Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

honored to receive a Best Microfiction nomination! thank you @thesunlightpress.bsky.social 💛☀️

I’m always saying the same shit and I mean it every time. In the age of soulless AI slop, nothing matters more than your voice, so write/create whatever makes you happy. Make it weird. Make it dark. Make it queer. Make it surreal, diverse, sexy. Make it political as fuck. Do YOU.

a big old bummeroo rejection today for the NiF manuscript. help me treat myself with a trip to the library and my local indie. what are your favorite novellas and novellas-in-flash? want to go the filling my creative cup with fantastic art route

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

and lo! a new @aniking.bsky.social flash just dropped over at scaffold. give this badass weirdie a read www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

i will take a one acceptance and one personal rejection kinda day 😼

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

It's been an amazing run, and now here I am. The last stop on the book tour! DC friends, would love to go out with a bang, hug you all, sign a few books, and celebrate the end of the semester! Please come if you're free? ❤ peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/first-...

this @aimee-bender.bsky.social flash shared in @smokelong.bsky.social’s fitness prompt this week has me feeling some kind of way. give “Organs” a read if you haven’t yet. haunting and gorgeous on so many levels. www.smokelong.com/stories/orga...

Heads up...Our poetry and fiction teams will no longer be accepting submissions after November 20th. Want to submit a piece? The link to submit is in our bio (and submissions are free)!

okay minneapolis!!!

Heads up! We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Hm, yes

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

happy no novel november to all who celebrate in which we will continue to write new short stories instead of our novels

it’s me! reading alongside so many greats. would love to see your faces in the zoom room this friday

loved this haunting flash by @bybethhahn.bsky.social. “It wasn’t the thing she was supposed to die of, but an accident. While it was happening, it felt like a cartoon.”

Folks, we are now OPEN until December 15th! Lit mag editors, please send us your 5 nominated stories! Judged by Diane Seuss. @dseuss.bsky.social www.bestmicrofiction.com #FlashFiction #Microfiction #LiteraryMagazines #Author #Writers #Writing #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks

**ATTENTION WRITERS** This is your ONE MONTH warning. Entires open for the #WelkinWritingPrize 2026 on the 1st Dec. 100 words. Rolling subs. Free entry. Publication for shortlistees. Prizes for top 5.

what do you mean you’re donnie darko at the end of the world

If you have a writer in your life and you'd like them to know that you care about their ambitions, may I suggest ordering a copy of my collaborative craft anthology, An Honour And A Privilege, as a Christmas present? (trust me, you'll get the MOST brownie points)

Remember back in the day you wrote your own emails, took your own photos, and thought your own thoughts. The only difference nowadays is that big tech wants you to believe you never could and still can’t, so should have AI do it for you. I believe in you way more than I do big tech. You should too.

Hate this sort of thing. Dark times keep getting darker. If you like Gone Lawn and you have the means, consider a donation to keep us going, even something small. Thank you. gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

still riding the high from last week’s flash retreat in WV with the amazing @kathyfish.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, and @andrewbertaina.bsky.social hosted by the lovely @ellenweeren.bsky.social and A Reason to Write. my creative cup is overflowing and my heart is full to bursting.

I have some new very short prose in the always-amazing Milk Candy Review today. For anyone who enjoys a good list.

inspiration reading for the flash workshop retreat next week 🥰

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome Go through these steps to disable it: opus.ing/posts/how-to... #chrome #aibullshit

filled up my creative cup this trip home. a post-industrial iron mill tour, bingo with my grandmother, a concert at my favorite high school haunt, and the titty sphinxes of Allegheny Cemetery. thankful for my sister for hosting me (and reading my novella draft)!

I will not create new social media accounts. I will walk deep into the woods & spell out my silly little thoughts with sticks + fallen leaves for whoever finds them

finally starting @johnchrostek.com’s collection Boxcutters this week!

visiting my first home this week ✨ not sorry for the onslaught of western pa nostalgia coming your way!

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AND a poetry BOTN from @publishedbyjake.bsky.social?? i would celebrate but need another round on the zipline first. thanks JAKE!

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

baby’s first best of the net nomination 🥰

In case anyone else feels like they're screaming into a void about their work these days, please remember there are countless readers who aren't on social media who have probably read + loved your work without ever saying a word. (Another reason why having a website is so important.)

Let ABC know how you feel about their bowing to the thugs in power and cancelling Jimmy Kimmel's show: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

Freaking the fuck out every day is fun, huh?

“He’d make a trade with the weeping boy. A toe for a toe, a spell to reach the forest’s edge. A promise to never return.” @lkardos.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

that feeling of finishing a novella draft and sending it to beta readers. oMg you guys I WROTE A BOOK

I am more buckle than woman at this point

Folks, @3lobedmag.com has until 12pm (EDT) on Thursday to make their funding goal, or they won't get any of what they've raised so far -- let's help them get there! We need more markets like these to stay!

pouring one out for my oldest in-queue story, finally form rejected at 436 days

We need your support in the next 3 days, before the fall of eternal night. Help us breathe new stories that keep us alive, each word and phrase building the monster’s body, the one who rends and tears and protects us from darkness. kck.st/4mIkEm1

As always, today is a good day to support a writer, an artist, a creative person. Even if you can't help them out financially, you can always signal boost a work of theirs you enjoy. You can share with them a kind message. Show them that artistic and creative work is still important.

I think what has me so interested in experimentation these days is a deep desire to subvert artificial intelligence, which can only gesture at innovation. I think? Anyway, I am trying to stay one step ahead of it, to write things as uniquely and unquestionably human as I can.

new lonely little micro out in the latest @gonelawn.bsky.social. give it a read here: gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Never mind those pesky clouds, look there! You can see the corn moon all glowy behind them. The corn moon is here for you! Love the corn moon, it loves you. Late summer is beautiful, is it not? Gone Lawn 61, here you go! gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

scared the shit out of me, coworkers, and all of downtown DC. flew right over my office. how insidious.