“… Dottie started praying for Hank to talk about something other than Hank. Every time he started in, Hank this Hank that, she prayed harder.” @lmariharris.bsky.social in The Airgonaut theairgonautblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/d...

Our Minneapolis friends have shared ways to help: www.standwithminnesota.com. Send your love. Call your reps. Fight the good fight. Sending hugs. 😭💔❤️‍🩹💪

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

Truth bomb.

ID him.

Love to these people and to this city.

Posting this as the VERIFIED GoFundMe for Keith Porter Jr. Thank you, @gotmyniinaa.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

I'm beyond thrilled and simply stupefied to have my collection picked as the winner! Thank you so much to @sfwp.bsky.social for their Literary Awards Program and to the fabulous @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social for picking my manuscript!🌷🙏🙏🌷

I have a very special essay up in Beautiful Things. For me, it's a shift in energy from all the despair. Also, a precious moment of my chicken years captured. Fun little anecdote: When I fed them this morning (chilly!) i gave them warm scrambled egg to celebrate, and I told them they’re famous now.

Today's shortlisted story is "If we'd said yes when you rang home to borrow four hundred dollars" by @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social. A one-sentence marvel full of so much sadness and yearning: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Amazing. Evocative.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

This is clearly an execution.

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

Minnesota is the best of us.

Hollllly moly, when it turns the corner. That is a lot of people.

Thank you, Jack Smith, for your testimony and your commitment to the rule of law.

AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!

Frontrunner for Best Bsky Pulitzer.

No, She does not.

Cue lightning . . .

POTUS

'Big spiral' by textile artist Isabel Moore #WomensArt

A fantastic read! Enjoying this Saturday with @sfreligh.bsky.social’s “Other Emergencies”. 😍

Sign up today!

Florida friends, I'll be in Vero Beach on February 7. The adult class needs 12 participants for it to go, so please share widely. And sign up!

Ecstatic to have my piece "Yellow" included in @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social - Much gratitude to Centaur Lit EiC @lynnmundell.bsky.social for the nomination, to Guest Editor @dseuss.bsky.social for the selection and Best Microfiction editors @megpokrass.bsky.social and @garyfinkc.bsky.social -

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

F.U.C.K. ICE

Happy to see three @mooncitypress.bsky.social authors/friends in this new @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social anthology: @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, and Michelle Ross! A ton of @mooncityreview.bsky.social contributors, too! www.bestmicrofiction.com

Happy to see three @mooncitypress.bsky.social authors/friends in this new @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social anthology: @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social, and Michelle Ross! A ton of @mooncityreview.bsky.social contributors, too! www.bestmicrofiction.com

Congrats to all the winners 🎉🎉 Big back slap to @kathyfish.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @sfreligh.bsky.social @aniking.bsky.social @writesofkathryn.bsky.social @jackmmorris.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @sagetyrtle.bsky.social @kyleisamu.bsky.social @mizuki-yama.bsky.social

And whose brilliant collection might this be? Oh! The incomparable @sfreligh.bsky.social of course 🩵

Have you read @sfreligh.bsky.social short story collection Other Emergencies? If not, let me tell you why you should! shorturl.at/dh04I

@mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social is absolutely right: You should read this book.

Hey everyone. Best Microfiction 2026 winners have been posted! We congratulate all the winners. Thank you so much to our brilliant Guest Editor for 2026, @dseuss.bsky.social ! www.bestmicrofiction.com? #FlashFiction #Microfiction #ShortStory #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazines #WritersNetwork

This was when I knew Trump was never going to go away. Ever.

We have a lot more video and information on our visual archive of that day apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

The Welkin Prize is a free submission so the prize money is generously funded by @mattkendrick.bsky.social. If you entered the contest this year, good luck! And maybe consider going the extra mile and donating whatever you can afford to help Matt out.

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

Just kicked off the new year with a fab workshop with @sfreligh.bsky.social and one of the prompts included this incredible poem, "What the living do" by Marie Howe. Have 3 great ideas inspired by Sarah and her prompts, bring on 2026!! poets.org/poem/what-li...

I hate what CBS News has become and make no apologies for saying so.

Nice way to start and end a year!

There are no shortcuts in the writing process. The only way is through it. Trial/error is creativity.

I love this @sfreligh.bsky.social story I first read in Milk Candy Review and I love hearing Sarah read it and I love @podcastmicro.bsky.social happy 5th @drewhawkins.bsky.social and Dylan and team! micropodcast.org/podcast/klei...

Today, a fifth anniversary episode! Merry Christmas! micropodcast.org/podcast/klei...

Super fun to be on the Xmas episode of Micro Podcast with @sfreligh.bsky.social @karismaprice.bsky.social and @dtrobbins.bsky.social micropodcast.org/podcast/klei...

December BY SARAH FRELIGH On the fire escape, one stupid petunia still blooms, purple trumpet blowing high notes at the sky long after the rest of the band has packed up and gone home. --from SAD MATH