In case you missed it this weekend, everything you need to know about 1000 Words of Summer, right here. But if you’ve done it before, there’s no big changes this year. We’re holding steady. Doing our work. 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/1000-words...

I have lots to say about creating writing pedagogy if anyone is still cobbling together an AWP panel.

No one realizes what I'm talking about.... My husband went into the same room and didn't even notice the shibari ropes.

Nothing like signing a recall petition beneath an elaborate shibari setup. #louisiana

Everything you need to know about 1000 Words of Summer is right here. Starts two weeks from TODAY on May 30. Are you in? 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/1000-words...

I won't forget my high school and college acquaintances who posted about buying NFTs with zero irony. I will never forget. I might even pop back up from time to time to remind them.

Dear AWP panel organizers! If you are looking to complete your panel, I can contribute to discussions on short story structure, short story collections, switching between long form and flash, motherhood/parenthood and writing, chronic illness and writing, chronic illness and body horror, cw pedagogy

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Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Shocked, shocked I say!, that no one hacked Moodle. (dragging myself back to the gradebook)

Dear AWP panel organizers! If you are looking to complete your panel, I can contribute to discussions on short story structure, short story collections, switching between long form and flash, motherhood/parenthood and writing, chronic illness and writing, chronic illness and body horror, cw pedagogy

Before The Child turned 3, a friend described Muffin from Bluey as "a biblically accurate 3-year-old," and over the last few weeks, I have come to see what she meant.

12 days to enter. Maybe you’re even now revising the story that will win the $2,500 first prize in this year’s Smokey. Don’t forget the deadline is midnight ET on May 10. 1,000 words or smaller.

I suspected my kid had a UTI. The female nurse at urgent care agreed and prescribed antibiotics, but told me to take him to the ER if he developed severe pain. He developed severe pain. Male doctor insisted it couldn't be a UTI. Guess what? Test results arrived. It's a UTI.

Stroking my sick kid's sweaty hair as I cry over the Bluey episode he picked out.

theocracy ascendant

I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with strangers or people I just like, barely know, who are ready and willing to go off about Trump, which is not often the case here in Louisiana. People are PISSED.

Anyone else taking eye drops for glaucoma? Did it feel like no big deal to you? I'm feeling a bit sad because I've had so many health issues lately and this feels like one issue too many. But maybe if others tell me it's no big deal, I won't feel as sad as I do right now.

Write-Ins, Hybrid events, Open mics, webinars, a book launch, and an author event with none other than Amy Hempel! And these are just the live online events. The heart of A SmokeLong Summer 26 is our peer-review workshop on steroids! Book by May 23rd! www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...

"Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what an AI tells them without question, with one report finding that only 8 percent of users actually double checked an AI’s answer." 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

Today I am unfollowing and blocking ProPublica in support of the strike.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

So apparently the ceasefire deal includes Iran continuing to charge tolls (split with Oman) on transit through the Strait, as reported by the NYT, AP and others. If that's true, I have a hard time seeing this as anything other than a capitulation by Trump. Just abject surrender.

Who are the happiest canonical or influential (historical or contemporary) writers you know? Looking for a counterpoint...

Upon leaving New York, my three year old cried over the lack of black and white cookies on the plane.

Last Saturday we flew to NY, I caught up with my SIL and friends, watched my husband win a PEN award, flew back the next day to Louisiana, taught and worked all day the next day, and today we unpacked and then packed for Florida to visit family. Tired. Grateful.

And now Michael won the PEN award for poetry in translation! pen.org/2026-literar...

I accidentally still had tiger balm on my hands when I moisturized my face. Will this be fun or very, very bad?

we open in 2 1/2 hours! 200 cap. would love to consider whatever you'd like to share 👇

not my Catholic MIL using scare quotes around the word "secular" as she responds to my kid's Easter plans

I reread The Upstairs House by Julia Fine for the class I'm teaching today, a 300-level lit class on literature by women with the theme "Monstrous Motherhood." It's such an impressive novel in terms of prose style and form, but also deeply relatable regarding the isolation of postpartum.

"The moon is a white bowl the God of Children Finally Asleep has given me to dry." man, I love @toddedillard.bsky.social's poetry @bulbregion.bsky.social

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

"The plans are lofty but offer little guidance on what professors are supposed to do with students who can’t read more than a couple paragraphs at a time or turn in essays generated in seconds by a machine."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.

I'm at home in Louisiana getting credit card alerts from the AWP book fair, a very nerdy form of tracing my husband's whereabouts.

Just found out my son is eligible to be a Canadian citizen 🎉🇨🇦🎉

I need to up my Skyrizi dose from once very eight weeks to once every four weeks but insurance said nope. Appeal in progress. Bracing for a big ole nope.

One good thing about getting older is that my notgiveafuckness has grown significantly. I’ll get on social media, see some dumbass talking about how writers don’t need to read, and I’ll keep scrolling, not even mad. Like, fuck you but with a chuckle, you know?

I am extremely not surprised that Walter Kirn is doing this.

Millions of people died!

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

This is a huge deal, and the number of people I see pooh-poohing this as just a loss to a supposedly elite group sucks. A) most of the jobs that disappeared were the working-class ones; B) bye bye not just to local coverage but to arts, sports, everything that’s not tech/biz/politics/opinion/advice

heck yes

The destruction of knowledge continues apace.

it rules that they're trying to make "grocery store chicken" into the new avocado toast

Here at UL we had the great fortune of hearing Layli Long Soldier read yesterday. I'm so grateful -- that in the midst of all the terrible news -- I could take a day to focus on the power of creativity to fight for a sense of humanity.

The porta potties are lining the streets. It's Mardi Gras season!

Oh my god!!! Michael Martin Shea's translation of Liliana Ponce (Theory of the Voice and Dream, @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social ) is a finalist for a Pen America award!!!!! The Pen award for Poetry in Translation! Huge congratulations, my love!