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Julie Stielstra

Reader – Writer – Librarian

  • You found me.
  • My Writing
    • The Wasp Queen – February 2023
    • Scratched – September 2022
    • Opulence, Kansas – June 2020
    • Protected Contact and Other Stories – 2017
    • Pilgrim – 2016
    • Anthologies / Collections
  • Little Fox Books
    • The Wasp Queen
    • The Far Side of Redemption: Collected Stories
    • Scratched
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Category: Horses

Fiction, Horses, Writing - Mine and Other People's

MIPA Silver Award winner, 2023

July 12, 2023July 12, 2023 by jstielstra

Thanks to the Midwest Independent Publishers Association for honoring my YA novel, Scratched, with a […]

Book Reviews / Goodreads, Fiction, Horses, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Lovely review of Scratched…

November 6, 2022November 6, 2022 by jstielstra

Thanks to Lisa Stewart, expert horsewoman and author of The Big Quiet, a memoir of […]

Fiction, Horses, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Scratched – giveaway!

September 2, 2022September 2, 2022 by jstielstra

For all you LibraryThing readers-n-reviewers (and for all you Goodreads readers-n-reviewers who should be on […]

Horses, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Available now – new youth novel!

August 12, 2022August 23, 2022 by jstielstra

The color, the power, the excitement, and the beauty of horse-racing happens between the starting […]

Animals / Birds / Nature, Art / Art History, Dogs, Francophilia, Horses

Art is a Tyrant – Catherine Hewitt

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 by jstielstra

Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt My rating: […]

Animals / Birds / Nature, Book Reviews / Goodreads, Cats, Dogs, Horses

On Animals – by Susan Orlean

October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 by jstielstra

On Animals by Susan Orlean My rating: 1 of 5 stars Though I never met […]

Animals / Birds / Nature, Book Reviews / Goodreads, Horses, Kansas

The Big Quiet – by Lisa Stewart

July 24, 2020October 1, 2020 by jstielstra

Lisa Stewart’s The Big Quiet speaks to all of us who harbor in our hearts […]

Animals / Birds / Nature, Book Reviews / Goodreads, Horses, Uncategorized

Half Broke – Ginger Gaffney

February 29, 2020October 1, 2020 by jstielstra

Half Broke by Ginger Gaffney My rating: 4 of 5 stars When you have been […]

Animals / Birds / Nature, Horses, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Hanging It Up – the love for a good horse

September 12, 2019October 1, 2020 by jstielstra

I thank The Plaid Horse equestrian magazine for featuring so handsomely my essay of gratitude […]

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