To ight!! All writers who also have kids and their allies are very welcome! 6:30 March 30 www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Happiness is not hating your boss

Really great video on creative use of AI - change the frame from “I hate AI” to “who is governing AI?” youtu.be/tv_3L_1avKM?...

Vampires vs Bigfoot medium.com/counterarts/... #offbroadway #monstermusicals

Counter Arts just published Vampires vs Bigfoot. Give a read. #review #theater #theatre #NYC #nyctheater #bigfoot #vampires #horror medium.com/counterarts/...

Our fellowship for new parents is also open as well as a contest for full tuition to Paris Writers at penparentis.submittable.com/submit 👇👇👇👇 #creativewriting #writingcommunity #writers

open.substack.com/pub/thetrans... if you like my writing read this - Ben is one of my inspirations. Also read this if you’ve ever found a second love. Especially if the second love outshines the first. Also read if you love Old New York City bodegas #fiction #divorce #NYC #beautiful

Right now thursday 1-2pm at T734 @penparentis.bsky.social author Jessica Manack doing signings. #awp26 #awp#readatpenparentis

Right now at ⁦‪@PenParentis‬⁩ bookfair T734 Heidi Kasa is signing! Also we have info on how parents who write can get MORE MONEY — Heidi 9am-10am Thursday #awp26 #awpbookfair

I'm so happy - my essay about writing and AI got accepted and was published moments before #AWP26 - it can't be better timing and already has 125 "claps'! At last a calling card! long.sweet.pub/how-i-learne...

Open for subs for anyone with a kid under 10 — tell your friends about @penparentis.bsky.social

Sign up for our February literary salon: Fluid Boundaries all are welcome. Penparentis.org/

ICYMI: How to introduce yourself at your Ivy League Writer-Agent mixer to old-guard literary agents and… medium.com/p/how-to-int...

So….anyone else seeing Hal?

Are you free tonight (tuesday 2/13) at 7pm ET? @penparentis.bsky.social is interviewing four writers who are parents to see how they do it. Short poetry readings & audience-driven content. Join the conversation while folding laundry—we get it: www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-poe...

boldjourney.com/m-m-de-voe-o... feeling groovy - the photos at the end are 🔥

Slam Frank should come with a warning. Perhaps: “THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM CONTAINS MESSAGES AND DUE TO ITS CONTENT SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED BY ANYONE." Also pee first. There’s no intermission. Yes it really is a musical. Schedule at least an hour for drinks after. #theater #theatre #offbroadway #slamfrank

I am grateful for the kindness of friends.

Something gentle and short to get you through this gray day and maybe to the end of this crazy month: #NYC #survival #hanginthere #manhattan #authorthougts #november mmdevoe.medium.com/ode-to-new-y...

This was written. mmdevoe.substack.com/p/story-of-m...

Pen Parentis is up for an Anthem Community Voice Award! Help us get to first place by searching for our organization and showing your support at celebrate.anthemawards.com #AnthemAwards

ATTENTION: @PenParentis is in 9th place to win an Anthem Community Voice Award! 👏 Rally the troops to celebrate now!: celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting... #AnthemAwards #writers #writerparents #readatpenparentis #writercommunity #parentwriters

Join Pen Parentis on November 11 in conversation with Helen Philips, Scott Elliott, David Ebenbach, and Anca L Szilágyi, discussing artificial intelligence. www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial... #writerscommunity #writing #writercommunity #parentwriter #writerparent #events #readatpenparentis

You can have your pretty nature walks, I love my October skyscrapers. (Okay I love my nature walks too, damn you Fall!)

Gotta hand it to this guy, he didn’t let the season fester. #halloween2025 #preseason #NYC #newyorkcity

ATTENTION: @PenParentis is in 10th place to win an Anthem Community Voice Award! 👏 Rally the troops to celebrate now!: celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting#/…#AnthemAwardsd#writersr#writingcommunityt#writererscommunityt#authorsrs pleas#sharer#reposts#amplifyf#parentst#creativewritingng

E.E. Cummings once had a collection of poems rejected by 14 publishers. When he eventually got it published as "No Thanks" in 1935, he dedicated it to those 14 publishers in a visual poem shaped like a funeral urn

I’m hosting a deep dive conversation with 3 authors who variously connect to this theme on Oct 14 online with co-host Christina Chiu. Any authors who have kids are very welcome to tune in to the livecast and chat in questions on this topic. RSVP for the link www.eventbrite.com/e/1626784439...

Sometimes life kicks you in the nuts and you don’t even have nuts.

In case you feel your life could use a change: www.tanzerben.com/blog/this-po...

Things you find in the back alleys of NYC —

Fun Pen Parentis event tonight at BKBF

Do you follow the accounts of posts you share? Let’s find out. #science

Come see me and Ben Tanzer in Chicago tonight!! Tickets are free www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

I wrote this! Let me know what you think! #fantasy #newwork #goodmarket #writingcommunity #recommended open.substack.com/pub/workspro...

GET INTO GEAR THIS SUMMER - Pen Parentis INTRODUCING – THE SUMMER SPRINT! Stuck on a writing project that just won’t budge? You’re not alone—and you don’t have to push through it on your own #writing #parentingdonewrite #writercommunity #parentwriter #writerparent

Hella good time in #cleveland and you bought books! Thanks for turning out!! Shots of local Krupnikas were the best!

Hey! Are you in #cleveland and love #books? Want to go to a weird event? Wednesday July 2 I am reading from A FLASH OF DARKNESS at the #lithuanian club! Program entirely in English and will be quirky - I hear there will be “Vings” (not joking: Vendesday Vings. Come meet me. My stories are weird too!

It happened - a @penparentis.bsky.social public event in NYC — open to all book lovers. Headlined by V Efua Prince and Ethan Rutherford. Attended by many authors - a great time was had by all. Photos and write up attached penparentis.org/manhattan-20...

Join me Tuesday - www.eventbrite.com/d/ny--new-yo...

I am in Copenhagen and that’s my last stop. I did Zagreb, Prague, Vienna and Vilnius. Everywhere is identically demanding I explain what happened to America. Here’s vilnius where no one is armed and everyone is enjoying themselves responsibly because they know how to be happy adults. #travel

Traveling in Zagreb after signing my separation agreement (a 30 year marriage I thought solid was actually made of paper). Drifted into the Museum of Broken Relationships and the cashier said “how many?” I just looked at her. #walkwithme #zagreb #travel #croatiatravel @brokenships.bsky.social

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So proud to have been part of so many authors’ lives 🩷

The Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents: $2000, a year of mentorship, and the opportunity to read online at a Pen Parentis Literary Salon. Deadline: April 17th @penparentis.bsky.social @mmdevoe.bsky.social penparentis.org/fellowship/

Stop doom scrolling - come watch four authors Discuss Addictions/Compulsions at the Next Pen Parentis Salon - tonight at 7pm Eastern - online! www.pw.org/literary_eve...

So this happened in my neighborhood: #fidi #nyc #newYorkCity #travel #tourism #destination #shopping #funny medium.com/@mmdevoe/we-...

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