PEN America: Cancellation of 60 Minutes segment—reportedly because the Trump administration refused to be interviewed—represents an abandonment of "central principles of press freedom and independent news gathering." Full statement: pen.org/press-releas... #60Minutes #Journalism #FreePress

I am so grateful to be included on the Short List! Thank you, @sfwp.bsky.social! Congrats to all the finalists!

I am so very excited to announce that I have signed a book contract with SFWP! My debut novel, GRIEF CAMP, will be published in fall 2027! Thank you, @sfwp.bsky.social, Andrew Gifford, Deesha Philyaw, and @adamalsirgany.bsky.social. #writingcontest #writingcommunity #writing #writinglife

I am so very excited that my fiction manuscript is included on the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards Short List! Congratulations to the other finalists. Thank you, @sfwp.bsky.social, and Deesha Philyaw, for this honor.

Make sure to have you notifications for SFWP turned on as we'll be announcing the 2025 Literary Awards Program Short List this Saturday! Check out the Long List right here if you haven't already. buff.ly/uftpTi6

The critically acclaimed novelist Dinaw Mengestu has been elected to the presidency of PEN America, the 103-year-old writers organization whose mission is to celebrate literature and defend freedom of expression. More: pen.org/press-releas...

John Green, Jodi Picoult Top PEN America's Banned Books List www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Your tax-deductible donation could give writers and artists an opportunity to produce work at the SAFTA residency! Support a group of writers, a genre of writers, or more! Details at: sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/s...

Really grateful to the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies, who've shared this poem today on their FB page...

Thank you so very much, @sfwp.bsky.social, for this tremendous honor!

Literary journals, small presses, zines, these are the gifts we need all year.

We're thrilled to share that the Long List for the 2025 Literary Awards Program is now live! buff.ly/W9BV5sP

I am honored that my fiction manuscript is included on the Santa Fe Writers Project Long List alongside so many writers I admire. Congratulations to all! Thank you, @sfwp.bsky.social and Deesha Philyaw! To see the full list, please visit: www.sfwp.com/2025-awards-...

Get those Personal Narrative submissions in! We're likely to hit our submission cap this weekend, so be sure you send your essay in soon!

The monarchs, music, and the meaning of life – the most beautiful deathbed love letter ever written www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/13/r...

I'm honored to be one of the 431 writers published by Electric Literature in 2025.

“Soon it won’t just be birthday greetings and opening gambits on Hinge that people outsource to AI.” @arealmattgreene.bsky.social explains why LLMs are built for a post-meaning world.

"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance." Remembering Baldwin, who left us on this day in 1987, with his abiding wisdom on creative work:

I'm excited to offer three creative writing classes this winter at the Delaware Art Museum. Registration is now open. Visit DelArt.org for details. I look forward to #writing with you in the new year. #creativewriting #writingclasses #delaware #writingcommunity

Books can make some of the best stocking stuffers! Browse our entire catalogue and tackle some of your Christmas shopping right here on #SmallBusinessSaturday: buff.ly/kFODyJw @susanschulman.bsky.social

These corporations pollute our environment, allow ICE to terrorize our communities, and chase tax breaks while people go hungry. This Thanksgiving weekend, skip shopping at Target, Home Depot, and Amazon 🚫🚫🚫 #WeAintBuyingIt

"Don't ever let the bastards get you down or intimidate you," wrote investigative journalist Charles Lewis in his final email to The Center for Public Integrity staff in December 2004. My father's words were relevant then and now. #journalism #journalist #MacFellow #publicintegrity #ICIJ

SPJ strongly condemns President Donald Trump’s latest attacks on journalists, including his disparaging treatment of Mary Bruce during Monday’s Oval Office press availability, and his recent “Quiet, piggy” insult aimed at Catherine Lucey. 🔗Read the full statement: www.spj.org/spj-statemen...

Any ideas about cell phones that don't force you to use AI? I have to replace my Apple phone and willing to switch companies if that is the only way to avoid AI. Ideas? Recommendations?

🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...

It was inspiring to witness Garth Greenwell and Ocean Vuong in conversation with Cressida Leyshon at The New Yorker Festival. #writing #writingcommunity #NewYorkerFest

Reminder that submissions for the next issue of Third Coast are currently OPEN! Submit your works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using the link in our bio. Submissions close Oct. 31. Don’t miss out on the chance to get your writing published! #literarymagazine #writers

Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions! @athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up … our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.” Maya Angelou on home, belonging, and (not) growing up www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/16/m...

I'm honored to have a personal essay featured in this collection that includes work by Nick Flynn, Cheryl Strayed, Deesha Philyaw, and many other writers I admire.

So happy to have a story in this #spooky #anthology! Perfect for #Halloween or any time you want to feel a cold shudder… #BookSky

ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT to Submit to TWFest & SASFest Writing Contests! Submit to our poetry, fiction, very short fiction, and one-acts contests by October 15th for the chance to win cash prizes, publication, and more! tennesseewilliams.net/contests/ #writingcontests #writers #submittable

Less than a week left to send us something for our themed folios and/or general submissions! Find all the details about the folios and guidelines on our website. Do you have something precarious to send us? kenyonreview.org/submit/

Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉

I was so happy to see this awesome piece by the brilliant @jackiedwrites.bsky.social published in one of my favorite publications. Congrats, Jackie!

Find inspiration and community at the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop! Join us for this fully remote experience to enhance your craft and build writing community! Apply today: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...

🎉SHE'S HERE!!🎉 Hugely excited to reveal the beauticious cover of my debut collection COLD TOAST feat. the artwork of renowned 70s artist Tim Mara 🔥 Out on 15th May! Preorders now available at www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold... #flashfiction #shortstories #popart #printmaking

Congratulations to the winners of this year's American Book Awards! 🎉 🎉 🎉 www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com

At the link, this week's oasis of selected sanities in a single place — Virginia Woolf on love, Arundhati Roy on the deepest measure of success, and my new children's book: mailchi.mp/themarginali...

Come work with us! We are looking for a qualified Machine Learning (ML) Engineer to join ICIJ’s technology team, working closely with our ML engineer in coordination with full stack and system engineers as well as a UX/UI designer. Learn more:

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Bring your lunch to this fun, generative creative #writing class I'm teaching at the #Delaware Art Museum on Fridays from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, September 12 – November 14. Registration closes soon. I hope to see you there!

Books by Garth Greenwell, Sally Rooney, Joe Sacco, and more are out in paperback this September!

📣 This only happens once a year! 📣 The Yale Review is now open for general submissions through September 30. Send us your poems, stories, essays, and translations. For full guidelines and to submit: yalereview.org/about/submis...

I wrote about the immolation of the CDC defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...

One of the greatest storytellers of our time on the 3 essential elements of great storytelling www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/03/b...

This poem is needed these days: While Everything Else Was Falling Apart by Ada Limón www.divasofverse.com/2025/08/whil...

Scenes are the building block of most narrative fiction… You can master (more like “learn a lot about”) scene-writing with a scene a week for four weeks in Chaitali Sen’s @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class. Four classes, Zoom, starts September 4! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

Los Angeles friends! I'll be at Book Soup tomorrow night (8/6) talking about Automatic Noodle with brilliant food critic and author @meghanmccarron.bsky.social ... join us! www.booksoup.com/event/annale...