Belated congratulations to TLR contributor Summer Hammond for her "A Little Slice of the Moon" being selected and published in Best American Essays 2025. www.newletters.org/a-little-sli...

I've had a great time selecting some pieces to mark the solstice and year's end at @necessaryfiction.com, and am grateful to the writers who shared their work. Here is the first gathering of lights, with three more to follow in the days ahead.

The lonely library people are really getting to me this year. 😔📚

I just read this absolutely wonderful piece of prose.

Glad to be included in this lovely Points of Light series with my prose-poem, “A New Home.” Thank you, @necessaryfiction.com! Happy Winter Solstice to all ❄️🧤🧣⛄️

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Love your goals. Mine are to get back to the novel I started 5+ years ago and put aside thx to Covid and eldercare. Frankly nervous. I’m a different person now. And these are different times. 😕

It's good to remember that there are things worth celebrating–like this *incredible* issue of SmokeLong. We received an overabundance of stunning work for this year's Micro Contest. Check out all the winners, including my interview with Mikey winner, Claire Y. Guo. ✨

Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.

Grateful for recent acceptances from OSU The Journal & @necessaryfiction.com 🙏🙏

"The stacks shivering like a forest as I walk through them." Read "Sad Library Things" by @eileentomarchio.bsky.social for a glimpse into the repository! Art: "Distorted Room" by Lindy Giusta

And here are our nominations for Best Microfiction 2025. Congratulations!

Happy to have an essay from my forthcoming collection up @literaryhub.bsky.social today! "The time a library lends, I suspect, is a little like love: the more it gives away, the more comes back to it in kind."

Much gratitude for this end-of-year publication in a journal I love. Thank you, @vestalreview.bsky.social ☺️🙏

"They make holes in your stomach you know, I told him. And he said, what? The magnets. The Buckyballs I’ve seen you swallowing." LOVE this funny, poignant, tart take on laws of attraction by @kiklodge.bsky.social in the newest @bendinggenres.bsky.social 👏👏👏 bendinggenres.com/outside-chuc...

Adding mine to the gallery of just-delivered pics… a beauty! Congratulations, @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social 🥰💫🎊

"You can love something to the point where you feel its decay in your bones, like an ache. This ache is just a caring trying not to leave the body." I seriously dig Joe's work. This one in the latest @bendinggenres.bsky.social is a stunner. 🏠💨🔥

“Are you seeing my face in Anna’s, however faint?” “Me hanging up after the fourth ring, deciding I’d pay for it myself. Extras shifts, graveyards, weekends.” the “clutch of combs” @eileentomarchio.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social www.vestalreview.net/picture-day

Our winter 2025 issue is here! vestalreview.net/issue-67 We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +

"I hate how we have to film every asshole to hold them accountable for their shittiness. And then the pile on comments..." LOVE this whipcrack of a story about impotent rage by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social in @bullshitlit.bsky.social 🤯⚡ www.bullshitlit.com/blog/shicks

Can't quite believe my story "Picture Day" is here in the gorgeous new issue of @vestalreview.bsky.social -- absolute goals. Gratitude for David Galef for the terrific editorial support, @smokelong.bsky.social for the workshop that sparked the story, and my dearest Gryphs group for everything. 🧡💙💚

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Carrie Fisher was the blueprint. Protect your people. Call out the predators. #RESIST

So glad to get an acceptance from @gonelawn.bsky.social for this terrific submissions call. Can’t wait to read all the micros! 🙏😻

Coming soon (4 December), another issue of Gone Lawn, this one puffed up with fiction. Great stuff! We can't wait to show it to you all. In the meantime, send us you stuff, especially if you have novel/novella excerpts (≤200 words) you think we'd love, for #63 gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Congrats to our Pushcart nominees!

Catching up on bookmarks and LOVE this ingeniously structured flash stunner by Daniel Cohen in the latest @psmokejournal.bsky.social www.peatsmokejournal.com/2025-flash-c...

We are pleased to announce that Peatsmoke is now paying contributors! Contributors will receive $10 per piece (though we wish it was one million because that's how much we love you)!

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

Brilliant 😅👵✍️💙

A feast for the ears and heart. Listen to this engaging podcast featuring Kik’s incredible story. 🥰

Only gone and bagged 3rd in this brilliant comp 🙌🫡😚. 2nd and 1st were obvious wowers, naturellement. And I think it’s something akin to squishy having your story read by pros. Classy people, you @failingwriters.bsky.social

Coming at you in May 👀@tortoisebooks.bsky.social

In 2022, I was so proud to see my story included in Volume 04: Field Notes of The Bureau Dispatch. It’s inspired by my dad, a marine vet. Missing him this Veterans Day. ❤️🙏🇺🇸 www.bureaudispatch.com/volume-04/ei...

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"He explained that the fountain was about transformation. Water is motion. Life is motion. The flap of the wing, the angel, the bird. The carrying of each from one world to the next." Oh my... this gorgeous and funny story about angels and hauntings by @bybethhahn.bsky.social is a must-read. ❤️⛲⚰️〰️🤯

"After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around"--my latest column. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

Heads up! We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

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! 🥰🙏