September has been such a fantastic anomaly for me as a writer—one story published and three (!) acceptances. My heart is so full of gratitude. I’ve been working hard and hustling, but I’m still bowled over to get this much support from these journals and editors. 🌼

Acceptance post! I am so excited to have found a home for a new story in scaffold literary magazine ✨ The story is about a man who falls in love with a tree. It’ll be online in December. Meanwhile, if you haven’t read scaffold lately, these stories are fire www.scaffoldlit.com

What a day. It’s wild for me to have this many stories forthcoming. I’m so grateful. Just gonna pretend I’m not shook 🥹

Edited an old story this week and found what felt like a great new direction for it. It seemed right for a few journals I’ve read but never submitted to before today. Fingers crossed. Just got to keep this rickety old writing machine rolling along 🙂

Humans, Claudine needs you to send her something to REEEEAD!! Last ten days to submit to our December issue. . .jump in there! Micro prose. Free subs. Paying market.

I’m very excited to share this. My first time co-writing with a student who won a year-long fellowship to help compile the data. Many thanks owed to those who read, edited, and supported along the way. Please share widely!!

This is a hyper-local post, but it would make my weekend if Cleo bagels had their first apple things of the season tomorrow 🍎🤤

My 2025 stories so far✨ “Libation” yourimpossiblevoice.com/libation/ “Sparrow’s Work Song” variantlit.com/sparrows-wor... “Albany Liquors” jakethemag.com/albany-liquo... “Little Brother” www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/little-... “Father’s Helper” www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-sto...

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Today I want to share the most anti-Trump thing I’ve ever written. It’s an essay from 2020 titled, “The President’s Bucket,” with a very dark fable at its center that ends with the words: “they say the only two words it feels safe to say.” www.3ammagazine.com/3am/3am-in-l...

Next week, the great and talented students at the Rutgers-Camden MFA program are doing a reading at Tattooed Mom on South Street. I'll be there too. Come on out and hear from the future of Philly's lit scene. Also have some tots.

Acceptance post! I’m so thrilled to say that elsewhere magazine will publish a dark & woodsy new prose poem of mine in an upcoming issue. 🌲🦌 I love the work they put out into the world and just adore the current issue elsewheremag.org/issue-25/

I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since @minorliteratures.bsky.social published my story “Half of Love.” It’s still one of my favorites and I’m so grateful to Minor Lit[s] for keeping it alive in the online world after all this time. minorliteratures.com/2015/07/15/h...

Last night was back to school night for parents at my son’s school. Hundreds of parents. Lots of teachers and admins. Sort of chaotic. But wow it felt good to hear from the teachers & be around so many people who care about their kids hearts and minds.

ML: What about about the hallucinations? TM: That’s just as I remember them. They’re burned into my brain. What is the truth value of hallucination? I don’t know. Cristina Politano ( @monalisavitti.bsky.social ) interviews Tim MacGabhann.

Acceptance post! I’m over the moon with gratitude to have found the perfect home @gonelawn.bsky.social for one of my strangest new stories. It’ll appear later this year in the cold moon issue 🌔 Many thanks to @owenwyke.bsky.social & @amygcb.bsky.social

Tuesday #flashfiction: The Things You Will Do—a breathless moment of grief and guilt by @andreamarcusa.bsky.social!

"We passed one plastic cup after another back and forth through the bars, then she smashed the bottles into a trash can, came back inside, and we all toasted quick thinking and said fuck these fragile assholes as we gulped instead of sipped." Tuesday #flashfiction: with @mattjakubowski.bsky.social!

Great to see @andotherstories.bsky.social will publish the first U.S. version of Gerald Murnane’s wonderful collection of stories, “Landscape With Landscape” in Jan. 2026. Info & pre-orders available here — along with a link to a review I wrote about the book! www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...

