This makes my heart sing: the Arlington County library is hosting a pride senior prom 🏳️‍🌈 📚 No date required! arlingtonva.libcal.com/event/15777374

This is so cool! Terrestrial will be read by the Page Turners Book Club at the Parklands-Turner branch of the DC public library thanks to @chrisstevenson.bsky.social dclibrary.libnet.info/event/16474479

Writers, if you can spare the dough (and have a manuscript ready to go), do this. It's how I signed with my agent last summer! www.awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Memb...

Proud women's college graduate here, checking in to say this is bullshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Are you interested in a bird watching trip on Sunday?

I had a ploughmans 28p which was a bit steep.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Pleased as punch to have a new short story up at Jet Fuel Review! Thank you to the editors for including this one. www.jetfuelreview.com/joanna-theis...

Frog and Toad were caught in the rain. They ran to Frog’s house. “I am all wet,” said Toad. “The day is spoiled.” “Have some tea and cake,” said Frog. “The rain will stop. If you stand near the stove, your clothes will soon be dry.”

Hot Flash Literary is now open for submissions for Issue 4!! Theme: Instant Karma. We will be open through June 12. Subs are open to women-identifying writers; we welcome flash and flash-like prose poetry up to 500 words. Read full guidelines here: hotflashliterary.com/submissions/

Gray and Silver: A Nocturne https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.361

Issue 36 of Emerge Literary Journal, an all prose issue, is LIVE and it is phenomenal! Check it out! Shout out to @DianeGotAuthor for her tremendous work in curating and editing! emergeliteraryjournal.com/current-issu...

It is an honor to be featured in the latest California Native Plant Society magazine Flora! CNPS has been hugely important through various stages of my career development and I am grateful for their continued support. 💚

Thanks for the shoutout, Duotrope!

A Yellow Warbler bopping his way to the end of the branch while on the hunt for insects.

Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳

Protesters at anti-war protest in Boston, May 1971 These photos along with others (and paintings going back to colonial times) that document protest for all kinds of rights over 250 yrs are on display at the Copley Branch of BPL for exhibit called REVOLUTION! 250 YEARS OF ART + ACTIVISM IN BOSTON

So thrilled to be running a 6-Sentence Story Workshop collaboratively with Jeff Harvey of the wonderful @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social from May 1st- May 3rd. There are a few spaces left. pokrassprompts.substack.com/p/6-sentence...? #FlashFiction #ShortStory

This small blue perfume flask from Jericho, in ancient Canaan, dates back to 1650–1550 BCE. Cosmetics and toiletries were highly valued in many ancient societies, with both men and women wearing eye make-up and using perfume, and even using various forms of hair dye.

One week left before submissions close. Tell us about the fields set to fire, of the fires put out, of the smoldering in your chest. What time does. What life does.

Try to only panic about one thing at a time.

“Don't stand by while human life is destroyed.” #tdih 1965: largest anti-war protest in D.C. up till then. Number of marchers close to number of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. Organizers prepared an exam: “How much do you know about the war?” Check it out. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la...

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur. And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops). Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

Opening for submissions on Monday April 27th. www.stanchionzine.com/submissions

Jane Ormes, contemporary UK printmaker based in Bristol #WomensArt

The killdeer are everywhere, on the grass and in the desert. They follow me to show their broken wing routine. Glendale, AZ, US #birds, #nature, #wildlife, #photography

My chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN is now available from Bottlecap Press. The pieces explore marginal life and have magical or fantastical elements. They're sad but I hope you enjoy them. #booksky #fiction #bottlecappress bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd

If only I had time to write! [makes time to write] Ah now I have time to do the dishes

ICYMI-FBOMB Flash reading. youtu.be/eYoS7ypcybg?...

Montana has figured out a way to put the screws to Citizens United. Good. All states need to do what the gutless SCOTUS won't.

I'll be reading at this tonight!

Somewhere along the line, I decided I wrote either novels or micros, but then I wrote a 2,000 word story that was just accepted. So I guess, don't put yourself in a writing box

A Roman gladiator frozen in his final fight: this funerary relief shows Peneleos, a heavily armed murmillo, who won eleven fights in the arena - and seems to have died in his twelfth. Dating 3rd century AD and found in Türkiye. From the collection of Antikensammlung Basel. 📷 me 🏺 #reliefwednesday

Got excited when I found the first instance of a woman appearing in the Congressional Record, in 1916. Until I realized that she was a white supremacist and the speech was about the value of slavery.

Calling all high school and college writers! The 206 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose are open for submissions through May 1, judged by the brilliant Leila Chatti and Karissa Chen. theadroitjournal.org/adroit-prizes/

This 100 word story is perfection. @100wordstory.bsky.social @tracyroyce.bsky.social 100wordstory.org/what-she-wore/

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

Preorder your Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival merch! This year's tee is bringing medieval vibes so you know it will sell out

Female serial killers in real life: 16% So why are so many of the serial killers in books and movies female?

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

The stuff about him has been known for years of course but it's heartening that people are finding out

I thought of such a good idea for a sign but I don't feel like making it (90% chance this will be on someone's sign at the protest tomorrow)

Embarrassing search of the day: how to cook bacon stovetop

It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.

Just finished "A Question of Family" by @fbereaud.bsky.social published by @stanchion.bsky.social If you're into flash, family troubles, and vibes, this book is for you www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Unbounded. In the early 20th century, Emmy Noether’s mathematics transcended the physical world. She longed to do the same herself by Julia Ravanis aeon.co/essays/she-f... At PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books... #books #mathematics #womeninstem #womenhistoryMonth

a sneak peak of our cover. This is the first time in our five-year history we have deviated from the very first design, but we held onto the handwriting. They’ll be for sale on Saturday, 3/21 in our ko-fi shop. Link is where it always has been!

It's been a year since Issue 3 (which is still available!), things have been slow on my end and I'm sorry, but Postcard is still reading for Issue 4! Get some short-ish poems together and submit! www.postcardlit.com/submit