Friends, join me in Baltimore for A Very Gay Literary (Happy) Hour on March 6, 5-7 pm, at Vinyl + Pages! This year, I’m partnering with @jacklegpress.bsky.social & Anhinga Press to make the magic happen.

Have you queried us yet? We ❤️ finding that next best thing. Is it you? jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit

Out today!! “Come Again No More is simply the best work of Southern literature I’ve ever read, a story so lyrical and lovingly drawn – and spit-take funny – that the ghost of William Faulkner might just throw rocks at his best work. I read the book in a day, and I never do that.” —Bryan Denson

🚨 📙 My forthcoming book has a cover! I hear dynamite gets lit once you start reading. 🧨 The one-and-only @taylorbyas.bsky.social was my editor and @simonemuenchie.bsky.social brought me into the @jacklegpress.bsky.social fold. ✨ Goes boom on 3.16.2026. More info coming soon!

Don't miss... our last two WWPH LITERARY SALONS...of this year!! (FREE! did you see?!) Limited seats for each event... sign up here at www.washingtonwriters.org #writers #writingcommunity #washingtondc #blackwriters

Happy pub day to Lex Orgera! -Agatha- This is not just a book about the body but a profound exploration of what it means to inhabit one.

More great news! Congratulations to Karen Rigby (JackLeg Press) and all the incredible finalists! What a joy to celebrate this vibrant literary community — we ❤️ being part of it!

We are so proud to see these great JackLeg titles featured here!! Thank you @bookshop.org 🔥💪❤️ bookshop.org/lists/short-...

Congratulations to David Welch and the editors @jacklegpress.bsky.social! 🥳

This is from the poem “Agatha at Dawn” in AGATHA. The poem begins, “& then we’re trying / on the molecules / of sainthood, delivering / ourselves to the gods / of caffeine.” AGATHA is officially out in the world Oct 13 from @jacklegpress.bsky.social

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…& check out @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social’s books in our @bookshop.org : bookshop.org/beta-search?.... BIO: Chloe N. Clark is the author of COLLECTIVE GRAVITIES, PATTERNS OF ORBIT & more. Her short story collection EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE is forthcoming from @jacklegpress.bsky.social. #ExpoContributor

One of our awesome editors, @re-ari.bsky.social featured in @literaryheist.bsky.social 🔥💪 www.literaryheist.com/articles/im-...

Live today! Happy pub day to Allison Cundiff! On sale everywhere. “Beautifully done, rings true psychologically, as good-humored as it is deep and real.” —Neal & Betsy Delmonico, publishers, Golden Antelope Press & Blazing Sapphire Press

Great review from our Mamaging Director! brooklynrail.org/2025/06/book...

NEW TITLE in our library! HEY PICKPOCKET by Allison Cundiff www.amazon.com/Hey-Pickpock... @jacklegpress.bsky.social

The Big 5 publishers get a lot of attention...let's give small ones some well-deserved airtime. #20Indiebookchallenge Choose 20 small-press books you've either read or want to read, in no particular order. Just covers + publisher's name. Publisher: @jacklegpress.bsky.social 16/20 #litfic

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAYS are for book covers ❤️ Contributor @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social has a cover reveal for their forthcoming book EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE from @jacklegpress.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/bOusSjV

Delighted to reveal the cover for my forthcoming book from @jacklegpress.bsky.social with huge thanks to amazing editor @fulmerford.com

The Sudden Panic That SCOTUS Might Overturn Marriage Equality Misses the Real Threat - Slate

My copies of COME AGAIN NO MORE, my newspaper novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, have arrived. You can preorder in advance of Nov. 10 publication. bookshop.org/p/books/come... #preordernovel #southernlit #📚

I am very excited to be a 2025 VCCA Fellow! Dreams do come true. 🤸🏼🤸🏿‍♀️🤸🏻‍♂️🤸🏼🤸🏿‍♀️ #VCCAFellows

On sale today! Through reading this, I've relearned what it means to be an active participant—in the act of poetry and life. —KB Brookins, award-winning author of Pretty

Poets who identify as women have until August 1 to enter 3-5 poems to the Coniston Prize from Radar Poetry. Judge: Diane Seuss. Winner receives $1,000 & publication. #poets #poetrycontest #litmag

The news today is monsters—and poets who aren’t afraid to confront them. Brava to Cindy Veach & @jessicacuello for these terrific books. #poetry #womenpoets @jacklegpress.bsky.social

Love parks? Love adventure? Here’s something cool!

Great interview!!

COME AGAIN NO MORE, my new novel from @jacklegpress.bsky.social, is available for preorder at the usual places. Let me recommend Memphis’s Burke's Book Store for a signed copy in advance of the Nov. 10 pub date: www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/... #fiction #jacklegpress #newspapers #preordernovel 📚

David Gregory Welch @jacklegpress.bsky.social

"This collection successfully functions as an echo, one that has personally left me in deep gratitude for art and all of the people who make it." Jessica Limardo's review of “The Book of Echoes" by David Gregory Welch (@jacklegpress.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/17/t...

“Through captivating accounts of Tourette syndrome, Welch’s language mirrors repeated movements and sounds, embodying Auden’s vision of poetry… Welch’s poems celebrate and transform the body’s limits in this intoxicating, unforgettable collection.” —Jenny Molberg, author of The Court of No Record

Morning after! 🌈🌈🌈

I don’t think future students should have to study 2025; it’s too stupid

Princeton University Press seeks a skilled multi-tasker who is organized and has an interest in books, academia and publishing for a Digital Marketing Assistant (DMA) to join the Marketing and Sales team. Learn more and apply here. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

Seen in #DC

Dear writers, Raymond Chandler was 51 when he published his first novel. 9 years later he’d completed 7 novels which would change their genre and contribute boldly to international literature and culture. He died when he was on his 8th book. You’ve got time. Except me. I’m 52.

In DC? worldpridedc.org

Here’s when you know you've met your crew - bookfair & all the publishers are nerding out about fonts and book sizes! ❤️❤️

Hey #DC friends - hope to see you Saturday! 🌈🌈🌈

Public pressure needs to be at 100%, lock in

(2) a spot on @bookriot.bsky.social 's best book covers ("What is there to say about perfection? It’s the monochromatic look, for sure, paired with the fact we just get a food storage container with a mini Venus de Milo inside.") bookriot.com/best-book-co...

Which do you prefer people say to you:”you are right!” or “I was wrong!”

Poetry mail! Thank you @rosswhite.com and @casswhit.bsky.social for sending queer & anti-fascist books for me to devour -ahem- review. Diving in with coffee on this gray chilly day ☕️ @bullcitypress.com @jacklegpress.bsky.social