New post up today with beginning contemplations on chronic illness and weight loss. I hope these writings help at least a few people feel less overwhelmed and alone in their own bodies, and I’d love to talk about it in the comments or 1:1. open.substack.com/pub/blueviol...

Thanks a lot @melostrom.bsky.social. Your support means a lot. So glad to be a part of this beautiful group of writers @kimsrogers.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, Charlotte Hamrick and Janet Murie with @dianegotauthor.bsky.social (Ed) @emergejournal.bsky.social

So proud to be a part of this!

Join us for our launch: Sat at 2 p.m. ET. Link in comments. Joining me will be @charlotteham504.bsky.social @kristinatabor.bsky.social @ronita.bsky.social and Janet Murie. Five chapbooks nested within the covers of one volume. Big gratitude to editor @dianegotauthor & publisher @elj_editions_ltd.

Launch day nears for DENATURED: STORIES OF CHANGE included in GRIEVING HOPE. Would love to see you in the virtual audience! (Link below.) Mahalo @dianegotauthor.bsky.social. Congrats fellow authors @charlotteham504.bsky.social, @kristinatabor.bsky.social, @ronita.bsky.social & Janet Murie.

I miss my mom all the time, but Mother’s Day was particularly special. I share some of our journey through dementia in my forthcoming microchapbook MEMORY’S EBB, out June 1, part of this beautiful collection GRIEVING HOPE from @emergejournal.bsky.social and edited by @dianegotauthor.bsky.social

Thrilled to be a part of this!

Our March issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is... Words: @aniking.bsky.social @olangela.bsky.social Ben Gibbons @olangela.bsky.social Claire Hopple Matthew Thomas Bernell Cover art: Heather D Daigh

I’m looking for favorite short stories and flash about love ❤️. Any ideas??

Writer friends and acquaintances: have a workshop or workshop idea you haven't figured out how to get it out there or market it? Message me. I have something brewing

Good advice for getting out of a writing rut.

I've found that consistently being in writing spaces is really helpful. Workshops, writing groups, etc.

I’m in a writing rut. Any advice for how to get out of it?

Self-promotion thread. What work of yours do you want to promote? It doesn't have to be commercial. If you've painted something or done some interesting needlepoint, that counts too. (If you don't create, post something you've enjoyed)

Open for 40 pieces of writing this afternoon. 4:30pm ET. All submission info here: www.stanchionzine.com/submissions

I absolutely believe we can get @writesloud.bsky.social into a 2nd printing of First Kicking, Then Not on day 1 of pre-orders. Let's goooooooooo. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

You’re gonna need to buy @writesloud.bsky.social book. It’ll probably be mandatory on some syllabi in fucking awesome literary studies soon

“Love is a great privilege. Real love, which is very rare, enriches the lives of the men and women who experience it.” —Simone de Beauvoir https://buff.ly/2H6haJB

Look at this gorgeous book by @writesloud.bsky.social!!

The sound of happy children sledding on fresh snow #delights

Tagging this for a list of things that I need ❤️

Happy pub day to my dear friend!

Call for Work: Until You Get Here, Queer Epistolaries Deadline: March 15, 2025 "Queer folks have been keeping each other company on the page for as long as we’ve existed—to practice solidarity, extend generosity, resist, wonder, flirt..." medium.com/anomalyblog/...

We will always be committed to diversity on our staff & in our issues. We encourage submissions from historically marginalized groups, the disabled, trans & nonbinary people, queer folks, & people of all races, ethnicities, genders, religions, & ages. 💖 We love our literary community. 💖

Small book nerd wins: I got off a long library waitlist for the audiobook I’ve been dying to listen to!

We’re finally here! Give us a like and a follow and help us find our friends!

Is Sunday a good time to find new (or existing) #writer friends on BlueSky? I’m a fiction and creative nonfiction writer working on a satirical novel, and looking for community (and I follow back)! Please like, share, say hi! 👋

We've recently added several sessions to the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference (DC, 4/12) that might be unfortunately relevant to our writing and ShitShow 2.0: Writing About Trauma, Writing as an Act of Resistance, and What is the Spiritual Purpose of Writing in a World at War? Link in linktree.

What’s the nicest thing someone else’s mom or dad has ever done for you?

Hello beautiful friends. @lostballoon.bsky.social will open on Saturday for the first time in 2025. We need your art and your words, now more than ever. We're only open for the first week of Feb, April, June, Aug and Oct! Plan accordingly and send us your best. lost-balloon.com/submit

Submitted my first flash story in more than a year & totally shot for the moon. At a time when everything feels so tenuous, is there really any other way?

Please post a link to your own favorite speculative poems - either your own or someone else's! We'll have more to share later this week!

Here for this trend: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/s...

Don't miss submitting to the first-ever @therumpus.net Creative Nonfiction Prize judged by @meganstielstra.bsky.social. Submissions close on March 2! therumpus.submittable.com/submit

Calling all fiction writers! We are looking for stories between 1000 and 3000 words! Please send them our way! 😘 We can't wait to read you.😘

also, do you know about and follow @postcardlit.bsky.social ? buy their recent issues and send them in the real mail to people you love! www.postcardlit.com

I just got yelled at at a new-to-me car wash for not knowing some obscure line protocol, obvious to regulars but not to anyone who just drove up for the first time. Like full on shouted at by two people. Please be kind to someone today. We are all trying our best.

Revisiting this gem today for an essay on marriage counter culture.

Congrats to my mentor and friend @jverchwrites.bsky.social & while you’re at it, give him a follow here!

Such wonderful news! Congrats Melissa!

Deadline next week!

Must-read from the DC literary scene! 🤩

okay this is a CALL FOR ESSAY PITCHES! I'm looking for freelance writers for Reactor Mag, a long-running SFF website (formerly tor dot com not the publisher). Im the senior editor for book content, focusing on contemporary sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, horror, and genre-defying books. (details below)

With all the darkness right now, I’m 100% into this: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

ICYMI, CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES by @taracampbell.bsky.social is a finalist for the 2025 Philip K. Dick Award! https://buff.ly/4gUOSQo Afterwards, check out what @lmanusos.bsky.social had to say about CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES over on @bookriot.bsky.social! https://buff.ly/4hlT37H

The number of Escalades and oversized SUVs on the roads in DC is ridiculous.

Congrats all!

Finished these two in the past month, both which I’d categorize as “concept #satire” (and recommend if you’re looking for that kind of thing). Curious what others think, if you’ve read either one?

I applied for a thing and submitted a piece and now just feel like a bundle of nerves.