spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Well I'm reading Mary Oliver again

Got really lovely news about a former student. As a 7th grader, he was always drawing and making elaborate comic books. A friend who worked with me then just realized he's now in her first year writing class, and is an animation major. 🥰

am I writing a novel or is it several short stories stacked on top of each other in a trench coat

"Who is your ideal audience," people sometimes ask me, and it's this kid and the people they grow up to become.

The Lambda Literary speculative fiction cohort just wrapped up 5 days of magical workshop with Nisi Shawl. Help them fund their next book, The Five Petals of Thought!

Going to be forever grateful for this @lambdaliterary.org cohort with @nisishawl.bsky.social 💖🌈

I like how almost none of this makes any sense (complimentary). More writing rules should sound nonsensical.

Running out of milk has made me realize that if you keep a tub of ice cream in the freezer, every morning can include a semi-affogato

My buddy Jud’s LARP camp is featured in a new documentary. Cannot wait to see this. ❤️❤️

🚨 FUNDRAISING DEADLINE EXTENDED 🚨 This year, we have more emerging writers fundraising for their retreat tuition than ever before. We are calling on YOU, our community, to help these fellows get to the Retreat! Donate through Sunday, July 20. Link below. bit.ly/4lB4IC6

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

Welcome to the 2025 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellows! We can't wait to host you. Less than a month away! Check out the press release and our website to see all of the fellows and scholarship recipients. lambdaliterary.org/2025/06/pres...

I have just a few weeks left to fundraise the remainder of my tuition ($602!) for @lambdaliterary.org's retreat this summer, and would love any help you can share! 🌈 secure.givelively.org/donate/lambd...

So proud of this story and grateful to @lostballoon.bsky.social for giving it a home!

You are going to love our new piece from @catherinebuck.bsky.social! Check out “In Waiting.” lost-balloon.com/2025/06/25/i...

Still a little stunned to share that I've been selected as a @lambdaliterary.org fellow. I've been applying for years (!) and can't wait to work with Nisi Shawl on speculative fiction this summer. I'll be extremely grateful for any help getting there:

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

Congratulations, Cole. That's an amazing amount of publications all in one month! Favourite recent stories? Loved this one from @catherinebuck.bsky.social : www.craftliterary.com/2025/01/31/d... And this one from @cuylermeade.bsky.social has stuck with me: trampset.org/margaret-mul...

Latest issue of Gooseberry Pie is scrumptious @francinewitte.bsky.social @louellalester.bsky.social @catherinebuck.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social

gooseberry-pie.com/boomerang/ Tiny story out in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social today! For all the teachers who are doing their best.

Thrilled to share this little story about New Jersey and the monsters we create: www.craftliterary.com/2025/01/31/d...

Spending tonight watching ‘Humans vs. Hamsters,’ an obstacle course game show which my wife was 100% clickbaited into discovering

New story out at Craft Literary, one that's very important to me: www.craftliterary.com/2024/07/19/h...

Currently the age where everyone in the bowling league calls me ‘kiddo’ and also college students are shocked I’ve heard of anime

We have another musical without music tale up on the journal today, this time by Catherine Buck! Please read "Pomp and Circumstance" and welcome Catherine to the Xeno Hive! https://www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2023/8/12/pomp-and-circumstance

Happy that my first post here is this one! Thrilled to have this story out now and join the Xeno Hive.