Thinking of my writer friends in 5 Story Masons and Novel Talk! Friendship is My Writing Process electricliterature.com/friendship-i... via @electriclit @debralattanzi.bsky.social @katebrettlewis.bsky.social @wendybeselhahn.bsky.social

So true.

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

How did The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm land on a banned book list? Was it machine-screened for the d-word in the jacket copy? “....Indeed, this is what makes the tales from the 1812 and 1815 editions unique--they reflect diverse voices…”

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest opens Aug 1st! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Broke my own rule (a little bit) and wrote about writing. cyberb.space/notes/2025/p...

Something zeitgeist-y going on here. This lovely essay from @debwerrlein.bsky.social just hit my inbox: electricliterature.com/ai-cant-gasl...

I don't have time to keep screenshotting all day from @shannonmattern.bsky.social's article (I already did other QTs) - but THIS RIGHT HERE also needs to be amplified. Yes, our elite universities - not least Penn - need to reckon with what they have wrought...

So good: My Sister Teaches Me How to Dice an Onion url:https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/my-sister-teaches-me-how-to-dice-an-onion-2/#comment-7325

Free to Be You and Me. I remember loving the music so much I didn't want it to end. And the idea girls could grow up to do anything they wanted made a huge impression on me. The messaging would probably be prohibited in schools today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFzM...

Loved this "weird little meta flash piece"!

Literary collective nouns. My personal favorite is the proofreaders. So clever. #literary

Excellent essay in @electricliterature.com by @debwerrlein.bsky.social about the gift of longhand writing: "...if writing is a process of discovery and learning, then what discoveries did I lose by speeding up the process? What connections haven’t I made?" electricliterature.com/ai-cant-gasl...

My latest on writing and technology. Happy to see it in print @electriclit today! AI Can’t Gaslight Me if I Write by Hand electricliterature.com/ai-cant-gasl...

There is a website called “One Typed Page”, to which typewriter enthusiasts submit a daily that is then shared on the website and/or emailed to subscribers. Here is my inaugural submission. #OneTypedPage

Our July issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issue-7/ Words @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social @kimchinquee.bsky.social RENESHA DHANRAJ WYLEY FROHLICH JUNGERMAN TROY ANDERSON @danbillyc.bsky.social @theresegleason @claudiamonpere.bsky.social BRITTANY REDD TARA SHEA BURKE Art JACELYN YAP

“They say to write poetry after atrocity is barbaric / but what else remains?” Read a new poem by Fatemeh Shams. buff.ly/agCUgUi

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “It proved an American misstep, fueled by xenophobia, that would forever alter the global balance of power.” Kathleen Kingsbury, the editor of Times Opinion, tells the cautionary story of a Chinese scientist who was deported from the U.S. during the Cold War.

"Mama paused. Her son thought she was frozen inside." Read @jessicaclairehaney.bsky.social's story, "Breath," in our May/June issue:

I'm thrilled to have a new piece at Split Lip Magazine. splitlipthemag.com/memoir/0525/...

Yup. This is me. Especially poignant now, during migration.

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”―Flannery O'Connor (born March 25th, 1925)

This morning, FACULTY UNIONS led by @aaup.bsky.social sued the Trump administration over the unlawful funding cuts at Columbia. We will not let the federal government use coercion to rob us of academic freedom and critical research! So proud of my union! protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

Since it looks like Trump is actually planning to sign an order to dismantle the Department of Education TODAY, this thread has my full illustrated explainer on what the department does (and doesn't) do. With alt text! 1/4

“How long will I be here?” “I don’t know your case,” the man said. “Could be days. Could be weeks. But I’m telling you right now – you need to mentally prepare yourself for months.”

My agent @clgslr.bsky.social has a really cool and fun podcast all about agenting and publishing related things, super useful for those querying and also interesting to anyone who wants to see behind the veil! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/flu...

Not gonna lie, I was reading these again while prepping the project for production and pinching myself. Big time. You don't need me to be like "hey have you heard of this Anzaldúa writer??" because, I mean...!! But seriously, I'm ridiculously excited (and honored!).

Five things I did this week: 1. Dropped Amazon 2. Got a Costco membership 3. Promised my husband I wouldn't talk politics until he's ready (he's too heartbroken) 4. Had an anxiety attack 5. Talked to my granddaughter

Just a little Friday micro to spice up your day!

When you wrote a book but don’t get to put your name on the title page. But your brother’s name is there so that’s fine. #WomenInEgyptology

Fired National Park Ranger is protesting 👇🏾

We will always be committed to diversity on our staff & in our issues. We encourage submissions from historically marginalized groups, the disabled, trans & nonbinary people, queer folks, & people of all races, ethnicities, genders, religions, & ages. 💖 We love our literary community. 💖

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

On Small Acts of Defiance, a wee 🧵 I grew up in an abusive environment, but I still have to go back there once in a while. Now that we’re all faced with an abuser in power, I thought I’d share something that’s helped me in my personal situation, in case it helps anyone else. (YMMV, obvi) 1/10

"'If you leave now, I'll kill us both,' she said." In this week's miCRo, @babaklak considers the reverberations of violence across space and time. https://buff.ly/3CnLVZu

hey just a reminder to support libraries and small presses and independent bookstores and independent journalists bc oh my god do we need them and oh my god are we going to need them more and more

I lost an hour of work last week trying to figure out how to deal with this. I was able to turn it off in my Windows version, but it's still there, so who knows what it's up to.

YES. THIS. And spend that currency on something that matters to you.

This excellent journal published one of my earliest CNF pieces back in 2016. So glad to see it back, with some whopper beautiful essays. Welcome back Literary Mama!

I always love reading the micros at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social, so i'm thrilled to have this piece about aging, self-love, and the grit of body and mind appear there. www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...

It's a beautiful day to destroy the oligarchy and write a poem.

My MLK day piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Sounds like pandering to me.

Not that we're surprised... lithub.com/it-sure-look...

Back in the 1800s, Joseph Lancaster sold American elites on a bold experiment to educate children en masse—without teachers, at minimal cost. It was a complete failure. Today’s conservatives would like to repeat his mistakes.

Good advice: separate the business of writing from the creative work of writing. electricliterature.com/all-of-my-ac...

“Of numbness I know enough. // And to you I’ve now written too much, / dear cloud of thalidomide, // dear spoon trembling at the mouth, / dear marble-eyed doll never answering back.” — @paulmguest.bsky.social poets.org/poem/persist...

Last night, I finished the novel James, by @percivaleverett.bsky.social, and it was so good I wanted to flip back to the beginning and start reading all over again.