Employing lyrical prose, @littlemissbleah.bsky.social's Em’s River explores the fall of the Weimar Republic and rise of fascism during Germany’s Third Reich through the lens of personal turmoil and privilege as it explores class, compulsive heterosexuality, and nationalism.

Grateful and excited to have eight poems coming out so far this year between Grist, Boudin, Waxing & Waning, The Laurel Review, and Pinch! <3 stay tuned for new stuff!

I'm exhausted by fake posturing and stoicism and deadpan professionalism in academia and the lit world. If someone invites you to a reading and sells your books and takes you to lunch GUSH AND CRY AND HUG AND THANK THEM!!

“Immediately captures readers’ attention with a unique voice that encapsulates what it is to feel at home in a place like the South.” @littlemissbleah.bsky.social reviews @rayehendrix.bsky.social’s What Good is Heaven (Texas Review Press). ➡️ buff.ly/xrTRGE6

omg thank you, my love!!

So excited to have SIX poems coming out this spring/early summer that I'm so excited to share with you!!!

I got an acceptance from my favorite phd and I just like wanna tell everyone but also no one because I'm so scared that I dreamt it? what?

This anthology is my baby! And I am so thrilled to have been able to work with all of the amazing contributors in this PACKED collection. Please stay tuned, I can't wait to get this book into all of your hands.

you are your favorite poet's favorite poet if your favorite poet is me.

My novella that came out last summer! Please consider buying a copy and reviewing it :) www.amazon.com/Ems-River-Bl...

thesis update almost two weeks into the semester: 55k words. 187 pages. And I am tapped out with easily 20k to go. Could definitely use some advice for working through blocks and self-doubt.

Thesis writing day 28 with six days before my deadline! Today I wrote 9 pages. We're at 175 pages and 48,742 words. I am expecting 75-100 more pages, maybe 30-40k more words. Obviously I have to... grind my heart out.

A new poem out with @poetrysouth.bsky.social

Thesis update day 27: After writing 38 pages in one sitting, I needed a break. Didn't write for the whole weekend. Am attempting this morning and successfully finished a scene. at 162 pages, 45,771 words.

Thesis writing update day 24: 133 pages, 38,166 words.

Thesis writing update day 22: 30,624 words, 104 pages. Wrote completely out of order today, filling in some chapters that are further down the line. But it's starting to come together.

Happy New Year! Everyone accomplished everything again this year except for you who accomplished nothing and now we have to get through the long dark winter. It's fine. Just write through it

This story got published last summer but I'm trying to find my footing in fiction again so I thought I'd share <3 www.tracefossilsreview.org/water-is-thi...

Thesis update day 21, 26,527 words and 89 pages. Wrote four pages today.

new years resolutions: take a break from writing if needed, without shame. read things that comfort me as often as challenge me. don't cut length off my hair/learn to be comfortable with things not constantly changing/embrace stability. make cooking a creative outlet again.

Thesis writing day 20ish... absolutely stalled. Have written nothing. Tomorrow the grind starts again. We have two weeks to churn this thing out and 2/3 of a book to write still.

Ocean Vuong dropping a new novel next summer is exactly the news I needed to push me through to the new year. I'm so excited.

Didn't write for a couple of days. Thesis writing update day 13(ish, I think): Currently working through a really hard scene I've been avoiding rewriting. 85 pages. 25,126 words.

Thesis update day... 11? I did some major scavenging through old drafts, reorganizing, and some editing and have gotten the thesis novel draft up to 76 pages and 22,054 words. Still a lot of work to do! But this is making me feel better.

Thesis day 9 update: highest writing day so far. 8 pages. total at 37 pages /39 with notes for the next two chapters. 11,349 words.

I have 13 poems to take into 2025! Where should I submit first? Let's start a list.

Got to go on two amazing residencies this year, and I'd really love a couple for next year too. Anyone know of great ones to apply to?

Got some really lovely poetry news today and going to meet a friend for a more focused writing session later. <3 good thursday vibes.

Thesis day 8 update: after not writing yesterday, I was really hoping there would be something stored up for today. Alas, one page. Currently 29 pages and 8577 words. I might be able to write more later, but for now I feel a little bottomed out.

Thesis writing update day 6: I didn't write at all yesterday and that felt like the right move. That being said, I'm two pages into today--filling out a chapter I thought was already done--and I am feeling depleted and defeated. Total 26 pages and 7629 words.

Thesis writing day 4 update: Woke up early and got out of the house to write, wrote 4 pages. They're mid. There are major holes in the characters that still need to be filled. I'm hoping to add more later today. It's words on the page tho. 5508 words.

Check out my little queer southern love poem in @SWWIMmiami www.swwim.org/swwimeveryda...

thesis writing day 3 update: finished chapter 1, started chapter 2 from a different characters POV even tho I promised I wouldn't. 15 pages. 4242 words. Forcing myself to take a break for the rest of the night, cook a decadent meal and read something for pleasure.

Winter break thesis writing day 3: I have written 2 pages, though mostly of exposition I'm happy with. Bringing the grand total up to 10 and 2958 words. I need about 45k to pass thesis, my original draft was 250 pages and 75k words. We have a long way to go y'all

do I rewatch gossip girl over break, yes or yes?

i just everything showered, put on lotion and face moisturizer, and a new set of lounge wear and holy cow I feel like a functioning member of society for the first time in months.

Thesis update, day 2: I've written 8 pages of mostly stilted and uninteresting dialogue, but at least I'm writing.

Two new poems out today in @havehashad.com 💀 about how impossible it feels to live with an addiction but how you keep living anyway

as my submittable dwindles from "regular" submissions, it is more and more predominately **life changing important** submissions and that really freaks me out.

can anyone else with an MFA attest or deny that the last year (particularly the first semester of the last year), my thesis year, is absolutely brutal and horrible???? or am I just weak

so honored to be in NYC this week. Getting ready to attend my first ever National Book Awards (as a volunteer, since I interned with them this summer) tonight!!

I am so abundantly grateful to be in this community!! I got two big sad book rejections in the last few days, but I am still so grateful. The excitement of being here at all overrides the disappointment. And I am manifesting: the book is gonna get picked up! and in the meantime, I get to be here :)

It's gonna take some muscle memory changes but I'm trying to incorporate being over here into my daily activities rather than twit twit

In this installment of our ongoing interview series, @littlemissbleah.bsky.social talks with Split Lip’s Social Media & Marketing Director, @sgpoet.bsky.social, about their writing content and generation, writing process, and their time at an MFA program in central Texas: buff.ly/410Sfy6

Please check out my article on female sadness and emotional labor and amazing lyricism! www.chillsubs.com/writeordie/essays/the-sad-girl-vs-the-mad-girl-poets

i really want to write an op-ed about the cognitive dissonance of being in a liberal arts graduate degree (specifically MFA) in a violently red state (Texas). But A.) I'm scared and B.) Idk who to submit that to?

Has anyone ever benefited from a long-term self-imposed submission band? I think I need to revisit my work and try again with a clean slate, but I have 52 submissions in queue and the little voice in my head says I have to keep grinding. But I think I need a break and a re-think.

so excited for this news! What a way to spend the first week of 2024!

7 rejections and one acceptance this week... let's get that grind