A bouquet of roses for you, friends, plus a morning Mocha.🌹🐶💚

“Show me creativity run amok.” Inspiration and guidance, courtesy of the marvelous @kathyfish.bsky.social. Check this out, writing friends!❤️

“…packed with biting social commentary…” This wonderful review of @sabrinahicks.bsky.social’s fabulous story collection!!😍🎉📚

"Do you like the embroidered edges and slip-knot closures? My grandmother was an excellent seamstress." I love this award-winning piece of writing by @mynachang.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Our beloved Lisa Ampleman is moving into a leadership role with our sister press, @acrebooks.bsky.social. We're so excited for everything she will do for the press and can't wait to see what comes next for her. But...that means we're looking for a new Managing Editor! Application in thread.

These poems! A palmful of stars, outstretched to the reader. @susanlleary.bsky.social so, so beautiful. Thank you for writing these and gifting them to us. (And @triohousepress.org for publishing them!)

Book mail by @pdforan.bsky.social!

Rainy day brightened by the arrival of this beauty by @pdforan.bsky.social ❤️

Patio reading and knitting time. First up, Songs from the Blimp Ruins by @pdforan.bsky.social

Test-fired my new glaze, tornado sky. I’m liking the results!💚💙🌪️ #pottery

See inside for info about upcoming "Write Together" sessions for paid subscribers, the first is THIS Friday. 💙 The Haibun, a True Literary Hybrid open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

@willmusgrove.bsky.social! Congratulations!🎉📚🩵

“…the Epstein crisis was paralyzing the Trump administration to a far greater extent than the public knew. In their public statements, Trump’s advisers were full of bravado, dismissing the crisis. In reality, it was consuming the highest ranks of the administration.…” Gift Article

“Before anyone else can take it from you or ruin it.” This wonderful gem by @anniejowrites.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social! 🔥

Missed an episode of the Time Pirate? Just found it and want to see more? Catch up on the previous episodes here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Honored to be in this month's Mythic Picnic with this awesome group! Enjoy it here: x.com/i/status/206...

Pat! Yay!! Congratulations, friend!🥰📚🎉💜

Pretty rad that this anthology I'm in, along with so many other amazing writers, has been named as a finalist for the Midwest Book Awards in the Humanities category ... P.S. A half-off summer sale happening now on this book & others through June 16: share.google/2eFJZfkuE3xo...

My Story: Chasing Butterflies [fiction] open.substack.com/pub/oppad/p/...

You can read "Saturday" by Marilia Arnaud. in my translation, in the print edition of New England Review and on their website. #literatureintranslation #Brazilianliterature #shortstories #womenwriters nereview.com/article/satu...

Monday Mocha & pink peonies.🐶🌸

A chilling fairy tale of sisters, grief, privacy, and guilt. 🥰

“Everything’s eerily quiet like this is the apocalypse, an apocalypse where we have to deal with a f—ing camel” in @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/what-we-lost...

I have a new story out, a strange love story, about…an ant. Thank you to @variantlit.bsky.social and to editor @suzyeynon.bsky.social for including me in their gorgeous summer issue! variantlit.com/the-peony-ant/

“…getting up and keeping on.” A wonderful review of @sabrinahicks.bsky.social’s excellent collection!❤️📚🎉

"when my grandfather died, he came back as a sound. he came back as a vinyl record spinning comes back as a planet. dark and spherical, edged with wrinkles and worry. he came back as a chess board. he came back as the amber scent of bourbon rimming glass cups"

Update: There are now just TWO spaces open for this November's residential workshop in gorgeous West Viriginia! I'd love for you to join @joybaglio.bsky.social & Sarah Freligh & me. You will write LOTS! 🍁🍂

I'm rich in books! Excited to read / reread collections by Jared Yates Sexton, @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Leslie O'Connel, @luannecastle.bsky.social @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social & poems by @lesliearchibald.bsky.social 💙 Congratulations, all!

