesus' girl
At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love. - St. Thérèse of Lisieux
I'm grateful to join these gifted artists in the ever-stunning @ExpoReviewLit. Please don't ever "quit" ... this world needs your words and light!
“The submitted works surprised me by packing glittering complexity into their tiny molds.” Read Francesca Spiegel’s #Flash405: “Quitting” winners with pieces by Paul Arenson, Suzanne C Martinez, Charlie Rogers & @TheWakingTulip: tinyurl.com/Quitting405.
Oh my goodness! This is the sweetest surprise, from one of my all time favorite journals. And to appear beside the luminous @1funnyfarmAdams ...! Thank you, beautiful @rawlitmag!
Best of the Net 2026 Nominations - CNF I Should Write the Letter by Tracie Adams @1funnyfarmAdams rawlit.weebly.com/6_7.html Send Bread by Angela Townsend @TheWakingTulip rawlit.weebly.com/7_6.html
Beyond grateful to be part of this life-giving issue. @PsmokeJournal is a dream journal, and I am doing heart-cartwheels to join these graceful artists!
Our Summer 2025 Issue is HERE! peatsmokejournal.com FLASH: ☀️@rachanapathak99 ☀️@thewakingtulip ☀️Andrea Bishop FICTION: ☀️Gabriella Paz Hoggatt ☀️Sarah Bess Jaffe ☀️Caroline Okello ART: ☀️Rollin Jewett ☀️Brooke Walker ☀️Lindsay Liang ☀️Jennifer Lamb ☀️Subarna Talukder Bose
Utterly grateful to share "The People Persevere" in one of my all time favorite journals, the matchless @trampset.💜
"I can’t give up on humanity, because when I drive by Taco Bell at ten p.m. on a Wednesday, the chalupa line wraps around the building twice." @TheWakingTulip's "The People Persevere" trampset.org/the-people-per…
I'm so grateful to share "Send Bread" in @rawlitmag, and humbled that my words would accompany Rachel Turney's breathtaking photo!
On Raw Lit - Issue 7 White Church by Rachel Turney & Send Bread by Angela Townsend @TheWakingTulip ‘The cream has a single carbohydrate per serving, and if you spray it directly into people’s mouths, they laugh like chimpanzees.’ rawlit.weebly.com/7_6.html
Utterly overjoyed to be part of this tender, courageous, breathtaking issue of @rawlitmag. I am in awe of these artists and so grateful to @FBereaud and @DelGeo14 for including me among them!
Raw Lit - Issue 7 is live! Editor - François Bereaud @FBereaud Cover: Katharine Weinmann rawlit.weebly.com/issue7.html
I'm grateful to share "The Other Sanctuary" in the stunning "Good Trouble" issue of @coachellareview 💙💜 thecoachellareview.com/2025/06/06/the…
“There is only one like you in the whole world. There’s never been anyone exactly like you before, and there never will be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.”
Thank you, wonderful @Berlin_Review_, for publishing "Service Call," my little story about a stern plumber and the ways none of us looks quite like our photograph: theberlinliteraryreview.com/angela-townsen…
“It’s important to give up—maybe daily—the longing to be perfect...what a heavy burden. Thank God we don’t have to earn every bit of love that comes our way.”
My heart is doing cartwheels to share "The Theory of Infinite Hurrahs" in @matchbooklitmag!💙
"I need your help. Someone is spreading the theory of ordinary days." New CNF: "The Theory of Infinite Hurrahs" by Angela Townsend aka @TheWakingTulip matchbooklitmag.com/mb/townsend/th…
Grateful to share "God's Silly Scavenger Hunt" in @yaleism's stunning Letters Journal. 💜 lettersjournal.com/gods-silly-sca…
My heart is doing cartwheels! I'll be splashing in this year's flood with "Acts of Rebellion." Thank you for welcoming me into these wonderful waters, @nationalflashfd! 💜🌊
FlashFlood is now open for submissions until Saturday 26 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Previously published accepted (2022 & earlier). Debut writer spots. Free to enter. For more details see here: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-g…
Christ is risen. The tomb is empty. Death doesn’t get the last word. Love wins.
Christ is risen! Life is stronger than death. Love is stronger than hate. Hope is stronger than despair. And nothing is impossible with God! Happy Easter! Image @KLICONS
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” - Jesus John 15:13
“Every person that you see in this world needs to be loved.”
“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.” — Sydney Smith
I'm grateful to share my flash "Moon Energy" in dream journal @redividermag. Issue 22.2 abounds in life-giving work. It's humbling to see my name among such luminous artists. redivider.emerson.edu/moon-energy/