Let the brain rot begin in England!

Such good advice if you have little ones! Such great advice if you are an artist (i.e. writer)!

This is amazing.

We deserve some joy. We deserve some FAT BEARS. NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK!!!! Go Grazer Go you absolute unit! www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

Hey #kidlit illustrators! We’re beginning to think through a mythology-themed beginning-reader series. I'm looking for someone w/ a commercial/punchy, character-forward style who can breath life into ancient lore. Please respond w/ samples + folio link. Please no emails/DMs. 💙❤️ #artcommissions

the hand is way too big, but otherwise? brilliant.

I was interviewed by Chloe Yelena Miller. Check it out!

Was so happy to talk with Chloe, one of my many writing heroes, about writing! Check it out!

#kidlit peeps: Join the offense against #bookbans! #wearestrongerthancensorship buys and donates 2 books to offest every 1 book challenge. We've already offset 1,250 book challenges, and together we can do more! Here's our Sep update: www.wearestrongerthancensorship.org/strongernews... #freadom

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This seems really stupid, Google: www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/g...

Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks. Joy Reid nailed it.

in the spirit of "WTF Lets Do This"... wtf lets do this ⚡ this Wed (17th) 7pm EST, join me for a virtual, one-time generative fiction workshop called WereReaders ... as in, "where are folks reading these days?" & "why does that matter?" & horror stuff :) if you wanna join, that's awesome! +

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

Had this version of the Dylan song in my head since Sunday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=npeY...

The family of Trey Reed is seeking an independent autopsy following the Delta State University student’s death on Monday, when his body was found hanging in a tree on campus.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

🎶 Everything sucks so buy some books! 🎵 Everything sucks so buy some books! 🎵 Got a book you want folks to buy? Go ahead, put it in the replies! 🎵 Everything sucks so buuuuuyyyyy sooommmeee booooooks! 🎶 [put of breath, on a knee, jazz hands still kinda involuntarily going]

This is terrifying.

If I ever teach craft of horror writing again, I'm going to dial the theory up a notch.

Okay, I'm in the wrong line of work apparently.

Nothing from me today, thank you. Carry on, World.

When Trump said "I am your voice," this is who he was talking to.

On This Day in History: September 9, 1836 Emerson published Nature, the essay that launched transcendentalism. Proof that you really can change the world by going outside and writing about it. (I'm not doing it, but YOU can.)

Wordle 1,543 2/6* ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This whole thread is fucking delightful

Excellent Last Week Tonight!

We're finishing ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a double accomplishment 🎉 Contributors @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social will be discussing friendship and poetry with @notebookscltv.bsky.social Sept. 16th! 🙌 Get your free tickets to this virtual event here: buff.ly/tAs68NP

Y'all remember when snatch vans reignited the George Floyd Uprising? Portland and NYC remember...

And it's go time! Submissions to our Lost/Found imprint are now open. Is your out-of-print prose book in need of a new home? If so, we'd love to consider your book for republication. Our Lost/Found Editor @abigailoswald.bsky.social is waiting at splitlippress.submittable.com (also linked in bio)!

@mcrane12.bsky.social Writing my intro lecture on experimental writing, in which I quote you. So glad I remembered to come to Bsky to check your pronouns! Everyone else, read this excellent short essay on experimental writing by Mac Crane:

We talk about this daily in my house since those numbers came out re Black women and job lost. It's like he's punishing all Black women because one ran against him.

Who do I know in Philly? This is coming up in a couple of weeks and it'll suck to kick Sam's literary ass without a bunch of people screaming my name.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to stop my simpleminded nephew from destroying your country."

I mean, I could use six grand, so it would be nice if I made the class suit. Two of my books were pirated by the companies Anthropic used.

So many of those jobs lost were held by Black women. Thanks to our dear leader, so many of them were fired from nonpartisan fed jobs.

Why y'all didn't tell me about this? Don't be keeping stuff like this from me again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH0-...

If you need a peer review from a fellow writer, or if you'd like to buy a signed copy of one of my books, please visit demistybellinger.com & let me know. Books are various prices with one dollar shipping per book, but a response on your written work is negotiable. Babies (teens) do need new shoes!

Into their own hands!

“I kissed a dead bird I found on the side of the road once and got chirpes, which is a canarial disease.”

I have a story in the latest issue of @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social. Thanks so much to editors Lisa Trudeau &Laurie Rosenblatt! I'm happy to see writer friends included in the issue: Francine Witte, Mikki Aronoff, Andrew Bertaina, Elena Zhang, and more! leonliteraryreview.com/issue-32-che...

Delighted to reveal the cover for my forthcoming book from @jacklegpress.bsky.social with huge thanks to amazing editor @fulmerford.com

Guys, I'm not any closer to my goal of making $150k this year. In fact, I think I'm even farther away (further? farther? I'll never know). Ah, well. Such is the life of an academic.

I missed it!

No text message is worth dying for. Or killing someone else.

Let's say you have this friend, and let's say this friend is me, and let's say that your friend is a halfway decent writer, and let's say this friend needs money fairly quickly, where should such friend send poems/essays/stories?

Our September newsletter hits inboxes tomorrow! Make sure you're subscribed, especially if you're in need of a mid-year writing reset... 👀

News flash: Feminists can be heterosexual or bi or whatever sexuality or gender. Also, many feminists (including yours truly) are married to men! Masculine men can be feminists. My masculine husband is feminist, for example. Godtdamnit it happens!

There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.