Yet another example of why ICE must be abolished. Why would any sensible country keep around a security force like this? It doesn't even matter what your views are on immigration, this entire agency and all of its staff needs to go.

Any writers who use Patreon out there? I’m curious to know if you like it and how you use it. Thanks!

aesterion is a new journal out of LA & I’m thrilled to have an essay in the inaugural issue about gender, sports, & the time my dad woke me up to meet The Phillies, who he claimed were having dinner next door, only it wasn’t actually the Phillies at all… www.aesterion.com/summer-2025

Had the pleasure of being on Elizabeth Austin’s series Instrument, Surface, Setting, Story, talking about my life long love of ballpoint pens substack.com/@writingeliz...

In an industry dominated by the "Big Five" publishing houses with huge appetites for commercial appeal and profits, indie publishers are putting out some of the most literary, inventive, and adventurous work there is.

New York, please don't hire a serial sexual abuser.

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

We’re having a sale! Use code CAMP15 to save 15% on our 3-week-long summer camp! Keep the writing momentum going with illuminating panels, generative workshops, accountability write-ins, & community events! Everything live & recorded so you’ll never miss out! www.writingco-lab.com/summercamp

Loved seeing WCL co-founder @briangresko.bsky.social in the Sunday Salon zine discussing his perfect writing retreat, which is going to be happening this August, in Greece! There’s only one spot left. Learn more & apply: www.writingco-lab.com/retreats

Grateful to Nita Noveno at the Sunday Salon Zine for interviewing me about YOU MUST GO ON, and how to remain writing and creative in these challenging times sundaysalon.com/2025/06/inte...

So much of my creative and professional life is spent working solitary, meeting up with colleagues to talk shop, commiserate, and encourage one another is essential. You can learn more when I talk about the importance of finding your people at Chloe Caldwell’s Fuck the Big Five class for OA!

Grateful to literary mensch Courtney Maum for these warm words about YOU MUST GO ON. Supplies are limited & this is a totally DIY book—to get a copy & support me & my work, slide into my DM’s or follow the link www.briangresko.com/you-must-go-on

Such a wonderful night. If you’re in BK and haven’t made it out to Ditmas Lit yet what are you waiting for??

Read an excerpt of May reader @briangresko.bsky.social’s new book You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing and Creativity in the @memoirland.bsky.social newsletter open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...

Join us for this FREE event on different paths to publishing your work, with WCL co-founders @briangresko.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social & @amyshearn.bsky.social www.writingco-lab.com/classes/diff...

Republicans snuck an amendment into this bill to ban Affordable Care Act insurance plans from covering abortion care. This is part of their play for a national abortion ban, in the middle of the night, and ripping healthcare away from millions.

hi, cis folks! if you’re calling democratic reps about the maga murder budget, you should *specifically mention* it’s unacceptable to pass a bill blocking funding for lifesaving transition care FOR TRANS PEOPLE OF ALL AGES. if you want to stand with trans people, this is a big moment. 🧵 reps.fyi

AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this

Ditmas Lit is 1 week from today, Wed. 5/28! We can’t wait to welcome @briangresko.bsky.social @shayneterry.bsky.social, Leila Taylor, and Andrew E. Colarusso!

What makes a poem a poem? This four session class with Javeria Hasnain, designed for new and beginner poets, will help you better understand what poetry is and how to start playing with forms. Find out more and enroll today! www.writingco-lab.com/classes/a-me...

Want to know what you should read this summer? Ask a bookseller. Ask a writer. Ask a librarian. Ask a living, breathing human being. Hell, ask me! It's been a while since I've done one of these, so let's do it: one like = one summer reading book rec.

We had a blast at Franklin Park Reading Series’s Nonfiction Night! Huge thanks to mesmerizing readers @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @erikajsimpson.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @dianemehta.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social & lots of❤️ to our amazing audience! 🗓️Next event 6/9.

Our Summer Camp is a 3 week online program of generative classes, panels on writing and building a lifelong relationship with your creative self, accountability write-together groups each weekday, and Saturday open-mic events, designed to inspire and motivate you! www.writingco-lab.com/summercamp

The Big Five is not the be-all end-all. Join Chloé Caldwell, Mia Arias Tsang, @mbsycamore.bsky.social , @briangresko.bsky.social , & Christoph Paul to demystify the indie publishing industry and equip yourself with practical tools for publishing your work. Lean more & enroll: buff.ly/00RXc03

Thrilled to have an excerpt of my new book YOU MUST GO ON: 30 INSPIRATIONS ON WRITING & CREATIVITY up on @memoirland.bsky.social today about how only you have the power to call yourself a writer, even if you haven’t published a word memoirland.substack.com/p/what-does-...

