Coming soon - issue 8 from MIDLVLMAG #reverseevaluation

Congrats to @emilyrinkema.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award! Her book, Dead Mother Card, will appear from MCP in 2027. She will receive the $1000 prize. Can't wait to work with her on this fabulous collection. Thanks to everyone who entered!

I know I'm hard to shop for, so let me help! I turned 47 today and there's only one thing on my list. Pre-order The Mess That Made Them wherever books are sold. #booksky Don't have a favorite local place? Try Bookshop.org. bookshop.org/shop/ryantpo...

I hope you enjoy my first foray into memoir writing #wtitingCommunity #art #memoir #Africa #travel #booksky

100% guarantee 💙💙💙 (though I may be biased) You can pre-order my book here: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...

Honored to have work in the June issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social ... this one's for you little dude😉

Have you seen our June issue? pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is... Cover Art JANELLE PAULINO Fiction @keithwoodruff.bsky.social @suttonstrother.bsky.social TRAVIS FLATT ANTHONY BROWN Nonfiction LAUREN GIARD REBECCA WATKINS JESSE LACY Prose Poetry BEN STARR @ezhang77.bsky.social JOY YIN

My debut short story collection just got a title: WHILE I HAVE YOU. Includes “Downstream Benefits” (Pangyrus), “Mr. Palm Beach” (Pithead Chapel), “Splice” (Epiphany), and “Zephyr” (BULL). Links to these and other stories at www.willwilloughby.com. #WritingCommunity

My newsletter, Life on the Midlist, is where I do several ridiculous things in public. I write about publishing, ambition, rejection, creative stamina, and what it's like to launch a book without saying things like, "Hey guy! Welcome back to my channel..." Subscribe: www.ryantpozzi.com/midlist

A true story. My thanks to @neonandsmoke.bsky.social for publishing it!! 🥰 #writingcommunity

Wow! Biome is featured on Duotrope! 😁 this labor of love has taken off in a wonderful way Best way you can support Biome? Listen to some of our stories! rss.com/podcasts/bio...

Word on the street is that we'll reopen for submissions in about a month! 🚨 July 6 through 10, open for five days. Fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and everything in between. Save the date. Spread the word.

So happy to have this one up at B O D Y. It’d be swell if you took a look www.bodyliterature.com/2026/06/16/e...

For a literary time, call +1 206-579-1956

COVER REVEAL: I'm super excited to share the cover of my story collection After Last Call, coming out next April from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. And thanks to @mrwojorising.bsky.social for the amazing work he did designing the cover 💙 Pre-order link: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...

New story, "Sleepover," in the new @southeastreview.bsky.social! Thanks to Neal Hammons and the whole staff for putting me alongside these terrific writers in this terrific-looking issue!

I’ve got a new short story today in Discretionary Love. Pro tip: read it while listening to the song. www.discretionarylove.com/fade-into-you/

Ten days left to enter the 2026 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award competition! mooncitypress.submittable.com/submit/33881...

When your friends in the writing world around the country have good news to share... You love to see it! I can't wait for this collection. Will is *checks script for what he was instructed to say* a true mentor to me, destined to be...uh... *checks notes again* ...right, to be a literary legend. 🙂

Excited to report I just signed a contract with Littoral Books to publish a short story collection! Scheduled for spring 2027 release. 🎉 If you’d like to know more, sign up for my newsletter, where I reflect on the writing process and give updates on my work, at www.willwilloughby.com. #AmWriting

I just wrote my first note on Substack substack.com/profile/3189...

ICYMI #AmWriting

I was wearing my winter coat last week.

@mooncitypress.bsky.social congratulates these 11 authors, finalists in our 2025 Short Fiction Award: @tcboudreau.bsky.social Bergita Bugarija @dinahcox.bsky.social Sarah Faulkner Carrie Grinstead Aatif Rashid @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Anna Schachner Maura Stanton Zachary Vickers Francine Witte

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Oh, hey—that’s one of mine. Thanks, PIC! #AmWriting

Great work, team—just got a green status for a short piece. (More on that later.) For those of you who were chanting GRAY, please see me.

Attention, humans! Submit to Barrelhouse. Not “submit” as in “bow down before.” More like “send your human-generated work to.” But, hey—I suppose it’s up to you.

Hey #WritingCommunity! This is a great conference in a beautiful place. I went a few years ago and got a lot out of it.

Ok it's publication day for TERRESTRIAL! Grateful to Alan @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and to anyone who's read or reviewed or posted about or looked at my book. Asterism has copies: asterismbooks.com/product/terr...

@lukerolfes.bsky.social interviewed me about my new story collection, THE LAST DAY, in @laurelreview.bsky.social : laurelreview.org/kim-magowan

Book tour update! #booksky

I finally get to announce my second novel will come out next spring! 🎉

They say that Substack Notes is like old twitter so giving it a go. Please follow! substack.com/@ewenglass83...

I had a publisher request a hard copy of my short story collection. Gotta say, it was pretty satisfying to hold the manuscript like that. So 20th century. 😁

Epiphany is open for submissions in poetry and prose, so there's no better time to highlight which stories our team keeps coming back to. Understanding our team's literary sensibilities is a great way to find your next favorite book, and tailor your submissions for what we're most excited to read.

The genius myth is a scam. It waits until the work survives, then pretends the outcome was obvious all along. Very convenient, but mostly useless. I’m interested in the years that looked stubborn, foolish, or doomed. That’s the book I wrote. Preorder it now. #booksky www.ryantpozzi.com/tmtmt

Hear from my fellow 2026 Debut authors with advice for how to survive being on submission. I did the SUPER healthy thing of reading my rejections over and over again to look for "hidden" meanings. I'm surprised no one mentioned that in their advice. 🤷‍♂️🤪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV7t...

Join me on May 14!! courses.the-efa.org/webinars/99801

Check it out! We've got @saralippmann.bsky.social AND Joe Peterson in the @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social May must-read list! So we're, like, a quarter of the books!* *That math was done by AI and is for entertainment purposes only. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/01/1...

I read every edition of this newsletter. Excellent reflections and once in a while we get really lucky and Will includes some draft/process/revision examples the likes of which I have yet to see in anyone else's newsletter. You should consider getting on the mailing list.

Just sent out my newsletter, which includes reflections on things like rejection, mental slowness, and other writing topics. It’s fun! If you’re interested, sign up on my site: www.willwilloughby.com #AmWriting

Writing shed season has begun. #AmWriting

Jon and @grahamformaine.bsky.social, US Senate candidate for Maine, discuss the limits of “tax the rich” messaging without tangible results and the willingness to push for real change. New pod out now!

W/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

So pleased to have a story in the flower moon issue of the incredible Gone Lawn Journal! Thank you Owen and team! Be sure to check out the full issue 🌼🌙 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Our May Issue is live!!! pitheadchapel.com/2026/05/01/v... cover art DEEMS ORTEGA fiction REBECCA TIGER JAIME GILL SOPHIA HYLAND-WOLZAK MICHAEL ANTHONY RANFONE nonfiction HOLLIE WARREN prose poetry AMANDA CHIADO

My friend and colleague @jennifermurvin.bsky.social is reading tonight on the Missouri State University campus! Come on out to hear work from her new book, Real California Living, if you can make it!

Made it to my 20,089th sunrise. For those keeping score, that’s almost exactly 55 years. 😁 (Happy birthday to me, I guess.)