Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵 IG msviciousdesign

My first BBC Travel piece came out this week! Wondering about #Estonia’s naked wellness tradition? Read on! 👉 www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Parent-writer tip: If your kid is old enough, and they like writing / reading / drawing, then do a mini-writing retreat with them! It’s fun, you spend time together, and you get a little bit of writing done (don’t expect 4000 words! 😅) #WritingCommunity #momswritersclub #author #momswhowrite

New kind of #scam is to bait writers by sending an email impersonating a film production company. Beware of such scams! Please verify the site from which the email is sent. Use domain validity checks online or google for possible scams. #authorsky #writersky writerbeware.blog/2021/08/13/s...

Writers are wizards. We lock ourselves away within our mystic towers (bedrooms, offices, coffee shops) and utter arcane magicks (lots of swear words) over our ancient tomes (long-ass WIPs) while imbibing potions of potency (ungodly amounts of caffeine). #writerslife

West-central Wisconsin and the Twin Cities metro area abound with great authors. You can meet more than 40 of them – and even me – on Saturday's Author Fair at the River Falls (Wis.) Public Library. #author #amwriting #writingcommunity #riverfallswi fb.watch/obhtTN9dfR/

😳Looking for a read that will make your hairs stand on end? Take a look at my piece”The River at the End of the Road” in The Masters Review 👇 mastersreview.com/winter-short... #author #writingcommunity #amreading #shortstory

🍁Make time to frolic today. In your writing or with your feet, kick the leaves and let them fly. #authors #writingcommunity #amwriting

Halloween book club 😁

Libraries are gyms for the brain and spas for the soul.📚

🎉I have published my first piece of #fiction! And to have Morgan Talty select it from the shortlist… such a boost! Check it out on The Masters Review here: mastersreview.com/winter-short... #writingcommunity #author #momswritersclub

And we're only halfway through the week.🤦‍♀️ Have a great day, everyone!🙋‍♀️☕️🍂

For $1, you can show solidarity with Ukrainian writers and receive their stories. www.kickstarter.com/projects/att... #Ukraine #SFF #EmbroideredWorlds #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritersOfBlueSky #ReadersOfBlueSky

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

Tomorrow sees the publication of Irish open water/ice swimmer Nuala Moore's memoir, Limitless. I finished reading an advance copy today, and I'm here to tell you it's remarkable. #author #Irish #writing #memoir #limitless

A long walk off a short pier sounds more like an invitation than a threat 😊 #swimming #wildswimmer #Estonia

One of the greats of translation, Edith Grossman, has just died.

Competitions and submission calls for September 2023 #Writingcommunity #writers compsandcalls.com/wp/2023/08/3...

Early morning swim in the bog. What a way to start the day!

I won't throw the closest available object because that'll be my book. However, I will throw the second closest available object at your head.📚🤷‍♀️

The Daily Tar Heel is the independent student newspaper for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. their front page for 8/30 is texts sent and received by students during the active shooter lockdown. absolutely stunning.

A donut in the bathtub is my daughter’s idea of a spa day. I concur. 🍩

Writer Wednesday: A note of positivity. You CAN finish that book. Forget the blinking cursor. The empty page. Those voices that make you doubt. The story is inside you. Get the words out. It doesn’t have to be perfect it just needs to get done. You can do it! 💛 #authors #writingcommunity

Auden was such a consummate craftsman. An insightful sonnet, superb facility with rhyme, and each line containing the same number of syllables. That ... is genius.

Lit journals here so far (all .bsky.social): barrelhouse cincinnatireview cottonxenomorph dreampop epochliterary havehadhas icefloepress louisianalit okaydonkey pinkplastichouse psalteryandlyre rustandmoth smokelong stonecirclereview tbq theoffingmag therumpus thebaffler uncannymagazine zyzzyva

#Authors - does anyone actually manage to finish a cup of coffee before it goes cold? I hate drinking out of a thermos inside the house but once the coffee goes in the microwave, it tastes like depression in a mug… #writingcommunity

Libraries always give solid advice. #writers #books #libraries #authors

Highlight of the day: watching the little one go to space

Okay, so I guess we’re going to have this convo again… If you write a good story, your age DOES NOT matter. I’m seeing people say they are 35+ and too old to be published. Nope. I had writers from 21-65 in my debut year. Focus on the words & stop worrying about the ageism nonsense. #authors

Huge thanks to Shome Dasgupta for posting this on the other site: "Here are some literary journals opening up for submissions at some point in September! Genres vary—please note that some of these journals have fees & that these are all tentative dates."

Yesterday’s highlight: dancing to The Weeknd with 55,000 other people under a Dreamsicle sky

These need to come back.

What To Read When It's Women in Translation Month, written and curated by The Rumpus. Find titles translated by Damion Searls, Elina Alter, Polly Barton, and many more! See the list at: https://therumpus.net/2023/08/11/what-to-read-when-its-women-in-translation-month/

🇪🇪 Want to know what it’s like out on #Estonia’s so-called “Isle of Women”? Take a look at my piece for Visit Estonia: https://www.visitestonia.com/en/why-estonia/a-glimpse-of-life-and-local-culture-on-kihnu-island #travel #sustianabletourism #islands #Baltic #writingcommunity #travelwriting

I recently finished Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings by Shirley Jackson. One of the best pieces of advice she gives to writers comes from her lecture "Memory and Delusion," which I've posted below. #Writers #ShirleyJackson #Writing #Quotes

I don’t think I’ve shared on here yet but I’m leading a 2-Session sonnet workshop through @bellepointpress.bsky.social here’s the link for more info: https://bellepointpress.com/products/little-song-a-sonnet-workshop

For #authors who are just joining Bluesky: There are a number of writing feeds set up that you can add to your feeds. They each have their own rules for what shows up there so check the feed descriptions. I'll comment some of the ones I'm aware of below!

Great to see so many writers coming here now. Let's rebuild the writing community. If you’re an author or screenwriter, reply and say hello so we can all find you and follow each other. And if you want to repost this, that would also help.

🇪🇪 Want to know what it’s like out on #Estonia’s so-called “Isle of Women”? Take a look at my piece for Visit Estonia: https://www.visitestonia.com/en/why-estonia/a-glimpse-of-life-and-local-culture-on-kihnu-island #travel #sustianabletourism #islands #Baltic #writingcommunity #travelwriting

🚨This will be my first published story! Congrats to Donovan, Casey, and Sarah - an honor to be on the list with you! https://mastersreview.com/2022-2023-winter-short-story-award-for-new-writers-finalists/ #author #shortstory #writing #fiction #writingcommunity #amwriting

writers of bluesky: @therumpus.bsky.social is open for essay submissions thru aug 2nd! ✍🏽 https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit

this is the most important essay about Ukraine written since the start of the genocide. one of the finest of all times. all more devastating that it is authored by Victoria Amelina, a Ukrainian writer who was murdered by Russians earlier this month