just finished Rishi's episode. more stressful than Seven Fishes ep of The Bear. why do i do this to my nervous system

“There is no talking me out of Ella. Maybe she will marry me, maybe she won’t. But she knows …” @keersteemack.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...

friday mixtape for ya! five albums, five stories, one fav (snuck three in there oop) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

In about two weeks, we open for general submissions for the first time. It will go live on March 1...and remain that day for only a single day (through midnight EST)! Save the date and spread the word. Looking forward to reading all the great work. bulbregion.com/Submissions

came for the exclamation pts stayed for the banging verse 😤

okay who on my feed is watching Industry and how far in are you

incredible work in the comments here

The brilliant Kirsti MacKenzie (@keersteemack.bsky.social) has recently gotten her debut novel "Better to Beg" published by Sweet Trash Press (@sweettrashpress.bsky.social) and House of Vlad Press (@houseofvladpress.bsky.social). Make sure to buy a copy! asterismbooks.com/product/bett...

i'm sorry guys i have to stay on the platform x bc no one is shitposting their way through Olympic hockey over here

the cut to the Jian Ghomeshi poster in nirvana the band the show the movie is such a perfect joke and i'm going to be laughing about it forever

“When I am done eating the bicycle I eat the saddle last. Chew the leather and it tastes like dessert, like victory.” Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (@keersteemack.bsky.social) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...

he's not wrong!

i have a new little story over at @bulbregion.bsky.social about a guy who eats a bicycle for love. happy valentines day kids xo

good morning, folks five albums, five stories, one fav! :) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

I have a tiny new micro today in @bulbregion.bsky.social. grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social & any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃 bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...

double dog dare ya to make it past the first sentence open.substack.com/pub/keerstee...

forever and always the coolest to find out that people love your book

today I put on a record and finished a manuscript. that makes two in a year. i dunno what will come of them, but i’m super proud.

is it me or is The Pitt real bad this season

I have been invited to read at the @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social / @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and friends AWP off-site reading. I'm absolutely honored. If you are free on Thursday March 5, 2026 at 7pm, come see this absolutely knockout roster of readers (and me) at Golden West Cafe

today i had surgery! i’m all looped on painkillers but i lived, bitch

One hundred years from now some poli-sci major at Ottawa U or McGill will write a thesis like “New World Order: How Canada’s Quiet Quest for Hegemony Began with the Chadification of a Prime Minister” and its supporting materials will just be reams of horny Carney memes like this

never any less nice and exciting to see people enjoy your book 😊

Ain't no party like a hot tub party. Pithead Chapel published my story Public Relations Professionals Hot Tub Night in their new issue! pitheadchapel.com/public-relat...

Loved this one

I am nostalgic for understimulation

give me! your eyes! i need! the sunshine

happy pub day Stephanie! grab your copy of BURN

Reading Better to Beg and intensely amused by the “we maimed her Malm” line @keersteemack.bsky.social

Aaron’s an educator and nowhere more so than by example - he lets you know it’s ok to leave your heart on the page (whatever that looks like for you!) Happy pub to Aaron and TACOMA 😊

I finally watched The Long Walk! i wrote a little bit about that here! I hope you will take a look and consider subscribing to my newsletter if you are interested in hearing me talk about other art! Xoxo gossip girl

Hi folks - quick note We received a higher than average volume of submissions last call window If you are waiting on a response for a submission from last window, they're still in queue and being considered for next issue Thanks for your patience xo

Don’t blame anybody for not being able to do it. We can’t really afford to be doing it either, but we are. It’s not the superior choice, just a choice. If you don’t mind the ask, we’d love for people to check out the site and consider an online order tonight or this weekend Eveninghousebooks.com

Very happy to say that this year we’ll publishing poetry EPs (micro-collections, if you will) by Rachel King, Lotte Mitchell Reford, and Stephan Antoine Viau, @paulwrites7.bsky.social and @lyfaulk.bsky.social. malarkeybooks.com/news/2026/1/...

Leading a generative writing workshop next month on humor. Hoping it will provide some much-needed lightness. bendinggenres.com/register/lau...

would love for you all to give this a read today sometimes it feels like there's nothing to say that hasn't already been said. i gave it a shot, anyway.

open now to 45 of you who've never submitted to HAD before!

nice lil review of my novel. thanks Bryan for spending time with it, amidst, you know. the horrors

dk man things! are bad! but if you need somewhere to hide for 44min may I recommend Fredagain.. & Brian Eno's album

Jack lore!

feels like poem used to be like "inside of me there are two wolves / they keep my population of dears down / which is to say my dear / I love only you / and tacos" and nowadays poems are like "THE SKY IS A GUN / ITS HOLSTER OUR THROATS / LET'S GET LOADED / AND SHOOT THE / EVERYTHING" i wonder why

804 at AWP will be in Baltimore this year at Picket Brewing.

Gonna repost this intermittently through the month. Physical sales are great + appreciated, but any sales I get through Gumroad until the end of February are going to ICE-targeted areas and their mutual aid networks

This is so, so good

pronouncing “substack” like Sean Connery would

cheeky self in the weird spotty mirror

they sent me the sommelier and Leonard Cohen

did a Nordic cycle, might be a viking now

“Maybe finding yourself alone while surrounded by strangers and losing control felt like the closest thing to dying.” Every day I’m mad I can’t write like @johnwaddy.bsky.social

had a hammam treatment, might be pregnant now