The new issue of Pithead Chapel is here and it's a good one pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Great piece, Jim! 💯 And what a lovely issue—glad to have discovered this magazine!

1 week left to get your on-theme submissions in for issue no. 8, Reverse Evaluation. Paying $25 USD per accepted piece. Subs close March 7th, 2026 at 11:59pm PST. Links in bio

Charlie’s keeping busy today

Introducing BULL #13: The Longjohns Issue, featuring a bunch of longer fiction from the past year. Get it now for the low low price of 6 lousy bucks: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPX54CRQ

This is for anyone surrounded by snow today, as I am. Enjoy the leafiness.

2 weeks left to get your on-theme submissions in for issue no. 8, Reverse Evaluation. Paying $25 USD per accepted piece. Subs close March 7th, 2026 at 11:59pm PST. Links in bio

When it comes to free and fair elections, Collins is as conservative and anti-voting rights as they come. Not only is she supporting the SAVE Act, but during the Biden administration she opposed the For the People Act and the Joe Manchin compromise bill — the Freedom to Vote Act.

hm yes i agree

Does It Have Pockets is fee free through the end of February! Help us beat the winter doldrums by sending us something this month: www.doesithavepockets.com/subs #literarycommunity #fiction #poetry #visualart #memoir #creativenonfiction Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Sweet Spots: An Interview with Kim Magowan by Curtis Smith Bad decisions are my sweet spot.

Attentiion #WritingCommunity!

Video of my writing output this morning

So excited that author copies have arrived! Big thank you to Jeff Bogle at @stanchion.bsky.social. Order your copy below!

hey hey hey I have a short story collection coming out soon. I'd love to do more interviews and get copies out to reviewers. I’ll also be at AWP and have one reading lined up but open to more... 10 years ago did a reading of an apatosauruses story that made someone cry, if that helps.

Please take note, #WritingCommunity!

Thank you @ivygrimes.bsky.social for spending time with Terrestrial (forthcoming from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social) and for asking thoughtful questions! This was fun. ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

Friendly reminder that you have until March 7 to submit your reverse evaluations to @midlvlmag.bsky.social. It may be poetry, short fiction, or creative nonfiction. Remuneration for accepted pieces: $25 (USD). Please refer to these guidelines: midlvlmag.com/submissiongu... #AmWriting

Can we all just take a minute to recognize and celebrate my pal Jay and the excellent first year his debut has lived out in the world? The success of a debut can be about marketing spend or sheer luck. I read Ibis and I assure you it's been shortlisted for its second major award on literary merit.

Mainers, I know ICE is hitting Portland right now. Maine's ICE Watch Hotline is ☎️ 207-544-9989. More info here: maineimmigrantrights.org/mirc-resourc...

Tomorrow is today! And if you hate dialing, 5calls.org lets you click to call your electeds. It even gives scripts (though I like the one below).

Call Congress: 202-224-3121 All you have to do is say the name of the rep or senator you're trying to reach, and the system will put you through. If it's outside business hours, leave a message. Keep calling. This is also a good resource: 5calls.org

This is the switchboard for Congress. An automated voice will ask you which senator or representative you want to reach and will transfer you to that person's line. If you call today, you'll get voicemail but will usually be able to leave a message: (202) 224-3121.

This book is now out in the world and I’m jazzed to have a story in it. eastoverpress.com/book/an-anth...

Today's listing of the day is: BULL #WritingCommunity

Ouch. Just got a same-day rejection. Efficiency stings. 😁 #AmWriting

Hey, look! Subs are open at @midlvlmag.bsky.social! They recently started paying contributors ($25 per accepted piece).

Hold their feet to the fire. It's their time to sweat. Submissions are OPEN for issue no. 8, Reverse Evaluation, from MIDLVLMAG. Send us your on-theme poetry, fiction, and CNF. The submission window is open January 4th thru March 7th. The reading/acceptance period is January 5th thru April 30th.

