Our 5th annual fiction contest is open. Grand prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2027 print edition. Submit by end of day on 2/1, and we’ll respond to your submission within 2 weeks (no extra charge for expedited response). Details below: buff.ly/epYNLIW #writingcommunity

Listen to an interview with Chinese Canadian graphic memoir author Teresa Wong on The Spark podcast. This is the last episode for a while so I can focus on getting Staring into the Sun ready for publication in May! madelynpostman.substack.com/p/18-comics-... #graphicmemoir #ChineseCanadian

Check out the latest episode of The Spark which includes an author's path from hybrid to self-publishing. madelynpostman.substack.com/p/17-from-hy... #selfpublishing

Check out The Spark interview this month, with publisher Michael T. Braun of Orange Hat Publishing and Ten16 Press! madelynpostman.substack.com/p/16-stories... #indiepress #smallpublisher #hybridpublishing #publisherinterview

Check out this month's episode of The Spark, featuring an interview with author S.E. Reid, who serializes her work on Substack. madelynpostman.substack.com/p/15-in-a-fl...

Listen to The Spark to find out what a polecat and Prince Michael of Kent have in common! With Amber Harrison of @foldedorset.bsky.social On all podcast platforms pod.link/1769061008 And on Substack madelynpostman.substack.com/p/14-a-polec...

If every publisher doesn't do this, I would not be surprised to see come kind of collective action, depending on how many authors are affected.

@failingwriters.bsky.social review: I discovered The Failing Writers Podcast a couple of years ago and have been a dedicated listener ever since. They even critiqued a submission of mine, which was a real high point for me. I love that they don’t take themselves too seriously, as seen in the name!

WOW!! This is super exciting. If you’d like to read Staring into the Sun, I’m serializing it here from this Saturday, every week until the end of December. Publication in May 2026 by Ten16 Press. madelynpostman.substack.com/p/start-here

If you can't wait until May 2026 to read my short story collection, Staring into the Sun, sign up to read it week by week here! madelynpostman.substack.com/p/start-here

I’m incredibly excited to announce my deal with Ten16 Press to publish my short story collection, Staring into the Sun 🎉🎉🎉 It links memoir with narrative nonfiction about my Chinese American family ❤️

Thankfully, I have something to distract me from waiting for my @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Developing Your Creative Practice decision (already made, locked behind creaky Grantium). See my next post! #grantium #DYCP #artscouncil

Arts Council England (ACE) has blamed “high traffic” for technical issues preventing users from accessing its online application platform, Grantium, over the last 24 hours.

Update on our application portal Grantium: We are currently experiencing technical issues with our application portal, Grantium, which means users have not been able to access the system since the evening of 23 July. We are doing everything we can to fix this.

Send us a flash fiction piece of up to 704 words that packs an emotional punch and has something important to teach us about a deep human truth. $704 and publication in the Spring 2026 print edition of West Trade Review will be awarded to the winner. Details: buff.ly/oUoxK8w #writingcommunity

Excited for the July episode of The Spark podcast & newsletter, featuring an interview with Virginia Evans, author of epistolary contemporary novel, The Correspondent. Listen/read here madelynpostman.substack.com/p/12-time-re... or wherever you listen to podcasts! #virginiaevans #thecorrespondent

Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/aEjHtHL #writingcommunity

Just published The Spark podcast and newsletter! June features: 🎙️ An interview with the inimitable @eanstruther.bsky.social 📚 Reading recs for your TBR ✏️ Writing tips and resources 👣 Updates on my moseying Find it wherever you listen to podcasts or here madelynpostman.substack.com/p/11-were-al...

Check out The Spark for May! Featuring: 🎙️ An interview with Tessa McWatt 📚 Reading recommendations ✏️ Writing tips and resources 👣 Updates on my moseying Listen on all podcast platforms or visit madelynpostman.substack.com/p/10-being-h...

Songs about books? Yes please! check out Paul Armfield's album - Between the Covers - and marvel not just at the title, but the luscious music too! He’s on tour this month and next. We had a lovely chat with him about books, songs and lyrics on the pod. Have a little shuftie - Link’s in our bio.

This week we shoot the breeze with the brilliant 🤩@cjtudor.bsky.social, and find out being a massively successful author isn’t always the anxiety-free life we might assume. Link in bio. #horror #thrillerbook #writers

@failingwriters.bsky.social my review: Just listened to the latest episode with Paul Armfield and reminded how much I love this podcast. It’s got everything: authors like Flora Opil, musicians, and booksellers. From a dedicated listener.

