2026 is looking up!! 🤩🤩🤩

Haven’t picked a reading, but appreciate that this is probably the one place the erotic lesbian cheese story might be appropriate….

Some good news.

Wohoooooo!!! Yes @livesinpages.bsky.social congrats! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

ICYMI: Our first issue launched yesterday at www.broadripplereview.com. In conjunction with our first issue, we are happy to announce our prize winners. Our fiction winner is L.B. Browne's "The Dress Department" and our nonfiction winner is Angela Townsend's 'Write Until You Pray."

My book is coming out in January. if you're interested in pitching a review of it or an interview with me, I'd be delighted and grateful 🥺 it's speculative short stories. There's monsters, outer space, and pie! This beauty thinks you'd like it:

A little dog for your timeline.

Reading in such 10/10 company 😊😍☺️

NY friends, come hang November 16th! @camilleuadams.bsky.social @michelleghenry.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026, and we're open for registration! It's $95, and that includes the one-day conference, 1 book, 1 meeting w an editor, and your choice of literary stuff from our partner presses. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

Lana Lin's book launch live right now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_fA...

Wonderful to attend a reading by @andrewporter01.bsky.social and @sallywenmao.bsky.social moderated by @mdbell79.bsky.social at Changing Hands in Tempe yesterday. And it was great to see you @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social @rudribhattpatel.bsky.social @karakahnke.bsky.social 💜

It is my pleasure to share that @andrewporter01.bsky.social will be the Guest Selecting Editor for the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2026! Andrew Porter's latest book, The Imagined Life, has received many accolades and has been called, "One of the best books of the year," by Esquire.

BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT! 7pm ET! THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM! Lana Lin will be in conversation with @moniquetruong.bsky.social at Books Are Magic (& streaming online, too). www.booksaremagic.net/events/32868...

Last day of the sale!

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Finally managed to lure @writesloud.bsky.social to nyc - come hang!

Okay, and here is the crowdfunding campaign for my next project, which now I guess is going to have to be amazing and foundational and wildly essential and move us all: www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisi-... Help how you can. That's what I'm doing.

Every time @thenation.com publishes the writing of Lujayn, a teen in the Gaza Strip, I hold my breath while reading. If you read one thing today, make it this: "Don’t you dare preach “child protection” to our children while they are bombed and starved in front of the whole world."

Super kind shoutout from the lovely Stephanie! A love letter of a story and one of my all time favorites to do at readings.

Super honored to have worked with the truly lovely @laughingyeti.bsky.social and this great group of readers. So much amazing work out there 😍

The Wigleaf Top 50 2025 will be up soon. This is the final one helmed by Shome Dasgupta, who has done so much for the series. Huge thanks @laughingyeti.bsky.social 🙏

“My sister isn’t on speaking terms with her gator, she’s on grouchy neighbor terms . . .” Love this story by @katetooley.bsky.social in @tinymolecules.bsky.social 🐊💚 www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Got a little thing in here 🐊

I was one of a few journos inside the Columbia encampment last year. a new documentary focused in part on Mahmoud Khalil and Grant Miner, the expelled student union president, was released in theaters early, after Khalil's abduction. my interview with a director and student organizer @teenvogue.com

Inbox: "A Jewish-led group of Columbia students have chained themselves to the locked campus gates in solidarity with Palestinian students, with 1 demand: the Uni provide the names of the trustees who reported Mahmoud Khalil to ICE... [they] refuse to unchain themselves until [they are answered]"

I'm supposed to be at Sweet Briar College, where I was so excited to meet with the amazing students, faculty, and staff who organized my visit & made Mobility their Common Read. Hours before my flight I learned about their Board's exclusion of trans & nonbinary people. So now I'm not going.

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

We're going to pay $150 for prose, poems, art, and beyond, for TBQ8, which will also be in print and released in the fall. We open 4/20. Official call and guidelines coming soon! Follow us, read all of our back issues online for free, and live más!

Very excited for this strange little story born out of a mildly unhinged “what if” to make its way out in the world. Big thanks to ANNELL López and all the staff at @twfestnola.bsky.social

Everything is very bad so sharing a newsletter that is bringing me a lot of joy right now: Creatures NYC by the incomparable @sabs.bsky.social Perfect for anyone in nyc desperate to get out of the apt and look at 🦆🐛🌳 instead of ☄️📰🚨 Subscribe here: buttondown.com/simbler

Rude of AI to write such a scathingly accurate norman mailer microfiction

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

Forgot to post this here yesterday: Celebrate Black poetry. “For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella” By Ariana Brown after Anis Mojgani and Audre Lorde

We don't publish much non-micro fiction anymore, but this story from @housleydave.bsky.social is big-time worth your read: "Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming."

🚨⏰ CLOSING TODAY!!⏰🚨 The Blue Frog flash fiction prize closes tonight at 11:59pm PST.

I have a story in Barrelhouse! A themed issue, curated by the wonderful @writesloud.bsky.social, called Baby, One More Time "that explores what happens when parenting intersects with famous musicians. Entirely fictional, of course." Check out my story, "Mississippi June"!

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

TOMORROW! I’ll be reading from my debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES (@mooncitypress.bsky.social) with the incredible talents of @shannonfrostgre.bsky.social and @anotherintro.bsky.social! When: January 25th 5 pm (EST) Register here: anovelideaphilly.com/events/

My cousin texted saying that my IG account was following V*nce This happened without my knowledge Without me clicking follow Before blocking, I saw several friends and litmags had suddenly started following V*nce and Tr*mp Friends and litmags, check your IG accounts in case of forced follows

hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago! you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!) signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics

hey just a reminder to support libraries and small presses and independent bookstores and independent journalists bc oh my god do we need them and oh my god are we going to need them more and more

My favorite childhood church lady, Ms Ilonia Byrd, used to say “I’m still breathing” and I think this is the year I take that up.

I love hearing Avitus read so much that I’m coming down from NYC for this, so y’all should probably come hang 👀✨

At LitHub today @kimkelly.bsky.social has a great piece on the Do’s and Don’t’s of Mutual Aid as well as some reading recs:

Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We have larger concerns heading into 2025, but I can't let go of the idea that the next season of Sesame Street could be its last. So I wrote about why the kids' TV institution is still vital after more than 50 years:

Help! Does anyone know if there’s a word for when you’re typing and you get ahead of yourself and mash two words together? Is this a thing? 🤨

Here is my #LGBTQNotGoingBack post, which includes a MASTER LIST of everyone else's posts! plus instructions for how to be added to this lists & how to call your representatives today! on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/lgbtq-peop... or Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/lgbtq-people... #LGBTQ