Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

I wrote a poem about Close Encounters of the Third Kind, my favorite Spielberg film. 🛸 I wondered if Roy Neary’s oldest son missed his father the same way I miss mine. “Hand Signs” is now free to read in Cottonmouth Journal Volume 1, Issue 4: www.cottonmouthjournal.com/gwendolyn-ma...

Autumn scenes in western Massachusetts. 1. Field of goldenrod gone to seed. 2. Tree arches over the trail. 3. Color in the forest. 4. Goldenrod again.

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

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we read small things like these for class last week

“But you didn’t even know me,” you sob. “And then I did.” Damn, love so many things in this story. The necromancy line, the line about asking the sword if it would hurt, the characterization of Charli, the foreignness/weirdness of that intimacy, the not needing to be *for* anything. Beautiful.

“And Charli is your friend? You try not to laugh. Charli is my sight. Charli is my owner. Charli is my gallant, my secret-keeper, my gravemate. Charli is the only one who would see me at the grocery store and know that it’s a lie, everything, all of it.” MY HEART???😭🩵 THIS FRIENDSHIP. THIS KINSHIP.

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

my @lambdaliterary.org retreat reading has its own lil video now! tricia’s ASL interpretation of my prose is a thing of beauty. <3 youtu.be/HIGek098cJY?...

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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

If writing or publishing kills your love of reading, you should stop trying to write or publish until you get that love back. A) reading is one of the greatest joys known to humans & you deserve it, and B) you won’t write or publish well without that love.

Cornelius Taylor, a homeless man in Atlanta, was killed when the city tried to clear his encampment. His death epitomizes the country's approach to homelessness: criminalize it and push it out of sight. Here's who he was and what he meant to those who loved him: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Fourteen Hills has an open call for our upcoming special feature, "HOPE IS A DISCPLINE." For this theme, we are accepting: - Fiction - Poetry - Short Plays - Visual Art - Hybrid/Experimental - Creative Nonfiction More info here: fourteenhills.submittable.com/submit

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! I am delighted to be the guest editor for the 59th issue of Eye to the Telescope, which is seeking speculative poetry (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc) on the theme of "Immortality." This is a paid call, open from today through January 15th, 2026. Submissions link below.

This is just so incredibly good. Entrancing, emotional, bittersweet and beautiful with prose that cuts like a knife. Amazing.

dreamer🐑🌙

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Judge strikes down Trump’s $15bn lawsuit against the New York Times

Tonight in SF: Writer's With Drinks is back! This is a great reading series featuring @charliejane.bsky.social and a slew of other writers. Always entertaining and hard to describe. The show is 7-9pm at Strut, 470 Castro. FREE, donation requested. Masks required. #sanfrancisco

Delighted to see my Aurora-finalist trans Bildungsroman fairytale, “And When She Shatters” included in this years Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by @ourmankoto.bsky.social 🚀🧝 ✨ & this little @heartlines-spec.com tale gets to appear alongside many friends & Augur creators !!

Based on true events, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is a contemporary gothic horror set in a cursed manor on a coconut plantation—and it’s coming this fall. Thank you, @aijiang.bsky.social, for the kind words! More info in 🧵 #TheVillaOnceBeloved #VictorManibo

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

This Friday! Writers With Drinks! Queer spoken word 'n comedy. It's going to be AMAZING. Here's why I'm so excited about each of these performers/readers...

wish i had interesting updates, but i’ve just been picking a lot of fruit in animal crossing…

you can listen to me (and i guess technically watch me but i don't know if i can internalize that) dramatically reading "Change Your Mind," my poem in @smallwondersmag.com that is now a Rhysling finalist. check out the playlist of finalist readings on SFPA's channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzwt...

I posted some thoughts on Facebook which come out of very recent conversations, as well as my publishing industry observations, plus experiences at industry social events. These posts are never easy to write, and even harder to actually put up, but... 🤷🏽 www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

i wrote this story when i felt despair was overbearing and i needed solace in hope. so i created a space for her, and made her all consuming. i hope you find a space for hope for you, as well. whether you read this or not.

oh this is the kind of story i'm obsessed with. concise and sharp and heartbreaking, unwilling to step off the emotional gas pedal, so thoroughly engrossed in the voice of this dedicated devoted despairing limerence. ouagh

“It’s Charli’s Body, You’re Just Living In It” is my ode to fraught queer friendships, portal fantasies, and trying to mend what you can in a wounded world. Now free to read in @heartlines-spec.com: www.heartlines-spec.com/its-charlis-...

Robert Redford, Oscar-winning actor and director, dies aged 89

Organizers do not need to know ahead of time how many people will be at a protest. Besides everyone knows that online sign ups are never even remotely effective at judging attendance. Just go. Be safe. Be wary.

Take a lot of precautions while you're there. No uploading selfie at the protests, wear masks or obscure your identity, leave your phone home or get a burner, that sort of thing. But at the very least, don't sign up.

Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.

I’m not a huge fan of how this drawing turned out but it seems people I show it to dig it. I figured I may as well post it here. [Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020] #art #digitalart #artistsonbluesky #whattagsdoievenuseonthissite

hey, it's Fantasy Friday 🦄 💖 and general subs are currently OPEN!! send us your stories and poems that play with the limitations of borders and be a part of issue 100! ✨ more details on theme and how to submit here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Five year ago today. The sky was the muddy yellow of an old bruise at 7am in San Francisco on Wednesday, and by eight it was a dull orange and the darkness that felt like night was coming on.

you can listen to me (and i guess technically watch me but i don't know if i can internalize that) dramatically reading "Change Your Mind," my poem in @smallwondersmag.com that is now a Rhysling finalist. check out the playlist of finalist readings on SFPA's channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzwt...

ICYMI, I have a new story out in Lightspeed Magazine about lovers aboard a doomed science vessel!! It's short but loaded with joy and grief and lavish descriptions of alien and not-so-alien food. Check it out: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

Poetry lovers, check out the 2025 Rhysling Award Readings playlists on our YouTube channel! We have compiled a collection of poets reading their nominated works aloud. There are playlists for both long and short categories. Check them out now! www.youtube.com/@sfpaofficial

@themountaingoats.bsky.social announce new album 'Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan' featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tommy Stinson, and more — hear lead single "Armies Of The Lord"

Today! "The Hilltop Eel" joins 12 other lush and unsettling tales in SILK AND FOXGLOVE: A BIPOC EROTIC-ECO HORROR ANTHOLOGY from @hedonebooks.bsky.social, curated & edited by @pegasusunder.bsky.social! Get your copy here: books2read.com/u/mvwAv6

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

on this fine saturday, i can only assume you want to read about Fathers. well, i have great news. i've got a poem about one of em www.cottonmouthjournal.com/gwendolyn-ma...

submitted my picks for fiction from the 14 hills submissions over the summer... i am so excited... vibrating with the power and beauty and strangeness of these stories. i am so lucky