**CALL for BIPOC, Queer, Women, and Ally writers & artists** Victoria Garcia (EIC: @ceaseandcaesura.bsky.social) is looking for ~15-20 writers & artists to contribute to the hybrid collaborative resistance project 'We the Living Document: No Winters for Diversity' Details in link 👇 Please share!!

Hi friends, just checking in from Minneapolis. Can we put out a couple asks for your support? 💕 Turns out, it's really hard to run a lit mag in your free time when the federal government has besieged your beloved city.

I just signed up to do this, and I feel like a lot of you would be into it, too.

**CALL for BIPOC, Queer, Women, and Ally writers & artists** Victoria Garcia (EIC: @ceaseandcaesura.bsky.social) is looking for ~15-20 writers & artists to contribute to the hybrid collaborative resistance project 'We the Living Document: No Winters for Diversity' Details in link 👇 Please share!!

On this 178th day of January, I'd like to remind folks that our submission portal for resistance-themed reprints is still open. Must be a reprint & must be resistance-themed! We will be donating proceeds from this anthology to the nonprofit Waging Nonviolence. wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/10-r...

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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

For the Canadians, this is equivalent to ~1179 bags of milk

Xerox, punk and "the raw power unleashed by seizing the means of (office paperwork) production." AI could never. daily.jstor.org/xerox-and-ro...

This is tomorrow! Hope to see you!

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home. So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

Check out @ceaseandcaesura.bsky.social's tentative future plans, including collaborative projects focused on current events (community found poem & collage) We need community now more than ever, let's make shit!!

"No one said goodbye to the house." My (late) mum used to always tell us to "say goodbye to the house!" or "say goodbye to the cottage!" as kids. But we always knew we were coming back. What a story.

In local news, the recently arrived carpark squirrels have discovered they can free climb the side of our building to access any window of their choosing (and, to my unending Canadian confusion, they don't do screens on windows this side of the pond??!) Just look at that face. Plotting.

Midt i al vanviddet, der er også gode nyheder derude: Wind and solar overtook fossil fuels for EU power generation in 2025, report finds

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

Since all the Canucks in my feed are suddenly talking about the War of 1812 for no reason whatsoever, I have to share the lesser known and maybe most Canadian-coded event that took place during the burning of Washington. (yes I know Cockburn was English, no I won't hold that against him)

Seeking bardic inspiration? Come along, in person or online to our January #Poetry #Salon More info and free tickets www.edinburghliterarysalon.org/post/january... next Tuesday 27th #Edinburgh #Literary #Poems #Literature

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "Kate is convinced of this; convinces herself." – from @fionamckay.bsky.social 's stellar NIF The Lives of the Dead 🙌

Check out @ceaseandcaesura.bsky.social's tentative future plans, including collaborative projects focused on current events (community found poem & collage) We need community now more than ever, let's make shit!!

Finally stumbled across the thread everyone has been subskeeting and now understand Bluesky's current obsession with bus drivers & kidnapping – what a wild story!!

Living in Denmark for 8 years as a Canadian was an, uh, *interesting* cultural experience, but at times like these I have to say I do miss that Danish directness 😅🙌

I'm officially a 2x Great Auntie as of this afternoon!! Welcome to our mad & beautiful little world, Clara 🥰🥰

Human nerdz, rejoice!! 🐈‍⬛🤓🐈‍⬛ Check out our new series!!! (More details on our site) Sign up, repost, help us get the word out!!🙏🏼 It’s a class AND a fundraiser—all proceeds go to paying our writers and keeping our Claudine going. 🐈‍⬛💚🐈‍⬛

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... You can hear me read ‘And I Love’, one hour & 21 mins into the show!

"Poetry seems central to how we redress these kinds of wounds. The poetry needs to happen for anything to be redressed or anything to be healed." –Brandon Shimoda on the afterlife of Japanese American wartime incarceration

POETS! I'm poetry editor at Cable Street, @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social —please send your poetry and poetry translations my way for our Spring issue. Word doc or Google docs link, up to 6 poems. Deadline March 1. Send directly to me at: [email protected] #poetry #translation

me 5 minutes ago: *internal eternal screaming about the state of the world oh god oh god oh god* me now: just gonna *shimmy* on over to @welkinprize.bsky.social for a tiny story, a lil treat – we have earned a lil treat, everyone!!

