📚 We are excited to announce the books representing Pennsylvania in the 2025 Great Reads from Great Places program: With or Without You by @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social‬ (youth title) and Sidle Creek by @jolenemcilwain.bsky.social‬ (adult title)! Learn more here: www.psu.edu/news/univers...

#genevieve from #thefractalgeometryofgrief #sidlecreek

The 2024 Best Small Fictions is available in print (@altcurrent.bsky.social)! Stories by @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social, @jolenemcilwain.bsky.social, @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social, and… My flash, LIKE REAL WOMEN DO! Thanks to the editors @okaydonkey.bsky.social! altcurrentpress.com/2025/01/22/b...

A Mini 1000 explainer. Starts tomorrow! mini1000.substack.com/p/mini-1000-...

Really loved going a little longer on boundaries and process with the smart and talented @scarletteharris.bsky.social

Raise your hand if you’re joining nearly 10,000 other writers in this winter’s Mini 1000. Starts Jan 3, 5 days of us writing 1000 words a day with letters from me (and some special guests!) It’s free and fun and it’ll kick your writing year into gear. 💪 mini1000.substack.com/p/the-next-m...

🚨🚨🚨My new novel, THE DREAM HOTEL, will be released by Pantheon in March 2025. It follows a woman who is under surveillance for a crime she has yet to commit. Cover design by the incomparable Jack Smyth. Find out more & pre-order at the link in bio.

Kelly is teaching right this moment so she will not see me celebrating that The Book of Love just went to press for its 4th printing :)

Good advice here!

THE GARDEN on the Best Books of 2024 list at Vanity Fair!! www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Ahh, it's here! What an honor to be in this episode! I'm so honored and delighted my story has been paired with two fantastic poems and poets! 😍 Huge thanks to @podcastmicro.bsky.social and @bathflashaward.bsky.social, where my story was first published. ❤️ #FlashFiction #Podcast

ICYMI A piece from Pat Foran up at @reckonreview.bsky.social

Hi to my new friends here! By way of introduction, I'm quite proud of my newsletter, which now has over 8,300 subscribers. Here's one of my most popular posts, published a few months ago. Hope you enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

Hey friends, this will be my FINAL 3-in-90 live workshop for many months and I have great things planned! Join us THIS Saturday, Dec. 7th from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time for "Writing with Courage & Conviction." Register here: 💙 www.fastflashworkshops.com/WebSeminarRe...

Tomorrow (Monday) Join us over at @brownbaglit.bsky.social at 12 pm EST online for Visual Stories, Personal Truths: a conversation on graphic memoirs with @kelceyervick.bsky.social @alka.bsky.social @jesselkercheval.bsky.social www.brownbaglit.com/events

grateful to fellow cofounders @briangresko.bsky.social and @amyshearn.bsky.social please consider following @writingco-lab.bsky.social for upcoming classes and events:

Submissions to our anthology on the theme of SEASONS (up to 500 words) and entries to our Micro Fiction Competition (no theme, up to 100 words) are now open. For more details pls click on the link: nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

Check out all of Matt's free resources - loads of helpful tips & articles, from one of the most generous writers you'll ever meet! #flashfiction #shortfiction @mattkendrick.bsky.social

Editing services on sale for anything booked & paid for by 12/31. It’s a good gift idea for writers in your life & you’d be helping someone struggling. OR, if you want to donate a couple bucks to my Venmo, that’s fine too. I don’t have the option of pride anymore. @Beth-Gilstrap-2.

"The concept of The Fine Line is that most exciting flash—and art in general—happens on a razor’s edge"—SmokeLong EIC, Christopher Allen. Join him for this live Zoom workshop on Dec 15 and find some ways to get to that sharp, compelling prose.

