New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜 @creamcityreview.bsky.social @triohousepress.org

2025 Press Freedom Rank 1 Norway 2 Estonia 3 Netherlands 4 Sweden 5 Finland 11 Germany 16 NZ 20 UK 21 Canada 25 France 27 S Africa 29 Australia 31 Poland 49 Italy 52 Ghana 57 US 58 Gambia 61 S Korea 63 Brazil 66 Japan 89 Greece 112 Israel 124 Mexico 151 India 171 Russia 178 China rsf.org/en/index

Researching Malcolm Lowry in Oaxaca & discovered this gem from the 1991 Washington Post: “Some of Lowry’s poems from Mexico give one a sense of what sort of trip he was having: “In the Oaxaca Jail;” “Delirium in Veracruz”; “Thirty-Five Mezcals in Cuautla;” “Eye-Opener” & “Sestina in a Cantina”

Trying an Star Wars opening sequence angle for the other @the-ethelzine.bsky.social bookmail Just a beautifully made chapbook

I keep forgetting that English people add a phoenetic 'r' where there's a vowel. That's why I didn't get that name 'Shaun the Sheep' was a pun for a good 10 years.

Sad to hear that the indie bookshop by my aunt's place is going out of business even though the owner's response when asked for novel recommendations is "[incredulous snort] You think I've read all the books here?"

The state of AI explained in one image.

Thank you @100wordstory.bsky.social for choosing my entry as winner for the photo story for the month of April 🥤 #100words #flashfiction #writingcommunity 100wordstory.org/photo-story-...

Bookmail! Reading this beautiful thing from @suzyeynon.bsky.social first 💜🌿 (Re-upload with alt text)

Upcoming submission call! Theme "LUCK" In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th. Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry" guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

Und dein Inhaltsverzeichnis klingt schon wie ein Gedicht 💖 Savouring your poems slowly, loving each.

Lichtspiele, Marienseide und (ganz klein im Hintergrund) eine Niströhre für den Steinkauz

Goldfinches love the forget-me-not seeds.

Three weeks to go!

Was teaching a class the other day about the technical aspects of LLMs when I student said AI understands them more than their boyfriend and oh man did we spend the next hour discussing what the word “understand” means! (Also boyfriend better get it together)

I feel truly honoured to have been chosen to design this year’s Radical Book Fair poster hosted by Edinburgh’s Lighthouse Bookshop 🖤📖 I’m so happy with how this turned out and I can’t wait for the event 📚

Gouda is lovely The punishment for not getting cheese in Gouda is being crammed into a train that smells like armpit cheese

Applications are OPEN! Split Lip Magazine is looking for volunteer Flash & Fiction readers. Apply right here before October 1! buff.ly/X3932x5

Submissions open. From the good folks at @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social submissions.strangepilgrims.com

火護鹿 from Lienchiang (Matsu) — a Formosan sika #deer, an endemic species that was once raised as livestock and now allowed to roam free on Taiwanese islands like Dajiao

Happy to Celebrate Arthur Sze as our New Poet Laureate of the U.S.!

The more articles that come out about Alice Munro and her husband’s abuse of her daughter Andrea, the worse the surrounding content and details are revealed to have been. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Thank you @bulbculture.bsky.social for giving my cat piece a great new home. Here's me with Smooshie in Phoenix. www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/smooshi...

Appreciation post for @americanbedouin.bsky.social for our weekly writing sessions (and artist rendition of his face when I ask about the big thing in US news each week)

Clang clang clang went the trolly (I chose to do nothing and it killed 3 people)

A tiny spilt sip of longing in this @ronita.bsky.social beauty. templeinacity.com/poetry-ronit...

Open for Microfiction and Micro CNF! Now reading for December’s issue. Free to sub, paying market. 💵 Looking for prose as tiny as

HOPE BC FOREIGN RELATIONS STORY: In perhaps the lowest-stakes diplomatic battle ever between China and Taiwan, consular officials have been pressuring Hope's mayor to remove / reinstate a tiny hand-sized decorative flag at a bus station. thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

Mealarkey! malarkeybooks.com/mealarkey/20...

The usual pale luminance of the moon takes on an orange cast, filtered through the haze of our burning forests below.

The submission window is now open to short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and essays. Guidelines on the site. We're excited to see your work! 😍

“Sort and place each bud in plastic. Zip. Zip. Zip them closed.” Ah, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social writes another brilliant one in @claudineliterary.bsky.social

Did I post 'announce' this already today? I don't remember. Anyway. I opened up submissions for Short Story, Long today. Open all September. SSL publishes one "longer" story (2k-8k), every other week. $100 + paired w/ original art commissioned for your story. Publish all and only bangers.

Would you like to have a cry? Yes. Yes you would. Read this @trampset.bsky.social piece by Oladosu Michael Emerald. It's 230 words. You will be grateful you took 3 minutes out of your day, I promise. trampset.org/reasons-to-s...

That chapbook that you’ve been sitting on…yes, that one…could be in @pinholepoetry.bsky.social’s next line up. Submit!!! 😄 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Doric Literary is ALWAYS open for submissions! Fiction 1000-8000 words No fee Tiny honorarium Editor reads every submission No cover letter required Submit via email Top 10 fastest response time listed @duotrope.com doric-literary.com/submissions-2/

we have a micro by Benjamin Drevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social ! i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out xraylitmag.com/late-to-work...

"I think I am holding / something I need to pour out or I am / stars burning in the past that someone might think / means something." Quiet, compact strength in Small Remedies. Unexpectedly calming poems Thank you @the-engine-idling.bsky.social!🌿

"It Rains" by French poet, playwright and novelist Guillaume Apollinaire born #onthisday in 1880. From his posthumously published Calligrammes (1918), a collection of poems in which typeface + arrangement of words on the page add to their meanings: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #otd

I may be tired and overwhelmed by life (and trying to get my hot water turned back on sometime this week) but FEAST comes out tomorrow and I am proud of it and of Two Book Year & I appreciate everyone who has engaged with these brain holes I’ve been privately digging for five years now 🙏🍻🤘

Wisely abandoned a jacket that had a soft bit in the pocket that COULD'VE BEEN LINT or crumbs except I put an acorn in there 3 days ago and the acorn now has a hole in his head (Someone just checked my pocket and pulled out a live grub 🥲)

The cuttlefish pillow I made looks 10% less fleecy/10% more eldritch when the cat uses it

DAYDREAMERS by @alvinlu.bsky.social, an incredibly twisty, playful, uncanny book that everyone must read immediately

When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails. This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.

oh. damn. wow. amazing list today from Melissa Fite Johnson! "2. Later I blacked out each reference to a boy, pages and pages gone. 3. Since this wasn’t for my mother’s benefit, it must’ve been for mine. Strike the evidence, make the memory go away." https://www.havehashad.com/nntn0

I’m teaching a FREE flash fiction workshop at Freo Library on Wednesday, Sept 10th, 10am to 11.30 as part of the new Totally Lit Fremantle Festival. Link to register in reply. Check out the whole program!

By the way this book is available for preorder! malarkeybooks.com/store/terres...

Ty Newydd, the fantastic writers' centre of Wales, are running a FREE fiction writing course in November for under-represented writers in Wales! Tutors Francesca Reece and Anthony Shapland. Applications close Sept 24. www.literaturewales.org/our-projects...

Chapbook unboxing video, finally in a format Bsky accepts 🌱 I forgot to say the book title but the train sounds make up for it(?)