I’ll be doing a reading at Beyond Baroque on June 12th at 7:30pm to launch my friend Mitchell Jacobs’ debut poetry collection! So excited to read new stuff (only seen by one other person)! Here’s the link to get tickets! www.eventbrite.com/e/la-book-la...

There are certainly more sophisticated ways of talking about how the movie They Cloned Tyrone fits so well within the tradition of Black surrealism. One can draw a line, say, from Get Out to Sorry to Bother You to They Cloned Tyrone.

HELLO AND YES THIS IS GOOD NEWS! We're ecstatic to share that @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's story collection SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS has been named a FINALIST for the @penamerica.bsky.social 2026 Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!

YES WE ARE DOING THIS AGAIN, but this time, it's for our brand new Multigenre + Chapbook team: our MG/C editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social, is looking for readers to join their 2026 MG/C reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED! More details forthcoming on the app, which will be available on Fri Jan 30!

Let's go!!! It's cover reveal and preorders day for @shandamcmanus.bsky.social's BROTHER EPISTLES! BROTHER EPISTLES will be published on June 23rd, but it is available for preorders (as well as ARC requests) NOW! Order at the link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/product-page/brother-epistles !

Joining in the Heated Rivalry discourse even tho I haven’t seen it lol. But the show heavily—and I mean heavily—reminds me of how the creators and audience of Yaoi are never gay men, but instead are largely straight women.

Art lives in the process, in the struggle to grow and figure out the specific needs of the work, and in the arrival at a better understanding of the artist’s limitations. The product is just the end result of the art.

Virginia Woolf at the end of her near 150 page letter (Three Guineas) has so much sass and I’m loving it!

New website/logo for The Rumpus! therumpus.net I hope you check it out!

Important lesson of last night's elections: progressives won across the country because they didn't water down their message and their values.

Been printing some b/w photos these past few months. Here some of them are!

I don’t know how they do it, but international queer coming-of-age films are so devastatingly beautiful. Just finished watching Young Hearts and its joined my favorites among Close and Heartstone.

So excited! The 15th can’t come soon enough!

Instead of looking for “the next liberal Joe Rogan” or asking for donations by email or any of the “optics” which try to cater to the nonexistent “centrist”, the Dems SHOULD be out on the streets, in the communities they represent, actually doing the work

Come join us!

How does Nathan Fielder literally one up himself every show???

SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social’s debut story collection, has arrived in the SLP office! Preorders will begin shipping shortly, so if you were waiting until closer to pub day (April 22) to place your order, there’s no need to delay your gratification! Link in bio to purchase!

A very big welcome to the newest member of the SLP family, Shanda McManus, whose memoir BROTHER EPISTLES, a series of letters to the author's murdered brother, was selected from our 2024 NF/H submissions period! We cannot wait for you all to read Shanda's book in June 2026!!!

Together with the Talve-Goodman family, One Story is pleased to announce our 2025 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow: @haymayden.bsky.social The finalists for the 2025 Fellowship were: -Kiian Dawn -Irene Jiang -Mac Murray -Jazz Sanchez To read the full announcement, visit our website: bit.ly/4gULLIe

So happy to see @haymayden.bsky.social be the 2025 @onestorymag.bsky.social Fellow! Back in 2022 we published his short story, ‘Silhouettes’, in Passengers Journal! You can read his stellar story here: www.passengersjournal.com/volume-3-iss...

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Happy and excited to be a fellow! 😄

Please please read Fire Exit by Morgan Talty! It’s so good and intense and painfully beautiful.

Absolutely donate to libraries, but…I would heavily caution donating to Wikipedia. The people who write the articles are volunteers (a third of which have been written/edited by 1 person). Which means that those donations don’t go the people who keep the site running.

I’m a little late, but this is the last issue of Passengers Journal that I had the pleasure of editing. I’ve enjoyed all the people I’ve met and had the honor of publishing. Take a gander, hope you enjoy! 😊 www.passengersjournal.com/volume-5-iss...

📣 Announcing the inaugural Rumpus Prize for Poetry, Fiction, & Creative Nonfiction! Submissions open TODAY to Mar. 2, 2025. Final judges Kaveh Akbar (Poetry), Rachel Khong (Fiction), & Megan Stielstra @meganstielstra.bsky.social (Creative Nonfiction). Learn more ➡ therumpus.net/the-rumpus-p...

On top of the rough work of keeping an indie lit mag going, Hurricane Helene slammed Asheville, NC in late Sept. Our Publisher & a few team members were hit emotionally & financially. Can you help fill our funding gap? We need $7.3K to meet our goal! Donate: fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/the-rumpus

Two more days to submit your manuscripts 🚨🚨🚨🚨

This is the first story I was a first reader for and I’m super happy to see it published in @therumpus.net! It’s about astronauts, a weird medical condition, and memory. therumpus.net/2024/11/04/r...

It’s still a month out from the end of year, but I wanted to make a list of all my favorite books I read this year. Here it is! www.maxwellsuzuki.com/reviews--blo...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

If true, there’ll be a tsunami of slop intent only on being profitable. Very telling that these people are from tech

One of my all time favorite albums is For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver. There’s just something so raw that makes me feel

Is it me or are coffee table books only meant to be seen such that their purpose is to provide an aesthetic? The content becomes an afterthought to the cover and design. Words not meant to be read is such a strange idea. Unless I’m wrong and people voraciously read them.

Such a lovely and amazing team to be on. Give these folks a follow!

@therumpus.net starterpack, courtesy of @tlpavlich.gay go.bsky.app/EKs9ZtJ

Recently I’ve read How We Named the Stars by @andresnordorica.bsky.social , In Tongues by Thomas Grattan, and Memorial by Brian Washington which were all spectacular. Any other queer novels that fit that vibe?

BEGGING tv producers to buy the rights to all my favorite linked short story collections and run limited series based on them. like OH MY GOD i would watch the SHIT out of those.

When reading submissions for magazines, what really bums me out is that some writers have an amazing jewel of an idea but it’s stuck within a story that doesn’t quite play out the right way.

Absolutely hyped for the 2nd season of Silo and Severance