The Best Day I Had in 2025 open.substack.com/pub/rionamil...

New Substack!! open.substack.com/pub/rionamil...

We’re thrilled and honored to have the opportunity to reprint “On the Occasion of the Death of Freddie Lee” by @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social! Check out this eerie and captivating story on the site now!

Read at UDC today and it was such a joyous beautiful event. Students read moving poems and essays inspired by THE W🌍RLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU and Cross River, MD. And all the wonderful questions! Wish I had better pictures. My heart ❤️ is full tho.

My latest Substack post is on the art of falling in love with a short story. open.substack.com/pub/rionamil...

No one tells you how much of this writing life is maintaining a one-sided cold war against some writer you feel wronged you years ago.

A Pens in Gear Like Shakespeare tribute to Dick Cheney… open.substack.com/pub/rionamil...

2nd Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/rionamil...

Posted on my Substack for the first time. How Does it Feel? It feels great! rionamilcarscott.substack.com/p/untitled

Posted on my Substack for the first time. How Does it Feel? It feels great! rionamilcarscott.substack.com/p/untitled

I'm on Substack! Trying something new. All about trying to provide uplift. Take a look at my first post for Intermittent Inspiration. substack.com/@sufiyasa/no... I would be so honored.

Look at your girl, inspiring the masses. pridepublishinggroup.com/2025/09/10/b...

Hard. My calling card. Reported and ordered, supporter of Chesimard. RIP.

"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.

Excited that THE W🌍RLD DOESN'T REQUIRE YOU is the 2025-2026 Freshman Common Read at UDC. This study guide the school's library put together is super thorough. udc.libguides.com/c.php?g=1007...

Excited that THE W🌍RLD DOESN'T REQUIRE YOU is the 2025-2026 Freshman Common Read at UDC. This study guide the school's library put together is super thorough. udc.libguides.com/c.php?g=1007...

We’re in the midst of the holiest week of the year. 9 years ago this week 🔥INSURRECTIONS🔥 introduced the world to the Cross River Saga and 6 years ago today the saga continued with THE W🌍RLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU. Thanks to everyone who communed with my heart. More to come. Cross River will return.

Parent showcase day on the last day of summer camp is a scam to get you to pick up your kids early. I ain’t falling for that shit! I’m leaving my kid there after the showcase and returning in an hour at regular pick up time!

Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target and also basically a goddamn flashing disclaimer, lest it be mistaken for genuine sentiment by the most joyless dunderheads on the internet.

My essay "Crossing" is featured in the anthology. Thank you, Monique Franz and company! I am so grateful to have been included among this collection of wonderful poems, stories, and essays. I hope you will check it out.

The anthology is now available for sale on their site www.kinsmanquarterly.org/product-page... and on Amazon www.amazon.com/Black-Butter...

I participated in a reading of writers from the African diaspora on Juneteenth, and it was the warmest, most inviting gathering of exceptional black talent that I've been involved in, in a while. Big ups to Kinsman Avenue Publishing for putting together the Black Butterfly anthology and its reading!

The machete I use for gardening makes me feel gangsta

Hey y’all come look at this bullshit with me. Candace Owens using Bob Marley’s good name to promote her blexit bullshit at a Juneteenth festival. We ain’t forget when you said Juneteenth was stupid. Keep your anti-black bulllshit away from our cultural celebrations.

There’s probably a Cobra-Commander like villain in a skyscraper somewhere right now saying, “The Goodreadsification of literature is nearly complete!”

Sameer Project is only able to provide 10 pots of food/day in the South due to lack of funds. They used to average 30. (from x): They recently distributed 8 pots of zucchini stew in Basma camp in Nuseirat and 2 in Refaat Alareer camp in zawayde. Donate now: chuffed.org/project/1132...

Every time I write a book review I’m always scared that it’s as dumb as the LRB takedown of Ocean Voung.

Teaching short fiction or creative writing in the fall? Covering queer &/or feminist &/or AA lit? Teach my story collection! I'm available for virtual class visits for free, or in-person visits with travel stipends. Check out All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere, and visit my website to contact me:

Bumper cars make traffic accidents seem like a whole lot of fun.

I’m such a nonconformist that I spell it nonconfimist and pronounce it nonconfoamist!

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

They say that when the elephants fight the grass suffers, but sometimes the elephants fight and the grass stands back and laughs.

Cross River is a small, fictional town in Maryland that rose from the country’s only successful slave revolt in the early nineteenth century. In surreal, lyrical, darkly comical prose…Rion Amilcar Scott weaves a tapestry of genres— crimereads.com/small-town-g...

The homie Damon Young—the funniest dude in lit—just dropped a hilarious new bible of Black humor, THAT’S HOW THEY GET YOU, and you can find me on page 121.

More good book mail: HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE, the greatly anticipated debut novel from @ambersparks.bsky.social, due out in October! Digging into this one this week.

No one ever warns you about the shirtless teenage boy phase of parenting.

Bought a Bluey doll for my 7yo. He claims the other stuffed animals stabbed her and ate her heart. So if anyone knows a good therapist...

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Hey, DC! buy your books here!! including the fantastic story collection by @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/16/a...

In my personal utopia, vending machines like this are everywhere. And they all contain at least one book by @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social

You can read my flash story here! Were you ever a temp worker? Hate your job just a bit? This one's for you ✨ "Assistant in the House of Unexpected Arrivals."

AWP's HBCU fellowship is such an important program, like many, now endangered by Trump's NEA cuts. I know there have been a lot of asks for your dough lately, but if you have it, open your wallets to help keep this running. See more at the link: mailchi.mp/awpwriter/he...

The students’ final ranking of Kendrick’s albums. Most have TPAB on top. We decided that’s because it is so ambitious and difficult to pull off, but he nailed it. My list: GKMC TPAB DAMN. Mr. Morale GNX Section.80

Final takeaway from the last day of my Kendrick class.

Regurgitative AI is more accurate than Generative AI

Hey y'all, if you're free tonight in MD, I'm gonna be in conversation with @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social tonight to talk ZEAL and perhaps a whole lot more. You can RSVP here: peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/zeal/ Looking forward :)

DMV: join us TONIGHT! Meet @mjerkins.bsky.social on tour for ZEAL, in conversation with @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social, PEN/Bingham Prizewinner & one of DC Citypaper’s four “voices we need now” in 2025, @peoplesbooktakoma.com: peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/zeal/

I have a book out tomorrow! bookshop.org/p/books/advo...

New: The US Naval Academy canceled a lecture that author Ryan Holiday was scheduled to give to students last week after he refused to remove slides from his presentation that criticized the academy’s decision to remove 381 books from its main library. www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/p...