Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Meet OKD’s Pushcart Prize nominees! Read the nominated pieces in the thread below.

I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤 Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

album covers but with muppets: thread

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest: "You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."

This link is an excellent resource for all the ways we can contact payment providers to complain about the removal of queer and adult games, comics, books and media from all our platforms. Tell these companies to stop censoring queer and adult content. It makes no sense! Enough is enough!

Oh what a Goddamn shitty business we've taken on, being writers! Oh what shit! What shit!

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

What is going on at Columbia? Ellen Shrecker, esteemed historian of McCarthyism and higher ed, and Nina Berman, documentary photographer extraordinaire, answer clearly.

Support a trans couple in South Dakota who are trying to promote literature and inclusion in a very difficult cultural climate. www.keloland.com/news/local-n...

"Is the sex scene relevant? Does it move the plot forward?" Does it matter? Tiffany Fritz discusses two key moments N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season–and how blending intimacy and narrative builds a story more honest, emotional, and true to the themes of her work: reactormag.com/the-necessar...

Before we begin, some housekeeping: Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...

Pulitzer now

Hey, #academic friends: My institution, U. of Kansas, is hiring an Asst. Prof. of African American #writing. Link below. Our department is very collegial, and I'd be happy to talk to anyone with questions or direct them to a higher-up. Come work with us! (Please circulate!)

Tell ‘um like it is Sourdough Jack!

I’m visiting the Lawrence Public Library and found what is possibly the strongest opener for any book ever

This is how it feels to put "writer / educator / etc. / etc." in a bio

Which of your fave journals & indie presses have made their way over to the other side? Boost them here?