Happy Publication Day to the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee, @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social, and the long awaited, never duplicated HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

Issue One is live and full of nerve! Featuring work by @emmabolden.bsky.social, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social, @williamfargason.bsky.social, @sonyahuber.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social, @gabemontesanti.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social and more! www.nervetowrite.com/issue-1

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

Read Gooseberry Pie’s winning entries from our first writing competition 2 years ago, judged by world-famous Peg Mokrass …this year’s comp opens for submissions on April 1 with judge @danbillyc.bsky.social link to details about the competition is in comments gooseberry-pie.com/special-issu...

After a deluge of incredible reader applications and some very difficult decisions, we’re thrilled to announce our brand new 2026 Multigenre/Chapbook reading team! Please help us welcome the MG/C team, who along with our MG/C Editor Erin will be ready for your multigenre books when subs open on 4/1!

Still can’t believe I’m in this, along with some of my favorite flash fiction friends, including @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & @claudiamonpere.bsky.social 💕 Catching a plane today, & so excited to have this read on my travels 🤗 TYSM to @altcurrent.bsky.social & @southeastreview.bsky.social🙏

I'm finally allowed to reveal the cover for my book! This is Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies. It's coming from @beaconpress on September 29. Isn't it beautiful? Dan McCarthy is the artist and Louis Roe is the designer.

It should never be forgotten that MEL BROOKS had the World Premiere of BLAZING SADDLES (1974) take place at the Pickwick Drive-In Theater in Burbank, Los Angeles for 250 invited guests - ALL ON HORSEBACK.

I have a new book out this summer! Wolf’s Belly is a graphic novel illustrated by the incredible Simón Estrada. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Holly Mitchell is our featured author this week. Read America Marvel's interview with the author, in which Mitchell talks about narrative structure, in SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

I would be so much happier if I just wrote, read, played the occasional video game, and hung out with my dog and family, while doing my best to avoid any inkling of news about the horrors, but the idea is so antithetical to who I have always been: a person who knows things and cares about the world.

Thrilled to share that my new collection—Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment—is available for pre-order! It’s a book about belonging & becoming & finding our way together. I hope you will read it. ❤️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Lots of stuff to be sad about, but can confirm puppies are still awesome.

"Chang’s prose lets us float on the idea, and for a moment, breathe the world in and dream. Sometimes—maybe—it’s enough to touch the possibility of something more." This review from Claudine Lit left me teary-eyed. Huge thanks to @claudineliterary.bsky.social ❤️ Off to read the rest of the issue!

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

We’ve still got some space! Weird sword and sorcery? Beautiful body horror? Send it!

It's sign-up time! If you'd like to start SmokeLong Fitness in April, we are inviting all new members to join the workshop on March 25th to do some onboarding. Come write with us! Monthly subscriptions are possible until the end of March, then again in August. www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

In honor of the great @mattkendrick.bsky.social's 40th birthday, read this ridiculously joyful and weird flash from 2024 in @moonparkreview.bsky.social. I have thought about this story so many times since I first read it. moonparkreview.com/issue-29-fal...

Death finally worked up the courage to tell Chuck Norris he died 20 years ago. RIP (Roundhouse in Peace), legend.

The more time you can spend around creatives who value kindness and equal rights, the better. It can feel isolating to believe in those things right now, but even those of us who are islands in hostile waters are not alone. There is an archipelago of artistry and compassion if you just reach out.

Everything is so stupid.

"What if you don’t mention the dust-quiet room painted perfect egg-yellow, nothing but a mobile of flying storks I found in a thrift store" Wonderful use of anaphora in this HC piece from @therelphian.bsky.social in the @theprideroars.bsky.social theprideroars.blogspot.com/2026/03/flas...

In November 2025, SWWIM’s reading series at the Betsy-South Beach featured poets Taylor Byas @taylorbyas.bsky.social and Rosa Sophia Godshall. Here are some photos from that lovely evening. Keep an eye out for more highlights from our fall reading series!

New short & sweet yapping about AWP if yr interested

Supporting writers is our passion at Forge! To celebrate 10 years, we want to answer your questions about the submission process, editorial decision-making, and all things lit mag. Our managing editors Sara Crowley and Sarah Starr Murphy will be hosting an AMA here on 3/20, 7-8 pm EST. Come say hi!

So so excited to have my story “I’m Coming for you, Tom Petty” in the wonderful Indiana Review! 💫

Want to read some wild short story collections? I’m always searching for collections that combine horror, scifi, fantasy, and weird litfic. All of these do some segment of that perfectly! If you have any recs, drop them in the comments. I love learning about new short story collections!

The story I'm sharing for @smokelong.bsky.social's Flash in the Feed is Megan Pillow's "We All Know about Margo," which I read years ago but packs such a wallop that whenever someone asks about favorite flashes, it's the first one I mention. www.smokelong.com/stories/we-a...

they look like the regulars of a vampire-themed bar called TEETH in a canceled WB show from 2006

It’s clear that many billionaires are no smarter or wiser (and often far less deserving of success) than pro athletes or musicians, yet people scoff when the latter offer political opinions or advice on the state of the world. Shut up and dribble? Shut up and sing? Fuck that. Shut up and invest.

imagining the meeting where someone was like goal number one is to find a trendier, more whimsical term for attempted murder

This was a fun one! DMV writers, you should all be going to at least one of these! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7815...

Some very kind words from @kevharrison.bsky.social for A Fragile Thing. A Fragile Thing is out tomorrow from @watertowerhill.bsky.social #booksky #gothic #horrorwriting

I’m a winner, baby! check out my creepy new flash and the gorgeous art based on it

AHHHH! Wearing The Lion is a Nebula finalist for Best Novel!

This June, get ready for one hell of a terrifying anthology from @starsandsabers.bsky.social, OF DREAD, DECAY AND DOOM. Featuring an amazing TOC, including a new story from me! www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-dre...

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

This era and political movement have revealed beyond a doubt that many Americans simply don’t think non-Americans matter, or that they are actually even people. There is no way around this conclusion. As a nation, we must agree to accept we are part of a vibrant, larger world, not its master.

weekly talk story about @sfwp.bsky.social, @mooncityreview.bsky.social, @smokelong.bsky.social, Scrawl Place, crab cakes and saltfish and friends... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

Damn. This is the most cold blooded Onion headline ever. Mamba mentality.

The least shocking thing ever is learning DOGE used chatGPT to identify which grants were “DEI.” It is critical to understand that LLMs are an authoritarian technology meant to win the millennia-long war on critical thinking and art. They are a right wing wet dream.

A ten-year-old in PA is about to discover some legendary pokémon

Making up for days off with this absolutely stellar new story by Cathy Ulrich, “I Am Eating Bread and Crying on the Floor”: wigleaf.com

i am so, so grateful and so deeply honored to have a poem featured on @slowdownshow.org today. you can listen to the poem and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social’s beautiful thoughts on what we know and how we know it here: www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2026...

Since I have FOMO from missing AWP (again), maybe we can use this opportunity to get (re)acquainted from long-distance. Please link to three “getting to know you” pieces of writing. www.bureaudispatch.com/volume-04/ba... bestofthenetanthology.com/2023-2/nonfi... mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

We are excited to announce that every piece we publish in 2026 (our 10th anniversary) will be considered for our first annual Forge Editors’ Prize voted by our editors as story of the year. The announcement will be made in December and the prize will be $500.

It's Women in Horror Month! Here are some of my favorite horror and horror adjacent books by women that I think you should read. 🖤

Ronit Plank interviewed me @ SHE'S UNDER HERE. We had a good conversation about how hard it is to know anyone, including yourself, about moving around in time w/out losing the reader and finding an ending late in the writing and, especially, on keeping the faith. ronitplank.com/2026/03/10/l...