Shout-out from Simon and Schuster for the work of @literarymama.bsky.social, @merliterary.bsky.social, @muthamagazine.bsky.social, & Demeter Press!

“At twenty-four, I’m the youngest parent in my son’s first-grade class and the oldest student in my Sociology 201 lecture…” Thrilled to have a new piece up at @merliterary.bsky.social today! ⬇️ merliterary.com/2026/01/13/j...

Thank you to @merliterary.bsky.social for including The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social & The Tinder Sonnets by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social on the MER Bookself list for January 2026. merliterary.com/2026/01/20/m...

Honored that the @merliterary.bsky.social Mom Egg Review nominated my story "Magic" for the Best Short Fiction 2026 anthology! merliterary.com/2026/01/30/m...

"Your grandmother lives inside my memory with her own halos, her own bands of light surrounding her...I am trying to capture her as she once was, because she is disappearing." Gorgeous excerpt from @tatianajboria.bsky.social's memoir in progress in @merliterary.bsky.social. See the full piece here⤵️

"Her cry was like a child’s, small yet piercing, reminding me that I dwell forever in the country of mothers." from a new poem (featuring a rabbit) "Boundaries" in the @merliterary.bsky.social folio on Motherhood: Noise and Silence. merliterary.com/2026/03/14/b...

Just a few days to submit your poems or hybrid work on Birth. merliterary.com/submit

So grateful for this thoughtful review of MY LITTLE BOOK OF DOMESTIC ANXIETIES @merliterary.bsky.social, including an Anne Sexton reference. merliterary.com/2025/09/17/m...

We are honored to present some of the work that was read that night. For more, see you in Baltimore! @merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social pbqmag.org/issues-110-1...

Submit to MER - Mom Egg Review open.substack.com/pub/merliter...

"Two pages into The Fun Times Brigade, author Lindsay Zier-Vogel’s follow-up to her acclaimed novel Letters to Amelia, and I am fully transported to my own early days of mothering an inconsolable, colicky newborn." Read Jane Ward's review for @merliterary.bsky.social. merliterary.com/2025/06/11/t...

Clean, efficient and a little bit devastating - that's new #microfiction from @marjorietesser.bsky.social in the #Bully issue, out now. thewoolfx.com/baby-by-marj...

Without further ado, Issue 8 is now live! The #Bully issue features thought-provoking words from 14 incredible writers. Stay tuned for highlights or have a look yourself - it's a corker #flashfiction #microfiction #creativenonfiction #prosepoetry #shortstories thewoolfx.com

Thrilled and honoured that “After the Kiss” (2024) is featured on the cover of this year’s MER literary journal print issue! You can check out the beautifully written work on motherhood, literature, & art in MER 23 here: merliterary.com/2025/03/31/m... @merliterary.bsky.social #motherhood #klimt

"In All This Can Be True, Jen Michalski offers a poignant story about this transformational power of love—even when that love is not destined to be the forever kind." A lovely review of @socalwritergirl.bsky.social forthcoming novel in @merliterary.bsky.social merliterary.com/2025/05/04/a...

So many beautiful moments at AWP—The amazing poets and writers who read at our two off site events, Off site.On purpose. with our colleagues from @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social and @cultivatingvoiceslive

This was an AMAZING event. If they pull together this “Off Site/ On Purpose” group reading again next year, seek it out! Powerful poems and an exceptionally warm, inclusive vibe @merliterary.bsky.social @swwim.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @perugiapress.bsky.social

Will you be at AWP in Los Angeles?? Come find me at my book signing @univnebpress.bsky.social or the offsite reading hosted by @merliterary.bsky.social and @wtawpress.bsky.social and @bettybooks.bsky.social Happy to arrange for a review copy--just ask!

We appreciate @jennmartelli.bsky.social, co-poetry editor at @merliterary.bsky.social, for joining us for a Brown Bag Lit ‘Fake AWP’ panel! Learn more about MER here: merliterary.com and Jennifer here: www.jennmartelli.com

Betty's AWP events! 📍 Panel: The Matrilineal Saga – March 27, 10:35 AM, with @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social & @ilzeduarte.bsky.social 📍 Book Signing: TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME by @janishubschman.bsky.social – March 27, Noon 📍 Reading: Shoo Shoo Baby — March 28, 5:30 PM with @merliterary.bsky.social

Delighted to have a poem up in the single mothering folio @merliterary.bsky.social today! merliterary.com/2025/03/13/a...

With deep gratitude to the editors at MER (Mom Egg Review), @merliterary.bsky.social I am thrilled and honored that my poem "Memo to the Absent" has found a home in the "Mothering Alone"poetry folio. merliterary.com/2025/03/13/m...

Me at #AWP25! 3/27, 10:35-11:50 am, “Understories & Mycocosms” Rm 403A, L2 3/27, 7-9 pm, Reading w/ @merliterary.bsky.social @ MG Studio, 1319 W. 11th St 3/28, 3-3:30 pm, Signing w/ @tupelopress.bsky.social Booth 604 3/28, 7-9 pm, Tupelo Reading @ Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd

Two weeks from tonight! We’re thrilled to be part of a collaborative offsite at #AWP25 in L.A. on 3/27. Join us! Free admission / Cash bar. @swwim.bsky.social @merliterary.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social @chotchandani.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social @jenjblackburn.bsky.social

www.versedaily.org/2025/isawagi... A Feature in Verse Daily. @versedaily.bsky.social "I Saw a Girl" first appeared in @merliterary.bsky.social

MER Wrapped!!! Looking forward, and backward in our latest newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/merliter...

Lore Segal’s flash fiction online at merliterary.com.

Congratulations to Lore Segal on the launch of “Ladies’ Lunch” (Melville House).

Hi bluesky! Glad to be here!