The Adrian Public Library was my first card. I still have it.

Big thanks to Melissa and Kristin at @epistemiclit.bsky.social for including me in their nostalgia issue; to @sfreligh.bsky.social and her awesome Class of Jan 24 for prompting and nurturing it; and @raecowie.bsky.social & @norami.bsky.social for helping it over the line.

I be Zooming.

The amazing @sfreligh.bsky.social zooms into my grad fiction workshop to talk Other Emergencies.

I have a new story up @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social. Thanks to the team there and to @sfreligh.bsky.social for the Hopperroebics inspiration! www.ekphrastic.net

@sfreligh.bsky.social s excellent review of Cold Toast, a stunning debut collection by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social , offers some thought-provoking words for anyone considering publishing a collection. A must read⬇️⬇️⬇️

“… and from this new place erupted all the words that she’d stored up until they turned to lava inside her and volcanoed out …” “Not” and “Because” and @sfreligh.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sara...

*Phenomenal cosmic prose ... itty bitty living space.* In our latest issue, a brand new micro #fiction from the incredible @sfreligh.bsky.social |https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sarah-freligh Artwork @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"...themes that are as urgent today as they were thirty-fifty years ago. Which may be the point of it all, highlighting that ever-running treadmill that women negotiate." @sfreligh.bsky.social @kazbarwrites.bsky.social @bendinggenres.bsky.social

An insightful review of a brilliant book by someone who KNOWS. Delighted to be teaching two pieces from #ColdToast to a class in Costa Rica. This review is great prep. @kazbarwrites.bsky.social is 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Amazing, amazing prize-worthy stuff from @thedrevlow.bsky.social!

@sfreligh.bsky.social reviews @kazbarwrites.bsky.social Cold Toast! bendinggenres.com/review-of-co...

Wow! Unbelievably grateful to @sfreligh.bsky.social and @rgvaughan.bsky.social for this terrific review of Cold Toast in Bending Genres!! I'm blown away!

I reviewed COLD TOAST by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social, a book I very much admire! bendinggenres.com/review-of-co...

Only two spaces left! West Virginia is beautiful in autumn and you will write LOTS! 🍁🍂

so super excited for this all-star lineup w @kathyfish.bsky.social, @sfreligh.bsky.social , and @andrewbertaina.bsky.social - only two spots left - lodging and meals included

Join us for a writing adventure at a beautiful spot during the most gorgeous time of year!

A hell of a speech by J.B. Pritzker.

Listen to the truth.

A hot Latino guy named Jesus . . .

Hi poetry reviewers, writers, readers: here’s a document I made of paying reviews markets. Holler at me if you see something that needs to be updated/deleted/added! 🙏 I would appreciate it. Would love this to be a community resource for freelance writers to be paid for their criticism.

This is so brilliant!

New flash up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social! Thank you, B! I love clueless dude narrators.

Incredible piece from @sfreligh.bsky.social

and didn’t you used to love it when she dressed slutty, danced for every dude in the bar but really was dancing only for you Holy moly, I love me a new @sfreligh.bsky.social flash! @mrbullbull.bsky.social

“... and says wow, look at that, look at your wife, face up and coatless making snow angels and you know you should go to her, get her out of there, but it’s beautiful in a terrible kind of way ...” @sfreligh.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

Another wonderful piece by @sfreligh.bsky.social Only had time to read one thing this morning, so glad it was this! I think it might stay with me all day. ❤️

"Because at the office Christmas party she dances like a hoochie-coochie girl in a too-short shirt and a too-tight top that shows off her coconuts which used to be more than okay when you were both twenty-one and horny." @sfreligh.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

"...until a guy from Legal points out a window and says wow, look at that, look at your wife, face up and coatless making snow angels...." Wow, I really love this brilliance by @sfreligh.bsky.social in @mrbullbull.bsky.social 💙💙💙

New flash up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social! Thank you, B! I love clueless dude narrators.

A chance to win a FREE spot on one of my courses AND to win a free micro edit for a friend (or vice versa) AND also to spread a bit of writerly love ❤️ Go on - you know you want to!!! Everyone's basically a winner!

Keep showing these videos. The protests against the regime are getting louder.

How about a "piece" prize? As in POS.

Announcing a special micro category for the Baltimore Review fall issue: 400 words max, one or two micros in one sub, micro submission period (9/1 – 9/14) and response by 9/30. Payment for accepted work at our usual rate. Because we love the short and surprising. baltimorereview.org

Just reread @sfreligh.bsky.social's 'Hereafter' and if Pattylee doesn't deserve a sequel, then I don't know a character who does!

Thank you! I was just working on your review -- touched base with Robert yesterday, stay tuned for September!

My Tory ancestors.

Want some nice news for a Friday? This is your early warning that the Welkin Writing Prize WILL BE BACK! A long way to go until entries open in December, but I'm committing now so there's no backing out later in the year 😀 Bigger prize fund too!! 🥳 www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

Hope you'll join me in celebrating these two amazing micros by @thisisguan.bsky.social and @sfreligh.bsky.social. Such an honour to publish and nominate their writing.

The Welkin Writing Prize is pleased to announce our nominations for Best of the Net: @thisisguan.bsky.social for "A Parable of Slow Songs" and @sfreligh.bsky.social for "Nine One One" Congratulations both! Such brilliant writing! Story links in the thread below.

Just woke up to this nice news! Thanks, Matt!

"Nine One One" by @sfreligh.bsky.social: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

He’s determined to kill a lot of people.

R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

"All Rita has to do is step out and follow the path of light to the waiting spaceship, happy as hell to live among them and not smell like a cigarette." I love this phenomenal piece of writing by @sfreligh.bsky.social 💙💙💙

“All Rita has to do is step out and follow the path of light to the waiting spaceship, happy as hell to live among them and not smell like a cigarette.” @sfreligh.bsky.social in Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

Here's a summer read . . . www.uapress.com/product/othe...

Sorry, but ICE is snatching people off the streets without due process and sending them to prison, but access to airport lounges are the problem? Dude, get a grip. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

“I found a sand dollar, the toe of Constantine, an otherwise unremarkable day in the late Cretaceous, when the oceans turned acidic.” Another gorgeous piece. @andrewbertaina.bsky.social finds a hole in the universe…need I say more?