When you’re out shopping for that special someone this Valentine’s Day, remember flowers wilt and chocolates get stale but rolling library ladders are forever

To celebrate Bookshop.org (US) now selling paperbacks & ebooks from trad & indie authors (& profit sharing w. indie stores😉)... Authors: drop your book blurb, graphic & bookshop.org link! Affiliate links are welcome. (If your ebooks via D2D aren't on Bookshop yet, bookmark this 🧵& add them later!)

in solidarity with the authors on social media who have been getting mocked or harassed for celebrating their accomplishments i would like to announce that i too am the worlds greatest author and i sell a lot of books. thank you

My partner went and got trophies custom made for me to celebrate my Elegant Literature and NYC Midnight wins. It’s so motivating having something tangible like this on my desk when I’m writing. Immensely grateful 🥹

My questionable stalker thriller made it through! 🎉

An excellent read 💯

I don’t want a future where disabled people are inspirational exceptions. I want a future where we’re impossible to ignore.

We have opened for REPRINT flash and short stories. Deadline is 8pm (GMT) on 14th Feb. Only writers who are NOT part of the current Trash Family can submit to this one🦝 We can't wait to receive your donations! trashcatlit.com/spring-2026/ #SubmissionCalls #LitSubmissionCalls

Join me in getting roasted in April! 🔥

reading austen is important for a number of impractical life skills but mostly in how to call someone a wanker to their face in the 18th century — "I send no compliments to your mother" — the recipient would carry that around for 20 years and then kill themselves

Ok, which one sounds better? A) It’s an old little amazing house. B) It’s an amazing little old house. B, right? Which of these? 1) She was wearing a huge green raincoat. 2) She was wearing a green huge raincoat. You chose 1, didn't you? WHY??

We have our first 2 Daredevils for the April round! Shoutout to 2-time shortlister @chloepaige.bsky.social, and 2-time longlister @holly-realski.bsky.social! Both troublemakers in their own right... We can't wait to teach them each a lesson they won't soon forget! 😈

Create something today. The weirder, the queerer, the angrier, the better. Create something. It matters.

I have some bad news for @akscotland.bsky.social — I can’t resist a flawed character! I’ve joined team @quitewriteed.bsky.social 🤠 @notquitewrite.com

Check out the incredibly skilled writers in this issue — and perhaps stumble across my lighthearted drabble “Jurassic Workshop” on the way there 🫶 🦖

A VERY generous benefactor has donated entries to the upcoming Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction to support writers on low income! If you've always wanted to enter but struggled to find the means to do so, please email us at [email protected] 1/2

Congratulations to two-time Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction shortlister @chloepaige.bsky.social who has just WON the @nycmidnight 500-word fiction challenge! This woman is unstoppable 🤩

Can’t believe I just won NYC Midnights! I’m an emotional mess 😅

Thank you, Anne! 🥰

“oh, i wish there were some kind of punctuation to chain these two sentences together” the humble semicolon:

My story “To Gut a Fish” has won the entire @elegantliterature.bsky.social competition for Lasting Legacy! 🏆🎉 Shoutout to my friends Linc and Steve for being published with me. Always an honour to beta your work. You can read my award-winning story here: www.elegantliterature.com?sdm_process_...

“What is magic but a change in the world? What is conjugation but a transformation, one thing into another? She runs; she ran; she will run again.” @amalelmohtar.com has written a whimsical masterpiece where every sentence is lyrical and lush. 💐 She reads; she read; she will read this book again.

The Not Quite Write Prize 2025 Anthology is here! 🥳🎉 I’m so grateful to have two stories published alongside all these writers in this anthology, which includes my Pushcart nominated story ‘The Grief’. 🩵 Get your copy here (it's a perfect Christmas present): notquitewritepodcast.com/anthology/

"ChatGPT’s 300 million weekly users collectively consume 621.4 MWh daily, equivalent to powering 35,000 U.S. homes annually through their AI interactions." ChatGPT: for fans of waste and destroying the planet with climate change (even faster).

