In honor of the spookiest month, consider writing a horror story! Even if you're not normally a writer. It doesn't have to long or even necessarily good. But give it a try! Think about what scares or unnerves you. Explore that (in a safe way) and put it to the page. You might just surprise yourself!

Good writing comes from passion. Not passion to make a dollar or passion at being noticed, but passion about the subject matter. Passion about the work itself. That is where good storytelling comes from.

Great way to start the day! #onepeloton #peloton #meditation members.onepeloton.com/classes/medi...

If you buy this book, in a few days your Alexa will beep and say, "You have one new notification from Amazon.com. A no-good worthless book has arrived." #amwriting #writingcommunity #kidlit #inventingreality www.amazon.com/gp/product/194...

Happy Wednesday!

No Quill “Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” -Edgar Allan Poe #Spooktober #weapon #31DaysOfHalloween #ClassicMono #photography #vintage #EastCoastKin #DangerousDays

Remembering EDGAR ALLAN POE - who left us 176yrs ago today

Edgar Allan Poe died on this day in 1849. Doom. Plague. Despair. Madness. Creeping existential horror. He would have loved 2025.

“Painting and novels to my mind are basically wed. You can’t take them apart from each other.” Brandon Taylor discusses his new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” which follows a young painter in the years after the supposed racial reckoning of 2020.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ~Edgar Allan Poe

Bernardine Evaristo on a writer’s freedom and the sensitivities of storytelling, in conversation with Ostap Slyvynsky at Lviv BookForum 2025 this weekend.

Teacher, scholar, he had worked a true task when all alive… —Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod” New Collected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011 Today is #WorldTeachersDay. In this poem Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, celebrates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School 1/4

“At degree level, students are still reading whole novels and plays. However, there are lots of initiatives to help students read. Some universities do reading resilience courses.” www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

OpenAI is risking pissing off a lot of Hollywood with the next update of Sora, which will allow you to generate videos with copyrighted content (Iron Man, Shrek, etc.) unless the owner specifically opts out. Scoop with @keachhagey.bsky.social and Berber Jin www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Sometimes teen boys go looking for extremist content online. Often, it finds them. Julie Jargon and I spoke to young men who fell down dangerous Internet rabbit holes and came out the other side. www.wsj.com/tech/how-two...

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” —Samual Johnson

"As for my approach to writing comic fiction in general, the simple answer is that I try to make myself laugh." @chayab77.bsky.social interviews Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ed Park on his Debut Short Story Collection, An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House). ➡️ buff.ly/FH5A2MY

"I became a writer because, as a Houston high school teacher, I wanted my students to find books with characters they could relate to" writes Ashley Hope Pérez in the @houstonchronicle.com, "people looking to create vibrant lives in difficult circumstances." www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

#selfpublishing #indieauthor #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerscommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...

The latest Pasts Imperfect has @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social taking on ancient & medieval monsters 🐉. Then, a new book on art from ancient India & the Greco-Roman world, Barnard profs defend free speech, ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & Joy Connolly eulogizes Michael Putnam.

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Video games 🎮 can allow people to do the right thing—and to learn about cultural heritage. edition.cnn.com/world/africa...

When I didn't know how to live I became my grandmother: .. And in my head came her raspy voice and her soft voice and her quiet voice; which rarely laughed but was always delighted with living and eighty years of reticent habits cultivated by her small hands. - Sue Zhao #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

Ta-Nehisi Coates - BOTD 📚 #LiteratureSky

Why Are Your Poems so Dark? Isn't the moon dark too, most of the time? And doesn't the white page seem unfinished without the dark stain of alphabets? When God demanded light, he didn't banish darkness. - Linda Pastan #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

#onepeloton #peloton #meditation 🫶🏽🧘🏽‍♀️ members.onepeloton.com/share/workou...

Just a reminder that if you preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis through my favorite bookstore, @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social, you will get an extra letter from me tucked into your book. I wrote that letter this week, and I think some of you might find it useful.

variety.com/2025/digital... 3 times in 3 years

#authors #writer #writingcommunity #amwriting #EffectiveWriting

#book #writer #writingcommunity #creativewriting #writing

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

“This decision does not only silence one book – it silences the voices and lived realities of minority communities. It sends a harmful message: that when these stories make others uncomfortable, they can be erased.”

Showing vs. telling in your writing.

fordhampress.com/bad-medieval... #literature #medievalstudies

Get your copy of Bad #Medievalism & the Modernity Problem by #KathyLavezzo today🙌🏾👏🏽 fordhampress.com/bad-medieval...

A quote from @elizabethheider.bsky.social taken from the post “Writing a Book is Magic”:

Peloton will celebrate Oktoberfest 2025 with special classes taking place this month (and another new badge). #Peloton #OnePeloton #PelotonBike #PelotonTread www.pelobuddy.com/2025-peloton...

Taking a break riding my Peloton bike while watching the HBO series “The Pitt”. Because ER emergencies are more relaxing than politics. Yep. That’s where I am in my self care regimen.

Find out more about the 2025 National Poetry Competition here: poetrysociety.org.uk/npc

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Former Peloton instructor Kristin McGee has launched a digital platform: Kristin McGee Movement, a space dedicated to yoga, Pilates, sculpt, and meditation classes. #Peloton #OnePeloton #PelotonBike #PelotonTread www.pelobuddy.com/kristin-mcge...

The New York Times has a feature on Aditi Shah, showing a day in the life, including her time inside & out of the Peloton Studios. #Peloton #OnePeloton #PelotonBike #PelotonTread www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/n...

Had such a wonderful poetry-filled weekend ✨ My poem Nettles was The Scotsman’s poem of the Week on Saturday, followed by a magical visit to Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Garden Poem’, where I read alongside Janette Ayachi, Nasim Rebecca Asl and Chris Crawford to celebrate Ian’s centenary

neat idea!

9/16: “An Intimate History of Mexican Kansas,” at Lawrence Public Library 6:30pm