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.

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11." you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

love that @bulbculture.bsky.social gives stories from defunct mags a second life. so happy that “Rust Belt Triptych” found such an excellent new home ❤️‍🔥

We've had another month of superb #shortstories. Our thanks to @rbhardy3rd.bsky.social Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar, Martha Keller, Beatriu Delaveda, J.D. Strunk, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @lkardos.bsky.social #microfiction #flashfiction. Please click on the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/

Please be aware of your surroundings. REMEMBER do not open the door without a judicial warrant, you have the right to remain silent, do not sign anything. If you have any additional info call our hotline 202-335-1183. 2/

‼️ALERT‼️ Active checkpoint on Georgia Ave and Dahlia St. MPD and other unidentified officers seen stopping cars at 10:55 am August 30. 1/2

day 30 of the #SealeyChallenge: frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss

day 29 of the #SealeyChallenge (yesterday!) was Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

We are open for #submissions of #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction #translations and looking fwd to reading your work #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link for our guidelines fictivedream.com/submission-g...

yearning for a good horror read yesterday, I had to look back at my reading log for the last spooky book I read. it’s felt like ages! and… it’s only been a month. in July I devoured some Tremblay and Kingfisher. but clearly I’m due for my monthly dose of spookiness. recs welcome please!

SLOPPERS LIVE IN VAIN

Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.

The Dodge is re-opening to general submissions Sept. 1. Send us your best eco fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, or visual art. Submissions are free! See Submittable link in our bio.

learning that writing lesson where I have no brain space for new short projects while this longer project (novella) is still under development.

If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.

I’ve read many pieces in the threat AI poses to creatives. This is the only one that *shows* exactly what we’re losing. The amazing @dani-netherclift.bsky.social in @islandmag.bsky.social “This knowledge sits without place or significance in the world, without currency, yet here it is…”

just @chelseastickle.bsky.social doing what she does best, weaving the absurd and woeful reality into one kick-ass story! loved this one!

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

day 28 of the #SealeyChallenge: The Carrying by Ada Limón

day 27 of the #SealeyChallenge (yesterday!) was Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

day 26 of the #SealeyChallenge: The Big Melt by Emily Riddle

day 25 of the #SealeyChallenge: Hair Shirt by Adrian Sobol @yoadrianididit.bsky.social

day 24 of the #SealeyChallenge: Alive at the End of the World by @theferocity.bsky.social

day 23 of the #SealeyChallenge: Postmortem Say by @thenewellzi.bsky.social

I understand an argument has been made about why to stay on the former Twitter. Here is my counterargument: It's a miserable fucking place run by a fascist catering to fascists, and I've been much happier not being on it, so there

once again encouraging you all to support billionaire-free, worker-run, reader supported, and/or independent local news when and how you're able

day 22 of the #SealeyChallenge: Your Favorite Poet by Leigh Chadwick

day 21 of the #SealeyChallenge: Superdoom by Melissa Broder

This link will be live tomorrow/Thursday/Aug21 from 7am – noon ET. See y'all then! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/33451...

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

day 20 of the #SealeyChallenge: Kyrie by Ellen Bryant Voigt

for the morning crowd. I have a story out in the lovely @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. this story holds a special place in my heart, and I hope you’ll give it a read!

What an absolutely wonderful reading and book celebration tonight! Congratulations again to the always fabulous @writesloud.bsky.social! 🎉 If you haven’t yet bought FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT from @stanchion.bsky.social, I highly recommend you do so today! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

📣 Tuesday release: “The Body, Electric” by Lauren Kardos is free to read on FFO today. Content warning: immortality that’s as crumbling & inconsistent as the world we live in! #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction @lkardos.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

an important part of the writing process is crying