"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme." —Herman Melville #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting

'Ghost Fish' by Katerina Grancharova Follow @MGLiterary.bsky.social for remarkable artwork, fiction, and poetry. #painting #artwork #ArtCommunity #VisualArt #ArtMag

Golden Scars by Marvit Ahanonu Visit our blog (link in bio) to read our Artist Spotlight interview with Marvit, and to see more of her artwork. #Art #Artwork #Artist #VisualArt #Interview #ArtCommunity #ArtMagazine #Magazine #MoonLitGetaway #ArtistSpotlight #Paint #Painter #Painting

Our annual art contest is now open for submissions. Spread the word! #ArtContest #ArtCommunity #Painting #Sculpture #Illustration #Photography #DigitalPainting #TextileArt #LineDrawing #Printmaking #FolkArt #Collage #MixedMedia #VisualArt #Artwork #Artist #ArtMag #Magazine

The hall was dark, a solitary lightbulb swaying uncertainly like a dowsing rod searching vainly for water. Read "Passageways" by E.C. Traganas here: buff.ly/ML4bNPN #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Poetry #LitMag #MoonLitGetaway #OpenForSubmissions

MoonLit Getaway’s Annual Art Contest is open for submissions. Follow @MGLiterary.bsky.social for remarkable artwork, fiction, and poetry. #Painting #Sculpture #Illustration #Photography #DigitalPainting #TextileArt #LineDrawing #Printmaking #FolkArt #Collage #MixedMedia #VisualArt #Artwork #Artist

"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." —E.L. Doctorow #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting

{ I am the lone bird tied up: / the kite in kite strings / the falcon in chicken wire / beating, bating, waiting for someone to notice me / the ticker banging away while the thinker / screams } Read Two Poems by Srija Upadhyay on MoonLit Getaway (link in bio) #PoetryCommunity #LitMag

“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.” —John Steinbeck #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting

Ancient Sentinel by Mukul Barman. Pen ink on paper, 8x12 in. Ancient Sentinel is a stark and powerful pen sketch that explores themes of containment and hidden intensity. Follow @MGLiterary.bsky.social for remarkable artwork, fiction, and poetry.

4- Lineage Fulfilled by Mukul Barman. Pen ink on paper, 8x10 in. Where individuality finds fulfillment, fulfillment gives birth to legacy. It speaks of love, leadership, lineage, and a spiritual equation that weaves humanity into one continuous creation.

Visit our blog (link in bio) for the latest edition of Artist Spotlight, featuring the words and works of Marvit Ahanonu, a multidisciplinary artist and architectural designer whose work spans digital art, sculpture, painting, and immersive technology.

Mura – The Secret Muse by Urve Tõnnus. Acrylic and pastel on canvas. A tribute to Maria Zakrevskaja-Benckendorff-Budberg, known as Mura — secretary to Maxim Gorky, confidante of H.G. Wells. One of the most enigmatic women of the 20th century. Visit MoonLitGetaway.com for the latest Artist Spotlight

Key elements to include after you main character moves past the midpoint of your novel: hollyschindler.substack.com/p/act-4-key-... #writingcommunity #writing #writingtips #howtowriteabook #writingadvice #writersofbluesky

"There’s something about apathy here. Some silent sad universal truth." Nighthawks by Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday. Please click on the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/03/02/m...

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Pete Bock's "Monday Night Viewing" from Issue 177! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/monday... #amreading #poetsofbluesky #readersofblueksy

'Thresholds & Quiet Transformations' Poetry by Rin Wilson Read the whole collection on MoonLit Getaway (link in bio) #poetrycommunity #MoonLitGetaway #Canadian #YEG

"Everything he could have said sounded like something too late. And yet the same conversation seemed to play out every day between them in strange rehearsals of temptation in which only she spoke."  Read "Janus" by Maxine Espinoza on MoonLit Getaway (link in bio) #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub

The cover reveal for Crownfall is here! I’m so excited to finally share this stunning cover—plus a video book trailer to bring the world to life. Cover Art: Katerina Belikova - instagram.com/ninjajo_art Cover Design: Adrian M Gibson - adrianmgibson.com/book-design Preorder and ARC 🔗👇

'High' by Katerina Grancharova Follow @MGLiterary.bsky.social for remarkable artwork, fiction, and poetry. #PortraitArt #ContemporaryPortrait #painting #abstractart #artwork #ArtCommunity

"Two weary travellers docked at 0π0, seeking respite at Galactic Central Point. The taller of the two was an indigo-skinned Pybite with a prominent thorax and a forked tail featuring cybernetic enhancements common for pilots..." Read "Anywhere but Earth": buff.ly/viHLXKQ #5amWritersClub

"The manor is alive. I know this, as I spent the first night dismantling its deceits." Read "The Twelfth Night" by L.A. Nolan: buff.ly/DiQUpHG Follow the author: @sirwordsmith.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub #Fiction #LitMag

"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." —E.L. Doctorow #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting

Path to the Core by Mukul Barman. Pen ink on paper, 8x12 in. The Inner Ascent is a compelling abstract study that uses deep perspective to explore an internal, possibly psychological, landscape. Follow @MGLiterary for remarkable artwork, fiction, and poetry.

