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

I don’t need to be “wealthy”, per se. I just want to have enough money to buy my own castle on the Scottish coast so that I can never be seen again.

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

I was watching The Princess and the Frog and it put me in the mood for beignets, but I have celiac… so I found a gluten free recipe, but it was extremely complicated including several mail-order specialty ingredients… anyway, seldom have I been prouder than I am of these babies

"Stay in the moment. Enjoy what there is to enjoy, because that is empowering, and power (and love, and uplift, and the clarity born of genuine interest) are going to be needed, by all of us." -George Saunders on how to get through these troubled times

I'm thrilled to have this CNF flash appear in the wonderful @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. My father died in April, so it's especially meaningful to have this out now. Many thanks @kimmagowan.bsky.social and @brttnyblm.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/we-drive-the...

Uh… Maybe don’t submit work to journals if you have this kind of reaction when your work is not accepted?

Our July issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issue-7/ Words @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @kimchinquee.bsky.social RENESHA DHANRAJ WYLEY FROHLICH JUNGERMAN TROY ANDERSON @danbillyc.bsky.social @theresegleason @claudiamonpere.bsky.social BRITTANY REDD TARA SHEA BURKE Art JACELYN YAP

This article describes exactly what happened to me last year: ghosted after a full manuscript request by my dream agent. Sad to see this is happening more and more frequently. janefriedman.com/silence-the-...

My dog’s daycare sent me this photo 😭

It’s been raining all day so I made a cake

When writers give you publishing advice

LOL Brian Evenson I’ll always love you

Correction: Our *May* issue is live :) Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/05/01/volume-14-issue-5/ Words @lumchanmfa.bsky.social LAUREN WOODS @sagetyrtle.bsky.social ANNABELLE TAGHINIA SARA SCHIFF TOPAZ WINTERS BRIDGET HAYES Cover Art COURTNEY BURTON

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

It’s the perfect day to find an abandoned cottage in the Scottish Highlands and go off the grid for a few years.

Couldn’t sleep so I started scrolling. This was a mistake.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Our February issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/02/01/volume-14-issue-2/ Words by @davidyourdon.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social L. Soviero Sarah Perrin Sarah Carson Shome Dasgupta Kristina Garvin Mark DeCarteret Barbara Westwood Diehl Nora Nadjarian Cover art by Nuala McEvoy

We’re tired of the snow but we don’t mind the fire

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

I’m not “circling back” on anything at work this year. If it didn’t get done in 2024 it’s dead to me.

I was in charge of brunch today

Sitting here with coffee watching it snow

Officially on vacation starting today and this is going to be me every day for the rest of the month

My first sushi boat and it was heavenly I tell you

I just made a Seinfeld reference (Festivus miracle) in front of a bunch of professors and NO ONE GOT IT 😭

You will do readings where no one shows up. You will set up at events and sell no books. Rejection will show up in your inbox again and again. You will say “I wrote a book!” and folks will stay quiet or say “Cool!” and then not buy it. It’s all good. Part of the gig. KEEP AT IT.

Why is it that on every other day I’m content to sit at home but as soon as it starts snowing I feel trapped and need to get outta here