Greg Mania
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writer/DSM-5 darling
https://linktr.ee/gregmania
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enrollment for the spring book proposal generator is now open! š· 8 weeks in my class crock pot and youāll have a proposal thatās ready to send out! sign up below āļø scholarships available!
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Workshop: Book Proposal Generator with Greg Mania ā The Shipman Agency
8 Sessions: Saturdays, April 4-May 23 12:00-2:00pm ET Greg Mania This generator is taught by Greg Mania, author of the memoir Born to Be Public , which has been named a best book of 2020 ...
https://www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/book-proposal-generator-greg-mania-spring26
30 days ago
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my safe word is susan sontag
about 12 hours ago
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echoes in the rain by enya blasting at wing stop somehow feels like a very accurate auric representation of me
about 18 hours ago
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Poets & Writers
about 20 hours ago
In her new novel Whidbey,
@tkiramadden.bsky.social
investigates questions of privilege through complex, layered, and even unreliable characters. Read the profile on Madden in the March/April issue:
at.pw.org/CrimeAndCompassion
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The Shipman Agency
2 days ago
Beginning with an overview of the anatomy of the book proposal by looking at several different examples, this generator will be broken up into eight weekly sessions. Each week, we will be discussing and going over one element of the book proposal in detail.
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iām already covered in cat hair, i simply cannot have my own, too
3 days ago
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serving cunt in my compression wear
5 days ago
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Roxane Gay
8 days ago
One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work.
therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...
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The Rumpus - El Alboroto
El Alboroto es una nueva sección en español que forma parte de The Rumpus. La revista busca publicar voces innovadoras y textos que quizÔs no encajan en publicaciones mÔs tradicionales. Nos interesa e...
https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit/352155/el-alboroto
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Maris Kreizman
9 days ago
This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.
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laundry reddit is lit bitch
9 days ago
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hmm turns out that iām at my best when iām reading and writing a lot but idk i might give thinking about death all night another go before confirming
10 days ago
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which timeline is the one where mariah releases her grunge album
14 days ago
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itās not a want itās a need to get my cat a little y2k newsboy cap and iBook
15 days ago
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curtseying before ordering at Panda Express
17 days ago
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teacher can we quietly unravel outside today
17 days ago
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itās gonna happen. iām gonna be the first ghost with knee pain
18 days ago
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McSweeney's
19 days ago
"Iāve finally arrived at a place of radical acceptance. I accept that I will be passed over, that I will sit untouched for hours, that someone will choose a lemon-lime option over me without a second thought."
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Iām Pepsi, and Iām Actually Okay
Before you ask, yesāIām actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask t...
https://buff.ly/TWsUeFA
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new mia meme just dropped
20 days ago
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McSweeney's
21 days ago
"Iāve unpacked my rivalry with Coke. Iāve looked at where it started, how it was reinforced, and why I kept measuring myself against a version of myself I was never meant to be."
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Iām Pepsi, and Iām Actually Okay
Before you ask, yesāIām actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask t...
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Nathan Coulter
22 days ago
This is one of the best things I've read in a long long time. "Iāve finally arrived at a place of radical acceptance. I accept that I will be passed over, that I will sit untouched for hours, that someone will choose a lemon-lime option over me without a second thought."
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Maris Kreizman
22 days ago
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for.
lithub.com/why-we-must-...
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Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children
Lately Iāve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 iā¦
https://lithub.com/why-we-must-fight-to-stop-hr-7661-before-it-destroys-the-lives-of-american-children/
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Sarah O
24 days ago
This is hilarious and also, as a Southerner: PEPSI IS NEVER OK.
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McSweeney's
23 days ago
"Iāve unpacked my rivalry with Coke. Iāve looked at where it started, how it was reinforced, and why I kept measuring myself against a version of myself I was never meant to be. Coke, for the most part, represents nostalgia, but I am not responsible for your nostalgia."
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Iām Pepsi, and Iām Actually Okay
Before you ask, yesāIām actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask t...
https://buff.ly/smj8geV
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Carlos A. Santiago
24 days ago
This is brilliant! I need to be more like Pepsi. šš½
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Eli Deep
24 days ago
A masterpiece
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effingbitchmama
24 days ago
perfection. damn.
