Hello! We're very pleased to announce our nominations (in reverse alphabetical order by title) for Best Small Fictions/2025 Greg Lemon, @rachelsavagewrites.bsky.social, @hayleym29.bsky.social, Salvatore Difalco, Barlow Crassmont. Many thanks to all!

Thrilled to have new work up in Dog Throat Journal today!

It's official! My debut novel will arrive in the spring of 2027. Thanks to my wonderful agent @markfalkin.bsky.social and all the lovely people at Melville House who got behind this book!

Fear THE ROCK STATUE in The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 17 > gizmodo.com/new-books-de...

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Gotta story, THE ROCK STATUE, in here: booktrib.com/2025/10/27/e...

The inflatables r showing up everywhere for No Kings music festivals! 🥰 #nokings

I actually can and will judge people who are using environmentally devastating technology built on mass theft to create a fictional partner who does nothing but tell how great they are.

My face when I heard that Liberty University offered full ride scholarships to underage teen moms for *decades* contingent on them being shipped off to a maternity home and giving their newborns up to University-approved couples who happened to be big alumni donors:

I confess: I’m in the pocket of Big Do Your Own G.D. Writing or Don’t Call Yourself a Writer.

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

Itasca Sunrise! Where the Mississippi begins. Northern Minnesota in Itasca State Park. #bluesky #nature #photography #sunrise #photo #Mississippi #minnesota

i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything

hi everybody! soo exciting to run from app to app like a plague rat fleeing the whims of the dork ass losers who control our freedom of expression! what a chill and sustainable media landscape!!

Hey folks so we're not doing "if you personally have not made a loud public statement about Bad Thing You're Not Accountable For then it's obvious you don't think it's bad," right? Right. Glad we had this talk.

Welcome to our Winter 2024 issue! This marks the 9-year anniversary of Whale Road Review, and publishing the fantastic work in this issue on a Friday the 13th feels like a scarily good way to celebrate! www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-37

“Scrape out the shadows and rush before cold creek water comes up to level your work, your hunt for jewels unprecious. . . .” Evergreen has poetry for you!: “Digging Quartz” and two more poems by @hayleym29.bsky.social. Art by Gelah Penn. evergreenreview.com/read/digging...

Very excited to share the first of three poems of mine up in @evergreenreview.bsky.social today! Check the rest out here: evergreenreview.com/read/digging...

“How can you make jokes at a time like this” why do you think jokes were invented?

Turned Earth, my fifth collection of poems, is available for pre-order from LSU Press. The official release date is 2/7/25, and I hope you will consider giving the book a pre-release boost by ordering a copy. I would also be thrilled to visit classes and give readings! lsupress.org/978080718418...

Hi Bluesky!