Wrote on @literaryhub.bsky.social about a win for fiction: the strange case of a piece of speculative writing spooking tech investors this week

Our winter issue is on sale now on our website and in stores around the country! Featuring new work like this haunting new poem from Morgen Jahnke. Details: prairiefire.ca/current-issue/

We've finished spotlighting the poets in our new issue! Read the whole thing, 'Wildfires', here badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three

Necessary reading

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

“Whenever we go past that school, Ty's like: ‘Am I going back to jail, Mom? Are you taking me back over there?,’” Ty’s mother said. “I felt like nobody at that school was really fighting for him. They were too busy trying to justify what they did.” (Pub. Nov. 2024)

My dear friend, the poet Sandy Shreve, has died. A number of us wrote tributes to Sandy for @eventmags.bsky.social in December. I welcome you to read them today, and learn a bit more about an incredible poet, painter, arts organizer and human being:

“A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.” ~ Allen Ginsberg

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

I just wrote a 100-page book about Apple Wallet. Yes, that’s right. You heard me. There were so many pain points that I dug deep into the app, its settings, how Apple Pay works, and more. If you’ve ever been frustrated with Apple Pay or Wallet, this ebook is for you: www.takecontrolbooks.com/wallet/

Thrilled to have a poem published in this new issue of Prairie Fire!

They changed my headline; I said Barbie was always autistic and they made it into a question. But here you go! If Autistic Barbie isn't you, good news - another Barbie might be: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neur... Thank you @psychologytoday.com

i guess this is me until further notice

Your devices may sync your messages even when you have Messages in iCloud disabled. Here’s why and what you can do about it @sixcolors.com sixcolors.com/post/2026/01... You can supplement the column with my book, Take Control of FaceTime and Messages! www.takecontrolbooks.com/facetime-mes...

Excited to get my hands on this sequel to The Shadow Road by Saskatoon author @kurtkirchmeier.bsky.social!

“Write to the market.” You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.

The leaders of the country’s biggest white nationalist group believe that “the Nazis were right” and that a violent “race war” for Canada’s future is underway youtu.be/scR4OZX4g4s?...

Poem: ‘Snow’ by Andrew Motion

Happy birthday Jane Austen! You're looking pretty fresh for 250! p.s. @devoney.bsky.social 's Wild for Austen is highly recommended (including by me, as you can see).

Kudos to @josiahnelson.bsky.social for his excellent short fiction piece in the new issue of Brick! Clever, alchemical, eerie - a great read. @brickliterary.bsky.social

“You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.” —Alice Oswald

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

this is my #1 advice to grad students: anyone can reproduce jargon; the bigger flex is being able to make the argument in straightforward prose. clarity is indicative of deep thought and engagement. even chatGPT can write word salad.

Brandon Kilbourne, Natural History: poems / @graywolfpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/bran...

It's amazing how a few weeks away from a poem makes you see the cracks in it. Time is the best editor. Patience is better than any craft book.

icymi, wrote about how to not understand (but maybe enjoy!) John Ashbery's first book *Some Trees*. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/getting-co...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*. Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more. Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.

A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born #onthisday in 1757. Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd

Read what Carcanet's Managing Director, Michael Schmidt had to say about 'ChatGPT and the modern poet' in a recent article published in BookBrunch: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...

Being a writer is like surfing. Always hoping to catch the perfect wave, but most of your time will be spent paddling against the tide or just floating, waiting, eyes on the horizon while you watch other people riding their highs into the sunset. But you have to love the work more than the ride.

Amnesty International condemns Alberta’s use of Notwithstanding Clause to prop up anti-trans policies amnesty.ca/press-releas...

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

This sounds amazing! I’d be there if I didn’t have an MFA poetry session at the exact same time!

9 Nov 2025 --Heartbreaking op-ed in Teen Vogue by Katelyn Burns --"Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better" @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere). naomialderman.substack.com/p/november-i...

Please check your kid’s Halloween candy tonight. Apparently requests for a synopsis are being hidden in candy bars.

More than 460 people were reportedly killed in a North Darfur hospital that was overrun by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO said

(via Kelly Link @kellylink.bsky.social)

I wouldn’t tell anyone I’d won The Lottery but there would be signs… The signs: [getting stoned to death]

A haunted house but every room is just another person whose name you should definitely know by now

Hare riding a hound with a trained snail of prey Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390

Truss bridge at Dorothy, Alberta. 📷iPhone 16 Pro

I wrote about seeing Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews in conversation with Alexandra Schwartz at #NewYorkerFest. It was an emotional evening and I thank you in advance for reading about it: www.maureenlangloss.com/you-have-to-...

Delighted reading this food for thought piece by @naomialderman.bsky.social on my lunch break naomialderman.substack.com/p/the-best-a...

A useful animated video, illustrating how everyday noises—ones non-autistic people may not notice—can overwhelm an autistic person, in some cases leading to bolting and meltdowns that uninformed people dismiss as "autistic behaviors." Please watch and share. youtu.be/K2P4Ed6G3gw?... #neurodiversity