Congratulations on a long, fantastic run with Book Fight, Tom. Loved listening to you & @mikeingram.bsky.social and all the wonderful guests. (And sorry for my foul mouth when I was on the show! lol)

I’m lucky to have watched this beautiful piece come together. Please take five minutes to read Matt’s heartbreaking flash ❤️ 🐦‍⬛ #flashfiction

This flash piece hasn’t left me since I first read it. Do yourself a favor, and give it a read.

I just heard about this book and besides the amazing title and cover, the blurb I read about it sounds fantastic

Somehow I’ve published 4 stories so far this year. 😃ICYMI, some links: “Sparrow’s Work Song” variantlit.com/sparrows-wor... “Albany Liquors” jakethemag.com/albany-liquo... “Little Brother” www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/little-... “Father’s Helper” www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-sto...

In case you missed it, my latest short story, “Sparrow’s Work Song, is now online. I’m honored to have it in the stellar new issue of @variantlit.bsky.social variantlit.com/sparrows-wor...

“It’s kind of exhausting maintaining everything I have going on, which isn’t that much, but even without ambitions you still have to go and be whoever it is you’ve been for however long you’ve been alive.” So excited to have this new #flashfiction in Variant Lit. variantlit.com/sparrows-wor...

Friends! My new #flashfiction, “Sparrow’s Work Song,” is among the dazzling poems and stories in the new issue of @variantlit.bsky.social. It’s a story I really love. Huge thanks to prose editor Tori Walters for all the kindness & support. variantlit.com/sparrows-wor...

Wow, I love the precision, tension, and turns in this @lostballoon.bsky.social micro by @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social lost-balloon.com/2025/06/04/t...

Absolutely horrific www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/w...

The light is on for Matthew Jakubowski! @mattjakubowski.bsky.social💡 “Little Brother” is a lyric fantasy that stuns with every expertly crafted turn of phrase. Check out Matthew’s incredible flash fiction over at the site!

Thrilled to see my flash, “Little Brother,” out in the world! It’s about three siblings navigating family strife in a collapsing world. www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/little-...

Such gorgeous details and tension in these three incredible micros, wow

Not gonna lie, this was scary. But I did it! Felt so good. Not bad for a half-century old body who barely skates once a week, if. ✨🌼🎉

Al Green and Cory Booker have shown the most courage and clear-sightedness since this all started. Other members of Congress need to step up, get creative, and find ways to break through to people.

Acceptance post! I’m so delighted @variantlit.bsky.social magazine has accepted a new #flashfiction of mine. I can’t wait to share it with everyone! ✨🌼🙌🎉 If you haven’t checked out the poetry and prose in Variant’s spring issue it’s a stunner variantlit.com/issue-twenty/

ICYMI: I have a new story in JAKE magazine! 🌼 So happy to see it online among all the great work @publishedbyjake.bsky.social. #flashfiction jakethemag.com/albany-liquo...

Such crisp imagery and pointy words from @mattjakubowski.bsky.social.

Super hype to have this new micro published by the awesome folks at JAKE magazine! It’s a moody little thing and I’m so happy to see it out in the world. jakethemag.com/albany-liquo...

"I’m a black hole, she thought. Black holes absorb everything, even light. From a distance they shine." Big love for this piece of writing by @mattjakubowski.bsky.social in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Flash about a totally average interaction outside a liquor store up from @mattjakubowski.bsky.social jakethemag.com/albany-liquo...

Thrilled to have a new #flashfiction at JAKE! 🍺 It’s been a while since I had a story published — if you dig this one I’d be so happy if you shared it around. 🌼 jakethemag.com/albany-liquo...

So proud of Rep. Al Green for standing up like that and not backing down! Complete bullshit that he was removed from the chamber.

Hamas released the bodies of four hostages Thursday, including what it said was the remains of a mother and her two young children, members of the Bibas family, whose story came to symbolize the brutality of the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.

At the rally at Stonewall to protest the erasure of Trans people - the rage and resolve here should be bottled and administered directly into our veins.

There are a lot of Nazis in the news these days but I wanted to make sure to stop for a second and say a very special fuck you to Kanye, because fuck that fucking Nazi, he deserves to get punched, de-platformed, and de-monetized like every last one of them

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