Fred Haise was shown as being caught off guard by the manual bur in Apollo 13 when, in reality, he'd called it just over two hours after the explosion. There were so many things he called SO far in advance of it becoming an issue! youtube.com/shorts/Wi-e0...

Been enjoying reading submissions for the next issue of @midlvlmag.bsky.social. Send in your fiction, poetry, or CNF on the theme Reverse Evaluation. Payment of $25 per accepted piece. midlvlmag.com/submissiongu... #WritingCommunity

My debut collection of speculative short stories, winner of the 2024 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Short Fiction Award, is now available for preorder and, well, I hope you'll want one when it releases this time next month. Get it from The University of Arkansas Press: www.uapress.com/product/bedt...

So excited to share a cover reveal for Terrestrial, out May 2026! I've admired Angelo's book covers for other Malarkey books and I'm thrilled it was my turn to need one. I love what he designed for it.

So very proud of this book. I'd truly appreciate your support! (And also recommend you order directly from @stanchion.bsky.social) 💚

If anybody’s in the Boston area on Jan. 22, stop by Belmont Books for a reading hosted by Pangyrus. I’ll be there to read from “Downstream Benefits.” belmontbooks.com/event/2026-0... #WritingCommunity

We are beyond thrilled to share that we have three pieces selected for @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social 2026!! Congratulations to everyone on this list, and especially to @irrellavent.bsky.social , @francesorrok.bsky.social , & L. Soveiro

Today's listing of the day is: Does It Have Pockets?: A literary magazine @doesithavepockets.bsky.social (some fees) #WritingCommunity

Please do as Alex says. Here’s a helpful resource: 5calls.org

Subs are rolling in for @midlvlmag.bsky.social's next issue. #Writers: If you've got a short story, poem, or CNF piece on the theme REVERSE EVALUATION, we'd love to see it! midlvlmag.com/submissiongu...

Hey #writers! You can go ahead and sign up for Life on the Midlist from @ryantpozzi.bsky.social. It's good. "Art is many things," he writes this week, "but one of its most important functions is the conversation it creates between the performer and the witness." Sign up: www.ryantpozzi.com/midlist

New @pitheadchapel.bsky.social, the Larry Brown Short Story Award Issue. Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, and their entire staff! pitheadchapel.com/2026/01/01/v...

MIDLVLMAG now open for subs on the theme Reverse Evaluation. It’s time to tell your boss what you think. What could go wrong? #WritingCommunity

Make some calls: 5calls.org/issue/trump-...

Hey, #writers! MIDLVLMAG is opening for subs tomorrow (Jan. 4). Send in your poetry, fiction, or CNF on the theme Reverse Evaluation. If you could just go ahead and tell your boss where they can put that TPS report, that'd be great. Thanks in advance. midlvlmag.com/submissiongu...

Adam Vitcavage at @debutiful.bsky.social calls I Am the Ghost Here a contender for best story collection of the decade. It’s such an honor to make the Debutiful most anticipated list.

MIDLVLMAG issue no. 8 theme - Reverse Evaluation. Reverse Evaluation is a reckoning, a reverie, a clarion call. Authority is tenuous at best, its control contingent on our willingness to cower and prostrate. There is strength in unity, hope for the hopeless, power for the powerless.

Published quite fittingly on the New Year’s eve where we wish for plenty of money and free shit, my short story “Free Shit” reckons with the idea that nothing is ever truly free. Out now in the last issue of The Journal (@osuthejournal). thejournalmag.org/archives/24812 #fiction

Hey, #Writers. Some great reflections in @ryantpozzi.bsky.social's Life on the Midlist this week. For example: "Many of us say to ourselves, 'I must not be this,' when the truth is no weightier than, 'I don’t know how to do this yet.'" Subscribe: www.ryantpozzi.com/midlist.

Hey, #WritingCommunity, please take note. Subs open soon!

New publisher listing for: Dyslexicon (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays; fee-based). #WritingCommunity

Oh, hey, I was in this one! Thanks, @midlvlmag.bsky.social!