Looking forward to reading——

bklyn, where parents parade their children around in costumes like “recursive”

“You have to be flinchable … That’s being human. We flinch all the time.” READ the stunning, soulful @maureenlangloss.bsky.social on Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews—and well, all of us. www.maureenlangloss.com/you-have-to-... @newyorker.com

Closing Nov 1!

We are proud to take part in the Fall of Freedom with a special FREE online event Friday, November 21 8pm EST featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Nicole Chung, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Melissa Febos, Robert Jones Jr., Celeste Ng, and Denne Michele Norris. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/100-days-o...

"Poem" by Joe Brainard.

sorry can’t right now i’m under the weighted blanket

the algorithm shifted or new people found me hellooo new people still dunno what I’m doing here.

Tonight! NYC! Come celebrate the latest @epiphanylit.bsky.social issue—themed DESIRE & DREAD ftw— and hear from a stellar lineup of contributors! 8pm, Liz’s Book Bar, 315 Smith Street.

New sessions of Ungodly Hour Writing Clubs start Monday! East Coast with @saralippmann.bsky.social ! West Coast with @briangresko.bsky.social ! Pick your poison! Or double down! Clubs are free, with donations supporting our scholarship fund www.writingco-lab.com/classes

Looking forward to celebrating wonderful @writesloud.bsky.social debut with this killer cast of characters:

if you always wanted to know what it’s like to write in the dim glow of dawn alongside other ungodly masochists here’s your chance (free, no frills, donations support @writingco-lab.bksky.social) www.writingco-lab.com/classes/ungo...

HOLY COW. What an issue:

life, lately:

Come hanggggg Chatting up @alinaetc.bsky.social @adrianf.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social and more! ❤️

Congrats on PARDON ME FOR [email protected]

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Oh, we're so grateful for new books 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was published Aug 26th from Soft Skull Press! Get your copy here: buff.ly/Ym7Ew6W

Outlook Springs Issue 9: The Unauthorized Coloring Book has arrived! Fantastic fiction, heart-cartographic essays, poemy poems, and uncolored images await you inside! Support small presses and writers. Order yours today!

Hey, NY writers! @girlswritenow.bsky.social is recruiting great mentors for their Fall Journeys (girlswritenow.org/fall25-journeys) The deadline is 8/31. The commitment is 3 hours a month for 3 months. Change the trajectory of a young writer's life and reap the benefits of the amazing GWN community!

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Breakout! Prize are Julia Oschwald Tilton in prose, and Alice Liang in poetry! Thank you to this year’s prize judges: Hilary Leichter (prose) and Victoria Chang (poetry)! epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

Peter Orner fans unite! THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST’S DAUGHTER is out today and — of course — it’s outstanding. My review www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-gos...

flash writers: looking for an instructive example of a memory/grief centered piece that transcends the recollection. 🙏

today’s horoscope

Lydia Davis

still can’t believe adrienne salinger asked me to write the afterword for the rerelease of her iconic photo book, TEENAGERS IN THEIR BEDROOMS featured in @newyorker.com this week www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-i...

hot damn well if it isn’t the one and only @lateration.bsky.social in motherloving @agnimagazine.bsky.social 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 agnionline.bu.edu/fiction/hard...

no big just my amazingly talented student seeing her brilliant hilarious story snag narrative’s fiction prize 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/sprin...

Starting Sat! Sign on for community, accountability and ongoingness with an amazing array of workshops and panels @writingco-lab.bsky.social www.writingco-lab.com/summercamp

Starting Monday (online) if you know someone who knows someone jonesing for a spirited monthlong dive into the world of fiction writing www.92ny.org/class/founda...

Hubba hubba 😍

my forthcoming novel started as this flash

Today i was reminded of Brautigan’s THE WEATHER IN SAN FRANCISCO which still slaps forever: “who knows whet such an old woman could possibly use a pound of meat for?” tinhouse.com/your-weekly-...

such a great freaking short story

Grateful to @pleiadesmag.bsky.social for publishing this love poem and its deranged title — dream journal to have work in.

Tonight! FREE informative chat on pathways to publishing! Bring all your questions:

a good editor makes a writer feel both seen and challenged and I’m so lucky to be working with two great ones right now

Tonight! If you or your writing group pal is feeling adrift in the murky sea of WTF (and why is it taking so long) this is for you www.writingco-lab.com/classes/draf...

Join us for this FREE event on different paths to publishing your work, with WCL co-founders @briangresko.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social & @amyshearn.bsky.social www.writingco-lab.com/classes/diff...

Congrats, Adam!!!!!!!

any designers out there? my website needs a low budge, no frills facelift

Smashing the Tablets is a JWA summer pick, in wonderful company: jwa.org/programs/boo...

someday we are all going to feel bad that it was the stupid that killed us all . . .

EXCELLENT BOOK

If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB. DMs are open, email is [email protected].

I get this question so much that I wanted to devote an open forum sesh to it. You’re not alone! Come, talk about your project and discuss revision strategies and next steps toward publication: www.writingco-lab.com/classes @writingco-lab.bsky.social

“Not sure where this is going, though, yeah, pretty fucking sure.” 💔 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

"UNFINISHED ACTS OF WILD CREATION is a bit­ing and heart­break­ing work of fic­tion." Just out today is Sarah Yahm's evocative novel. Read more from reviewer @saralippmann.bsky.social here. bit.ly/3YrHzZi #PubDay #NewBook

behold the slim contents of my menopausal brain which I misplace three times a day, minimum

still writing? they ask. still pooping? you say.