Last day to catch our APRIL ISSUE before it hits the archive! All the ❤️ to our contributors! 🥰 WORDS: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen ART: Ainaz Alipour. PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social buff.ly/knF9Jgg

"Xinyue Huang’s poems demonstrate the talents of a writer whose subjects, diction, and formal range cohere into an evolved, dynamic body of work." —Diane Seuss, 2025 KR Poetry Contest Judge. Read Huang's winning poems in our latest: kenyonreview.org/piece/my-cow...

@kathystevens91.bsky.social reads her flash ELEPHANT WALLPAPER from our APRIL ISSUE 💙

"She started converting the spare room back into an office. The wallpaper’s coming away easily, she said, standing just outside the door." @kathystevens91.bsky.social's ELEPHANT WALLPAPER is a close look at loss. ❤️ Find it in our APRIL ISSUE, and be mindful of a CW for child loss: buff.ly/WUhJF8g

April showers bring: our fresh APRIL ISSUE. 🌼 WORDS by: @graythebruce.bsky.social, @kathystevens91.bsky.social, C. Zhang, & Quinn Franzen. ART by: Ainaz Alipour. PLUS: @iloveyoudaniel.bsky.social reviews an essay by @megpillow.bsky.social. buff.ly/cyFupU7

"With my dad, there’d been a whole jerry can of ashes. I remember it was like emptying a hoover." Beautiful, poignant flash from @kathystevens91.bsky.social. splitlipthemag.com/flash/0426/k...

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“Trump’s decision to unilaterally strike Iran sends a clear signal to the rest of the world: multilateralism is dead, force rules above all, and any state without the martial capacity to inflict devastating pain must choose between utter subservience to the US or risk annihilation.”

Fair play to Sally Rooney for this, brave and to the point www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Issue Six of The Pig's Back is now available for pre-order. Featuring essays and fiction from Emily Iseult Duggan, Máiréad Enright (@maireadenright.bsky.social), Laura Fitzgerald, Sam Furlong (@samfurlong.bsky.social), Kerry Mahony, Kathy Stevens (@kathystevens91.bsky.social) and Paul Whyte.🐷 Link 👇

"Living on social media, seeing the world through its lens, is like returning to a pre-information age... As history fades, so does truth itself." Interesting on the rise of woo-woo from "manifesting" to Jordan Peterson's "tidy your room to achieve enlightenment" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...