Look at what they have to face

Me: my back hurts all the time, it makes no sense Also me:

"Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it." - Anne LaBastille, WOODSWOMAN

This Saturday, 2 pm Eastern. Readers: Katherine Plumhoff, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Andrea Marcusa, Court Harler, Thaisa Frank, Brett Pribble, Jenn D’Alvia, C.Christine Fair, Jason Lee Norman. Register here for zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

If you're looking to support an organization that funds direct access abortion care, check out Lilith Fund. They operate in Texas and need our help, always! www.lilithfund.org

Tsunahikika-chan is a rope fairy from Yonabaru, a town in Okinawa where there’s an annual tug of war event.

Ollie the pig is the health promotion mascot for Shodoshima Island. He’s a health fanatic but also has metabolic syndrome. He loves eating olives from Shodoshima.

I saw not one, but TWO, Kingfishers this morning! Things are bad, but this is objectively not

Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

candidates showing actual guts even after being targeted by the cowardly powers that be, we love to see it

This message made me so happy! If you love a book, tell the author 🥰

Open for submissions. Send us a 6-sentence story with no more than 400 words. #microfiction gooseberry-pie.com/open-for-sub...

Steller's Jay in my backyard yesterday evening. #birds

Love this man's personal style www.reuters.com/science/anci...

things kind of stink now but you basically dont have to hear that pearl jam song "jeremy" anymore ever unless you actively want to hear it. it used to be you would be hear eddie vedder hooting like five or six times a day and you were powerless to stop it

It’s good and beautiful to be trans.

My dystopian flash appears in Writers Resist today. It was written after the election around the question plaguing me: What will it mean to be Black in Tr*ump's America? I hope you'll check it out. www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...

one day left in the @impavid.us -hosted #BiVisibilityWeek mega-bundle! check out romance, horror, SFF & more from bi & pan authors: itch.io/b/3263/bi-vi...

why is holding a shield so threatening to the men wielding swords?

It has arrived! The nation’s favourite short story anthology in a new shiny livery — grab yours now!

A little reminder that I'd love to be on your podcast, be interviewed, be reviewed, and all that good stuff for this new book! 🥹

For the first time ever, Zoom asked me if I was speaking Spanish (when I was actually speaking Spanish). I'm going to pretend this is means my accent isn't horribly atrocious

Save the date for 9/24!! @taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry @sundresspub.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Just giving this lil’ workshop a bump. Still have some space! 👇🏽

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was breakfast for dinner

@kathrynreese.bsky.social in @theargylelitmag.bsky.social with 5 food poems in her particular, startling vernacular “collateral scattered as cumin seeds/for flatbread.” “its once silken, oil-bathed skin blistered and creased” “You abandon your babe to the mother-tree-god” 🧡🧡🧡🔥🔥🔥

Excited to be in this issue: www.theargylelitmag.com/nonfiction-3...

Surprise! Issue #5 of The Argyle just dropped!!! Many thanks to all our amazing contributors, especially digital artist Paul Warren for yet another awesome cover. Enjoy! www.theargylelitmag.com

I've got a new story up at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social in Issue 4: Gastronomy! This started in a @francinewitte.bsky.social class, so many thanks to her for making me think about food 🍝🍲🥗 www.theargylelitmag.com/theme-04-gas...

Creative Nonfiction Editors Wanted! jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/c...

MA residents, good news on vaccines--not just Covid vax, either, which MA residents can now obtain at pharmacies. Insurance carriers in MA are mandated to cover ALL vaccines recommended by the MA Dept of Public Health, rather than relying just on the CDC www.mass.gov/news/governo...

The Flight of a Bird over the Plain III by Joan Miró, 1939 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137805

I can't imagine how difficult and unpredictable this was for your family. Great essay, and I'm pre-ordering the book today!

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

Thinking up titles

My fiction debut, SHOULDN'T WE DANCE? is at the printer. I can't believe it comes out in one month. My gratitude for @stanchion.bsky.social knows no limits. This little book is all about friendship, grief, and how stories help us remember even when it hurts. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Hello. Pleased to meet you. We come bearing new poetry, flash, micro and art. We’ll share one or two a day for the next week or so then grow some more as new work is revealed. templeinacity.com/explore-the-...

Near Beetham you’ll find the Fairy Steps. Carved into limestone rock, local tradition says that if you can negotiate them without touching the sides, fairies will grant you a wish! more in: "Folklore of the Lake District" bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #bookologythursday #booksky

🎶 She's going back to school 🎶 (sung to the tune of "Back in Time" by Huey Lewis & The News)

Submissions for Issue #6's holiday themed-page "Ghosts" are now OPEN!!!! Send us your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art between now and November 30, 2025 by 11:59 PM CST! Check out the submission guidelines for "Ghosts" and start submitting!!! www.theargylelitmag.com/submissions-1

The hobbit (Homo floresiensis) was discovered #OnThisDay in 2003. Here she is that day in all her smallness, still embedded in the cave floor of Liang Bua. 📸 Wahyu Saptomo

Somebody alert the Florida DOT

Reminder from my best friend: when you have success, sit with it. Snuggle in it. Don't run from it (like you're so used to doing with failure).

These libraries and organizations host huge sales this time of year, with prices for used titles typically from 50 cents to $5.

Rebranding the week between vacation and school starting as Mama Camp really helps us both, psychologically

We would love to see you

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website theonion.com/doj-rem...

Hours away from subs closing. Are you ready? We are. Join the fun and the fam. The fun fam. Etc. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

We write to share the tragic news that Electric Literature's former Deputy Editor, Jo Lou, passed away on July 8, 2025. What she meant to our community cannot be measured. To memorialize Jo, we have gathered tributes from EL staff and contributors. Please join us in remembering her buff.ly/ZmOEUDR