Lotta folks talking resolutions, so a quick reminder to focus on goals you can control. Instead of making it about agents or deals, focus on things like reading more to improve your craft, finding ways to support your peers, drafting something new… You don’t need anyone else, to chase those goals.

On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.

Photographer, anthropologist Alegra Ally accompanied the Nenets seasonal migration, to show the lives of indigenous women in the Siberian Arctic #WomensArt

Over the years, the Christmas tree has gotten chaotic, mostly food themed. Max glitter and twinkly glass, please. Minimalism meh

It’s the holidays, so please buy my book. It’s a great gift for anyone who’s ever thought about destroying their student loan company, and it weighs enough to throw at your relatives who say shit like “but in 1972, college only cost a quarter!” www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Pa...

Eidos Montreal (GOTG) is reportedly developing a new game based on the Alien franchise for 2028. Described as "Shadow of the Tomb Raider with xenomorphs", this game has been in development since 2020. "Emphasis on stealth and resource management in a single-player arcade survival horror game."

ICYMI, Our November/December issue includes a helpful index of the 40 venues featured in our guides to indie markets, including literary magazines and small presses you’ll want to know about and submit to. Find reading fee information and website URLs by visiting this link: at.pw.org/IndieMarkets

“This needs…a little more anxiety and self-doubt.”

“Take a moment and realize the moment you took has passed.” 🤯 But also that was a good moment.

Listen to @theoceanisgay.bsky.social read poems selected from their debut collection LET THE MOON WOBBLE on the Debutiful podcast feed! Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1Xbs... @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

SOON! Last minute blast. See these amazing poets read if you can.

It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word! THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi

it takes constant effort to remain gentle in this world and we see you choosing tenderness and are proud of you 💙

🗓️Monthly reminder - the Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Submission guidelines: stonecirclereview.com/submissions-... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

It’s that time of year when the ground tells fairytales. 🍄

#caturday splits and toe bean stretches

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If you're looking for a gift for you or the writer in your life, the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference on 4/18/26 is just $95 & includes the full day conference focusing on craft and publishing, 1 book, 1 workshop w an editor, more lit stuff from our partners! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

“Except the sky has the vague look / of a person who has said too much at a dinner party.“

Fun Fact: KARAOKE is an 8X8 inch square meant to evoke a vinyl album. What music genre? you ask. Some poems feel melancholy punk or flex power ballad. Some go 90s Björk. In any case, it will look pretty sweet on your bookshelf. Bookshop has free shipping: bookshop.org/p/books/kara...

✨ Support small press authors. Some Bookshop.org recommendations: Chloe Clark, EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Taylor Byas, RESTING BITCH FACE @taylorbyas.bsky.social Michelle Peñaloza, ALL THE WORDS I CAN REMEMBER ARE POEMS Asa Drake, MAYBE THE BODY @asaldrake.bsky.social

When grief feels like a tender apocalypse, you don’t just cry. You sing at the top of your lungs. BTW, there's FREE SHIPPING on pre-orders at Bookshop for all books (including mine). Have a Very Bookish Black Friday!

Did you know @bookshop.org has free shipping today? And that it works on pre-orders? Just being helpful over here... Oh look, what's this link for?

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Happy Thanksgiving!

In Sonoma at the Poet’s Corner Book Shop, the cutest edge of the world bookstore, with KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (pulled up on my phone). Who wants to read here with me in 2026?

BOOM. ⚡️🧨 Consider a pre-order! My debut collection explores grief for our mothers and ourselves.💥The vibe: end times in the multiverse, tender apocalypses, music, the extinct, ancient, alien, and animal. A bit speculative, a bit strange. Links in bio & here genevievedeguzman.carbonmade.com/karaoke

continuing my walkthrough of DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES over at @donatedwords.bsky.social! PAGE 14/"Shadowcast” by @melissacuisine.bsky.social words donated by @gendeguzman.bsky.social Patrick Dorsey @madelinksi.bsky.social author took on a “light word” challenge 🧡💛🧡💛🧡

Have you queried us yet? We ❤️ finding that next best thing. Is it you? jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit

(words/word donors 2 of 3) MIRACLE - @karenmsteiger.bsky.social PERMISSION - Melinda Farrar PROLIX - Meesh Montoya REGENT - @stonespiral.bsky.social SIMULTANEOUS - @norbaikin.bsky.social SIPHON - @gendeguzman.bsky.social SYMPHONIC - Patrick Dorsey TIDE - @krislindbeck.bsky.social

DAYLIGHT & TENFOLD ORIOLES walkthrough! PAGE 6: & DAYLIGHT/intro to the project featuring 17 authors & 17 donated words this resulted in 16 poems & 1 microfiction work! credits in thread! i will be focusing on 1 poem at a time in the 17 posts ahead! get the free PDF: tinyurl.com/2025daylight

Here are all the birds you need to worry about this week

"Chimera/ of passion flowers running into Lady Banks/barely keeping pace with the sampaguitas." 💖

Reunited and it feels so good. Dropped by HOCUS Live for the PBF Cover to Cover series and read with local poet/writer besties, Andrea Deeken & Theresa Tran. We managed to channel Moon, Tower, & Fool energy for the night's Major Arcana theme, helped with some hot toddies. #pdxbookfest

Pre-game this weekend’s #PDXBookFest. Come by Rose City Book Pub on NE Fremont, 7pm TONIGHT 11/7 for some tarot-themed poetry & prose and literary games with local writers. Hosted by HOCUS as part of the Cover to Cover series. #PBF25

Mamdani: "Yes, aunties."

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

A gorgeous day in the PNW.

Just gorgeous: Saeed Jones’ “Date Night”

Please read our statement to support immigrants and immigrant communities. buff.ly/Ej5lgtQ

🚨 📙 My forthcoming book has a cover! I hear dynamite gets lit once you start reading. 🧨 The one-and-only @taylorbyas.bsky.social was my editor and @simonemuenchie.bsky.social brought me into the @jacklegpress.bsky.social fold. ✨ Goes boom on 3.16.2026. More info coming soon!

Bottom of the 18th. Sisyphus, tired of pushing the rock, is grateful to break up his time in Hell by getting hit with a pitch.

I don't follow baseball but I've been enjoying the Lovecraftian glimpses of it I get here. Like something beyond human understanding has just occured in America.

Fun fact the time between now and the beginning of this game is the same as between the beginning of this game and the construction of the pyramids

A rain soaked #caturday in Portland. No outdoor time. Beezy decides to rage nap instead.

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

Mutual aid. YES

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings