The bird is a female on a first date, in case you hadn't guessed that already.

Really excited to make it into @fictivedream.bsky.social with this jazz-inspired piece, born in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness. And a note to any disheartened writers - I have been subbing to this mag for 5 years. Keep going! You never know which story is going to do it so keep the faith 🙏🏽

I feel like, after I finish my last day of the school year today, I will go to the local city library I haven't been in yet. Or maybe tomorrow morning with a coffee (I will finish the coffee before I go in, I promise).

@tommydeanwriter.bsky.social! Yay!!🥰📚🎉

The story is now available to read online 😊 www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/pea...

I've cried a lot of happy tears in the past 24 hours. This is my first collection, and I'm thrilled to be working w/ @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social & @mooncitypress.bsky.social to bring it alive. I'm so so grateful to this whole flash community. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this opportunity! ❤️

The writer He climbed into the box Yes YES The writer is in

This is just to say I have taken Those plums Out of the icebox And climbed in Fuck yes

I will shop in any bookstore-- any-- that is painted bubblegum pink.

THE LATE 1900's (sobbing)

Do you have questions about submitting to lit mags, what it takes to run a journal, or how to get your work published in The Common? Join us tonight @ 7:30 PM ET for our AMA with the wonderful Jennifer Acker, the founder and editor-in-chief of @commonmag.bsky.social! RSVP here: luma.com/doxmdiwe

There is ONE thing I am looking forward to this heatwave: Pictures of paschal candles that have melted in churches. Here's an example from a few years ago. It's my favourite phenomenon. Because, well... Look at it.

Inside each of us there are two foxes.

Reposted in the interest of information and grief. I'll have to find a few dozen more baby elephant videos to counterbalance.

They call this cultivar of hydrangea "strawberry cream." ❤️

♥️ happy baby with mama in thailand sanctuary joy ♥️♥️

Crocheted canopy for shade in public space, created by 40 local women of Cartaya, Spain #WomensArt

Really looking forward to teaching my world-building workshop next month: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/live-worksho... In the session, we're going to briefly reflect on titles / opening lines from pieces by @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @beekaekae.bsky.social @mynachang.bsky.social @melostrom.bsky.social

Little potatoes from my balcony raised bed. My first potatoes

"I’m wondering whatever happened to compassion/for that box of seconds picked up at the farmers market to make into sauce . . ." In today's miCRo, D. Dina Friedman extols the beauty and diversity of the tomato, one of the garden's most complex crops. Link in thread.

With LMC’s Fire It Up Feedback, editors don’t ‘critique’ your work. They share what’s exciting & promising about it. Our Fancy membership grants 1 LMC credit per month to spend on FIUF or 1-on-1 editor calls. PLUS full access to all LMC activities and Discord channels. Info at litmatchcollective.com

Meme time

can't we all just get along

The crazy thing is that for most of my life I would go ten, fifteen, sometimes even thirty minutes at a time without thinking about the Reflecting Pool.

Working with immigrant families and their kids, you see this up close. Hope can be mean, and thin, and precarious and dirty, but if it is not beyond my students, it is not beyond me.

I have a tattoo of dame's rocket on my shoulder. Their color and perfume, spontaneously erupting in May, seemed magical to me as a kid, and I brought back so many bouquets to my mom she had trouble finding enough jars to put them in.

AI Changes Its Feedback on Students' Writing When It Knows Their Race, Gender: AI makes judgments based on the writer's characteristics—a problem if teachers use it as a writing coach.

Pleasure is the key to poetry.

The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social, is available for preordering! The book releases in October & is the 5th in our award-winning Field Guide series! Everything you've ever wanted to know about lyric essay! icont.ac/51iZr

Trailcam or Game of Thones footage? You decide

The NYT is my paper of record for five decades so I say this with love, but could we NOT write headlines that sound like an episode of Real Housewives. and GET OFF MY LAWN

uh oh

In conjunction with the June 2026 Open Reading Period, Black Lawrence Press welcomes proposals for bold, engaging anthologies that expand our understanding of literature, genre, and social issues. Full details at the link in bio!

The call for Volunteer Poetry Coordinator ends June 30th, 2026. More information and the link for application can be found at: https://bestofthenetanthology.com/work-with-us/

Love, love, love. Not leastways because Mitch and I are in the same television generation, apparently.

ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap42

one of the coolest #othernetworks I've seen in a long time! an interactive map of Earth’s arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/map#2.6/28.8...

Our beloved Lisa Ampleman is moving into a leadership role with our sister press, @acrebooks.bsky.social. We're so excited for everything she will do for the press and can't wait to see what comes next for her. But...that means we're looking for a new Managing Editor! Application in thread.

Here are our Finalists for the 2025/26 Mythic Picnic Prize in Fiction 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Winner ($400 purse) will be announced soon. IN THE MEANTIME: read or revisit these crazy-good fictions, and join us in thanking MP for their generous sponsorship.

It’s real, my chapbook is a real thing in the real world! So relieved & happy ✨🎉🌼 bottlecap.press/collections/...

"Media is not neutral, it's always shaped by power." New book A Second Sight, by @sjjphd.bsky.social, maps the history of the U.S. through the lens of Black storytellers, who have documented what has been at the margins of official historical record. objectivejournalism.org/2026/06/qa-a...

I never in my life need to see another character slice their palm (your arm is right there!!!!) or read another character clenching their fists so hard they cut their palms with their nails. Your character's just running about with open palm wounds that you never mention again?!?

achieving a hot bog body summer by getting a tan via the anaerobic processes of being buried in the peaty wetlands

Today on the site graduate intern Cassidy Rousseau interviews Naomi Cohn about her @rosemetalpress.bsky.social The Braille Encyclopedia, experimental forms, and artistic insight as a blind writer. www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

For #BloomsDay, sharing the first novel written by Richard Wright in 1935 (but pub. 1963), Lawd Today! Influenced by Ulysses, Lawd Today! chronicles one day in the life of Jake Jackson, a Black postal worker in Depression-era Chicago. But it incorporates news bulletins, songs, and wordplay. #Lit

Story acceptance for a piece I've been working on for eight (!!) years. It's very close to my heart and I can't wait to share it. 🍯

The Inaugural Selection of the Immigrant Writing Series is available everywhere books are sold on July 28th! Heart Eater by 신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin is an exploration of language, immigration, and what it means to be American. Pre-order your copy now at the link in bio.

"Marketers chose the “thwack” slogan after consulting an AI tool for suggestions, Shinsegae Group said. It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material."