Debut novel excerpt alert: @hazlitt.bsky.social has an excerpt from Yiming Ma's These Memories Do Not Belong to Us. Read it here: hazlitt.net/longreads/is...

Forty years ago today (May 13, 1985) PA State Troops dropped a bomb on a #Philadelphia neighborhood in an attack on the #MOVE complex. Here’s a @democracynow.org doc from 10 years ago: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JBZX...

TONIGHT, 8PM: Can’t wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series Nonfiction Night featuring stellar authors @veryhotmomm.bsky.social, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @erikajsimpson.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @dianemehta.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social! #Free 618 St. Johns Place, Crown Heights

Thursday 5/15, join us for our season closer as we welcome Anelise Chen, Emma Smith-Stevens, and our very own @briangresko.bsky.social as they illuminate our stage with their brilliant words! W/ your hosts Brian Gresko and Temim Fruchter, & books by @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social

MONDAY, 8PM: Can't wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series Nonfiction Night with acclaimed authors Jamie Hood, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @erikajsimpson.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @dianemehta.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social! #Free, 📚raffle, 🍻specials! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights

Only 2 spots left in the writing retreat I’m co-running via @writingco-lab.bsky.social ! Come to Crete with us, where we’ll spend the days writing and the evenings in community, learning from one another and enjoying local food and drink. Plus we’re right by the sea for swims and naps on the sand!

Check out an excerpt of co-director Brian Gresko’s new book, and enter to win a copy!

I can't believe pub day is finally here! Purchase the anthology from your local indie bookstore, and head to Books are Magic tonight for the official book launch if you live in NYC. www.simonandschuster.com/books/What-M...

Looking for an antidote to creative despair? Check out this excerpt of YOU MUST GO ON on Nancy Reddy’s Write More, Be Less Careful newsletter, and leave a comment for your chance to win a copy open.substack.com/pub/nancyred...

Learn how your favorite childhood tales can inspire new work in “Using Folklore to Tell Our Stories” with novelist Soraya Palmer. Starts Wednesday and there are still spots available! www.writingco-lab.com/classes/usin...

Do you love (and want to support) comics criticism? The Comics Courier may be right for you. Pledge now at comicscourier.com

The Black Zine Fair is happening tomorrow, from 11 AM-6PM! If you're in NYC, join Sojourners for Justice Press, our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social and many other for this celebration of all things Black and independent publishing. Free and open to the public. Learn more: blackzinefair.org

MONDAY, MAY 12, 8PM: Join us at the Franklin Park Reading Series for our Nonfiction Night, featuring acclaimed authors Jamie Hood, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @erikajsimpson.bsky.social, Kari Ferrell, @dianemehta.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social! #Free, 📚raffle, 🍻specials! 618 St. Johns Pl, BK

Last night, Eric Adams’ Rent Guidelines Board announced plans to raise the rents on 2+ million tenants yet again. Andrew Cuomo is real estate’s candidate and will do the same. I have been pledging to freeze the rent since day one of this campaign. And together, we will.

In NYC? Please come out to see me read as I go on tour to support my book YOU MUST GO ON: 30 INSPIRATIONS ON WRITING & CREATIVITY. If you’re not in town and want to learn more about the book (and order one), check out my site: www.briangresko.com/you-must-go-on

Happy International Workers’ Day! Writing Co-Lab is an anti-establishment, artist-owned cooperative in which 80-90% of student tuition goes directly to the teacher in the classroom. Check out our amazing offerings and join our community! www.writingco-lab.com

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

happy may day! poster by madeleine jubilee saito

Congrats to @briangresko.bsky.social for 100 Days of Creative #Resistance. Sorry my repostings didn’t last past Day 60, but links to all 100 Days can be found here: www.writingco-lab.com/100-days

Thank you a million times over @briangresko.bsky.social for organizing these emails. There were many days when I needed such a letter 🩵

Perfect send-off from @briangresko.bsky.social for fantastic series of 100 Days of Creative Resistance. I know I'll be revisiting messages. One day at a time, everyone.

That’s a wrap on @writingco-lab.bsky.social 100 Days of Creative Resistance project. Much love and gratitude to the contributors and readers. Here’s the entire archive of incredible pieces www.writingco-lab.com/100-days

Cop City is officially "opening" today. The movement against it carries so many lessons for people everywhere, because the issues are everywhere today: the un-democratic militarization and expansion of policing and state violence, backed by dark money private funding.

Feeling shoehorned by corporate publishing conglomerates? Fear no more. This intensive, led by Chloé Caldwell & featuring Mia Arias Tsang, @mbsycamore.bsky.social , @briangresko.bsky.social , & Christoph Paul, represents many realms of the literary world: buff.ly/00RXc03

Excited to come across this paragraph by @alexanderchee.bsky.social in the newsletter I just read by dear friend and luminescent @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social. I needed this.