Multitudes contained: ✅Wild West Fan Fic ✅Grief Porn ... ❓ What's next for this talented author?

I just made my second @notquitewrite.com shortlist! I’m absolutely drinking in The Joy 🥳🎉 I can’t wait to see what’s in store for next year. Hopefully I unearth more of those multitudes I apparently contain! Thank you, 5x over @notquitewrite.com ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I made some new personal bests in @twistinthetale.bsky.social I placed 3rd in Round 1 and managed to stay on the leaderboard by placing 5th overall! 🏆🎉 Congrats to all the familiar names on the leaderboard 🥳

I am happy to share that I received an Honourable Mention in the latest issue of Elegant Literature, “Charmed and Chained.” If you’d like to check out the full issue, you can read it here: www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/

The Cold Burns by Anne Wilkins clarkesworldmagazine.com/wilkins_12_25/ Big, big news!!! It's here! My sci-fi story, "The Cold Burns" is out in Clarkesworld. This is a dream come true for me. I hope you enjoy reading it!☺️ @clarkesworldmagazine.com

Sometimes it's: "I will write about you" (promise) But more often it's: "I will write about you" (threat)

Always an honour to make that sweet, sweet longlist! Thanks to @notquitewrite.com for the shoutouts for my take on the prompt and my reference to that big ol' shoe in Tully — The Golden Gumboot. What a way to end the anti-prompt era! 🥰

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

Gobsmacked that I’ve placed first in BOTH rounds, and now I’m off to the finals! 🏆 Francois Gilot was a glorious woman who pioneered her art career despite years of abuse. She died only recently in 2023, aged 101. 🎨

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria

I have a micro published today! I wrote this almost a year ago and forgot about it. It felt fitting to dust it off and find it a home 💛 #101words 101words.org/hand-me-down...

An incredible article👇 “Easier to flag "telling" than ask if the prose actually works. Some of the best fiction ever written is mostly telling. Voice-driven, consciousness-centered, interiority-obsessed. ”Show don't tell" avoids the real difficulty- writing mind, writing precision.”

Love a good critical thought on punctuation.

Although I’m gleefully rubbing my hands together like a fly at getting historical fiction as my assigned genre, I see a lot of scarily talented names also in my group. Might be the end of the road for me 🫡

First place, baby! 🏆 I’m stoked to get another group win with my bittersweet ghost story “Living, Baby!”

Senior book editor @KateWhitfield.bsky.social on the rise of romantasy. Read more: buff.ly/j4ygSMk

Managed to crack the top 10 for the first time in @twistinthetale.bsky.social for my third round story “Are You a Parking Ticket?”, which got a clean sweep of ’most heartfelt‘ trophies, amongst others. ❤️ Also clawed my way onto the final leaderboard—20th overall! 🥳 #twistedtournament

A story I wrote a while back for @twistinthetale.bsky.social is now published over a gorgeous three page spread in Juniper Zine! “A Well-Travelled Gardener’s Guide to Native Australian Flowers” is a subtexty 300 word story that got me lost in 1800s floriography archives to pull it all off. 🌸🌼

My story "Bodega Cats" made that sweet, sweet longlist! Thank you @twistinthetale.bsky.social for liking my little story about Muffin the pickpocketing cat 😸

Today another person called my writing "delicious". I might have to trademark the phrase.

Can confirm. #librarians #booksky

Film criticism is an environment where straight, white, cisgender, and male voices have dominated for over a century. Now we FINALLY have an influx of diverse voices who offer more context, expertise and analysis! And now, of course, people say critics are worthless now. What a fucking coincidence.

So, so good! When we started FFTRP during the 21/22 SY, we were hoping our research efforts would lead us to ruling (or law) that would affirm students’ First Amendment rights. While we expect an appeal, the judge’s 50-page order offers freedom strong footing. www.wuwf.org/florida-news...

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