'High' by Katerina Grancharova Follow @MGLiterary.bsky.social for remarkable artwork, fiction, and poetry. #PortraitArt #ContemporaryPortrait #painting #abstractart #artwork #ArtCommunity

'Thresholds & Quiet Transformations' Poetry by Rin Wilson Read the whole collection on MoonLit Getaway (link in bio) #poetrycommunity #MoonLitGetaway #YEG #Canadian

“Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other.” —Iris Murdoch #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmWriting

“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shovelling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” —Shannon Hale #5amWritersCLub #WritingCommunity

Each of your main character's problems should build on the last. Rescue Your Sagging Middle Writing Resource: payhip.com/b/yHl2s #writing #writeyourstory #howtowriteabook #writingtips #writingadvice #writersofbluesky

In “Wuthering Heights,” Emily Brontë “enlists some of the ubiquitous tropes of her time—the foundling hero, for example—only to ruthlessly unravel them,” Radhika Jones writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/usSuR7

Today's Feature: "red-chested & unequivocally american" by Sabrina Siew from Black Warrior Review, #52.1 Read here: poems.com/poem/red-che...

Don't miss the next edition of Artist Spotlight, featuring Marvit Ahanonu, a multidisciplinary artist and architectural designer whose work spans digital art, sculpture, painting, and immersive technology. #Art #Artist #Interview #Artwork #VisualArt

'Thresholds & Quiet Transformations' Poetry by Rin Wilson Read the whole collection on MoonLit Getaway (link in bio) #poetry #poetrycommunity #YEG #MoonLitGetaway #Canadian

Our annual art contest is now open for submissions. Spread the word! #ArtContest #ArtCommunity #Painting #Sculpture #Illustration #Photography #DigitalPainting #TextileArt #LineDrawing #Printmaking #FolkArt #Collage #MixedMedia #VisualArt #Artwork #Artist #ArtMag #Magazine

“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shovelling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” —Shannon Hale #5amWritersCLub #WritingCommunity

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” —John Steinbeck #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub

'Thresholds & Quiet Transformations' Poetry by Rin Wilson Read the whole collection on MoonLit Getaway (link in bio) #PoetryCommunity #LitMag #Edmonton #YEG #Canada

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” —Mark Twain #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity

U.S.S. Enterprise and the Botany Bay

Interview with Mike Cahoon | Episode 70 is now live! Join me and Mike Cahoon, author of The Scion Conspiracy, for an in-depth conversation about craft, creativity, and the winding road from hobbyist writer to published author. Full episode 🔗 👇

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” —John Steinbeck #WritingCommunity #5amWritersClub

'Thresholds & Quiet Transformations' Poetry by Rin Wilson Read the whole collection on MoonLit Getaway (link in bio) #PoetryCommunity #LitMag #Edmonton #YEG #Canada

Will you be at #AWPBaltimore? Visit Ploughshares at Table #T427 for book signings with contributors Rasaq Malik Gbolahan and Hadara Bar-Nadav and upcoming guest editor Justin Torres! Copies of their books will be available for purchase.

It is with great excitement that we announce the finalists for the twelfth annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers: Michael Carson, Joel Cuthbertson, Tom DeBeauchamp, Abigail Dembo, Maja Lukic, and Paul S. Ukrainets. Learn more about them here: nereview.com/announcing-t...

Last three days! Now it's time to submit your work to Prune Juice. We’re looking for your best #senryu and related forms of #poetry. prunejuicesenryu.com/submissions/ We are especially interested in works that widely explore the theme of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll #submissions #writingcommunity

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” —Mark Twain #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity

'Thresholds & Quiet Transformations' Poetry by Rin Wilson Read the whole collection on MoonLit Getaway (link in bio) #PoetryCommunity #LitMag #Edmonton #YEG #Canada

Our contest season continues with our 16th annual Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest! Share your passion with us and submit your personal essay by March 28th: tnq.ca/contests/ #writingcontest #personalessay #writingsubmissions #nonfiction #writersofbluesky

Celebrate Black History this month and every month! Here are some NeWest favourites that explore Black History on the prairies with Jide Salawu and Bertrand Bickersteth. #NeWestPress #BlackHistoryMonth #CrowSaidPoetry #ReadCanadian #BuyCanadian