Pro rate fantasy mag trying to get off the ground!

Open Call: Radon Journal February 2026 Issue ( @radonjournal.bsky.social‬ ) horrortree.com/taking-submi... Due: Dec 31 Pay: Fiction: 2¢/word, Poetry: $20. Art: $110/cover, $50/back cover, & $20 for website art Theme: Stories & poetry containing elements of scifi/anarchism/transhumanism/dystopia

@othersidespec.bsky.social Kickstarter is live! Go get you yours and back some #queer #art ✨ www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

We're so excited to welcome two new readers to the 2025 SLP Nonfiction reading team! Joining our returning NF readers Cavar, August, Tucker, E. Ce, Keene, and Maxwell ( and our fantastic NF editor @athenadixon.bsky.social ), please say hello to @silkjazmyne.bsky.social and @jerxiong.bsky.social !

published today by @versobooks.bsky.social ! www.versobooks.com/products/2862-amateurs (discount on @blackwells.bsky.social just saying... blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...)

One unanticipated side effect of the tariffs? I applied to be part of a lit fest in Ireland but heard today that the cost of tariffs have caused one of their main sponsors to pull out, so they've had to scale programming way back. Tariffs are killing the arts as well as commerce.

🗓️ Tomorrow, 9/23, 12 PM ET! Join us for our writing workshop w/ Ben Weakley in partnership w Cohen Veterans! In this creative writing workshop, we use the written & spoken word to find healing & self-discovery together in a welcoming, safe community. Register: missionbelonging.org/event/creati...

Calling all horror authors, saw this and had to share. @sgj.bsky.social is choosing the winner. Anyone have an unpublished #horror #novella lying around? Seems like a great opportunity. #horrorwriter #booksky

If you're reading Bad Indians Book Club and loving it, might I interest you in the Live. Laugh. Lurk tee which is the very same one mentioned in the book you're reading and it is now 20% off along with everything else in my shop. johnniejae.com/merch/live.+...

War poetry for our times: newversenews.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-ve...

Museum, "And here we have the 90's Scholastic Book Fair."

"Something Pumpkin-Spicy This Way Comes?" “Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters” launches in print and Kindle Oct. 7, 2025! More info: amzn.to/3ZSvQn0

The “we are leaving the unbearable U.S. for the UK” crowd is unreal to me; where do you think we learned our authoritarianism from / come from—have you not studied history? “the English always / arms and legs / ahead of us”

Today is that day 24 years ago @middlewestpress.bsky.social

And yet, land-grant(!) OSU wants you to say the full trademark: "*The* Ohio State University" (emphasis added). Words matter. Land matters.

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

It's extremely possible to write about the aesthetics of modern American fascism without devolving into misogyny, and I know because Tina fuckin' did it.

The idealization of rural communities (a small town where everyone loves everyone!) frequently overlooks the pernicious influences of racism — when it acknowledges that BIPOC live in rural communities in the first place.

i love my local coffee shop

I think the message is pretty clear across the board about their regard for writing and reading which obviously means you should write and read and write and read and write and read and write and read. Also, this sucks.

Do not have the caloric fortitude to type this up in stages, so here's the post I wrote about an event of mine now being canceled due to politics:

The power house of the Minnesota State Fair

I wish the Minnesota State Fair would bring back the posters!

I'm editing Dragon Reactor, a mythopoetic mech TTRPG by @diceynova.bsky.social and @200proofgames.bsky.social This is why I think you should check it out. In summary: game very good. (Full video on TikTok)

Vagrants, you say? Why, they’ll steal your pie right off the window sill!

“Who’ll challenge my nine skills? I’m champion at chess, canny recalling runes, well-read, red-hot smith – some say I shoot and ski and skull skilfully too. Best of all, I’ve mastered harp-play and poetry” @theorkneynews.bsky.social on Orkney’s Warrior Poet 3/3 theorkneynews.scot/2024/07/30/e...

A cluster of teens reading quietly is called a mystery. A pile of books gathering dust is called a hold shelf. A handful of change is called a budget. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/col...

Good morning! I wrote a biography of someone who helped found the women's rights movement in the 1850s, and kept at it through the Civil War, scandals, chronic illness, and decades of defeats.

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

I want to believe that deprogramming through books is possible, but I've seen too many people who've read and raved about all of the morally righteous books not internalize any of their messages. www.wired.com/story/people...

Very grateful to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for taking this one. 😊 Read the rest of the Summer Riot series while you're over there, it's a hoot!

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.” Groucho Marx, who died on this day in 1977

People Are Trying to ‘Deprogram’ Their MAGA Parents Through Book Clubs www.wired.com/story/people...

This is the kind of power merger we need. “…a joint resource to inspire and support year-round civic programming in libraries.” www.ala.org/news/2025/08...

Ratty and his Rat Pack of editors are SO EXCITED to say that submissions to Rat Bag Lit are NOW OPEN 🐀📝 The rats look forward to reading your work! Please take a look at our submission guidelines on the site. We want your weird fiction, but remember - we're rats, not heathens. We do have SOME rules.

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 22nd! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

Me: "Not going to touch that most-recent fascism with a 12-inch ..." Also me:

Thing is, all this is so deeply engrained and painful and complicated. The USMC literally poisoned me but also the first and only song I learned on piano was The Marine Corps Hymn and this image makes me shake with rage.

—when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough... ~ Ilya Kaminsky From Deaf Republic

As I wrote earlier this week: "We must also remember that a real surge in crime would not excuse acts of authoritarian consolidation. We must be wary of logics that suggest Trump’s authoritarian maneuvers might be reasonable, if he were more accurately describing conditions on the ground."

The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”

Join me for a workshop on writing #MilSF stories, hosted by @Consequence Forum . We'll work on the hook, the character, and the plot, with the goal of a publishable story at the end. Thursdays in September. To register: zurl.co/p5QSc#MilSF

Attention Hoosiers in northwest Indiana. I will be at the Whiting Public Library at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, talking about one of my favorite WWII correspondents, Indiana's own Ernie Pyle. Here's a taste of what I will be covering. indianahistory.org/blog/the-las...

“Israel fears the people who tell the world about what is happening in Gaza — the war, the genocide, the famine. Anas made it a mission to tell these stories, our stories, all over the world. And people listened,” a pseudonymous Palestinian journalist who lives in the US writes for @theintercept.com

Being careful about the use of language is useful for surviving authoritarianism because authoritarianism seeks to control fact, truth, history, reality itself through misleading, false, inflammatory, and distorted language, as well as suppressed information, and to make it the norm.

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🎉 Happy Publication Day to our 2024 Chapbook Prize Winner JEWISH AMERICAN DREAM by Danny Caine (@dannycaine.com) 🥳

made a handy little novel title generator for you

The 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Awards for poetry by a mil-fam member! - 1st: “Shipwreck on Padre Island” by Emma Comery - 2nd: “Last of Autumn” by @lisasticepoet.bsky.social - 3rd: “Rolling Hills” by Erick Garske The annual contest is administered by the @line of advance. www.lineofadvance.org