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@mlfaliveno.bsky.social
and i could talk foreverāhere are 2,000 of those words from our conversation in
@bombmag.bsky.social
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BOMB Magazine | Melissa Faliveno by Greg Mania
On writing a novel about queer bodies, haunted places, and the thing that won't let you go.
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2026/03/03/melissa-faliveno-by-greg-mania/
23 days ago
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is there anyone more drunk with power than the second a in marshmallow
24 days ago
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Sari Botton
24 days ago
Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...
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When Life Gave Her Ageism, She Created Oldster
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/style/oldster-substack-sari-botton-aging.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QVA.A9Ek.WjAhvOjk6hDR&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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took a (necessary!) break from working on my novel and am now getting back into it. time to get into glassblowing
24 days ago
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meet ms. self-actualized pepsi! my latest, for
@mcsweeneys.net
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Iām Pepsi, and Iām Actually Okay
Before you ask, yesāIām actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask t...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-pepsi-and-im-actually-okay
24 days ago
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McSweeney's
24 days ago
"Iāve been in therapy for a while now, and one of the things Iāve learned is that Iām not responsible for managing other peopleās expectationsāespecially when those expectations were built around a different soda entirely."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
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Iām Pepsi, and Iām Actually Okay
Before you ask, yesāIām actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask t...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-pepsi-and-im-actually-okay
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wouldnāt blame the cicadas for emerging and being like not this and going back underground for 17 yrs
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my nervous system has prolapsed
25 days ago
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enrollment for the spring book proposal generator is now open! š· 8 weeks in my class crock pot and youāll have a proposal thatās ready to send out! sign up below āļø scholarships available!
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Workshop: Book Proposal Generator with Greg Mania ā The Shipman Agency
8 Sessions: Saturdays, April 4-May 23 12:00-2:00pm ET Greg Mania This generator is taught by Greg Mania, author of the memoir Born to Be Public , which has been named a best book of 2020 ...
https://www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/book-proposal-generator-greg-mania-spring26
30 days ago
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about 1 month ago
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if thereās one thing iāll do itās cry about it
about 1 month ago
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i wonāt be at AWP this year so if youāre going pls smoke a cig outside the local dive in my honor
about 1 month ago
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The New Yorker
about 1 month ago
In New Yorker Humor, why this Waymo might be a better person than you.
www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
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Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You?
What about the time it parked perfectly between two lines on the first try, despite you having spent your entire life contorting to fit ināsocially, emotionally, and physically?
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/is-this-waymo-a-better-person-than-you
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my latest for
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Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You?
What about the time it parked perfectly between two lines on the first try, despite you having spent your entire life contorting to fit ināsocially, emotionally, and physically?
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/is-this-waymo-a-better-person-than-you
about 1 month ago
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butthead and butthead
about 1 month ago
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LAās getting its first combination sephora-library-plant nursery! (tommy and i are moving in together)
about 1 month ago
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i need to get rid of books bc i'm downsizing so i think i'll start by rewatching buffy
about 1 month ago
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started a new work-in-progress (stress hives)
about 1 month ago
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weāre still swooning from last nightās reading š love to all our readers, the semi-tropic, and
@skylightbooks.bsky.social
š see you in spring!
about 1 month ago
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tonight!! šŖ©šŖ©šŖ©
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about 1 month ago
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to every writer who is happy to be left behind by AI: party at my place! weāre gonna spend four hours agonizing over whether or not to use a semicolon or a period before deleting the two sentences altogether and giving each other bangs
about 2 months ago
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ego death! at the disco
about 2 months ago
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up in the club poppin Zicam
about 2 months ago
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be our valentine this tuesday, february 10th at the semi-tropic in LA at 7pm for the winter installment of empty trash! itāll be ever so dreamy š see you there! š
about 2 months ago
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Electric Literature
about 2 months ago
āThe things we were told to do or not do were framed as truth, not superstitions.ā
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Preserving Hawaiian History and Heritage Through Magical Realism - Electric Literature
āThe PÅhakuā author Jasmin āIolani Hakes reflects on memory, land, and storytelling as inheritance
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