Hi. I made a playlist to accompany my book Songs from the Blimp Ruins, which will be published June 8 by Silverbacked Punk. The book comprises 60 pieces of mostly flash fiction. Nearly all reference songs, many of which appear on this playlist. Thx for glistening. ❤️ open.spotify.com/playlist/6Cd...

Every American should watch this interview between two very well respected journalists. And after you watch it, you tell me with a straight face that what’s happening in the U.S. isn’t frightening. youtu.be/ePqdmbgQ4BI?...

Here’s your first look at Bad Intentions, our crime fiction anthology inspired by Warren Zevon & edited by @kmwriter01.bsky.social . Fifteen writers. Fifteen stories. No clean getaways. Great work & huge thanks to @frankvatel312.bsky.social for absolutely nailing the cover design. Coming July 7.

Wonderful stories here including @ninamiller.bsky.social 💔story told through a suture removal kit, and my little story about Aunt Ruby Rooster which was born in @mattkendrick.bsky.social Glorious Words. Thanks so much @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social

Making berry colanders in the studio this week. Here’s a new one in pink shadow and sour apple. I’m ready for strawberry season.🍓❤️ #pottery

Our EIC @m-ixedbag.bsky.social loves Namjoon so much she started @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, but she loves YOU MORE! Send us your self-care themed flash fic and CNF <500words! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit

“This story's hair looked nice today, but no one said.” “This story is texting someone it loved in the middle of the night.” “This story is sitting alone in the dark, practicing Japanese…” this story, day for night, night as day, by Cathy Ulrich in @wigleaf.bsky.social wigleaf.com/202603eating...

Issue 23 prose from N.D. Stone, David Ryan, Yitzchak Friedman, Joseph Randolph, Katherine Plumhoff @kplumhoff.bsky.social, Adina Leschinsky Levine, Phillip Hall, Alex Rost, Nick Dmytrow @nickdmytrow.bsky.social, Spencer Brownstein, and Nora Maynard @noramaynard.bsky.social

June at sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com 💛 @tracieadams.bsky.social , @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social

With a standstill on the M50, the Red Cow Luas out to graze, the Dublin bus taking the scenic route through Buttevant (🙄) I missed this wonderful book launch the Gallery Press last month. Love to get parcels of books Huge congrats to @martinadalton.bsky.social , Mícheál, Eamon & Stephen. #poetry

It's always an honor to publish Dorianne Laux. Here are three poems from earlier in the year. Happy Sunday, All. www.culturaldaily.com/dorianne-lau...

“Learning at nine years old that there was no such thing as a circus boat was more devastating to Dmytro than discovering a few years earlier that Santa Claus didn’t exist…” - Read “A Good Reason to Cry” by B. B. Garin www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/garin/a-g...

Starting today! #wtawpress #bettybooks #opensubmissionperiod #prosemanuscripts #womenwriters

Congratulations, @luaz.bsky.social!❤️📚🎉

“The dead are meant to rest.” What a terrific gem, @anniejowrites.bsky.social! 🔥

“We believe Natasha went willingly. We thought we saw a smile on her face.” Oh, wow, I love this gripping story by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social. Check it out, friends!❤️

I feel sorry for the students who want to learn for real, who want to write real papers & figure out problems & develop their own theories from actual reading & research. Bc they're competing with kids using AI to cheat who can get more done in a short amount of time & potentially get better grades.

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“…but she can never turn it back.” This poignant beauty by @jenwithwords.bsky.social!❤️💔

Your Monday Mocha. Happy June, friends.🐶💚

I may have jumped the gun a little bit, but what are guns for if not for jumping... Anyway, entries are now OPEN for the Welkin Genre Prize 2026!!! Micros up to 100 words Free to enter Send UP TO TWO micros across FIVE categories Deadline 30th June www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...

Submissions Open We are reading Poetry, Blended & Beyond, Flash Fiction and Creative Nonfiction through June 15th (CNF and Flash Fiction will cap at 40 submissions)