ICYMI here's my Mother's Day micro essay. Here's to all the motherless children.

I love this so much.

Me, walking away bewildered from a social interaction: "How the hell they know that random fact about my life? When did I tell them about it? Wow, my memory is shit these days." Hours later, at 4:00 AM: "Oh, right. I write personal essays."

"writing rage is joyful, right, instinctual, unadulterated, and most of all, corrective." ⚡️ What does it mean for women, in particular, or other marginalized groups, to embrace anger in their craft? What's the generative potential? Come find out & rage with us: buff.ly/v8upg3W #AssayJournal

HOW?!? HOW?!?! How am I just NOW learning about the poet Etheridge Knight from Corinth, MS? Just goes to show how growing up white in Mississippi I was blind to all the Black genius surrounding me. Today's poem: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49932/...

Thank you @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social !

Thank you Palisades Review for reaching out and for giving this one a home. www.thepalisadesreview.com/new-stories/...

"TAKE ONLY WHAT NAMES YOU." This week on hex, some absolute magic grows from ashen remains. You won't want to miss this new wonder by @catemcgowan.com. Bask in its mystery, in each carefully crafted sentence! Dead Letter Orchard is up now!!

First Amendment Troop returns to the Lincoln Memorial with “ResistDance vs Redaction” — A protest with young dancers blindfolded, with Epstein Files printed on their leotards to symbolize redacted survivors. The piece reinterprets 13-yr-old Jane Doe 4’s testimony about Trump through movement. ❤️‍🩹

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

It's time for "you know what, I don’t care, you don’t have to like her." vs "Who else but a drunk says shit like that to an empty room?" @marchxness.bsky.social

You do not need the robots to creatively prompt you! Just try to take the most violent bite of yourself possible. Try to swallow yourself whole

YESSSSSSSSSS

@barlowadams.bsky.social making me cry on a Tuesday morning. Brilliant🤩

I'M IN!

be the fourteen-foot werewolf you wish to see in the world. ❤️

Huge thanks to @salvationsouth.com for giving this little glowbug of an essay a home. www.salvationsouth.com/love-like-li...

I love this so much.

I'm very honored to have work forthcoming with Palisades Review.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

thank you @inshortlit.bsky.social for publishing this short-short that I wrote under a mercifully spared beloved tree on the first anniversary of Hurricane Helene. inshortjournal.com/lindsey-pharr/

Read "Breaking News" written by @avitusbcarle.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Did you hear about the Black man? The Black woman? Black boy? The Black girl gone missing? Kidnapped. From thoughts and prayers. From the news." tinyurl.com/yswvau9e

The February 2026 issue of Ghost Parachute is here! Cover illustrated by @genevievetyrrell.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/yz54jnyb

Feeling sad about *points to everything*? Me too! Read my sad essay! I wrote about The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs for the lead up to March ‘90s Sadness. ✨🖤 [B-Side bonus content: The Feeling Wheel of OOPS-ALL-SADNESS.]

Thank you Brett Pribble and everyone at Ghost Parachute for including this little olfactory delight in the forthcoming Ghost Parachute anthology! I'm so grateful and honored and excited! ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...

So grateful to have my story “Salt” in Ghost Parachute!

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

Congrats, everyone!!!

I've just learned there is a new sign-up link to join The Village. Here it is! It's a groovy space for us all to connect. And it's FREEEEEE! smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/plans/191340...

Wherever you are on this planet, you can write with us this March. SmokeLong's March Micro Marathon is a prompt-a-day frenzy in a supportive, fun workshop environment with webinars and open mics. Read more about it and book by January 12th to get a $25 discount. www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...

Thank you @smokelong.bsky.social and @kelliborges2.bsky.social !!!

I'm a huge @chelseastickle.bsky.social fan, and am ecstatic to read all these wonderful pieces published this year.

Join us on January 24th at 10am ET as Erin Vachon takes us to new poetic places. Flash that leans poetic. Let's do this. If you're in SmokeLong Fitness, this webinar/workshop is included. www.smokelong.com/product/narr...

Thank you so much, Kelli, for your perfect, insightful questions and kind words. You're the best!

Issue 90 is live! Please go read the amazing work within, including the top 7 stories chosen from hundreds submitted to the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest and the overall winner, Love; Sigh by Claire Y. Guo. Thank you so much to everyone who sent us work this quarter. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety/

Thank you @smokelong.bsky.social I am so honored to be in your absolute GRAIL of a magazine alongside such amazing writers. Somebody pinch me.

TODAY!!!! DON’T MISS IT!!!! Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere! REGISTER NOW at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

MASHED.

Calvin and Hobbes is one of a handful of pieces of art that I sort of expected to leave behind when I grew into adulthood but instead continue to point at in increasingly desperate ways to beg people to increase their humanity

I loved this, thank you, Maureen!

I just signed up and can't wait to see y'all there!

"You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!"

Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."

I love this!

So excited to see all y'all at AWP in Baltimore! It's been a helluva year and I'm looking forward to laughing with writer friends.

"Essays that dwell in uncertainty are in many ways closest to the truth of the human experience." Thank you @sfmontgomery.bsky.social for this inspiration today. Needed it. fourthgenre.org/interview/es...

oh hi, we're opening for submissions tomorrow, Friday 9/5! 200 cap & we'll stay open until filled. mark ur calendars 👇