very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House! www.thedollhouse.studio

Submissions open Thursday, Feb 12, 10–11am ET (for a full hour!) 🧨 🎆 Open to all genres, 800 words max, one piece only. Gotta be one or the other of these, ideally both: * about magic and beauty and wonder * speculative/fantastical/absurdist autofiction www.havehashad.com/hadposts/tac...

really dug these excerpts and the accompanying call is great, I'm looking forward to what people write for this!

Fucker Bowl

Coming March 6th, 2026, LOVE THAT FOR US by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) and Sam Herschel Wein (@samforbreakfast.bsky.social) is now available for pre-order!! www.andchangepoetry.com/books/p/love...

~15 of us hopped on zoom last night and chatted about a short story for almost two hours. was super fun! if you're interested in being on an email list for the future, lemme know! I don't have a next story picked but, looking at my shelves, maybeee... Pam Houston, Evenson, Lipsyte, or Ostlund??

I accidentally slept straight through this and missed the chance to talk about that massage scene, damn my sleepy ass. This story did inspire a short story of my own, though.

I have things to submit but like no will to slog through the submissions process

I drew Ethel Cain in MacPaint from 1984 with a 25 year old mouse

we could instead be having a conversation about where we receive craft "rules" from & how that shapes editor taste & what gets perpetuated & whose voices get uplifted & what mags, if any, are genuinely publishing outsider work & how knowledge reproduction happens. we could do some power analysis.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

post a photo from your camera roll no one else has ever seen

hi. book. lmk if you want an arc. and preorder now!!! :D

Did you hear about the Black man? The Black woman? Black boys? With a rope? From a tree? Bodies becoming ornaments. Dismissed then silenced then overlooked then added to the number of Black bodies who never came home. A powerful piece by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social

I rarely write micros but somehow this one found its way into the welcoming arms of the latest issue of Ghost Parachute AND will be included in the upcoming Ghost Parachute Anthology (available at #AWP26 in Baltimore)! ghostparachute.com/issue/februa...

I'm short story crazy and buying art & supporting good ppl doing good shit is one of the primary reasons to make money, so I just went to this link bought 4 books that grabbed my attention. I'll send a copy of my book TACOMA to the next 3 people who order something from Evening House and tell me.

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

send me something to read tonight pls & ty

Trust me, I've been doing this totally accidentally in a burrito costume for 7 years. I’ve intimidated the Paris Review, gotten grilled by the New Yorker, and stumbled ass backwards into the Simon and Schuster offices and I'm telling you none of this is real. All of these assholes are making it up

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Feuchtwanger was one of the first writers to warn the world about Hitler and Nazism, and had been relentless in his verbal attacks on them, so the Nazis ransacked his Berlin apartment (in his absence) immediately in '33 He later wrote an open letter to the new occupant It's GLORIOUS hater content:

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56

for my Deaf friends, here are the lyrics

been experimenting with music and did this ACAB prose poem called Pigworld I feel good about on.soundcloud.com/8ycYu8HJSTnn...

Applications are open! For now, lol--we're capping them at 275 (and we tend to hit our caps) splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/34364...

Don’t blame anybody for not being able to do it. We can’t really afford to be doing it either, but we are. It’s not the superior choice, just a choice. If you don’t mind the ask, we’d love for people to check out the site and consider an online order tonight or this weekend Eveninghousebooks.com

In case yall didn’t see, @eveninghouse.bsky.social is gonna be closed in solidarity with the national strike tomorrow. This month has been brutally slow with the snow and general conditions, but we’ve both been overwhelmed by the news and wanted to participate in some way, but it was a rough call

I could say it all day every day, but fuck fuck fuck the new york times

a writer's voice is what they do despite being warned against it coincidentally this is also what it's like to live with lactose sensitivity

YES WE ARE DOING THIS AGAIN, but this time, it's for our brand new Multigenre + Chapbook team: our MG/C editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social, is looking for readers to join their 2026 MG/C reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED! More details forthcoming on the app, which will be available on Fri Jan 30!

The starving crocodiles that have been released onto this ship full of children need better training, proper monitoring, and also must cease any unnecessary eating NOW. No children on the lido deck or 1st class should EVER be consumed. That's why I'm voting an additional $44B for crocodiles.

If you want to read a book by a pretentious NY stoner about a Hobbesian Leviathan attacking the East Coast and devouring people who have to escape the Flesh Zone and destroy New Atlantis, you can get a copy here for any price and I'll donate any proceeds I make for the next month to mutual aid

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

Hi, I'm a pundit. I have no clear skill set and no training. My opinions are never right and much more often dogshit than cogent. It's vitally important that everyone hear me scream them at the top of my lungs.

let me put it this way. if you do not believe ICE should be abolished, you probably DO need to watch the video

If I say what should happen to every ICE and border patrol stooge, every government official above them, every so-called representative hemming and hawing and ultimately letting all of this unfold without resistance, I'll be banned so fast there'll be a Gretchen-shaped hole in the internet

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

What's striking is that it is so obvious fascism doesn't work, that it is a huge glowing red flag when someone reacts civilly to it. Like if someone told you that you could cure a cold by drinking bleach, you would not be expected to debate them about this in a civil manner.

March on, march on

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

Hey internet strangers, a long time writer friend of mine and one of the earliest supporters of TBQ suffered a stroke this week and if using my platform can help his beautiful family in any way, I'm happy to do it! gofund.me/212e79a0f

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

Hey, the excellent Minneapolis arts and culture magazine Racket took down their paywall for the day, so you can go read their coverage of the occupation unhindered. Start here: racketmn.com/voices-of-th...

"Fascism pathologizes the wrong things, locating illness in the individual’s normal stress response...as they attempt to purchase reality at the end of a gun and prop up incoherent narratives by running news media like reality tv and a tent revival." open.substack.com/pub/notesfro...

In this series of poems all titled Another Universe, I explore worlds like one where I have a massive hog and another where I have a baby and one where I throw an orgy with my own clones and others