Why enter The Broken Binding Prize?🤷🏻‍♀️ Part of the wider The Times / Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition, The Broken Binding Prize is designed with YA SFF writers in mind.

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⚡️ 3 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT TO SARABANDE'S SPRING CHAPBOOK PRIZE! ⚡️ All manuscripts must be submitted by 11:59p ET on April 30. For more information and to submit visit tinyurl.com/ytcnjtvj

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Cover Reveal 🚨 “Acid Green Velvet” by Grace Krilanovich is coming from Two Dollar Radio and Seven Stories Press on September 8, 2026. Read more about the book and how its cover, designed by Eric Obenauf, came to be here: buff.ly/jTlZvOU

Cont by Yeghiayan Friedman From each mountain, nation, war, fell the dead, the survivors. From each survivor fell a wound, a world, a wish, a Heaven, three apples and this story. * How Armenian folktales begin emergeliteraryjournal.com/history-less...

Cont by Yeghiayan Friedman… From each civilization fell violence and also a tender love. From each tender love fell a family and children. From each child fell a grandmother who made pakhlava and built an ark full of myths. From each ark fell a mountain, and then a nation, and then a war. 2/3

History Lesson by Lori Yeghiayan Friedman Three apples fell from Heaven, one for the storyteller, one for the listener and one for the eavesdropper.* From each apple fell a million stories. From each story fell an alphabet from which fell a civilization. 1/3

The magnificent #JesseWelles singing truth 🙌 repost and spread the word 💙🌊🔄 #resist #ResistanceBlue

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

New York, Cardi B is ready to judge your jingles. Submit your song about 2-K child care at nyc.gov/jingle by April 17 — only 9 days left!

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

Brutal.

Lrp I am once again humbly recommending everyone to read these two novels.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

25th amendment time. Calling my senator and representative today to ask to impeach and remove him.

There is something you can do about all of this — make your plans for May 1. This country needs a united show of power, energy, and hope. indivisible.org/events/may-d...

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

An upcoming Montana ballot referendum would deny corporations the power to spend in state and federal elections. If it passes in deep red Montana, it could pass anywhere. State by state, this could effectively nullify Citizens United. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

one of my strongest and clearest takeaways from spending all of Lent knee-deep in ICE death reporting is that Camp East Montana should be razed to the ground and every single person who built it, worked there or approved their decisions deserves criminal charges. it is beyond what I imagined.

Writers-- scrutinize all incoming requests, offers, etc. People are even getting bogus PEN festival appearance offers that seem legit. Someone is still sending emails pretending to be me and my agent offering editing services. This is the new normal.

I’m listening to this on audio and I’m only ten percent in and it is stunning already. And perfect for hearing aloud.

March subs open! (a little late 😬)

Next Saturday, March 28th, I will join millions of Americans taking part in No Kings protests throughout the country. I hope you will join in. Everything is at stake. snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

"nobody is doing anything" remains a lie meant to soothe the person saying the words. It's not true. YOU may not be doing anything but a lot of people are.

Something I didn’t anticipate about living under full Federal fascism is how quickly I would forget things. Things that happened a week ago are quickly memory-holed because we have to endure a daily firehose of bullshit. Yesterday, I decided to watch/listen to Bruce’s Streets of Minneapolis again.

Talking with Kim Samek at Vroman’s tonight about her stories— this book is compulsively readable and so funny and dark and real as it speaks to so much going on around and in us. Come into the AC to hear this fantastic writer!

"I think the pressure is off with a short story. It’s the purest expression of my ideas, my sense of humor." @katiecoleman.bsky.social interviews @kimsamek.bsky.social about I am the Ghost Here (@thedialpress.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/QUmxVyQ

No Kings. March 28th. Make a plan for where you'll be and bring your family and friends. www.nokings.org

Ted Lieu: “Dear Brendan Carr — If you implement your flagrantly anti First Amendment actions, you will be sued & you will lose — And legal discovery will be awesome. Because the American people can then find out what the Administration keeps hiding Take your fascist shit & shove it”

There’s still time to vote @julianastratton.bsky.socialnaStratton for U.S. Senate!

Closing this run of Louise Glück poems with a personal favourite

Big thanks to Libby Flores and The Bennington Review for publishing this story of mine about a workshop gone very, very wrong…. Some readers aren’t so into stories set in workshop but I find it such a complex miniature ecosystem to explore! www.benningtonreview.org/fifteen-bender

Excited to talk with Kim about her wonderful book!

I read writing by humans because humans wrote it and I’m a human and I can feel like a part of something larger while seeing myself through the eyes of another human. Writing isn’t software predicting things, it’s a damn encounter, a conversation, it’s touching the ethereal with humans. Loud sigh!

SO many great poems in these old issues of The New Yorker

AOC: “That’s one reason he must be removed from office - if the Epstein files have such a hold on Trump & this admin that they are willing to plunge us & risk world war in order to save themselves politically - that is the definition of someone who cant make objective decisions for the American ppl”

because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!

🚨 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ELECTION UPDATE 🚨 🚨 YOU MUST VOTE AT YOUR ASSIGNED PRECINCT 🚨 We are hearing that NEARLY 1/3RD of Dallas County voters are being turned away from polling locations because they are NOT at their assigned voting locations. #VOTE

The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. The $27,000 prize is intended to support exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age. Learn more and apply by March 2: https://bit.ly/4pEKkkx

There are nearly 2,000 events on the No Kings Day map in all 50 states (and 10 countries). March 28 will be the largest protest in American history. Find your local event or plan a protest in your area: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Last year I got an embossed lunchbox, a puffy folder with a fairy tale stencil, a silver book of manifestos and so much more— all chock full of great writing. McSweeney’s continues to make and publish incredible stuff.

McSweeney’s 81 is out TODAY and we’re celebrating with a 12-hour flash sale! Get four issues for just $60 (plus shipping) until 6:00 pm pacific! Truly the deal of the century. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/qua...

Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE. Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Dems should pay close attention to what Spanberger developed here: A forceful anti-Trump politics that speaks to people like grownups about ICE, grasps the political/cultural significance of Minneapolis, and doesn't shrink from defending immigrants and democracy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcN0...

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization