New @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to editors @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, etc., for another great issue! pitheadchapel.com/2026/05/01/v...

I have publishing news that I’m soooooooooooooo excited to share, YEARS of anticipation for this moment, and I have to hold it in for a few more days 😫

Our May Issue is live!!! pitheadchapel.com/2026/05/01/v... cover art DEEMS ORTEGA fiction REBECCA TIGER JAIME GILL SOPHIA HYLAND-WOLZAK MICHAEL ANTHONY RANFONE nonfiction HOLLIE WARREN prose poetry AMANDA CHIADO

Croissant mode activated

“Mr. Blowhard!” is taking me out

our new issue! pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is... SERGE LECOMTE MEGHAN PROULX MATT BARRETT @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social JENNA CROWDER ERIK KLASS TRACIE ADAMS @tracieadams.bsky.social SHERI VENEMA @sheriven.bsky.social HANNAH AHN RUSSELL BRAKEFIELD @russellbrakefield.bsky.social CHOISELLE JOSEPH

Best buds

There’s neuroscientific evidence that looking at beautiful things, esp. plants & pausing to take in the details can alleviate stress & lift mood. Found these in the garden just now-they’re in a pale blue Victorian ink bottle. Pause to give your brain a small rest 🧠🌿

He’s got the idea Happy Saturday everyone

Just a friendly reminder that your desire to spend the weekend reading Agatha Christie and eating emotional support scones by a crackling fire in a Scottish Highlands cottage is valid. Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

I told my boyfriend about all of this week’s literary twitter drama and he said “you’re like the Lady Whistledown of the writer world” 😭

Unfathomably massive, life critical news that 97% of people won’t know because of the cretins who own and operate the mainstream news. (Sometimes it helps to say/write it out loud even though it does almost nothing at this point)

I didn’t think it would happen this year because I’ve been so busy, but here we are again, it’s happening: AWP envy.

The new issue of Pithead Chapel is here and it's a good one pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

New Issue! Words: @dallonwrites.bsky.social , @alexmiller77.bsky.social , @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social ,CHRISTOPHER NEGRI, KIMBERLY BRYANT, @liamcarnahan.bsky.social , EMMA HEATH & EVAN MURPHY, DAVID MCARTHUR, PATRICIA CASPERS, ANNE DUNCAN, SPENCER ECKART pitheadchapel.com/2026/02/01/v...

One week back at work and the headaches have returned

The feedback thing is so important to stress. When I do coaching, I've talked to people who have workshopped first chapters to death, and they don't even have a finished draft yet. This very often keeps them from moving forward. No one should see your novel for a LONG TIME imo.

Our first issue of 2026 is officially live! pitheadchapel.com/2026/01/01/v...

Instead of a new years resolution, I'm declaring 2026 the year of rest. We've done enough. Do nothing.

This is a fantastic issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and their entire staff, and to all these talented writers. pitheadchapel.com/2025/12/01/v...

My winter vacation starts in 2 days, in which I will be holed up in my snowy Maine cottage with an Agatha Christie novel, a warm dog on my lap, a kettle on the stove, and a crackling fire, and I CANNOT WAIT

Whenever a new issue of Pithead Chapel goes live, I email all of the contributors to let them know and to thank them for letting us publish their work, and this morning in that email subject line I spelled it Pinhead Chapel 😭😭😭

Our December issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is... Words: J. CONDRA SMITH @rebecca-turkewitz.bsky.social @willwilloughby.bsky.social NICK REES GARDNER MAX LIN JASON FRALEY Cover art: DEEMS ORTEGA

Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fantastic new issue! pitheadchapel.com/2025/11/01/v...

Our November issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is... Words: NINA Y. MORAGON HAL WRIGHT @meliseliz.bsky.social RACHEL EPHRAIM MAGGIE LEVANTOVSKAYA @mooninabucket.bsky.social JENNY CHU CAROL ROSE LITTLE Cover art: SUSAN POLLET

This is my favorite thing I’ve written in a long time, in which a hunter is reincarnated as the deer he just killed. Thank you so much to Chris Dankland and the X-R-A-Y team, I’m such a huge fan of X-R-A-Y!! 🥰

Congrats to the @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fine issue! @kimmagowan.bsky.social @brttnyblm.bsky.social @karenkay.bsky.social

The October issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issue-10/ Words: @bizzycoy.bsky.social @katieburgess.bsky.social @johnwaddy.bsky.social JEFFREY FEINGOLD SARAH HARLEY ELIZABETH HASHIMURA BETH GILSTRAP SARP SOZDINLER YASHASVI VACHHANI Art: NATALIE NEE

I wrote one short story this year (because all my writing time has been focused on my novel) and it just got picked up by X-R-A-Y. Sooo excited to see what you all think of it, it’s a weird one.

Six weeks remain to send us your best short story! Read all details here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

Today I learned about Tyromancy: the ancient practice of divination that involves telling fortunes by interpreting the omens of cheese

Please join us in congratulating our Best of the Net 2026 Nominees! Good luck everyone!

Massachusetts has its perks

Congratulations to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, and the whole @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another great issue! New work by @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dawnwriter.bsky.social, and a bunch of other talented folks. pitheadchapel.com/2025/09/01/v...

Yes waiter, I'll have a cup of tea, a scone, and if it's not too much trouble, perhaps some precedented times?

Saying I like a show is not the same as saying it’s good. These are two different things.

Good morning

Send us your stories!

This issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social that @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, etc., have put out is really great! Work by @marybid.bsky.social, @lesliepwriter.bsky.social, and a lot of other talented writers. pitheadchapel.com/2025/08/01/v...

He’s having the time of his life, a lady at the beach had treats in her pocket. He kept going over to her and sitting so she’d give him one, and I had to put him back on his leash and literally drag him away

A big group is having a birthday party at my apartment pool and it’s very charming except they keep popping balloons (?) and it sounds like gunshots. Thinking about screaming at them.

Our August issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/08/01/volume-14-issue-8/ Words: THOMAS MIXON @francesorrok.bsky.social ROSS FEELER @lesliepwriter.bsky.social JOSIE BRAATEN MARY BIDDINGER Cover art: ERNEST WILLIAMSON III

Our annual contest opens for submissions August 1st! This year's guest judge is Andrew Porter. Keep an eye out for our Q&A with Andrew soon. Find more details about our contest here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

Lately we’ve started watching a couple episodes of Ina Garten every night in bed and it has made life at least 75% better

Would you try oyster ice cream? I think I’d pass

The Sunday scaries after a vacation are the scariest of all scaries

Charlie made it through surgery & they think they got all the cancer. We won’t know for sure until they get the test results back on the tissue but so far so good. But he can’t wear a cone because of where the incision is so he has to wear a t shirt, and this was the only one Petco had in his size 😂

This sweet boy is having surgery tomorrow to remove a tumor and I hope he pulls through I’m a wreck