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 👇

Just fantastic, Cole!!

I love these wild micros

Thank you @assayjournal.bsky.social !

Well, here's a great birthday present: my essay "On Being Still and Knowing" in Appalachian Review was given the Denny C. Plattner Award from Beara College. Thank you!

It's a strawberry full moon in my moon house of the archer. My birth day falls on Friday the 13th within this full moon cycle. And all I want for my birthday is for you to say it with your full chest: FUCK ICE.

Thanks for my badge @bathflashaward.bsky.social !

I have a new speculative, climate story and interview in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. I hope you check it out! As always, thank you also to @smokelong.bsky.social for being my ride-or-die. And thank you to @lunchontuesday.bsky.social who discombobulated my brain enough to shake this story loose!

my honest answer to “what radicalized you”

Look, Ma! I'm a rerun! It was a truly bewildering experience to pull up my podcasts today and stumble across my own mug. Thank you Pop of Culture at Indiana Public Radio and @riverteeth.bsky.social ! Listen to S2 E21 here: indianapublicradio.org/popofculture/

I’m not saying we should flood this line with UFO reports but I’m not NOT saying that either.

I love this!

Winning the SmokeLong Summer CNF prize is one of the highest honors/achievements in my life because it landed me in the pages of my #1 Dream Mag, SmokeLong Quarterly. Only workshop participants are allowed to enter, so this is your chance!

Thank you @dintywmoore.bsky.social for loving one of the only non-depressing things I've ever written. Here's to @toriamos.bsky.social, old trucks, spring peepers, and self-acceptance.

New sestina-flash for you in the queer epistolary issue of @anmlymag.bsky.social! I’ve been making a series for years now. This is the first out. I am trying to love better, despite it all. Give a read (and a listen.) Also, lovely. If you see this, hello. I hope you're fucking thriving out there.

“One of us says do you think—and we tell him to shut up because, no, we don’t think. We are boys, still boys, that shoot hoops and we sweat and we always go home before the street lights come on.” @avitusbcarle.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/may-20...

"Midnight, and I find you curled up in the backseat, head loose from the two beers you drank to be polite, the hiccups coming like irregular clashes of a cymbal." @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social, so it has to be 🔥

DO IT! I'll be bouncing around in wifi-less areas too much this summer to participate so LET ME LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH YOU. Seriously, the best workshop in the galaxy.

The mayor of Clarksdale, Mississippi, told TMZ that Warner Bros. is bringing a special screening of “Sinners” to the small town

A beautiful story found here:

What are you doing this summer? Why not write with the liveliest flash workshoppers on the planet? May 24-July 25th. 11 live events, peer-review workshop in small groups, competitions, and more. We're flash mixologists this summer. What's your cocktail? www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

Thank you @riverteeth.bsky.social and IPR for putting my gators on the air! Listen here to S02 EP16 here: indianapublicradio.org/popofculture/

Look y'all, when I read something good I can't help but cuss out loud. This micro by @aniking.bsky.social just made me do that AGAIN because they ALWAYS FUCKING DO. Amazing work as ever!

I'm on a three day streak of writing poems that hurt my own feelings! Let's goooooo #NaPoWriMo

Me, peering into the abyss: Whelp, might as well try to write a prose poem a day for #NaPoWriMo

Evil.

Who accepts reprints from online mags that no longer exist?

Interview with Brian Lee Knopp is up now over at Hippocampus Magazine! Thanks @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for the opportunity! hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/02/inte...

Holy moly, y'all! I just finished reading and responding to the rough drafts of my freshman composition students' personal narratives and feel like a video game character whose just had their "faith in humanity" batteries refilled.

Thank you so much @dintywmoore.bsky.social for accepting my micro! This one's an ode to old trucks, Tori Amos, frogs, and queer awakenings.🥰

Thanks @riverteeth.bsky.social for including my essay "Bone by Bone" about ghost pipe flowers, Emily Dickinson, and dead boyfriends.

Brand new adjunct composition 101 instructor here. What do I need to know?