Black is nothingness and everything. At the same time.

The Golden Gate Bridge dipped in gold.

“‘Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,’ the judge wrote. He ordered that the 18 letters added to the center’s front portico be removed within two weeks. The judge also temporarily blocked the institution from shuttering this summer for renovations”

I'm thrilled to receive this endorsement from the wildly imaginative Claire Oshetsky! Open the Floodgates is about the River who is granted personhood and goes to court to argue for her right to exist. What could go wrong? Available for pre-order! Pub date: Sept. 15!

I'm thrilled my short story, "The Velvet Chair," tied for first place in the Blue Mesa Review Spring Contest! Thank you! The judge wrote: “‘The Velvet Chair’ is a wonderful meditation on the mysterious impulse to create art in a consumerist society." bmr.unm.edu/the-velvet-c...

"Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost."--Henry James

"Art undermines, rather than reinforces, what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda."--Deborah Eisenberg

Everything should be labeled: human-made or AI-made; human service or AI service. We get to choose.

Why not make the ordinary beautiful? On a random street in the Mayfair district in London.

I'll be teaching for Flash Fiction Magazine, the art (and it is an art) of compression! Free workshop on May 23rd!

Advance praise! I admire Devi S Laskar enormously, a novelist, a poet, and a former journalist who has a novel out now: Midnight, at the War. Thank you for the love you're giving my new novel. Pre-orders available now for Open the Floodgates.

In this era of attention fracking, “the book is an attention preserve or oasis. It makes me more excited about the book as a technology. Increasingly, to make our lives worth living, I think we’re going to have to have other modalities of attention other than scrolling.”—Ben Lerner, The Exchange

Tonight! Please join us!

I’m hosting an event tomorrow 4/22 for #SFClimateWeek at 1246 Folsom! 🌍 5-6pm coffee hour at Cafe Suspiro, followed by readings and a panel discussion at 6pm in Arc Gallery next door. Readers: Nina Schuyler @ninaschuyler.bsky.social Mark Schapiro Zoe Young Rona Fernandez @ronafernandez.bsky.social

Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social at Ghost Parachute, for publishing my little/big story.

Perhaps the resounding ring of "due process" rang loud in the lawyer's ear. To remind you, a lawyer takes an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

Wholly AI-generated text without modification is not copyrightable. If you use AI to write entire paragraphs or sections, you cannot claim copyright over those specific passages. janefriedman.com/ai-and-publi...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's free resources: ssd.eff.org

Hey, California voters! Please call your reps and say you support Senator Weiner's bill (SB 868) that would make it easier to buy and use plug-in solar panels. A hearing is scheduled for March 17th. www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...

$1 billion dollars a day. This horrific war.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Yeah, he amended it after the pubic outcry. His Quixote mask fell off, and what we see now is an opportunistic lizard face, hungry for more power. Enough isn't in his vocabulary. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

when will the Republicans rein in the rough beast?

A deep appreciation to Jane Ciabattari for nominating my story for a Pushcart Prize. Thank you, Chicago Quarterly Review, for publishing "The Passengers" in Volume 41!

Anne Carson is a master of the short sentence. Her intelligence infuses her work, along with a heavy dose of playfulness, and just like that, she rearranges the worldhttps://ninaschuyler.substack.com/p/why-not-rearrange-the-world

The Magpie Way to Becoming a Writer booksbywomen.org/the-magpie-w... by @ninaschuyler.bsky.social @sibyllinepress.bsky.social

I'm so excited to teach this class. It's beyond time to share the stage with the More-Than-Human beings who live with humans on this watery blue planet. Online, asynchronous; I'll be there, encouraging, commenting, cheering, suggesting, making the fertile soil for you to create.

SCOOP from me: I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built. Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵

In Portland, Oregon, fascists forcibly removed and dragged a blind protester from the street.

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To perform a search without AI results, add a space, a hyphen, and the word AI to your search query (e.g., what is artificial intelligence -AI)

As of 2025, humans have pushed Earth past another planetary boundary: Levels of ocean acidification have exceeded a critical threshold, becoming the seventh out of nine boundaries crossed. Source: Scientific American (more in comments)

Thrilled my story, "Tunnel," appears in the 9th Anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute! Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social What a fabulous issue, bursting with amazing stories!

Just to be clear - release the Epstein files.

For Virginia Woolf fans, good news! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

I'm thrilled that my novel/short story collection, In This Ravishing World, has won the 2025 PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award! Immensely grateful! It's a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and won the W.S. Porter Prize and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature!

Save the wild. Say no to the rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule. The deadline for submitting public comments is Friday, September 19, 2025. Here's the link to comment: www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

Here's the link to submit a public comment to oppose the rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule, which, if passed, would open up almost 45 million acres of federal forest and wildlands. Please submit a comment to protect the wilderness. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

The proposed deal marks the first settlement in a string of lawsuits against tech companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms, over their use of copyrighted material to train generative AI systems. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website. If you think you're book was devoured by Anthropic's LLM, make sure the law firm has your contact info. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Writers! authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

The enormous value of writing: The settlement comes after Anthropic warned both the district court and an appeals court that the class’ potential pursuit of hundreds of billions of dollars in statutory damages. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to [email protected] by Tuesday, September 2nd!

Check this shit! Earlier today, ICE tried to break into private property in Lynwood, California — no judicial warrant, no authority. Acting like thugs, not federal agents. Spoiler alert: Lynwood does not play. This trio of goons got sent packing.

Thank you, Ben Alan at Reader's House, for your thoughtful questions about my short story collection, In This Ravishing World and my novel, Afterword, and writing, sentences, and teaching! readershouse.co.uk/nina-schuyle...