One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

New Ghost Parachute! Kudos, @brettpribble.bsky.social! Author tags in the comments!

A reminder about my class Reading Flash for @flashfictioninst.bsky.social, on Sunday, November 23, from 6 to 8pm ET. flashfictioninstitute.com/product/read...

Mikie! Mamdani! 🇺🇸

The work in this new issue of @ettereview.bsky.social is just extraordinary. Cannot recommend it highly enough. 💚💙💜🧡❤️

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around. Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

Looking forward to reading——

“And now she was thrusting the cone at me, less gently, the swirl tilting already in the heavy August midnight, requiring me to go right into licking before drips reached my hand” Stupendously moving piece of flash by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social 🙌

Thrilled to have a micro up at Ghost Parachute. Thank you, @brettpribble.bsky.social and GP editors/ artists! 🥰🙏

Chilling and beautiful and all-too timely.

Hail to the Thief Live Recordings 2003-2009 - one-off pressing to vinyl and CD - in shops today, featuring performances in London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Dublin. Limited edition vinyl in red, standard black, cyan, and on CD waste.lnk.to/htttliveBS

It's national cat day! I know the perfect way to celebrate.... www.bloomsbury.com/us/cat-97987...

An acceptance from the marvelous Ghost Parachute. Happy happy! ☺️👻🪂

Trump’s latest target? The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of America’s last truly wild places. His administration just announced plans to open it up for oil and gas drilling, turning 1.56 million acres of pristine wilderness (home to polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds)

We can't wait to read your work! variantlit.com/submit/

Ouch. This one cuts to the bone.

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

Warm thanks to the lovely team at @psmokejournal.bsky.social for publishing my micro, “Sad Library Things,” a Summer Contest finalist, accompanied by this striking art by Lindy Giusta. It’s my (sad) love letter to libraries and my fellow librarians. ☺️🙏📚✨ www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2025-fl...

I'm not a librarian, but I love libraries and I LOVE this story!

Oh, yes, this, SO much this. 💙

Warm thanks to the lovely team at @psmokejournal.bsky.social for publishing my micro, “Sad Library Things,” a Summer Contest finalist, accompanied by this striking art by Lindy Giusta. It’s my (sad) love letter to libraries and my fellow librarians. ☺️🙏📚✨ www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2025-fl...

"Some slogans made no sense. A product could not be, logically, both 'new' and 'improved.'" A brand new delight from @kimmagowan.bsky.social in the super new issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social 🤩™️ bendinggenres.com/karens-featu...

Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!

Thank you, @tracierenee.bsky.social ☺️🙏🌼

Thank you for this BotN nomination, @reckonreview.bsky.social! So glad to have a home in your stellar journal. 🥰🙏

Open for submissions. Send us a 6-sentence story with no more than 400 words. #microfiction gooseberry-pie.com/open-for-sub...

Today we wanted to take a moment to celebrate all of the incredible people who contribute to making Chestnut Review the publication that it is. It is because of all the individuals who work at CR that we can continue to find and share amazing stories, art, and poetry. Thank you all! #chestnutreview

Several times this year more than 100,000 people have been out in the streets in particular cities to protest this regime and the NYT & MSM barely covered those protests. I wonder why [I don't actually so no need to respond].

Will always be proud that my oddball movie-set craft services story found a home in Maudlin House. 🎥🎬🍩☕️❤️ maudlinhouse.net/crafty/

We don’t follow genre, we follow obsession. If it lingers in the mind, it belongs at Maudlin House...

God bless her. The days when small cities like Grand Forks had papers that could afford dedicated food columnists, sports columnists, and movie critics were better days.

It's almost sweater season... What's up your sleeve? We are OPEN for submissions for ALL genres!

When a decline is (almost) as good as an acceptance 🥹🙏

"She turns herself upright but otherwise remains still, like she’s choosing whether to give up or go on. It takes a moment to regain your bearings when you survive." Read "Our Goldfinch Math Doesn't Add Up" by @andreabishop.bsky.social on our website! Art: “Queencard” by Lindsay Liang

Submissions for our winter issue are open now through September 30th! Share your best work in any of our five categories: ✏️ Poetry 📸 Flash 📃 Prose 🖼️ Visual Art & Photography 🎨 Mixed-Genre & Mixed-Media For more info, click link in bio.

Yes Gooseberry Pie is open for submissions with a quick turnaround. Send us your work. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/

UPDATE: WE’VE MOVED THIS TO ZOOM 💻 Thinking of starting an online litmag? Join -ette eds @bybethhahn.bsky.social and @noramaynard.bsky.social Nov. as we walk you through everything you need to know! @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social www.writerscenter.org/event-detail...

A big thanks to all our “roulette” submitters! We’re now closed. For future calls, pls follow us here or join our mailing list by sending us an email at [email protected]

An honor to be a finalist! Thank you so much, @psmokejournal.bsky.social 🙏💚💜💙❤️

This book 💙🌏🛰️

Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker. Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path. Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.

My novel The Island of Last Things is out today, and I'm so excited for readers to discover it - if you're intrigued by the idea of Alcatraz as the world's last zoo + two women keepers who yearn to find freedom for themselves and the animals, please check it out! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Our new issue is here and it's a stunner! Cover art by Vivienne Strauss. Check it out here: tahomaliteraryreview.com/issues/issue...

Authors will keep writing. If big publishing wants AI books, we will run our own presses and publish ourselves and each other. They want so desperately to outmode humans, but let's promise each other we won't give in.

Fucked we are 🥺

Check it out! Holt is doing a pre-order sweepstakes for my upcoming novel, ONE OF US: Enter for a chance to win: read.macmillan.com/promo/oneofu...

The August issue of @thesunmagazine.bsky.social features one of my stories which I have been so excited to share for months! Grateful to Finn Cohen and all of the editors for helping me get this piece ready for publication. I'd be honored if you checked it out! www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/sea...

Every edition of @thesunmagazine.bsky.social has something that breaks & mends me. It is a thrill to share something of mine there. Now go get a subscription!