Unthemed quarterly submissions are open for Summer! We take all written genres for our quarterly anthologies, & submissions can be sent through Submittable ✨ link in bio—please read submission guidelines. Deadline June 1st

Incredible new bookseller endorsement for Issa Quincy’s ABSENCE — out July 15! Thank you Bryan at Literati! 💖 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/abs...

Have you decided on Thursday plans? May we suggest our literary event at Red Hen Press? Join these amazing authors in conversation on May 1st ❣️ RSVP in the link here: redhen.org/event-calend...

The CLMP Earth Day reading list is live and there are two Tupelo Quarterly authors are featured! Congrats on the shoutout Zachary Bartles and @alycia.bsky.social! www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

This craft class is designed to help you jumpstart the fiction writing practice you truly want. Through a series of short lectures, voice memos from some of the coolest fiction writers working today, and more, students will leave ready to dive in! tinhouse.com/product/spri...

In Wales, every little pub or café on a wet day is a gift to a writer. Order something from the counter and listen: the hwyl, the humour, the body language, the self-deprecation, the hiss of the coffee machine, the drip of wet anoraks... @nation.cymru nation.cymru/culture/on-b...

Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 26!

Happy Earth Day 🌱📖 Love the planet? So do we 💚

Deepest congratulations to #THAlum Sarah Aziza on her publication day for "The Hollow Half"! Sarah, thank you for your words and for writing with us! Shop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Happy pub day to RODEO by Sunni Brown Wilkinson! Sunni's collection was selected by Patricia Smith as the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize Winner. Of the collection, Patricia said: "The poet's wry and revelatory stanzas ride high through the minefields of love..."

Happy Earth Day! To celebrate, we hope everyone will dive into My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women by @crivera.bsky.social. Use code WHALE on our website for 30% off April 22-23 and then explore this timely and wondrous descent into the deep waters of interconnection in which we swim.

"The indie press has selected three debuts to be their lead titles for the season instead of building their promotion around established writers..." Read more about our debut takeover via @debutiful.bsky.social here: debutiful.net/2025/04/22/s...

Join us for the Tupelo Press 30/30 Challenge: write 30 poems in 30 days. 95 publishing deals and counting… www.tupelopress.org/30-30-projec...

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HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS by @xbennyboo.bsky.social is a must-read for summer! Harper's Bazaar calls it "outrageous, hilarious, and biting." 🏐 ✨ 📚 www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

🌹WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE author Julian Zabalbeascoa will be at the LA Times Book Prizes Awards Ceremony & the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend — April 25 & 27! Peep all of @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social ‘s upcoming events ⬇️ 🔗 www.julianzabalbeascoa.com/tour

Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 26!

Congratulations to Acre author Paula Closson Buck on the publication of her short story collection, THE DALAI LAMA'S SMILE, which @ala-booklist.bsky.social calls "A striking chorus of humanity.” Order your copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...! 🎉📚🎉📚🎉

ANNOUNCING: Seven Stories Press x Two Dollar Radio ✨ 👀 @sevenstories.bsky.social Read all about it in Publishers Weekly: 🔗 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Looking to become a more active literary citizen? In this generative workshop, we’ll cover essential elements of long and short form reviews, with a special focus on essay-length reviews! Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/spri...

🎉Thrilled to publish debut novel PARADISE PAWN by Meg Richardson in Summer 2026!

Sarabande authors just keep winning!! 🔥🔥🔥 CONGRATULATIONS to Corey Van Landingham on her Guggenheim Fellowship!

US FOOLS alert: Highly recommend this interview with Nora Lange by @michaelschaub.bsky.social for @ocregister.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 Big thanks to @erikpedersen.bsky.social for publishing www.ocregister.com/2025/04/09/n...

TRIANGULUM by @masande.bsky.social is included on this wonderful list of “5 Underrated Dystopian Books” for @reactorsff.bsky.social 💖 Big thanks to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social ✨ 🔗: reactormag.com/backlist-bon...

There is something special about seeing our books in print papers, particularly when the book is as vital as this one. Journalist Oleksandr Mykhed's I WILL MIX YOUR BLOOD WITH COAL takes us to the Ukrainian east in 2016. Here, locals, activists, historians, and philosophers are given a voice.

Forgot to post yesterday's question over here so you're getting a double-dose of @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social this morning: he's got a book out in ONE WEEK; we've got QUESTIONS!

Check out The Spark podcast and newsletter for April: 🎙️ Interview with memoir and short story author An Ngo Lang 📚 Reading recommendations ✏️ Writing tips and resources 👣 Updates on my moseying Wherever you listen to podcasts: pod.link/1769061008 madelynpostman.substack.com/p/09-short-s...