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Our ability to weep for others who are not us is an essential part of being human.

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write.

Nicely said, @gabino.bsky.social!

Sharing this GIFT LINK so people can’t say they didn’t know what’s been happening in our name. wapo.st/3GZuXCW

Resurrection lily, reprise, with crepe myrtle confetti

🌍 is whack. Grateful for small #joys. New #shortstories up at Swing Literary Journal and in The Overturning, a new post-Roe-v-Wade-overturning anthology from the great folks at @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social. Keep #reading. Keep #writing. Keep your good hearts.

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write.

it's prime day and bookshop has free shipping. yes please, but go further. it's a great day to think about ethical, sustainable, access to culture. under capitalism, we are where we spend and we die without art. buy from brick and mortar or online indie (every and) today. kithbooks.com/shop

Coil shapes, plus #clouds. #cville

Cool building. Ypsilanti. #writeratlarge

Cool building. Ypsilanti. #writeratlarge

More #clouds. #cloudsaregood

Because the world needs more #flowers right now

None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

Catawba rhododendron.

Some #flowers I passed on a recent walk. We still have flowers, at least ...

Not to be redundant, but here's some #bluesky. I love #clouds and their reminder of the bigness of the world, the sky, the universe. It's a great time for #deepbreaths and #selfcare while we navigate these turbulent times. #solidarity

🧡 Introducing the 2025 Cows in Residence! #MtSanAngelo #VCCAFellows

Irises.

Greetings from Little.

If you've never been to @the-vcca.bsky.social, or any artist residency, tune in for this primer on how to apply. It's a magical place.

Spring in Virginia.

At #AWP25 you'll see @wendyjfox.bsky.social, @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social, @federicoerebia.bsky.social, Renee Simms, & Viet Dinh speaking on the panel "To Publicist or Not to Publicist," on 3/28 from 12:10 PM - 1:25 PM PDT! buff.ly/B0ud4JC Treat yourself to Wendy's books at Booth #563!

Virginia Festival of the Book is happening right now.

A reminder: Virginia Festival of the Book kicks off tomorrow!

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

Join me *next week* at the Virginia Festival of the Book #vabook 2025! #bookfestival #bookfest #literaryfiction #cville #cvillelocal #writingcommunity #VaBookFest

I'm deeply afraid & saddened by the abrupt turn toward authoritarianism happening in the US. It is shocking that our Department of Homeland Security has detained a student with a green card at a prestigious university simply for protesting. This is a black mark on our democracy.

Thanks, Sandy Hausman for this shout-out re: Write Start: Moseley Speed Critique, 3.23.25, Central Lib. Send 1st 100 wds of unpub'd fiction or memior to writestartva(at)gmail(dot)com by 3.11.25. #VaBookFest #WritingCommunity #cvillelocal #writinglife #bookfestival www.wvtf.org/.../panel-to....

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

Cathleen Quirk

Grateful to Kim Magowan and @pitheadchapel.bsky.social for giving my cranky woman a home. A #shortstory about pain and disconnection, yearning and loss.... @greatdoglit.bsky.social #literaryfiction pitheadchapel.com/swingset-bird/

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

Thanks, @pinchjournal.bsky.social for giving my #shortstory O Say Can You See a home! Some explosives plus toxic masculinity. What could go wrong? www.pinchjournal.com/blog-posts/3...

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

Gender is on a spectrum. Biology says so. An old-ish video, but a good one:

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

#writing #writersky #amwriting #publishing

A whole weird pre #valentine vibe. A lil trapped #Cupid. #streetart

What a cool tribute to my misty night in Baltimore shot from some time ago! Nice work, @thorntonforreal.bsky.social!

The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social DO SOMETHING! Show courage. ELECTEDS like @sanders.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @jasmineforus.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social understand that courage is what we need.

Please and thank you

"Believe what you see, do not see what you believe."

It's a snuggly #cat day.

Pleased and thankful that Without You Here won the 2025 Independent Press Award for #literaryfiction! Thank you! #writingcommunity #literaryawards #novel #newbook @greatdoglit.bsky.social @kayepublicity.bsky.social