Yes, thrilled to see TERRY DACTYL on this list of the Best Queer Books of 2025, thank you to @kaylakumari.bsky.social and @autostraddle.bsky.social!! Delighted to be on this amazing list, in great company... Queer books for the win, let's do this together💞💞💞💞💞

When one of your favorite writers & public intellectuals is reading your book? THAT’S a merry Christmas

He was jealous that Christmas was getting all the attention so he bombed Nigeria. He's incapable of leaving us alone for even one fucking day.

MERRY XMAS KNICKS FANS!!!! #Knickssky

Merry Christmas to all, but especially to you, you beautiful old building and loan.

I wrote about Pluribus and the dangers of writing exclusively for the fans. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

An article about my work in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

Stocking stuffer #Knicks

Beauty is real. Last paragraph of Joyce's The Dead.

i’m also offering a humor writing workshop this winter! come and call forth lols with me—2 sessions, jan 15 + 22! sign up below 🤡 @shipmanagency.bsky.social

Emily Dufton is a writer and drug historian based near Washington, DC. Her forthcoming book, Addiction, Inc.: Medication-Assisted Treatment and America’s Forgotten War on Drugs, traces the federal development, and subsequent commercialization, of the opioid addiction medication industry.

Maurice Carlos Ruffin is a Professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University and an instructor at Randolph College Low-Res MFA program.

It's been a year and half since The Freaks Came Out To Write was published and it is still being recognized by arts orgs. I was thrilled to learn that it was recognized by Pen Oakland for the Josephine Miles Award, named for the late poet and Professor at the University of California at Berkeley

I'm available for developmental edits on full and partial manuscripts for a limited time! Full details here: open.substack.com/pub/danieljo...

Hi friends ❤️ @rabihalameddine.bsky.social Patricia Smith at McNally Jackson on 48th Street

Looking for the Slovenian translation of THE END OF SAN FRANCISCO? It's here!!💫 skuc.org/Vizibilja/ma...

This writing workshop is taught by Javier Sinay, an author and a journalist. His books include The Murders of Moises Ville, the true story of his journey reporting a long forgotten true story of violence and displacement, but also resilience and cooperation.

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of The Wonder Paradox: Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), as well as Doubt (Harper Collins) and Stay (Yale), and her three poetry books include Who Said (Copper Canyon).

have you written or are in the process of writing a nonfiction book? know anyone who has/is? guess what, diva. after 8 weeks, you can have a complete proposal, too! class is in session sat, jan 10th. register now! @shipmanagency.bsky.social

Nothing says I love reading and supporting gay authors more than getting a copy of The Lookback Window from your local bookstore. Here’s my “gorgeous feet” (lol) opening the book to Paradise.

It's that time of year, the annual reposting of the Xmas essay. therumpus.net/2010/12/chri...

"And so, having long debated what to do about this situation, I dug a fire pit in my backyard and burned my complete set of hardcover Harry Potters." icymi, my latest, for @literaryhub.bsky.social ... lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

One of the things that gets me about this whole "replace people in publishing with AI" thing is that people in publishing (translators / editors / copy editors / authors / etc) are among the worst fucking paid people out there.

I ♥️ Clyde #Knicks

If you are in Dallas in January, I'll be at the museum:

Kristi Coulter is the author of two acclaimed memoirs, Nothing Good Can Come From This and Exit Interview: The Life & Death Of My Ambitious Career. She has taught at Hugo House, the University of Michigan, and the University of Washington.

During weekly group workshops, we will work closely together and write our best poems. We will consider how poems are constructed by analyzing poems by class members and others, including poems by Catullus, Cornelius Eady, Bhanu Kapil, John Keats, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Sylvia Plath.

I did a podcast! with the great novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn and Randy Winston of @theblcklst.bsky.social What does a speaker's agent do? Find out here!

Joseph Keckler has performed his songs and stories around the world—from dive bars to Lincoln Center and NPR’s Tiny Desk. His most recent piece, A Good Night in the Trauma Garden, was commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It all starts with a sentence. One line will grow into a story, then into a draft, and finally a manuscript, polished and perfected, to be sent out into the world.

Saretta Morgan is an award-winning poet and the author of Alt-Nature (Coffee House Press, 2024), which received a 2024 Southwest Book Award, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry and the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.

This generator is taught by Greg Mania, author of the memoir Born to Be Public, which has been named a best book of 2020 by NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Largehearted Boy, and was a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Humor.

This year's tree repping my city and my favorite neighborhoods (used to live in Red Hook, living in Ridgewood now)

forever obsessed with James Tate

Today is bleak as hell, but this picture of KAT and Ben Stiller made me smile for a minute.

Knicks win last night and a lovely light snow this morning? It's great to be a New Yorker 🏀 ❄️

Documentary poetry can either amplify marginalized voices or exploit their suffering. @philipmetres.bsky.social’s DISPATCHES brings together poets wrestling with this distinction, providing crucial guidance for navigating the ethics of writing as witness. press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp... #Poetry

What if emotion IS knowledge? @khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS makes the case that “poetry exists as a valuable tool for understanding,” not despite its emotional resonance, but precisely because of it. press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi... @uofmpress.bsky.social #Poetry #Books #RadicalPoetics

Moving to keep things whole #poetry by Mark Strand @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday

For fans of learning cool and helpful stuff while also having fun!!

Jess is a critically-acclaimed author and journalist (the New York Times, TIME, the Atlantic, etc) who has been full-time freelance for most of her career. She’s made it work with a combination of strategic pitching and practical tools for staying productive and creative.

Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the linked story collection, If I Survive You, which was nominated for more than a dozen prizes and awards internationally, including the National Book Award, and was a finalist for the Booker Prize and others.

Delighted to see Richard Siken's I DO KNOW SOME THINGS on this list ✨

This generator is taught by Greg Mania, author of the memoir Born to Be Public, which has been named a best book of 2020 by NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Largehearted Boy, and was a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Humor.

Join blind poet and memoirist Stephen Kuusisto as he talks about what it means to be a “literary listener.” He is the author of the memoirs Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey; Planet of the Blind, Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening, and several poetry collections.

You can take a class with this brilliant person!

Saying goodbye to dear friend + client DéLana R. A. Dameron, brilliant poet, novelist, equestrian, philanthropist, + all around Queen.Gone too soon. “I believe my project as a writer who is also Black and Southern is to document the experience of Black, Southern folks across multiple generations."

Lidia Yuknavitch is a highly acclaimed, nationally bestselling author of memoir, fiction, and nonfiction. Her most recent book is the memoir Reading the Waves, which is being adapted into a feature film by the actress Kristen Stewart. More here! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

Dorothea Lasky has over 25 years of experience teaching writing and a doctorate in fostering creativity. She has led hundreds of poetry workshops and has taught an intensive graduate course on creating a poetry manuscript for over a decade. More here! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/hear...

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential