Texas Tech just instituted “one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university.” The policy bans professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics in core & lower-level courses and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university system. #AcademicSky

ICYMI, @sesmith.lol wrote about how algospeak is aiding our inability to name all the horrors that are currently taking place in our dystopian world! Read now: www.theflytrapmedia.com/algospeak-wi...

An excerpt of my forthcoming memoir, The Sound of Burning: a Mother, a Daughter, a Murder (UGA Press, 2026) is out now in @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social (TW: blood) hypertextmag.com/no-contact/

one 2025 book i really admire, and haven’t discussed enough, is @kwistent.bsky.social ‘s critical history of modern American orphanhood, THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW. This book limns the ideologies of “child rescue” that shaped the development of US foster care and adoption. it pulls no punches.

Democracy Now! is looking for early-career journalists to join our team as one-year fellows in the video and digital departments. All fellowships are paid, full-time positions with benefits. More details at democracynow.org/jobs

If you've noticed that ChatGPT is improving, it's probably because I've spent so much time grading its work.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Kristin Collier’s mother took out hundreds of thousands of dollars of private student loans in her daughter’s name. But as @kwistent.bsky.social explains, Collier’s new book on student debt doesn’t cast her as a villain.

!!!! So gratified to have this story enjoy a wide reach, especially since foster care is a really under-covered topic. Read it here: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

"I can never tear myself away from who I am, and at my core, I’m a poet." Permanent Knots and Anti-Colonial Archives: @nxo.bsky.social interviews Daniela Catrileo about Chilco (@fsgbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/zK9FU3H

Spread the word: we're searching for the right people for two critical roles at KR: Director of The Writers Workshop and Programs and Special Projects Administrator. Find the job descriptions and applications at the link in our bio.

We are seeking cover art for our winter issue! Send us up to 8 pieces to consider. It’s free to submit. Payment is one contributor copy and a small honorarium. Full details: tinyurl.com/shocoverart

Get those poems, graphic narratives, and flash prose pieces ready! The Commuter will be open for submissions from 9/15 - 9/21, or until our submission cap is reached ⚡ 💡 We can't wait to read your work!

📢 Call for Readers! Iron Horse Literary Review is looking for new Readers to join our team! If you’re connected to Creative Writing through a graduate program, teaching, or publication experience, we’d love to hear from you. Interested? Send a brief application to [email protected]

This weekend is the last chance to get your work in. Submissions close Sunday at midnight (PT). Submit: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind. • Payment is one contributor copy • We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize • We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet

Even linkedin gets it

"Nonfiction allows me to write the truth of my experience in a world that seeks to silence this truth. There is a freedom in the genre that girls and women are not afforded in our current cultural and political climate." ~ @sfmontgomery.bsky.social   brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/s...

It's not too late to send us your manuscript! We're still accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid work, chapbooks, anthologies, and more. Full submission guidelines are on our website and our Submittable. We can't wait to read your work! blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-...

SUBMIT TODAY at the link in our bio!

Lee Cole recalls being a working class writer attending a prestigious MFA program and considers the absence of working class perspectives in our literary institutions.

An actual summer reading list of real books compiled by real critics! I'm in here singing praises of Alice Bolin's new collection: www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

Mark your calendars: Shō Poetry Journal opens for submissions on June 1! We’ll be reading for our winter issue, Shō No. 8.

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

Free shipping at @bookshop.org until midnight!

We're so lucky to have this interview! Check out @kristiosorio.bsky.social and Sarah Perry discuss the cliché of memory, vulnerability, and "the sweetness of survival" @adroitjournal.bsky.social !

It was an honor and a joy to talk with Sarah Perry about her new book, moving on from the Murder Memoir, and so much more! Check out our conversation over at @adroitjournal.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2025/04/09/a...

As an author, the last thing I need is for AI to engage with my book. I hope for real readers and critics to connect with it, and do respond to it as humans. And as a freelance critic, I want media outlets to invest in substantive reviews and essays, and to pay critics for our labor appropriately.

Family vloggers Ruby Franke and the Stauffers invited viewers into their children’s most personal moments and profited. Then, they behaved unspeakably. Two new docs track their downfalls and yet again turn kids into content. My essay for the @nytimes.com mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/m...

The latest issue of @readlux.bsky.social is now avail online as well as in print! I wrote about the worst book I have ever read—Colleen Hoover's IT ENDS WITH US—juxtaposing it against a far more nuanced and compelling DV story, Chelsea Bieker's MADWOMAN. Gift link: lux-magazine.com/article/dome...

Submissions are open for 3 more days! • Payment is one contributor copy • We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize • We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet • We respond to all submissions within 30 days

Can confirm—this book is full of juicy morsels, as is its review by @kristiosorio.bsky.social in @therumpus.net this week 💫

Don’t suppose this book by @nglipson.bsky.social reviewed by versatile smart @kristiosorio.bsky.social is niche motherhood — its exploration is fresh-take expansive— pls read if you have the bandwidth. Thanks also to @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social

Folks heading to #AWP2025 this week! I’m moderating a nonfiction panel about blending personal narrative with research and reporting, and our lineup is truly stellar: @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @sashabonet.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, and Heather Radke! Come through on Saturday.

“...an absorbing memoir of a life permanently altered by the burden and beauty of motherhood.” @kristiosorio.bsky.social interviews @nglipson.bsky.social about Mothers and Other Fictional Characters (Chronicle Prism). ➡️ buff.ly/Tn7Wwiu

It was a joy reading and writing about @nglipson.bsky.social’s stunning new memoir-in-essays for @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2025/03/25/g...

This piece blew me away. One of the best things I’ve read on the internet recently.

Today's Featured Poet: Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut collection of poetry, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

One of my favorite poems in Querida!

Today's Featured Poem: "How to Cook a Wolf" by Nathan Xavier Osorio (@nxo.bsky.social), from Querida, published by University of Pittsburgh Press (@upittpress.bsky.social). Read here: poems.com/poem/how-to-...

Five years ago today, the WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. @kwistent.bsky.social talks with @ednabonhomme.bsky.social about how diseases spread in ways that both reflect and reproduce social divisions that are born out of how we define who is deserving of health and care.

It's #submissionsaturday! Send us your nonfiction scholarship, craft papers, informal analysis, pedagogy--we're looking for it all! buff.ly/GysGePq

Today’s Featured Poem: “Memo to the Man Who Spat on Me” by Cara Dees, from the Summer 2024 Issue of the Georgia Review. Read here: poems.com/poem/memo-to...

I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

🚨 1 more day to submit! The inaugural Rumpus Prize Nonfiction closes on March 2!🚨 All submissions will be read by The Rumpus's editorial team, and our final judges are Kaveh Akbar (Poetry), Rachel Khong (Fiction), and @meganstielstra.bsky.social (Creative Nonfiction). ➡️ buff.ly/4blQsZo

There's still time to apply to our Residential Young Writers Workshop! kenyonreview.org/event/young-...

The Sita Martin Prize is named after our founding editor, who started Shō to promote unheralded poets in her immediate writing community. This is not a contest. All accepted poems are considered for the prize, contingent on the poet's eligibility. Details: shopoetryjournal.com/the-sita-martin-prize

An incredible flash nonfiction piece by @kristiosorio.bsky.social on The Palisades Review. Don't miss this one!