"...what I saw..." Okay but have you considered going to Specsavers because no and also NO IN ALL CAPS. How all of America (the world?) isn't just one big synchronised eternal scream of frustration echoing across the centuries at this point is beyond me. Solidarity to everyone just...existing.

Congrats to everyone on the longlist! I can't wait to read the stories that make the shortlist, some very intriguing titles on here 👀💜

Friends, if you have the means to, please do support @mattkendrick.bsky.social by using his (amazing) editing, mentoring or teaching skills or by tipping his kofi. He’s a gem, and he needs our support at the moment prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com?utm_campaign...

In need of a village. Our has all the flash writers. Request a link to join The Village by DMing us here.

Very pleased to have this one out in the world – 'Fish Girl Summer' is my first published CNF! Thanks @scooterwriter.bsky.social for judging and @judehwriter2.bsky.social for the great prompt! And definitely go read @lunchontuesday.bsky.social's winning piece, a breathtaking breathless paragraph 💜

I feel both too old and too uncool for 'based' to be my word for 2026, but you know what, let's gooo 😎 (^see? distinctively un-based elder millenial behaviour)

2025 was a year of flash firsts that I am pretty darn proud of 🥹💜: first published flash (@flashficfestuk.bsky.social), first longlist (@welkinprize.bsky.social), first shortlist + placement + pushcart nom (@bathflashaward.bsky.social), and first time reading at an event (@walklistencreate.org).

Okay I did it, please clap! (I would, but I can no longer feel my hands and feet 🥹)

Currently girding my loins with homemade croissants while talking a big talk about joining my partner and his family for their traditional Christmas day dip in the North Sea for the first time 😳🌊

Romancing the Gothic organises free talks every Saturday all through the year! Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme) This year's programme below!

I'm planning an informal FREE zoom writing salon about ghost stories on Thurs., Dec. 18, 2025, 11am-12pm (Central). If you'd like to join, please register & I'll send you a link. We'll look at a few short ghost stories, talk about how they work, and end with some prompts. forms.gle/eHUs4pGLxBVY...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends! #WelkinPrize @welkinprize.bsky.social

THREAD 1/ I want to pick up another part of the ‘nature cure’ problem When a woman writes about the outdoors, people often reach for the same narrative template. #Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #NatureWriting #Nature

《 NEWS 》 Stanchion Magazine will open for submissions on January 5, 2026, for one day only, one month from today. And for the first time, there's a theme: MUSIC. All the pertinent info can be read here: www.stanchionzine.com/submissions Thank you for your interest in Stanchion. 🖤🤍

Latest painting (acrylic on canvas)

Recuperating on the sofa after a busy flash-filled weekend & sending off some new words into the universe. 'Cosmic Chronicler' feels very appropos, cause you can't spell chronicler without chronic [illness]! 💃 #WelkinWritingPrize @welkinprize.bsky.social

My very first Pushcart Prize nomination (!!) for my 3rd place BFFA flash "Eloise Writes as the World Burns"

Brilliant @flashficfestuk.bsky.social day today w/ generative workshops from @hanakhalique.bsky.social, @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social & @lunchontuesday.bsky.social! Lots of drafts & ideas born out of this one. Thanks to @judehwriter2.bsky.social for organising & everyone who read/presented/shared 😊

Really looking forward to this showcase event on Sunday November 30th for all the shortlisted authors in @walklistencreate.org’s Walking in the Dark competition (supporting the great Women Walking, the City, at Night campaign). Tickets available in the link below #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

Well, looks like everyone's getting MERL merch again for Christmas this year. I'm sure my MIL will be just thrilled to complement her chicken wearing trousers tea towel with a mouse riding a lobster tote bag 😅

So pleased to have been shortlisted for @walklistencreate.org's Write About Walking "In the Dark" competition & included in the forthcoming print & audio anthologies! Come join us @ the showcase Nov 30th to hear myself and some very talented writers & poets present our pieces. Deets in link 👇