A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.

Modern times have taken hypocrisy and gaslighting to heights we never could have imagined just decades ago. It’s like watching Nero win re-election while running on a platform of fire prevention and banning violin music

COVER REVEAL! Behold GODFESTATION, my Appalachian weird horror novella, out August 11, 2026 via @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social. Art by Danika Corall. Read more and see the cover art here: jendiagammon.com/202... #horror #books #coverreveal #2026books #horrorbooks

Two years into publication, it’s still amazing to see The Top Road @adhocfiction.bsky.social on its travels! Thank you @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social ❤️

New newsletter today! No raccoons (I know WUT???), but a few book recommendations (including “Bitter Over Sweet” by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, “Lives of the Dead” by @fionamckay.bsky.social, and “Skin Thief” by @sillysyntax.bsky.social) buttondown.com/mxaniking/ar...

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers. "Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

It’s not like Hannibal Lecter was a REAL cannibal. He only ate PARTS of people. It’s not like he was eating ENTIRE people like a real cannibal does. Plus, a lot of those livers could have passed as animal livers. He wasn’t eating obvious people parts like faces. He was into the barely legal meat.

I was considering canceling my Wild Life: Kathy Fish stories inspired asynchronous workshop, but if we can get a few more people to sign up, we'll have a great, intimate group! It starts 11/30 and costs $135. DM if interested! More details on my website!

"...crouching before the blue god of short flames in his black metal cave, winking at me like a dozen butterfly wings, sucking moisture from my lips in return for brief comfort." Read my latest CNF in @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/dressing-in-...

There are a few ways to participate in SmokeLong workshops these days. You can jump into Promptember (free) or test SmokeLong Fitness in December and January. Or both! Come write with us! www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

"Sure, I chose to be here, and yes, I could almost certainly find a job elsewhere, but redoing my résumé would take time. Also, I don’t feel like it. Besides, once a year, my company mandates all employees to help clean up a local beach, and I almost always go."

Reading has brought me such great joy in my life, but, damn, has it also caused me terrible pain these last years. Literacy is a path to madness now. Every day, every news story, is an invitation for those of us cursed by the gods with basic reading comprehension to blind ourselves Oedipus-style.

I’ve read a few books by @laurelhightower.bsky.social now & she is the Queen of Trauma and Grief Horror, an incredible author! Day of the Door is exactly as @haileypiperfights.bsky.social describes- “an intense shard of trauma, poised to cut you.” Get it NOW from @ghoulish.bsky.social #horrorwriters

Say I wrote a novella-in-flash. And say it's coming out in Dec with @publishedbyjake.bsky.social. Would anyone be interested in a wee sneak peek of the cover (by @nmals.bsky.social)???

Check out as @garykwolfe reviews THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY 2025 edited by @nnedi.bsky.social & @johnjosephadams.com

Just finished BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social 🌺🐛 Let Melissa take you to Hawaii, the real Hawaii, with all its grit and beauty! Highly recommend this flash collection 💫

Congratulations to all the books nominated in the opening round for the Goodreads Choice Awards! Ps. King Sorrow is Horror *here are some books that should be considered for horror

Our third Promptember write-in event starts in a couple of hours. 8pm NYC. You can still jump in and write with us. It's free. Because some things in life are free. www.smokelong.com/product/prom...

Over 110 publications re-opened today, including @burnsidereview.bsky.social @cosmicrootsonline.bsky.social @hobocampreview.bsky.social @pulpasylum.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @rhppress.bsky.social @altcurrent.bsky.social https://duotrope.com...

What fictional villain traumatized you as a kid?

BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social made @msmagazine.com's list of November 2025 Reads! buff.ly/JmWs33l Make sure to get BITTER OVER SWEET today! buff.ly/bBDbW53 @susanschulman.bsky.social

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:

Funny how it’s performative reading now. Back when I was younger, people just called it being a dork. The strangest part of getting older has been witnessing all the nerdy things I teased for loving as a kid become so trendy, people now get accused of trying to look cool by doing them in public.

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

“...an exploration of trauma, grief, and healing that invites the reader to celebrate the courage to allow ourselves to be undone and the beauty of the in-between moments that precede real growth and change.” — Barlow Adams, Writer and Essayist Thank you @barlowadams.bsky.social ❤️

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should

Book mail from my girl @laurelhightower.bsky.social

Join us for the next reading on December 13 to raise funds for Trans Lifeline and listen to live lit from: @readinstead.bsky.social @barlowadams.bsky.social @dmurphy.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @monostich.bsky.social @j-tkelly.bsky.social Check out the link in my pinned post.

Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴

Finished a story tonight. Kind of forgot I could do that.

One week to go until #TheMikey deadline. Although that’s 8 days, today being Saturday and there being until midnight next Saturday to enter. We know yesterday’s post said 7 days, but that person “doesn’t count the same”, so November 15 is also now further away. Did we say we aren’t numbers people?

I’m still buzzing from my awesome book launch!! Thank you Deesha Philyaw for being a part of it and for your wonderful questions and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social for being an amazing host. Thank you to everyone who came and thank you to my friends who helped and supported me ❤️❤️❤️

@smokelong.bsky.social is simply the best.

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

Lit mag friends: I have a couple of undergrads who would be amazing readers for your journal. And one is looking for a summer internship, specifically (for grad hours, unpaid). Anyone have a spot to offer?

For America to progress, there must be a general consensus that Trump is far closer to being an authoritarian than Mamdani is to being a communist. Until this happens, we will continue to let Trump violate every corner of the Constitution while treating social help programs as threats to democracy.

The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime. We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.

New editor interview with @marissavu.bsky.social about Violet Lichen Books and the upcoming anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION!

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

My five year-old thinks sickness and medicine fistfight in his body when he takes Tylenol and the winner determines if he feels better or not, and by my calculations, this makes him qualified to be the new United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. Congratulations to my kid!

Teapots that beep instead of whistle are just sad. I don’t care if it’s electronic, you get a fake whistle on that bitch! Otherwise, it’s like if the horn on a train sounded like a phone ringing.

So honored to be nominated! Thank you @folklorereview.bsky.social!

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

COFFIN MOON JUST GOT A FOURTH PRINTING! Again, thanks so much to everyone giving this book a shot, means the world. bookshop.org/p/books/coff...

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

My new cosmic horror / cursed film story that answers that age old question of “where did that strange spooky door come from?” is out in the world :)

Okay so! If you're in some kind of... time zone... I am in Paris and about to do an event with Nuage Vert bookstore that apparently will be streamed on le Instagram??? www.instagram.com/librairielen...