Where can a bright and funny 12-year-old writer-illustrator submit their original #comic #cartoons #graphicnovel? Are there any #international #competitions, #litmags, #zines with submission calls for young writer-illustrators? Please and thank-you 🖖 #writers #litcommunity @brechtdp.bsky.social

The newsrooms: The conclave's elected it's first American pope Me and the Brazilian lady interviewed on BBC: Actually, he's the 2nd American pope. He's the 1st North American pope because, you know, Francis was from the Americas, Argentina to be precise #conclave #pope #LeoXIV #Peru

*Watching BBC broadcast of papal announcement* L'enfant: Do you think the commentators are really trying hard to stress how *not* American Pope Leo XIV actually is? He has spent most of his life outside the USA. He speaks Spanish AND Italian. He is a naturalised Peruvian citizen..." 😆

If there's one story you read today, let it be The Rest is Silence by @brechtdp.bsky.social made all the more resonant for me by the fact some dear ones are survivors of the events during which this riveting story is set #Revocate 😔👏💜 hudsonreview.com/2025/05/the-...

The world's wading through the 1st cycle of the Apocalypse & I am blessed with a joke-creating, joke-telling kid 👇 L'enfant: What do you call a murderous lizard? Maman et Papa: 🤔 L'enfant: A cold-blooded killer 🤣🦎🤣🗡️🤣 #lovethischild #kidcomedy #makethemlaugh

If you are in possession of said copies of Best New Poets, please get hold of @brechtdp.bsky.social #BestNewPoets

@nytgames.bsky.social really? not in word list?

@nytimes.com why is 'luddite' not in your word list? surely? #luddite #nytimes #spellingbee #samezersky #weneedanswers

@nytimes.com why is 'luddite' not in your word list? surely? #luddite #nytimes #spellingbee #samezersky #weneedanswers

I’m delighted to be launching this today: the next instalment of the Ice Age adventure that began with Wolf Road. I hope you enjoy diving in to this snowy, icy, ancient tale. Illustrated by the brilliant Keith Robinson & published by the fantastic team at @simonandschuster.bsky.social

“I dreamt of a fairer world but the road is long” - Tracy Chapman, la Repubblica Feeling every word of this - as a mum, an aunt, a teacher, a steward of young hearts and minds

Use this link to register: lnkd.in/eMWn79cx Wednesday, April 2, 2025 7pm EST OR Thursday, April 3, 2025 1am CAT - yes, you read right :-)

What a privilege to participate in *Spring Monologue Play Lab* with @KellyDuMar alongside Grace Calder, Paulina Gatikova, Patrick Kenny, Jane Knox, Arlene Levenson, Grace Maselli & Amanda Springer. What fabulous writers! The *FREE* Showcase is on 2 April 7pm EST

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. —Sylvia Plath—

I got me a follower in the Sky. Thank-you @brechtdp.bsky.social looking forward to more of your #litmag rankings and quick wit and repartee :-)🖖 #skylit #WritersOfBlueSky

100 Words of Solitude reprinted my 100 word short story, The Sweet Stash, that I wrote during the height of the pandemic. Find it here: 100wordsofsolitude.wordpress.com/2020/04/09/j...

#TheWritingLife #Flashback Collaboration between Rare Swan Press and Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast Bringing 100 Words of Solitude to life youtu.be/mD-KKYCcbmA?...

So I'm here in the Sky - while holding fort on that other hill. Illegitimi non carborundum - they won't