If you are not from Jersey or haven’t lived in Jersey you cannot comment on diner culture. Your state does not understand or experience true diner culture. You are an outsider to diners. This is not up for debate.

An older release with a new life. The Beautiful Ones changed imprints and it has a new cover. Find it via Netgalley www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... A little magic, a lot of heart. This is a novel of manners with romance and a fantastical element. Recommended if you're seeking a light, frothy read.

we have a very well written 200 word story by Sam Carradetti @samcorradetti.bsky.social ! it’s about the difference between what a person likes to wear (‘ripped jeans and dirty flip-flops’) & what they’re expected to wear (‘lace, sequins, tulle, fringe, satin’) xraylitmag.com/appraisal-by...

My short story “We Are Sorry For Your Suffering” - a sci-fi epistolary tale about the end of the world - is the December issue of @onestorymag.bsky.social! Read an excerpt and an interview with me (and/or order a copy!) here. It’s surprisingly hopeful! one-story.com/product/we-a...

Shout out to the Finalists of the 2025 Literary Awards Program pt 4: @samcorradetti.bsky.social, Maryann Ifeanacho, Stephen Haines, @lindsaystenico.bsky.social, @barrettbowlin.bsky.social, Jamy Bond, Terese Svoboda, Amanda Sarasien, Anjoli Roy, Kaitlin Lavinder, & Matt Smythe! buff.ly/W9BV5sP

We're thrilled to share that the Long List for the 2025 Literary Awards Program is now live! buff.ly/W9BV5sP

Thank you @sfwp.bsky.social for including my manuscript on the Santa Fe Writers Project 2025 Literary Awards Long List! My novel, Heartbeaten, is in elite company. Check out the full list here: www.sfwp.com/2025-awards-...

Also, I have some copies—both hardcover and paperback—that I'd be happy to sign. If you're interested in one, DM me! (shipping within US only please)

New on Fright Girl Summer: @vlatinalondon.bsky.social’s book recommendations for Hispanic Heritage Month! What are you reading between now and October 15? Beyond?

Bookshop is offering 20 percent off select titles to celebrate Latin American Heritage Month, including THE BEWITCHING and other books (The Great Divide, Pink Slime, etc). Use code LHM25 at checkout to receive 20% off. bookshop.org/lists/adult-...

Less than a month until #DVpit, a pitch event for marginalized creators looking to find an agent & get traditionally published! Here's a reminder of the rules! For more guidelines & info go to dvpit.carrd.co See you all at DVpit on October 8th, 2025! #writersky #booksky

@giano.bsky.social talked to @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social about inspiration for the characters and setting for AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY! www.lapl.org/collections-... (And the JOY of first drafts)

This book comes out in like, 11 days! Do you like international heists? Do you like complex characters? Do you like queer boys? Do you like dark magic? Do you like social commentary? Then this book is for you! And the special edition is so beautiful! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to [email protected] by Tuesday, September 2nd!

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

📣Official #DVPit Rules & Guidelines are LIVE📣 Please go to dvpit.carrd.co for our official rules & guidelines! Any official announcements will ALWAYS be made here, Discord, or dvpit.carrd.co ONLY* #DVPit will be Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM ET-8PM ET! *No other website or URL represents us or our event!

Akwaeke Emezi considers the making of beauty (and the beauty of nothing).

I wrote about literature as an unending conversation, genres as dialogues, and writing as adding your voice to the chat countercraft.substack.com/p/the-grand-...

This coming Sunday I'm moderating a conversation between Jesi Bender & Sarah Handley-Cousins at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca: 8/24, 2pm! We're gonna talk about Spiritualism, science, feminism, Victorian culture, and approaches to research for fiction & nonfiction! Info on their books in replies!

"The Shell" is a contemporary zombie retelling of Tancredi and Ghismonda. Thank you to the American Boccaccio Association for supporting my work!

Read this beautiful debut from my @bookendssbu.bsky.social friend @giano.bsky.social 🥳 AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY follows an eclectic group of skeptics and believers on a search for Bigfoot, exploring how we classify what is real, and how we process that which defies classification. Rating: 5/5 cryptids

Ahhh! I'm so excited to share my inflatable dad story in Short Story, Long! Who could ask for a more thoughtful editor than @aaronburch.bsky.social and a more fitting artist than ‪@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social? (No one, that's who!) ‬

Congratulations to alum @giano.bsky.social, whose BookEnds novel AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social) charges into the world today!

We always do 🌈

NEA just cut $350k from lit mags & programs. We don't have that, but we do have $5k and want to help mags grow in a healthier way. $1k each to 5 lit mags willing to try something new. Just tell us your plan for making your mag financially sustainable in 1 yr App: forms.chillsubs.com/incubator

Got a vanilla with hot fudge last night to celebrate passing my final field exam 🥳

This is tomorrow! It's been so long since I've read the book, I hope I remember anything in it! 😂

It's the end times, might as well write that book, people. 🖤 Come write 1000 words a day with 52,000 other people for two weeks straight. Starts tomorrow, see you then! #1000wordsofsummer let's gooooo 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/1000wordso...

Put the word out that we're back. Think of us. We open 4/20 for a short window for a print issue in the fall. We want poems, prose, art, comics & beyond. Free to submit, free to read online always, we now pay $150 + comp copies + eternal literary infamy. More prestigious than the Paris Review.

Thanks Chicago Story Press for publishing my Nonfic piece chicagostorypress.com/literary-jou... #booksky

There is an ice cream stand three blocks from my house called Sugar Lips and one spring day it will re-open for the season and I will know joy once more.

Love and gratitude to our co-founding director @susanmerrell.bsky.social, who will be stepping down from BookEnds in 2026. Read more about Susie's path in her essay "Holding the Novel," published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Link in our bio. @stonybrooku.bsky.social

You have to stay alive, you know. You have to stay alive to grow older and be petty. Then when certain individuals try to say they were always on the right side of history, you can be as loud as possible to correct the record.

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Something different - a creative piece with a critical introduction, bringing medieval alchemy into a contemporary story. Thanks to Ceræ for supporting my work ✨ ceraejournal.com/volume-11-20...