Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq

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Yooo, none of the AWP panels I was asked to be on were accepted. Please think of me if you need a person to add to your panel in the next couple of months. xo

Love this poem by Ire’ne Lara Silva in @prairie-schooner.bsky.social so I copied it into my notebook. Also, check out the amazing artwork by Song-Ming Ang! I am here for a hallway of crunchy leaves.

I’ll be rounding up some of my favorite 2025 memoirs for Time later this year. I’m doing my best to track forthcoming books and request galleys, but it’s easy to miss things — book people, you’re welcome to pitch me (especially fall titles!) at nicole.sc.chung at gmail

Thrilled to have this review in my "hometown" newspaper. #memoirs #newbooks www.pressherald.com?p=7476949&uu...

I wrote about remembering how to feel for Nothing Compares to You, an anthology of essays on the legacy of Sinéad O’Connor. The book comes out tomorrow. Here, get your joy: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin... Thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving this piece a home on @oldster_mag.

A few clients are announcing projects in new genres, new categories… Remember, writer friends. You can jump around. The oft said advice of “branding” doesn’t mean you need to stay in one lane. It just means when you’re in a new genre or category, it still feels like a book from YOU. ❤️

“Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write.” ~ Robert Macfarlane

This is indeed a perfect time to support @theoffingmag.bsky.social. Patrons who give at the $10 level will receive a copy of our 10th anniversary anthology featuring work by @iamlisako.bsky.social @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social and so many others! www.patreon.com/c/theoffing

So pumped that @meganstielstra.bsky.social selected @bennysummerhill.bsky.social's essay "'Tell Me When to Go' Had Just Dropped and I Was from Oakland" as the winner of the @therumpus.net Prize in Nonfiction!!! A stunning essay. therumpus.net/2025/06/05/r...

I got to talk to my friend and former student CQ in @bombmag.bsky.social about Meet Me at the Crossroads, faith, how many nuns I'm related to, Severance, letting people have things as a treat, inexplicableness, academic kookiness, Lucille Clifton and Pure Michigan: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

If anyone wants to add me to your #awp26 panel, holler Happy to talk about: -Bodies/fatness/beauty standards -Sex/fetishes -Sobriety/recovery -Humor/balancing tone -immigration -politics/current events in CNF -the memoir plus -memoir in general -querying -academia -class/race/diversity xo

thrifted outfit of the day. It’s how we cope w/ the chaos

This book is out TODAY! I put my whole heart into it. You can buy it wherever you buy books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725681...

At my newsletter NO FAILURE, ONLY PRACTICE, I've started giving quarterly Zoom craft lectures for paying subscribers. Today's is on "Sentence Acoustics and Style," one of my favorite topics, and should be a blast. You can still sign up if you'd like to join!

Twitter is where i keep in touch w/ everyone for the last few years. I’ve taken a break from posting. But should I be using bluesky the same way? Or is the answer Substack? Help! 😝💗

A long weekend is the perfect time to send us your work. No fees. $200 prize for fiction and creative nonfiction. duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Turn on my AC for the first time in over 6 months. I’ve never been so happy to be hot again 😆

helloooooooooo, Meet Me at the Crossroads is on @latimes.com's list of 30 Books to read this summer: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

the new pope is gringo

family time. 🐾

Every year when the call for AWP proposals goes out I think it can't *possibly* be time for that already, and yet... (Anyway, I'll be in Baltimore—please invite me to be on your panels!!!)

Dear humans, I'm so excited to talk about My Heresies with @alinapleskova.bsky.social virtually on May 7th, thanks to Writers & Books. 🖤 Please register if you can (it's pay as you can)... I've been dying to talk to Alina for years now. :) wab.org/event/alina-...

i’m proud and humbled to have my poem “A Gun Is a Gun Is a” featured on @versedaily.bsky.social today

Hey, @dintywmoore.bsky.social. Thank you thank you thank you for the brilliance and love and endless hours you've put into editing lo these many years.

a math major in my Writing your life class just told me how this class has been her favorite this semester & she’s been recommending it to everyone & now she wants to continue journaling & join the creative writing club. And let me tell you it was the feedback I needed to hear today. 🥺

hey that's me! Come and join us.

Some actual good news today!

Today at 12:10pm! So pumped to talk about freedom and joy in writing sobriety! #awp25 #sobriety @natalielima09.bsky.social @paulhaney.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social

LA, here I come! Come to our panel Friday on making art as a sober person, and then to our nonfiction reading on Saturday in Hollywood. ☀️ ✨ ☀️

Please join us Friday AWP!! :) Can't wait to hear from the audience <3 "Perspective & Perseverance in Writing Sobriety: Hemingway Is Not the Only Way" 12:10pm-1:25pm, Room 518, Level Two #awp25 @paulhaney.bsky.social @natalielima09.bsky.social @kerryjamesevans.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social

📣 Announcement! @zandoprojects.bsky.social has acquired Tin House, including its 200+ title backlist, frontlist + Tin House Magazine backlist. The Tin House Workshop and podcast, Between the Covers, will remain separate from Tin House’s book publishing program. More: zandoprojects.com/tin-house/

baby’s first #awp reading: you KNOW it’s at a tattoo shop, with some of my all-time favorite CNF baddies, and will involve death + sex + being put in my place in the funniest way possible. 💘 @natalielima09.bsky.social @mindahoney.bsky.social @lillydancyger.bsky.social @otroedgargomez.bsky.social

Anyone take v long personal essays these days? Longer than 6k words? TYIA 🖤

2 HOURS LEFT!!!

Today I jogged (v slowly) for 45 whole minutes. I’m gradually getting into it, since the last time I jogged, I was in my 20s. Now, in my late 30s, my joints occasionally make fun noises, like a bowl of rice crispies, & I have to stretch my groin muscles if I want to walk properly the next day 🙆🏻‍♀️😜

LA! Come out & celebrate the end of #awp25 at our nonfiction reading at Sunset Strip Tattoo in Hollywood! Saturday, 3/29 from 5-630 PM. Come hear some chisme & leave with a couple’s tat! 😈😜 Looking forward to seeing you there.✨✨✏️

Here's an excerpt from my new book OF TYRANT, called, "Two Lives." It's a hopeful poem. I want to remind people, the tyrant wants you to operate out of hate and fear. Don't let him win. #oftyrant

At long last, I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Case and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, will be published on November 11, 2025 and is available for pre-order wherever books are sold! www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

Have almost finalized an offsite, nonfiction reading in @ AWP! It’s featuring some magical, established & emerging folks. Saturday, March 29th from 5-630PM PT. Excited to share the flyer in the next couple of days. ✏️🖤

A very special essay out with @grantamag.bsky.social. It’s about worship, China, patterns, food deliveries, burials, divinations, gorges, moths, padded bras, and silk worms. To see how it all connects, please give this a read — and share if you enjoyed it 🙏 granta.com/the-secret-p...

Thanks to @jamestatehill.bsky.social and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs for asking me to write about my road to from writing to drawing to writing AND drawing a graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL @fieldmousepress.bsky.social www.writerschronicle.org/TWC/2025-feb...

Happy new year, bbs.✨✨✨

Toni, where are you? 🐾🖤

I really enjoyed the new horror film, Heretic. It wasn’t perfect—what piece of art is? But the acting was incredible. And I’m still thinking about it today. 🖤

Just got into bed and I’ve never been happier

One of my fav in the Essay Daily Advent this year. You probably had other things to attend to, but Will Slattery is always worth your time:

Had a nice holiday but so glad they’re over