it's here! my first publication of 2026!

"The mouth of the mother is the mouth of a wolf." this prose poem by @tearley.bsky.social is 🔥 poets.org/poem/vacatio...

Enjoy your Sunday evening, Jerome Powell.

One of mine in @havehashad.com #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Playing Uncle John’s Band, as one must. 2026, you are off to a terrible start.

Bob Weir photographed by Linda McCartney, San Francisco, 1967.

what is "the beginning" of a story? it's the thing you work on the entire time

in an era of book banning, putting books in the hands of teens in western NC is a cause near and dear to my heart. that's why I'm matching all gifts needed to fund this library project via @donorschoose.bsky.social: www.donorschoose.org/giving/amys-...

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

Tears every day.

Advanced Reader Copies of my debut novel have arrived! I am over the moon! Preorder link in comments! @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #thecurseofhestergardens #tamikathompson

This is available now, for inspiration and comfort. @karenschauber.bsky.social #FlashFiction

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

Disclaimer: We do not give out actual crowns.

We’re having a super proud mom moment for @aniking.bsky.social being selected for the 2026 Best Microfiction anthology! 🎉 And huge thanks to the editors of @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social & @dseuss.bsky.social for your hard work and care in selecting these pieces. Congrats to all the winners!

"The children saw their chance." This week's hex is a wonder, a magical game of hide and seek, an absolute beauty! A children's game that slips into something so much more. Dreamy, and oozing with life, we are so lucky and thrilled to feature @sbfeldman.bsky.social's "Enthrall!" Go check it out!

Mothra Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Happy Epiphany to all those who celebrate. Enjoy your cake. You should have some happiness today. 👑

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO MEEEEEE! Buy my book because I can (unfortunately) guarantee that you will need it someday. And if you have to figure this stuff out, you might as well laugh about it while you learn. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789600...

Five years ago.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Subs are open until Jan 12! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Behold DIAGRAM 25.4: thediagram.com/25_4/index.html

This story made it onto the recommendations list for The Best Horror of the Year: Vol. 17, edited by Ellen Datlow. It's always nice to be recognized alongside such great writers. www.houseofgamut.com/magazine/dat...

New year new story! Happy to have this one with Ghost Parachute

"I’m having an affair with distance. The morning house is settled and known. I sip coffee, listen to the lonely call of the 4am freight train,...." My lord. I love, love this piece by @dinalrelles.bsky.social so much. In @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social 💙💙💙 www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/me...

That's right. And it's the Wolf Moon.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Latin American Coups promoted by the United States

While I was gone @jjlofflin.bsky.social published this weird and wonderful piece. You should really make time for it.

all X-R-A-Y subs will be open on... friday ! january 2 ! at noon ! arizona time ! subs will be open until we reach our monthly caps -- we tend to reach those caps in like 30 mins to an hour. we open for subs every month on the 1st. thank u for considering us !

This is really beautiful and perfect for this time of year. Happy New Year to @melostrom.bsky.social & Mocha!

I've submitted two pieces so far this new Year's Day and now I'm thinking I should aim for a fairy-tale third. So much for resolving not to be so superstitious.

Happy New Year from the cool kids!

New year. Same mission. Louder voices.📣 Here’s to 2026, continuing the fight for wolves. Happy New Year from our pack to yours. 🐺

after submitting & publishing only one or zero stories per year since my book four years ago, I am proud to say I had 9 new stories (+1 reprint) published in some very wonderful journals in 2025. thanks so much to the editors & readers. you can find links at my website: annavangalajones.com/writing/

I’m checking out a little early this year. Be safe and happy.

"It hurt that they liked Candy better than me. Every Friday we sat in Erica’s basement, red scarves draped over lamps, incense from the Spencer’s Gifts burning on the coffee table, our preteen bodies hunched over a Ouija board." 🔥 from Madeline Anthes https://www.havehashad.com/z6zto

If you’re a parent and a writer, then you should write children’s lit or YA. Try it! You’re a natural. (Don’t call me when your kid is screaming.)

Happy Solstice; Issue 34 of MoonPark Review is here! moonparkreview.com/issue-34-win...

“Eventually we must act, set in motion a process that will push us closer to the open wound.” Patti Smith, Bread of Angels #SundaySentence

Upon being released from prison in December 2013 after serving time for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” Russian political activist Maria Alyokhina observes that she and her fellow Pussy Riot punk group members “arrived in a different country.”

Thrilled to have a poem in @crowkeys.bsky.social!

Happy Solstice from the dead trees the woodpeckers love.

Today, French lawmakers unanimously approved a bill exonerating women punished for abortion before it was legalized in 1975. This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said Aurore Bergé, minister-delegate for gender equality.

To find a home for my speculative, scary short story collection.

An image a day for December 2025 no 18. Anemone! In myth, anemones were said to have sprung forth from the blood of Adonis after he was fatally wounded by a boar and Aphrodite decreed he would live on as a flower. In Mrs Burke's language of flowers dictionary, anemones meant 'forsaken'.