Thankful for a little spot of time in the coffee shop this gray and cold and blustery day. Holiday decorations and great latte! #amwriting #findyourspot #write

We can build the #literaryfiction community beyond the starter packs. Here’s how: First, hit the like button, reply with #literaryfiction, and most importantly, hit the REPOST button. Then, follow each other back. The easiest way to do so is to follow everyone who reposts. Here’s how:

Don Chaon describes my dream read in his blurb for @amystuber.com 's collection, SAD GROWNUPS: "Smart, funny, spooky, and melancholy." Life's been a blur the last few months, but now I'm looking forward to finally digging in to these stories by a writer I've long admired. 💙

I've been waiting for this craft book by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social . I don't know of another one like it, and her work is always a treat.

Just sitting here in our cabin in the woods reading @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social ‘s #thegodofthewoods So far, so great…

I had major writer's block after having a baby. My life had changed and writing about it seemed at once too profound and too mundane. Eventually this is the story that came out. Would love it if you gave it a read! swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/an-...

This month's #Mondettes picked by @noranadj.bsky.social ⚡️Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Nora made these brilliant picks 💡Two great prompts mondettes.substack.com/p/november-2...

I have a new story up @wigleaf.bsky.social! I hope you check it out (and check out the postcard too!!)! #flashfiction #flashlit

Reading Sally Rooney’s NORMAL PEOPLE for book club & really liking it. Hoping to finish the book after work today. Been busy in the studio with my fall firings. Here’s a marbled cream & pale brown bowl I recently pulled out of the kiln. Happy Wednesday, friends. #pottery🤎

Lovely interview with the wonderful #ElizabethStrout over at Downtown with @richkimball.bsky.social “Everybody does have a story and most of those stories are unrecorded…”

Great class at Craft Talks with @sherrieflick.bsky.social yesterday!! Grab a copy of “Homing” if you haven’t yet. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/from-the-des...

An interview with Brian Evenson about his newest collection, GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT over at LARB. lareviewofbooks.org/article/pure...

Check out my dear friend Jodi’s podcast about all things crime. She’s a retired FBI agent and wicked smart. @jodeneweber.bsky.social

It’s university press week 🎉 I’ll always be grateful to West Virginia University Press for publishing my debut novel 🤗

Maria Zoccola’s book of poems, #helenoftroy1993 drops in January … www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Super thrilled yo be on this longlist. Thank you Editors www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

All signed up! @sherrieflick.bsky.social ❤️

Any day I receive an ARC of a book by @paullisicky.bsky.social is a joyous day. This gorgeous work drops 2/25, but you can pre-order it from your local indie or bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/song....

Out today: the 50th anniversary edition of The Dispossessed, with foreword by Karen Joy Fowler! This edition is available in hardcover and paperback from Harper Perennial. Cover art by Muhammad Fatchurofi.

i’m starting something new and i hope you’ll join me! introducing Dad Lessons, a weekly publication where i learn something brand new and bring that knowledge straight to you (along with info about any successes & more importantly my many, many failures) kristenarnett.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

For the evening crowd, in case you missed my giant gift guide to help you through the holidays...

"Flinch was not for women or girls. Instead, we hung frozen on the sidelines, praying under our breath. Good training for lifetimes of watching from the sidelines as those we loved best attempted to dodge the sharp edges that seemed pointed their way from the start." Sonja Livingston in Hippocampus.

Everyone: Read this thread 🧵 by one of my favorite authors ❤️ Thanks @cjtudor.bsky.social 🥰

“You put in it all the concepts and characters that bother you, that poke, threaten, prick, and otherwise surprise you, and if you stick at it long enough, it takes on a life of its own” lithub.com/a-bag-full-o... @literaryhub.bsky.social @literotaur.bsky.social

"High above the trees it soars. Most times its pure white parts blend with sky, a magic trick, its bald white head all gone but for a bit of yellow" Wonderful evocative writing from @jolenemcilwain.bsky.social - love how this piece shifts in unexpected ways.

Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker: a tumultuous examination of the impact of domestic abuse on motherhood

:+) He has the best posts, just sayin’ @danchaon.bsky.social

Wow. Just read this stunning piece by @susanperabo.bsky.social thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social ‘s thread… Love @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Love this @didiwood.bsky.social (thanks again, Matt!!)