"I started bringing books with me onto the train, inside the bodega, to the park, just pretty much anywhere people could see me and wonder, 'How can someone so conventionally attractive also have intellectual pursuits?'"

I was searching for examples of breathless sentence flash fiction and came across this beauty by @kimmagowan.bsky.social this morning. Swoon www.craftliterary.com/2020/11/06/v...

Generative AI is for losers. It’s so embarrassing to watch people debase real artists, the environment, and themselves for a sloppy, rip-off of a party trick.

Seattleites, do you all know about this place? I can't wait to go. #Seattle #Booklovers www.theinkdrinker.com

“Short lines create torque, longer lines create glide.” - @kathyfish.bsky.social

All the great litmags in one list. go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

I went on a wine and abortion pill run today. :D Not having an abortion, but need the Misoprostol for an endometrial scope. I wonder if I'd be able to get it if I lived in a red state. Cheers!

In case anyone needs to hear this: socialism is not communism. And democratic socialism isn't even true socialism. If you're conflating these three ideologies you need to do some reading.

#Seattle is rainy and spongy right now, but at least I'm not confused about which lane I'm driving in on snowy roads and, if I forget my gloves, my hands won't fall off and shatter against the cold, hard ground.

“always, there is so much i do not want. but still, the sweep of daylight.” From “ruminations,” a Micro poem, by Ivi Hua theoffingmag.com/micro/rumina...

Good news! You are invited to WRR's 10-Year Anniversary Reading! Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time Register in advance: pointloma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A writing professor once told me,"there is nothing easy or cheap about being clear." #writingcommunity #booksky

Saturday is now the day after tomorrow #TheMikey

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

He doesn't want to help poor people. This is real and true and anyone who voted for this Burgermeister Meisterburger should've expected it. Prices aren't going down and people are starving. In the richest country. #SnapBenefits

Flannel time! 🍂

Up next- @ninaschuyler.bsky.social will lead our @bendinggenres.bsky.social weekend workshop, Dec. 12- 14, a new focus, Writing the More-than-Humans!!! Dip into the other species or surroundings we share this amazing planet with!!! More here: bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...

The four aspects of a great character are the Need, the Want, the Ghost, and the Lie. A Want is their conscious desire. A Need is what they really want but might not know. A Lie is the thing they believe that keeps them from that Need. A Ghost is that spiritual wound that caused the Lie.

Comparison kills creativity. Comparison kills artistic spirit. Comparison kills art. This is a note to myself.

I've rewritten this caption 5x. If you can relate, you'll love these places as much as we do. Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/_beaut...

For the partygoers that spend more time talking to the pets than the people.

The editors of West Trade Review seek creative nonfiction that engages with the ideas of mental health and mental wellness. Submit now. Details at the link below: buff.ly/PRgolsm #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry

Take a break and read this one. It'll knock your socks off!

🚨 Last call! 🚨 Today is the last day to apply for our volunteer Fiction & Flash reader roles. Get your applications in by tonight! buff.ly/X3932x5

In a sunny train seat writing and I just hit 50,000 words on my work-in-progress! #writingcommunity

Enjoy this short video. It's like a deep sigh in the middle of your day.

I need this.

Getting my Covid vax today felt like a satisfying FU to RFK.

It's the best day of the year for those of us in the lit mag subculture! #writingcommunity #submit

A field of Vermont wildflowers seen on a walk to Robert Frost’s cabin.

My friend @kchristensen.bsky.social has published a novel about two girls who use the Brink Box to solve questions they have about their mother's death and to save elephants from extinction. It's one of the best books I've ever critiqued and I enjoyed it immensely. www.amazon.com/Brink-Box-Ki...

Two sleeps until the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference! 😍 #writingcommunity

Please. Call your politicians, whether democrats or republicans. Demand a ceasefire and an end to the blockade of food and other humanitarian aid. 5calls.org/issue/gaza-p...

I have mentioned 'tacos' sixteen times in my novel-in-progress and it's only half drafted. 🌮

Why are people still on twitter?

My essay is up at @literaryhub.bsky.social about the late, great Lana Clarkson and other promising young women whose lives have been derailed or destroyed by men. It’s also about my childhood sexual abuse and how I have tried, and failed, to reckon with it. lithub.com/on-promising...

I love this! I have learned so much researching for my pieces.

I have a story up in The Razor! With original artwork and audio read by the very talented Jessica Taige. #writingcommunity therazormag.com/articles/pan...

Changing my bio to "You're a talented writer, but..."

Funding for PBS has been attacked, and it is worth returning to Fred Rogers’ testimony to Congress on why PBS is worth our time. Share widely, because this message must continue to be known. youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA?...

I am mildly obsessed with nailing a good first line, and IMO to do so one must convey at least three or four details/pieces of information. As a reader, I want to know several things immediately: what's the MC doing? What time period/era is this? What's just happened to stir up conflict in the MC's

Reading anything good? I'm halfway through The Wedding People by Alison Espach and really enjoying the smart humor. #BooksofBlueSky

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest opens Aug 1st! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Diablo Lake. I love living in #Washington state.

Happy for all of you!

A whale of a tale. Read "Baleen Date," by Angie McCullagh. @angiemccullagh.bsky.social vestalreview.net/baleen-date

Today's heat wave was made FIVE TIMES more likely by fossil fueled climate change Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies