Read the latest piece from poetry candidate @ironbrewer.bsky.social - “Gas Guzzler Ghazal” - up at Wildscape Lit ⛽️🪾☠️ wildscapelit.com/gas-guzzler-...

I have a new poem out if you have a minute to spare 💚

I have a new poem coming soon!

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

If the bill passes this week, it will give ICE enough money to become, by 2029, the nation's largest federal interior law enforcement agency with enough funding to become the nation's largest jailer.

Take note.

"She could answer by telling the truth: “My body wants to be a mother, to feed everyone and be depended upon. To not be like my sister, who sits and waits for results.” She would say it in that I’ve-unfucked-God-for-smiting-my-womb sort of way." Excellent unnerving piece by @ironbrewer.bsky.social

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Huge honor to be in Smokelong! 💚

Completely knocked out that one of my longer short stories, "All the Small Things," will be included in Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine (@stanchion.bsky.social) next month. They're taking discounted pre-orders if you're so inclined: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Absolutely thrilled to have a story published with Smokelong Quarterly! Thank you so much to all of the editors! You can read or listen to it here: https://www.smokelong.com/stories/miss-texas-considers-talking-about-her-tooth/

⚡📢❗BIG NEWS KLAXON❗🔊⚡ Issue 87, which includes the winners of this year's SmokeLong Workshop Prize, goes live on Monday. ⭐⚡⭐

I started a substack about my creative process & it includes prompts like I use in my classes, if anyone’s interested. open.substack.com/pub/bethgils...

This is still the greatest email ever.

In addition to helping vulnerable people and orgs, something else you can instead of screaming is to put a wrench in this administration’s plans every chance you get. A few ideas:

Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference, a letter from an alleged X whistleblower. "What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations." theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

From our friends at @literarycleveland.bsky.social: "Plum City Reading Series is Literary Cleveland's new regular reading series bringing the country's most interesting and groundbreaking authors to Cleveland." Info: www.litcleveland.org/events-progr...

Has anyone else read this blog post on Atticus Review? It was posted last week about their new format and it sounds super sketchy. I’m thinking about pulling the work I have there. https://newsletter.atticusreview.org/p/an-atticus-review-update-a-new-publishing-model

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

Huge honor to win third place! Thank you so much to all of the Smokelong editors!! 💚😊

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New poem in this issue! Thanks to everyone at Fahmidan for their support! 💚

👀Made the Longlist! Congrats to all the others for making it too!

Finished National Novel Writing Month with 50k words. Just printed out the 175 pages to do some editing. Gonna get it to 80k hopefully by the end of January 🤞🏽

In case you forgot about us: 1. We're an ancient online lit mag (circa 2000). 2. We publish sporadically. 3. We will publish a bunch of stuff this week. 4. Poems, micro, and interviews, with longer stuff mixed in.

Been a while since I signed in and I have some new followers. Hi y’all!

Philly-area writers! We're 6 weeks away from bringing our conference back to Temple U. Join us on 10/5 for a full day of fun, engaging, practical advice from authors and editors. $85 gets you registration, lit mag subscription, free book, and meeting w/ an editor www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

🚨👻CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THIS PLACE IS HAUNTED👻🙀 Remember Cotton Xenomorph submission window opens today! Please follow the guidelines for this special theme call 🌚🐍 We can’t wait to see what you have! cx.submittable.com/submit

Science Fun With Milk Cartons

I only write the highest of brow poetry 💀💨

I have a poem up today at Cuyahoga Public library for Poetry Month! This love poem, “For My Hot Dog Vendor,” was originally published with No Contact. 🌭⚾️ https://cuyahogalibrary.org/blog/poetry/read-write-poetry-24-april-2024

I got some new #flashfiction out today with the fabulous @Maudlinhouse 🙏 #jesuschrist 👔🍷☎️💸🖨✝️ https://maudlinhouse.net/jesus-christ-lands-job-as-telemarketer-selling-toner/

Hey #WritingCommunity How about following the writers below. @ewanl.bsky.social @emdun.bsky.social @evecorso.bsky.social @kaceykells.bsky.social @ironbrewer.bsky.social @saramatson.bsky.social @jennyhambly.bsky.social @gretchenfilart.bsky.social @christinadaub.bsky.social

Our fourteenth, and final zine, will be a collection of flash fiction of 1,000 words or fewer. Submission guideline: www.ellipsiszine.com/fourteen/

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, comp/submission fees, membership, critiques, books, pens—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like & share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose. Ends midnight NYC Dec 23

Starting out Tuesday with a Fiction Fest! So, please join me in celebrating with a bizarre birthday party of sorts. Check out "Jesus Christ Throws Himself a Surprise Birthday Party To Interrogate Who Stole His Tupperware Lid" by @ironbrewer.bsky.social www.roifaineantpress.com/post/jesus-c...

I have a new story out in this incredible issue! Wonderful writing throughout! 💚

All backlist books at Unnamed Press are on sale for 35% off, including my novel New to Liberty! www.unnamedpress.com/books

New story coming out the 10th!

🚨I’m giving away FREE COFFEE that I’ve been roasting! ☕️🐎 Go follow my Instagram page for details: https://instagram.com/coltfollowingcoffee?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

I have a new flash story up at Twin Pies called Destroy Tribe. Check it out if you have a moment: https://www.twinpiesliterary.com/volume-x/destroy-tribe

If anyone needs a super serious short story on Pok*mon parents, I got you—🔥🔥🔥 https://www.defenestrationmag.net/2023/08/pocket-monsters-silver-edition-by-corey-miller/

How’s everyone doing today? Any writing goals you want to talk about? I’m hoping to read a few chapters and maybe draft a poem😊

How’s the writing community here? This is X right? Or is it Y?