I’m so thrilled to share the news that my new novel PENITENT will be published by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social, with Thomas Gebremedhin editing! Thanks as always to my agent Kirby Kim for his wise advice and for finding my book its best possible home. Coming Spring 2028! I can't wait.

ENTER "FROG HEART" GIVEAWAY (by 4/24)! Ploughshares is doing a giveaway, free to enter! Winner receives my new "Frog Heart" chapbook (by @ikeproject.bsky.social) & Ploughshares issue where the story first appeared! To enter, go to @pshares.bsky.social's Instagram post, or here: tinyurl.com/mpt5j26r

I often write in first person, but when writing something emotionally difficult, or when I'm in a tough emotional place myself, I find the third person offers a kind of magic, the ability to imagine without having to fully inhabit. To be transported w/o me overly becoming the emotional conduit.

I'm so grateful to @sarahjanecody.bsky.social to virtually joining my class at Tufts last night to talk about her work. True generosity! If you haven't yet, you should read this wonderful essay of hers that came out in Electric Lit last month: electricliterature.com/masking-my-a...

I had the absolute joy of speaking with @the-big-quiet.bsky.social's Neurodiversity in Literature & Life course last night. Steve generously shared my Electric Literature Essay about my autism with them and I was SO inspired by our discussion and the beautiful, brilliant young people in his class. 💖

Eeeie! So honored to have my @electricliterature.com essay shared by @longreads.com, a publication I adore! Thank you!! 💖 I've been so moved by the responses to this essay. ❤️💗

"Instead, I seek my own language. I write again into the gap, asking whoever is on the other side to be willing to cross the distance." @sarahjanecody.bsky.social for @electricliterature.com: electricliterature.com/masking-my-a...

Tickled and full of gratitude to discover that @saribotton.bsky.social included my recent @electricliterature.com essay "Masking My Autism Made Me Sick" in her Memoir Monday Roundup!! If you're not subscribed to Sari's Substack, go sign up immediately; it's a pure gem!

“I wanted to grow my hair to inappropriate lengths in hopes of gaining some sort of magic power.” - Um yes @jpullen19.bsky.social speaks for all enchanted gals in the into to this collection I know I’m going to love.

@longreads.com I'd love to nominate this essay for your editor's pick section! (Huge fan of Longreads here.) Thank you for considering!!! 💖

Brave, beautifully-written essay by my dear friend and incredible writer @sarahjanecody.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com!

ICYMI ❤️ (Thinking of my AWP pals)

Read “My Missing Words” a personal narrative by Sarah Jane Cody about the years spent masking autism. buff.ly/PsgaBpv

Immense gratitude to @electricliterature.com and Denne for giving this deeply personal essay a loving and wonderful home. electricliterature.com/masking-my-a... #autism

If you like indie games, this gorgeous little platformer my husband created in #pico8 is a delight. You go around the world as a little mossling and coat things in moss!!

One of my faves IN one of my faves! Congruatiations to the extraordinary @joybaglio.bsky.social !!! 😍✨🔥

It's cool, I've just been having an existential crisis since I was 10 years old... And you ask why I'm a writer?

fun fact: writing is the most effective way to end up having written an entire book someday. unfortunately not many people know this

At the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, we're looking for visiting writer of CNF to teach a 1-1 (1 grad class usually workshop capped at 15, 1 undergrad class usually capped at 22) for the next 2-3 years. Pay starts at 50k: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...

Who else is writing this Thanksgiving? I refuse to travel for Thanksgiving (family is far), so husband and I have a great tradition of holing up, ordering some kind of takeout, and creating things for several days. It could sound lonely, I suppose, but it's really lovely.

My insurance randomly decided to stop covering my eye medication so I'm working with blurry vision & eye pain until I can figure that out... 🙏🏻

The misconception that writers are good at spelling because we, uh, write... Nope, I'm a storyteller. Spelling is boring as fuck.

Morning writing - bathrobed with warm lap Bun (Bunny)

Things I wish someone had said to me at particular points in my life––so I'm saying them for anyone who needs them. 💖 #autistic #neurodivergent

The great thing about puppy not letting me sleep is that I actually get so much done at 6 am now because AFTER she thoroughly wakes me get up, wants to play, eat, poo, etc, she wants to take a 2-hour lape nap. 😂 Who else is writing at 6 a.m.?

I'm in the Times today!

Much to say, but for now, here’s something I made a while ago that felt hopeful and still does––despite. Let’s never stop fighting for a better world. #autism

Autistic humans deserve to be valued, supported, and deemed worthy for being who we are, as we are, at all levels of need. Despite what RFK wants you to believe, human value is not based on “functionality;” children are not merely a “resource” to feed the economic machine. #autism #neurodivergence

What are we writing this weekend?! Share for mutual motivation ✨ I'm working on my new novel! (While holding a puppy in my lap 🐶😍)

Yes, I did name my dog Bunny partly just so I could say, "I love you, Bunny" (Mona Awad). She's a literary gal. Plus, naming animals what they're not is my favorite.

Top two tips on how to improve a piece, from draft to draft:

Laughting at how my husband and I are speaking in the royal We about our puppy, as in: We played, and then we pooped...

Reminder that writing memoir is not cathartic. More like having an illness & the only recovery is pushing thru to other side. Or being haunted knowing you have a story you must tell. Or being the mush-goo of a whatever a caterpillar is in a chrysalis, hoping to Nature you get a butterfly.

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I have a new story in @havehashad.com today! my third one 💀 🏚️ ✨ grateful as always to editor @aaronburch.bsky.social for providing a wonderful home for my words + to all of you who read it ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

Can I tell you something pretty cool? My new webcomic is getting a lot of love & I kinda can't believe it - I've been so moved by the responses I've been getting & in just a few months of sharing. 💖❤️

Feeling the #AWP fomo. I hope folks had a blast - hoping to catch you all in 2026 when it's closer to me!!

Love this, and I agree with Joy, I see this as very motivating & helps make the writing propulsive and urgent!

My advice to those of you going to #AWP is to prioritize naps. Think of AWP as a series of naps in between which you see amazing people. I'm sad to miss you all this year, but I'll be napping elsewhere in your honor.

What if life was like a videogame & you could just eat more food to get more energy?

I have a secret: it's my escape route. Do you also have an escape plan or safety in place? #autism #neurodivergent

"So we mask to fit in and hopefully succeed, though this comes at great mental and physical costs" Important and eye-opening essay from @sfmontgomery.bsky.social I could recognise a lot of this. Someone once told me a CNF piece about my illness lacked stakes... 🤷‍♂️

I love this compilation of tips put together by Joy, along with more of her stellar craft wisdom. Happy to be included!

Our world is frequently devastating and unconscionable, and also, have you even SEEN a tree? Trees are glorious, hope-giving, kinder creatures. I have not yet managed to become one but at least in my time I can honor them.

Taught myself to animate - not. easy. ✨

Made this comic into an animation! Writing and drawing allowed me to express my autistic struggles before I knew what those struggles were or that they had names. ❤️ #autism#neurodivergent

Can we please get days like this soon? We all really deserve some ☀️☀️☀️🌸🌸

Day 39 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: Julia Phillips on Doing What You Know Is Right mailchi.mp/71aca6970e20... @writingco-lab.bsky.social

In case you're wondering how to turn shoveling snow into a fun game, I made this lil comic: #comics

The "don't talk about politics" fallacy doesn't get that it's not always a choice: they have politicized my freedom, my body, my gender, my neurodivergence, my sexuality, and so much more... My existence is political.