was AWP only a month ago? thanks to bloom lit for this report about our packed-to-capacity panel addressing debuts after 50! substack.com/@chinsunlee/...

i’m proud to be part of this scholarship committee helping louisiana undergrads—esp underprivileged, BIPOC, & LGBTQIA+ students—pursuing the arts. applications for the 2026-2027 academic year open april 1st. visit tinyurl.com/armaturescholarship to learn more, and please spread the word!

IN ONE WEEK! i love teaching this 2-hour generative class: we’ll review excerpts of imagistic prose, then write from a slideshow of compelling images, finally sharing for feedback. join us!👇

back from #awp2026, where i was gagged to see SO MANY writers at our “debuting after 50” panel w/ melanie faranello, zeeva bukai & nita noveno, moderated by the 🔥 sara lippmann. huge thanks to all who showed up!🙏

i’ll be at #AWP2026 on this panel with 4 other amazing women authors who debuted after 50: we continue to write & have stories to share @ the value—and strategies!—of being persistent. see you in baltimore!

so thrilled my new novel, SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US, has found a home with Creature Publishing!🩸i spilled my guts all over this weird, dark tale of psychological horror that while writing led me to truly unexpected places. i hope readers will likewise feel a delicious gasp of surprise.

“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

hey writers: i’m re-upping this course through writers.com after taking a season off…it’s always been popular so get your spot b4 it fills up. and if you enroll b4 sunday the 18th, you’ll get a discounted rate!

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

readers! tantor is running a 50% discount holiday promotion on audiobooks, including mine—so if you’ve been curious @ UPCOUNTRY, this northern gothic is all wintry vibes🪾🌨️

Received my copy of the @driftwoodpress.bsky.social 2026 Anthology. Kerry & I have a contoured villanelle (“Last Song Villanelle”) & an interview in the anthology! Order here: www.driftwoodpress.com/product-page.... #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poem #writers

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

delighted to see UPCOUNTRY in this @electricliterature.com roundup of creepy ghoulish books by laura venita green, author of SISTER CREATURES—out now w/ @unnamedpress.bsky.social! link to article in comments

NY friends, come hang November 16th! @camilleuadams.bsky.social @michelleghenry.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social

still a few more spots (and days) left—so come and get ‘em! i still think of fall as “back to school,” so if you’ve been itching to dedicate more focus on your writing, perhaps now is the time? (link for details/to register in bio)

if you want to escape from all the things just for a few moments, read this new story by Elizabeth Bull—it’s so weird and lovely and funny and moving. i’d just woken up from a nap when i read it, and felt that dream-world shift into hers… atlengthmag.com?fbclid=IwdGR...

WRITERS! i’m leading an 8-week intermediate-advanced fiction workshop next month—so if you have a novel, stories, or work of autofiction you’d like to propel or revise, ‘tis the season to get serious! 4 days left for early registration, see link in bio💫

such fun chatting with @allysonnoman.bsky.social while she pulled some timely tarot cards!✨✨✨ check out our convo & follow her stack! open.substack.com/pub/allysonn...

Starting September 1st, the Associated Press will no longer release their standardized, stand-alone reviews for new books.

looking for edinburgh & glasgow recs: i'll be there end-aug thru end-sept, with a writing rez in between. art, book stores, restaurants, coffee shops, thrifting, flea markets, cemeteries, parks, pubs (peaty scotch!🥃), weird random poke-abouts—throw 'em at me please!🙏

An update: We still have no rep in Congress (same with two other Dem-held districts in GOP states) & instead of an election the Governor is holding a special legislative session to redraw the districts. The proposed map will give the GOP 5 additional seats. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...

Tae Heung Kim, 40: - Lived in US since he was 5 - Has green card - Getting PhD at Texas A&M - Researching vaccine for Lyme disease - Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

i’ve taught this generative workshop in person & now i’m psyched to lead a virtual version this fall w/ @writingco-lab.bsky.social ! october 18th, 12-2pm ET, $65, enroll here: www.writingco-lab.com/classes/pros...

and if you’re in louisiana like me 📞

if these are your reps, pls call and put pressure on them to vote against this terrible budget bill!👇 (“202) 225-3121

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new orleans, here's some info about the “NO KINGS NOLA” march tomorrow- sign up now to join me! (or go to nokings.org to find a protest in your city): www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

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can’t wait to read REPEAT AS NEEDED!!!

an illuminating day at the #deepsouthconvening conference. came away so proud to be a part of this region—don’t underestimate the talent & tenacity of southern writers! also great to reunite w @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social & finally meet @emmabolden.bsky.social—plus a 🌈🌈 driving back!

hey writers: i’m psyched to be a part of this online literary summer camp organized by @writingco-lab.bsky.social — just lookit the lineup! i’ll be part of a panel discussing how to maintain a lifelong writing practice on 7/23 from 8-9pm ET. link to register for this & other panels/classes in bio

new orleans! next sat (4/19 at 4pm) i’ll be in conversation w/ author michele t. berger to discuss her speculative story collection, DOLL SEED—focusing on the role of writers, esp WOC, in challenging patriarchal narratives. link in bio for dtls & to register. hope to see you there!

a solid & peaceful crowd today in new orleans…had to update an old sign from 2018 & couldn’t help but shake my head that here we are again, only worse. let this be the start of a turning tide 🌊🤞

re-upping this course thru writers.com — now extended to 6 weeks! we’ll discuss texts by joe brainerd, tobias wolff, elizabeth hardwick, rachel cusk, laurie stone, delmore schwartz, and lucia berlin, using them toward weekly writing prompts. link to register in bio.

thanks @ttbrader.bsky.social for my copy of your beautiful book! it’s available to order: bellepointpress.com/products/sec...

billy joel’s “piano man” makes me HOMICIDAL

I had legit completely forgotten this.

excited to lead this craft session, PROSE FROM IMAGERY, this coming thursday 3/27 at 3pm—if you’re in nola, come see me & please spread the word! ✍️ #twfest25 #twfestnola #twfest

some helpful links to fight against authors’ works—mine included—being used to train AI without our consent: Here is the checker AND an update from Authors Guild with steps to take. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

this is absolutely insane and heartbreaking—pls keep calling your reps to demand his release!

If you can’t reach Schumer or Gillibrand by phone, get your 1980s on and send them a free fax. faxzero.com/fax_senate.php