Congrats @brettpribble.bsky.social and @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social at Ghost Parachute! Gary Fincke, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, @francinewitte.bsky.social, @andreamarcusa.bsky.social, @amymarques.bsky.social, @itssonoemi.bsky.social, @courtneyb77.bsky.social. ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...

New @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to editors @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, etc., for another great issue! pitheadchapel.com/2026/05/01/v...

Great book mail today with @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social!

Thrilled to have a new story, "Post," up at @centaurlit.bsky.social! Thanks, @lynnmundell.bsky.social, for giving this the space! centaurlit.com/post-by-mich...

What an honor it is to be in this new issue of @centaurlit.bsky.social with friends @sfreligh.bsky.social, Gary Fincke, @matthewkendrick.bsky.social, and a couple of other writers who are new to me. Thanks, @lynnmundell.bsky.social! centaurlit.com

My friend and colleague @jennifermurvin.bsky.social is reading tonight on the Missouri State University campus! Come on out to hear work from her new book, Real California Living, if you can make it!

Thanks to @keithjpowell.com, @livingjelly.bsky.social,and everyone at @yourimpossiblevoice.com for publishing this new story of mine, "Courtship," on their awesome journal's site today! yourimpossiblevoice.com/courtship/

Alum Jessica Turcat will be reading tonight, April 16, at 7 p.m., CT, at Missouri State University in Karls 102 on campus. Come on out and hear this talented poet read from her new book!

Alum Jessica Turcat will be reading at Missouri State University on Thursday, April 16, in Karls 102 at 7 p.m., CT, on campus. Come on out and hear this talented poet read from her new book!

I have a new story up in @claudineliterary.bsky.social! Thanks to @dehardy.bsky.social and her crew for publishing this piece in their fab new issue! www.claudineliterary.com/michaelczyzn...

Getting ready for Saturday.

Grateful to Matthew Pitt and everyone at descant for publishing this new story of mine in their latest issue!

Something beautiful ⬇️

Illini!

Let's fucking go!

Damn straight they do.

Let’s go!

Full day. ❤️💙🧡

Thanks to Robert Shapard for choosing the @mooncityreview.bsky.social piece by @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social, "How to Bake a Cake in Outer Space," for this year's edition of The Best Small Fictions from @altcurrent.bsky.social! Thanks, too, to series editors Nathan Leslie and Michelle Elvy.

Thanks to Robert Shapard for choosing my story from Cleaver Magazine for The Best Small Fictions @altcurrent.bsky.social! Thanks, too, to series editors Nathan Leslie and Michelle Elvy, as well as @karenrile.bsky.social, @writesofkathryn.bsky.social and Andrea Caswell for taking it originally!

Let's fucking go! I-L-L! @illinimbb.bsky.social

Here's an info sheet for the new MFA program in Creative Writing at Missouri State University! Drop us a line if you have questions, but we are looking for students for THIS FALL for a fully funded program!

Stoked to be in the new Alaska Quarterly Review! So much good work here, by so many great writers and friends, just an honor to be in these pages!

New @smokelong.bsky.social! So many fantastic flashes—and interviews, too!

Students and professors! MissouriState has a new, fully funded MFA in Creative Writing and we're looking for students for THIS FALL. Come study with me and my amazing colleagues and work with @mooncitypress.bsky.social and @mooncityreview.bsky.social! Contact us with questions today!

Two new stories by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in The Bulb Region! bulbregion.com/Two-Stories-...

Come get an MFA in Creative Writing at Missouri State! We are taking applications for this fall! Every admitted student will be offered a full teaching assistantship. Pick a track in fiction or poetry with other options. Work on @mooncitypress.bsky.social and @mooncityreview.bsky.social. Info below.

Alison Rollins visited Missouri State University this week as part of her Maya Angelou Book Award reading tour! It was one of the most powerful and wonderful readings that we’ve ever hosted. Thanks to the MSU English Department, the Springfield Regional Arts Council, and RCASSH for sponsoring.

Just found out that AWP in Chicago next year will start on St. Patrick's Day. Great. Now people are going to want to turn it into some kind of drinking thing.

Thrilled to be in the new 1Puerto del Sol with my story “Proposal.” Thanks to Madelyn Parker, Myles Varga, and the whole team. Nice to be alongside so many talented friends and writers.

Alison C. Rollins is reading at Missouri State University tonight at 7 p.m., CT, in 101 Karls Hall on campus! Generously sponsored by the Reynolds College of Arts, Socials Sciences, and Humanties, the Missouri State University English Department, and the Springfield Regional Arts Council!

Alison C. Rollins is reading at Missouri State University on Tuesday, March 10 at 7 p.m. in 101 Karls Hall! Sponspored by the Missouri State University English Department and the Springfield Regional Arts Council!

What an honor to be on an AWP panel with these fantastic geniuses, discussing flash fiction as both an editor a writer. I think it went pretty well! @kimmagowan.bsky.social @christopherallen.bsky.social @kimchinquee.bsky.social Michelle Ross

@mooncitypress.bsky.social books for $5! AWP book fair booths 773-775!

Come to the @mooncitypress.bsky.social booths, 773–775, at the AWP book fair and get yourself some of these gorgeous books! We are cutting amazing deals. We want these books to go home with you!

@kimmagowan.bsky.social signing her new book at the @mooncitypress.bsky.social booth right now! 773/775

Thanks to Laura Black at @fictivedream.bsky.social for publishing my story, "Extra," today!

@kimmagowan.bsky.social is signing her new book, The Last Day, at the @mooncitypress.bsky.social booth—773-775—today from 10 to 11:30!

@joelhans.com signing his new book right now at the @mooncitypress.bsky.social booth, 773-775!

Amazing @mooncityreview.bsky.social reading last night with @laurelreview.bsky.social and Puerto del Sol. MCR was repped by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, Naphisa Senanarong, and Svetlana Litvinchuk, who killed it!

I'll be reading at this @smokelong.bsky.social event tonight from 6-8 p.m. at Old Major, 900 S. Carey St., with so many lovely friends and brilliants flash geniuses. Come have a fantastic time with us!

@joelhans.com will be signing his new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, at the AWP Bookfair today, 3-4:30 p.m. at Booth #775!

@ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social will be signing his new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body, from 1-2:30 p.m. today at the AWP Bookfair, Booth #775!

@mooncitypress.bsky.social AWP offsite reading tonight! 8-10 p.m. at Section 771! Right after the @mooncityreview.bsky.social reading that's from 6-8.

@mooncityreview.bsky.social AWP offsite tonight with @laurelreview.bsky.social and Puerto del Sol!

I have a new story, "Ginger," up at Hawkeye lit mag today!

@kimmagowan.bsky.social seeing her book, The Last Day, for the first time! @mooncitypress.bsky.social

The 2026 @mooncityreview.bsky.social: Purple like you mean it.

@joelhans.com will be signing his new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair in Thursday, March 5, 3-4:30 p.m. at Booth #775!

@kimmagowan.bsky.social signing her new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Last Day, at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair on Friday, March 6, 10-11:30 a.m., Booth #775!