happy solstice! If you (like me) have found your habits out of whack lately, rededicate to your writing practice in the new year! I’ll be hosting another FREE Ungodly writing club session weekday mornings 1/6-1/15 new gentler time 6-730 EST. www.writingco-lab.com/classes/ungo...

psssssssst this jawn (out in May) @tortoisebooks.bsky.social is now up on edelweiss if anyone wants a free early look www.edelweiss.plus?sku=19651992...

I had the best time at Epiphany’s holiday reading celebrating their gorgeous new issue! Absolutely adored Wah-Ming Chang’s memoir, @jweirdo.bsky.social’s fiction and @saralippmann.bsky.social’s lovely words about the importance of literature and community at times like these. ❤️

a brilliant light in the dark. @lateration.bsky.social 🔥

happy dress-your-dog-like -a-toddler day to those who celebrate

new look, same bold vision

FACTS.

Can’t wait to share the beautiful new issue! And can’t wait to read your wonderful work! Subs close Dec 15th epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit

Oh shit, it's Stylish But Illegal Monkey Day

Our 2026 winter/spring classes are here! We’ll be adding a few more in the next week or so, but already it is a creative feast. Check ‘em out and come co-lab with us! www.writingco-lab.com/classes

BOOKMAIL, yea! I'm thrilled to bring author Melanie Pappadis Faranello back to Sunday Salon Chicago in May 2026 & can't wait to read her forthcoming collection. CONGRATS Melanie! 👏🔥 Cool blurbs, y'all! Dialing in @saralippmann.bsky.social & @michaelzapata.bsky.social 🥰 www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

Jerks, all glowed up, out today (again) from @tortoisebooks.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/jerk...

Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!! My gratitude is so deep this morning. lithub.com/100-notable-...

Congratulations to Ghost Parachute's Pushcart Prize Nominees: @djpoissant.bsky.social, @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, @saralippmann.bsky.social, @megpokrass.bsky.social, @dawnsteffler.bsky.social, and @claudiamonpere.bsky.social.

no rest for the book marketing bots

morning, sky

happy sunday, friends

Coming at you in May 👀@tortoisebooks.bsky.social

NY, this is going to be so weird and good! 2PM Sun at a chill little place right off the street. Come hang with @raxkingisdead.bsky.social, @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social, @saralippmann.bsky.social, @camilleuadams.bsky.social, @katetooley.bsky.social, @michelleghenry.bsky.social, and me. ❤️

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 😍